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Events During the 2017 Fall Semester
August 2017
- Friday, August 18th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin hall
- Testable Baryogenesis and Leptonic CP Violation in Seesaw Models, Jordi Salvado Serra, IFIC, Valencia
- Thursday, August 24th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- O(N) invariance of the multi-field bounce, Kfir Blum, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Friday, August 25th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmic rays, anti-helium, and an old navy spotlight, Kfir Blum, Weizmann Institute of Sciences
September 2017
- Tuesday, September 5th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Inflationary theory and pulsar timing investigations of primordial black holes and gravitational waves, Nicholas Orlofsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday, September 6th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 7th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics, Coppersmith, Gilbert
- Monday, September 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Nonthermal particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection and turbulence in collisionless relativistic plasmas, Prof. Dmitri Uzdensky, Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Tuesday, September 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The Fairsquare project: Countering programs that discriminate, Aws Albarghouthi, UW Department of Computer Science
- Friday, September 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Fall Welcome Reception, Sridhara Dasu
- Monday, September 18th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Kolkowitz, Lawler, Saffman, Walker, Yavuz
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized medium, Dr. Siyao Xu, Hubble Fellow, UW Madison
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, September 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Nonlinear normal modes for analysis of geometrically nonlinear structures, Matthew Allen, UW Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Wednesday, September 20th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- TBD, Jerry Hunter, UW: Director of Facilities, College of Engineering
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM , Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Magnetic Fields and the Early Stages of Star Formation, Dick Crutcher, University of IL
- Friday, September 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Laboratory cosmology, Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada-reno
- Monday, September 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Spin-orbit interaction at the level of single electrons, Dr. Andrea Hofmann, ETH Zurich
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Reflection-driven Alfvén turbulence in the inner heliosphere in preparation for Parker Solar Probe observations, Prof. Jean Carlos Perez, Florida Institute of Technology
- Tuesday, September 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Intelligent extraterrestrial life: Does it exist? and, if so, what are the prospects for discovery and communication?, Ed Churchwell, UW Department of Astronomy
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Weak gravity conjecture, Multiple point principle and standard model landscape, Yuta Hamada, University of Wisconsin-Madison & KEK Theory Center
- Thursday, September 28th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Dynamical control techniques with superconducting qubits, Dr. Simon Gustavsson , MIT
- Friday, September 29th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics, Boldyrev, Egedal, Forest, Sarff, Terry, Zweibel
October 2017
- Monday, October 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- FLASH simulations of a magnetized turbulence experiment at the National Ignition Facility, Dr. Scott Feister, Flash Center for Computational Science, University of Chicago
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, October 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Systematic misperceptions of 3D motion explained by Bayesian inference, Bas Rokers, UW Department of Psychology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Topics in Axion Cosmology, Andrew Long, KICP/University of Chicago
- PUMP: Perspective Undergrads Majoring in Physics; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberbelin
- Wednesday, October 4th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Stark-tuned Forster resonances in Rydberg atoms and their application for quantum information, Dr. Ilya Beterov, Institute of Semiconductor Physics Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum dot chains as emulators of topological superconductors, Sergey Frolov, University of Pittsburgh
- Friday, October 6th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Brar, Eriksson, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Winokur
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exciton Condensates are Super!, Allan MacDonald , The University of Texas at Austin
- Monday, October 9th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, and Theoretical Cosmology, Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Palladino, Pan, Smith, Wu, Bai, Balantekin, Barger, Chung, Everett, Hashim
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Taming the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors, Prof. Jean Paul Allain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Tuesday, October 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Understanding complexities of human development in terms of space, time, and energy realities Part 1: Growing up and growing old, Bernard Z. Friedlander, Department of Psychology, University of Hartford (emeritus)
- Thursday, October 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- All-Dielectric Optical Metamaterials, Jason Valentine , Vanderbilt University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino Quantum Kinetics and the Early Universe, Evan Grohs , University of Michigan
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM. Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Observing gas in the circumgalactic medium and the Cosmic Web, Bart Wakker, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
- Friday, October 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, *** SPECIAL TIME ***;
11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall - Revealing Interactions in Complex Systems with Coherent Multi-Dimensional Spectroscopy, Jeffrey Davis, Swinburne University of Technology-Melbourne Australia
- Monday, October 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Cosmic Ray Dynamics in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters, Dr. Joshua Wiener, UW Madison
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, October 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Chaos theory from a topological perspective, Anda Xiong, UW Department of Physics
- Wednesday, October 18th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday Nite @ the Lab; 7:00 pm; 425 Henry Mall, Room 1111 (UW Biotechnology Center)
- Thursday, October 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Cyclotron resonance in graphene: Kohn’s theorem, many-particle physics, and more, Erik Henriksen , Washington University in St. Louis
- 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall Conference room
- Round Table Discussion of Recruitment and Retention of Women in the Graduate Program, Jenni Strabley
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookes 3:30 PM. Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Climate Cycles and the History of Our Solar System, Stephen Meyers, Department of Geoscience, UW Madison
- Friday, October 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Ultra-high Q Superconducting RF Cavities: from particle accelerators to quantum computing, Alex Romanenko, Fermilab
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics , Coppersmith, Ioffe, Joynt, Levchenko, Vavilov
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- An Economically Attractive Path to Commercializing Nuclear Fusion and Bettering our World, Greg Piefer, SHINE Technologies
- Monday, October 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar
- No Seminar - APS DPP Meeting
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophyiscs, McCammon, Timbie
- Tuesday, October 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- How an important Supreme Court case was created, Bill Whitford, UW Law School
- Thursday, October 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 53100
- Watching a quantum system: How to continuously measure a superconducting qubit, Justin Dressel, Chapman University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM. Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- The Plasma Physics of TeV Blazars, Phil Chang, UW - Milwaukee
- Friday, October 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE OF MOLTEN SALT COOLANTS FOR THEIR APPLICATION TO ADVANCED NUCLEAR REACTORS , Raluca Scarlat, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison
- Monday, October 30th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Turbulence Driven by Compressional Magnetic Fluctuations in Laboratory, Space, and Pair Plasmas, Dr. M. J. Pueschel, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, October 31st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Partisan redistricting in Wisconsin, David Canon, UW Department of Political Science
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Traces in polar ice: neutrinos, dust, life and a million-year core, Ryan Bay, UC Berkeley
November 2017
- Wednesday, November 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Science on Tap; 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm; Nomad World Pub 418 E. Wilson St.
- Did the Universe pour us a stout?, K. Palladino, UW- Madison
- Thursday, November 2nd
- Wisconsin Science Festival; 9:00 am; Discovery Building
- IceCube at Wisconsin Science Festival, IceCube faculty and staff
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Design and Synthesis of 1D and 2D Nanomaterials Away from Equilibrium, Xudong Wang, UW-Madison (Materials Science and Engineering)
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 pm
- The magnetic interstellar medium: cosmological and astrophysical perspectives, Susan Clark, Institute for Advanced Study
- Friday, November 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Unlocking the mysteries of the Universe with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, Tulika Bose, Boston University
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Graduate School Admissions Q&A I: Meeting with an Admissions Committee Member
- Monday, November 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- A General Framework to Analyzing Multi-Scale Complex Flows: Applications to Oceanic, Plasma, and Compressible Flows, Prof. Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester
- Tuesday, November 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Multidimensional spectroscopy of complex chemical systems: Using nonlinearity to isolate signals, Blaise Thompson, UW Department of Chemistry
- Thursday, November 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Enhancing cavity QED via anti-squeezing: synthetic ultra-strong coupling and entangled cat-states, Dr. Luke Govia, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Stering Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 pm
- Simulations of Black hole Accretion and Outflows, Alexander Tchekhocvskoy, Northwestern University
- Friday, November 10th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- WIPAC: IceCube, HAWC, CTA, ARA, Halzen, Hanson, Karle, Vandenbroucke, Westerhoff
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino Oscillations - A Door to New Physics, Brian Rebel, Fermi Lab
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Graduate School Admissions Q&A II: Graduate Student Panel
- Monday, November 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Schnack Memorial Seminar: Nonlinear Modeling of Mode Locked States Induced by Transient Magnetic Perturbations, Dr. Matthew Beidler, Department of Engineering Physics, UW Madison
- Tuesday, November 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Inference for high-dimensional self-exciting point processes, Becca Willett, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- A New Dark Matter (in)Direct Search Strategy, Doo Jin Kim, CERN
- Wednesday, November 15th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 16th
- Astronomy Department Whitford Lecturer; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 pm
- CHILES, the COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey, Jacqueline VanGorkom, Columbia University
- Friday, November 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Assembly and eco-evolutionary dynamics of communities of antibiotic producing bacteria, Kalin Vetsigian, UW-Madison Bacteriology and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Monday, November 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Multiscale computational modeling and materials research for next-step devices after ITER , Prof. Brian D. Wirth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Tuesday, November 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Artificial intelligence: Evolution and agency, Terry Allard, Office of Naval Research and NASA (retired)
- Monday, November 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Magnetic monopoles on cosmic scales, Prof. Mikhail Medvedev, University of Kansas
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, November 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Activation versus information in visual working memory, Brad Postle, UW Department of Psychology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Rise of the Leptons: Pulsar Emission Dominates the TeV Sky, Tim Linden, CCAP, Ohio State University
- Wednesday, November 29th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- From Cat State to Entangled Cat State – Experimental Realization in Circuit QED, Chen Wang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Phenomenology Seminar; 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs and superparticle mass predictions from the string theory landscape, Howie Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM, Talk Begins 3:45 PM
- Studying the Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation from the Stratosphere, Laura Fissel, NRAO
December 2017
- Friday, December 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Breaking the Myth of the "Non-Traditional" Physicist: The Real Story About Employment for Physics Graduates, Crystal Bailey , American Physical Society
- Family Science Night at Space Place; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Space Place- 2300 S Park St
- IceCube at Family Science Night at Space Place, IceCube researchers
- IceCube at Space Place Science Night; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Space Place- 2300 S Park St
- , IceCube scientists and researchers
- Monday, December 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- The Origin of Diffuse 6.4 keV line Emission from Galactic Center Molecular Clouds, Prof. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, Northwestern University
- Tuesday, December 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Rewards are worth the risk: Working in direct dark matter detection, Kimberly Palladino, UW Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- A Reappraisal on Dark Matter Co-annihilating with a Top/Bottom Partner, Wai-Yee Keung, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Wednesday, December 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Unconventional interactions between 2D excitons and their environment, Dr. Andrey Klots , Vanderbilt University
- Thursday, December 7th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 pm
- Black Holes in Globular Clusters, Laura Chomiuk, Michigan State University
- Friday, December 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday colloquium
- Monday, December 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Exploring the universe through discovery science on NIF , Dr. Bruce A. Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Tuesday, December 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Fractal occupancy of human landscapes: The concept of profit in Evansville, WI, Tim Allen, UW Department of Botany
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a Bottom Quark-Antiquark Pair, Stephane Cooperstein, Princeton
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, December 13th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for New Physics with the Top Quark, Kevin Black , Boston University
- Thursday, December 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Graphene in the extreme quantum limit, Cory Dean, Columbia University
- Friday, December 15th
- Department Meeting
- 9:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberbelin
- The Missing Metals in the Universe, Joel Bregman, Univ. Michigan - Ann Arbor
