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Events During February, 2015
- Monday, February 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Safety and sustainability of ITER from the point of view of the tungsten armor, Dr. Beata Tyburska-Püschel, Dept of EP, UW-Madison
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Expeditions to the Next Energy Scale, Victor Gehman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Extended MHD analysis of the g-mode, Eric Howell, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, February 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Re-conceptualizing visuospatial memory development as an increase in dynamic stability , Vanessa Simmering, UW Department of Psychology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - It's a Marvel: LZ and the Next Era of Dark Matter Searches , Kim Palladino, SLAC
- Wednesday, February 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Science Policy Movie Screening; 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm; Marquee Theater, Union South
- The Man Who Saved the World, American Nuclear Society, UW Madison Chapter
- Friday, February 6th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, February 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The tokamak density limit: a thermo-resistive disruption mechanism, Dr. David Gates, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall - Surface Plasmons and Impurity States in Graphene, Victor Brar , California Institute of Technology
- Tuesday, February 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Energy and ecosystems: Howard Odum's seminal 1973 paper, "Energy, ecology, and economics," 42 years later , Bill Fischer, Agronomy, Business, Law, and Psychiatry
- Wednesday, February 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Dynamical signatures and applications of many-body localization, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Harvard University
- Thursday, February 12th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Dynamical Structure in the Galactic disk -- a new Decade of Galactic Discovery, Alice Quillen, Univeristy of Rochester, Astronomy & Astrophysics
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 474 Chamberlin Hall - Spin orbit interaction induced magnetic dynamics, Luqiao Liu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Friday, February 13th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Colloquium presented by WARF;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - WARF on Campus, Rafael Diaz, Licensing Associate, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Monday, February 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Development of Innovative Wall and Divertor Plasma-Facing Components for Magnetically-Confined 3D Plasmas, Prof. Davide Curreli, Univ of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana
- Council Meeting
- CANCELED
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Custom low-dimensional material systems explored from atom to bulk , Adina Luican-Mayer, Argonne National Lab, Center for Nanoscale Materials
- Tuesday, February 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- The limits to growth or the limits to models? , Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Using kaons to unlock the secrets of the neutrino, Joshua Spitz, MIT
- Wednesday, February 18th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
8:30 am - 9:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Measuring the Neutrino Mass with Tritium Beta Decays, Noah Oblath, MIT
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Spin-charge scattering in Luttinger Liquids, Alex Levchenko
- Friday, February 20th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, February 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Rossby Waves - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Prof. Matthew Hitchman, , Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Benchtop Particle Astrophysics, Gray Rybka, University of Washington
- Tuesday, February 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Sweet talks and trade deals in symbiotic associations, Jean-Michel Ané, UW Department of Agronomy
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - The Discovery of Fermi Bubbles and Future Gamma-ray Telescopes, Meng Su, MIT, Joint MIT Pappalardo and NASA Einstein Fellow
- Thursday, February 26th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Cosmic ray feedback in Galaxies and Cool Core Clusters, CHristopher Pfrommer, HITS Heidelberg
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics, Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
- Friday, February 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- NPAC Faculty Search Committee Meeting; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin
- , Dasu, UW - Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Detection of B-mode polarization at 150GHz and degree angular scales by BICEP2 and Keck Array, Dr. Clem Pryke, University of Minnesota