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Events During the 2023 Spring Semester

January 2023

   Monday, January 16th
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
   Thursday, January 19th
Sharon Kahn
Physics Qualifying Exam - Spring 2023 - Classical Mechanics
9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
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Sharon Kahn
Physics Qualifying Exam - Spring 2023 -Statistical Mechanics
11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
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   Friday, January 20th
Sharon Kahn
Physics Qualifying Exam - Spring 2023 - Electricity & Magnetism
9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
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Sharon Kahn
Physics Qualifying Exam - Spring 2023 - Quantum Mechanics
11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
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   Monday, January 23rd
Deadline for students to cancel spring enrollment and have no spring term record on transcript
Graduate School Spring 2023: Dissertator eligibility for spring 2023
Graduate School Spring 2023: Spring degree window period deadline for doctoral students
   Tuesday, January 24th
Spring semester instruction begins
   Friday, January 27th
Deadline for students (except Special and Guest) to begin initial Spring term enrollment without $50 late fee

February 2023

   Wednesday, February 1st
Deadline to drop a course or withdraw from the university without having the course(s) appear on the transcript
   Friday, February 3rd
Deadline for students to add, swap, or change sections in a Spring term course
Deadline for students to begin initial Spring enrollment
Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course and receive 100% tuition adjustment
   Friday, February 17th
Deadline for students (except Graduate) to change variable credits
Deadline for students (except Graduate) to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Spring term course
Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course and receive 50% tuition adjustment
   Tuesday, February 21st
Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration
Chuanhong Liu, Physics Graduate Student
Photon Assisted Quasiparticle Poisoning and Single Flux Quantum-Based Digital Control of Superconducting Qubits
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; , hosted by Robert McDermott
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March 2023

   Friday, March 3rd
Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program
Prospective Visit Days
8:30 am - 5:30 pm; all over Chamberlin, hosted by Sharon Kahn
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   Saturday, March 11th
Spring recess
   Sunday, March 12th
Spring recess
   Monday, March 13th
Spring recess
   Tuesday, March 14th
Spring recess
   Wednesday, March 15th
Spring recess
   Thursday, March 16th
Spring recess
   Friday, March 17th
Spring recess
   Saturday, March 18th
Spring recess
   Sunday, March 19th
Spring recess
   Friday, March 24th
Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program
Prospective Visit Days (#2)
9:00 am - 7:00 pm; various locations, hosted by Sharon Kahn
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   Monday, March 27th
Enrollment appointment times for Spring term assigned to students (throughout week)

April 2023

   Monday, April 3rd
Students begin enrolling for Summer term courses according to their appointment times
Enrollment appointment times for Fall term assigned to students (throughout week)
   Tuesday, April 4th
Election Day In Wisconsin, including same-day registration
   Monday, April 10th
Students begin enrolling for Fall term courses according to their appointment times
   Tuesday, April 11th
Praful Gagrani, Physics Graduate Student
A(ction) functional gradient descent algorithm for estimating instantons in chemical reaction networks
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Sridara Dasu
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   Thursday, April 20th
Deadline for Graduate students to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Spring term course
Deadline for Graduate students to change variable credits
Wen-Han Kao, PhD graduate student in Physics at Univ of Minnesota
Disorder in the Kitaev Spin Liquid
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Jaglul Hasan/Alex Levchenko
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   Friday, April 21st
Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course
Deadline for students to change Honors Optional course status
Deadline for students to add a Spring term course with department permission
Deadline for students (except Graduate) to withdraw from Spring term
Graduate School Spring 2023: Request for all master's and doctoral degree warrants

May 2023

   Monday, May 1st
Colin Whisler, Physics Graduate Student
PhD Final Defense
Nanoscale Enhancement of Dipole Emission: Modeling Multi-Photon Effects and Microwave Emission from Small Josephson Junctions
10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Victor Brar
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   Tuesday, May 2nd
Minhal Gardezi, Dept of Physics
Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Auditorium of Genetics/Biotech, hosted by WN@TL
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   Friday, May 5th
Last class day for spring semester
Deadline for Graduate students to withdraw from the Spring term
   Saturday, May 6th
Study day
   Sunday, May 7th
Final exams
   Monday, May 8th
Final exams
Alex Zeng Wang, Physics Graduate Student
PhD Final Defense
Higgs production with a top quark pair in the diphoton channel, di-Higgs production in the bb-diphoton channel, and Inner Tracker upgrade with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Professor Sau Lan Wu
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Jay Chan, Physics Graduate Student
PhD Final Defense
Investigation of Higgs Boson Decaying to Di-muon and Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson decaying to Di-b-quark
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Sau Lan Wu
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   Tuesday, May 9th
Final exams
Praful Gagrani, Physics Graduate Student
PhD Final Defense
Mathematics of evolving ecologies in chemical reaction networks and the origins of biochemical life
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Eric Smith
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   Wednesday, May 10th
Final exams
   Thursday, May 11th
Final exams
Susan Sorensen, Physics Graduate Student
PhD Final Defense
New Approaches to Transverse NMR Gyroscopes
9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin or , hosted by Thad Walker
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   Friday, May 12th
Urvashi Gupta, Department of Physics Graduate Student
PhD Final Defense
Pressure-driven tearing and energy transport in finite beta Reversed Field Pinch computations
10:00 am - 12:00 pm;
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   Sunday, May 14th
Graduate School Spring 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
   Wednesday, May 17th
Aedan Gardill, Physics Graduate Student
PhD Final Defense
Nanoscale metrology using the spin and charge states of single nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond
11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Shimon Kolkowitz
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   Thursday, May 18th
Mrunal Prashant Korwar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
PhD Final Defense
Macroscopic Dark Matter
10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
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   Tuesday, May 30th
Jack Dolde, Department of Physics Graduate Student
Preliminary Exam
Precision Measurements with a Multiplexed Optical Lattice Clock
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
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