Events at Physics |
Events During October, 2009
- Thursday, October 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Dephasing and disorder effects in quantum spin Hall effect, Xincheng Xie, Oklahoma State University
- Introductory Graduate Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics, Coppersmith, Gilbert, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, October 2nd
- Special Astronomy Colloquium; 2:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer - WISE , Professor Ned Wright, UCLA- Physics and Astronomy Department
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Theoretical Constraints on the Higgs Effective Couplings, Ian Low, Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Search for Time-Reversal-Symmetry-Breaking Effects in Unconventional Superconductors, Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
- Monday, October 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetized Pinches: Magnetized Target Fusion to Astrophysics, Tom Intrator, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Tuesday, October 6th
- Women of Wisconsin Strengthening Astronomy and Physics Colloquium; 11:00 am; 3425 Sterling Hall (refreshments at 10:45)
- The Two-Body Problem: Dual Career Couples in Science, Marc Sher, Department of Physics, The College of William and Mary
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Simulation of swarming behavior using anti-Newtonian forces, Vladimir Zhdankin, UW Department of Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Planetary Nebulae and the Structure and Kinematics of Galactic Disks, Robin Ciradullo, Penn State
- Wednesday, October 7th
- Recruiter Infosession; 4:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Shell Exploration & Production Co. Infosession, David Schaper, Shell Exploration & Production Company
- Thursday, October 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Transport properties of superconductors near critical temperature: conductivity, magneto-tunneling, noise and relaxation, Alex Levchenko, Argonne National Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Parity violation in low energy NN interactions, Roxanne Springer, Duke University
- Introductory Graduate Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Nuclear Experimental/Theory, Balantekin, Heeger, Knutson, Ramsey-Musolf, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, October 9th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- , Subhaditya Bhattacharya, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Protein Intrinsic Disorder and Developmental Biology, Keith Dunker, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Monday, October 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Laboratory Simulations of Astrophysical Jets and Solar Coronal Loops, Paul Bellan, Cal Tech
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Special Date and Time;
2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin - Weak compressibility of surface wave turbulence, Marija Vucelja, Weizmann Institute of Science
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- MiniBooNE Oscillation Results and the Sterile Neutrino Mystery, Georgia Karagiorgi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tuesday, October 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Conjectures on music, artistry and the brain, Russell Gardner, UW Department of Psychiatry
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Infrared Studies of Young Brown Dwarfs, Katelyn Allers, Bucknell University
- Wednesday, October 14th
- MIT Lincoln Labs Recruitment Presentation; 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- MIT Lincoln Labs Seminar/Info-session, Matt Vanderhill, Ph.D., MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Thursday, October 15th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Search for the Schwinger Effect: Nonperturbative Vacuum Pair Production, Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
- Introductory Graduate Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experimental, Eriksson, Himpsel, Lagally, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Winokur, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, October 16th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Extending the Higgs Effective Theory, Duff Neill, Carnegie Mellon University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Gamma Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes, Neil Gehrels, NASA Greenbelt, U-Maryland, Penn State U
- Monday, October 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Turbulence, Structures, Thermal and Non-thermal Particle Transport in a Simple Toroidal Plasma, Ambrogio Fasoli, EPFL Laussane
- Tuesday, October 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Delocalization by disorder: non-metallic transport in layered metals, Dmitrii Maslov, University of Florida
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- High-Energy neutrino astronomy: Towards a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory., Francis Halzen, UW Department of Physics
- Thursday, October 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Fluctuations, Response, Entropy, and "Temperature" in Granular Packings, Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
- Whitford Lecture; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- WMAP and Beyond, Dr. David Spergel, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Dark Matter, Dan McKinsey, Yale University
- Introductory Graduate Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Theory, Bruch, Chubukov, Coppersmith, Joynt, Perkins, Vavilov, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, October 23rd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Quantifying the Unknown in Astronomy: A Bayesian Approach, Brian Connolly, University of Pennsylvania
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Good the Bad and the Awful: Scientific Simulation and Prediction, Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago
- Monday, October 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Electron Thermal Transport within Magnetic Islands in the RFP" and "Internal Electron Transport Barrier Due to Neoclassical Ambipolarity in the HSX Stellarator, Hillary Stephens and Jeremy Lore, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Tuesday, October 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, Martin and Betsy David, Economics
- String Theory Seminar; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- New SUSY Breaking Backgrounds and Holographic Gauge Mediationy, Yoske Sumitomo, UW-Madison
- String Theory Seminar; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- New SUSY Breaking Backgrounds and Holographic Gauge Mediationy, Yoske Sumitomo, UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The Dark Lives of Galaxies: Investigating Their Seedy Baryonic Underbellies with Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Todd Tripp, University of MA- Amhearst
- Thursday, October 29th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The low-down on Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays: experimental results and theoretical puzzles, Glennys Farrar, New York University
- Introductory Graduate Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- String Theory, Hashimoto, Shiu, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, October 30th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Hidden Charged Dark Matter, Haibo Yu, University of California-Irvine
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- 50 Years of Fusion Research, Dale M. Meade, Fusion Innovation Research and Energy, Princeton, NJ