Events at Physics |
Events During April, 2013
- Monday, April 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Manifestations of electronic nematic degrees of freedom in the high-temperature iron-based superconductors, Rafael Fernandes, University of Minnesota
- Tuesday, April 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The effects of human capital depreciation on occupational gender segregation, Hsueh-Hsiang (Cher) Li, UW Department of Economics
- Wednesday, April 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Variable High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sky, Julie McEnery, Goddard GSFC, Maryland
- Thursday, April 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Specific heat and magnetization studies of Dy<sub>2</sub>Ti<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>, Jan Kycia, University of Waterloo
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Time-Domain informatics and Smart Data Analytics in the Era of Large Astronomical Surveys, Hakeem Oluseyi, Florida Institute of Technology
- Friday, April 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Nonlinear Quantum Liquids in One Dimension, Leonid Glazman, Yale University
- Monday, April 8th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Fluctuation effects in disordered superconducting films above Tc, Alexander Finkelstein, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Tuesday, April 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Why do people believe crazy things?, Tim Rogers, UW Department of Psychology
- Wednesday, April 10th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Objective Indefiniteness Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Partition logic, logical information theory, and quantum mechanics, David Ellerman, University of California, Riverside
- Quantum Theory Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- A Common Fallacy in Quantum Mechanics: Why Delayed Choice Experiments do NOT imply Retrocausality, David Ellerman, UC-Riverside
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Fermi Large Area Telescope, Astrophysics, Dark Matter Searches and the 130GeV Line, Eric Charles, SLAC
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Examining Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Milky Way and Its Satellites, David Nidever, University of MI
- Friday, April 12th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Radiatively-driven Natural Supersymmetry, Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Superconductivity and the Pseudogap in theory and in copper-oxide based superconductors, Andrew Millis, Columbia University
- Monday, April 15th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, April 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The Ascaris nervous system - a simple nervous system. Hah!, Tony Stretton, UW Department of Zoology
- Thursday, April 18th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Profiling Massive Black Holes through Stellar Tidal Disruption, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz
- Friday, April 19th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Gravity Duals of Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking, William Cottrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Breaking Barriers with Maxwell's Demon, Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin
- Monday, April 22nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, April 23rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Flavor and CP violation in Higgs Decays, Roni Harnik, Fermilab
- Wednesday, April 24th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- SPECIAL TALK; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Galactic Magnetic Field, Glennys Farrar, New York University
- Careers for Physicists; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2124 Chamberlin
- Becoming a Professor, Segev BenZvi and Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, UW-Madison
- Distinguished Lecture Series; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Cosmology on a Moving Mesh, Lars Hernquist, Harvard University
- Thursday, April 25th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Search for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay with EXO-200, Delia Tosi, Stanford University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- What did we learn about the Milky Way during the last decade, and what shall we learn using Gaia and LSST?, Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington
- Friday, April 26th
- WID Distinguished Lecture Series; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; H.F. Deluca Forum & Atrium, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
- Wisconsin Festival of Ideas Lecture, Sridhara Dasu, UW Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- On The Way To A Systematic Study of (Radiative) Neutrino Mass Generation, Michael Schmidt, University of Melbourne
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Physics and Astrophysics from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray observations, Glennys Farrar, New York University
- Monday, April 29th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, April 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Aldo Leopold, phenology and climate change, Stan Temple, Nelson Institute
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Double Disk Dark Matter, Andrey Katz, Harvard University