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Events During the 2010 Fall Semester
August 2010
- Thursday, August 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electrical transport techniques to probe the ground state of closely spaced electron-hole bilayer, Mike Lilly, Sandia National Laboratory
- Friday, August 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Silicon enhancement mode nanostructures for few electron spin devices, Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratory
- Monday, August 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Niobium Oxidation, Metal-oxide Interface Effects, and rf Losses, Juergen Halbritter, Research Center Karlsruhe
- Tuesday, August 10th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- CP Violation in B_s Mixing: Gateway to new physics?, Ulrich Nierste, Universitaet Karlsruhe
- Monday, August 30th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Control of Ideal and Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Modes in Reversed Field Pinches with a Resistive Wall, Steve Richardson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
September 2010
- Thursday, September 2nd
- First Day of Class; 8:00 am
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular and Optical Seminar, Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Wehlitz, Yavuz
- Friday, September 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Once and Future Science at RHIC, Steven Vigdor, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Monday, September 6th
- Labor Day; 8:00 am
- Wednesday, September 8th
- 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- Panel Discussion on CV and Resume Writing, Panel of Physicists, UW Madison
- Thursday, September 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin, charge and orbital ordering in transition metal compounds: New insights obtained by resonant x-ray diffraction, Ioannis Zegkinoglou, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- 3-D Dust Radiation Transfer: What can it do for you?, Barbara Whitney, UW SAL Department
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Fundamental Interactions, Symmetries, and Neutrinos, Balantekin, Heeger, Knutson, Ramsey-Musolf
- Friday, September 10th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Generic Dark Matter Signature for Gamma-ray Telescopes, Wai-Yee Keung, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Recent Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory, Jim Matthews, Louisiana State University
- Tuesday, September 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Designing Climate Change Solutions, Tracey Holloway, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- The Transiting Extrasolar Planets - A vehicle to learn new features about extrasolar systems, Tsevi Mazeh, Tel Aviv University
- Thursday, September 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- A Macroscopic Mechanical Resonator Driven by Mesoscopic Electrical Backaction, Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth College
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- Finding Dark Galaxies From Their Tidal Imprints, Sukanya Chakrabarti, UC Berkeley
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Precision Gravity and Effective Field Theories, Andreas Ross, University of Wisconsin at Madison/Argonne National Laboratory
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics Seminar, Coppersmith, Gilbert
- Friday, September 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a Probe of Cosmology and Particle Physics, Gary Steigman, Ohio State
- Monday, September 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Prospect for Fusion Energy in the 21st Century, Prof. Farrokh Najmabadi, University of California-San Deigo
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Numerical Simulation of Non-Inductive Startup in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment, John O'Bryan, UW-Madison Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, September 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A New Dynamical Mechanism for Major Climate Shifts, Anastasois Tsonis, UW-Milwaukee Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Thursday, September 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Raman scattering in graphene: a window on electron dynamics, Denis Basko, Universite Joseph Fourier & CNRS, Grenoble, France
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Higgs Boson Distributions from Effective Field Theory, Sonny Mantry, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Seminar, Boldyrev, Forest, Sarff, Schnack, Terry, Zweibel
- Friday, September 24th
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Lecture; 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Weak chaos in the disordered nonlinear Schroedinger chain: destruction of Anderson localization by Arnold diffusion, Denis Basko, Universite Joseph Fourier & CNRS, Grenoble, France
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Charmed Mesons -- Their Hadronic Decays and Mixing, Chiang-Wei Chiang, National Central University, Taiwan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Bose Condensation, Superfluidity, and the Quantum Hall Effect, Jim Eisenstein, Caltech
- Monday, September 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Plasma Confinement on Shaped Open Field Lines: Results from the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment, Adil Hassam, University of Maryland/Dept of Physics
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- A New Way to Measure Spin at Hadron Colliders, Matthew Buckley, Fermilab
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Kinetic Shielding of Magnetic Islands in 3-D Equilibria, Chris Hegna, UW-Madison Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, September 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Simplest Chaotic Circuit, Bharathwaj Muthuswamy, Milwaukee School of Engineering/Dept of Electrical Engineering
- Thursday, September 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin spirals in underdoped cuprates: theory and experiment, Oleg P. Sushkov, University of New South Wales
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Fundamental Physics at Low Energies, Joerg Jaeckel, Durham University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- Models of Wind-Driving Protostellar Disks, Seth Teitler, UW Astronomy Dept
- Department of Physics Special Seminar; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin (cookies & coffee served at 3:30 p.m)
- Dark Matter Searches with DM-Ice and CUORE, Reina Maruyama, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Experiment, Carlsmith, Dasu, Heeger, Herndon, Mellado, Pan, Pondrom, Smith, Wu
October 2010
- Friday, October 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Phase Diagrams of the High Temperature Superconductors, Subir Sachdev, Harvard
- Monday, October 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Propagation of Large-scale Structures in Plasma Turbulence, Olaf Grulke, MPI for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
- High Energy Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Measurement of the WW+WZ Production Cross Section in the Lepton+Jets Final State at CDF Using the Di-jet Invariant Mass., Pierluigi Catastini, Fermilab
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Effects of 3D Magnetic Perturbations on Toroidal Plasmas, James Callen, UW-Madison Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, October 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Probing non-Abelian statistics with quantum Hall interferometry, Kirill Shtengel, University of California-Riverside
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Sustainability: The Lay of the Land for 2010, Tom Eggert, UW-Madison School of Business
- Department of Physics; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Pizza Lunch with Jennifer Ouellette, Jennifer Ouellette, UW “Science Writer in Residence” blogger at Cocktail Party Physics and author
- Wednesday, October 6th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 7th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- Casting Shadows on the standard intersteller medium paradign with GALFA-HI, Josh Peek, Columbia University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark matter, under different angles, Alberto Vallinoto, Fermilab
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Theory, Bruch, Chubukov, Coppersmith, Joynt, Perkins, Vavilov
- Friday, October 8th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark Light Higgs, Hao Zhang, University of Chicago
- Tuesday, October 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- "Climate, Energy, and the Economy: A new Theory of Everything"., Jim Pawley, UW-Madison Dept of Zoology
- Wednesday, October 13th
- Special Wednesday Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, Gary Hill, University of Texas
- Thursday, October 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Fluids in Random Media: Effects of Disorder on the Phases of <sup>3</sup>He, James A. Sauls, Northwestern University
- Friday, October 15th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Automation of the Matrix Element Reweighting Method, Pierre Artoisenet, Ohio State University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Our Changing View of the TeV Sky, Jordan Goodman, University of Maryland
- Monday, October 18th
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm
- Searching for a low mass Higgs at DZero, Joe Haley, Northeastern University
- Tuesday, October 19th
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Conifunneling - Stringy Tunneling in the Landscape, David Kagan, Columbia University
- Wednesday, October 20th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Scotch Tape Method: Not just for Graphene, Ken Burch, University of Toronto
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Predicting Antineutrino Flux with DRAGON, Christopher Jones, MIT
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics I: IceCube, HAWC, Auger, Halzen, Karle, Montaruli, Ogelman, Westerhoff
- Friday, October 22nd
- Phenomenology Seminar, Theory/Phenomenology Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - LHC signals of little Higgs models, Pedro Schwaller, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Morphogen gradient formation in subdiffusive media, Katja Lindenberg, UC-San Diego
- Monday, October 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Pedestal Turbulence Dynamics in ELMing and ELM-free H-Mode Plasmas, Zheng Yan, General Atomics
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Ion Gyroviscous Stabilization and Fluid Decoupling Effect on Tearing Fluctuations in Reversed Field Pinch Plasmas, Jake King, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, October 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Bat White-Nose Syndrom, Andrea Gargas, Symbiology LLC
- Thursday, October 28th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Recent results from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph HD 209458b...., Jeffrey Linsky, JILA, University of Colorado
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics II: Experimental Astro/Space Physics, McCammon, Timbie
- Friday, October 29th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- New LHC Signals in the Context of Little Higgs Models, Pedro Schwaller, University of Illinois at Chicago
November 2010
- Monday, November 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Peak Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity in DII-D, Andrew Cole, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Nonlinear Evolution of Edge Localized MHD Instabilities: A Comparison of Ballooning and Peeling-Dominated Equilibria, Bonnie Burke, UW-Madison Dept. of Physcs
- Tuesday, November 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Water: Wild Card in the Climate System, John Young, UW-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Phenomenology of D-branes at Toric Singularities, Sven Krippendorf, Cambridge University
- Wednesday, November 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 4th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- Resonant Stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies, Elena D'Onghia, Harvard CfA
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Phenomenology, Barger, Everett, Han
- Friday, November 5th
- Special Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Simultaneous Trapping of Ultracold Gases of Lithium and Ytterbium, Vlad Ivanov, University of Washington
- Phenomenology Seminar, Theory/Phenomenology Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - Model Building in the LHC Era, Neil Christensen, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Reionization and Cosmology with 21 cm Fluctuations, Miguel Morales, University of Washington
- Tuesday, November 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How People Get the Way We Are--A Table of Elements: Chaos, Complex Systems and Conflict in Human Development, Bernard Z. Friedlander, UW-Madison Faculty, 1967-70; Research Professor of Human Development, Emeritus, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Freed-Witten anomaly and 7-branes, Raffaele Savelli, SISSA
- Thursday, November 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Experiments with atoms in optical lattices, David Weiss, Penn State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Photoionization of High Altitude Gas in a Supernova-Driven Turbulent Interstellar Medium, Kenny Wood, University of St Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Discovery of gamma-ray Emission from Andromeda Galaxy, Hakki Ogelman, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- String Theory & Theoretical Cosmology, Chung, Hashimoto, Shiu
- Friday, November 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Electroweak Superconductivity, Andy Cohen, Boston University
- Tuesday, November 16th
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- D-brane Instanton Effects from D-brane Particle Loops, Pablo Soler, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Wednesday, November 17th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- New Applications of World Line Effective Theories, Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon University
- Thursday, November 18th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Diverse Fates of Single and Binary Massive Stars, Nathan Smith, University of Arizona
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics with Gravitational-Wave Detectors, Vuk Mandic, University of Minnesota
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Medical Physics, Birn, Christian, Nickles
- Friday, November 19th
- Phenomenology Seminar, Theory/Phenomenology Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - The Little Hierarchy Problem in a Generalized NMSSM, Christopher Kolda, University of Notre Dame
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Weighing Neutrinos, Joseph Formaggio, MIT
- Tuesday, November 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How Drifting Continents Jumped From Fringe to Core, Jim Blair, Milton College, Emeritus
- Thursday, November 25th
- Thanksgiving Break; 8:00 am
- Friday, November 26th
- Thanksgiving Break; 8:00 am
- UW Furlough Day; 8:00 am
- Physics Department Colloquium, No Colloquium--Thanksgiving Break;
4:00 pm; none - Monday, November 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Electric Fields in Quasi-Symmetric and Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarators, Matt Landreman, MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- A Pedestal Structure Model, James D. Callen, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
December 2010
- Wednesday, December 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 2nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Explanetary Systems-What do they teach about the Solar System?, George Rieke, University of Arizona
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- New Physics in B_s mixing: Uplifted SUSY, Adam Martin, Fermilab
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experimental, Eriksson, Himpsel, Lagally, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Winokur
- Friday, December 3rd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint with Pheno;
2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - String moduli phenomenology, cosmological history, and dark matter, Gordy Kane, U. Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Monday, December 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Liquid Metal Plasma-Facing Components and the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX), Dick Majeski, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Flux Surface Shaping and Ballooning Stability for Tokamaks with 3-D RMP Fields, Tom Bird, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, December 7th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Measurement of the dipole moment for transitions to Rydberg states in ultracold rubidium, Michal Piotrowicz, The Open University, Milton Keynes UK
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Fernando Marchesano, IFT Madrid
- Wednesday, December 8th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Pierre Auger Neutrino Measurement, Lukas Nellen, UNAM
- Special IceCube Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Antineutrino Oscillation Results from MiniBooNE & Implications for IceCube & Future Experiments, Bill Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Thursday, December 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Theory of Josephson photomultipliers: current biased Josephson junctions as microwave photon counters, Emily Pritchett, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Gas Accretion in Galaxies, Dusan Keres, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Friday, December 10th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Signatures of WIMPless Dark Matter, Jason Kumar, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium, Holliday Colloquium
- Monday, December 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic correlations in the optical properties of the iron-based superconductors, Christopher Homes, Brookhaven National Lab
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- The Surprising? Effect of Lithium Wall Coatings on Edge Profiles, Transport and ELM Stability in NSTX, Rajesh Maingi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Wednesday, December 15th
- Last Day of Class; 8:00 am
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Star Formation and Feedback in High-Redshift Galaxies, Kristian Finlator, UC-Santa Barbara
- Thursday, December 30th
- UW Furlough Day; 8:00 am