Events at Physics |
Events During February, 2011
- Tuesday, February 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Spatial and Temporal Variability in Groundwater Chemistry: Is There Any Such Thing as a "Representative" Sample?, Jean Bahr, UW-Madison Dept of Geoscience
- SPECIAL ASTRONOMY TALK; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- How do Galaxies get their Gas?, Dusan Keres, UC Berkeley
- Wednesday, February 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Two-dimensional electron gas with universal subbands at the surface of SrTiO<sub>3</sub>, Andres Santander, CSNSM - Université Paris-Sud, France
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Peculiar Velocity and its Effects on Cosmology with 21cm Tomography, Yi Mao, UT Austin
- Friday, February 4th
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Astronomy Colloquium;
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Prospects for comparative Exoplanetology, Beth Biller, MPIA Heidelberg
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Multiferroic Vortices and Graph Theory, Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials
- Monday, February 7th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- MHD Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection with Application to Solar Flares and Magnetospheric Substorms, Joachim Birn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Weyl Problem and the Casimir Effect in Spherical Shell Geometry, Hussain Zaidi, University of Virginia
- Tuesday, February 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How Video Games Model Agency in Complex Systems, Rich Halverson, UW School of Education
- Wednesday, February 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electrical and Optical Characterization of Molecular Nanojunctions, Dan Ward, Rice University
- Friday, February 11th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Top Quark Polarization Measurement in Dilepton Channel and New Physics Search, Qing-Hong Cao, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Strings and the Real World, Gordy Kane, University of Michigan
- Saturday, February 12th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 13th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 14th
- Special Seminar; 9:00 am; Forum room, Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery
- Microbial Interaction Networks in Soil and in Silico, Kalin H. Vetsigian, Harvard University
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Turbulent Mixing: Problems, Concepts, Solutions, Snezhana Abarzhi, University of Chicago
- Tuesday, February 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Global Warming, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Long and Longer Baseline Neutrino Oscillations: Searching for Symmetry Violation, Roger Wendell, Duke University
- Wednesday, February 16th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Topological Insulators With Point Group Symmetry, Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Supernova Burst Studies in DUSEL Detectors, Alex Friedland, LANL
- Friday, February 18th
- High Energy Seminar; 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- New Spectacles for Spectacular Discoveries, Prof. Daniel Ferenc, University of California Davis
- Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Regular and Irregular Polyhedra in Multi-Component Crystalline Shells, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Saturday, February 19th
- 4th Annual Physics Fair; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Special Physics Talk; 2:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- The Physics of Color, Pupa Gilbert, UW Department of Physics
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 20th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Current Layer Disruptions and Associated Turbulence in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX), Seth Dorfman, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Origin of 1/f magnetic noise in superconducting circuits, Kostyantyn Kechedzhi, Rutgers University
- Tuesday, February 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaos in the Three-Body Coulomb Problem, Vladimir Zhdankin, UW-Madison Dept. of Physics
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Searching for the Identity of Dark Matter, Lauren Hsu, Fermilab
- Thursday, February 24th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Circuit QED, David Schuster, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Young Circumstellar Disks: Exoplanet Diagnostics, John Wisniewski, University of Washington
- Friday, February 25th
- Special High Energy Physics Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- First Results of Higgs Searches and Prospects for 2011/2012 with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC, Bruce Mellado, UW-Madison Physics Department
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Led by the Nodes: Forging an Understanding of Fe-Based Superconductors, Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida
- Monday, February 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Plasma Turbulence in LAPD, Max Umansky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory