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Events During the 2016 Spring Semester
January 2016
Tuesday, January 19th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; The Universe: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, Ed Churchwell, UW Department of Astronomy; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Chaos, Clint Sprott, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Discrete Abelian symmetries in the MSSM and its extensions, Volodymyr Takhistov, University of California, Irvine; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 20th: Department Meeting; CANCELLED; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 21st: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Transport coefficients of graphene: Interplay of impurity scattering, Coulomb interaction, and optical phonons, Hong-Yi Xie, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 26th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served); urbulence, the manifestation of eddies and their role in conservation laws, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Discovery of the Higgs boson, Matthew F Herndon, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Condensed Dark Matter: An Axion Story, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 27th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Discovery of a Fast Radio Burst, Peter Timbie, UW - Madison, Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 28th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee at 3:15 PM; The Past, Present, and Future of the Milky Way, Robert Benjamin, UW Whitewater; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 29th: Physics Department Colloquium, ****NOTE SPECIAL START TIME****;
3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum trajectories and the quantum state of the past, Klaus Molmer, Aarhus University; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_01_29.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
February 2016
Tuesday, February 2nd: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served); Developing value-added biomaterials, Dani Zhu, UW Department of Food Science; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; HAWC: A New Gamma-Ray Observatory to Study Astrophysics at the High-Energy Frontier, Stefan Westerhoff, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Oscillations and Baryogenesis, David McKeen, University of Washington; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 3rd: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 4th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Dynamics of interacting disordered quantum spin systems, Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Forging the Heaviest Elements, Rebecca Surman, Notre Dame; Add this event to your calendar; Special Cosmology Seminar; 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Design and Deployment of the first Multichroic Polarimeter array on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Rahul Datta, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 9th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served); Making computer networks work (Part II), Aditya Akella, UW Department of Computer Sciences; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Magnetic reconnection, a celestial phenomenon in the laboratory, Jan Egedal, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; High-Scale Axions without Isocurvature from Inflationary Dynamics, Dr. Jack Kearney , Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 11th: Special LIGO Press Conference; 9:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; LIGO Online Press Conference, LIGO online press conference; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 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; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; The Atacama B-mode Search: Cosmology at 17,000 Feet, Sara Simon, Princeton; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG), Brad Dober, University of Pennsylvania; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 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; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 12th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; High- and intermediate-velocity clouds as a tracer of cosmic rays in the Galactic halo, Luigi Tibaldo, MPIK, Heidelberg; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Deciphering IceCube’s High-Energy Neutrinos, Marek Kowalski, Humboldt University Berlin & DESY Zeuthen; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_02_12.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 13th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 14th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 15th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building (Tong Auditorium); The Emergent Collective Behavior of Bacteria Under Stress, Robert Austin, Princeton; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; Sustainment of a field reversed configuration with high power neutral beam injection, Dr. Richard Magee, Tri-Alpha; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 16th: Astronomy Colloquium; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, SPECIAL LUNCH TALK; Compact Neutron Star Binary Assembly n the Universe, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served); The dynamics of message-carrying between combatants, Joe Elder, UW Department of Sociology; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Coulomb drag and anomalous Hall transport phenomena , Alex Levchenko, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; The Unnatural (or Split) Composite Higgs, Tony Gherghetta, University of Minnesota; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 17th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Initial Results from HAWC on Gamma-Ray Bursts, Joshua Wood, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 18th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 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; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 19th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Searching for Dark Matter with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices, Kent Irwin, Stanford/SLAC; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_02_19.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 20th: 9th Annual Physics Fair; 11:00 am; University Avenue Lobby; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 21st: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 22nd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; Hall thrusters for space applications: Advanced concepts and research challenges, Yevgeny Raitses, Princeton University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 23rd: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served); Walking and stroke: A delicate balance, Kreg Gruben, UW Department of Kenesiology; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Cosmology using cosmic microwave background polarization, Kam Stahly Arnold, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; The Surprising Emergent Phenomena of Perturbative QCD, Andrew Larkoski, Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 24th: Department Meeting; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Scintillating v's, Adam Schreckenberger, Univ. of Texas-Austin; Add this event to your calendar; Engineering Physics Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 1025 Engineering Centers Building; Nuclear Arms Control: An Overview of Nuclear WMD and Paths to Verification, Dr. Thomas Atwood, Sandia National Laboratories; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 25th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; MicroBooNE: Unlocking the Secrets of the Neutrino with Liquid Argon Detector Technology, Matt Toups, MIT; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 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; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 26th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Gamma-Ray Observations of Pulsars with Cherenkov Telescopes, Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 29th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; Initial measurements of particle transport and self-ordering in the Magnetized Dusty Plasma Experiment (MDPX), Dr. Edward Thomas, Auburn; Add this event to your calendar
March 2016
Tuesday, March 1st: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Computing with Electronic Circuits, Maxim G Vavilov, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Higgs physics opportunities at future e+e- collider, Zhen Liu, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 2nd: Department Meeting; CANCELLED- Rescheduled for next week: 03/09/16; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 3rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; To a loophole-free test of local realism and beyond., Brad Christensen, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:15, Talk at 3:30 PM; Quantitative Polarimetry: From Star Formation to Cosmological Studies, Thiem Hoang, CITA; Add this event to your calendar; Careers for Physicists; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Careers at Epic, Sean Cotter (MS 2008), Epic; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 4th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Quantum information with cold atom ensembles: beyond continuous variables, Tim Byrnes, NYU; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Understanding when we can trust climate models: Characterizing uncertainty in climate change from global to regional scales, Chris E. Forest, Penn State; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_03_04.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 7th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; "Nonlinear Convective Transport in Magnetized Temperature Filaments: Theory, Simulation and Experiments, Dr. Richard Sydora, University of Alberta, University of Alberta; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 8th: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; The Askaryan Radio Array: Searching for Ultra-high-energy Neutrinos at the South Pole, John Kelley, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 9th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 10th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310; Phonon-mediated decay of singlet-triplet qubits in double quantum dots in GaAs/AlGaAs and Si/SiGe heterostructures, Viktoriia Kornich, University of Basel; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 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 at 3:45 PM; "Toward a physically-predictive theory of galaxy formation: resolved stellar and black hole feedback", Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, Northwestern University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 11th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Microwave response and photon emission of a voltage baised Josephson junction, Salha Jebari, CEA Grenoble; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Compactifying M-theory on a G2 manifold to describe our world, Gordon Kane, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Status and Future of Tau physics at the LHC , Isobel Ojalvo, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_03_11.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 14th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; Magnetic pumping of the solar wind, and new results from the Terrestrial Reconnection Experiment (TREX), Jan Egedal, UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 15th: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Catching Neutrinos in the Deep Ice: an IceCube Tutorial, Kael D Hanson, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Galaxy-galaxy lensing for cosmology in the Dark Energy Survey, Juliana Kwan, University of Pennsylvania; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 16th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; New results from RENO, Seon-Hee Seo, Seoul National University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 17th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies at 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM; The Role of Dwarf-Dwarf Galaxy Interactions in Galaxy Assembly, Sabrina Stierwalt, NRAO; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:45 pm); From Bell's inequalities to quantum information: a new quantum revolution, Alain Aspect, CNRS, Institut d’Optique; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_03_17.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 18th: ; 10:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Informal meeting with Fleming Crim, Fleming Crim, NSF; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel effect: a mile-stone in Quantum Atom Optics, Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:15 pm); Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest, David Nelson, Harvard University; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_03_18.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 28th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; Magnetic Reconnection Onset, Prof. Nuno Loureiro, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 29th: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Solar Energy, Franz J Himpsel, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter, Joseph Bramante, University of Notre Dame; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 30th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Cooling and stabilization of levitated graphite nanoplatelets, Pavel Nagornykh, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Accelerating the Search for Cosmic Accelerators, Amanda Weinstein, Iowa State University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 31st: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 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 3:45 PM; Supernovae as Drivers of Dust Evolution in Galaxies, Tea Temim, NASA; Add this event to your calendar
April 2016
Friday, April 1st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; New Satellite Galaxies of Our Milky Way, Keith Bechtol, UW - Madison, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_04_01.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 5th: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Superconductivity, Robert J Joynt, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280; Lepton Jets from Radiating Dark Matter, Malte Buschmann, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 6th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 7th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Clearly witnessing the quantum fluctuations of a mechanical oscillator, Dr. Ray Simmonds , NIST, Boulder; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 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 at 3:45 PM; 'A Walk on the Warped Side: Searches for Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects in Advanced LIGO', Sarah Caudill, UW Milwaukee - Physics Dept; Add this event to your calendar; SPECIAL TOPIC SEMINAR; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Intellectual Property, Commercialization of Innovation at UW-Madison, and an Introduction to D2P, Robert Pozner , Discovery to Product, UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 8th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Fermion masses and mixings in F-theory GUTs, Gianluca Zoccarato, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Daniel Holz, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 11th: Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Non-ergodicity in many body systems and the phase diagram of Josephson junction chains, Lev Ioffe, Rutgers; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; Generation and Reconnection of Magnetic Field in Colliding Laser High Energy-Density Plasmas, Dr. Gennady Fiksel, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 12th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Out-of -time-order correlators in solid state physics, Lara Faoro, CNRS; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; X-ray Astronomy with Sounding Rockets, Dan McCammon, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 13th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 14th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Dynamically corrected entangling gates for spin qubits , Jason Kestner, UMBC; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 15th: Department Meeting; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; D6-branes, axion monodromy inflation and moduli backreaction, Aitor Landete, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Probing the Accelerating Universe with the Dark Energy Survey, Josh Frieman, Fermilab and the University of Chicago; Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2016_04_15.m4v; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 18th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm;; Fast Reconnection and Self-Generated Turbulence Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability, Dr. Amitava Bhattacharjee,, PPPL; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 19th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Semiconductors for Superconducting Qubits, Karl Petersson, University of Copenhagen; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium, TUESDAY TALK;
12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; A Philosophically-Informed Appraisal of the Schmidt-Sanduleak Law of Star Formation: "Not Even Wrong", Barry F. Madore, Carnegie Observatories and Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; biomineralization, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Evading non-linearities: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at the linear point, Stefano Anselmi, Case Western Reserve University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 20th: Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Best Practices in Large Introductory Physics Courses at the University of Maryland, Rosemary Russ, UW - Madison Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 21st: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310; Quantum optics with ultra-cold atoms, Alex Kuzmich, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 22nd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; First Results from Hitomi, Richard Mushotzky, University of Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 25th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; Simulation of energetic particle driven instabilities in 3D configurations, Dr. Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 26th: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Atoms and qubits - solving complex problems with simple quantum systems, Mark Saffman, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Simulating the neutrino sky: Cosmological probes of neutrino mass, JD Emberson, Argonne National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 27th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 28th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 29th: Special Physics 208 Lecture; 8:50 am; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; SHINE and Medical Radioisotopes, Greg Piefer, SHINE Medical Technologies; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm); When Magnetic Field Lines Break, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University; Add this event to your calendar
May 2016
Monday, May 2nd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering; Pedestal-to-wall 3D plasma edge modeling using EMC3-EIRENE, Dr. Jeremy Lore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 3rd: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Superconducting Quantum Information Processing, Robert F McDermott, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 5th: Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30, Talk begins 3:45; "Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys", Dr. Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Electroweak inos, natural SUSY and HL-LHC, Howard Baer; Add this event to your calendar; Careers for Physicists; 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Career Panel with Physics Board of Visitors Members, Various BOV members; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 6th: Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm); A Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer, Steve Meyer, The University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar

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