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Events During the 2022 Fall Semester
August 2022
- Thursday, August 4th
- Joel Siegel, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Nanophotonic Systems for Novel Applications: From Spaceflight to Self-Assembled Materials to Thermal Radiation
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall or , hosted by Victor Brar
- Friday, August 5th
- Xiaoyu Jiang , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Improving the performance of quantum computing with neutral atoms
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274 , hosted by Mark Saffman
- Monday, August 8th
- Gage Bonner, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Random Entanglement and History-Dependent Random Sequences
- 1:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Jean-Luc Thiffeault and Lisa Everett
- Thursday, August 11th
- Wyatt Behn , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- On the Measurement of Graphene Systems using Scanned Probe Techniques
- 9:00 am; Chamberlin 5280 , hosted by Victor Brar
- Wednesday, August 17th
- Ibrahim Safa , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- New Physics with PeV Astrophysical Neutrino Beams
- 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 4274 , hosted by Francis Halzen
- Tuesday, August 23rd
- Harry Hausner , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Sterile Neutrino Search with the NOvA Detectors
- 9:00 am; Chamberlin 4274 , hosted by Brian Rebel
- Wednesday, August 24th
- Kayla DeHolton , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Measuring the Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with IceCube DeepCore
- 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274 , hosted by Francis Halzen
- Thursday, August 25th
- Bunheng Ty, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- A Few New Techniques for Probing IceCube Data and a Search for High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos
- 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm; , hosted by Kael Hanson
- Friday, August 26th
- Weng-Him Cheung , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Constructing an Extended TFT from an A-infinity Algebra
- 11:00 am; , hosted by Andrei Caldararu
September 2022
- Wednesday, September 21st
- Zhaoning April Yu , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Micro- and nano-optical components for quantum technologies
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Engineering 3609 and virtual-https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94242686133?pwd=MjhURDFhVFJjYU1VY25Vcit5dElZZz09 , hosted by Mikhail Kats
October 2022
- Tuesday, October 18th
- Jiarui Gong, Physics Graduate Student
- Characterizations of ultrathin interfacial atomic-layer-deposited oxides and nitrides for semiconductor grafting applications
- 8:00 am; EH 4610 in Engineering Hall , hosted by Zhenqiang Ma, Mark Rzchowski
November 2022
- Tuesday, November 1st
- Sarah Mancina, Physics Graduate Student
- Astophysical Neutrino Source Searches Using IceCube Starting Tracks
- 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin or , hosted by Albrecht Karle
- Tuesday, November 29th
- Edward Basso, Physics Graduate Student
- Asymptotic series and gravitational particle production
- 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Dan Chung
December 2022
- Friday, December 9th
- Cayla Stifler, Physics Graduate Student
- 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
- 10:30 am - 6:00 pm; , hosted by Pupa Gilbert
- Samuel Greess, Physics Graduate Student
- New Frontiers in Collisionless Reconnection: Exploring Magnetosphere-Relevant Reconnection with Experiments and Custom Kinetic Simulations
- 1:00 pm - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by Jan Egedal
- Tuesday, December 13th
- Jithin Madhusudanan Sreekala, Physics Graduate Student
- Search for dark matter recoiling from a Higgs boson, which decays to tau lepton pairs, with the CMS detector at the LHC
- 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Sridhara Dasu