Events at Physics |
Events During September, 2023
- Friday, September 1st
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Electricity & Magnetism, Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Quantum Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- Monday, September 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Labor day
- Tuesday, September 5th
- Cookie Potluck; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Univ Ave foyer (outside 2241 CH)
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; WIPAC supernova /
- Hunting the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays through neutrinos and gamma-rays, Saikat Das, Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period deadline for master's students
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Fall semester instruction begins
- Friday, September 8th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Advances in All-Optical Magnetometry for Femto-Tesla Sensitivity in Earth-Field-Scale Magnetic Fields, Michael Bulatowicz, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
- Saturday, September 9th
- UW Madison Physics Department Picnic; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Garner Park, 333 S. Rosa Road
- Monday, September 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Making plasma science open, Dr. Nick Murphy, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Tuesday, September 12th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, September 13th
- Careers for Physicists; 10:00 am - 4:00 pm; virtual, visit for more info and to register
- Quantum Information Science (QIS) Career Fair, Various, DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, September 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Strained Si/SiGe quantum wells with oscillating Ge concentration: valley and spin-orbit physics, Benjamin Woods, UW-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH5310/https://wipac-science.zoom.us/j/94254277222?pwd=QVJ1dHNCaFdmYnk1Vzk2TWJuQ3RwUT09
- Neutrinos, Quantum Gravity and the Big Questions - New Ideas for New Data, Heinrich Päs, TU Dortmund University
- Friday, September 15th
- Graduate Program Event; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship intro session, Emma Brann, Samuel Hori, Alysa Rogers, Sarah Perdue, UW–Madison physics
- Monday, September 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- "Rising Tides Lift all Boats: Fusion Energy Science, Plasma, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA)..., Dr. Royce James, US Coast Guard
- Tuesday, September 19th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- New black hole mergers from a search pipeline for gravitational waves with higher-order harmonics , Jay Wadekar , IAS, Princeton
- Wednesday, September 20th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Sterling B343
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Thursday, September 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH5310 /
- Neutrino interaction measurements at the short baseline neutrino program, Prof. Andy Furmanski, University of Minnesota
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Seminar; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Entangled quantum cellular automata, physical complexity, and Goldilocks rules, Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:30 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Entangled quantum cellular automata, physical complexity, and Goldilocks rules, Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
- Monday, September 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The high-field, compact mirror path to fusion, Prof. Cary Forest, UW-Madison Physics/ Realta
- Tuesday, September 26th
- Mathematica; 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin Hall 5310
- Coding Just Got Easier with Wolfram's New AI-Powered Chat Notebooks, Jeff Weidenaar, Wolfram
- Wednesday, September 27th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Problems with de Sitter in string theory, Daniel Junghans, Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien
- Thursday, September 28th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Census of Supermassive Black Holes over Cosmic Time, Jonathan Trump, University of Connecticut
- Graduate Program Event; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Coral biomineralization vs. climate change, Pupa Gilbert, Physics Faculty
- Friday, September 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Hunting for “fifth forces”, axions, and dark matter with optomechanical and spin-based sensors , Andrew Geraci, Northwestern