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Events During the 2021 Spring Semester

January 2021

   Wednesday, January 13th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Quantum Machine Learning in High Energy Physics, Sofia Vallecorsa, CERN
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   Thursday, January 14th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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 Wisconsin Quantum Institute, MSE Seminar;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Access seminar:
Optical probing emergent orderings and their quantum properties in layered materials., Jun Xiao, Stanford University
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   Monday, January 18th
Academic Calendar
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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   Wednesday, January 20th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;
Optical Dipole Trapping, Narrow-line Cooling, and Single Atom Observation of Holmium Atoms, Christopher Yip, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Online - Faculty Spotlight: Innovation in Instructional Design
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   Thursday, January 21st
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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   Friday, January 22nd
Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am - 5:30 pm; ONLINE
Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
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   Monday, January 25th
Academic Calendar
Instruction begins
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Status and progress in the domestic liquid metal plasma-facing component design program, Rajesh Maingi and Andrei Khodak, PPPL
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Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Robert Benjamin (University of Wisconsin - Whitewater), Dr. Robert Benjamin, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf
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   Tuesday, January 26th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, January 27th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
The Importance of Being Interpretable, Michelle Ntampaka, Space Telescope Science Institute
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; CANCELLED due to lack of urgent business.
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
Exploring Galaxy Evolution from Radio Observations, Hansung Gim, Arizona State University
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   Thursday, January 28th
Astro Tool Exchange; 10:00 am - 11:00 am;
High Dimensional Data Visualization with Glue, Cameren Swiggum, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Presentation: Astro_Tool_Exchange.pdf
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Virtual
A Quick Look at the 3GHz Radio Sky: Early Continuum Science from the VLA Sky Survey, Yjan Gordon, University of Manitoba
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
"Spatially Resolved Galaxy Interactions, Jorge Moreno, Pomona College
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   Friday, January 29th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
A physical protocol to obtain information in quantum gravity, Chandramouli Chowdhury, ICTS, Bangalore
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Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm;
Quantum simulation of spin models with tunable arrays of 200 single Rydberg atoms, Thierry Lahaye, Université Paris Saclay & CNRS, Palaiseau
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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February 2021

   Monday, February 1st
Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
Monday Science Seminar w/ Benjamin Rosenwasser (UW-Madison), Benjamin Rosenwasser, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
Real-time wall conditioning of fusion devices by injection of low-Z powders, Alessandro Bortolon, PPPL
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
MHD Transient Seeding of Disruptive Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs), J. D. Callen, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, February 2nd
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap, Sam McDermott , Fermilab
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   Wednesday, February 3rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
TBD, Justyna Zwolak
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; Zoom Meeting
The diffusion of cosmic rays and post-doc application, Yingying Guo, Institute of High Energy Physics, China
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Graduate Program Event; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; or see Facebook link in abstract
3MT® Three Minute Thesis Finals, Jimena Gonzalez, UW–Madison Physics
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   Thursday, February 4th
 Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL TIME 10 AM;
10:00 am - 11:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) SPECIAL TIME 10AM
Interstellar Shocks, Antoine Gusdorf, Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure & Paris Observatory, Paris, France
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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   Friday, February 5th
Women+ in Plasma Physics (W+iPP); 12:00 pm; Zoom
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Phenomenological and Quantum Gravity constraints from Charged Black Hole Evaporation in de Sitter Space, Gerben Venken, Heidelberg University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm; Zoom meeting
Long-term TeV spectra of blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501, Sara Coutino, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Monday, February 8th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting
Data Analysis and Simulations of Compact Objects and Performance of the X-Calibur Telescope, Banafsheh Beheshitour, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Stellarator Optimization in the 2020s, Aaron Bader, UW-Madison
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
no Plasma Theory Seminar
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   Tuesday, February 9th
Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Online - Faculty Spotlight: Commitment to Equity
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, February 10th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Physics meets ML to solve cosmological inference, Ben Wandelt, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Institut Lagrange, Sorbonne University and Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, February 11th
Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm; visit for YouTube or Facebook watch links
Women of CTA, Leslie Taylor, UW–Madison Physics
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
The Astrophysics of Gas with Simulations , Simeon Bird, UC Riverside
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   Friday, February 12th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm; Zoom Meeting
Closing in on the sources of UHECRs: A multimessenger approach, Marco Muzio, New York University
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Phenomenology of Magnetic Black Holes, Nicholas Orlofsky, Carleton University
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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Department Meeting
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Zoom:
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   Monday, February 15th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting
The High Energy Light Isotope Experiment (HELIX) and Galactic Cosmic Rays, Keith McBride, Ohio State University
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Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
, Dr. Leon Trapman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Poking the pedestal: Progress and Potential of Pellet ELM Pacing, Bob Wilcox, ORNL
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
tbd, J. S. Schmitt, Auburn University
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   Tuesday, February 16th
Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Election Day
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; online
MINERvA measurements of Neutrino Interactions in the GeV Regime, Xianguo Lu, University of Oxford
Presentation: xlu_20210216_Wisconsin_abstract.pdf
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
Hydrogen Mixing and the EDGES Anomaly, Luke Johns, UC-Berkeley
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm; Zoom meeting
Neutrino astronomy with IceCube: an improved muon track reconstruction and a search for cross-correlations with AGN cores, Federica Bradascio, DESY and Humboldt University of Berlin
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   Wednesday, February 17th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business
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   Thursday, February 18th
Graduate Program Event; Virtual
Prospective Ph.D. Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
Looking at the Universe through gravitational lenses, Lindsay King, University of Texas-Dallas
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   Friday, February 19th
Graduate Program Event; Virtual
PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications and KKLT, Jakob Moritz, Cornell University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:40 pm; Zoom meeting
Searching for UHE- photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory: a two variable approach exploiting the air-shower Universality, Pierpaolo Savina, Università del Salento, Italy and Université Paris-Saclay, France
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Monday, February 22nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom
DIII-D and The Advanced Tokamak Path to Fusion Energy, Richard Buttery, GA
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom meeting
Automated Normal Mode Analysis in Reduced Models of Turbulence for Stellarator Optimization, Ben Faber, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, February 23rd
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, February 24th
 Plasma Theory Seminar, Special Plasma Seminar;
9:00 am; Zoom Meeting
Plasma rotation: from mass separation applications to light manipulation, Renaud Gueroult, Laplace, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Neural Mechanics: Symmetry and Broken Conservation Laws in Deep Learning Dynamics, Daniel Kunin and Hidenori Tanaka, Stanford University
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, February 25th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
PHANGS Results: Connecting the Small Scale ISM Physics to the Galaxy Structures, Dyas Otomo, NRAO
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   Friday, February 26th
Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm;
Thermal Transport Across Interfaces, Two-Dimensional Materials, and III-V Ternary-Alloy Superlattice, Gabriel Jaffe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Decoding and bootstrapping cosmological fluctuations, Guilherme Pimentel, Leiden University & University of Amsterdam
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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March 2021

   Monday, March 1st
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Predicting runaway electron generation, confinement, and mitigation at ORNL, Matt Beidler, ORNL
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Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm;
Monday Science Seminar w/ Courtney Crawford (Louisiana State University), Courtney Crawford , Lousiana State University
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom meeting
Effects of Triangularity on Ion Temperature Gradient Turbulence Saturation, Joey Duff, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, March 2nd
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
Shining Light on Dark Matter with Black Holes, Volodymyr Takhistov , Kavli-IPMU
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   Wednesday, March 3rd
Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; link to be provided
Hostile and Intimidating Behavior Training
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, March 4th
Graduate Program Event; Virtual
PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
What Sets the Efficiency of Radial Migration is Spiral Galaxies?, Kate Daniel, Bryn Mawr
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   Friday, March 5th
Graduate Program Event; Virtual
PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Long Range Interactions in Cosmology: Implications for Neutrinos, Jordi Salvadó, University of Barcelona
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom:
From galaxies to faces: recognizing the implications of Artificial Intelligence in astronomy and society, Dr. Brian Nord, Fermilab
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   Monday, March 8th
Plasma Theory Seminar; 9:00 am; zoom meeting
Modeling RFPs with self-consistent steady states of a cylindrical pinch, Urvashi Gupta, UW-Madison
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom
Progress on high-field HTS magnets for SPARC, a compact net-energy fusion tokamak, Prof. Zach Hartwig, MIT
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Graduate Program Event; 2:00 pm;
Electron-electron interactions in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots, Ekmel Ercan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Tuesday, March 9th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, March 10th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Generative and Invertible Networks for the LHC, Tilman Plehn, Heidelberg University
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, March 11th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Student Social Hour with Physics Colloquium Speaker; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
Student Social Hour with Physics Colloquium Speaker Dr. Brian Nord, Dr. Brian Nord, Fermilab
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting (see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
A Collage of Exoplanets on the Mass-Period Diagram, Ji Wang, Ohio State
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   Friday, March 12th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap, Djuna Croon, TRIUMF
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Monday, March 15th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Magnetically dominated plasma turbulence, Prof. Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
NO SEMINAR
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   Tuesday, March 16th
"Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Join at
Major Discovery Week -- Physics, Dan McCammon, UW–Madison Physics
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"Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
Major Discovery Week -- AMEP, Deniz Yavuz, UW–Madison Physics
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
Matter Outflows in Neutron Star Mergers, Francois Foucart , University of New Hampshire
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   Wednesday, March 17th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF URGENT BUSINESS
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   Thursday, March 18th
Astronomy Colloquium; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; SPECIAL TIME 9:00 AM . Zoom link below in Abstract
Planet Formation and the Composition of Rocky Planets, Amy Bonsor, University of Cambridge UK
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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MS&E Spring Virtual Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Exploiting soft X-ray ARPES to look beyond the surface in correlated electron systems, Dr. Jessica McChesney , Argonne National Laboratory
Presentation: Dr. Jessica McChesney, 3_18, MSE Spring Seminar '2, McChesney Biosketch 21.pdf
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   Friday, March 19th
"Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
Major Discovery Week -- AMEP, Deniz Yavuz, UW–Madison Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Axion Searches with two Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities, Christina Gao, Fermilab
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Saturday, March 20th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
tbd, Britton Plourde, Syracuse
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   Monday, March 22nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Fusion plasma physics issues for tokamak DEMOnstration reactors, Prof. Hartmut Zohm, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
NO SEMINAR
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   Tuesday, March 23rd
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, March 24th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Algebraic Neural Networks, Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, March 25th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 pm
Galaxy Evolution from Large Surveys of Nearby Resolved Galaxies, Karen Masters, Haverford College
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   Friday, March 26th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Gamma-ray flashes from dark photons in neutron star mergers, Gustavo Marques Tavares, University of Maryland
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Graduate Program Event; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Register here:
Faculty/Grad Student Summer RA Meet & Greet (Virtual), Faculty/Grad Students, Looking for Summer 2021 RA's
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   Monday, March 29th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
The Centrifugal Mirror Fusion Experiment (CMFX): Parameter Space Design, Diagnostics and Construction Process, Prof. Carlos Romero-Talamas, Univ of Maryland-Baltimore County
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
NO SEMINAR
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   Tuesday, March 30th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; hosted by Baha Balantekin
Theory of Fast Flavor Conversion of Supernova Neutrinos, Soumya Bhattacharyya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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   Wednesday, March 31st
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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April 2021

   Thursday, April 1st
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
New results from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, Danny Jacobs, Arizona State University
Presentation: zoom_20210401.txt
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
How do galaxies in the nearby Universe grow?, Sanchayeeta Borthakur,, Arizona State
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Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm;
Exploring the Use of Signal Envelopes for Neutrino Detection with In-Ice Radio Arrays, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Friday, April 2nd
Academic Calendar
Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 10:00 am - 11:00 am; For zoom link, sign up at:
Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Amplitude Techniques for Cosmology, Scott Melville, University of Cambridge
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Astronomy Special Friday Lunch Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Zoom Meeting See Abstract for Link
Making Use of Imaged Spotted Stellar Surfaces, Rachael Roettenbacher, Yale University
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; CANCELLED this week
Department Coffee Hour - CANCELLED
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   Saturday, April 3rd
Academic Calendar
Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
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   Sunday, April 4th
Academic Calendar
Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
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   Monday, April 5th
Academic Calendar
Classes resume
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
NSTX-U Recovery — Motivation and Progress Toward the Resumption of Plasma Operations, Dr. Stefan Gerhardt, PPPL
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
NO SEMINAR
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   Tuesday, April 6th
Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Election Day
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, April 7th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
A Mathematical Exploration of Why Language Models Help Solve Downstream Tasks, Nikunj Saunshi, Princeton University
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled today due to lack of urgent business
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   Thursday, April 8th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
Investigating the Origin of the Stars Closest to the Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole, Devin Chu, UCLA
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   Friday, April 9th
Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Monday, April 12th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Creating Astrophysically Relevant Systems in the Laboratory in the High-Energy-Density Regime, Prof. Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan
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Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
Multidimensional Progenitor Models For Core-collapse Supernovae, Dr. Carl Fields, Michigan State University and Arizona State University
Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
NO SEMINAR
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   Tuesday, April 13th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
Nucleosynthesis in magneto-rotational driven supernovae, Moritz Reichert , TU – Darmstadt
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   Wednesday, April 14th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Cancelled - due to lack of urgent business.
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Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm;
Stellarator Beta Limits with Extended MHD Modeling Using NIMROD, Torrin Bechtel, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm;
Overlapping Aluminum-Gate Quantum Dots for Valley-Orbit Based Qubits in Si/SiGe, JP Dodson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Thursday, April 15th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, expectations for diffuse fluxes and arrival-direction correlations, Arjen van Vliet, DESY Zeuthen, Germany
Presentation: zoom_20210415.txt
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
Planets, Patterns, and the Origin of Life, Lauren Weiss, University of Hawaii at Monoa
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High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
First results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab, Liang Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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   Friday, April 16th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
The Impact of a Midband Gravitational Wave Experiment On Detectability of Cosmological Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds, Yanou Cui, UC Riverside
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Request for all Master&#39;s and Ph.D. Degree Warrants
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   Monday, April 19th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report, Prof. Troy Carter, UCLA
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Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm;
The Chemical Quandaries of Titan’s Atmosphere (and How We Can Solve Them), Erin Flowers, Princeton University
Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Development and testing of a reduced runaway electron model for disruption simulation, Alex Sainterme, UW
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   Tuesday, April 20th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, April 21st
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Machine Learning for Calabi-Yau metrics, Fabian Ruehle, CERN and Oxford
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Cancelled due to lack of urgent business
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   Thursday, April 22nd
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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High Energy Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm;
Searches for New Physics with Long Lived Particles, Lesya Horyn, Fermi Lab
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom:
Searches for New Physics with Long Lived Particles, Lesya Horyn, Fermilab
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
Simulating Galaxy Formation, Mark Vogelsberger, MIT
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   Friday, April 23rd
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
The Weak Scale as a Trigger, Raffaele-Tito D'Agnolo, Université Paris-Saclay
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Monday, April 26th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm – ARCS: a Heliophysics mission concept for decoding the aurora , K A Lynch, Dartmouth College Physics and Astronomy, for the ARCS team
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
NO SEMINAR
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   Tuesday, April 27th
Thesis Defense; 9:00 am;
Heterostructure Modifications, Fabrication Improvements, and Measurement Automation of Si/SiGe Quantum Dots for Quantum Computation, Thomas McJunkin, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Institute for Nuclear Energy Systems (INES) Colloquium ; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Multiphysics analysis of fusion nuclear systems with the MOOSE framework, Dr. Paul Humrickhouse, leads the Fusion Safety Program at Idaho National Laboratory
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
Axion Production in Magnetars, Steven Harris, INT-U. Washington
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Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;
The Role of Chaos and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy, Vanessa Lopez Barquero , Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Wednesday, April 28th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, April 29th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; online
Searching for new physics during gravitational waves propagation, Leïla Haegel, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Paris & Swiss National Science Foundation
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual Zoom meeting - See Abstract, Coffee and Tea 3:30pm, Talk begins 3:45 PM
Dust in galaxies: extinction, attenuation and emission, Samir Salim, Indiana University
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   Friday, April 30th
Academic Calendar
Last class day
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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May 2021

   Saturday, May 1st
Academic Calendar
Study day
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   Monday, May 3rd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Lessons learned from Pushing REBCO coated conductor coils from 30 to 45 Tesla, Prof. David Larbalestier, Florida State University
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
NO SEMINAR
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   Tuesday, May 4th
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, May 5th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Explorations at the Physics ∩ ML Interface, Kyle Cranmer, New York University
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business
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   Thursday, May 6th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Explorer, Prof. Matthias Danninger, Simon Fraser University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Zoom:
Stop, hammer time! Using novel tools to nail down the top squark after Run 2, Dr. Daniel Spitzbart, Boston University
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   Friday, May 7th
Academic Calendar; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Dept of Ag &amp; Applied Economics 2021 Spring Hooding and Recognition of Graduates
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Master&#39;s Degree Deadline
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Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
DDEEA Graduation Recognition Virtual Celebration
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   Saturday, May 8th
Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Commencement
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Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Commencement
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   Sunday, May 9th
Academic Calendar
Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Spring term 2021
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Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Doctoral Degree Deadline
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   Monday, May 10th
Academic Calendar
Graduate School Summer 2021: Summer degree window period begins
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Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Adam Schaefer (MPIA), Adam Schaefer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
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   Tuesday, May 11th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Latest Science Results, Ting Li, Carnegie Observatories
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   Wednesday, May 12th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, May 13th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
Recent work on high-energy neutrinos, Bei Zhou, Johns Hopkins University
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   Friday, May 14th
Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Sunday, May 16th
Academic Calendar
Faculty contract year ends
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   Wednesday, May 19th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Are wider nets better given the same number of parameters?, Anna Golubeva, Perimeter Institute
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   Thursday, May 20th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
Cosmic rays, astrophysics and astrobiology, Noemie Globus, ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic / Flatiron Institute, USA
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   Tuesday, May 25th
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
TBD
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   Thursday, May 27th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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