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Events During the 2021 Fall Semester
August 2021
- Tuesday, August 3rd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Wednesday, August 4th
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm; on zoom-link below
- Many-body Theory of Collective Neutrino Oscillations, Michael Cervia, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 6th
- M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Fluno Center
- MSPQC Summer 2021 Graduation Ceremony
- Tuesday, August 10th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Probing the Dense-Matter Equation of State with Neutron Star Mergers, Carolyn Raithel, Institute for Advanced Study
- Wednesday, August 11th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Interpretable Deep Learning for Physics, Miles Cranmer, Princeton University
- Monday, August 16th
- Graduate Program Event; 2:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall and zoom link below
- high-energy cosmic neutrinos as a window to the Universe, Qinrui Liu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 17th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom:
- C3: An Advanced Concept for a e+e- Linear Collider, Prof. Emilio Nanni, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford
- Thursday, August 19th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; 2241 or 4274 CH
- Untriggered Searches for Astrophysical Neutrino Transients Using Data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Will Luszczak, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 20th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Master's Degree deadline
- Sunday, August 22nd
- Academic Calendar
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Summer term 2021
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Doctoral Degree Deadline
- Monday, August 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Fall 2021: Fall degree window period begins
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm; Zoom link below
- Coherent and cavity-based measurement of two-particle states, Joelle Corrigan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 25th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Towards Flow-based MCMC for Lattice Gauge Theory with Fermions, Danilo Rezende, Deepmind
- Thursday, August 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 2103
- Imaging work and dissipation in the quantum Hall state of graphene, Arthur
- Tuesday, August 31st
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm;
- High-entropy ejecta plumes in Cassiopeia A from neutrino-driven convection, Toshiki Sato from Rikkyo University
September 2021
- Wednesday, September 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Monday, September 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Labor Day holiday
- Tuesday, September 7th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2021: Fall degree window period deadline for master's students
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2021: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Fall semester instruction begins
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- JAX MD: A Framework for Differentiable Atomistic Physics, Sam Schoenholz, Google Brain
- Department Meeting
- WN@TL
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Discovery Building, H.F. DeLuca Forum, or register for Zoom link at:
- Thursday, September 9th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Show and Tell - One Slide to tell it all! Special Time: 3:00 - 3:45 pm, 4:00 - 4:45 pm., Ellen Zweibel, UW Astronomy Department
- Friday, September 10th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Emerging ideas for future colliders, Sridhara Dasu, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- State of the Department , Mark Eriksson, Department Chair, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Saturday, September 11th
- Graduate Program Event; In Person-Chamberlin Hall
- Fall 2021 Qualifying Exam
- Monday, September 13th
- Plasma Theory Seminar
- NO SEMINAR
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Applying Fast-Ion Transport Control Methods and Predictive Modeling in a Steady-State Tokamak Scenario, Cami Collins , ORNL
- Tuesday, September 14th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The Geometric SMEFT description of curved Higgs Field Space(s), Michael Trott, Niels Bohr Institute
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 5:00 pm;
- The Milky Way is not special: accreted stars also inhabit the Spite Plateau, Dr. Jeffrey Simpson, UNSW, Australia
- Wednesday, September 15th
- Wednesday Nite @ The Lab; 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; 1111 Biotech or sign up for zoom link:
- IceCube Turns Ten: Past, Present and Future for the World’s Biggest and Strangest Observatory, Francis Halzen, John Kelly, and Lu Lu, Physics/WIPAC/IceCube
- Thursday, September 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Laboratory Astrochemistry, Gustavo Cruz Diaz, UW Madison
- Friday, September 17th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; zoom link below
- ITG Turbulence Saturation and Near-Resonant Heat Flux Reduction in Gyrokinetic Dimits-Shift Analysis, Ping-Yu Li , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Intersection of Neutrino/Dark Matter Physics and Astrophysics with Quantum Information Science, A. Balantekin, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Supermassive Black Holes and Merging Galaxies: Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection with Pulsar Timing Arrays, Sarah Vigeland, UW-Milwaukee
- Monday, September 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Pegasus, Stephanie Diem , UW
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- New MHD equilibrium tools for stellarators, Sanket Patil, UW
- Tuesday, September 21st
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Transport in Neutron Star Mergers, Alexander Haber, Washington University in St. Louis
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; Zoom:
- Correlated Charge Noise and Relaxation Errors in Superconducting Qubits, Chris Wilen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Computation of Gravitational Particle Production Using Adiabatic Invariants, Edward Basso, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday, September 22nd
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Differentiable Physics Simulations for Deep Learning, Nils Thuerey, TU Munich
- Thursday, September 23rd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Coffee and Tea 3:30 pm, Talk begins 3:45 pm
- Sizing up Protoplanetary Disks, Leon Trapman, UW Madison
- Friday, September 24th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Biomineralization: past, present, and future climate change, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Electronic Hydrodynamics , Alex Levchenko, UW-Madison
- Monday, September 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Toward prediction, avoidance, and mitigation of tokamak disruptions: research on MST and DIII-D, Brett Chapman , UW
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB or by Zoom
- Progress on Coupling CEL drift kinetics into NIMROD's Fluid Advance, Joseph Jepson (UW)
- Tuesday, September 28th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Impact of EoS on Neutrino Opacities in Core-collapse Supernovae, Zidu Lin , University of Tennessee Knoxville/ORNL
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- SU(4) Flavorful Portal Matter, George Wojcik, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thursday, September 30th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Reassessing Impact Bombardment in the Earth-Moon System, Nicolle Zellner, Albion College
October 2021
- Friday, October 1st
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Making Movies of Molecules - The Emerging Science of Powerful New X-ray Sources, Uwe Bergmann, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Physical Review: An inside look, Victor Vakaryuk, APS (PRX)
- Monday, October 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The onset of magnetic reconnection in collisional and collisionless plasmas, Nuno Loureiro (MIT)
- Tuesday, October 5th
- High Energy Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Video Recording:
- Studies for a Low EMittance Muon Accelerator (LEMMA), Manuela Boscolo & Marco Zanetti, INFN
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall and Zoom:
- Instrumentation and Commissioning of the Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope Camera, Leslie Taylor, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Mode-by-mode Relative Binning: Fast Likelihood Estimation for Gravitational Waveforms with Spin-Orbit Precession and Multiple Harmonics, Nathaniel Leslie, UC Berkeley
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, October 6th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Normalizing Flows for scientific applications, Uros Seljak, UC Berkeley
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm;
- Particles Unknown, IceCube, IceCube
- Thursday, October 7th
- Graduate Program Event, B.O.V. Presentation;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall and/or - Entrepreneurship in the Physical Sciences, Thomas Rockwell Mackie, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Probing the primordial universe with high-resolution CMB and galaxy surveys, Moritz Muenchmeyer, UW Madison
- Friday, October 8th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Quantum Hardware Simulations, Maxim Vavilov, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Glimpsing the Compositions of Sub-Neptune-Size Worlds, Leslie Rogers, University of Chicago
- Monday, October 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- TBD, Jim Schroeder (Wheaton College)
- Tuesday, October 12th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- An Early Cosmological Epoch of QCD Confinement, Tim Tait , UC Irvine
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Cutting and gluing with running couplings in N=2 QCD, Jan Manschot, Trinity College Dublin
- Thursday, October 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Emergence of Superconductivity in Inhomogeneous Systems, Nadya Mason , UIUC
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Exploring the Interaction of Convection and Rotation in the Core Region of Massive Stars through 3-D simulations, Paul Woodward, University of Minnesota
- Friday, October 15th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Astrophysics and Cosmology, Peter Timbie, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Electronic Transport in Strain-Engineered Graphene , Nadya Mason, UIUC
- Monday, October 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm
- Overcoming challenges in atmospheric pressure plasma studies: instabilities, self-organization and complex interfaces, Peter Bruggeman (Univ of MN)
- Tuesday, October 19th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Jet Timing, Matthew Low, University of Pittsburgh
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Zoom:
- Exploring Axion-like Particles with Nearby Supernovae, Kanji Mori , Fukuoka University, Japan
- Wednesday, October 20th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Machine Learning Application for the Event Horizon Telescope, Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Thursday, October 21st
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Star Formation, Solar Physics, and Stellar Astrophysics: A Data-Intensive Approach, Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University
- Friday, October 22nd
- Wonders of Physics
- 10:00 am - 10:00 pm; Ingersoll Physics Museum
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Linking the theory and observation of astroparticles , Ke Fang, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Extremely out-of-equilibrium 1D gases, David Weiss, Penn State
- Wonders of Physics
- 6:00 pm - 6:25 pm; Top of State Street, near the Historical Museum
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm - 7:25 pm; Top of State Street, near the Historical Museum
- Saturday, October 23rd
- Wonders of Physics
- 9:00 am - 10:00 pm; Ingersoll Physics Museum
- Sunday, October 24th
- Wonders of Physics
- 10:00 am - 4:00 pm; Ingersoll Physics Museum
- Monday, October 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Using magnetic fields and microgravity to explore the physics of dusty plasmas, Ed Thomas, Jr. (Auburn)
- Tuesday, October 26th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Comparing Supernova Models Using Past and Future Neutrino Data , Jackson Olsen , University of Minnesota
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Muon g-2 Experiments as Dark Matter Detectors, Ryan Janish, Fermilab
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building
- Astronaut Scholarship Foundation presentation, Brewster Shaw, NASA
- Thursday, October 28th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Probing Dynamic Intracluster Medium: Insights from X-ray Surface Brightness Fluctuations, Irina Zhuravleva , University of Chicago
- Friday, October 29th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Condensed Matter and Quantum Science, Mark Eriksson, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Correlating materials analysis with qubit measurements to systematically eliminate sources of noise, Nathalie de Leon, Princeton
November 2021
- Tuesday, November 2nd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- General Solutions to Gauge Anomaly Equations, Bogdan Dobrescu, Fermilab
- Wednesday, November 3rd
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Self-Supervised Learning of Generative Spin-Glasses with Normalizing Flows, Gavin Hartnett, RAND
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Thursday, November 4th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 9:30 am - 4:45 pm; in person and virtual, see for details and to register
- Chicago Quantum Summit, Various, see website and agenda, CQE
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- How big are Galactic Winds?, Professor David Rupke, Rhodes College
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or
- Off the Beaten Track: Searches for Long-lived Particles with CMS, Karri DiPetrillo, Fermilab
- Friday, November 5th
- 2022 Mini-Semester Program Information Session; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall and online at
- , Jim Reardon, University of Wisconsin
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- The Fourth State of Matter: Understanding the Magnetized Plasma Universe to Fusion Energy on Earth, John Sarff, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- LHC reloaded, Steve Nahn, Fermilab
- Tuesday, November 9th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Quarkyonic model for neutron stars, Srimoyee Sen , Iowa State University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Precision Calculation of Inflation Correlators at One Loop, Yiming Zhong, KICP
- Wednesday, November 10th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 11th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- The fate of the merger remnant in GW170817 and its imprint on the jet structure, Ariadna Murguia Berthier, UCSC/CIERA
- Friday, November 12th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics research overview, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- The naturalness issue and weak scale supersymmetry in the LHC era, Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Tuesday, November 16th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Meeting ID: 994 6425 2867
- The fate of twin stars on the unstable branch, Pedro Espino, University of California, Berkeley and Pennsylvania State University
- Wednesday, November 17th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- No Page curves for the de Sitter horizon, Evita Verheijden, University of Amsterdam
- Thursday, November 18th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Testing Galaxy Formation Models with Large-scale Surveys of the Milky Way Stellar Halo, Emily Cunningham, Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics
- Friday, November 19th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Cosmic neutrinos with IceCube - results and future steps. , Albrecht Karle, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics, Christopher Jarzynski, UMD
- Tuesday, November 23rd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Meeting ID: 994 6425 2867
- New developments on the physics of neutrino fast flavor conversion, Ian Padilla-Gay , Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
- Thursday, November 25th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Saturday, November 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Sunday, November 28th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Tuesday, November 30th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar
- TBD, Lukas Graf , UCSD/Berkeley: 2021 PFC fellow talk
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
December 2021
- Wednesday, December 1st
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Uncovering the Unknowns of Deep Neural Networks: Challenges and Opportunities, Sharon Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Thursday, December 2nd
- High Energy Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- tbd, Caterina Vernieri, SLAC
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin and Zoom:
- A "cool” copper collider to unveil the Higgs boson’s secrets, Caterina Vernieri, SLAC
- Astronomy Colloquium Zoom Talk; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; This will be a Zoom Talk. Information to Follow soon.
- The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its H4RG-10 Detectors, Gregory Mosby, NASA
- Friday, December 3rd
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- HEP, Tulika Bose, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- The Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms: and how physicists can help reduce the threat, Stewart Prager, Princeton
- Tuesday, December 7th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Meeting ID: 994 6425 2867
- Dark lepton superfluid in proto-neutron stars, Dake Zhou , University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University
- Wednesday, December 8th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Genetic algorithms and breeding branes, Gregory Loges, UW Madison
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The cosmological moduli problem and naturalness, Robert Wiley Deal, University of Oklahoma and University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thursday, December 9th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Winds of Change around Black Holes, Greg Sivakoff, University of Alberta
- Friday, December 10th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Broader impacts through outreach: your key to an NSF fellowship, Mallory Conlon, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium, 2019 Physics Ph.D. Cohort, UW-Madison
- Wednesday, December 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The Large Scale Structure of α' Effects in String Theory, Andreas Schachner, University of Cambridge
- Thursday, December 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Multimessenger constraints on intergalactic magnetic fields, Rafael Alves Batista, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Friday, December 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Saturday, December 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Sunday, December 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Commencement
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Monday, December 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Tuesday, December 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Wednesday, December 22nd
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Thursday, December 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Friday, December 24th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2021: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, December 26th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2021: Doctoral degree deadline