Events at Physics |
Events During December, 2023
- Friday, December 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Cancelled, Kendall Mahn , Michigan State University
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Outreach; 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm; Discovery Building
- SoundWaves: Celebrations of Time, part 2, Lu Lu and others, UW–Madison Physics / WIPAC and others
- Monday, December 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Dept of Energy Fusion Energy Sciences Town Hall, Dr. Jean-Paul Allain, DOE Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) Associate Director
- Tuesday, December 5th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, December 6th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Graduate Program Event; 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Towards Measurement of Pressure Anisotropy during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection, Cameron Kuchta, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, December 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Inducing non-equilibrium phases in semiconductors with time-periodic drives, Ilya Esin, Caltech
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Decoding Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Revolutionary Role of JWST, Luis Welbanks, Arizona State University
- Friday, December 8th
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 2301 Sterling - Detection and Characterization of Core Magnetic Fluctuations on DIII-D using Faraday-Effect Polarimetry, Rachel Myers, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Q&A with ISS representative
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Origins of nematicity and field-induced superconductivity in iron-based materials, Shua Sanchez, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
- Monday, December 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Fusion-relevant studies using the LAPD: ICRF and mirror physics, Dr. Troy Carter, Director of Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) at UCLA
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Discovery, Demographics, and Dark Matter Implications of Faint Dwarf Galaxies in Wide-area Optical Surveys, Mitch McNanna, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, December 12th
- Preliminary Exam; 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Subatomic to Supernova: Two unrelated tales of neutrinos and dark matter, Daniel Heimsoth, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Synthetic Source Injection in The Dark Energy Survey: Measurements of the Survey Transfer Function and Applications to Precision Cosmology, Megan Tabbutt, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Finding the neutrino mass mechanism at muon colliders , Kåre Fridell , KEK, Tsukuba
- Wednesday, December 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Last Fall Semester class day
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 CH
- Naturalness Demands an Answer: The Imperative of Natural SUSY at the HL-LHC, Kairui Zhang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin
- A Search for Vector-Like Leptons (VLLs), Elise Chavez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Preliminary Exam; 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; B343 Sterling
- Investigation of oxide defects and heterostructure modifications for use in quantum computing, Emily Joseph, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, December 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Climate & Diversity; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall, 2nd floor lobby
- Climate & Diversity Committee all-department coffee hour, Various, UW–Madison physics
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Seminar; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Under the hood: microscopic noise characterization in semiconductor quantum dots, John Nichol, University of Rochester
- Friday, December 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Saturday, December 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Sunday, December 17th
- Academic Calendar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Commencement
- Monday, December 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Tuesday, December 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Graduate Program Event; 3:00 pm; 5310 CH
- Cosmology at the Field Level with Probabilistic Machine Learning, Adam Rouhiainen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, December 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; 5310 CH
- The Hall effect in Nonmagnetic, Ferromagnetic, and Antiferromagnetic Thin films, Neil Campbell, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, December 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; virtual via zoom
- Neutrino signal from Cygnus region of the Milky Way, Andrii Neronov, Ecole Polytechnique (Lausanne) and Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory (Paris)
- Friday, December 22nd
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, December 24th
- Academic Calendar
- Fall Semester Grading deadline
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Doctoral degree deadline