Events at Physics |
Events During September, 2010
- Thursday, September 2nd
- First Day of Class; 8:00 am
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular and Optical Seminar, Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Wehlitz, Yavuz
- Friday, September 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Once and Future Science at RHIC, Steven Vigdor, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Monday, September 6th
- Labor Day; 8:00 am
- Wednesday, September 8th
- 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- Panel Discussion on CV and Resume Writing, Panel of Physicists, UW Madison
- Thursday, September 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin, charge and orbital ordering in transition metal compounds: New insights obtained by resonant x-ray diffraction, Ioannis Zegkinoglou, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- 3-D Dust Radiation Transfer: What can it do for you?, Barbara Whitney, UW SAL Department
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Fundamental Interactions, Symmetries, and Neutrinos, Balantekin, Heeger, Knutson, Ramsey-Musolf
- Friday, September 10th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Generic Dark Matter Signature for Gamma-ray Telescopes, Wai-Yee Keung, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Recent Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory, Jim Matthews, Louisiana State University
- Tuesday, September 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Designing Climate Change Solutions, Tracey Holloway, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- The Transiting Extrasolar Planets - A vehicle to learn new features about extrasolar systems, Tsevi Mazeh, Tel Aviv University
- Thursday, September 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- A Macroscopic Mechanical Resonator Driven by Mesoscopic Electrical Backaction, Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth College
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- Finding Dark Galaxies From Their Tidal Imprints, Sukanya Chakrabarti, UC Berkeley
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Precision Gravity and Effective Field Theories, Andreas Ross, University of Wisconsin at Madison/Argonne National Laboratory
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics Seminar, Coppersmith, Gilbert
- Friday, September 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a Probe of Cosmology and Particle Physics, Gary Steigman, Ohio State
- Monday, September 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Prospect for Fusion Energy in the 21st Century, Prof. Farrokh Najmabadi, University of California-San Deigo
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Numerical Simulation of Non-Inductive Startup in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment, John O'Bryan, UW-Madison Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, September 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A New Dynamical Mechanism for Major Climate Shifts, Anastasois Tsonis, UW-Milwaukee Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Thursday, September 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Raman scattering in graphene: a window on electron dynamics, Denis Basko, Universite Joseph Fourier & CNRS, Grenoble, France
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Higgs Boson Distributions from Effective Field Theory, Sonny Mantry, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Seminar, Boldyrev, Forest, Sarff, Schnack, Terry, Zweibel
- Friday, September 24th
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Lecture; 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Weak chaos in the disordered nonlinear Schroedinger chain: destruction of Anderson localization by Arnold diffusion, Denis Basko, Universite Joseph Fourier & CNRS, Grenoble, France
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Charmed Mesons -- Their Hadronic Decays and Mixing, Chiang-Wei Chiang, National Central University, Taiwan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Bose Condensation, Superfluidity, and the Quantum Hall Effect, Jim Eisenstein, Caltech
- Monday, September 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Plasma Confinement on Shaped Open Field Lines: Results from the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment, Adil Hassam, University of Maryland/Dept of Physics
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- A New Way to Measure Spin at Hadron Colliders, Matthew Buckley, Fermilab
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Kinetic Shielding of Magnetic Islands in 3-D Equilibria, Chris Hegna, UW-Madison Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, September 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Simplest Chaotic Circuit, Bharathwaj Muthuswamy, Milwaukee School of Engineering/Dept of Electrical Engineering
- Thursday, September 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin spirals in underdoped cuprates: theory and experiment, Oleg P. Sushkov, University of New South Wales
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Fundamental Physics at Low Energies, Joerg Jaeckel, Durham University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- Models of Wind-Driving Protostellar Disks, Seth Teitler, UW Astronomy Dept
- Department of Physics Special Seminar; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin (cookies & coffee served at 3:30 p.m)
- Dark Matter Searches with DM-Ice and CUORE, Reina Maruyama, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Experiment, Carlsmith, Dasu, Heeger, Herndon, Mellado, Pan, Pondrom, Smith, Wu