Events at Physics |
Events During December, 2008
- Monday, December 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- A Detailed Study of Energetic Particle Effects on Resistive MHD Instabilities in Tokamaks, Dylan Brennan, University of Tulsa
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Quiver Chern-Simons-matter theories and AdS4/CFT3 correspondence, Masahito Yamazaki, Cal Tech
- Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm; 106 ERB
- Advanced MHD Feedback Control Methods on EXTRAP T2R, Dr. James Drake, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
- Tuesday, December 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- What did the IPCC say about impacts and adaptation?, John Magnuson, UW Department of Zoology
- String Theory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Heterotic-F theory duality revisited, Masahito Yamazaki, Cal Tech
- Thursday, December 4th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experimental, Session II, Mark Eriksson, Cond. Matter Exp. Group, Physics Dept
- Friday, December 5th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC/Pheno Seminar;
2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Shedding Light on Dark Matter: How Faraday Rotation Can Limit a Dark Magnetic Moment, Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
- Monday, December 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Transport Studies in HSX, Jeremy Lore, UW-Madison, Dept. of ECE
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Initiation of Ballooning Instability by Reconnection in Near-Earth Plasma Sheet, Dr. Ping Zhu, UW-Madison, CPTC & Dept of EP
- Tuesday, December 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- A technique for modeling radar interferograms without phase unwrapping: Application to the M 5 Fawnskin, California earthquake of 4 December 1992, Kurt Feigl, UW Department of Geology and Geophysics
- Wednesday, December 10th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Supersymmetric Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Puneet Batra, Columbia University
- Thursday, December 11th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Pseudo-Goldstone Baryogenesis, Mike Trott, Perimeter Institute
- Friday, December 12th
- Last Day of Class
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Gauge Boson Scattering at the LHC, Barbara Jager, University of Wurzburg
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium, Holiday Colloquium
- Monday, December 15th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Mixed Axion/Axino Cold and Warm Dark Matter from Yukawa-unified SUSY Models, Howie Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Fluid Moment Transport Equations in Tokamak Plasmas, James Callen, UW-Madison, CPTC & Dept of EP
- Tuesday, December 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 11:30 am)
- Magnetic Self-Organization in the Reversed Field Pinch, John Sarff, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Dynamos and Magnetism in Rapidly Rotating Suns, Ben Brown, University of Colorado
- Wednesday, December 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electron Walks in Quantum Dot Nanostructures, Leonid Fedichkin, Institute for Quantum Sciences & Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University