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Events During the 2019 Spring Semester
January 2019
Monday, January 28th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; The new Divertor Tokamak Test facility project, Piero Martin, University of Padova and Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 29th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Screening for “normal” genetic variants: Using survey data to inform precision medicine, Marsha Mailick, Waisman Center; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 31st: Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Continuous loading of ultracold ground state molecules in a dipole trap using a single light beam, Professor Luis Marcassa, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Add this event to your calendar; ; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
February 2019
Friday, February 1st: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Competing orders in non-centrosymmetric superconductors, Maxim Khodas; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 11:30 am; B343 STERLING HALL; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium, UPDATED TIME AND DATE;
2:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 2:30 PM, Talk begins 2:45 PM; Infrared Spectroscopy of Stars and Planets, Ian Crossfield, MIT Dept of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 chamberlin Hall; Making Movies of Molecules - The Application of X-ray Lasers , Junko Yano, LBNL; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 4th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Available energy of magnetically confined plasmas, Per Helander, Max Plank Institue for Plasma Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 5th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); The changing context for the social sciences -- and especially for social and behavioral science research, Cora Marrett, UW Department of Sociology; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); The changing context for the social sciences -- and especially for social and behavioral science research, Cora Marrett, UW Department of Sociology; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 7th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; "Strongly correlated models with odd frequency pairing", Alexei Tsvelik , BNL; Add this event to your calendar; ; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 8th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; The Quest for Neutrino Mass Ordering, Wei Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 9th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 10th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 11th: Astronomy Colloquium, Special Monday 2/11/19 ;
3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; Structure formation and turbulent processes in the Universe: from cosmology to star formation, Philip Mocz, Princeton University, Einstein postdoc Fellow; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 12th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Books build better brains: How promoting literacy is key to early brain and child development, Dipesh Navsaria, UW Department of Pediatrics; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 13th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Fusion concept exploration and basic plasma shock research on the Plasma Liner Experiment at Los Alamos, Scott Hsu, Los Alamos National Lab; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 14th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum realizations of non-Hermitian (PT-symmetric) systems, Prof. Yogesh Joglekar, Indianapolis; Add this event to your calendar; ; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; "Tracing the chemical origins of exoplanetary worlds", Ke (Coco) Zhang, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 15th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Atomic clocks as quantum sensors, Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 16th: Physics Fair; 11:00 am; Chamberlin Hall Lobby; Physics Fair, Physics Department Faculty, Staff, and Students; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 17th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 18th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Energetic Particle Physics in the 3D Reversed-Field Pinch, Philip Bonofiglo, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium, Please note special date/time;
4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Diamond Sensors, Ron Walsworth, Harvard; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2019_02_18.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 19th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Taming the energy of stars, John Sarff, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 21st: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Gravity safe, electroweak natural axionic solution to strong CP and SUSY mu problems, Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; Preparing for Earth 2.0: The Detailed Properties of Terrestrial Planets, Andrew Vanderburg, University of Texas; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 22nd: Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Blanchard Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; The arXiv: current status and future plans, Steinn Sigurdsson, Penn State (arXiv Scientific Director); Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2019_02_22.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 25th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Quantifying heating by magnetic pumping through in situ spacecraft observations, Emily Lichko , UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies are served at 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM; From Cores to Disks: Probing the Initial Conditions for Stars and Planets, Sarah Sadavoy, Harvard CfA; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 26th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Our changing National climate: Vulnerabilities to adaptations, John Young, Wisconsin State Climatology Office; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 27th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 28th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; "Exploring Planet Habitability", Meredith MacGregor, Havard University; Add this event to your calendar
March 2019
Friday, March 1st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Exploring extreme states of matter at the Linac Coherent Light Source, Frederico Fiuza, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2019_03_01.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 4th: Special Noon Talk 3/4/19; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Star Formation, etc, Nia Imara, Harvard CfA; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Ion-scale turbulence in the presence of a large magnetic island, Lucas Morton, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 5th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Projecting future floodplains and the impacts to future risks and vulnerabilities in the United States, Shane Hubbard, UW Space Science and Engineering Center; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium, Special Tuesday Talk ;
3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; Understanding the Relationship between Dense Gas and Star Formation in Galaxy Nuclei, Betsy Mills, Brandeis University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 6th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 7th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; Caught in the act - witnessing the formation of the most massive galaxies across cosmic time, Chien-Chou Chen, ESo Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 8th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; How Much Time Does a Tunneling Atom Spend In The Forbidden Region?, Aephraim Steinberg, U Toronto; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2019_03_08.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 11th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Numerical modeling of magnetic self-organization at the top of the solar convection zone, John O'Bryan, University of Washington-Seattle; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium, Monday special talk;
3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, 3:30 PM Coffee and cookies, 3:45 PM Talk Begins; Decoding the Magnetic Universe, Ann Mao , Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 12th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Big data ecology: Advancing the study of the natural world through citizen science, Ben Zuckerberg, UW Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; gFEX: A Level 1 Calorimeter Trigger for ATLAS at the Run3 LHC (and beyond), Sabine Lammers , University of Indiana-Bloomington; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 13th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 14th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Measure what is measurable and make measurable what is not so — Uncover new physics with bosons at the LHC and upgrades of the CMS detector to maximize the discovery potential, Miaoyuan Liu, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; Building a Gravitational Wave Detector with Millisecond Pulsars, Joseph Swiggum, NANOGrav Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, & Astrophysics University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 15th: Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Kerst Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; The long way to steady state fusion plasmas - the superconducting stellarator device Wendelstein 7-X, Thomas Klinger, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik and Greifswald University; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2019_03_15.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 18th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Astronomy Science Lunch (Pizza served at 12, talk starts at 12:15);
12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; From Cosmology to Galaxy Evolution and Star Formation with Line Intensity Mapping , Adam Beardsley, Arizona State University; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 21st: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; The Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor Composition With Cosmic Tau Neutrinos , Juliana Stachurska, DESY; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 25th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; On The Interactions of Magnetic Fluctuations, Zonal Flows, and Microturbulence in Fusion Plasmas, Zach Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 26th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); A form for the feeling of being alive and kicking”: Chaos and structure in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Kevin Reilly, Former President UW System; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 28th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; WISELI seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; he Role of Confidence-Building (By Self & Others) in the Recruitment and Retainment of Underrepresented Students in STEM, Dr. Rellen Hardtke, UW River Falls; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; "Clues to Globular Cluster Formation", David Nataf, The Johns Hopkins University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 29th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Norman Birge, Michigan State University; Add this event to your calendar
April 2019
Monday, April 1st: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Electrostatically driven helical plasma state, John Finn, Tibbar Plasma Technologies; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 2nd: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Disruptive technologies in the transition to renewable energy: The future of energy production and storage, Michael Winokur, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 3rd: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; b343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 4th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Dr. David Ferguson, Northrop Grumman; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; "Science with a Complete Catalog of Galactic HII Regions", Loren Anderson, West Virginia University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 5th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Title to be announced, Andreas Schachner, Heidelberg University; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Stefan Westerhoff Memorial Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Julie McEnery, NASA; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 8th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Observation of nonlinear coupling between Kelvin-Helmholtz and drift wave instability in IMPED, Prabal Chattopadhyay, Institute for Plasma Research (India); Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 9th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); In the beginning: children with disabilities in American policy, 1912-1960, Walter Schalick, UW Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 12th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Hakan Tureci, Princeton/Rigetti Computing; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 15th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; tbd, Hiroshi Gota, Tri Alpha Energy; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 16th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates, Kevin Burke, UW Department of Geography; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates, Kevin Burke, UW Department of Geography; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 17th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; tbd, Ken Lane, Boston University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 18th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chambering 5310; TBD, Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 19th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Meenakshi Narain, Brown University; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 22nd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; tbd, David Donovan, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 23rd: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Energy, evolution, and the origins of life?, Terry Allard, Office of Naval Research and NASA; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 25th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, John Gamble, Microsoft; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM; The Central Engine and Outflows in the Nuclear Starburst of NGC 253 as Revealed by ALMA, Albert Bollato, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 26th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Radiative corrections to the decay of metastable vacuum states, Björn Garbrecht, Technical University Munich; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Uwe Bergmann, SLAC; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 29th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; SPARC and the high-field, privately-funded path to fusion energy, Martin Greenwald, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 30th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Year-end celebration, Various, UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
May 2019
Wednesday, May 1st: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 2nd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Dima Pesin , University of Virginia; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 3rd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Dima Pesin , University of Virginia; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm; Memorial Union - Tripp Commons; Add this event to your calendar

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