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Events During the 2014 Spring Semester
January 2014
Tuesday, January 21st: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served); Can entropy be thought of as a fluid in biological systems?, Jim Reardon, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Introduction/The Higgs Boson, Wesley Smith, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Searching for Extraordinary Physics in Ordinary Places, Michael Hohensee, UC Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 22nd: ; 7:00 pm; Marquee Theater, Union South; Chasing the Ghost Particle Madison Premiere, Albrecht Karle, UW Dept of Physics, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC); Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 23rd: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; A trillion times beyond visible: Astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, Prof Justin Vandenbroucke, UW Physics Department; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 24th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Majorana Physics Through the Cabibbo Haze, Jue Zhang, University of Florida; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Validation of Quantum Devices, Matthias Troyer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2014/01/24.html; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 27th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310; Topological insulators driven by an electron spin, Maxim Dzero, Kent State University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 28th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served); Fractals for kids, Clint Sprott, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; High Energy Neutrinos with Ice Cube, Albrecht Karle, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 29th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 30th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Understanding Nature's Particle Accelerators Using Multi-wavelength Signatures, Udara Abeysekara, Michigan State; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; "Baryonic physics in galaxy evolution as seen by the CALIFA survey", Jakob Walcher, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 31st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2441 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Circinus X-1 - A puzzle solved, Sebastian Heinz, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2014/01/31.html; Add this event to your calendar
February 2014
Monday, February 3rd: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; CANCELED--Mechanics and self-organization of motor-driven filamentous assemblies: from swimming sperm to active gels, Daniel Chen, Brandeis University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 4th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served); Predicting fate, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College; Add this event to your calendar; Special Plasma Physics Seminar; 12:05 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Spectral Line Profile Modeling Under the Action of Dynamic Electric and Static Magnetic Fields, Elijah Martin, North Carolina State University; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Garage Physics Projects, Duncan Carlsmith, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 4274; Searching for dark matter with bubble chambers, Hugh Lippincott; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 5th: Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; From colloids to bacteria: anisotropy in self-organizing systems at the mesoscopic scale, Kun Zhao, UCLA; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 6th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Electrically controlled spin qubits in coupled quantum dot systems, Vanita Srinivasa, UMD; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Searching for Q-balls with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, Peter Karn, UC Irvine; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Measuring Magnetic Fields Near and Far via the Zeeman Effect, Tim Robishaw, Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 7th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Top Portal Dark Matter, Christopher Jackson, University of Texas at Arlington; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Quantum Optics with Microwave Photons, Maxim Vavilov, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 8th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, 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
Monday, February 10th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Notes from Underground: Direct Dark Matter Searches and Single Phase Liquid Argon Detectors, Kim Palladino, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 11th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; How does dark matter interact with us?, Yang Bai, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Counting Microwave Photons, Maxim Vavilov, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 12th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Exploring Fundamental Physics through Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background, Bradford Benson, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 13th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Hadronic Interaction Models and the Interpretation of Astroparticle Data, Dimitra Atri, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Asymmetries in Protoplanetary Transition Disks, Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Engineering New Electronic States in Graphene Heterostructures: Massive Dirac Fermions, Hofstadterâ€™s Butterfly and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, Benjamin Hunt, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 14th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); First Evidence for Energetic Cosmic Neutrinos with IceCube, Albrecht Karle, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2014/02/14.html; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 15th: Physics Fair; 11:00 am; Chamberlin Hall; 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 16th: 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 17th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 18th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Direct imaging of the nearest habitable planets , Margaret Turnbull, Global Science Institute; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; The Early Universe, Peter Timbie, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Title to be announced, Tim Linden, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Emerging spin-orbit interaction driven phenomena in magnetic heterostructures, Xin Fan, University of Deleware; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 19th: Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; The Riddle of the Invisible Universe, Matthew Szydagis, UC Davis; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 20th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Two- and three-dimensional spin liquid and interacting Majorana systems, Zohar Nussinov, Washington University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; "Four Problems in Trying to Form Galaxies(and how ISM Physics can Save US)", Desika Narayanan, Haverford College; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 21st: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; A light Higgs boson from a composite Higgs theory, Hsin-Chia Cheng, University of California, Davis; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Equilibrium and Driven Mesoscopic Dynamics in Complex Oxides, Paul Evans, UW Materials Science & Engineering; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2014/02/21.html; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 24th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Transport Properties of Strongly Coupled Plasmas, Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa; Add this event to your calendar; Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310; Valleytronics in Silicon: the Principles and the Practice, Andre Saraiva, University of Wisconsin; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 25th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Roving the Red Planet: A field geologist explores gale crater on Mars, Rebecca Williams, Planetary Science Institute; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Dark Matter Searches, Yang Bai, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 26th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 27th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Topological phases, Majorana fermions and disorder in superconductors, Smitha Vishveshwara , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Coherent control of strongly interacting Rydberg gases in thermal vapor cells, Prof. Tilman Pfau, University of Stuttgart; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; "Scaling Computational Astrophysics", Matthew Turk, Columbia University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 28th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Pure Gravity Mediation, Jason Evans, University of Minnesota; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); A single Rydberg electron in a Bose-Einstein Condensate, Prof. Tilman Pfau, University of Stuttgart; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2014/02/28.html; Add this event to your calendar
March 2014
Monday, March 3rd: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Recent Highlights in Low Temperature Plasmas, Mark Kushner, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 4th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); The relationship between obesity, genetics, nutrition, environment and metabolic diseases , James M. Ntambi, UW Departments of Biochemistry and of Nutritional Sciences; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Chaos, Clint Sprott, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 6th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; "How Stars Move in Galactic Disks", Carlos Vera-Ciro, UW Madison Astronomy Dept; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 7th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin Hall; Experimental review on the disordered-driven superconductor to insulator transition, Daniel Sherman, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Verner Suomiâ€™s Vision with a Spotlight on Benchmarking the Earthâ€™s Climate from Space, Hank Revercomb, UW-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2014/03/07.html; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 10th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 4274; How, when and where in pattern formation: Spying on embryonic development one molecule at a time, Hernan Garcia, Princeton; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 11th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Variability, uncertainty, and vulnerability in our chaotic climate , John Young, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; X-ray Astronomy from Sounding Rockets, Dan McCammon, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Photonic topological insulators and pseudomagnetism, Mikael Rechtsman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 12th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Communications and Computation, Graeme Smith, IBM TJ Watson Research Center; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 13th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310; Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics, Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; "The secret lives of Galaxy Clusters", Brian O'shea, Michigan State University; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum control of interactions between spin and photons in semiconductor quantum dot, Wei-bo Gao, Institute of Quantum Electronics - ETH Zurich; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 14th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Dark Matter: The Lepton Connection, Prateek Agrawa, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Status and prospects for achieving thermonuclear ignition on the National Ignition Facility, Riccardo Betti, Rochester; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2014/03/14.html; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 18th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Role of dissipation and losses in neutral atom based quantum computing, Dr. Durga Dasari, Aarhus University, Denmark; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 21st: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Consistency tests of gravity using large scale structure dynamics, Elise Jennings, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium, No Event--Spring Break;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 24th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 25th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Managing complexity at the molecular scale, Tehshik Yoon, UW Department of Chemistry; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Quantum Computing, Sue Coppersmith, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 26th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 27th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Superconducting qubits and cavities: sidebands and vortices, Professor Britton Plourde, Syracuse University; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar; 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Radar Detection of HE Neutrinos in the Ice, Kael Hanson, UniversitÃ© Libre de Bruxelles; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; "Sizing up Kepler's exoplanets with Asteroseismology", Travis Metcalfe, Space Science Institute; Add this event to your calendar; Van Vleck Lecture ; 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Application of Orthogonalized Linear Combination of Atomic Orbital Methods to Complex Materials , Professor Wai-Yim Ching, Curatorâ€™s Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 28th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280; The IceCube Puzzle, Markus Ahlers, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Realism and the epistemic view of quantum states, Terry Rudolph; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 31st: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Exploring Boundary Plasma and PMI Research at MIT with New Diagnostics and Experiments, Dennis Whyte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Rydberg-atom trapping and spectroscopy in optical trapping fields, Georg Raithel, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
April 2014
Tuesday, April 1st: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Modeling issues in emergency medical services and their implications, Laura McLay, UW Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Designing Interfaces at the Atomic Scale, Mark Rzchowski, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 2nd: Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 3rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310; Measuring topological transitions in superconducting qubits, Michael Kolodrubetz, Boston University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Cosmic voids as cosmological laboratories, Paul Sutter, IAP; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; The Gaseous Environments of Galaxies: Toward Lower Halo Masses and Absorption Morphology, Kate Rubin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 4th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Looking for Dark Matter, Here, There and Everywhere, Patrick Fox , Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Public ; 4:00 pm; Sterling Hall Planetarium; Digital Planetarium show & tell , Jim Madsen, WIPAC, UW-River Falls; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 7th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; The Plasma Physics of Fusion Indirectly Driven with a Laser, Bob Kirkwood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 8th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Algorithms, complex systems and chaos, Jerry Tutsch, UW Department of Computer Sciences; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; South Pole Ultra-high-energy neutrinos with ARA, John Kelly, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 9th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 10th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Supermassive black hole binaries: The Search Continues, Tamara Bogdanovvic, Georgia Tech; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 11th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Light from Dark Strings, Andrew Long, Arizona State University; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Liquid Metal Dynamos : GEO/Astrophysics in the Lab, Jean-FranÃ§ois Pinton, Ã‰cole normale supÃ©rieure de Lyon, CNRS; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 14th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Study of magnetic reconnection in the fluid regime: The variety of environments and outcomes, Dr. Vyacheslav Lukin, Naval Research > Laboratory, Washington, DC; Add this event to your calendar; Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310; Evolution of the magnetic ordering in iron-chalcogenide Fe(1+y)Te as a function of the level of interstitial Fe excess, y Time, Samuel Ducatman, University of Wisconsin; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 15th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Criticality and information flow in an adaptive system, Bryan Daniels, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Quantum noise in magnetometers, Thad Walker, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Boundaries and Defects of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang Mills with 4 Supercharges, Peter Ouyang, Purdue; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 17th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Detection of degree angular scale B-mode polarization with BICEP2/Keck Array, Grant Teply, Caltech; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; The Fermi Bubbles: Possible Nearby Laboratory for AGN Jet Activity, Karen Yang, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Title to be announced, Michel Gringas, University of Waterloo; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 18th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; New Limits on Light Hidden Sectors from Fixed-Target Experiments, Andrew Spray, University of Melbourne; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); New Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter, Stefano Profumo , UC Santa Cruz; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 21st: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Pressure Anisotropy in Reconnection, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 22nd: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Now you see him, now you don’t — a hitchhiker’s guide to high dimensional data analysis, Ming Yuan, UW Department of Statistics; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Superconductivity, Bob Joynt, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 23rd: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 24th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; The Mystery and Promise of Fast Radio Bursts, Albert Stebbins, FermiLab; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Deep Surveys with GISMO : Searching for submillimeter galaxies at the highest redshifts , Johannes Staguhn, John Hopkins University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 25th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Soft R-Parity Violation, Yuhsin Tsai, Univ. of California-Davis; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Searching for new physics at the LHC: The story you haven't heard, Michael Williams , MIT; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2014/04/25.html; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 28th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Influence of energetic ions on resistive wall mode in reversed field pinch". , Hui Shan Cai, University of Science and Technology, China; Add this event to your calendar; Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar, R.G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar;
4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310; "Coupled electricity and magnetism in Mott insulators: currents, dipoles and monopoles, Daniel Khomskii , University of Cologne, Germany; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 29th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Event detection in the Twittersphere, Adel Ardalan, UW Department of Computer Science; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; LHC Dark Matter Searches, Sridhara Dasu, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 30th: Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
May 2014
Thursday, May 1st: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Gas Flows in Galaxy Clusters, Brian McNamara, University of Waterloo; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm; tbd; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 2nd: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280; A MSSM scenario with a light stau and a bino DM, Kaoru Hagiwara, KEK Theory Center, Japan; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium, Annual Awards Banquet Speaker;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm); The 1991 UN Inspections of Iraq: A Look Back Across Two Decades, Jay Davis, President of Hertz Foundation and Chair of the Physics Department Board of Visitors; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 5th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; HIT-SI Results, Brian Nelson, University of Washington, Seattle; Add this event to your calendar; Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Magnetization and current, Artem Abanov, TAMU; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 6th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Twentieth Anniversary Celebration, Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communicative Disorders; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; First Light with HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory, Stefan Westerhoff, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; The Double-Dark Portal, David Curtin, Stony Brook University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 7th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 8th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; On the way to understanding quantum matter: The death and rebirth of quasiparticles, Peter Wolfle; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; The Disks of the Milky Way Galaxy, Rosemary Wyse, The John Hopkins University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 9th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); “Phun” with Photoelectrons - or - What Sets the Tc in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors?, Dan Dessau, University of Colorado-Boulder; Add this event to your calendar

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