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Events During the 2023 Fall Semester

August 2023

   Thursday, August 3rd
 Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Analysis on ZZ vector boson polarization using CMS Run 2 data, Susmita Mondal, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
, Sharon Kahn
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   Friday, August 4th
Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Summer 2023: Requests for all Master&#39;s and Doctoral Degree Warrants
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   Tuesday, August 8th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
Unmatched Precision on Neutrino Oscillation Parameters using Complementarity between DUNE and T2HK , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Institute of Physics, India
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   Wednesday, August 9th
High Energy Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280 /
On the origin of ANITA's intriguing events, Jordi Salvado, University of Barcelona
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   Thursday, August 10th
Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
, Sharon Kahn
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   Sunday, August 13th
Academic Calendar
8-week summer session ends
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   Thursday, August 17th
Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
, Sharon Kahn
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 Graduate Program Event, Final Thesis Defense;
2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Biophysical applications of Lie groups and moving frames, Wilson B Lough, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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   Monday, August 21st
Academic Calendar
Faculty contract year begins
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Physics Department Colloquium; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
Design and Testing of a Laser Thermal Propulsion Facility, Siera Riel , REU student, McGill University
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   Tuesday, August 22nd
Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm; Please note the unusual time...Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
The imprint of their explosions: Using supernova remnants to understand stellar death , Katie Auchettl , University of Melbourne, Australia
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   Wednesday, August 23rd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
Practical Dirac-Majorana Confusion Theorem: Issues and Applicability, C S Kim, Yonsei U.
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   Thursday, August 24th
 Graduate Program Event, Thesis Defense;
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Defect Identification using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Optimization of Long Single-Channel One-dimensional Quantum Wires, Leah Tom, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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   Friday, August 25th
 Graduate Program Event, Final Thesis Defense;
10:00 am - 11:30 am; B343 Sterling
Rydberg Physics in a Cryogenic System for Hybrid Quantum Interfaces, Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Summer 2023: Master&#39;s degree deadline
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   Sunday, August 27th
Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
Graduate School Summer 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
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   Monday, August 28th
Academic Calendar
Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period begins
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Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2223 CH
Incoming PhD Orientation, variety of speakers
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   Wednesday, August 30th
Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill (rain location: Birge Hall atrium)
Grad Student lunch/Recess
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
Sharpening Weak Gravity Bounds with Charged Superradiance, Lars Aalsma, Arizona State University
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   Thursday, August 31st
Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Classical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Integer and fractional Chern insulators in twisted bilayer MoTe2 , Yihang Zeng, Cornell
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Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Statistical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
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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
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Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Quantum Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
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   Monday, September 4th
Academic Calendar
Labor day
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   Tuesday, September 5th
Cookie Potluck; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Univ Ave foyer (outside 2241 CH)
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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
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period deadline for master&#39;s students
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Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
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   Wednesday, September 6th
Academic Calendar
Fall semester instruction begins
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   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
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
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   Saturday, September 9th
UW Madison Physics Department Picnic; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Garner Park, 333 S. Rosa Road
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   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
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   Tuesday, September 12th
Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   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
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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   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
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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
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   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
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   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
Presentation: Royce-James_Sept18_2023.pdf
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   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
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   Wednesday, September 20th
GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Sterling B343
GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
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   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
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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
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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
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   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
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   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
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   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
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   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
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Graduate Program Event; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Coral biomineralization vs. climate change, Pupa Gilbert, Physics Faculty
Presentation: Pupa's flyer-2.pdf
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   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
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October 2023

   Monday, October 2nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
The High-field Stellarator Path to Fusion Energy pursued by Type One Energy, Thomas Pederson, Type One Energy
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   Tuesday, October 3rd
Graduate Program Event; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling
Intermittency in the Dimits Regime of Toroidal Ion Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulence, Augustus Azelis, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate , Prof. Anne Green , U of Nottingham, UK
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   Thursday, October 5th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
On the Comparison of AGN with GRMHD Simulations: Sgr A* and M87, Richard Anantua, University of Texas at San Antonio
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   Friday, October 6th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
Neutrino Tomography: A journey into the interior of Earth, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India and Physics Department and WIPAC, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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   Monday, October 9th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
“Some Recent Developments of Compressible MHD Turbulence with Applications to Space and Astrophysical Plasmas” , Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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   Tuesday, October 10th
Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, October 11th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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Wisconsin Quantum Institute Seminar; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
Macroscopic Objects in a Quantum Regime, Eugene Simon Polzik, Niels Bohr Institute – University of Copenhagen
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   Thursday, October 12th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Searching for the Impact of Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxy Quenching, Prof. Decker French, The University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign
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   Friday, October 13th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles, Siyang Ling, Rice University
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   Monday, October 16th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering
Fluid Modeling of Runaway Electron Beams, Alex Sainterme, UW-Madison
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   Wednesday, October 18th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Extensions of a scale separation AdS$_4$ solution and their mass spectrum., Georgios Tringas , Annecy, LAPTH
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GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Sterling B343
GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
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   Thursday, October 19th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
TBD, Luca Delacretaz, U Chicago
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Uncovering Hidden Worlds: Challenges and Statistical Solutions in Detecting Low-Mass Exoplanets Amidst Stellar Activity, Jessi Cisewski-Kehe, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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   Friday, October 20th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
CP violating top-Higgs coupling in SMEFT, Ya-Juan Zheng, Iwate U.
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   Sunday, October 22nd
Outreach; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State Street Madison, WI, 53703
Saving Coral Reefs from Climate Change Through Science and Art, Pupa Gilbert, UW–Madison physics
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   Monday, October 23rd
Semiconductor Engineering Seminar Series: Rob Aitken; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; TITU, Union South
The Most Important Thing is Everything – Building Chips in an Interconnected World., Rob Aitken, Synopsys EDA Group
Presentation: Aitken Bio.docx, Aitken Abstract.docx
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Non-disruptive tokamak operation far beyond traditional safety factor and density limits, Noah Hurst, UW-Madison
Presentation: Hurst-Noah_Oct23_2023.pdf
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   Wednesday, October 25th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
Resuscitating Yukawa's Bilocal Field Theory for Composite Scalar Bosons, Christopher T. Hill, Fermilab
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   Thursday, October 26th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
First-Principles Many-Body Theory and Quantum Dynamics for Solid-State Materials, Yuan Ping, UW-Madison
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Cosmic ray electron re-acceleration in the intracluster medium via magnetic pumping, Aaron Tran, UW-Madison
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   Friday, October 27th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
Knowing So Little about So Much, Hooman Davoudiasl , Brookhaven National Laboratory
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   Monday, October 30th
Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Innovative Approaches in Neutrino Telescope Research and Analysis, Jeffrey Lazar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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   Tuesday, October 31st
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
Consistent inference of neutron star bulk and crust properties and nuclear observables., Will Newton , Texas A&M
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November 2023

   Wednesday, November 1st
GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Sterling B343
GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Van Vleck B223 (Note Special Room)
Anomalies and bordism of non-supersymmetric heterotic strings, Miguel Montero, Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
How to do particle physics in a climate emergency?, Ken Bloom , University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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   Thursday, November 2nd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Theory of Pines' demon in multiband metals, Edwin Huang, Notre Dame
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH5310 /
Looking inside the Earth with neutrinos, Sergio Palomares Ruiz, IFIC (CSIC - University of Valencia)
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Electromagnetic Transients in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei, Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook University
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   Friday, November 3rd
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
Multimessenger View of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrino Sources, Kohta Murase, Penn State
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   Monday, November 6th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
On the physical principles of power exhaust and novel divertor solutions for tokamak fusion reactors, Prof. Ulrich Stroth, IPP Garching, Germany
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   Tuesday, November 7th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 10:30 am - 1:30 pm; Rm. 5310, Chamberlin Hall
Accelerating Quantum Research - Academia Meets Industry, Various, UW-Madison and Quantum Machines
Presentation: Wisconsin-short.png
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   Wednesday, November 8th
Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
The stellarator Wendelstein 7-X: Towards long pulse, high performance operation, Olaf Grulke, Lead Plasma Operation Wendelstein 7-X
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   Thursday, November 9th
Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
Generation and detection of axions using four-wave mixing in optical fibers, Shay Inbar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Scaling Deep Learning for Materials Discovery, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Google Brain
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 Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
10:30 am - 12:00 pm; 2104 Chamberlin
Extracting Contributions to Qubit Loss from Superconducting Microwave Resonators, Shravan Patel, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310 CH
Measurement of the ttH and tH Production Rates in theH to bb Decay Channel at CMS, Abhisek Datta, UCLA
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin or
Exploring New Physics with Background Radiation Fields, Justin Finke, Naval Research Labs
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Using polluted white dwarf stars to learn about exoplanetary systems now, and in the future, Amy Steele, Yerkes Observatory
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   Friday, November 10th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Cancelled
Cancelled, Nicole Vassh , TRIUMF
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   Monday, November 13th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators, Antonio Coelho, EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, France
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   Tuesday, November 14th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
Free-Streaming Neutrinos in the Early Universe , Benjamin Wallisch , Stockholm University & UT Austin
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, November 15th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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 Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Upgraded Electronics for the Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Gamma-Ray Telescope, Luca Riitano, Department of Physics Graduate Student
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   Thursday, November 16th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Strongly interacting excitons and electrons in atomically thin semiconducting heterostructures, You Zhou, U Maryland
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or
Detecting the highest energy neutrinos...with radar? A new tool in the astroparticle toolbox, Steven Prohira, The University of Kansas
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Dancing with the stars: next generation models of binary star systems, Meng Sun, Northwestern University
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   Friday, November 17th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
Quantum Information and Materials for Dark Matter Detection, Kathryn Zurek , Caltech
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   Monday, November 20th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Note: change of location - 1325 Computer Science
“Results and Future Directions of the HSX stellarator“, Benjamin Faber, UW-Madison
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   Thursday, November 23rd
Academic Calendar
Thanksgiving recess
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   Friday, November 24th
Academic Calendar
Thanksgiving recess
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   Saturday, November 25th
Academic Calendar
Thanksgiving recess
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   Sunday, November 26th
Academic Calendar
Thanksgiving recess
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   Monday, November 27th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
“The Challenge of Fusion - Being Caught between Plasma and Wall", Dr. Jan W. Coenen, Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-4), Juelich, Germany; and UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, November 28th
Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling
Finding Radio-Loud Strong Gravitational Lenses Using Large Surveys, Michael Martinez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
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   Wednesday, November 29th
Preliminary Exam; 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm; B343 Sterling
PeV Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube, Emre B. Yildizci, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Thursday, November 30th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Coupling an Andreev spin qubit to a transmon, Angela Kou, UIUC
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Studying the Evolution of Radio Galaxies With the VLA Sky Survey, Yjan Gordon, UW-Madison
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December 2023

   Friday, December 1st
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
Cancelled, Kendall Mahn , Michigan State University
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Fall 2023: Request for all Master&#39;s and Doctoral Degree Warrants
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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
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   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
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   Tuesday, December 5th
Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, December 6th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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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
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   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
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Decoding Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Revolutionary Role of JWST, Luis Welbanks, Arizona State University
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   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
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Graduate Program Event; 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Q&A with ISS representative
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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
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   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
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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
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   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
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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
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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
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   Wednesday, December 13th
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Last Fall Semester class day
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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
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
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Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin
A Search for Vector-Like Leptons (VLLs), Elise Chavez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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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
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   Thursday, December 14th
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Study day
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Climate & Diversity; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall, 2nd floor lobby
Climate & Diversity Committee all-department coffee hour, Various, UW–Madison physics
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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
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   Friday, December 15th
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Exams
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   Saturday, December 16th
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Exams
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   Sunday, December 17th
Academic Calendar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Commencement
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   Monday, December 18th
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   Tuesday, December 19th
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Graduate Program Event; 3:00 pm; 5310 CH
Cosmology at the Field Level with Probabilistic Machine Learning, Adam Rouhiainen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Wednesday, December 20th
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Exams
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Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; 5310 CH
The Hall effect in Nonmagnetic, Ferromagnetic, and Antiferromagnetic Thin films, Neil Campbell, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Thursday, December 21st
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Exams
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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)
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   Friday, December 22nd
Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graduate School Fall 2023: Master&#39;s degree deadline
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   Sunday, December 24th
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Fall Semester Grading deadline
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Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
Graduate School Fall 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
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