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Events During the 2020 Spring Semester

January 2020

   Tuesday, January 21st
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Color: Physics and perception, Pupa Gilbert, UW Department of Physics
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   Thursday, January 23rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Tunable Excitonic Ground States in Double Layer Graphene, Yihang Zeng, Columbia University
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology Journal Club
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   Monday, January 27th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
WHAM: The Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror, Cary Forest, Prager Professor of Experimental Physics, Director of the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory
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   Tuesday, January 28th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
A conditional Gaussian framework for assimilating and predicting complex nonlinear turbulent dynamical systems, Nan Chen, UW Department of Mathematics
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"Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Laboratory plasma physics and magnetic confinement fusion, Karsten McCollam, UW Madison Department of Physics
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; Room 4274, Chamberlin
Multi-messenger astrophysics with high-energy neutrinos in the coming decade, Marcos Santander
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Council Meeting
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, January 29th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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Atomic Physics Seminar; 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Results and challenges from a Helium-Neon comagnetometer with SERF readout, William Terrano, Princeton
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Fundamental physics with CMB and galaxy surveys, Moritz Münchmeyer, Perimeter
Presentation: munchmeyer - wisconsin madison - slides.pdf
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   Thursday, January 30th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Nanomechanical resonators for quantum optomechanics and precision metrology, Robinjeet Singh , Joint Quantum Institute NIST (Gaithersburg) and the University of Maryland
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology Journal Club
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
Some Interesting issues in Galactic Dynamics, Professor Elena D'onghia, UW Madison Astronomy Department
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   Friday, January 31st
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:05 pm; B343 Sterling
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Magnetic reconnection: where are we and where are we going?, Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Norway
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February 2020

   Monday, February 3rd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
How does the magnetosphere go to sleep? Combining global scale simulations and observations to reveal fundamental behaviors of the magnetosphere , Therese Moretto Jørgensen, University of Bergen, Norway
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   Tuesday, February 4th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Anesthesia in the Anthropocene: Environmental and economic considerations of modern anesthesia and surgery, Mike Ries, UW Department of Anesthesiology
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"Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Spintronics and Mulitiferroics, Mark Rzchowski, UW Madison Department of Physics
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; Room 4274, Chamberlin
Disentangling a century-old mystery: a path to unveiling the origins of the ultra-high-energy Universe, Lu Lu
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   Thursday, February 6th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Studying superconductors using NV-centers in diamond optical magnetometry, Ruslan Prozorov, Iowa State/Ames Lab
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology Journal Club
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
X-raying the Intersellar Medium, Dr. Eddie Schalfly, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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   Friday, February 7th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Einstein’s Microscope: Uncovering Small-Scale Dark Matter Structures with Novel Gravitational Lensing Probes, Liang Dai, Institute for Advanced Study
Presentation: dai_lensing_talk.pdf
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas, Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa
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   Saturday, February 8th
Wonders of Physics
11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall lobby and various rooms
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Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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   Sunday, February 9th
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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   Monday, February 10th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Accelerating our understanding of the multi-scale dynamics of high-energy plasmas, Paulo Alves, Stanford, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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   Tuesday, February 11th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Learning with scarce data: The role of side information, simulators, and GANs, Kangwook Lee, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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"Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
From nanoparticles to reefs, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics
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 Atomic Physics Seminar, QC Cluster Seminar;
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Optical photon generation from a superconducting qubit, Alp Sipahigil, California Institute of Technology
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, February 12th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Cosmology in the next Decade: Fundamental Physics, Systematics and Synergies between cosmological probes, Sukhdeep Singh, UC Berkeley
Presentation: wisconsin_2020_with_hidden2.pdf
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   Thursday, February 13th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
The fall and rise of the mass on a spring, Prof. Benjamin Aleman , University of Oregon
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology Journal Club
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
Diffusion and dispersion in anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Professor Jane Pratt, Georgia State University, Physics and Astronomy Deparment
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   Friday, February 14th
Thesis Defense; 10:30 am - 11:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Emily Lichko Thesis Defense, Emily Lichko, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
PhD Prospective Student Visit Day, na, na
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Neutrinos on the Rocks, Markus Ahlers, Niels Bohr Institute
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   Saturday, February 15th
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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   Sunday, February 16th
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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   Monday, February 17th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Understanding, Predicting, and Manipulating Reduced Transport Regimes in Fusion Plasmas, David Hatch, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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 Atomic Physics Seminar, QC Cluster Seminar;
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
tbd, Professor Gleb Finkelstein, Duke University
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   Tuesday, February 18th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Drivers of megadiversity in the orchids, the largest family of flowering plants, Tom Givnish, UW Department of Botany
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"Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Dark Matter Detection in the Era of LZ, Kimberly J. Palladino, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Connecting the dots: from astronomical surveys and experiments to fundamental physics of dark universe, Yao-Yuan Mao, Rutgers
Presentation: Mao_Connecting-the-dots_Feb2020.pdf
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   Thursday, February 20th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Entanglement and metrology in an array of alkaline-earth atoms , Jacob P. Covey, Caltech
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology Journal Club
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
The TeV-PeV Diffuse Neutrino Background, Nathan Whitehorn, UCLA
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Future cosmology with CMB lensing and galaxy clustering, Marcel Schmittfull, Institute for Advanced Study
Presentation: Madison_talk_for_pdf.pdf
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   Friday, February 21st
PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
How to Get the Most out of Academic Articles, Alex Pizzuto, Physics Graduate Student
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
It's all About Matter, Young-Kee Kim , U Chicago
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   Monday, February 24th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Frontiers in Linear and Nonlinear Plasma Physics, Jeff Parker, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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 Atomic Physics Seminar, QC Cluster Seminar;
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
tbd, Erhan Saglamyurek, University of Alberta
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   Tuesday, February 25th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The emergence of human emotions: Learning, development and biology, Seth Pollak, UW Department of Psychology
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Neutrino Oscillations at the End of the World, Summer Blot, DESY
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, February 26th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Cosmology with cosmic voids, Alice Pisani, Princeton
Presentation: Seminar_UWM_AlicePisani.pdf
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   Thursday, February 27th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
The Complex Mesoscale Dynamics of Condensed Matter Systems Unveiled by High-resolution Inelastic X-Ray Scattering , Alessandro Cunsolo, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology Journal Club
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
The Life Cycle of galaxies in clusters over 10 Billion Years, Greg Rudnick, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Kansas, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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   Friday, February 28th
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
PhD Prospective Student Visit Day, na, na
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Multi-messenger Astrophysics: Probing Compact Objects with Cosmic Particles , Ke Fang, Stanford University
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March 2020

   Monday, March 2nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Alice In-Between Worlds: The Wonderland of Dusty Plasma, Eva Kostadinova, Baylor University, Center for Astrophysics Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER)
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   Tuesday, March 3rd
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The complexities of conveying hurricane forecast uncertainty to the public, Derrick Herndon, Space Science and Engineering Center
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   Thursday, March 5th
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology Journal Club
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED: The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM), Dr. Eric Switzer , NASA/Goddard
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   Friday, March 6th
Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Vroom Vroom How to Make Your Code Fast, Rob Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Advances in Understanding Relativistic Plasma Turbulence, Vladimir Zhdankin, Princeton
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   Monday, March 9th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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   Tuesday, March 10th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The role of turbulence in the universe, Siyao Xu, UW Department of Astronomy
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"Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Story of the Discovery of the Century! What is next?, Abdollah Mohammadi, UW Madison Department of Physics
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, March 11th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
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   Thursday, March 12th
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology Journal Club
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Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Comagnetometry using transversely polarized Xe isotopes, Daniel Thrasher, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Friday, March 13th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
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   Wednesday, March 18th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; WebEx: | 926062544
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   Tuesday, March 24th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Online
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   Wednesday, March 25th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Online
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   Friday, March 27th
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; Virtual
Search for Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos with the Askaryan Radio Array, Ming-Yuan Lu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
CANCELLED, CANCELLED
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April 2020

   Wednesday, April 1st
 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
CANCELED: Jeff Thompson, Princeton, Jeff Thompson, Princeton University
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   Friday, April 3rd
Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom link will be available here:
Virtual AMO Seminar Series, Vladan Vuletic, MIT
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
CANCELLED: Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics, Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland
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   Tuesday, April 7th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Online
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   Wednesday, April 8th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Online
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   Thursday, April 9th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
*CANCELLED* Electron Hydrodynamics in Graphene: Introduction and Status, Denis Bandurin, MIT
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   Friday, April 10th
PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 11:00 am;
Git workflows for physicists: Using version control in your research, Greg Holdman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
Virtual AMO Seminar: Transport and spectral properties of hot Fermi-Hubbard systems, Waseem Bakr, Princeton University
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
*CANCELLED* TBD, Elizabeth Simmons, UCSD
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   Thursday, April 16th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
*CANCELLED* TBD, Nadya Mason, UIUC
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   Friday, April 17th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom link will be available here:
Atom arrays of ultracold strontium: new tools for metrology and many-body physics , Adam Kaufman, JILA/CU/NIST
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
*CANCELLED* TBD, Nadya Mason, UIUC
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   Tuesday, April 21st
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Online
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   Wednesday, April 22nd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Online
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   Thursday, April 23rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
*CANCELLED*TBD, Dr. David Ehrenstein, American Physical Society
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   Friday, April 24th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; for Zoom link, visit
Controlling trapped ions without lasers, Daniel Slichter, NIST
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
*CANCELLED* TBD, Steven Nahn, Fermilab
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   Wednesday, April 29th
 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
11:00 am - 12:00 pm;
Efficient variational quantum eigensolvers for NISQ hardware, Sophia Economou, Virginia Tech
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Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; Webex:
Open Discussion of Online Homework, Open Discussion, UW - Madison, Department of Physics
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   Thursday, April 30th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
TBD, Jia (Leo) Li, Brown University
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Department Coffee Hour, Physics Department
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May 2020

   Friday, May 1st
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Register for zoom event:
TBD, Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
*CANCELLED* TBD, David Weiss, Penn State
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   Tuesday, May 5th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Online
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   Wednesday, May 6th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Natural Graph Networks, Taco Cohen, Qualcomm AI Research
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Online
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   Thursday, May 7th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
Department Coffee Hour
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Awards; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; Blackboard Collaborate; see link and dial-in access below
2020 Scholarships & Awards
Presentation: 2019-20_award_winners.png
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   Friday, May 8th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
, Holger Muller, University of California, Berkeley
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Commencement; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm;
2020 Virtual Commencement Ceremony
Presentation: 2020 program.png
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   Wednesday, May 13th
 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
11:00 am - 12:00 pm;
Mathematics of post-quantum cryptography & the CyberSecurity Non-Profit, Emily Stamm, Allstate & CyberSecurity Non-Profit
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   Thursday, May 14th
Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Virtual:
Progress Towards an Atomic Metamaterial, Zachary Buckholtz, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
Department Coffee Hour
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   Friday, May 15th
 Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, Vedika Khemani, Stanford University
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   Wednesday, May 20th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
Building symmetries into generative flow models, Phiala Shanahan, MIT
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Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
Career Opportunities in Quantum Technology at HRL Laboratories, Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories
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   Thursday, May 21st
 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Email quantum@uchicago.edu to request access;
Understanding sources of decoherence for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW–Madison Physics
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
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   Friday, May 22nd
Board of Visitors; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual
Board of Visitors meeting, Craig Heberer, Chair, BoV
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, Monika Aidelsburger, LMU
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   Tuesday, May 26th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
Quantum Employer Spotlight: Atom Computing, TBA
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   Wednesday, May 27th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 11:30 am; Join Virtually:
CQE Research Briefing — Learning to Optimize Variational Quantum Circuits to Solve Combinatorial Problems, Yuri Alexeev, Argonne National Laboratory
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
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   Thursday, May 28th
Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; Virtual
Continuous-Wave Optical Modulation via Stimulated Raman Scattering, David Gold, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
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   Friday, May 29th
Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
Quantum Employer Spotlight: IBM, TBA, IBM
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