Events at Physics |
Events During February, 2016
- Tuesday, February 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Developing value-added biomaterials, Dani Zhu, UW Department of Food Science
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Oscillations and Baryogenesis, David McKeen, University of Washington
- Wednesday, February 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- TBD, Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- TBD, Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Dynamics of interacting disordered quantum spin systems, Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Forging the Heaviest Elements, Rebecca Surman, Notre Dame
- Special Cosmology Seminar; 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Design and Deployment of the first Multichroic Polarimeter array on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Rahul Datta, University of Michigan
- Tuesday, February 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Making computer networks work (Part II), Aditya Akella, UW Department of Computer Sciences
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- High-Scale Axions without Isocurvature from Inflationary Dynamics, Dr. Jack Kearney , Fermilab
- Thursday, February 11th
- Special LIGO Press Conference; 9:30 am - 10:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- LIGO Online Press Conference, LIGO online press conference
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Origin of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy of the iron pnictides: scattering rate or plasma frequency?, Michael Schuett, University of Minnesota
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Atacama B-mode Search: Cosmology at 17,000 Feet, Sara Simon, Princeton
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG), Brad Dober, University of Pennsylvania
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:15 PM
- Gas dynamics and star formation in dwarf galaxies, Dr. Federico Lelli, Case Western Reserve University
- Friday, February 12th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- High- and intermediate-velocity clouds as a tracer of cosmic rays in the Galactic halo, Luigi Tibaldo, MPIK, Heidelberg
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Deciphering IceCube’s High-Energy Neutrinos, Marek Kowalski, Humboldt University Berlin & DESY Zeuthen
- Saturday, February 13th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Sunday, February 14th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building (Tong Auditorium)
- The Emergent Collective Behavior of Bacteria Under Stress, Robert Austin, Princeton
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
- Sustainment of a field reversed configuration with high power neutral beam injection, Dr. Richard Magee, Tri-Alpha
- Tuesday, February 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, SPECIAL LUNCH TALK
- Compact Neutron Star Binary Assembly n the Universe, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- The dynamics of message-carrying between combatants, Joe Elder, UW Department of Sociology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Unnatural (or Split) Composite Higgs, Tony Gherghetta, University of Minnesota
- Wednesday, February 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Initial Results from HAWC on Gamma-Ray Bursts, Joshua Wood, University of Maryland
- Thursday, February 18th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:15 PM
- New Tools for Galactic Archaeology from the Milky Way, Gail Zasowski, Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, February 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Searching for Dark Matter with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices, Kent Irwin, Stanford/SLAC
- Saturday, February 20th
- 9th Annual Physics Fair; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; University Avenue Lobby
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Sunday, February 21st
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
- Hall thrusters for space applications: Advanced concepts and research challenges, Yevgeny Raitses, Princeton University
- Tuesday, February 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Walking and stroke: A delicate balance, Kreg Gruben, UW Department of Kenesiology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Surprising Emergent Phenomena of Perturbative QCD, Andrew Larkoski, Harvard University
- Wednesday, February 24th
- Department Meeting
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Scintillating v's, Adam Schreckenberger, Univ. of Texas-Austin
- Engineering Physics Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 1025 Engineering Centers Building
- Nuclear Arms Control: An Overview of Nuclear WMD and Paths to Verification, Dr. Thomas Atwood, Sandia National Laboratories
- Thursday, February 25th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- MicroBooNE: Unlocking the Secrets of the Neutrino with Liquid Argon Detector Technology, Matt Toups, MIT
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies served 3:30 PM
- Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory: The next Generation ground based Optical/infra-Red Observatory", Warren Skidmore, Thirty Meter Telecope Observatory
- Friday, February 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Gamma-Ray Observations of Pulsars with Cherenkov Telescopes, Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech
- Monday, February 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
- Initial measurements of particle transport and self-ordering in the Magnetized Dusty Plasma Experiment (MDPX), Dr. Edward Thomas, Auburn