Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2013 Fall Semester
August 2013
September 2013
- Friday, September 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Memories of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Raymond L. Orbach, University of Texas at Austin
- Friday, September 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Project Poltergeist, a Ghostly Neutrino and a Specter, Patrick Huber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
- Friday, September 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; Notice--different location: Room AB20, Dept. of Geoscience, Weeks Hall, 1215 W. Dayton Street
- A Scientist’s View of Research for Sustainable Energy, Ellen Williams, BP, Chief Scientist
- Friday, September 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Topological Phases in Correlated Materials, Yong-Baek Kim, University of Toronto
October 2013
- Friday, October 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Cosmic Past, Present, Future: Planck and Beyond, Benjamin Wandelt, Paris Institute for Astrophysics (IAP) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne University
- Friday, October 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Understanding the Higgs Boson, Sridhara Dasu, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, October 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Search for Higgs Boson Decays into Invisible Particles at the LHC, Ketevi Assamagan, Brookhaven National Lab
- Friday, October 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Multiwavelength Astronomy, the Origin of Cosmic Rays, and the HAWC Observatory, Petra Hüntemeyer, Michigan Technological University
November 2013
- Friday, November 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Canceled, Mark Ratner, Northwestern University
- Friday, November 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Higgs Boson Discovery: What's Next?, Marcela Carena, Fermilab & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
- Friday, November 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory, Dam Son, University of Chicago
- Friday, November 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, Daniel McKinsey, Yale University
December 2013
- Friday, December 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- New Frontiers of Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Ions, Prof. Dr. Peter Zoller, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
- Friday, December 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Holiday Office Party;
4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall - Holiday Colloquium, 3rd Year Graduate Students, UW Madison