Events at Physics |
Events During November, 2014
- Monday, November 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Metamaterial-enhanced resistive wall amplifiers, Tyler Rowe, UW ECE
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, November 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Organic chromophores for optoelectronic devices, Trisha Andrew, UW Department of Chemistry
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Stueckelberg U(1)'s and Axions in String Theory, Fang Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thursday, November 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Accurate and efficient simulation of donors in silicon, John King Gamble, Sandia National Laboratories
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- New Windows into Supernova Explosions and Progenitors, Jennifer Hoffman, UW Milwaukee
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hal
- WIPAC: IceCube, HAWC, Cosmic Ray Physics, Halzen, Hanson, Karle, Vandenbroucke, Westerhoff
- Friday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium, CANCELLED - To be rescheduled Spring 2015;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Title to be announced, M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
- Monday, November 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- 3D Modeling of RF Antennas, Sheaths, and Slow Waves in Time Domain, David Smithe, Tech-X Corporation
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, November 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- The narrative structure of the default mode network and REM dreaming, Art Schmaltz, Prairie State College
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Aspects of Lepton-Flavored Dark Matter, Can Kilic, The University of Texas at Austin
- Wednesday, November 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Generalized Tunneling Model (GTM) for Two Level System (TLS) in amorphous materials and its predictions for their dephasing and the noise in superconducting microresonators, Lara Faoro, Universites Paris 6 et 7 and Rutgers University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Atmospheric Neutrinos, Professor Tom Gaisser, University of Delaware
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Faint Lyman-alpha Emitters and the Reionization of the Universe, Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics , Balantekin
- Friday, November 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Neutrinos... Going International: Towards a New Understanding of the Quantum Universe, Dr. Nigel Lockyer, Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Monday, November 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Control of 3D equilibria with RMP in MST, Stefano Munaretto, UW Physics
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, November 18th
- Special Seminar Announcement; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Advances and Future Directions of 3D Equilibrium Reconstruction: Opportunities for MST, Dr. Mark Ciancosa, Auburn Univerity
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Frac sand and related natural resources in Wisconsin, Jay Zambito, UW Department of Geoscience
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- New physics in Higgs kinematic distributions, Adam Martin, University of Notre Dame
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (Particles); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- , Sridhara Dasu, UW - Madison, Search Committee Chair
- Wednesday, November 19th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- WriteLaTeX, Diigo, Piazza, and a CLC for physics plus results from new assessments in 103/4 and 207/8, Professor Duncan Carlsmith and Professor Peter Timbie, UW-Madison
- Wednesday Night at the Lab; 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; UW Biotechnology Center 425 Henry Mall, Room 1111, Madison, WI 53706
- Neutrinos: Measuring the Unexpected, Javier Diez
- Thursday, November 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Modes are Modes: Parametric quantum information processing in superconducting circuits, Jose Aumentado , NIST, Boulder
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The First Results From CHAOS: The Chemical Abundances Of Spirals Project, Danielle Berg, Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, UW Milwaukee
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hal
- High Energy Experiment, Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Smith, Wu
- Friday, November 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum Entanglement for Fun and Profit: 101 Uses for Schroedinger's Cat, Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Monday, November 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Progress on the generation and application of ion beams driven by high-intensity short-pulse lasers, Brian Albright, LANL
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL MONDAY TALK;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 - The fall of disks and the raise of bulges through cosmic time, Marcella Carollo, ETH, Zurich
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, November 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Mechanoreceptors and laryngeal motor control-Why such a touchy subject?, Michael J. Hammer, UW Department of Surgery/Division of Otolaryngology
- Wednesday, November 26th
- Department Meeting
- CANCELED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, November 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm
- No Event: Thanksgiving Break