Events at Physics |
Events During September, 2015
- Wednesday, September 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 3rd
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics , Coppersmith, Gilbert
- Tuesday, September 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Field Day Lab @ An introduction to memristors, Wesley Thio, Ohio State University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Natural Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture, Pablo Soler Gomis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday, September 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, September 14th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Progress and plans for NSTX Upgrade and prospects for next-step spherical tori , Jon Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
- Tuesday, September 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Field Day Lab @ Wisconsin Institute for Discovery: At the intersection of media and education theory, David Gagnon, UW Department of Academic Technology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- High-mass H --> VV signal and Higgs width determination at the LHC, Nikolas Kauer, University of London
- Wednesday, September 16th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 17th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Cosmic Accretion and Star formation in Dwarf Galaxies , Bruce Elmegreen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics, Arnold, McCammon, Timbie
- Friday, September 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer: a multipurpose particle physics detector aboard the International Space Station, Karen G. Andeen, Marquette University
- Monday, September 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Smaller and Sooner: Exploiting new superconductor technology to accelerate fusion's development , Dennis Whyte, MIT
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Searches for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetry with Run I Data from CMS, Rachel Yohay, CERN
- Tuesday, September 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Chemical selection and the origin of life, David Baum, UW Department of Botany
- Thursday, September 24th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- New Views of Black Hole Disk Winds, Jon Miller, University of MI
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Phases of Complex Oxides Driven Out of Equilibrium, John Freeland , Argonne National Lab
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- WIPAC: IceCube, HAWC, CTA, ARA, Halzen, Hanson, Karle, Vandenbroucke, Westerhoff
- Friday, September 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Materials in 2-dimension and beyond: 10 years after graphene, Philip Kim, Harvard
- Monday, September 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Linear and non-linear 3D plasma response for tokamak control, Carlos Paz Soldan, General Atomics
- Tuesday, September 29th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- What’s a “bone attack” and why should I care?, Neil Binkley, UW Institute on Aging
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmological Constraints on the Gravitational Interactions of Matter and Dark Matter, Ben Stefanek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics -- PUMP Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, September 30th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall