Events at Physics |
Events During February, 2023
- Wednesday, February 1st
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline to drop a course or withdraw from the university without having the course(s) appear on the transcript
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Superradiance in ordered atomic arrays, Stuart Masson , Columbia University
- Thursday, February 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Emergence of Quantum Order, Elio Konig , Max Planck (Stuttgart)
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The discovery and properties of binary-stripped helium stars, Ylva Götberg, Carnegie Observatories
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Discovery and Properties of Binary-Stripped Helium Stars, Dr. Ylva Götberg , Carnegie Observatories
- Friday, February 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to add, swap, or change sections in a Spring term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to begin initial Spring enrollment
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course and receive 100% tuition adjustment
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; CH4274/https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94714568988?pwd=TnRuZFNQaFErZDZ6V29DL0VpSC9rUT09
- Exploiting stellar explosion induced by the QCD phase transition in large-scale neutrino detectors, Anna Suliga, UC Berkeley/UW Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Multi-messenger scanning probe microscopy for the investigation of electronic properties of materials., Victor Brar, UW Madison
- Monday, February 6th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Beyond quantum circuits with trapped-ion qubits , Or Katz, Duke University
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Eulerian space-time correlation of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the analysis of Parker Solar Probe measurements, Jean Carlos Perez, Florida Institute of Technology
- Tuesday, February 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Building Tools for the Quantum Many-Body Problem: The Case of Fractional Chern Insulators, Daniel Parker , Harvard
- Wednesday, February 8th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Searches for transient astrophysical neutrino sources with IceCube, Jessie Thwaites, Physics Graduate Student
- 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 Renormalization: An explicit correspondence between statistical inference and exact renormalization, Marc Klinger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum many-body physics with ultracold molecules, Zoe Yan , Princeton University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; virtual - link to be sent later.
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- New Physics with Gravitational Waves , Jan Schuette-Engel, University of Illinois
- Thursday, February 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Constructive approaches to frustrated magnetism: Moiré and Measurements, Zhu-Xi Luo, Harvard University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Hunting EeV Neutrinos with RNO-G and PUEO, Cosmin Deaconu, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Blue Stragglers, Blue Lurkers and Stars that Go Bump In the Night, Robert Mathieu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Friday, February 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Ultracold Inferno” to Quantum Computing: Collisions Under Quantum Control, Micheline Soley , UW Madison - Department of Chemisty
- Saturday, February 11th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 12th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 13th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The geometry of quantum error correction under biased noise, Arpit Dua
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Multiscale Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas , Yan Yang, University of Delaware
- Tuesday, February 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Discovering and Engineering Two-Dimensional Magnetism and Superconductivity, Tiancheng Song, Princeton
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, February 15th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Achieving Practical Computations on Quantum Computers: From Better Qubits to Better Algorithms, Matthew Otten , Hughes Research Laboratories
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, February 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Strange Metal Behavior in the Hall Coefficient of BaFe2(As,P)2, Ian Hayes, University of Maryland
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH4274/Invite Link Invite Link
- Particle acceleration in astrophysical, magnetized turbulent plasmas, Martin Lemoine , Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS
- Physics Majors Fair; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; University Ave Lobby and Physics Museum
- , Evan Heintz, Undergraduate Advisor
- Friday, February 17th
- 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 Spring term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course and receive 50% tuition adjustment
- Preliminary Exam; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 2335 Sterling or
- 2D Convolutional Network for IceCube DeepCore Oscillation Studies, Josh Peterson, Physics Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:25 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- So a quantum computer walks into the White House…, Charles Tahan , Laboratory for Physical Sciences
- Saturday, February 18th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 19th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Into the Nonthermal Landscape: Searching for a Statistical Mechanics for Turbulent Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Plasmas, Vladimir Zhdankin, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
- Tuesday, February 21st
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interacting Opto-Moiré Quantum Matter, Xi Wang, U Washington
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm;
- Photon Assisted Quasiparticle Poisoning and Single Flux Quantum-Based Digital Control of Superconducting Qubits, Chuanhong Liu, Physics Graduate Student
- Wednesday, February 22nd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Geometry of Conformal Manifolds and the Inversion Formula, Bruno Balthazar, University of Chicago
- Thursday, February 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- VdW heterostructures: a new route to designing quantum matters, Xiameng Liu, Princeton
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 2:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Breaking Barriers in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Using Direct Construction Methods, Rogério Jorge, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The next generation of gravitational wave counterpart discovery, Charlie Kilpatrick, Northwestern University
- Entropy, molecular motors, and non-thermal equilibrium statistical physics; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- , Steven Chu, Stanford University
- Friday, February 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Julian E. Mack Distinguished Lectures;
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall - Climate Change and innovative paths to a sustainable future, Steven Chu, Stanford University
- Monday, February 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Advances in Stellarator Optimization, Sophia Henneberg, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Thunder and Lightning: New Frontiers in Time-domain Astronomy, Ben Margalit, University of California, Berkeley
- Tuesday, February 28th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Reacceleration of Galactic Cosmic Rays Beyond the Knee at the Termination Shock of a Cosmic-Ray-Driven Galactic Wind, Payel Mukhopadhyay , UC-Berkeley