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Events During the 2022 Fall Semester
August 2022
- Tuesday, August 2nd
- Non-partisan voting information session; 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom:
- , Susan Nossal
- Wednesday, August 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- 8 week summer session ends
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- APS Chapters Virtual Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- , Marciano Bagnoli
- Thursday, August 4th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall or
- Nanophotonic Systems for Novel Applications: From Spaceflight to Self-Assembled Materials to Thermal Radiation, Joel Siegel, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 5th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Improving the performance of quantum computing with neutral atoms, Xiaoyu Jiang , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, August 8th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- Random Entanglement and History-Dependent Random Sequences, Gage Bonner, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 9th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- Wednesday, August 10th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, August 11th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; Chamberlin 5280
- On the Measurement of Graphene Systems using Scanned Probe Techniques, Wyatt Behn , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 12th
- Physics Town Hall; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall or
- Physics Town Hall - Reporting, various speakers
- Tuesday, August 16th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Effects of Nuclear Uncertainties on r-Process Observables, Kelsey Lund , NC State University
- Wednesday, August 17th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 4274
- New Physics with PeV Astrophysical Neutrino Beams, Ibrahim Safa , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Monday, August 22nd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Interesting Aspects of Nearly Extremal Black Holes, Upamanyu Moitra, ICTP
- Tuesday, August 23rd
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; Chamberlin 4274
- Sterile Neutrino Search with the NOvA Detectors, Harry Hausner , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 24th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Two problems for strong CP: Topological quantization and the first postulate of quantum mechanics, Bjorn Garbrecht, Munich Tech. U.
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Measuring the Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with IceCube DeepCore, Kayla DeHolton , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 25th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm;
- A Few New Techniques for Probing IceCube Data and a Search for High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos, Bunheng Ty, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 26th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am;
- Constructing an Extended TFT from an A-infinity Algebra, Weng-Him Cheung , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 28th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 29th
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Fall Degree Window Period begins
- Tuesday, August 30th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
- Escapers, merger remnants and double-faced stars: studying exotic white dwarfs with ZTF and Gaia, Ilaria Caiazzo , Caltech
- Wednesday, August 31st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Climate & Diversity; 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Bystander Intervention Skills for Physics Faculty and Staff, Tamie Klumpyan, UW Office of Human Resources
September 2022
- Thursday, September 1st
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2022 - Classical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2022 - Statistical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Mid-circuit correction of correlated phase errors on a dual-element atom array, Hannes Bernien , U. Chicago
- Friday, September 2nd
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2022 - Electricity and Magnetism, Sharon Kahn
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2022 - Quantum Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- Monday, September 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Labor Day
- Tuesday, September 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to cancel fall enrollment and have no fall term record on transcript
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Fall degree window period deadline for master's students
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Fall semester instruction begins
- Thursday, September 8th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Axion Solar Halos, Joshua Eby, Tokyo U., IPMU
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Light at the end of the tunnel: Astrophysical searches for axion-like particles in gamma-ray energies, Milena S. Crnogorcevic, University of Maryland
- Friday, September 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Special and Guest) to begin initial Fall term enrollment without $50 late fee
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Cherenkov Imaging in Humans, during Radiation Therapy, Brian W. Pogue, UW-Madison
- Monday, September 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Formation and Particle Acceleration in Large-Scale Diamagnetic Cavities at the Boundary of Earth’s Magnetic Shield, Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The Partonic Picture at High-Energy Lepton Colliders, Yang Ma, University of Pittsburgh
- Tuesday, September 13th
- Picnic planning; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Dept Picnic planning meeting, Sharon Kahn
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, September 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline to drop a course or withdraw from the university without having the course(s) appear on the transcript
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 10:00 am - 4:00 pm; Virtual, learn more and register at
- Quantum Information Science (QIS) Career Fair, various, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The BOSS bispectrum analysis at one loop from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure, Matthew Lewandowski, Northwestern U.
- Thursday, September 15th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Special GREAT IDEAS DEI Discussion: Prof. Marin-Spiotta, Humanities Education for Anti-Racism Literacy (HEAL) in the Sciences: Informing Research and Teaching Practices, Prof. Marin-Spiotta, UW-Madison Dept. of Geography
- Friday, September 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to add, swap, or change sections in a Fall term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to begin initial Fall enrollment
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Fall term course and receive 100% tuition adjustment
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Vera C. Rubin Observatory: from Commissioning to Cosmology, Keith Bechtol
- Monday, September 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Challenges towards the engineering solution of fusion Blanket and Shield, Laila El-Guebaly, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, September 20th
- APS Chapters Virtual Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- APS Chapters Virtual Seminar - Xuan Chen, Xuan Chen, Cornell University
- Wednesday, September 21st
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Engineering 3609 and virtual-https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94242686133?pwd=MjhURDFhVFJjYU1VY25Vcit5dElZZz09
- Micro- and nano-optical components for quantum technologies, Zhaoning April Yu , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Results of the SHAFT experiment, Alexander Gramolin, Riverlane
- Thursday, September 22nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421; via Zoom:
- Characterizing the Multiphase Interstellar Medium in the Milky Way and Beyond, Dr. Nick Pingel, UW-Madison
- Friday, September 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Diversifying Science: Lessons from the Field, Elaine Ecklund, Rice
- Saturday, September 24th
- UW Madison Physics Department Picnic; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Westmoreland Park, 4114 Tokay Blvd.
- Monday, September 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The plasma edge and beyond: application of plasma edge diagnostics at W7-X, Philip Drews, Heinrich-Heine-Universitä Düsseldorf
- Tuesday, September 27th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Distribution Functions of Dark Matter Halos, Axel Gross , University of Minnesota
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Coupling a Cosmic String to a TQFT, Sungwoo Hong, (Argonne, U. Chicago)
- Thursday, September 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
- Justin Kasper: Nuclear Power (fusion and fission), Galactic Radiation, and Space Exploration , Justin Kasper, PhD, BWX Technologies, Inc. and University of Michigan Climate & Space
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Tau appearance and quantum gravity with high-energy neutrinos, Alfonso Garcia , Harvard University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421; or via Zoom:
- Galactic HII Regions and Structure in the Milky Way, Trey Wenger, NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow
- Friday, September 30th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Graduate) to change variable credits
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Graduate) to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Fall term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Fall term course and receive 50% tuition adjustment
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Black holes and quantum information, Tom Hartman, Cornell
October 2022
- Monday, October 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Prospects for experiments to measure the lifetime of spin polarized fuel, Bill Heidbrink, UC-Irvine
- Tuesday, October 4th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Quantum current dissipation in superconducting strings, Yoshihiko Abe, UW Madison
- Wednesday, October 5th
- 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
- Maths with transformers, François Charton, Meta
- Thursday, October 6th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Or via zoom
- The dark side of massive galaxies and new light with JWST, Christina Williams, NOAO
- Friday, October 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Future Colliders: The Higgs and Beyond, Patrick Meade, SUNY-Stony Brook
- Monday, October 10th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Celebrating Women and Gender Diversity in Plasma Physics Seminar Series: Saskia Mordjick, Saskia Mordjick, College of William & Mary
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The plasma density as the main lever to controlling fusion reactors, Saskia Mordic, William & Mary
- Tuesday, October 11th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- New Insights Into Lepton-Axion Interactions , Jeff Dror , UCSC
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5290 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Over-Extremal Brane Shells from String Theory, Vincent Van Hemelryck, Leuven U.
- Wednesday, October 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, October 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Measurement-induced Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Quantum Entanglement, Brian Skinner , Ohio State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Or via zoom
- The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Dartmouth University
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; MS&E Building room 265
- Quantum Nanophotonics Hardware: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping, Marina Radulaski, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California - Davis
- Friday, October 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Climate Change: Science, Technology and Policy, George Crabtree
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm; State Street
- Tuesday, October 18th
- Thesis Defense; 8:00 am; EH 4610 in Engineering Hall
- Characterizations of ultrathin interfacial atomic-layer-deposited oxides and nitrides for semiconductor grafting applications, Jiarui Gong, Physics Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Statistical significances and projections for proton decay experiments, Prudhvi Bhattiprolu, University of Michigan
- Wednesday, October 19th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- Thursday, October 20th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421
- Towards precision measurements of dark matter, Sukanya Chakrabarti, University of Alabama, Huntsville
- Friday, October 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall or online:
- Barschall Lecture: Shocking New Insights into Novae, Brian Metzger, Columbia University & CCA Flatiron Institute
- Monday, October 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Exploring the new electron-positron plasma frontier: the annihilation signature of cold magnetically-confined pairs and accessing the relativistic and magnetized regime, Jens von der Linden, IPP Garching
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Zoom (registration required)
- Actions to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in science, Candace Harris + Rowan Thomson, Carleton University
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 2401 Chemistry (enter in new North Tower, 2nd floor)
- Molecular Quantum Photonics, Alex S. Clark, Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, University of Bristol
- Tuesday, October 25th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Axion wind detection with the homogeneous precession domain of superfluid helium-3, Christina Gao, Illinois U., Urbana
- Thursday, October 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- 2D Electronics, Layer by Layer , Shawna Hollen, UNH
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421
- White Dwarf Binaries across the H-R diagram, Dr. Borja Anguiano, University of Notre Dame
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- White Dwarf Binaries across the H-R diagram, Dr. Borja Anguiano, University of Notre Dame
- Friday, October 28th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; CH 4274
- Powerful Indirect Constraints on the Origins of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays , Glennys Farrar, NYU
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The seemingly-anomalous magnetic moment of the muon - a novel reconciliation with the Standard Model and connection with Dark Matter, Glennys Farrar, NYU
- Monday, October 31st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Isotope Mass Dependence of Turbulence and Transport in H-Mode Plasmas on DIII-D, George McKee, UW Madison
November 2022
- Tuesday, November 1st
- Non-Partisan Voter Information Session; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- , Susan Nossal
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin or
- Astophysical Neutrino Source Searches Using IceCube Starting Tracks, Sarah Mancina, Physics Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Gravitational production of scalar dark matter, Sarunas Verner, University of Florida
- Wednesday, November 2nd
- 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
- Bayesian Updating and dynamical flows, David Berman, Queen Mary University
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- Thursday, November 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Topological Superconductivity and the Braiding of Majorana Zero Modes in Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid Systems, Dirk Morr, UIC
- IceCube webinar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building or online at
- Join IceCube as they announce exciting new results!, various, IceCube
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421
- How Circumgalactic Medium Dynamics Impact Galaxy Evolution, Dr. Cassi Lochhaas, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Friday, November 4th
- Grad Town Hall; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- , Kevin Black and Sharon Kahn, Physics Grad Program
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How do we know what we know? The importance of absolute anchors in cosmology, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, University of New Mexico
- Monday, November 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Enrollment appointment times for Spring term assigned to students (throughout week)
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The magnetic field scale length: an influential property of stellarators, Matt Landreman, University of Maryland
- Tuesday, November 8th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- A status update on the Galactic Center GeV gamma-ray excess, Tracy Slatyer , MIT
- MRSEC Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Materials Science & Engineering Building, Room 265
- New Frontiers in Nanoscale Magnetism: Towards Three-Dimensional Materials and Devices, Amalio Fernández-Pacheco, Institute of Nanoscience & Materials of Aragón CSIC-University of Zaragoza, Spain
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Cosmological Constant and Gravitino Mass: Statistical Correlations from the Nilpotent Goldstino Formalism., Kajal Singh, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
- Wednesday, November 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Outreach, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab;
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; free and open to the public; Biotech Bldg auditorium or register for zoom link at go.wisc.edu/240r59 - Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?, Minhal Gardezi, UW–Madison physics graduate students
- Thursday, November 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of unconventional superconductors, Pavlo Sukhachov, Yale
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building, Tong Auditorium
- Let's Talk Fusion Energy, U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E Program Director, et al., U.S. DOE
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey, Prof. Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University
- Friday, November 11th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Vescent Photonics: Overview of Technologies & Student Opportunities , Eduardo Oteiza, Vescent Photonics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- On the Threshold of Laser Fusion Ignition and the Pathway to Inertial Fusion Energy, Tammy Ma, LLNL
- Saturday, November 12th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall
- Midwest Cold Atom Workshop, Various, Various
- Monday, November 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Students begin enrolling for Spring term courses according to their appointment times
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 8:00 am - 7:00 pm; Online:
- Diversity Forum
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Characterization of Intermittency and Energy Transfer via Three-Wave Coupling in a Turbulent Dipole Plasma, Mel Abler, Space Science Institute
- Tuesday, November 15th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 8:00 am - 7:00 pm; Online:
- Diversity Forum
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Constraining the CP character of the Higgs-fermion interactions, Henning Bahl, U. Chicago
- Wednesday, November 16th
- 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
- Anomaly detection in the search for new physics, Gregor Kasieczka, Hamburg University
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- Thursday, November 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Local observables and Loschmidt echo of quenched paired fermionic superfluids, Victor Gurarie, UC Boulder
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Boosted Higgs and the Effective Field Theory, Nick Smith, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Introducing TIGRESS-NCR: current status of numerical modeling of the star-forming ISM, Dr. Chang-Goo Kim, Princeton University
- Friday, November 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Discovery Building
- Planning for the unexpected: Science, invention and the art of the possible, Thomas F. Kelly, Mark Saffman, and Cary Forest
- Monday, November 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- High-Energy Density Physics and Inertial Confinement Fusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Liz Merritt, Los Alamos National Lab
- Tuesday, November 22nd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Constraining modifications of black hole perturbation potentials near the light ring with quasinormal modes, Nicola Franchini , APC, Paris/CPB, Berkeley
- Thursday, November 24th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to change variable credits
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Fall term course
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 25th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Graduate) to withdraw from Fall term
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to add a Fall term course with department permission
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to change Honors Optional course status
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Fall term course
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Saturday, November 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Sunday, November 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Monday, November 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Advanced Approaches in Stellarator Optimization, Sophia Henneberg, IPP Greifswald
- Tuesday, November 29th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Asymptotic series and gravitational particle production, Edward Basso, Physics Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Dark Matter Substructure: simulations, semi-analytic models and observations, Xiaolong Du, Carnegie Observatories & UCLA
December 2022
- Thursday, December 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Imaging the Breaking of Electrostatic Dams in Graphene for Ballistic and Viscous Fluids, Zachary Krebs , UW-Madison
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling or
- Exploration of problems in space physics using the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, Jack Schroeder, Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 4274
- The Changing Landscape of Astrophysical Searches and Indirect Detection of Dark Matter, Eric Charles, SLAC
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Why do massive stars have "inflated" cores?, Dr. Evan Henry Anders, Northwestern University
- Friday, December 2nd
- Preliminary Exam; 9:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- First Steps for a Joint Analysis of the MINOS and NOvA Experiments, Anna Cooleybeck, Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 11:00 am - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Physicists in Finance. A Personal Journey, Dr. Senthil Sundaram, KULA Investments, LLC
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall -
- Quantitative Trading and Portfolio Management, Senthil Sundaram
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, December 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Disruptive Tearing Modes In DIII-D IBS Discharges, Professor Emeritus James D. Callen, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, December 6th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Gravitational-wave signatures of dense matter in neutron star binary inspirals , Tanja Hinderer , Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Electroweak Symmetric Balls, Mrunal Prashant Korwar, UW Madison
- Wednesday, December 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling 4421 or zoom:
- Moons, Planets, and Suns in Context: Environments & Evolutionary Pathways, Melinda Soares-Furtado, UW Madison
- Astronomy Talk: Melinda Soares-Furtado; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Moons, Planets, and Suns in Context: Environments & Evolutionary Pathways, Melinda Soares-Furtado, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; Meet in Chamberlin lobby to walk to Chazen museum
- GREAT IDEAS Excursion to Sifting & Reckoning Exhibit
- Thursday, December 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin-phonon effects in nitrogen-vacancy centers, Matt Cambria , UW-Madison
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm;
- Constraining the Diffuse Flux of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos with the Askaryan Radio Array’s Largest Analysis Ever, Abigail Bishop, Physics Graduate Student
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Linking Planet Formation to Exoplanet Composition , Prof. Edwin(Ted) Bergin, University of Michigan
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; CH 4274
- Treasure Maps for Detections of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays, Anatoli Fedynitch, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Friday, December 9th
- Thesis Defense; 10:30 am - 6:00 pm;
- Physical structure of tooth enamel at the nano- and micro-scales, revealed by x-ray linear dichroism, and displayed by polarization-dependent imaging contrast mapping, Cayla Stifler, Physics Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- New Frontiers in Collisionless Reconnection: Exploring Magnetosphere-Relevant Reconnection with Experiments and Custom Kinetic Simulations, Samuel Greess, Physics Graduate Student
- Monday, December 12th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling
- Superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems for quantum computing applications, Ben Harpt, Physics Graduate Student
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Heat and particle transport in the JET DT2 campaign, Philip Schneider, IPP Garching
- Tuesday, December 13th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Portal Matter, Kinetic Mixing, and Muon g − 2, Ricardo Alexandre Dos Santos Ximenes Filho, Physics Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Search for dark matter recoiling from a Higgs boson, which decays to tau lepton pairs, with the CMS detector at the LHC, Jithin Madhusudanan Sreekala, Physics Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5290 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, December 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to withdraw from the Fall term
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day for fall semester
- 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.
- Differentiable Programming in HEP, Lukas Heinrich, TU Munich
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Outreach, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab;
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 1111 Genetics/Biotech or sign up for the zoom link at go.wisc.edu/240r59 - What the heck is x-ray astronomy and why do we bother?, Dan McCammon, UW–Madison physics
- Thursday, December 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Monolayers and bilayers of the topological semimetal WTe2, David Cobden, U Washington
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; WIPAC (222 W. Washington Ave., 5th floor, Supernova Conference Room)
- Searching for UHE Neutrinos with PUEO, William Luszczak, Ohio State University
- Friday, December 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; VIRTUAL - Link will be sent later
- Saturday, December 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Sunday, December 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Academic Calendar; 10:00 am - 12:00 am
- Winter Commencement
- Monday, December 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Tuesday, December 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Towards Powerful Probes of Neutrino Self-Interactions in Supernovae, Po-Wen Chang , CCAPP, Ohio State University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, To Be Determined
- Wednesday, December 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Preliminary Exam; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or (passcode 630477)
- Valley splitting and alloy disorder in Si/SiGe quantum dots, Merritt Losert, Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall & Zoom:
- Looking for new physics in rare and novel processes at the LHC, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Northwestern University
- Thursday, December 22nd
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Friday, December 23rd
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, December 25th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Doctoral degree deadline