Events at Physics |
Events During September, 2011
- Friday, September 2nd
- First Day of Class
- Monday, September 5th
- Labor Day
- Tuesday, September 6th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Flavor Symmetries and Lepton Mixing in Light of Non-Vanishing theta13, Claudia Hagedorn, INFN, Padua and the University of Padua
- Wednesday, September 7th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The search for Majorana Fermions in semiconductor nanowires, Roman M. Lutchyn, Microsoft Station Q, University of California
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular and Optical Seminar, Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Wehlitz, Yavuz
- Friday, September 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Transport in High-mobility Two-dimensional Electron Systems, Maxim Vavilov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Monday, September 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- On the inner machinery of collisionless magnetic reconnection, Michael Hesse, NASA
- Tuesday, September 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Systems Virology: Models and measures of virus growth and infection spread, John Yin, WI Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Systems Biology Theme, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Thursday, September 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- How d-wave pair fluctuations arise from strong electronic correlations, William Putikka, Ohio State University
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Reusable Neutral Atom Qubits for Quantum Information Applications, Michael Gibbons, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Reconnection Diffusion: Changing the Star Formation Paradigm, Professor Alexander Lazarian
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Theoretical Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Seminar, Ramsey-Musolf
- Friday, September 16th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming, Brad Marston, Brown University
- Monday, September 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- A 24/7 tokamak: the Vulcan conceptual design, Dennis Whyte, A 24/7 tokamak: the Vulcan conceptual design
- Tuesday, September 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Bees: What is all the buzz about?, Hannah R. Gaines, UW Department of Entomology
- Wednesday, September 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 22nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Tails of Stellar Mass Loss: The HI 21-cm Line as a Probe of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, Lynn Matthews, MIT Haystack Observatory
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Collider Experiment Seminar, Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Mellado, Pan, Smith, Wu
- Friday, September 23rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Matrix Element Method for Higgs Discovery and Spin Determination, Jamie Gainer, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern U.
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Recent Results from CMS at LHC, Sridhara Dasu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Monday, September 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, Ben Longmeier, University of Huston
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Orbital ice: an exact Coulomb phase on diamond lattice, Gia-Wei Chern, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, September 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Bed bugs - They will rule the world, Phil Pellitteri, UW Department of Entomology
- Wednesday, September 28th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 29th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Coupled modes and parametric quantum informationprocessing--from classical pendula to single photons, Jose Aumentado, NIST Boulder
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Probing Dark Matter with Neutrinos, Ina Sarcevic, University of Arizona
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Large-Scale Flows in Galaxies for the last 6 Billion Years", Nicolas Lehner, University of Notre Dame
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Phenomenology, String Theory, and Theoretical Cosmology, Barger, Chung, Everett, Hashimoto, Shiu
- Friday, September 30th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Vibrations, Conical Intersections, and Reaction Dynamics in Gases and Liquids, Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin-Madison