Events at Physics |
Events During April, 2015
- Friday, April 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium
- No Event: Spring Break
- Monday, April 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Optical Emission Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic of Low-Temperature Plasmas, Dr. John Boffard, UW-Madison, Physics
- Tuesday, April 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Movement of eosinophils into lungs of patients with asthma, Deane Mosher, UW Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs Trilinear Coupling as a Probe of Electroweak Phase Transition, Peisi Huang, University of Chicago
- Wednesday, April 8th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am - 11:50 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Active Learning in Large Enrollment Classes: Literature Review, Peter Timbie, UW Madison - Physics
- Thursday, April 9th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall(Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM)
- Digging for buried Quasars with WISE and Planck, Mike Di Pompeo, University of Wyoming
- Friday, April 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Joint Physics - Astronomy Colloquium;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Coffee and cookies at 11:45 - Kinetic and Gyrokinetic Astrophysical Turbulence Above and Below the Mirror and Firehose Stability Thresholds, Matt Kunz, Princeton
- Physics Department Colloquium, Heinz H. Barschall Colloquium;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Search for permanent electric dipole moments of protons and deuterons using storage rings, Frank Rathmann, Institut fuer Kernphysik , Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
- Saturday, April 11th
- Barschall - Haeberli Symposium; 9:00 am - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
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- Monday, April 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- FNSF: Next Facility to Qualify/Validate Nuclear Technologies for US DEMO, Dr. Laila El-Guebaly, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, April 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- How scale-dependent are ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges?, Ankur Desai, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Natural Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture, William Cottrell, University of Wisconsin
- Wednesday, April 15th
- SPECIAL NOON TALK; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Hubble Clocks the High-Velocity Outflow from the Milky Way's Core, Andrew Fox, StSci
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- A solar close-up view of physical processes in magnetized plasmas , Paola Testa, Harvard CfA
- Careers for Physicists; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Panel with BOV members re: Careers outside academia, Lloyd Hackel & Bob Leach
- Friday, April 17th
- 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; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Has Compelling Experimental Evidence for Order-by-Disorder at Last Been Found in a Frustrated Magnetic Material?, Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo
- Monday, April 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- First identification of an Island-induced Alfvén Eigenmode (IAE) on MST, Carson Cook, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, April 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Towards understanding IceCube high energy neutrinos, Yang Bai, UW Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Perturbative Unitarity Constraints on Dark Sectors, Sonia El Hedri
- Wednesday, April 22nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Charm jet identification in searches for new physics with the ATLAS detector, Dan Guest, Yale University
- Thursday, April 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Spins in Nanostructures: Coherence, Measurement, and Collective Dynamics, Bill Coish, McGill University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The status of India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), Bannanje Sripathi Acharya, Tata Institute
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling hall
- Gamma-rays from Type Ia supernova SN2014J , Eugene Churazov, MPA Garching
- Friday, April 24th
- 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; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Universal quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes, Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois
- Chemistry Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 1315 Chemistry Building
- Scientific Publishing from the Inside Out, Dr. Jake Yeston, Science magazine
- Monday, April 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2317 Enginering hall
- Physics of the Current Injection Process in Localized Helicity Injection, Edward Hinson, UW-Madison, Engineering
- Council Meeting
- CANCELED
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, April 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Barker frailty, Barker echoes and warped older age mortality dynamics, Alberto Palloni and Hiram Beltran Sanchez, UW Center for Demography and Health of Aging
- Wednesday, April 29th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Pushing GaAs to the extreme: from the 5/2 FQHE to spin qubits, Mike Manfra, Purdue University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Heavy element synthesis in the Universe, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UCO Lick