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Events During the 2020 Fall Semester

August 2020

   Monday, August 3rd
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
Development of high-beta weakly magnetized plasma Couette flow in pursuit of electromagnetic instabilities in the Hall regime, Ken Flanagan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Tuesday, August 4th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Gamma rays from neutron star mergers: a unique signature of the r process, Xilu Wang, Notre Dame
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   Wednesday, August 5th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
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Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual
A study of Collective effects and Dark state based localization protocols in cold atoms, Diptaranjan Das, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Thursday, August 6th
Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
Precision measurements of the astrophysical neutrino flux, Austin Schneider, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Friday, August 7th
M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 12:00 pm; Virtual
MSPQC Virtual Graduation
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   Tuesday, August 11th
Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
On massive neutrino emission from primordial black holes via Hawking radiation , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Northwestern
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   Wednesday, August 12th
Physics Meets ML; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Discovering new phases of matter with unsupervised and interpretable support vector machines , Lode Pollet, LMU Munich
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Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual
Role of Stable Eigenmodes in Shear-flow Instability Saturation and Turbulence, Adrian Fraser, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Virtual
Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Cosmological and String Theoretic Data, Alex Cole, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar
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   Thursday, August 13th
Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
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   Friday, August 14th
Madison Astronomical Society monthly meeting; 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm; virtual, email to madisonastro.info@gmail.com by noon Friday August 14 to receive the zoom link
A Brief History of Time(keeping): Optical atomic clocks and their applications, Shimon Kolkowitz
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   Monday, August 17th
Academic Calendar
Faculty contract year begins
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   Tuesday, August 18th
 Graduate Program Event, PGSC Professional Development Seminar;
2:30 pm;
Nanoscale Metrology with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond, Aedan Gardill, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
The Sterile Neutrino is Dead; Long Live the Sterile Neutrino!, Jeffrey Berryman, Kentucky
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Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
Effective Field Theory Search Results from the LUX Run 4 Data Set, and Construction of the LZ System Test Platforms, Shaun Alsum, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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   Wednesday, August 19th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Virtual
High-Fidelity Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit using an On-Chip Microwave Photon Counter, Alex Opremcak, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual
Flavored Gauge Mediation with Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries, Neil Leonard, Physics MS Graduate Student
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   Thursday, August 20th
Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
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   Friday, August 21st
Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Summer 2020: Master’s Degree Deadline
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   Sunday, August 23rd
Academic Calendar
Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Summer term 2020
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Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
Graduate School Summer 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline
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   Tuesday, August 25th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Constraining cold dense matter using multi-wavelength & multi-messenger observations of merging neutron stars, Ben Margalit , Berkeley
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   Wednesday, August 26th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
The large learning rate phase of deep learning , Yasaman Bahri, Google Brain
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, August 27th
Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
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   Friday, August 28th
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
Reconnection in the Age of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, Blake Wetherton, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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September 2020

   Tuesday, September 1st
2:30 pm; Zoom:
PGSC Seminar, Ben Harpt, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Diffuse supernova neutrinos: ubiquitous and driving fundamental physics , Manibrata Sen, Northwestern
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Fall 2020: Fall degree window period deadline for master&#39;s students
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
Graduate School Fall 2020: Doctoral Degree Window Period Deadline
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   Wednesday, September 2nd
Academic Calendar
Instruction begins
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Friday, September 4th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Introduction to Research in the Department, Sridhara Dasu, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; Virtual
State of the Department , Sridhara Dasu, UW-Madison
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   Monday, September 7th
Academic Calendar
Labor Day
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   Tuesday, September 8th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Dark matter , Tongyan Lin, UCSD
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   Wednesday, September 9th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:30 pm; Please register for this online event:
Insights on gradient-based algorithms in high-dimensional learning, Lenka Zdeborova, Université Paris-Saclay
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Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 11:30 am; Join Virtually:
CQE Briefing: Universal Coherence Protection in a Solid-State Spin Qubit, David Awschalom and Kevin Miao UChicago, UChicago, Argonne
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Friday, September 11th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Science Opportunities with New Ultrafast X-ray Sources, Uwe Bergmann, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
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   Monday, September 14th
Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Online-https://honeywellrandstad.recsolu.com/external/events/zRziEFSOj1tWSNIWPsg1jQ
Honeywell Info Session, Panel discussion featuring UW Physics Alumni-Trevor Knapp, Honeywell
Presentation: Honeywell Info Session.pdf
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; VIRTUAL
Electron Scattering by Low-frequency Whistler Waves at Earth’s Bow Shock, Mitsuo Oka, Scientist at Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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   Tuesday, September 15th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar
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   Wednesday, September 16th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, September 17th
2:30 pm; Zoom:
PGSC Seminar, Rob Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Friday, September 18th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm; BBCollaborate
Particle Astrophysics, Justin Vandenbroucke
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Classical aspects of black hole interiors, Jorrit Kruthoff, Stanford University
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, September 21st
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Using Fundamental Turbulence Saturation to Improve Fast Transport Frameworks, M.J. Pueschel, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research & Eindhoven University of Technology
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   Tuesday, September 22nd
Graduate Program Event; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
PGSC Professional Development Event , Angela Zito (from the UW Writing Center), Justin Vandenbroucke, Victor Brar, Uwe Bergmann
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Microscopic black holes in neutrino telescopes, colliders and cosmology, Ningqiang Song , Queen’s University
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   Wednesday, September 23rd
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Please register for this online event:
Science is a verb: adopting the scientific method and best practices in AI research, Michela Paganini, Facebook AI Research
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
Observations of helical plasma dynamics using complementary x-ray diagnostics in the MST, Patrick VanMeter, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Thursday, September 24th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Graduate Program Event; 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom,
PhD Defense, Usama Hussain, UW-Madison
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
Knitting Together a New 3D View of our "Milky Way Galaxy"., Catherine Zucker, Harvard CfA
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   Friday, September 25th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Frontiers in Linear and Nonlinear Plasma Physics, Jeff Parker, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Probing Particle Physics with Gravitational Waves, Horng Sheng Chia, Institute for Advanced Study
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, September 28th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
in present experiments , Dr. Alberto Loarte, Head of Science Division of the ITER Organization
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   Tuesday, September 29th
PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm;
PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminar, Greg Loges, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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   Wednesday, September 30th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; contact quantum@uchicago.edu for login info
CQE Seminar Series: A Commercial Perspective on Quantum Networks, Warren Grice, Vice President of Research and Development, Quibitekk
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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October 2020

   Thursday, October 1st
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:45pm, Talk 4:00 PM
"What we learn when we're careful: the power of Seismic Stellar Evolution" , Meridith Joyce, ANU
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   Friday, October 2nd
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Astrophysics and Cosmology Experiment, Peter Timbie, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Gradient effects on false vacuum decay in gauge theory , Juan S. Cruz, Technical University Munich
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, October 5th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Core transport model validation towards building the physics basis for the SPARC tokamak, Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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   Tuesday, October 6th
PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
LinkedIn, Michelle Holland, Physics Graduate Programs Coordinator
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Properties of r-Process-Producing Neutron Star Mergers: What We Can Learn from Metal-Poor Stars, Erika Holmbeck , University of Notre Dame
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   Wednesday, October 7th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; contact quantum@uchicago.edu for login info
CQE Seminar Series: Building the second quantum revolution by training Schrödinger cats, from very fat to very fast, Tommaso Calarco, Institute for Quantum Control, Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich
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Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Please sign up at physicsmeetsml.org for this online event.
Machine learning as a discovery tool in hep-th, Vishnu Jejjala, University of Witwatersrand
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, October 8th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
Particle acceleration by pressure anisotropy plasma instabilities: from black hole accretion disks to solar flares., Mario Riquelme, University of Chile
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   Friday, October 9th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Linking the theory and observation of astroparticles , Ke Fang, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Gravitational wave probes of axion-like particles, Ben Stefanek, Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, October 12th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
A Novel Theory of Particle Acceleration at Shocks, Damiano Caprioli, Assistant Professor University of Chicago
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   Tuesday, October 13th
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm;
PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminar, Brent Mode, Physics Graduate Student
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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   Wednesday, October 14th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; contact quantum@uchicago.edu for login info
CQE Seminar Series: TBD, Marco Pistoia, JPMorgan Chase
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED.
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Online - Program Overview: Masters in Learning Analytics Program
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   Thursday, October 15th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Zoom:
Lepton flavor violating Higgs boson decays, Prasanna Siddireddy, University of Notre Dame
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
` JWST status as of 2020, and some of its first Science Programs: Time Domain Science, Cluster Lensing \& Caustic Transits '', Rogier Windhorst, Regents' and Foundation Professor, JWST Interdisciplinary Scientist, Arizona State
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   Friday, October 16th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Probing the early universe with new data and new computational methods, Moritz Munchmeyer, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Islands, cosmology, and baby universes, Arjun Kar, University of British Columbia
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, October 19th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Magnetic reconnection under the microscope: 3D PIC simulations of reconnecting current sheets, Dr. Ari Le, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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   Tuesday, October 20th
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
PGSC Professional Development - Science Communication, Sarah Perdue and Madeleine O'Keefe, Department of Physics & WIPAC
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Double bang cascades from atmospheric neutrinos , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Northwestern University
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   Wednesday, October 21st
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Neural Scaling Laws and GPT-3, Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, October 22nd
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Zoom :
Evidence for the Higgs boson decays to dimuons , Stephane Cooperstein, UCSD
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
Scaling Laws for Large Scale Magnetic Fields in Stars and in the Laboratory, Ethan Visniac, John Hopkins University
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   Friday, October 23rd
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Semiconductor qubits, Mark Eriksson, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
New roads to discovery of light states, Jeff Dror, UC Berkeley
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, October 26th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom meeting
Zonal Flow Generation by Convectively Excited Waves, Prof. Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern University
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   Tuesday, October 27th
2:30 pm;
PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminar, Trevor Oxholm, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Si/SiGe Quantum Dots, Nathan Holman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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   Wednesday, October 28th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, October 29th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
Illuminating the Chemistry of Planet Formation with X-ray Flares, isle Cleeves, University of Virginia
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   Friday, October 30th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Using physics to understand and save coral reefs from climate change, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Quantum Penrose Inequality, Marija Tomašević, Universitat de Barcelona
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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November 2020

   Monday, November 2nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; ZOOM Meeting
Magnetic Reconnection and the Acceleration of Electrons in Macroscale Systems, Dr. Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland
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   Tuesday, November 3rd
Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Election Day, including same-day registration
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   Wednesday, November 4th
 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, QuantHEP Seminar;
10:00 am - 11:00 am; Livestreaming on QuantHEP Seminar YouTube channel:
APPLICATION OF QUANTUM MACHINE LEARNING TO HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS ANALYSIS AT LHC USING QUANTUM COMPUTER SIMULATORS AND QUANTUM COMPUTER HARDWARE, Sau Lan Wu, UW–Madison Physics, CERN
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 10:00 am - 11:00 am;
QuantHEP – Quantum Computing Solutions for High-Energy Physics, Prof. Sau Lan Wu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Flow-based likelihoods for non-Gaussian inference, Ana Diaz Rivero, Harvard University
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, November 5th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Zoom :
Study of triple heavy boson production at the LHC, Hannsjörg Weber, Fermilab
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM), Eric Switzer, NASA/Goddard
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   Friday, November 6th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
The Energy Frontier at the LHC, Kevin Black, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Heavy Neutrinos and Where to Find Them, Kevin Kelly, Fermilab
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Tuesday, November 10th
2:30 pm;
PGSC Seminar, Jimena Gonzalez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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   Wednesday, November 11th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm;
Chicago Quantum Summit, Various, see website and agenda
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED for 11/11/2020
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   Thursday, November 12th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm;
Chicago Quantum Summit, Various, see website and agenda
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
Understanding Planetary Evolution with Eclipsing Disks & Transiting Planets, Joey Rodriguez,, Harvard CfA, Michigan State 1/2021
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Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Visit to register and receive the link
Fueling Discovery, Mark Saffman and others
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   Friday, November 13th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute
Chicago Quantum Summit
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Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics research overview. , Shimon Kolkowitz, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Two topics in quantum gravity, Oliver Janssen, ICTP, Trieste
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, November 16th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; ZOOM Meeting
From SOL turbulence to planetary magnetospheres: computational plasma physics at (almost) all scales using the Gkeyll code, Dr. Ammar Hakim , Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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   Tuesday, November 17th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; virtual; please email Sarah (saperdue@wisc.edu) for log-in info and agenda
HQAN kickoff meeting, various, HQAN
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PGSC Seminar; 2:30 pm;
, Adam Frees, Matthew Beck, Jonathan Koliner, Dan Minette, Chris Greiveldinger, https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93446409919
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Dark Matter: A Cosmological Perspective, Katie Mack , North Carolina State University
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   Wednesday, November 18th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Euclidean Neural Networks: Adventures in learning with 3D geometry and geometric tensors, Tess Smidt, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; virtual; please email Sarah (saperdue@wisc.edu) for log-in info and agenda
HQAN kickoff meeting, various, HQAN
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   Thursday, November 19th
Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Online - Faculty Spotlight: Masters in Learning Analytics Program
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
Investigating the Signatures of Substellar Ingestion, Melinda Soares-Furtado, UW Astronomy Department
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Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar
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   Friday, November 20th
Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
Neutrino Oscillations - A Door To New Physics, Brian Rebel, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm; BBCollaborate
Neutrino Oscillations - A Door To New Physics, Brian Rebel, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, November 23rd
Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Zoom:
, Goni Halevi (Princeton) and Theron Carmichael (Harvard CfA)
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Science Basis and Present Status of the new Divertor Tokamak Test facility, Piero Martin, University of Padova and Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy; DTT Consortium, Frascati, Italy
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   Tuesday, November 24th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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   Wednesday, November 25th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED for 11/25/2020
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   Thursday, November 26th
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Thanksgiving recess
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   Friday, November 27th
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Thanksgiving recess
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   Saturday, November 28th
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Thanksgiving recess
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   Sunday, November 29th
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Thanksgiving recess
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   Monday, November 30th
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All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; online
Predicting Stability and Performance of Tokamak Plasmas Using Flexible, Integrated Modeling, Brendan Lyons, General Atomics
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December 2020

   Tuesday, December 1st
Academic Calendar
All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
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Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Online - Program Overview: Masters in Learning Analytics Program
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   Wednesday, December 2nd
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All classes in virtual format for the remainder of the semester
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Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Harnessing Data Revolution in Quantum Matter, Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CLOSED MEETING FOR TENURED FACULTY ONLY
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   Thursday, December 3rd
Academic Calendar
All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
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Astronomy Colloquium; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Zoom meeting (see Abstract ) meet the students at 10am, coffee and tea at 10:45am
A Predictive Theory of Star Formation and Turbulence Driving Across Cosmic Time, Blakesley Burkhart, Rutgers/Flatiron Institute
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Zoom:
Search for pp → ttc, ttt and btb at the LHC as Probe of Top-changing Extra Higgs Bosons, George W.S. Hou , National Taiwan University
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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   Friday, December 4th
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Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
1) Anomalous Quantum Transport: Interactions, Disorder, Topology 2) Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits, 1) Alex Levchenko 2) Robert McDermott, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Replica wormholes, the black hole information paradox, and cosmology, Edgar Shaghoulian, University of Pennsylvania
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Saturday, December 5th
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   Sunday, December 6th
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   Monday, December 7th
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Demonstration of helium exhaust enhancement during resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) field application at DIII-D, Edward Hinson, UW Engineering Physics department
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   Tuesday, December 8th
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PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
Okay, Google: Help Me with My Resume, Homer Wolfmeister, Google
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Potential Effects of Fast Neutrino Flavor Transformations on Neutrino-Driven Wind and Supernova Nucleosynthesis, Andre Sierverding , University of Minnesota
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; sign up to receive the webinar link:
WARF Innovation Awards, Cary Forest, UW–Madison Physics
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   Wednesday, December 9th
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, December 10th
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Last day of instruction
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Muon Collider Explorations, Sarah Demers, Vladimir Shiltsev, Tao Han, Simone Pagan Griso, US HEP Community
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
Multi-messenger Astrophysics: Probing Compact Objects with Cosmic Particles, Ke Fang, UW Astronomy Department
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   Friday, December 11th
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Study day
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Electric-Magnetic S-matrix, Sungwoo Hong, Cornell University
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Saturday, December 12th
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Summary period (exams)
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   Sunday, December 13th
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Commencement
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   Monday, December 14th
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Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Zoom:
Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Veronica Allen (Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center), Veronica Allen, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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   Tuesday, December 15th
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   Wednesday, December 16th
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED
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   Thursday, December 17th
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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   Friday, December 18th
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Observations of Hawking radiation: the Page curve and baby universes, Henry Maxfield, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Fall 2020: Master&#39;s degree deadline
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   Sunday, December 20th
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Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Fall term 2020
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Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
Graduate School Fall 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline
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   Tuesday, December 22nd
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
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