Graduate Program Events |
Events During the 2020 Fall Semester
August 2020
- Monday, August 3rd
- Ken Flanagan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Development of high-beta weakly magnetized plasma Couette flow in pursuit of electromagnetic instabilities in the Hall regime
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual, hosted by Cary Forest, Faculty Advisor
- Wednesday, August 5th
- Diptaranjan Das, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- A study of Collective effects and Dark state based localization protocols in cold atoms
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual , hosted by Deniz Yavuz (Advisor)
- Thursday, August 6th
- Austin Schneider, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Precision measurements of the astrophysical neutrino flux
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual, hosted by Albrecht Karle, Faculty Advisor
- Tuesday, August 11th
- Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration
- Wednesday, August 12th
- Adrian Fraser, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Role of Stable Eigenmodes in Shear-flow Instability Saturation and Turbulence
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual , hosted by Paul Terry, Faculty Advisor
- Alex Cole, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Cosmological and String Theoretic Data
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Virtual, hosted by Gary Shiu, Faculty Advisor
- Monday, August 17th
- Faculty contract year begins
- Tuesday, August 18th
- Aedan Gardill, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Nanoscale Metrology with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond
- 2:30 pm; , hosted by Rob Morgan, grad student, PGSC
- Shaun Alsum, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Effective Field Theory Search Results from the LUX Run 4 Data Set, and Construction of the LZ System Test Platforms
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; , hosted by Kim Palladino, Faculty Advisor
- Wednesday, August 19th
- Alex Opremcak, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- High-Fidelity Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit using an On-Chip Microwave Photon Counter
- 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Virtual , hosted by Robert McDermott (Advisor)
- Neil Leonard, Physics MS Graduate Student
- Flavored Gauge Mediation with Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual , hosted by Lisa Everett, Faculty Advisor
- Sunday, August 23rd
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Summer term 2020
- Graduate School Summer 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline
- Friday, August 28th
- Blake Wetherton, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Reconnection in the Age of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual, hosted by Jan Egedal, Faculty Advisor
September 2020
- Tuesday, September 1st
- Graduate School Fall 2020: Doctoral Degree Window Period Deadline
- Wednesday, September 2nd
- Instruction begins
- Monday, September 7th
- Labor Day
- Monday, September 14th
- Panel discussion featuring UW Physics Alumni-Trevor Knapp, Honeywell
- Honeywell Info Session
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Online-https://honeywellrandstad.recsolu.com/external/events/zRziEFSOj1tWSNIWPsg1jQ, hosted by Michelle Holland, Graduate Program Coordinator
- Tuesday, September 22nd
- Angela Zito (from the UW Writing Center), Justin Vandenbroucke, Victor Brar, Uwe Bergmann
- PGSC Professional Development Event
- 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Wednesday, September 23rd
- Patrick VanMeter, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Observations of helical plasma dynamics using complementary x-ray diagnostics in the MST
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; , hosted by Daniel Den Hartog, Co-Advisor
- Thursday, September 24th
- Usama Hussain, UW-Madison
- PhD Defense
- 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom, , hosted by Sridhara Dasu
October 2020
- Tuesday, October 27th
- Nathan Holman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Si/SiGe Quantum Dots
- 3:00 pm; , hosted by Mark Eriksson, Faculty Advisor
November 2020
- Tuesday, November 3rd
- Election Day, including same-day registration
- Thursday, November 26th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 27th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Saturday, November 28th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Sunday, November 29th
- Thanksgiving recess
December 2020
- Tuesday, December 1st
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Wednesday, December 2nd
- All classes in virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Thursday, December 3rd
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Friday, December 4th
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Saturday, December 5th
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Sunday, December 6th
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Monday, December 7th
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Tuesday, December 8th
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Wednesday, December 9th
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Thursday, December 10th
- Last day of instruction
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Friday, December 11th
- Study day
- Saturday, December 12th
- Summary period (exams)
- Sunday, December 13th
- Summary period (exams)
- Commencement
- Monday, December 14th
- Summary period (exams)
- Tuesday, December 15th
- Summary period (exams)
- Wednesday, December 16th
- Summary period (exams)
- Thursday, December 17th
- Summary period (exams)
- Friday, December 18th
- Summary period (exams)
- Sunday, December 20th
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Fall term 2020
- Graduate School Fall 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline