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Events During April, 2018
- Monday, April 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- NO SEMINAR TODAY
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, April 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- The invention of public radio at the UW--Madison Physics Department, 1917-1919 , Jim Reardon, UW Department of Physics
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Cloud Quantum Computing, Maxim G Vavilov, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs Couplings at High Scales, Tao Han, University of Pittsburg
- Wednesday, April 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Special Event Talk; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- IRAM and it's Activities, Dr. Karl Schuster, IRAM Director
- Thursday, April 5th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and Coffee at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- X-Ray Binaries in the Early Universe, Philip Kaaret, University of Iowa
- Friday, April 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Accelerating Electrons with Protons in Plasma - the AWAKE Project, Allen Caldwell, Max Planck Institute, Germany
- Monday, April 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Mechanisms for onset of the whistler chorus in Earth’s magnetosphere , Dr. Ge Wang, UW-Madison Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, April 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Cloud quantum computing, Maxim Vavilov, UW Department of Physics
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- X-ray Astronomy from Sounding Rockets, Dan McCammon, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Disentangling the Top-Higgs Yukawa CP Structure in the Dileptonic tth with M2-?Assisted reconstructions, Jeong Han Kim, University of Kansas
- Wednesday, April 11th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Photonic analogues of topological superconductors , Aashish Clerk, McGill University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM. Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- MHD turbulence in the interstellar medium, Siyao XU, Hubble Fellow UW Astronomy Dept
- Friday, April 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum quivering from dissipation and noise, Aashish Clerk, McGill University
- Monday, April 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Unique Solutions to the Challenges of Microwave Coupling in Overdense Plasmas, Dr. Stephanie J. Diem, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Tuesday, April 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Are modern psychological and social behavior investigators missing a boat developmental neuroscience could help them catch?, Bernard Z. Friedlander, Department of Psychology, University of Hartford
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic reconnection, a celestial phenomenon in the laboratory, Jan Egedal, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Thursday, April 19th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Ultracold Polyatomic Molecules via Laser Cooling – N Atoms Too Many, Prof. John Doyle , Harvard
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and Coffee 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 4:00 PM
- The Atomic to Molecular (HI-to-H2) Transition in Galaxy Star-Forming Regions, Dr. Amiel Sternberg, Tel Aviv University, Max Planck Inst. for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation USA
- Friday, April 20th
- JIMFEST 2018; 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- High energy density plasma simulations using ultracold neutral plasmas, Scott Bergeson, Brigham Young University
- JIMFEST 2018; 1:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- UW Laboratory Astrophysics, Elizabeth DenHartog, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- JIMFEST 2018; 2:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Spectroscopic study of the 7p J=1/2 and 7p J=3/2 states in neutral cesium-133, Maria-Teresa Herd, Mt. Holyoke College
- JIMFEST 2018; 2:45 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- A Fresh Look at Abundances of Iron-group Elements in Very Metal-Poor Stars, Chris Sneden, University of Texas, Austin
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The astrophysical r-process: what we are learning from gravitational waves, dwarf galaxies, and stellar archaeology, Ian Roederer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- JIMFEST 2018; 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Measurements of branching fractions using Fourier transform and grating spectroscopy, Gillian Nave, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- JIMFEST 2018; 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Downstream hydrogen plasma cleaning for mass metrology at NIST, Eric Benck, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Saturday, April 21st
- JIMFEST 2018; 9:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Six Lines to Tell a Story, Michael Wood, University of St. Thomas
- JIMFEST 2018; 10:00 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- TBD, Uwe Kortshagen, University of Minnesota
- JIMFEST 2018; 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How I Became a Non-Chemist, Ken Menningen, UW Stevens Point
- JIMFEST 2018; 11:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Studying interesting phenomena: GE and Jim Lawler, Tim Sommerer, GE Global Research
- JIMFEST 2018; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Gas Discharge Lamps – A Requiem, Graeme Lister, Lighting Consultant
- Monday, April 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Helicons, Whistlers, Lower Hybrid Waves: Physics of Wave Propagation and Absorption for Current Drive Via Landau Damping, Robert I. Pinsker, General Atomics
- Tuesday, April 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Postgenomic complexity, Joan Fujimura, UW Department of Sociology
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaos, Clint Sprott, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, April 25th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum field theory of nematic transitions in spin orbit coupled spin-1 polar bosons, Elio König , Rutgers University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Observation of the highest-energy gamma rays with the HAWC Observatory, Kelly Malone, Penn State
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- Star formation, polarization, and magnetic fields in the ALMA era, Chat Hull, NAOJ Fellow, NAO of Japan, NAPJ Chile Observatory, Joint Alma Observatory
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Can a tool developed for hurricane prediction be taken to predict neutrino flavor evolution?, Eve Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania
- WIPAC at Women in STEM outreach event; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Kromery Middle School, 7009 Donna Dr. Middleton, WI 53562
- , WIPAC researchers, WIPAC
- Friday, April 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- When the Universe was one second old, George Fuller , UC San Diego
- Monday, April 30th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Centrifugal Confinement for Fusion and the Maryland Experiment (MCX), Adil Hassam, University of Maryland, College Park
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall