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Events During November, 2008
- Monday, November 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- No Strings Attached: Investigating Plasma Convection and Transport in the Levitated Dipole Experiment, Dr Darren Garnier, MIT and Columbia University
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Conformal Collider Physics, Diego Hoffman, Princeton
- Tuesday, November 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Conversations with the Silent Majority in Soil Microbial Communities, Jo Handelsman, Bacteriology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Dirt on Dust: An X-ray Perspective, Professor Julia Lee, Harvard University
- Wednesday, November 5th
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- New measurement of the K+ -> pi+ nu nubar Branching Ratio, Zhe Wang, BNL
- Thursday, November 6th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Short baseline disappearance experiments at Fermilab, Kendall Mahn, Columbia University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- String Theory Intro Seminar, String Theory Group, Physics Department
- Friday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics - an Experimenter's Point of View, Szabolcs Marka, Columbia University
- Monday, November 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Improved Confinement at High Current in the MST Reversed-Field Pinch" & "Momentum Transport during Reconnection Events in the MST Reversed-Field Pinch, Daniel Den Hartog & Alexey Kuritsyn, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Novel Orders from Geometrical Frustration and Orbital Degeneracy, Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California - Berkeley
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Diffractive W and Z Boson Production at the Tevatron, Mary Convery, FNAL
- Tuesday, November 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Engaging the flow: a creative dialogue, Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Breakout: High-Energy Transients from Supernovae and the Mystery of the Dim GRBs, Chris Matzner, University of Toronto
- Thursday, November 13th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Phenomenology Intro Seminar, Pheno Group, Physics Department
- Friday, November 14th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Kinematic Constraints and MT2, Zhenyu Han, Univ. of California-Davis
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Experiments on the Newly Functioning Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Lab, Haskell Taub, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Monday, November 17th
- Joint Theory/Experiment Seminar; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- NLO EW Corrections to SM Higgs Production and Decay, Stefano Actis, RWTH Aachen University
- Tuesday, November 18th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Earthquakes Beneath the Sea: Understanding the Mechanics of Fault Zones through Subsurface Imaging and Scientific Drilling, Harold Tobin, UW Department of Geology and Geophysics
- Thursday, November 20th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Prospects for High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift/GLAST Era, Kohta Murase, Kyoto University, Yukawa Institute
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Medical Physics Introductory Seminar, Medical Physics Group, Medical Physics Dept
- Friday, November 21st
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Methods to Detect the Cosmic Neutrino Background, Bob McElrath, CERN
- Monday, November 24th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Fermilab to Homestake Long Baseline Experiment, Milind Diwan, BNL
- Physics Department Colloquium, D.W. Kerst Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee and cookies at 3.30 pm) - Studying Astrophysics in the Laboratory: How is Angular Momentum Rapidly Transported in Accretion Disks?, Hantao Ji, Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Search for Anomalous Wtb Couplings in Single Top Quark Production, Liang Li, Search for Anomalous Wtb Couplings in Single Top Quark Production
- Tuesday, November 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Clouds and aerosol: their role and impact in the atmospheric and global climate processes, Pao K. Wang, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Fueling Galaxies at z = 0, Mary Putnam, Columbia University
- Wednesday, November 26th
- Special Plasma Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Effect of Plasma Triangularity on Turbulent Transport: Modeling TCV Experiments by Linear and Non Linear Gyrokinetic Simulations, Alessandro Marinoni, Ecole Polytechinique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Thursday, November 27th
- Thanksgiving
- Friday, November 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 8:00 am
- No Colloquium--Thanksgiving Recess