Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2014 Spring Semester
January 2014
- Friday, January 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Validation of Quantum Devices, Matthias Troyer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Friday, January 31st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2441 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Circinus X-1 - A puzzle solved, Sebastian Heinz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 2014
- Friday, February 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum Optics with Microwave Photons, Maxim Vavilov, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, February 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- First Evidence for Energetic Cosmic Neutrinos with IceCube, Albrecht Karle, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, February 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Equilibrium and Driven Mesoscopic Dynamics in Complex Oxides, Paul Evans, UW Materials Science & Engineering
- Friday, February 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- A single Rydberg electron in a Bose-Einstein Condensate, Prof. Tilman Pfau, University of Stuttgart
March 2014
- Friday, March 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Verner Suomi’s Vision with a Spotlight on Benchmarking the Earth’s Climate from Space, Hank Revercomb, UW-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center
- Friday, March 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Status and prospects for achieving thermonuclear ignition on the National Ignition Facility, Riccardo Betti, Rochester
- Friday, March 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium, No Event--Spring Break;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Friday, March 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Realism and the epistemic view of quantum states, Terry Rudolph
April 2014
- Friday, April 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Looking for Dark Matter, Here, There and Everywhere, Patrick Fox , Fermilab
- Friday, April 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Liquid Metal Dynamos : GEO/Astrophysics in the Lab, Jean-François Pinton, École normale supérieure de Lyon, CNRS
- Thursday, April 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Title to be announced, Michel Gringas, University of Waterloo
- Friday, April 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- New Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter, Stefano Profumo , UC Santa Cruz
- Friday, April 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Searching for new physics at the LHC: The story you haven't heard, Michael Williams , MIT
May 2014
- Friday, May 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium, Annual Awards Banquet Speaker;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - The 1991 UN Inspections of Iraq: A Look Back Across Two Decades, Jay Davis, President of Hertz Foundation and Chair of the Physics Department Board of Visitors
- Friday, May 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- “Phun” with Photoelectrons - or - What Sets the Tc in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors?, Dan Dessau, University of Colorado-Boulder