Graduate Program Events |
Events During the 2025 Spring Semester
January 2025
- Wednesday, January 8th
- Margaret Fortman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Developing Josephson Junction Microwave Spectroscopy as a Modality Compatible with Scanned Probe Microscopy at LHe Temperatures
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Victor Brar
- Thursday, January 9th
- Dan Hooper and Hannah Erpenbeck, WIPAC
- Badgers on Tap
- 7:00 pm; Working Draft Beer Company, 1133 E Wilson St, Madison, WI 53703
- Friday, January 10th
- Brent Studer, Scott Hildreth, and James Espinosa
- Community College Instructor Pathway Q&A Panel
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom, hosted by Melinda Soares-Furtado
- Thursday, January 16th
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Friday, January 17th
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Dissertator eligibility for the spring
- Monday, January 20th
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Spring Degree Window Period deadline for doctoral students
- Tuesday, January 21st
- Spring semester instruction begins
- Wednesday, January 29th
- Miranda Gorsuch, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Interpolation in Cell-Based Coaddition Images and Impacts on Shear Measurements
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Conjeepuram V Ambarish, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- A high-spectral resolution study of the galactic center soft X-ray bulge with the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 6242 CH or , hosted by Dan McCammon
February 2025
- Tuesday, February 4th
- Abigail Shearrow, Physics PhD student
- Novel Quantum Devices for Computation and Sensing
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 CH, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Wednesday, February 5th
- Chi Lung Cheng, Physics PhD student
- Search for New Physics Phenomenon via Higgs Boson Pair Production and Novel Machine Learning Methods
- 3:00 pm; , hosted by Sau Lan Wu
- Tuesday, February 25th
- Zachary Huemann, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Multimodal vision-language modeling for advanced quantitative analysis of positron emission tomography imaging
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Sridhara Dasu and Tyler Bradshaw
March 2025
- Saturday, March 1st
- Physics Ice Skating Social
- Friday, March 7th
- Prospective Visit Days
- Monday, March 10th
- Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program Manager
- How to Prelim
- 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Sharon Kahn
- Friday, March 14th
- Prospective Visit Days
- Tuesday, March 18th
- Neeti Shenoy, MA and Sara Beachy Waters, JD, Mental Health Services/University Health Services
- Self-Care in Grad School + Overview of Mental Health Services (MHS)
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Sharon Kahn
- Saturday, March 22nd
- Spring recess
- Sunday, March 23rd
- Spring recess
- Monday, March 24th
- Spring recess
- Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program Manager
- How to FInish
- 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Tuesday, March 25th
- Spring recess
- Wednesday, March 26th
- Spring recess
- Thursday, March 27th
- Spring recess
- Friday, March 28th
- Spring recess
- Saturday, March 29th
- Spring recess
- Sunday, March 30th
- Spring recess
- Monday, March 31st
- Spring Semester classes resume
April 2025
- Thursday, April 3rd
- Keith Bechtol, Sharon Kahn, PhD program
- PhD Handbook Q&A session
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Keith Bechtol
- International Student Tax Session
- Wednesday, April 9th
- Dr. Kathy Wierzchowski, Mental Health Services/University Health Services
- Imposter Fears
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Sharon Kahn
- Friday, April 18th
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Tuesday, April 29th
- Neeti Shenoy, MA, and felix savino, Staff Psychologist, Mental Health Services/University Health Services
- Conflict Resolution
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Sharon Kahn
May 2025
- Friday, May 2nd
- Last Spring Semester class day
- Saturday, May 3rd
- Study Day
- Sunday, May 4th
- Exams
- Monday, May 5th
- Exams
- Tuesday, May 6th
- Exams
- Wednesday, May 7th
- Exams
- Thursday, May 8th
- Exams
- Friday, May 9th
- Commencement Weekend
- Exams
- Saturday, May 10th
- Commencement Weekend
- Sunday, May 11th
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, May 12th
- Spring Semester Grading deadline
- Sunday, May 18th
- Faculty contract year ends
- Monday, May 19th
- 4-week summer session begins
- Monday, May 26th
- Memorial Day (Observed)
- Tuesday, May 27th
- 3-week Summer session begins