Events at Physics |
Events During March, 2022
- Tuesday, March 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Unraveling the Bulk and Surface Theories of Helical Higher-Order Topological Insulators, Ben Wieder, MIT
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual -
- Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory, Wouter Dekens, UCSD
- Wednesday, March 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab;
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 1111 Biotech or UWBC webcam: - Fusion Energy, Solar Flares and Black Holes in the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Lab, Cary Forest, UW–Madison Physics
- Thursday, March 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- How to create and leverage many-body entanglement for near-term quantum networks and simulation, Sophia Economou, Virginia Tech
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum computing with semiconductor spins, Edwin Barnes, Virginia Tech
- Friday, March 4th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Corrections to the LARGE-Volume Scenario, Daniel Junghans, Harvard University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Extreme Plasma Astrophysics, Dmitri Uzdensky, University of Colorado
- Tuesday, March 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Simulating quantum many-body phenomena with superconducting qubits, Roman Kuzmin, University of Maryland
- Outreach; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; UW Space Place, 2300 S. Park St or live on their YouTube Channel. See for details.
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Optical atomic clocks and their applications, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW–Madison Physics
- Wednesday, March 9th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link for those attending online: )
- Rethinking AutoML for Diverse Tasks, Nicholas Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thursday, March 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Skyrmion pairing: a topological route to superconductivity, Shubhayu Chatterjee, University of California Berkeley
- Seminar at Bergmann Group; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Room 1306 Chamberlin Hall
- A two-state picture of water and possible consequences , Professor Lars Pettersson, University of Stockholm
- Friday, March 11th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Gravitational Wave Probes of Axion Rotations Responsible for Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry, Raymond Co, University of Minnesota
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- CFS and the new public-private fusion energy landscape, Robert Mumgaard, CFS Energy
- Outreach; 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm; H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
- Soundswaves: small - medium - large, Brian Rebel and others, UW–Madison Physics and other UW depts
- Saturday, March 12th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Sunday, March 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Visit for more info
- Quantum education open house at APS March Meeting, various, various
- Monday, March 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Tuesday, March 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Mining the transient sky in the new era of Multi-messenger Astrophysics, Raffaella Margutti, UC Berkeley
- Wednesday, March 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Zoom link:
- BI for AI: Energy conserving descent for optimization, Eva Silverstein, Stanford University
- Thursday, March 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Friday, March 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Systematically testing all new physics solutions of the muon g-2 anomaly, Rodolfo Capdevilla, Perimiter Institute
- Saturday, March 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Sunday, March 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Monday, March 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Classes resume
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm; Virtual - link to be sent later
- Tuesday, March 22nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm; Virtual - link to be sent later
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, March 23rd
- 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. We will also livestream the talk in Chamberlin 5280.
- Tuning Large Neural Networks via Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Transfer, Greg Yang, Microsoft Research
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; CANCELLED
- Thursday, March 24th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Whitford Lecture - Massive Star Envelopes and Explosions: 3D Simulations and Observational Consequences, Lars Bildsten, KITP, UCSB
- Friday, March 25th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- HQAN Quantum Research Colloquium, Hannes Bernien and Kevin Singh (UChicago), Alex Levchenko (UW-Madison)
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Wormholes and Saddles in Axion Gravity, Gregory Loges, UW Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring cosmology with the South Pole Telescope, Amy Bender, Argonne National Laboratory
- Monday, March 28th
- Special Talk; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- "Exoplanet and solar system synergies through novel instrumentation and observations”, Dr. Emily Martin, 51 Pegasi b Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
- Tuesday, March 29th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm;
- Nuclei in Core-Collapse Supernovae, Shun Furusawa, Kanto Gakuin/iTHEMS
- Wednesday, March 30th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Machine Learning Statistical Gravity from Multi-Region Entanglement Entropy, Yi-Zhuang You, UC San Diego
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, March 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- ML, ray-based framework for tuning quantum dot devices: Two dots and beyond, Justyna Zwolak, NIST