Events at Physics |
Events During December, 2022
- Thursday, December 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Imaging the Breaking of Electrostatic Dams in Graphene for Ballistic and Viscous Fluids, Zachary Krebs , UW-Madison
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling or
- Exploration of problems in space physics using the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, Jack Schroeder, Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 4274
- The Changing Landscape of Astrophysical Searches and Indirect Detection of Dark Matter, Eric Charles, SLAC
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Why do massive stars have "inflated" cores?, Dr. Evan Henry Anders, Northwestern University
- Friday, December 2nd
- Preliminary Exam; 9:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- First Steps for a Joint Analysis of the MINOS and NOvA Experiments, Anna Cooleybeck, Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 11:00 am - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Physicists in Finance. A Personal Journey, Dr. Senthil Sundaram, KULA Investments, LLC
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall -
- Quantitative Trading and Portfolio Management, Senthil Sundaram
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, December 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Disruptive Tearing Modes In DIII-D IBS Discharges, Professor Emeritus James D. Callen, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, December 6th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Gravitational-wave signatures of dense matter in neutron star binary inspirals , Tanja Hinderer , Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Electroweak Symmetric Balls, Mrunal Prashant Korwar, UW Madison
- Wednesday, December 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling 4421 or zoom:
- Moons, Planets, and Suns in Context: Environments & Evolutionary Pathways, Melinda Soares-Furtado, UW Madison
- Astronomy Talk: Melinda Soares-Furtado; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Moons, Planets, and Suns in Context: Environments & Evolutionary Pathways, Melinda Soares-Furtado, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; Meet in Chamberlin lobby to walk to Chazen museum
- GREAT IDEAS Excursion to Sifting & Reckoning Exhibit
- Thursday, December 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin-phonon effects in nitrogen-vacancy centers, Matt Cambria , UW-Madison
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm;
- Constraining the Diffuse Flux of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos with the Askaryan Radio Array’s Largest Analysis Ever, Abigail Bishop, Physics Graduate Student
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Linking Planet Formation to Exoplanet Composition , Prof. Edwin(Ted) Bergin, University of Michigan
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; CH 4274
- Treasure Maps for Detections of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays, Anatoli Fedynitch, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Friday, December 9th
- Thesis Defense; 10:30 am - 6:00 pm;
- Physical structure of tooth enamel at the nano- and micro-scales, revealed by x-ray linear dichroism, and displayed by polarization-dependent imaging contrast mapping, Cayla Stifler, Physics Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- New Frontiers in Collisionless Reconnection: Exploring Magnetosphere-Relevant Reconnection with Experiments and Custom Kinetic Simulations, Samuel Greess, Physics Graduate Student
- Monday, December 12th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling
- Superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems for quantum computing applications, Ben Harpt, Physics Graduate Student
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Heat and particle transport in the JET DT2 campaign, Philip Schneider, IPP Garching
- Tuesday, December 13th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Portal Matter, Kinetic Mixing, and Muon g − 2, Ricardo Alexandre Dos Santos Ximenes Filho, Physics Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Search for dark matter recoiling from a Higgs boson, which decays to tau lepton pairs, with the CMS detector at the LHC, Jithin Madhusudanan Sreekala, Physics Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5290 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, December 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to withdraw from the Fall term
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day for fall semester
- 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. We will also livestream the talk in Chamberlin 5280.
- Differentiable Programming in HEP, Lukas Heinrich, TU Munich
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Outreach, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab;
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 1111 Genetics/Biotech or sign up for the zoom link at go.wisc.edu/240r59 - What the heck is x-ray astronomy and why do we bother?, Dan McCammon, UW–Madison physics
- Thursday, December 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Monolayers and bilayers of the topological semimetal WTe2, David Cobden, U Washington
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; WIPAC (222 W. Washington Ave., 5th floor, Supernova Conference Room)
- Searching for UHE Neutrinos with PUEO, William Luszczak, Ohio State University
- Friday, December 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; VIRTUAL - Link will be sent later
- Saturday, December 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Sunday, December 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Academic Calendar; 10:00 am - 12:00 am
- Winter Commencement
- Monday, December 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Tuesday, December 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Towards Powerful Probes of Neutrino Self-Interactions in Supernovae, Po-Wen Chang , CCAPP, Ohio State University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, To Be Determined
- Wednesday, December 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Preliminary Exam; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or (passcode 630477)
- Valley splitting and alloy disorder in Si/SiGe quantum dots, Merritt Losert, Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall & Zoom:
- Looking for new physics in rare and novel processes at the LHC, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Northwestern University
- Thursday, December 22nd
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Friday, December 23rd
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, December 25th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Doctoral degree deadline