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Events During April, 2023
- Monday, April 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Students begin enrolling for Summer term courses according to their appointment times
- Academic Calendar
- Enrollment appointment times for Fall term assigned to students (throughout week)
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmic Ray Transport Theory in light of Milky Way Data, Philipp Kempski, Princeton University
- Tuesday, April 4th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day In Wisconsin, including same-day registration
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547 NOTE: All participants and hosts are now required to sign into a Zoom account prior to joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley.
- Constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the CMB with POLARBEAR, Jacob Spisak, UCSD
- Wednesday, April 5th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Detecting Axion-Like Particles with Primordial Black Holes, Tao Xu, Oklahoma U.
- Thursday, April 6th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Reverberation mapping the inner environments of AGN, Yasaman Homayouni, Penn State University
- Friday, April 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmic Neutrinos at the Highest Energies, Stephanie Wissel, Penn State
- Monday, April 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Students begin enrolling for Fall term courses according to their appointment times
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetohydrodynamics of Dirac Plasma in Graphene, Alex Levchenko, UW - Madison
- Tuesday, April 11th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Light sterile neutrinos in compact binary merger remnants , Irene Tamborra , Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
- Graduate Program Event; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- A(ction) functional gradient descent algorithm for estimating instantons in chemical reaction networks, Praful Gagrani, Physics Graduate Student
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum and streaming; see for full details
- Wisconsin's role in harnessing fusion energy, Cary Forest , Physics, Realta Fusion
- Wednesday, April 12th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; VIRTUAL - link will be sent later.
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Late-time accelerating cosmologies, Flavio Tonioni, UW Madison
- The James Webb Space Telescope - Launching a New Astronomical Era; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- , Dr. Steph LaMassa, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Thursday, April 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Valley and Momentum Polarization in Multilayer Graphene, Jia Leo Li, Brown University
- Chancellor Mnookin's Investiture Events; 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Marquee Theater, Union South and virtual; see
- Discovery Past, Present, and Future: Black Holes, Neutrinos, and Life in our Galaxy, Francis Halzen, Andrea Ghez, Susanna Widicus Weaver, and Eric Wilcots, Various
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; CH 4274
- LDMX: The Light Dark Matter eXperiment, Matthew Solt, The University of Virginia
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Unveiling Luminous Obscured Black Hole Growth with the Wide-Area Multi-Wavelength Stripe 82X Survey, Dr. Stephanie LaMassa, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Friday, April 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Knowns and Unknowns in Neutrinos, Peter Denton , Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Saturday, April 15th
- Outreach; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall
- The Physics Fair, Various, Dept of Physics
- Outreach; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- The Wonders of Physics show
- Outreach; 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- The Wonders of Physics show
- Monday, April 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Schnack Memorial Seminar: Simulating Transient Excitation of Neoclassical Tearing Modes, Eric Howell, Tech-X Corporation
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; VIRTUAL - link will be sent later.
- Tuesday, April 18th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Outreach; 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Working Draft Beer Company, 1129 E Wilson St, Madison
- Astronomy on Tap, various, UW–Madison
- Wednesday, April 19th
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Reconstruction of the Radial Velocity Field of the Universe with a joint CMB and Large Scale Structure likelihood analysis, Yurii Kvasiuk, Physics Graduate Student
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- New inflationary probes of axion dark matter, Lingfeng Li, Brown University
- Thursday, April 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Spring term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to change variable credits
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Driven-dissipative dynamics of coupled atomic clocks , Emil Yuzbashyan, Rutgers
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 2124 Chamberlin or
- Unraveling the Dynamics of the Milky Way: Investigations into the Asymmetries of the Galactic Disk, Lekshmi Thulasidharan, Physics Graduate Student
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The path to high-performance long-duration plasmas on Wendelstein 7-X, Prof. Thomas Klinger, IPP Greifswald, Germany
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 1313 Sterling
- Hunting for new physics at CERN : Highlights and Prospects, Niki Saoulidou, University of Athens
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Mapping the circumgalactic medium with Lyα emission, Dawn Erb, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Graduate Program Event; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Disorder in the Kitaev Spin Liquid, Wen-Han Kao, PhD graduate student in Physics at Univ of Minnesota
- Friday, April 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to change Honors Optional course status
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to add a Spring term course with department permission
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Graduate) to withdraw from Spring term
- Climate & Diversity; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; foyer outside 2241 Chamberlin
- Climate and Diversity Coffee Hour , Tulika Bose
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Request for all master's and doctoral degree warrants
- Monday, April 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Dipole Traps for Non-neutral and Pair Plasma Studies, Matthew Stoneking, Lawrence University
- Tuesday, April 25th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
- TBD, Carla Fröhlich , NC State University
- Wednesday, April 26th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour - Cancelled
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Status of negative coupling modifiers for extended Higgs sectors, Carlos Henrique de Lima, Carleton University
- Thursday, April 27th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH4274 or
- Landscape of CP Violation in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar/UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- High-Resolution Far-Infrared Spectroscopy, Darek Lis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Friday, April 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism, Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University