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Events During the 2026 Fall Semester
August 2026
- Tuesday, August 4th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin or
- Applications of Statistical Data Assimilation to Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Solar and CCSN Environments, Caroline Laber-Smith, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 5th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Friday, August 7th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Qubit control in Si/SiGe: Hopping based single qubit gates, Minyoung Kim, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Sunday, August 9th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week Summer Session Ends
- Wednesday, August 12th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Friday, August 14th
- Social Gathering; 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm; Picnic Point Fire Circle #2
- Dept of Physics Bonfire Social - RESCHEDULED
- Monday, August 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty Contract Year Begins
- Wednesday, August 19th
- Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- All Grad Lunch/recess, Everyone is welcome
- Thursday, August 20th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Astrophysical Probes of Particle Dark Matter, Fabrizio Vassallo, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 25th
- Preliminary Exam; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Simulating Radio Strong Gravitational Lenses for the Dark Matter Substructure Inference Problem, Joyce Lin
- Thursday, August 27th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Friday, August 28th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
September 2026
- Tuesday, September 1st
- Department Coffee Hour; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; outside on the front steps (overlooking University Ave).
- Cookie Potluck!
- 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
- Friday, September 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Anderson, Lawler, Lin Colloquium;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 - Title to be announced, Neal Lane, former NSF Director and Clinton Administration Science Advisor
- Monday, September 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Labor Day
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, Zipei Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thursday, September 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Daniel Kaplan, Rutgers
- Friday, September 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced, 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
- Title to be announced, Yiming Chen, Stanford University
- 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
- Friday, September 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced, Reshimi Mukherjee, Columbia/Barnard College
- Monday, September 21st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University
- Wednesday, September 23rd
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling B343
- Study of Argon Dissolved in Water via EXAFS Spectroscopy, Roberta Candela
- Friday, September 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced, 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
October 2026
- Thursday, October 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Aravind Devarakonda, Columbia University
- Friday, October 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Jessie Muir, University of Cincinnati
- Wednesday, October 7th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling
- Friday, October 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced
- Monday, October 12th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, Anshuman Maharana, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
- Thursday, October 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Kin Chung Fong, Northeastern University
- Friday, October 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced, Matt Caplan, Illinois State University
- Friday, October 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced
- Friday, October 30th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced, Philip Bucksbaum, Stanford University
November 2026
- Wednesday, November 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling
- Friday, November 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced, Katelin Schutz, McGill University
- Thursday, November 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Title to be announced, Chandan Setty , Iowa State University
- Friday, November 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced
- Wednesday, November 18th
- Graduate Program Event; 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm; Sterling B343 or
- Advances in Nonlinear X-Ray Spectroscopy and Instrumentation for Probing Ultrafast Processes, Zain Abhari, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, November 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Long Ju, MIT
- Friday, November 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced, Long Ju, MIT
- Thursday, November 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Saturday, November 28th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Sunday, November 29th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving Recess
December 2026
- Wednesday, December 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling
- Friday, December 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Title to be announced
- Wednesday, December 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Last Class Day
- Thursday, December 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Study Day
- Friday, December 11th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams Begin
- Saturday, December 12th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Sunday, December 13th
- Academic Calendar; 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Commencement
- Monday, December 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Tuesday, December 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Wednesday, December 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Thursday, December 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams End