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Events During the 2019 Fall Semester

August 2019

   Thursday, August 1st
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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   Monday, August 5th
Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Investigations of a Two-Level Quantum Ensemble Coupled to a Boson Bath, Benjamin Lemberger , Physics Graduate Student
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   Tuesday, August 6th
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Optimization of qubit operations and readout process , Zhenyi Qi, Physics Graduate Student
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   Thursday, August 8th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, August 21st
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Quantum non-linear evolution of inflationary tensor perturbations, Jinn-Ouk Gong, KASI
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   Thursday, August 22nd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Engineering Superconductivity in Semiconductor Nanowires for Quantum Device Applications, Stephen Gill
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, August 29th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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   Friday, August 30th
WesleyFest; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
, Wesley Smith
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   Saturday, August 31st
WesleyFest; 9:30 am - 1:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
, Wesley Smith
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September 2019

   Thursday, September 5th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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   Friday, September 6th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
State of the Department followed by reception, Sridhara Dasu, UW-Madison
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   Monday, September 9th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Effect of Magnetic Perturbations on Turbulence-Flow Dynamics at the L-H Transition on DIII-D, Matt Kriete, UW Madison
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin (if available)
Towards the Atomic Tritium Future of Neutrino Mass Measurement, Walter Pettus, University of Washington
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   Tuesday, September 10th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Do plants feel pain?, Simon Gilroy, UW Department of Biology
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, September 11th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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   Thursday, September 12th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Transport properties of a compensated metal: the Lorentz ratio and the absence of mass renormalization near a Pomeranchuk quantum critical point, Songci Li , UW-Madison
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
The Yin and Yan of Slowly-Pulasting B Stars: Asteroseismology and Angular Momentum Redistribution, Professor Richard Townsend, UW Madison Astronomy Department
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   Friday, September 13th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Neutrino: Chronicles of an Aloof Witness, Goran Senjanovic, ICTP
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   Monday, September 16th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Computational approaches for nuclear design analyses of the stellarator power reactor HELIAS, A. Haeussler, KIT
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Parity and the origin of (neutrino) mass, Speaker Goran Senjanovic, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ITALY
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   Tuesday, September 17th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Data and computational advances in the fight against floods, Dan Wright, UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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   Thursday, September 19th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Optical control of free-electron decoherence, Wayne Huang, Northwestern University
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Building a Free Professional Website for Your Research in 10 Minutes!, Rob Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
The Geometry, Energetics, and Environment of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817: The Radio View, David Kaplan, UW Milwaukee Physics Department
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   Friday, September 20th
Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
Ethan Peterson Thesis Defense, Ethan Peterson, Physics Graduate Student
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Engineering Solutions for Fusion Energy: Control and Liquid Metals, Egemen Kolemen, Princeton University
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Work and Dissipation in the Cell Cytoskeleton, Michael Murrell, Yale
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   Tuesday, September 24th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
How solar energy became cheap: A model for low-carbon innovation, Greg Nemet, La Follett School of Public Affairs
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   Wednesday, September 25th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
An Entropic Bound on the Lifetime of De Sitter Space, Lars Aalsma, UW-Madison dept of Physics
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   Thursday, September 26th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Spin transport in ferromagnet-InSb nanowire quantum devices , Vlad Pribiag, University of Minnesota
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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WISELI Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Physics In Concert With The Arts, Agnes Mocsy, Pratt Institute
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   Friday, September 27th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Superconductivity in Nickelates: Similarities and Differences from Cuprates, Michael Norman, Argonne National Lab
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   Monday, September 30th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Experiments on ExB shear instabilities and vortex dynamics in pure electron plasmas, Noah Hurst, UCSD
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October 2019

   Tuesday, October 1st
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Building the American Family Insurance Data Science Partnership, Brian Yandell, UW Departments of Statistics and Horticulture
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Electroweak probes of the nucleus and the era of precision neutrino physics, Dan Ruterbories, University of Rochester / MINERvA
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   Wednesday, October 2nd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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   Thursday, October 3rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Science Opportunities with Powerful New X-ray Sources, Uwe Bergmann, Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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   Friday, October 4th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
The 2017 Lake Michigan Ozone Study, Brad Pierce, UW Space Sciences and Engineering Center
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   Monday, October 7th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Plasma Facing Materials for Fusion – From Challenge to Realisation, J. Coenen, Julich
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   Tuesday, October 8th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Spectroscopy with Josephson Junctions, Dr. Çaglar Girit, College de France
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Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Beer, biofuels, and beyond: yeast biodiversity in the era of genomics, Chris Hittinger, UW Department of Genetics
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   Thursday, October 10th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Quantum computing with superconducting circuits, Yu Chen , Google
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Where Physics Ph.D.'s Work and How to Get There, Rob Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
Milky Way Science with the Dark Energy Survey, Keith Bechtol, UW Madison Physics Department
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   Friday, October 11th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) for structural biology and more: How the (relatively) new European XFEL really can do more!, Adrian Mancuso
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   Monday, October 14th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
APS Invited Talk Rehearsals, TBD, UW Madison
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   Tuesday, October 15th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Lake Michigan water-level changes and their impacts on shorelines and shoreline property owners, Dave Mickelson, UW Department of Geology
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, October 16th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Neutrino masses and Gravitational waves, Oleg Popov, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST
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   Thursday, October 17th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Your Resume: From Good to Great!, Michelle Holland, Physics Graduate Programs Coordinator
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
Probing White Dwarf Binaries with Post-outburst Novae, Bill Wolf, UW Eau Claire
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Physics Museum, Chamberlin Hall lobby
Physics Major Fair
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   Friday, October 18th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits, Hakan Tureci, Princeton/Rigetti Computing
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   Tuesday, October 22nd
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
A brief history of the soul from antiquity to integrated information theory, Peter Sobol, Wisconsin Public Media
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   Wednesday, October 23rd
 Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology), TIME & LOCATION CHANGED!;
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Axion Dark Matter Production and Sub-Structure in Non-Standard Cosmologies, Nikita Blinov, Fermilab
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   Thursday, October 24th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
Open Cluster Variables: Essential Astrophysical Probes, Melinda Soares, Princeton University
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   Friday, October 25th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
NO COLLOQUIUM 10/25/19
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   Monday, October 28th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Efficient Numerical Methods for Stellarator Optimization, Antoine Cerfon, NYU
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   Tuesday, October 29th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The role of auditory hair cells in frequency discrimination, Robert Fettiplace, UW Department of Neuroscience
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, October 30th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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   Thursday, October 31st
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Wrestling with ultrastrongly coupled parasitic modes in circuit quantum electrodynamics, Dr. Ivan Pechenezhskiy , University of Maryland
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
"Suppressed Superwinds: A New Paradigm for Extreme Massive-Star Feedback”, Sally Oey, University of Michigan
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November 2019

   Friday, November 1st
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling Hall
Justin Walker Thesis Defense, Justin Walker, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   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
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   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
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   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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Interiors for AdS Black Holes, Sagar Lokhande, UIUC
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   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
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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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
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   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
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Introduction to Quantum Error Correction: Schrödinger meets Maxwell’s Demon, Steven Girvin, Yale
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   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
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   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
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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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
Presentation: Madison.pdf
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   Wednesday, November 13th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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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
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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
Presentation: KOST_talk.pdf
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   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
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Truth or Dare?, Ken Bloom, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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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
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Employer Visit; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Honeywell Info Session & Career Opportunities, Honeywell
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   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
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Black Hole Ergomagnetospheres, Electromagnetic Jets and Ejection Disks, Roger Blandford, KIPAC, Stanford
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   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
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   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
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   Wednesday, November 20th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Aspects of Neutrino Masses, Jessica Turner, Fermilab
Presentation: Madison_2019.pdf
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   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
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   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
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   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
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December 2019

   Monday, December 2nd
Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Numerical Simulation of Intense Ultrafast Quantum Phenomena, Joshua Tree Karpel, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Multi-field Ion Fluctuation Measurements with Ultra Fast Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy (UF-CHERS) in the DIII-D Tokamak, Dinh Truong, GA/UW
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   Tuesday, December 3rd
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
A case study of bacterial pathogen emergence: Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Caitlin Pepperell, UW Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, December 4th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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   Thursday, December 5th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Physicists at Google, Homer Wolfmeister, Google
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
Journey: Jets & Outflows Revealing the Nature and Evolution of Massive YSO's", Esteban Araya, Western Illinois
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   Friday, December 6th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
Holiday Colloquium, 3rd Year Graduate Students, UW-Madison
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   Monday, December 9th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Integrated Solenoid-Free Tokamak Startup Studies on Pegasus and Pegasus-III, Michael Bongard, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, December 10th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The poetry of chaos, Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
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   Wednesday, December 11th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Dark Matter and Dark Radiation from Primordial Black Hole Domination, Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab
Presentation: UW-PBH.pdf
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   Thursday, December 12th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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12:00 pm; CANCELLED Supernova Conference Room (5117),WIPAC offices at 222 West Washington Ave., Suite 500
CANCELLED: Making space telescopes happen, Max Mutchler
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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Quantum combinatorial optimization algorithms, Dr. Yuri Alexeev, Argonne Argonne National Laboratory
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   Friday, December 13th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Thermodynamics away from equilibrium: Watching biological systems break time reversal symmetry, Michael Murrell, Yale
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Sterling B343 (NOTE NEW LOCATION)
Exploring the Cosmic Dark Ages: the Lunar Orbit Array, Xuelei Chen, National Astronomical Observatories of China/ Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)
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   Tuesday, December 17th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
Lithium Plasma Facing Component Characterization and Plasma Performance for the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment-Beta, Anurag Maan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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   Wednesday, December 18th
Thesis Defense; 9:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Sam Neyens PhD Thesis Defense, Sam Neyens, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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