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Events During the 2020 Summer Semester

May 2020

   Friday, May 1st
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Register for zoom event:
TBD, Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
*CANCELLED* TBD, David Weiss, Penn State
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   Tuesday, May 5th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Online
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   Wednesday, May 6th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Natural Graph Networks, Taco Cohen, Qualcomm AI Research
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Online
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   Thursday, May 7th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
Department Coffee Hour
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Awards; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; Blackboard Collaborate; see link and dial-in access below
2020 Scholarships & Awards
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   Friday, May 8th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
, Holger Muller, University of California, Berkeley
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Commencement; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm;
2020 Virtual Commencement Ceremony
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   Wednesday, May 13th
 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
11:00 am - 12:00 pm;
Mathematics of post-quantum cryptography & the CyberSecurity Non-Profit, Emily Stamm, Allstate & CyberSecurity Non-Profit
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   Thursday, May 14th
Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Virtual:
Progress Towards an Atomic Metamaterial, Zachary Buckholtz, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
Department Coffee Hour
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   Friday, May 15th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, Vedika Khemani, Stanford University
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   Wednesday, May 20th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Building symmetries into generative flow models, Phiala Shanahan, MIT
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Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
Career Opportunities in Quantum Technology at HRL Laboratories, Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories
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   Thursday, May 21st
 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Email quantum@uchicago.edu to request access;
Understanding sources of decoherence for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW–Madison Physics
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
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   Friday, May 22nd
Board of Visitors; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual
Board of Visitors meeting, Craig Heberer, Chair, BoV
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, Monika Aidelsburger, LMU
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   Tuesday, May 26th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
Quantum Employer Spotlight: Atom Computing, TBA
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   Wednesday, May 27th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 11:30 am; Join Virtually:
CQE Research Briefing — Learning to Optimize Variational Quantum Circuits to Solve Combinatorial Problems, Yuri Alexeev, Argonne National Laboratory
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
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   Thursday, May 28th
Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; Virtual
Continuous-Wave Optical Modulation via Stimulated Raman Scattering, David Gold, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
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   Friday, May 29th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
Quantum Employer Spotlight: IBM, TBA, IBM
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June 2020

   Monday, June 1st
Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; Virtual
Stability of Diffuse Optical Tomography in the Bayesian Framework, Kit Newton, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Tuesday, June 2nd
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
Exposing the astrophysical conditions of r-process events through observable signatures of lanthanide and actinide production, Nicole Vassh, Notre Dame
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   Wednesday, June 3rd
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Why do neural networks generalise in the overparameterised regime?, Ard Louis, University of Oxford
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   Thursday, June 4th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
Department Coffee Hour
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   Tuesday, June 9th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Evaluating Neutrino Moment Closures in Neutron Star Mergers, Sherwood Richers , UC Berkeley
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   Wednesday, June 10th
Diversity and Inclusion Plan and Town Hall ; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Webex:
, Kevin Black, UW-Madison
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   Thursday, June 11th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Department Coffee Hour
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   Friday, June 12th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Long-lived spin squeezing in a metrologically relevant regime, Jakob Reichel, Sorbonne University / Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'ENS
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   Tuesday, June 16th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Co-SIMP freezeout: a novel Dark Matter Production Mechanism, Juri Smirnov , Ohio State U.
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   Wednesday, June 17th
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; Virtual
Theory and Simulations of Interacting Quantum Systems, Baris Ozguler, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Deep Learning and Quantum Gravity, Koji Hashimoto, Osaka University
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   Thursday, June 18th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Department Coffee Hour
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   Friday, June 19th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — Title TBD, Tilman Esslinger, ETH
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   Tuesday, June 23rd
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
On the minimum radius of very massive neutron stars, Sophia Han, Ohio U.
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   Wednesday, June 24th
Department Meeting
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
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   Thursday, June 25th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Department Coffee Hour
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   Friday, June 26th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — Title TBD, Jonathan Home, ETH
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   Tuesday, June 30th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Thermal evolution of neo-neutron stars, Mikhail Beznogov, National Autonomous University of Mexico
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July 2020

   Wednesday, July 1st
Physics meets ML; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Learning for Safety-Critical Control in Dynamical Systems, Yisong Yue, CalTech
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   Thursday, July 2nd
Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Zoom
Exploring driven, high Lundquist number magnetic reconnection in the laboratory: studies of sub-ion scale plasmoids, and the interplay between shocks and magnetic flux pileup, Joseph Olson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Department Coffee Hour
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   Tuesday, July 7th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
The dark matter neutrino portal and implications for stellar collapse, Amol Patwardhan, INT
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   Thursday, July 9th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Department Coffee Hour: Consequences of our teaching plan and International student status
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   Friday, July 10th
Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, David Demille, Yale
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   Monday, July 13th
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
Instability, ion heating, and flow drive in high-? hall plasmas, Jason Milhone, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Tuesday, July 14th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Exciting Prospects for Detecting Late-Time Neutrinos from Core-Collapse Supernovae, Shirley Li, SLAC
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   Wednesday, July 15th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 12:00 pm
String data and machine learning , Andre Lukas, University of Oxford
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   Thursday, July 16th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Department Coffee Hour
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   Friday, July 17th
Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, James Thompson, JILA
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   Tuesday, July 21st
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Dark photons and supernovae: Lessons from astrophysics, Ermal Rrapaj, Minnesota
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   Wednesday, July 22nd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
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   Thursday, July 23rd
 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm;
Launch to the Future: Quantum Internet, DOE and UChicago
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Department Coffee Hour
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   Friday, July 24th
Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual
Techniques to improve neurovascular 4D-flow MRI and its applications, Dahan Kim, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar Series, Normal Yao, UC Berkeley
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   Tuesday, July 28th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
Neutron Star Merger Dynamics, David Radice, Penn State
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   Wednesday, July 29th
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
Cosmic Ray Transport and the Galaxy Gas Cycle, Chad Bustard, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Discovering Symbolic Models in Physical Systems using Deep Learning, Shirley Ho, Flatiron Institute
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Chicago Quantum Exchange Briefing; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; please email quantum@uchicago.edu to request access
Quantum simulations of materials on near-term quantum computers, Marco Govoni, Argonne National Laboratory
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   Thursday, July 30th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
Department Coffee Hour
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   Friday, July 31st
Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, TBD, TBD
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Summer 2020: Degree Warrant Request Deadline
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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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