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Events During September, 2014
- Tuesday, September 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Writing a novel, Russell Gardner, Jr., Freelance scholar after psychiatry career without present institutional affiliation
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology from the megaparsec to the micron, Amol Upadhye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday, September 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Multiplexing of Nanostructure Devices, Dr. Luke Smith, University of Cambridge
- Friday, September 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Optical Atomic Clocks: A New Era of Precision Timekeeping, Chris Oates, NIST-Boulder
- Monday, September 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1025 Engineering Centers Building
- In pursuit of Ignition - recent progress and directions at the National Ignition Facility, John Edwards, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- A parametric study of extended MHD effects on interchange modes in spheromak equilibria, Eric Howell, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Tuesday, September 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Upstairs/downstairs in our brains - What’s running our show?, Deric Bownds, UW Department of Zoology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for LFV Higgs decays with the CMS experiment, Maria Cepeda Hermida, University of Wisconsin
- Thursday, September 11th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Studying Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation at PINGU, Kaoru Hagiwara, KEK
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Probing the Origin of Supermassive Black Holes with Dwarf Galaxies, Amy Reines, NRAO
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics , Boldyrev, Egedal, Forest, Sarff, Terry, Zweibel
- Monday, September 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2255 Engineering Hall
- “Part I: Sustained spheromaks with ideal n = 1 kink stability and pressure confinement" and "Part II: The development of validation metrics using biorthogonal decomposition”, Brian Victor, University of Washington
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Council Meeting
- Canceled
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, September 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Cyclin-dependent kinase-confined cortical chaos, Bill Bement, UW Department of Zoology
- Wednesday, September 17th
- Department Meeting
- Canceled
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Continuum methods for understanding membrane protein stability, Michael Grabe, UC San Francisco
- Garage Physics Kickoff; 5:00 pm; B613 Sterling
- Duncan Carlsmith, UW - Madison
- Friday, September 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Shedding Light on Distant Galaxies with 200,000 Quasars, Britt Lundgren, UW Astronomy
- Monday, September 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2255 Engineering Hall
- "Kinetic-fluid hybrid simulation of energetic particle interaction with MHD instabilities in toroidal plasmas", Guo-Yong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- PUMP; 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Tuesday, September 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Wisconsin State Energy Office – Forecasting, monitoring, and responding to energy crises, Jim Mapp, Dark Energy Associates
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Goldstone Exception: Spontaneously broken global symmetry, i.e. the Goldstone theorem, protects the Higgs from a Fine Tuning (FT) Problem, Bryan Lynn, University College London and Case Western University
- Thursday, September 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Entanglement in many body systems, Israel Klich, University of Virginia
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL TIME! 2:30 PM;
2:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - Angular Momentum Transport via Internal Gravity Waves in Evolving Stars, Jim Fuller, Caltech
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- PeV neutrinos from right handed neutrino dark matter, Ryosuke Sato, KEK
- Friday, September 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; Chamberin
- Hunting for topological dark matter with atomic clocks, Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada, Reno
- Monday, September 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Coherent structures and magnetic reconnection in collisionless turbulence from the perspective of kinetic particle simulations, Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, September 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- The chaos in vocal fold vibration and sound production, Jack Jiang, UW Department of Surgery
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Hidden GeV-scale interactions of quarks and dark matter , Claudia Frugiuele