Graduate Program Events |
Events During the 2024 Fall Semester
August 2024
- Friday, August 2nd
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, August 5th
- Yinqi Chen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Generating entangling gates in superconducting quantum circuit
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
- Wednesday, August 7th
- Black and Brown in Physics info meeting
- Sunday, August 11th
- 8-week summer session ends
- Monday, August 12th
- Shu Tian Eu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Quark and Lepton Flavor Models
- 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Lisa Everett
- Wednesday, August 14th
- Summer Semester Grading deadline (8-week)
- Monday, August 19th
- Faculty contract year begins
- Thursday, August 22nd
- Brad Kumm, Physics Graduate Student
- Available Energy and Slow Eigenmodes for Understanding Moisture and Phase Changes in Atmospheric Physics
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - , hosted by Samuel Stechmann, Jan Egedal
- Sunday, August 25th
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 26th
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Fall Degree Window Period begins
- various
- Incoming PhD Orientation and Welcome
- 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin, hosted by Sharon Kahn
- Tuesday, August 27th
- John Podczerwinski, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Cosmology and HI Intensity Mapping
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling Hall, Room B343, hosted by Peter Timbie
- Wednesday, August 28th
- All grad lunch/recess
- Thursday, August 29th
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Qualifying Exam - Statisical Mechanics
- Friday, August 30th
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
September 2024
- Monday, September 2nd
- Labor Day
- Tuesday, September 3rd
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Dissertator eligibility for the fall
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 4th
- Fall semester instruction begins
- Friday, September 13th
- PGSC Headshot Event
- Tuesday, September 24th
- Various, Various
- Fusion Forward: Commercializing Fusion Technology in Wisconsin
- 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm; Wisconsin Energy Institute, 1552 University Ave., or via Zoom (see website for reg info), hosted by D2P
October 2024
- Friday, October 18th
- Avani Vivrekar, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Gate tunable spin splitting of germanium quantum well Josephson junctions
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall or , hosted by Mark Friesen
- Tuesday, October 22nd
- Virtual Open House for Physics Graduate Applicants
- Friday, October 25th
- Merritt Losert, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Alloy disorder, valley splitting, and shuttling for spin qubits in Si/SiGe heterostructures
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; , hosted by Mark Friesen; Susan Coppersmith
November 2024
- Monday, November 18th
- Benjamin Harpt, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Quantum Computing with Superconductor-Semiconductor Hybrid Systems
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343, Sterling Hall; , hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Tuesday, November 19th
- Virtual Open House for Physics-PhD Applicants
- Friday, November 22nd
- Avirup Roy, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Pulsed-laser calibration of thermal microcalorimeters for X-ray astronomy
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 6242 Chamberlin Hall or , hosted by Dan McCammon
- Monday, November 25th
- Victor Shang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Search for dark matter produced in association with top quarks at the Compact Muon Solenoid}
- 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 CH or , hosted by Tulika Bose
- Thursday, November 28th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 29th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Saturday, November 30th
- Thanksgiving recess
December 2024
- Sunday, December 1st
- Thanksgiving recess
- Tuesday, December 3rd
- Virtual Open House for underrepresented Physics-PhD Applicants
- Friday, December 6th
- Jacky Yip, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Topological Data Analysis for Cosmology
- 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Gary Shiu
- Wednesday, December 11th
- Last Fall Semester class day
- Thursday, December 12th
- Study Day
- Friday, December 13th
- Exams
- Saturday, December 14th
- Exams
- Sunday, December 15th
- Commencement
- Monday, December 16th
- Exams
- Preston Huft, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Building blocks of an integrated neutral atom quantum network
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Tuesday, December 17th
- Exams
- Yiting Wang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Odd Radio Circles and the Dynamics of Nonthermal Plasma
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Sebastian Heinz
- Wednesday, December 18th
- Exams
- Margaret Fortman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Developing Josephson Junction Microwave Spectroscopy as a Modality Compatible with Scanned Probe Microscopy at LHe Temperatures
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Victor Brar
- Thursday, December 19th
- Exams
- Sunday, December 22nd
- Fall Semester Grading deadline
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Doctoral degree deadline