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Events During the 2015 Spring Semester

January 2015

   Tuesday, January 6th
Faculty Search Committee Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
Faculty Search Committee Meeting (Particle)
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   Thursday, January 8th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
A Quantitative Study of Bias Triangles in Chemical Potential Space, Dr. Justin Perron
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   Friday, January 9th
Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Modular Quantum Information Processing, David Hucul , University of Maryland
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   Monday, January 12th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Studies of Correlations in Low-Disorder 2D Electron Gases in MBE-Grown GaAs, John Watson, Purdue
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Astronomy Colloquium; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Astronomy Colloquium Room (Sandwiches provided)
From the Interstellar Medium to Prime Time, Making Astronomy News, Terry Devitt & Tom Ziemer, UW-Madison Research Communications & Letters and Science Office of Advancement
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   Wednesday, January 14th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
The pumpistor: understanding the parametrically flux-pumped SQUID by its electrical impedance, Kyle Sundqvist , Texas A&M
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   Tuesday, January 20th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The passenger pigeon: Why it went extinct, and can we resurrect it? , Stan Temple, Nelson Institute
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
The LUX and LZ Dark Matter Experiments, Kevin O'Sullivan, Yale
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   Wednesday, January 21st
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
The non-thermal Universe, Markus Ahlers, UW - Madison
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Public event ; 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm; Marquee Theater, Union South
Particle Fever screening , Sridhara Dasu & Wesley Smith, UW–Madison
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   Thursday, January 22nd
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Magnetism, rotons, and beyond: engineering atomic systems with lattice shaking, Colin Parker, University of Chicago, James Franck Institute and Department of Physics
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   Friday, January 23rd
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Entanglement, Bell's Inequality, Trapped Ions, and Quantum Computing, Chris Monroe, JQI, University of Maryland
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   Monday, January 26th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Current redistribution and transport in the RFP, Dr. Eli Parke, UW- Madison
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 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
From Quantum Communications to Small Quantum Computers, Graeme Smith, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
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   Tuesday, January 27th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Madison Science Museum: from chaos to complexity, Olga Trubetskoy and Dave Nelson, Madison Science Museum
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Chasing our Cosmic Dawn: Opening the 21cm cosmological window on the universe, Daniel C. Jacobs, NSF Fellow, Arizona State University
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
One century of neutrino mass experiments: from radium salts to microwaves, Benjamin Monreal, UCSB
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   Wednesday, January 28th
 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Quantum control of atoms, ions, and nuclei , Christian Schneider, UCLA
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   Thursday, January 29th
Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Observation of ultracold Cs Rydberg molecules with kiloDebye dipole moments, Donald Booth, University of Oklahoma
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Puzzles in Massive Galaxy Assembly, Nicholas McConnell, Ifa, University of Hawaii
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 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Noise in superconducting circuits: microscopic theory and open questions, Lara Faoro, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies
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   Friday, January 30th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Hunting for Hierarchies in PSL2(7), Michael Jay Perez, University of Florida
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February 2015

   Monday, February 2nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Safety and sustainability of ITER from the point of view of the tungsten armor, Dr. Beata Tyburska-Püschel, Dept of EP, UW-Madison
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Expeditions to the Next Energy Scale, Victor Gehman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
Extended MHD analysis of the g-mode, Eric Howell, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, February 3rd
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Re-conceptualizing visuospatial memory development as an increase in dynamic stability , Vanessa Simmering, UW Department of Psychology
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
It's a Marvel: LZ and the Next Era of Dark Matter Searches , Kim Palladino, SLAC
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   Wednesday, February 4th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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Science Policy Movie Screening; 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm; Marquee Theater, Union South
The Man Who Saved the World, American Nuclear Society, UW Madison Chapter
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   Friday, February 6th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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   Monday, February 9th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
The tokamak density limit: a thermo-resistive disruption mechanism, Dr. David Gates, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
Surface Plasmons and Impurity States in Graphene, Victor Brar , California Institute of Technology
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   Tuesday, February 10th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Energy and ecosystems: Howard Odum's seminal 1973 paper, "Energy, ecology, and economics," 42 years later , Bill Fischer, Agronomy, Business, Law, and Psychiatry
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   Wednesday, February 11th
 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Dynamical signatures and applications of many-body localization, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Harvard University
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   Thursday, February 12th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Dynamical Structure in the Galactic disk -- a new Decade of Galactic Discovery, Alice Quillen, Univeristy of Rochester, Astronomy & Astrophysics
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 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 474 Chamberlin Hall
Spin orbit interaction induced magnetic dynamics, Luqiao Liu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
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   Friday, February 13th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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 Physics Department Colloquium, Special Colloquium presented by WARF;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
WARF on Campus, Rafael Diaz, Licensing Associate, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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   Monday, February 16th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Development of Innovative Wall and Divertor Plasma-Facing Components for Magnetically-Confined 3D Plasmas, Prof. Davide Curreli, Univ of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana
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Council Meeting
CANCELED
4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
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 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Custom low-dimensional material systems explored from atom to bulk , Adina Luican-Mayer, Argonne National Lab, Center for Nanoscale Materials
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   Tuesday, February 17th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
The limits to growth or the limits to models? , Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Using kaons to unlock the secrets of the neutrino, Joshua Spitz, MIT
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   Wednesday, February 18th
 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
8:30 am - 9:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Measuring the Neutrino Mass with Tritium Beta Decays, Noah Oblath, MIT
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Spin-charge scattering in Luttinger Liquids, Alex Levchenko
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   Friday, February 20th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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   Monday, February 23rd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Rossby Waves - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Prof. Matthew Hitchman, , Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Benchtop Particle Astrophysics, Gray Rybka, University of Washington
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   Tuesday, February 24th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Sweet talks and trade deals in symbiotic associations, Jean-Michel Ané, UW Department of Agronomy
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
The Discovery of Fermi Bubbles and Future Gamma-ray Telescopes, Meng Su, MIT, Joint MIT Pappalardo and NASA Einstein Fellow
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   Thursday, February 26th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Cosmic ray feedback in Galaxies and Cool Core Clusters, CHristopher Pfrommer, HITS Heidelberg
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 R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics, Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
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   Friday, February 27th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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NPAC Faculty Search Committee Meeting; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin
, Dasu, UW - Madison
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Detection of B-mode polarization at 150GHz and degree angular scales by BICEP2 and Keck Array, Dr. Clem Pryke, University of Minnesota
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March 2015

   Monday, March 2nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Mitigating Disruptions in Tokamaks, Dr. Nick Eidietis, General Atomics
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Council Meeting
CANCELED
4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Fundamental Physics with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry, Kam Arnold, UC San Diego, Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences
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   Tuesday, March 3rd
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Linking dynamics of chemistry, physiology and genetics in ecosystems through spectroscopy, Phil Townsend, UW Department of Forest &Wildlife Ecology
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   Wednesday, March 4th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 5th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
News from the Extreme Energy Cliff, Professor Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
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   Friday, March 6th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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   Monday, March 9th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Simulations of Centrifugal Magnetospheres in Massive Stars, Chris Bard, , UW-Madison, Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
SUSY strikes back: there is no crisis for SUSY but a new collider may be required for discovery, Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma
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Department Meeting
4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Tuesday, March 10th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Characterizing variations in Wisconsin’s extreme weather, Steve Vavrus, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Spontaneously broken supersymmetries in string compactifications, Hagen Triendl, CERN
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   Wednesday, March 11th
Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Physics Education Innovation, Duncan Carlsmith, UW - Madison, Department of Physics
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 12th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
The status of Himalayan Gamma Ray Observatory (HiGRO), Bannanje Sripathi Acharya, Tata Institute
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
The James Webb Space Telescope, Jonathan Gardner, NASA
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Title to be announced, Sujeet Akula, Monash University
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PUBLIC TALK AT THE DISCOVERY CENTER; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; HF Deluca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
PUBLIC TALK : Finding our origins with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, Jonathan Gardner, NASA
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   Friday, March 13th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Quantum information and a Michelson-Morley test with electrons, Hartmut Haffner, University of California, Berkeley
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   Monday, March 16th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Turbulence and Transport Response to 3D Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in ELM-Suppressed H-mode plasmas on DIII-D, Dr. George McKee, General Atomics
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
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   Tuesday, March 17th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Chaos for the home electronics lab, Wesley Thio, Ohio State University
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   Wednesday, March 18th
Department Meeting
CANCELED
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 19th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
What drives the evolution of the Milky Way’s disk?, Jo Bovy, Institute for Advanced Study
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   Friday, March 20th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Molding the Flow of Light Using Metasurfaces and Metamaterials , Gennady Shvets, University of Texas at Austin
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   Monday, March 23rd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Approach to transient plasma phenomena using Thomson scattering measurements in LHD, Dr Ryo Yasuhara, National Institute for Fusion Science
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   Tuesday, March 24th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
What is the Internet of Things (IOT) and key trends?, Sandra Bradley, UW Department of Industrial Engineering
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Dynamical Pion Collapse and Neutrino Beam Coherence, Benjamin Jones, MIT
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   Thursday, March 26th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall (Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM)
Self-regulated star formation and the diffuse ISM, Professor Eve Ostriker , Princeton University
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   Friday, March 27th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
The present and future of solar neutrinos with Borexino, Andrea Pocar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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April 2015

   Friday, April 3rd
Physics Department Colloquium
No Event: Spring Break
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   Monday, April 6th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
Optical Emission Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic of Low-Temperature Plasmas, Dr. John Boffard, UW-Madison, Physics
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   Tuesday, April 7th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Movement of eosinophils into lungs of patients with asthma, Deane Mosher, UW Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Higgs Trilinear Coupling as a Probe of Electroweak Phase Transition, Peisi Huang, University of Chicago
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   Wednesday, April 8th
Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am - 11:50 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Active Learning in Large Enrollment Classes: Literature Review, Peter Timbie, UW Madison - Physics
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   Thursday, April 9th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall(Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM)
Digging for buried Quasars with WISE and Planck, Mike Di Pompeo, University of Wyoming
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   Friday, April 10th
 Physics Department Colloquium, Joint Physics - Astronomy Colloquium;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Coffee and cookies at 11:45
Kinetic and Gyrokinetic Astrophysical Turbulence Above and Below the Mirror and Firehose Stability Thresholds, Matt Kunz, Princeton
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 Physics Department Colloquium, Heinz H. Barschall Colloquium;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Search for permanent electric dipole moments of protons and deuterons using storage rings, Frank Rathmann, Institut fuer Kernphysik , Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
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   Saturday, April 11th
Barschall - Haeberli Symposium; 9:00 am - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
, Various, Various
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   Monday, April 13th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
FNSF: Next Facility to Qualify/Validate Nuclear Technologies for US DEMO, Dr. Laila El-Guebaly, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
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   Tuesday, April 14th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
How scale-dependent are ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges?, Ankur Desai, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Natural Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture, William Cottrell, University of Wisconsin
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   Wednesday, April 15th
SPECIAL NOON TALK; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Hubble Clocks the High-Velocity Outflow from the Milky Way's Core, Andrew Fox, StSci
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, April 16th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
A solar close-up view of physical processes in magnetized plasmas , Paola Testa, Harvard CfA
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Careers for Physicists; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Panel with BOV members re: Careers outside academia, Lloyd Hackel & Bob Leach
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   Friday, April 17th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Has Compelling Experimental Evidence for Order-by-Disorder at Last Been Found in a Frustrated Magnetic Material?, Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo
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   Monday, April 20th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
First identification of an Island-induced Alfvén Eigenmode (IAE) on MST, Carson Cook, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, April 21st
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Towards understanding IceCube high energy neutrinos, Yang Bai, UW Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Perturbative Unitarity Constraints on Dark Sectors, Sonia El Hedri
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   Wednesday, April 22nd
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Charm jet identification in searches for new physics with the ATLAS detector, Dan Guest, Yale University
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   Thursday, April 23rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Quantum Spins in Nanostructures: Coherence, Measurement, and Collective Dynamics, Bill Coish, McGill University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
The status of India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), Bannanje Sripathi Acharya, Tata Institute
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling hall
Gamma-rays from Type Ia supernova SN2014J , Eugene Churazov, MPA Garching
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   Friday, April 24th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Universal quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes, Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois
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Chemistry Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 1315 Chemistry Building
Scientific Publishing from the Inside Out, Dr. Jake Yeston, Science magazine
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   Monday, April 27th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2317 Enginering hall
Physics of the Current Injection Process in Localized Helicity Injection, Edward Hinson, UW-Madison, Engineering
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Council Meeting
CANCELED
4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
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   Tuesday, April 28th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Barker frailty, Barker echoes and warped older age mortality dynamics, Alberto Palloni and Hiram Beltran Sanchez, UW Center for Demography and Health of Aging
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   Wednesday, April 29th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, April 30th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Pushing GaAs to the extreme: from the 5/2 FQHE to spin qubits, Mike Manfra, Purdue University
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Heavy element synthesis in the Universe, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UCO Lick
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May 2015

   Friday, May 1st
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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   Monday, May 4th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
43 years of fun basic plasma experiments, Noah Hershkowitz , UW-Madison
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   Thursday, May 7th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Probing hadronic interactions with atmospheric leptons, Anatoli Fedynitch, Karlsruhe
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:35 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Searching for evidence for ongoing cold accretion in the local universe using the Green Bank Telescope, DJ Pisano, West Virginia University Physics & Astronomy
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   Friday, May 8th
 Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Where Did Half the Starlight in the Universe Go?, Mark Devlin, University of Pennsylvania
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   Monday, May 11th
Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
Resonant 3-D Magnetic Field Effects -- penetration, resistive reconnection, islands, transport, Prof. James D. Callen, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics
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   Tuesday, May 12th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
A leakage-resilient approach to topological quantum error correction with superconducting elements, Joydip Ghosh, University of Calgary
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Naturalness in Supergravity Models: The Higgs Mass and Higgsino Mass, Sujeet Akula, Monash University
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   Wednesday, May 13th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, May 14th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Anomalous reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum measurements, Bryce Littlejohn, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
A "New" Galaxy Formation Mechanism from Joint Galactic and High Redshift Constraints, Jonathan Bird, Vanderbilt University
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   Monday, May 18th
Fermilab Talk; 3:30 pm; Fermilab, Ramsey Auditorium
A Complete Demonstrator of a Cooled-Muon Higgs Factory, Carlo Rubbia, GSSI-INFN
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   Thursday, May 21st
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
Surprises in topological insulators -- singular paramagnetism and superconductivity, Vadim Oganesyan, CUNY
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   Friday, May 22nd
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Three flavour neutrino oscillations with MINOS and CHIPS, Andy Perch, University College London
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