Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2018 Spring Semester
January 2018
- Friday, January 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Anomalous Quantum Transport - Hall, Kerr, and Josephson Effects, Alex Levchenko, UW-Madison
- Friday, January 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Nanowire Technology and Toxicity, Benjamin Gilbert, LBNL
February 2018
- Friday, February 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Playing Newton: Learning equations of motion from data, Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
- Friday, February 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The hunt for dark matter with neutrinos, Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
- Friday, February 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in space and astrophysical systems, James Drake, University of Maryland
- Friday, February 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Metrology, quantum simulation, and tests of relativity with optical lattice clocks, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW-Madison
March 2018
- Friday, March 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring the dark universe with cosmic surveys, Keith Bechtol, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Friday, March 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using a Radio Phased Array, Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago
April 2018
- 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
- Friday, April 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum quivering from dissipation and noise, Aashish Clerk, McGill University
- Friday, April 20th
- 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
- Friday, April 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- When the Universe was one second old, George Fuller , UC San Diego
May 2018
- Friday, May 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The microphysics of the GW170817 kilonova, Rebecca Surman, Notre Dame University
- Thursday, May 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 2:45 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Earth Observations and Modeling for Decision Making, Dr. David Fahey, NOAA