Events at Physics |
Events During the 2018 Fall Semester
August 2018
- Thursday, August 2nd
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310, Chamberlin Hall
- From atomic clocks to cryo-EM: Pushing measurement limits in time and space, Dr. Sara Campbell, Postdoc in Holger Müller's group, UC Berkeley
- Thursday, August 23rd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Development of Large Scale Detector Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Science, Tom Cecil, Argonne National Lab
- Wednesday, August 29th
- Wednesday Nite @ the Lab- Breakthrough in Multimessenger Astronomy talk; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Biotech Building, 425 Henry Mall, Room: 1111 (auditorium)
- , Justin Vandenbroucke
September 2018
- Tuesday, September 4th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Swampland conjectures and their phenomenological application, Pablo Soler, Heidelberg University
- Annual Outreach Open House; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- 2nd Annual Physics Outreach Open House
- Wednesday, September 5th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 6th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk Begins at 3:45 PM
- Introducing FLAG: the phased array feed for the Green Bank Telescope, DJ Pisano, West Virginia University
- Friday, September 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- State of the Department, Chair Sridhara Dasu
- Saturday, September 8th
- LAB^3 Art Installation; 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm; Arts and Literature Lab 2021 Winnebago St. Madison
- LAB^3 Gallery Reception
- Monday, September 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Advanced Tokamak Path to Steady State Fusion Energy, Richard Buttery, General Atomics
- Tuesday, September 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A brief history of time(keeping): Optical atomic clocks and their applications, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW Department of Physics
- Wednesday, September 12th
- Garage Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; B613 STERLING HALL
- Garage Physics Kickoff, Duncan Carlsmith, UW - Madison
- Friday, September 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Heusler interfaces - opportunities beyond spintronics, Jason Kawasaki, UW-Madison (Department of Materials Science and Engineering)
- Monday, September 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- High performance fusion plasmas and explosive instability, Steven Cowley, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Tuesday, September 18th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Redistricting and randomness, Jordan Ellenberg, UW Department of Mathematics
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, September 19th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 20th
- 4:00 pm; 5290 Chamberlin Hall
- Women and Gender Minorities in Physics
- Friday, September 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Small, modular & economically attractive fusion enabled by high-field superconductors, Dennis Whyte, MIT
- Monday, September 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- Reconnection in Realistic Astrophysical Settings: Turbulent Fluids and Partially Ionized Gas, Alex Lazarian
- Tuesday, September 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Changes in excellence among United States research universities, Rogers Hollingsworth, UW Departments of Sociology and History
- Thursday, September 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, September 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Are Neutrinos Their Own Antiparticles? , Boris Kayser, Fermilab
October 2018
- Monday, October 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Understanding Heavy Ion Impurity Transport in Tokamaks, Dr. Emily Belli, General Atomics
- Tuesday, October 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Some half-baked philosophy of mathematics, Moe Hirsch, UW Department of Mathematics
- Thursday, October 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Topological quantum computation with Majorana zero modes, Roman Lutchyn, Microsoft Station Q
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium, Diermeier Visiting Professor;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk Begins at 3:45 PM - Chemical Cartography of the Milky Way Disk with SDSS/APOGEE, Jon Holtzman, Department Head, Astronomy, New Mexico State University
- Friday, October 5th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Effective Description of Stringy de Sitter, Lars Aalsma, University of Amsterdam
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Julian E. Mack Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - The changing flow of energy through the Earth's Climate System, Kevin Trenberth, NCAR
- Monday, October 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring turbulence saturation in 3D plasmas, Dr. Benjamin Faber, Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Unlocking the Higgs portal with exotic Higgs decays, Verena Martinez, UMASS Amherst
- Tuesday, October 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Observations concerning forensic and clinical encounters involving children with autism spectrum disorder, Doug Maynard, UW Department of Sociology
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, October 10th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Epitaxial Growth of Isotopically Enhanced SiGe Quantum Dots, Dr. Lisa Edge, HRL
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Direct laser cooling and trapping of diatomic molecules, Prof. David DeMIlle, Yale University
- Friday, October 12th
- 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- P.U.M.P.: Prospective Undergrads Majoring in Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking in open systems, Suro Kim, Kobe University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- A tabletop-scale probe for TeV physics: the electric dipole moment of the electron, David DeMille, Yale
- Monday, October 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Relativistic Hybrid Simulations of Cosmic Ray Generation and Transport, Dr. Colby Haggerty, University of Chicago
- Tuesday, October 16th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring quantum many-body dynamics and quantum information processing with reconfigurable arrays of atoms, Prof. Hannes Bernien, University of Chicago
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Renewable energy: A viable path forward, Michael Winokur, UW Department of Physics
- Thursday, October 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Non-equilibrium Quasiparticles in Superconducting Quantum Circuits, Prof. Eli Levenson-Falk, University of Southern California
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk Begins at 3:45 PM
- Pulsating White Dwarfs and Orbital Decay in Binaries, Meng Sun, UW Astronomy Department
- Friday, October 19th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Consistency relations in multi-field inflation, Jinn-Ouk Gong, KASI
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Physics of Divergence: Resurgence and Non-Perturbative Physics, Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
- Monday, October 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Dalton Schnack Memorial Lecture: Three-dimensional Coherent Plasmoids in Current-Carrying Plasmas, Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
- Tuesday, October 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- The dynamics of mood in bipolar disorder, Amy Cochran, UW Departments of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, October 24th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 25th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk Begins at 3:45 PM
- How ionizing photons escape galaxies to reionize the universe, John Chisholm, University of Califormina - Santa Cruz
- Friday, October 26th
- Board of Visitors Meeting; 9:00 am - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Board of Visitors Meeting, Robert Joynt, UW-Madison
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark quark nuggets, Sida Lu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (RECEPTION TO FOLLOW TALK)
- Quantum Engineering of Superconducting Qubits, William D. Oliver, MIT-Lincoln Labs
- Physics Museum; 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Museum 100th Anniversary Reception/Talk, Robert Joynt & James Reardon, UW - Madison, Physics
- Monday, October 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Wave Conversion from Stellar Magnetic Fields, Daniel Lecoanet, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin
- Vector Boson Fusion Production of WZ at CMS, Kenneth Long, University of Wisconsin
- Tuesday, October 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Jevons paradox, economic EROI and r- and K-selection, Tim Allen, UW Department of Botany
November 2018
- Thursday, November 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Localization at the Edge of 2D Topological Insulator by Kondo Impurities, Boris Altshuler, Columbia University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Survey of the Large-Scale Flows of Baryons Around Galaxies, Nicholas Lehner, University of Notre Dame
- Friday, November 2nd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Weak Gravity Conjecture from Unitarity and Causality, Toshifumi Noumi, Kobe University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall
- Bose condensation of excitons in TiSe2, Peter Abbamonte, UIUC
- Monday, November 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, November 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- A report on the recent work by Araujo and Liotta on the topological requirements for robust perfect adaptation in networks of any size, Sigurd Angenent, UW Department of Mathematics
- Thursday, November 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interaction-induced time symmetry breaking in periodically driven oscillators, Mark Dykman, Michigan State University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk Begins at 3:45 PM
- Star Formation Then and Now, Nia Imara, CfA Harvard
- Monday, November 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall
- Advances and discoveries en route to magnetically confined electron-positron plasmas, Dr. Eve Stenson, IPP Garching
- Tuesday, November 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Artificial general intelligence, Bill Hibbard, UW Space Science and Engineering Center
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, November 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Optically-pumped dynamic nuclear polarization under ambient conditions via nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, Prof. Carlos Meriles, City College of New York
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- The Journey or the Destination: Isolating the Origin of the Physics Driving Gas Conditions in Galaxy Nuclei, Elisabeth Mills, Brandeis University
- Special Joint Condensed Matter - Atomic Molecular Optical Physics Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Time-varying shear strain as an ultrafast symmetry switch in a Weyl semimetal, Aaron Lindenberg, Standford University
- Friday, November 16th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dynamical field range and mass hierarchies, Aitor Landete, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Terahertz frequency topological switches, Aaron Lindenberg, Standford University
- Monday, November 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall
- Wave generation and heat flux suppression in astrophysical plasma systems, Gareth Roberg-Clark , Univ. Maryland
- Tuesday, November 20th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Deriving the WGC from holographic entanglement entropy, Miguel Montero, KU Leuven
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Ergodicity in chaotic oscillators, Clint Sprott, UW Department of Physics
- Monday, November 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall
- Turbulent Dynamo in a Collisionless Magnetized Plasma, Denis St-Onge, Princeton Univ.
- Tuesday, November 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Solar activity and its influence on us, Alex Lazarian, UW Department of Astronomy
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- New Physics and New Proposal to Find Them in Proton Fixed-Target Facilities at Fermilab, Yu-dai Tsai, FNAL
- Thursday, November 29th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Modern Quantum Computing on Near Term Hardware. … over the cloud, Dr. Raphael Pooser, Oak Ridge National Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Supernova Cosmology Results from the Dark Energy Survey, Richard Kessler, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Surveying the Galactic Bulge for Transients and Compact Binaries, Tom Maccarone, Texas Tech University
- Friday, November 30th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Topological Data Analysis for Cosmology and String Theory, Alex Cole, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Julian E. Mack Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Quantum Information and Computation, David Wineland, U Oregon
December 2018
- Monday, December 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall
- The new, flexible upper divertor at ASDEX-Upgrade, Dr. T. Lunt, IPP Garching
- Tuesday, December 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Advancing climate science education, inquiry, and literacy across rural Wisconsin communities, Michael Notaro and Rosalyn Pertzborn, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research and UW Space Science and Engineering Center
- Thursday, December 6th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Energy-Interaction Diagrams: Fostering resources for productive disciplinary engagement with energy, Dr. Benedikt Harrer, San Jose State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph, Sabyasachi Chattpadhyay, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
- Friday, December 7th
- SPECIAL SEMINAR; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling Hall
- Proposal of International Mega-science Project on Fusion Volumetric Neutron Source (FVNS), Zhibin CHEN, Frontier Development of Science
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs and Dark Matter: Absence of Evidence != Evidence of Absence?, Prof Nausheen Shah, Fermilab
- Monday, December 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall
- Towards steady-state fusion reactor with Wendelstein 7-X, Marcin Jakubowski, IPP Greifswald
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Final Word from MINOS+ on Neutrino Oscillations, Tom Carroll, University of Texas at Austin
- Tuesday, December 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Social and economic mobility in an era of extreme inequality; Who owns the robots?, Tim Smeeding, UW LaFollette School of Public Affairs and Economics
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- MicroBooNE and the Path to Resolving the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess, Adam Lister, Lancaster University
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, December 12th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Creating and imaging atomic wave functions with diffraction-breaking resolution, Dr. Yang Wang , Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum simulation: progress and prospects, Dr. Peter Love , Tufts University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium
- Monday, December 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:00 pm; ***5280 Chamberlin Hall***
- Rays-based learning and auto-tuning of devices in quantum dot experiments, Justyna Zwolak
- Wednesday, December 19th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Update on the GNOME Experiment, Ibrahim Sulai (for the GNOME collaboration), Bucknell University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Invisible Worlds: Rare Event Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Danielle Speller, Wright Laboratory, Yale University
