Events at Physics |
Events During September, 2026
- Tuesday, September 1st
- Graduate Program Event; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Notebook reclamation - Fall 2026 edition
- Department Coffee Hour; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; outside on the front steps (overlooking University Ave).
- Cookie Potluck!
- Council Meeting
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, September 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Fall Semester Instruction Begins
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling
- Thursday, September 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Strongly anharmonic flux-tunable transmon based on InAs-Al two-dimensional heterostructure , Arunav Bordoloi, NYU
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium: Show and Tell
- Friday, September 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Anderson, Lawler, Lin Colloquium;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 - - Lessons from Physics, Academia and Washington - Can we save science?, Neal Lane, former NSF Director and Clinton Administration Science Advisor
- Monday, September 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Labor Day
- Wednesday, September 9th
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Investigation of superconducting systems — From microscopics and numerics to phenomenology, Gustav Romare
- Thursday, September 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Shaping Quantum Materials with Light, Daniel Kaplan, Rutgers
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium: Show and Tell
- Friday, September 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 -
- Standard Quantum Field Theory is incompatible with the Higgs boson, James Wells, University of Michigan
- Monday, September 14th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Painleve property: from dynamical accessibility of phase-space holes and gravity cusps in 1D Vlasov-Poisson dynamics to stellarator optimization for quasisymmetry, Wrick Sengupta, Princeton University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- De Sitter shockwave and static patch holography, Yiming Chen, Stanford University
- Wednesday, September 16th
- Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Sterling B343
- First General Meeting of the Semester
- Thursday, September 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The Atomic Single Electron Transistor, Dahlia Klein, University of Chicago
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Magnetic Null Points Drifted by Magnetic Pressure and Tension Forces, Mary Yu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Tracking the Grist and Flakes of Planetesimals with Dust Polarization , Daniel Lin, Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow, NRAO
- Friday, September 18th
- Preliminary Exam; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Intersecting AI and high energy theoretical physics, Haotian Cao, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 -
- Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma-ray Observatories , Reshimi Mukherjee, Columbia/Barnard College
- Monday, September 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Waves in a Plasma Ocean: Wave-Particle Interactions Throughout the Solar System, Allison Jaynes, University of Iowa
- WiCOR/Astronomy Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; WiCOR Space, 6515 Sterling Hall
- Coda of a Dying Sun, Konstantin Batygin, Professor, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University
- Tuesday, September 22nd
- WiCOR Lecture - Fall 2026; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Forum at the Discovery Building
- Planet 9 From Outer Space, Konstantin Batygin, Professor, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech
- Wednesday, September 23rd
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling B343
- Study of Argon Dissolved in Water via EXAFS Spectroscopy, Roberta Candela , Biophysics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, September 24th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Title to be announced, Frank Gao, UW-Madison Chemistry
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Black Hole Images: What they've taught us so far and how we can improve them, Lia Medeiros, UW-Milwaukee
- Friday, September 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 -
- New Horizons in Black Hole Imaging, Charles Gammie, University of Illinois
- Saturday, September 26th
- UW Madison Physics Department Picnic; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; Rennebohm Park, 115 N Eau Claire Ave, Madison, WI 53705
- Monday, September 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Ben Dudson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, Zipei Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
