Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2018 Spring Semester
January 2018
- Friday, January 19th
- Alex Levchenko, UW-Madison
- Anomalous Quantum Transport - Hall, Kerr, and Josephson Effects
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert Joynt
- Friday, January 26th
- Benjamin Gilbert, LBNL
- Nanowire Technology and Toxicity
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
February 2018
- Friday, February 2nd
- Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
- Playing Newton: Learning equations of motion from data
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
- Friday, February 9th
- Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
- The hunt for dark matter with neutrinos
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle
- Friday, February 16th
- James Drake, University of Maryland
- Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in space and astrophysical systems
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Jan Egedal
- Friday, February 23rd
- Shimon Kolkowitz, UW-Madison
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Metrology, quantum simulation, and tests of relativity with optical lattice clocks
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall , hosted by Alex Levchenko
March 2018
- Friday, March 2nd
- Keith Bechtol, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Exploring the dark universe with cosmic surveys
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
- Friday, March 23rd
- Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago
- Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using a Radio Phased Array
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle
April 2018
- Friday, April 6th
- Allen Caldwell, Max Planck Institute, Germany
- Accelerating Electrons with Protons in Plasma - the AWAKE Project
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Cary Forest
- Friday, April 13th
- Aashish Clerk, McGill University
- Quantum quivering from dissipation and noise
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
- Friday, April 20th
- Ian Roederer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- The astrophysical r-process: what we are learning from gravitational waves, dwarf galaxies, and stellar archaeology
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Jim Lawler
- Friday, April 27th
- George Fuller , UC San Diego
- When the Universe was one second old
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Baha Balantekin
May 2018
- Friday, May 4th
- Rebecca Surman, Notre Dame University
- The microphysics of the GW170817 kilonova
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Baha Balantekin
- Thursday, May 10th
- Dr. David Fahey, NOAA
- Earth Observations and Modeling for Decision Making
- 2:45 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Jim Lawler