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Events During the 2008 Fall Semester
August 2008
- Wednesday, August 20th
- Special Plasma Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Visualizing Magnetic Reconnection in Simulations of SSPX, Bick Hopper, LLNL
- Thursday, August 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The quest for missing baryons through X-ray spectroscopy, Yoh Takei, ISAS in Tokyo
- Friday, August 29th
- Joint PHENO Seminar/NPAC Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Anisotropic Inflation from vector impurity, Sugumi Kanno, IPMU, University of Tokyo
September 2008
- Tuesday, September 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Complex nanostructures driven by screw-dislocation nanowire growth, Song Jin, UW Department of Chemistry
- Thursday, September 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Multi-scale modeling of nano-devices, Paul von Allmen, Jet Propulsion Lab (Pasadena, CA)
- Monday, September 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Challenges and Scenarios for Achieving Current Sustainment with Good Confinement in the RFP, John Sarff, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Physics/Plasma
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- CP Violation in Bs Meson Decays at CDF, Gavril Giurgiu, Johns Hopkins University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Analog of Astrophysical Magnetorotational Instability in Couette-Taylor Flows of Polymer Fluids, Stanislav Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, September 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Ecology and the evolution of reproductive isolation, Jenny Boughman, UW Department of Zoology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Gamma Ray Burst Jet Simulations, Brian Morsony, UW Astronomy Dept
- Thursday, September 11th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Cold gases and cartoon nuclei, Calvin Johnson, San Diego State University
- Friday, September 12th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Associated Higgs production in CP-violating Supersymmetry: Probing the 'Open Hole' at the LHC, Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay, Chandra Research Institute
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Double Beta Decay-The Key to Neutrino Properties, Petr Vogel, Caltech
- Monday, September 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; CANCELED
- CANCELED, Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire
- Physics Department Seminar; 1:00 pm; Canceled
- Canceled, Saad Saleh, Bellaire Technology Center , Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc.
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Canceled
- Canceled, Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire, Dept of Physics
- Tuesday, September 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- What are your 'thinking genes' doing in a plant?, Edgar Spalding, UW Department of Botany
- Thursday, September 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum activation, scaling, and quantum measurements, Mark Dykman, Michigan State University
- Special Astronomy Colloquium at Noon; 12:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The Small Magellanic Cloud Star Formation History, Elena Sabbi, STSci
- Friday, September 19th
- Physics Department Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin (11:30 a.m. cookies and coffee)
- Galileo - The European Navigation Satellite System, Wilfried Bornemann, EADS Astrium, Munich Germany
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Rapture of the Deep Sky, Professor Melville P. Ulmer, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University
- Monday, September 22nd
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Role of Stable Modes in Electromagnetic ETG-Driven Turbulence, Juhyung Kim, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, September 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Native American science, technology, engineering, and mathematics before 1492, John Gustafson, Independent Scholar formerly of Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College, Cloquet, MN
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- High Mass Standard Model Higgs Searches at CDF, Jennifer Pursely, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Thursday, September 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- CNOT quantum logic with weakly coupled cubits, Mike Geller, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia
- Friday, September 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- GLAST first results, David A. Smith, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan
- Monday, September 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Plasma Rotation Driven by Static Non-axisymmetric Magnetic Fields in DIII-D, Dr. Andrea Garofalo, General Atomics
- Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk; 3:30 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Molecular Clouds and Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds, Dr. Yasuo Fukui, Nagoya University, JAPAN
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Observation of the Ground State of the bbbar System, Veronique Ziegler, SLAC
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Low Collisionality Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity in Tokamaks and Quasi-symmetric Stellarators, Andrew Cole, UW-Madison, Dept. of ECE
- Tuesday, September 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Indicators of regime shifts in ecosystems, Steve Carpenter, UW Center for Limnology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Assembly of Galaxy Disks and Evolution of Galactic Structures in COSMOS - Reconstructing the Hubble Sequence, Kartik Sheth, CALTECH
October 2008
- Wednesday, October 1st
- Find Our People Meeting; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee, tea, cookies will be served starting at 3:30)
- Potential Physics & Related Majors
- Thursday, October 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum transport and its classical limit, Piet Brouwer, Cornell University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- LSST, the most complete survey of the sky: How tools of particle physics can serve in astronomy, Michael Prouza, FZU Prague, Czech Republic
- Friday, October 3rd
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Simplicity of Scattering Amplitudes, Ruth Britto, Fermilab
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Cosmic Rays, Pierre Sokolsky, University of Utah
- Monday, October 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Multi-probe Measurements and Simulation of Global Edge-Turbulence Properties in the Torsatron TJ-K, Dr. Mirko Ramisch, UW-Madison, Dept. of ECE
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Electron Density Structures in Decaying Kinetic Alfven Wave Turbulence, Kurt Smith, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, October 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Molecular mechanisms of synaptic growth: insights from the Drosophila neuromuscular junction, Kate O'Connor-Giles, UW Department of Genetics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Dark Energy and The Hubble Constant, Jim Condon, NRAO
- Thursday, October 9th
- Yum Kippur
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Magnetotransport in Microwave-irradiated Quantum Hall Systems, Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Neutron beta-decay with Ultra-Cold Neutrons, Brad Filippone, Caltech
- Friday, October 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Nuclear Forensics: Preparing for the Experiment One Hopes Never to Do, Dr. Jay Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Retired) and The Hertz Foundation
- Monday, October 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Rotational Stabilization of Kink Modes in Magnetically Collimated Jets, Chris Carey, UW-Madison, CPTC, Dept of Physics
- Tuesday, October 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- A perspective on evolution and psychiatry, Russ Gardner, UW Department of Psychiatry
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Testing Models for Interstellar Dust, Bruce Draine, Princeton University
- Thursday, October 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Field-induced anisotropy in specific heat and transport properties of unconventional superconductors, Ilya Vekhter, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter-Experimental Intro Seminar, Condensed Matter Exp Group, Physics Dept.
- Friday, October 17th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Towards the Emergence of Cyclic Universes with Scale-invariant fluctuations, Tirthabir Biswas, Pennsylvania State University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Physics of Space Weapons, David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists and MIT
- Monday, October 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Magnetic Turbulent Reconnection, Alexander Lazarian, University of Wisconsin. Dept of Astronomy/Physics
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark Matter Annihilation Modes, Tom Weiler, Vanderbilt University
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm
- Search for High-Mass Resonances in CDF Dimuon Data, Chris Hays, University of Oxford
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Title to be announced, Thomas Jenkins, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, October 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Gender, power and peacemaking in Africa, Aili Mari Tripp, UW Departments of Political Science and Women's Studies
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The SWIFT Bat Hard X-ray Survey- A New Window on the Local AGN Universe, Richard Mushotsky, Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA
- Thursday, October 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spinons and triplons in a spatially anisotropic triangular lattice antiferromagnet, Oleg Starykh, University of Utah
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Theory Intro Seminar, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Physics Dept
- Friday, October 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Impact!, Sid Nagel, University of Chicago
- Monday, October 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Stellarator Research at Auburn University, Stephen Knowlton, Auburn University, Physics Department
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm
- Measurement of dijet angular distributions in the TeV regime and searches for new physics beyond standard model, Nirmalya Parua, Indiana University
- Tuesday, October 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Chaos and its application in secure communication, Kehui Sun, UW Department of Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Understanding the Interstellar Neighborhood: Structure, Dynamics, and Quasar Scintillation", Dr. Jeff Linsky, UC- Boulder
- Wednesday, October 29th
- Career Advising seminar; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Undergraduate Career Advising seminar, Greg Iaccarino, L&S Career Services
- Thursday, October 30th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Thermal inflation, gravitational waves, baryogenesis and dark matter, Wan-Il Park, KAIST
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic and Molecular Intro Seminar, Atomic & Molecular Group, Physics Department
- Friday, October 31st
- Joint String Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Holographic Superfluidity and Superconductivity, Chris Herzog, Princeton University
- Physics Department Colloquium, H.T. Richards Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Surveying the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky with Milagro and HAWC, Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Lab
November 2008
- Monday, November 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- No Strings Attached: Investigating Plasma Convection and Transport in the Levitated Dipole Experiment, Dr Darren Garnier, MIT and Columbia University
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Conformal Collider Physics, Diego Hoffman, Princeton
- Tuesday, November 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Conversations with the Silent Majority in Soil Microbial Communities, Jo Handelsman, Bacteriology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Dirt on Dust: An X-ray Perspective, Professor Julia Lee, Harvard University
- Wednesday, November 5th
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- New measurement of the K+ -> pi+ nu nubar Branching Ratio, Zhe Wang, BNL
- Thursday, November 6th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Short baseline disappearance experiments at Fermilab, Kendall Mahn, Columbia University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- String Theory Intro Seminar, String Theory Group, Physics Department
- Friday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics - an Experimenter's Point of View, Szabolcs Marka, Columbia University
- Monday, November 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Improved Confinement at High Current in the MST Reversed-Field Pinch" & "Momentum Transport during Reconnection Events in the MST Reversed-Field Pinch, Daniel Den Hartog & Alexey Kuritsyn, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Novel Orders from Geometrical Frustration and Orbital Degeneracy, Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California - Berkeley
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Diffractive W and Z Boson Production at the Tevatron, Mary Convery, FNAL
- Tuesday, November 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Engaging the flow: a creative dialogue, Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Breakout: High-Energy Transients from Supernovae and the Mystery of the Dim GRBs, Chris Matzner, University of Toronto
- Thursday, November 13th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Phenomenology Intro Seminar, Pheno Group, Physics Department
- Friday, November 14th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Kinematic Constraints and MT2, Zhenyu Han, Univ. of California-Davis
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Experiments on the Newly Functioning Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Lab, Haskell Taub, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Monday, November 17th
- Joint Theory/Experiment Seminar; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- NLO EW Corrections to SM Higgs Production and Decay, Stefano Actis, RWTH Aachen University
- Tuesday, November 18th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Earthquakes Beneath the Sea: Understanding the Mechanics of Fault Zones through Subsurface Imaging and Scientific Drilling, Harold Tobin, UW Department of Geology and Geophysics
- Thursday, November 20th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Prospects for High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift/GLAST Era, Kohta Murase, Kyoto University, Yukawa Institute
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Medical Physics Introductory Seminar, Medical Physics Group, Medical Physics Dept
- Friday, November 21st
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Methods to Detect the Cosmic Neutrino Background, Bob McElrath, CERN
- Monday, November 24th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Fermilab to Homestake Long Baseline Experiment, Milind Diwan, BNL
- Physics Department Colloquium, D.W. Kerst Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee and cookies at 3.30 pm) - Studying Astrophysics in the Laboratory: How is Angular Momentum Rapidly Transported in Accretion Disks?, Hantao Ji, Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Search for Anomalous Wtb Couplings in Single Top Quark Production, Liang Li, Search for Anomalous Wtb Couplings in Single Top Quark Production
- Tuesday, November 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Clouds and aerosol: their role and impact in the atmospheric and global climate processes, Pao K. Wang, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Fueling Galaxies at z = 0, Mary Putnam, Columbia University
- Wednesday, November 26th
- Special Plasma Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Effect of Plasma Triangularity on Turbulent Transport: Modeling TCV Experiments by Linear and Non Linear Gyrokinetic Simulations, Alessandro Marinoni, Ecole Polytechinique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Thursday, November 27th
- Thanksgiving
- Friday, November 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 8:00 am
- No Colloquium--Thanksgiving Recess
December 2008
- Monday, December 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- A Detailed Study of Energetic Particle Effects on Resistive MHD Instabilities in Tokamaks, Dylan Brennan, University of Tulsa
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Quiver Chern-Simons-matter theories and AdS4/CFT3 correspondence, Masahito Yamazaki, Cal Tech
- Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm; 106 ERB
- Advanced MHD Feedback Control Methods on EXTRAP T2R, Dr. James Drake, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
- Tuesday, December 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- What did the IPCC say about impacts and adaptation?, John Magnuson, UW Department of Zoology
- String Theory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Heterotic-F theory duality revisited, Masahito Yamazaki, Cal Tech
- Thursday, December 4th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experimental, Session II, Mark Eriksson, Cond. Matter Exp. Group, Physics Dept
- Friday, December 5th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC/Pheno Seminar;
2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Shedding Light on Dark Matter: How Faraday Rotation Can Limit a Dark Magnetic Moment, Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
- Monday, December 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Transport Studies in HSX, Jeremy Lore, UW-Madison, Dept. of ECE
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Initiation of Ballooning Instability by Reconnection in Near-Earth Plasma Sheet, Dr. Ping Zhu, UW-Madison, CPTC & Dept of EP
- Tuesday, December 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- A technique for modeling radar interferograms without phase unwrapping: Application to the M 5 Fawnskin, California earthquake of 4 December 1992, Kurt Feigl, UW Department of Geology and Geophysics
- Wednesday, December 10th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Supersymmetric Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Puneet Batra, Columbia University
- Thursday, December 11th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Pseudo-Goldstone Baryogenesis, Mike Trott, Perimeter Institute
- Friday, December 12th
- Last Day of Class
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Gauge Boson Scattering at the LHC, Barbara Jager, University of Wurzburg
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium, Holiday Colloquium
- Monday, December 15th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Mixed Axion/Axino Cold and Warm Dark Matter from Yukawa-unified SUSY Models, Howie Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Fluid Moment Transport Equations in Tokamak Plasmas, James Callen, UW-Madison, CPTC & Dept of EP
- Tuesday, December 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 11:30 am)
- Magnetic Self-Organization in the Reversed Field Pinch, John Sarff, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Dynamos and Magnetism in Rapidly Rotating Suns, Ben Brown, University of Colorado
- Wednesday, December 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electron Walks in Quantum Dot Nanostructures, Leonid Fedichkin, Institute for Quantum Sciences & Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University