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Events During the 2022 Summer Semester
May 2022
- Monday, May 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Thesis Defense; 9:30 am; B343 Sterling
- The Influence of Cosmic Ray Transport on the Stability of Interstellar Gas, Evan Heintz, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- GREAT IDEAS coffee hour (led by GMaWiP); 11:00 am; 5310 CH (coffee and snacks provided)
- GREAT IDEAS coffee hour (GMaWiP), N/A - discussion session
- Tuesday, May 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall and Zoom
- CANCELLED --- The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM), Eric Switzer, NASA/Goddard
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, May 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am; 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.
- Renormalization Group Flow as Optimal Transport, Semon Rezchikov, Harvard University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Thursday, May 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Revealing Obscured Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies in the Early Universe, Dr. Sinclaire Manning, Univ. Massachusetts - Amherst
- Friday, May 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Hot Atmospheres of Cool Stars: From Physical Conditions to Physical Processes, Dr. Nancy S. Brickhouse, 2022 Distinguished Alumni Awardee, Senior Science Advisor Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University & Smithsonian
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- String Solutions Without Supersymmetry, Savdeep Sethi, University of Chicago
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Metasurfaces for Mid-Infrared Applications, Gregory Holdman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The topology of tuning a non-Hermitian instrument: knots, braids, and exceptional points, Jack Harris, Yale
- Saturday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Sunday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Monday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Hunting for Multimessenger Transients and Lensed Supernovae, Robert Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; virtual - Join Zoom Meeting
- Light Dark Matter: Collective Effects in the Lab and in Stars, Edoardo Vitagliano, UCLA
- Wednesday, May 11th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Networking at AFRL, Dr. Kathy-Anne Soderberg , Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
- Thursday, May 12th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CDF, Bo Jayatilaka, Fermilab
- Friday, May 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm
- School of Nursing Graduate Graduation Celebration and Hooding Ceremony
- Academic Calendar; 5:30 pm
- Commencement (Doctoral and Medical Professional)
- Academic Calendar; 5:30 pm
- DDEEA Spring 2022 Graduation Recognition
- Saturday, May 14th
- Academic Calendar; 9:30 am
- School of Human Ecology Undergraduate Graduation Open House
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm
- Commencement (Bachelor's, Master's, Law)
- Academic Calendar; 2:00 pm
- School of Nursing Undergraduate Graduation Celebration
- Sunday, May 15th
- Academic Calendar; 10:00 am
- iSchool Graduation Celebration
- Tuesday, May 17th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Implicit correlations within phenomenological parametric models of the neutron star equation of state, Isaac Legred, Caltech
- Wednesday, May 18th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Simulation-based inference for astrophysical dark matter searches, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, MIT
- Monday, May 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- 4 week summer session begins
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Ruling out QCD phase transition behind a PBH origin of LIGO/Virgo events, Pasquale Serpico, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), France
- Tuesday, May 24th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session
- Wednesday, May 25th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chanberlin
- Indoor recess (it's a rainy Wednesday!), Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, May 26th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session
- Tuesday, May 31st
- Academic Calendar
- 3 week summer session begins
June 2022
- Wednesday, June 1st
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am; 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.
- Weak Supervision for the Strong Force, Jesse Thaler, MIT/IAIFI
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; Bascom Hill
- Outdoor Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, June 2nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm;
- Impact of intrinsic charm in the nucleon and gluon saturation effects on the prompt atmospheric neutrino flux for IceCube, Rafał Maciuła, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Friday, June 3rd
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; Chamberlin Hall 4274
- Precision Higgs to τ measurements, and searches using Higgs to τ final states at the Compact Muon Solenoid, Andrew Loeliger , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Monday, June 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Better Qubits with ALD and ALE, Dr. Russ Renzas, Oxford Instrumetns
- Wednesday, June 8th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Indoor Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, June 9th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm;
- Measuring the neutrino-nucleon cross section at ultra-high energies: detailed forecasts for IceCube-Gen2, Mauricio Bustamante, Niels Bohr International Academy, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Tuesday, June 14th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Connecting the Extremes: A Story of Supermassive Black Holes and Ultralight Dark Matter, Peter Denton, Brookhaven National Lab
- Wednesday, June 15th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Recess!, Sharon Kahn
- Friday, June 17th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session ends
- Academic Calendar
- 3 week summer session ends
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Summer degree window period deadline for master’s students
- Academic Calendar; 4:55 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Dissertator Eligibility
- Sunday, June 19th
- Willy Haeberli Symposium; 9:00 am; Sterling Hall 1310
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Summer degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Monday, June 20th
- Academic Calendar
- 8 week summer session begins
- Willy Haeberli Symposium; 9:00 am; Sterling Hall 1310
- Tuesday, June 21st
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group, GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour;
11:00 am; Chamberlin 4274 or online at - Wednesday, June 22nd
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Monday, June 27th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; Sterling B343 and
- Extracting cosmological information from the sky, from the cosmic microwave background to intensity mapping with neutral hydrogen., Anh Phan , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, June 28th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
- Collective flavor evolution, collisions, and advection in core-collapse supernovae: The full solution, Shashank Shalgar , Niels Bohr Institute
- Wednesday, June 29th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
July 2022
- Wednesday, July 6th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, July 7th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or
- Imprints of Lorentz Violation in Neutrino Oscillation Experiments , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, UW Madison
- Tuesday, July 12th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- New signals and backgrounds in direct detection experiments, Mukul Sholapurkar , UCSD
- Wednesday, July 13th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Explainable deep learning models for cosmological structure formation, Luisa Lucie-Smith, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, July 14th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm;
- Recent results from the ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes at the Mediterranean Sea, Rodri Gracia, ECAP/ University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Friday, July 15th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Exploring kinetic physics in space plasmas using PIC simulations, Harsha Gurram, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, July 19th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- Wednesday, July 20th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Tuesday, July 26th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Lattice QCD for nuclear physics (and maybe nuclear astrophysics), André Walker-Loud, LBL Berkeley
- Wednesday, July 27th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models, Guy Gur-Ari, Google Brain
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; 5280 CH
- Breeding and bounding intersecting branes, Gregory Loges
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 5280 (also
- Breeding and bounding intersecting branes, Gregory Loges, Physics PhD Graduate Student
August 2022
- Tuesday, August 2nd
- Non-partisan voting information session; 1:30 pm; Zoom:
- , Susan Nossal
- Wednesday, August 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- 8 week summer session ends
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- APS Chapters Virtual Seminar; 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- , Marciano Bagnoli
- Thursday, August 4th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 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; Chamberlin 4274
- Improving the performance of quantum computing with neutral atoms, Xiaoyu Jiang , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 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
- Election Day
- Wednesday, August 10th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 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; 2241 Chamberlin Hall or
- Physics Town Hall - Reporting, various speakers
- Tuesday, August 16th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 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; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 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; 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; 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; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 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;
- 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
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 28th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm
- 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; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Climate & Diversity; 2:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Bystander Intervention Skills for Physics Faculty and Staff, Tamie Klumpyan, UW Office of Human Resources