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Events During the 2013 Fall Semester
August 2013
September 2013
- Friday, September 6th
- Raymond L. Orbach, University of Texas at Austin
- Memories of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Lin
- Friday, September 13th
- Patrick Huber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
- Project Poltergeist, a Ghostly Neutrino and a Specter
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Everett
- Friday, September 20th
- Ellen Williams, BP, Chief Scientist
- A Scientist’s View of Research for Sustainable Energy
- 3:30 pm; Notice--different location: Room AB20, Dept. of Geoscience, Weeks Hall, 1215 W. Dayton Street, hosted by Himpsel
- Friday, September 27th
- Yong-Baek Kim, University of Toronto
- Topological Phases in Correlated Materials
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Perkins
October 2013
- Friday, October 4th
- Benjamin Wandelt, Paris Institute for Astrophysics (IAP) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne University
- Cosmic Past, Present, Future: Planck and Beyond
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Timbie
- Friday, October 11th
- Sridhara Dasu, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Understanding the Higgs Boson
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Friday, October 18th
- Ketevi Assamagan, Brookhaven National Lab
- Search for Higgs Boson Decays into Invisible Particles at the LHC
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Sau Lan Wu
- Friday, October 25th
- Petra Hüntemeyer, Michigan Technological University
- Multiwavelength Astronomy, the Origin of Cosmic Rays, and the HAWC Observatory
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Westerhoff
November 2013
- Friday, November 1st
- Mark Ratner, Northwestern University
- Canceled
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Coppersmith
- Friday, November 8th
- Marcela Carena, Fermilab & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
- Higgs Boson Discovery: What's Next?
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Bai
- Friday, November 15th
- Dam Son, University of Chicago
- Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Hashimoto
- Friday, November 22nd
- Daniel McKinsey, Yale University
- First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Bai
December 2013
- Friday, December 6th
- Prof. Dr. Peter Zoller, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
- New Frontiers of Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Ions
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Mark Saffman
- Friday, December 13th
- 3rd Year Graduate Students, UW Madison
- Holiday Colloquium
- 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall , hosted by Department of Physics