Events at Physics |
Events During November, 2019
- Friday, November 1st
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling Hall
- Justin Walker Thesis Defense, Justin Walker, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Monday, November 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Future of Nuclear Power in a Carbon-constrained World, Michael Corradini, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, November 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A Tiny Earth, global crises, Sarah Miller, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Wednesday, November 6th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- The MICROBOONE Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab., Wouter Van De Pontseele
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Interiors for AdS Black Holes, Sagar Lokhande, UIUC
- Thursday, November 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Atom-based Silicon Devices for Quantum Technologies, Dr. Rick Silver, NIST
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Star Formation and Nuclear Activity: Dwarf Galaxies to Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, George Privon, University of Florida
- Friday, November 8th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Black Holes to Algebraic Curves: Consequences of the Weak Gravity Conjecture, Tom Rudelius, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Introduction to Quantum Error Correction: Schrödinger meets Maxwell’s Demon, Steven Girvin, Yale
- Monday, November 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- First-time realization of a stably detached, efficient-particle-exhaust divertor regime in the island divertor at Wendelstein 7-X., Oliver Schmitz, UW Madison
- Tuesday, November 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Transits and life, Jaime Cordova, UW Department of Genetics
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology in the machine learning era, Dr. Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Princeton University
- Wednesday, November 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Faculty & Postdoc Career Panel, Panel: Lisa Everett, Kim Palladino, Shimon Kolkowitz, Lars Aalsma, Ross Cawthon, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Deciphering the Archaeological Record: Cosmological Imprints of Non-Minimal Dark Sectors, Jeff Kost, IBS-CTPU; Daejeon, Korea
- Thursday, November 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Benchmarking near-term quantum information processors, Kenny Rudinger, Sandia National Laboratory
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Truth or Dare?, Ken Bloom, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- "Why Galaxies are Pickle-Shaped - An historical introduction to Dark Matter and Galaxy formation, Joel Primack, UC Santa Cruz
- Employer Visit; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Honeywell Info Session & Career Opportunities, Honeywell
- Friday, November 15th
- Astronomy Special Talk; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The SPLASH Survey of the Andromeda Galaxy, Raja GuhaThakurta, UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California Santa Cruz
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Black Hole Ergomagnetospheres, Electromagnetic Jets and Ejection Disks, Roger Blandford, KIPAC, Stanford
- Monday, November 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Consistent Closures for Plasma Fluid Equations, Eric Held, Utah State
- Tuesday, November 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Will global precipitation trends be observable in our lifetime?, Tristan L'Ecuyer, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Wednesday, November 20th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Aspects of Neutrino Masses, Jessica Turner, Fermilab
- Friday, November 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Looking for excitations with fractional statistics in the quantum Hall regime, Mike Manfra, Purdue University
- Monday, November 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Turbulent impurity transport in the W7-X stellarator, Benedikt Geiger, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, November 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- On the road to sustainable production of fuels and chemicals from biomass, Tim Donohue, UW Department of Bacteriology