Events at Physics |
Events During April, 2014
- Tuesday, April 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Modeling issues in emergency medical services and their implications, Laura McLay, UW Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Wednesday, April 2nd
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Flexible Physics Mobile videos: Physics 109, 103-4, 201-2, and 207-8 on Youtube and Turning a Large Lecture into a Blended Classroom: First Results from Physics 207
- Thursday, April 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Measuring topological transitions in superconducting qubits, Michael Kolodrubetz, Boston University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Cosmic voids as cosmological laboratories, Paul Sutter, IAP
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Gaseous Environments of Galaxies: Toward Lower Halo Masses and Absorption Morphology, Kate Rubin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Friday, April 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Looking for Dark Matter, Here, There and Everywhere, Patrick Fox , Fermilab
- Public ; 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm; Sterling Hall Planetarium
- Digital Planetarium show & tell , Jim Madsen, WIPAC, UW-River Falls
- Monday, April 7th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- The Plasma Physics of Fusion Indirectly Driven with a Laser, Bob Kirkwood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Tuesday, April 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Algorithms, complex systems and chaos, Jerry Tutsch, UW Department of Computer Sciences
- Wednesday, April 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 10th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Supermassive black hole binaries: The Search Continues, Tamara Bogdanovvic, Georgia Tech
- Friday, April 11th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Light from Dark Strings, Andrew Long, Arizona State University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Liquid Metal Dynamos : GEO/Astrophysics in the Lab, Jean-François Pinton, École normale supérieure de Lyon, CNRS
- Monday, April 14th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Study of magnetic reconnection in the fluid regime: The variety of environments and outcomes, Dr. Vyacheslav Lukin, Naval Research > Laboratory, Washington, DC
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Evolution of the magnetic ordering in iron-chalcogenide Fe(1+y)Te as a function of the level of interstitial Fe excess, y Time, Samuel Ducatman, University of Wisconsin
- Tuesday, April 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Criticality and information flow in an adaptive system, Bryan Daniels, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Boundaries and Defects of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang Mills with 4 Supercharges, Peter Ouyang, Purdue
- Thursday, April 17th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Detection of degree angular scale B-mode polarization with BICEP2/Keck Array, Grant Teply, Caltech
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Fermi Bubbles: Possible Nearby Laboratory for AGN Jet Activity, Karen Yang, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Title to be announced, Michel Gringas, University of Waterloo
- Friday, April 18th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- New Limits on Light Hidden Sectors from Fixed-Target Experiments, Andrew Spray, University of Melbourne
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- New Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter, Stefano Profumo , UC Santa Cruz
- Monday, April 21st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Pressure Anisotropy in Reconnection, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
- Tuesday, April 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Now you see him, now you don’t — a hitchhiker’s guide to high dimensional data analysis, Ming Yuan, UW Department of Statistics
- Wednesday, April 23rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 24th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Mystery and Promise of Fast Radio Bursts, Albert Stebbins, FermiLab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Deep Surveys with GISMO : Searching for submillimeter galaxies at the highest redshifts , Johannes Staguhn, John Hopkins University
- Friday, April 25th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Soft R-Parity Violation, Yuhsin Tsai, Univ. of California-Davis
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Searching for new physics at the LHC: The story you haven't heard, Michael Williams , MIT
- Monday, April 28th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Influence of energetic ions on resistive wall mode in reversed field pinch". , Hui Shan Cai, University of Science and Technology, China
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar, R.G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar;
4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310 - "Coupled electricity and magnetism in Mott insulators: currents, dipoles and monopoles, Daniel Khomskii , University of Cologne, Germany
- Tuesday, April 29th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Event detection in the Twittersphere, Adel Ardalan, UW Department of Computer Science
- Wednesday, April 30th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Social Bookmarking II and new Collaborative Learning Spaces: Experiments in Physics 241 and 207 (Kyriaki Chatzikyriakidou); Learning Assistants in Introductory Physics Courses (Bethany Reilly)