Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2015 Spring Semester
January 2015
- Friday, January 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Entanglement, Bell's Inequality, Trapped Ions, and Quantum Computing, Chris Monroe, JQI, University of Maryland
February 2015
- Friday, February 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Colloquium presented by WARF;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - WARF on Campus, Rafael Diaz, Licensing Associate, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Friday, February 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Detection of B-mode polarization at 150GHz and degree angular scales by BICEP2 and Keck Array, Dr. Clem Pryke, University of Minnesota
March 2015
- Friday, March 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum information and a Michelson-Morley test with electrons, Hartmut Haffner, University of California, Berkeley
- Friday, March 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Molding the Flow of Light Using Metasurfaces and Metamaterials , Gennady Shvets, University of Texas at Austin
- Friday, March 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The present and future of solar neutrinos with Borexino, Andrea Pocar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
April 2015
- Friday, April 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium
- No Event: Spring Break
- Friday, April 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Joint Physics - Astronomy Colloquium;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Coffee and cookies at 11:45 - Kinetic and Gyrokinetic Astrophysical Turbulence Above and Below the Mirror and Firehose Stability Thresholds, Matt Kunz, Princeton
- Physics Department Colloquium, Heinz H. Barschall Colloquium;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Search for permanent electric dipole moments of protons and deuterons using storage rings, Frank Rathmann, Institut fuer Kernphysik , Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
- Friday, April 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Has Compelling Experimental Evidence for Order-by-Disorder at Last Been Found in a Frustrated Magnetic Material?, Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo
- Friday, April 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Universal quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes, Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois
May 2015
- Friday, May 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Where Did Half the Starlight in the Universe Go?, Mark Devlin, University of Pennsylvania