Events at Physics |
Events During August, 2020
- Monday, August 3rd
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
- Development of high-beta weakly magnetized plasma Couette flow in pursuit of electromagnetic instabilities in the Hall regime, Ken Flanagan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 4th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Gamma rays from neutron star mergers: a unique signature of the r process, Xilu Wang, Notre Dame
- Wednesday, August 5th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual
- A study of Collective effects and Dark state based localization protocols in cold atoms, Diptaranjan Das, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 6th
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
- Precision measurements of the astrophysical neutrino flux, Austin Schneider, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 7th
- M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 12:00 pm; Virtual
- MSPQC Virtual Graduation
- Tuesday, August 11th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- On massive neutrino emission from primordial black holes via Hawking radiation , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Northwestern
- Wednesday, August 12th
- Physics Meets ML; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- Discovering new phases of matter with unsupervised and interpretable support vector machines , Lode Pollet, LMU Munich
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual
- Role of Stable Eigenmodes in Shear-flow Instability Saturation and Turbulence, Adrian Fraser, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Virtual
- Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Cosmological and String Theoretic Data, Alex Cole, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar
- Thursday, August 13th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Friday, August 14th
- Madison Astronomical Society monthly meeting; 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm; virtual, email to madisonastro.info@gmail.com by noon Friday August 14 to receive the zoom link
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Optical atomic clocks and their applications, Shimon Kolkowitz
- Monday, August 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year begins
- Tuesday, August 18th
- Graduate Program Event, PGSC Professional Development Seminar;
2:30 pm; - Nanoscale Metrology with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond, Aedan Gardill, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- The Sterile Neutrino is Dead; Long Live the Sterile Neutrino!, Jeffrey Berryman, Kentucky
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Effective Field Theory Search Results from the LUX Run 4 Data Set, and Construction of the LZ System Test Platforms, Shaun Alsum, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
- Wednesday, August 19th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Virtual
- High-Fidelity Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit using an On-Chip Microwave Photon Counter, Alex Opremcak, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual
- Flavored Gauge Mediation with Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries, Neil Leonard, Physics MS Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 20th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Friday, August 21st
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2020: Master’s Degree Deadline
- Sunday, August 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Summer term 2020
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline
- Tuesday, August 25th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Constraining cold dense matter using multi-wavelength & multi-messenger observations of merging neutron stars, Ben Margalit , Berkeley
- Wednesday, August 26th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- The large learning rate phase of deep learning , Yasaman Bahri, Google Brain
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, August 27th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Friday, August 28th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
- Reconnection in the Age of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, Blake Wetherton, Physics PhD Graduate Student