Events at Physics |
Events During October, 2020
- Thursday, October 1st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:45pm, Talk 4:00 PM
- "What we learn when we're careful: the power of Seismic Stellar Evolution" , Meridith Joyce, ANU
- Friday, October 2nd
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
- Astrophysics and Cosmology Experiment, Peter Timbie, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Gradient effects on false vacuum decay in gauge theory , Juan S. Cruz, Technical University Munich
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Monday, October 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Core transport model validation towards building the physics basis for the SPARC tokamak, Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tuesday, October 6th
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- LinkedIn, Michelle Holland, Physics Graduate Programs Coordinator
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Properties of r-Process-Producing Neutron Star Mergers: What We Can Learn from Metal-Poor Stars, Erika Holmbeck , University of Notre Dame
- Wednesday, October 7th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; contact quantum@uchicago.edu for login info
- CQE Seminar Series: Building the second quantum revolution by training Schrödinger cats, from very fat to very fast, Tommaso Calarco, Institute for Quantum Control, Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Please sign up at physicsmeetsml.org for this online event.
- Machine learning as a discovery tool in hep-th, Vishnu Jejjala, University of Witwatersrand
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, October 8th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- Particle acceleration by pressure anisotropy plasma instabilities: from black hole accretion disks to solar flares., Mario Riquelme, University of Chile
- Friday, October 9th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
- Linking the theory and observation of astroparticles , Ke Fang, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Gravitational wave probes of axion-like particles, Ben Stefanek, Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Monday, October 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- A Novel Theory of Particle Acceleration at Shocks, Damiano Caprioli, Assistant Professor University of Chicago
- Tuesday, October 13th
- 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm;
- PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminar, Brent Mode, Physics Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
- Wednesday, October 14th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; contact quantum@uchicago.edu for login info
- CQE Seminar Series: TBD, Marco Pistoia, JPMorgan Chase
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED.
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Online - Program Overview: Masters in Learning Analytics Program
- Thursday, October 15th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Zoom:
- Lepton flavor violating Higgs boson decays, Prasanna Siddireddy, University of Notre Dame
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- ` JWST status as of 2020, and some of its first Science Programs: Time Domain Science, Cluster Lensing \& Caustic Transits '', Rogier Windhorst, Regents' and Foundation Professor, JWST Interdisciplinary Scientist, Arizona State
- Friday, October 16th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
- Probing the early universe with new data and new computational methods, Moritz Munchmeyer, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Islands, cosmology, and baby universes, Arjun Kar, University of British Columbia
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Monday, October 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Magnetic reconnection under the microscope: 3D PIC simulations of reconnecting current sheets, Dr. Ari Le, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Tuesday, October 20th
- 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- PGSC Professional Development - Science Communication, Sarah Perdue and Madeleine O'Keefe, Department of Physics & WIPAC
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Double bang cascades from atmospheric neutrinos , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Northwestern University
- Wednesday, October 21st
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Neural Scaling Laws and GPT-3, Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, October 22nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Zoom :
- Evidence for the Higgs boson decays to dimuons , Stephane Cooperstein, UCSD
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- Scaling Laws for Large Scale Magnetic Fields in Stars and in the Laboratory, Ethan Visniac, John Hopkins University
- Friday, October 23rd
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
- Semiconductor qubits, Mark Eriksson, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- New roads to discovery of light states, Jeff Dror, UC Berkeley
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Monday, October 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom meeting
- Zonal Flow Generation by Convectively Excited Waves, Prof. Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern University
- Tuesday, October 27th
- 2:30 pm;
- PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminar, Trevor Oxholm, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;
- Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Si/SiGe Quantum Dots, Nathan Holman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
- Wednesday, October 28th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, October 29th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- Illuminating the Chemistry of Planet Formation with X-ray Flares, isle Cleeves, University of Virginia
- Friday, October 30th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
- Using physics to understand and save coral reefs from climate change, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Quantum Penrose Inequality, Marija Tomašević, Universitat de Barcelona
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;