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Events During the Week of November 30th through December 6th, 2008
Monday, December 1st, 2008
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar
- A Detailed Study of Energetic Particle Effects on Resistive MHD Instabilities in Tokamaks
- Time: 12:05 pm
- Place: 1227 Engineering Hall
- Speaker: Dylan Brennan, University of Tulsa
- String Theory Seminar
- Quiver Chern-Simons-matter theories and AdS4/CFT3 correspondence
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Masahito Yamazaki, Cal Tech
- Special Plasma Seminar
- Advanced MHD Feedback Control Methods on EXTRAP T2R
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 106 ERB
- Speaker: Dr. James Drake, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
- What did the IPCC say about impacts and adaptation?
- Time: 12:05 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Speaker: John Magnuson, UW Department of Zoology
- Abstract: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has three working groups; WG 1 on the climate system, WG 2 on impacts and adaptation, and WG3 on mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the information in the public realm about the IPCC is about climatic change, per se, and about mitigation. Yet, even under the most optimistic IPCC scenario for mitigation, the challenges for adaptation to climate changes are immense. I will review what IPCC 2007 concluded about impacts and adaptation regarding freshwaters and also fish and fisheries both inland and marine. Additionally, I will describe the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) and results to date.
- String Theory Seminar
- Heterotic-F theory duality revisited
- Time: 4:30 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Masahito Yamazaki, Cal Tech
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
- No events scheduled
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
- Graduate Introductory Seminar
- Condensed Matter Experimental, Session II
- Time: 5:30 pm
- Place: 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Mark Eriksson, Cond. Matter Exp. Group, Physics Dept
- Abstract: Introductory Seminar for first year Grad Students (others welcome)
Friday, December 5th, 2008
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum
- Joint NPAC/Pheno Seminar
- Shedding Light on Dark Matter: How Faraday Rotation Can Limit a Dark Magnetic Moment
- Time: 2:30 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
- Abstract: Disparate astronomical observations provide compelling evidence for additional, non-luminous matter, or dark matter, in gravitational interactions, but we know little of its nature. To remedy this, the hunt is on to detect dark matter via either direct or indirect means, to determine its mass(es?) as well as couplings to Standard Model particles. I will briefly review the astronomical evidence and summarize current direct and indirect detection efforts before describing a new possibility. That is, a Faraday rotation experiment can set limits on the magnetic moment of a electrically-neutral, dark-matter particle, and the limits increase in stringency as the candidate mass decreases. I shall describe how such could be realized and determine the limits on the magnetic moment as a function of mass which follow given demonstrated experimental capacities.
- Host: M J Ramsey-Musolf