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Events During the 2023 Fall Semester
August 2023
- Thursday, August 3rd
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Analysis on ZZ vector boson polarization using CMS Run 2 data, Susmita Mondal, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
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- Friday, August 4th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Requests for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Tuesday, August 8th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Unmatched Precision on Neutrino Oscillation Parameters using Complementarity between DUNE and T2HK , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Institute of Physics, India
- Wednesday, August 9th
- High Energy Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280 /
- On the origin of ANITA's intriguing events, Jordi Salvado, University of Barcelona
- Thursday, August 10th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Sunday, August 13th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session ends
- Thursday, August 17th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event, Final Thesis Defense;
2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin - Biophysical applications of Lie groups and moving frames, Wilson B Lough, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Monday, August 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year begins
- Physics Department Colloquium; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Design and Testing of a Laser Thermal Propulsion Facility, Siera Riel , REU student, McGill University
- Tuesday, August 22nd
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm; Please note the unusual time...Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- The imprint of their explosions: Using supernova remnants to understand stellar death , Katie Auchettl , University of Melbourne, Australia
- Wednesday, August 23rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Practical Dirac-Majorana Confusion Theorem: Issues and Applicability, C S Kim, Yonsei U.
- Thursday, August 24th
- Graduate Program Event, Thesis Defense;
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin - Defect Identification using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Optimization of Long Single-Channel One-dimensional Quantum Wires, Leah Tom, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Friday, August 25th
- Graduate Program Event, Final Thesis Defense;
10:00 am - 11:30 am; B343 Sterling - Rydberg Physics in a Cryogenic System for Hybrid Quantum Interfaces, Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 27th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 28th
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period begins
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2223 CH
- Incoming PhD Orientation, variety of speakers
- Wednesday, August 30th
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill (rain location: Birge Hall atrium)
- Grad Student lunch/Recess
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Sharpening Weak Gravity Bounds with Charged Superradiance, Lars Aalsma, Arizona State University
- Thursday, August 31st
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Classical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Integer and fractional Chern insulators in twisted bilayer MoTe2 , Yihang Zeng, Cornell
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Statistical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
September 2023
- Friday, September 1st
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Electricity & Magnetism, Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Quantum Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- Monday, September 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Labor day
- Tuesday, September 5th
- Cookie Potluck; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Univ Ave foyer (outside 2241 CH)
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; WIPAC supernova /
- Hunting the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays through neutrinos and gamma-rays, Saikat Das, Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period deadline for master's students
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Fall semester instruction begins
- Friday, September 8th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Advances in All-Optical Magnetometry for Femto-Tesla Sensitivity in Earth-Field-Scale Magnetic Fields, Michael Bulatowicz, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
- Saturday, September 9th
- UW Madison Physics Department Picnic; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Garner Park, 333 S. Rosa Road
- Monday, September 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Making plasma science open, Dr. Nick Murphy, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Tuesday, September 12th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, September 13th
- Careers for Physicists; 10:00 am - 4:00 pm; virtual, visit for more info and to register
- Quantum Information Science (QIS) Career Fair, Various, DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, September 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Strained Si/SiGe quantum wells with oscillating Ge concentration: valley and spin-orbit physics, Benjamin Woods, UW-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH5310/https://wipac-science.zoom.us/j/94254277222?pwd=QVJ1dHNCaFdmYnk1Vzk2TWJuQ3RwUT09
- Neutrinos, Quantum Gravity and the Big Questions - New Ideas for New Data, Heinrich Päs, TU Dortmund University
- Friday, September 15th
- Graduate Program Event; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship intro session, Emma Brann, Samuel Hori, Alysa Rogers, Sarah Perdue, UW–Madison physics
- Monday, September 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- "Rising Tides Lift all Boats: Fusion Energy Science, Plasma, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA)..., Dr. Royce James, US Coast Guard
- Tuesday, September 19th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- New black hole mergers from a search pipeline for gravitational waves with higher-order harmonics , Jay Wadekar , IAS, Princeton
- Wednesday, September 20th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Sterling B343
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Thursday, September 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH5310 /
- Neutrino interaction measurements at the short baseline neutrino program, Prof. Andy Furmanski, University of Minnesota
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Entangled quantum cellular automata, physical complexity, and Goldilocks rules, Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:30 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Entangled quantum cellular automata, physical complexity, and Goldilocks rules, Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
- Monday, September 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The high-field, compact mirror path to fusion, Prof. Cary Forest, UW-Madison Physics/ Realta
- Tuesday, September 26th
- Mathematica; 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin Hall 5310
- Coding Just Got Easier with Wolfram's New AI-Powered Chat Notebooks, Jeff Weidenaar, Wolfram
- Wednesday, September 27th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Problems with de Sitter in string theory, Daniel Junghans, Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien
- Thursday, September 28th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Census of Supermassive Black Holes over Cosmic Time, Jonathan Trump, University of Connecticut
- Graduate Program Event; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Coral biomineralization vs. climate change, Pupa Gilbert, Physics Faculty
- Friday, September 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Hunting for “fifth forces”, axions, and dark matter with optomechanical and spin-based sensors , Andrew Geraci, Northwestern
October 2023
- Monday, October 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The High-field Stellarator Path to Fusion Energy pursued by Type One Energy, Thomas Pederson, Type One Energy
- Tuesday, October 3rd
- Graduate Program Event; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Intermittency in the Dimits Regime of Toroidal Ion Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulence, Augustus Azelis, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate , Prof. Anne Green , U of Nottingham, UK
- Thursday, October 5th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- On the Comparison of AGN with GRMHD Simulations: Sgr A* and M87, Richard Anantua, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Friday, October 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Neutrino Tomography: A journey into the interior of Earth, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India and Physics Department and WIPAC, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Monday, October 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- “Some Recent Developments of Compressible MHD Turbulence with Applications to Space and Astrophysical Plasmas” , Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Tuesday, October 10th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, October 11th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Macroscopic Objects in a Quantum Regime, Eugene Simon Polzik, Niels Bohr Institute – University of Copenhagen
- Thursday, October 12th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Searching for the Impact of Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxy Quenching, Prof. Decker French, The University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign
- Friday, October 13th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles, Siyang Ling, Rice University
- Monday, October 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering
- Fluid Modeling of Runaway Electron Beams, Alex Sainterme, UW-Madison
- Wednesday, October 18th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Extensions of a scale separation AdS$_4$ solution and their mass spectrum., Georgios Tringas , Annecy, LAPTH
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Sterling B343
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Thursday, October 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- TBD, Luca Delacretaz, U Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Uncovering Hidden Worlds: Challenges and Statistical Solutions in Detecting Low-Mass Exoplanets Amidst Stellar Activity, Jessi Cisewski-Kehe, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Friday, October 20th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- CP violating top-Higgs coupling in SMEFT, Ya-Juan Zheng, Iwate U.
- Sunday, October 22nd
- Outreach; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State Street Madison, WI, 53703
- Saving Coral Reefs from Climate Change Through Science and Art, Pupa Gilbert, UW–Madison physics
- Monday, October 23rd
- Semiconductor Engineering Seminar Series: Rob Aitken; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; TITU, Union South
- The Most Important Thing is Everything – Building Chips in an Interconnected World., Rob Aitken, Synopsys EDA Group
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Non-disruptive tokamak operation far beyond traditional safety factor and density limits, Noah Hurst, UW-Madison
- Wednesday, October 25th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Resuscitating Yukawa's Bilocal Field Theory for Composite Scalar Bosons, Christopher T. Hill, Fermilab
- Thursday, October 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- First-Principles Many-Body Theory and Quantum Dynamics for Solid-State Materials, Yuan Ping, UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Cosmic ray electron re-acceleration in the intracluster medium via magnetic pumping, Aaron Tran, UW-Madison
- Friday, October 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Knowing So Little about So Much, Hooman Davoudiasl , Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Monday, October 30th
- Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Innovative Approaches in Neutrino Telescope Research and Analysis, Jeffrey Lazar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Tuesday, October 31st
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Consistent inference of neutron star bulk and crust properties and nuclear observables., Will Newton , Texas A&M
November 2023
- Wednesday, November 1st
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Sterling B343
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Van Vleck B223 (Note Special Room)
- Anomalies and bordism of non-supersymmetric heterotic strings, Miguel Montero, Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- How to do particle physics in a climate emergency?, Ken Bloom , University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Thursday, November 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Theory of Pines' demon in multiband metals, Edwin Huang, Notre Dame
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH5310 /
- Looking inside the Earth with neutrinos, Sergio Palomares Ruiz, IFIC (CSIC - University of Valencia)
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Electromagnetic Transients in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei, Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook University
- Friday, November 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Multimessenger View of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrino Sources, Kohta Murase, Penn State
- Monday, November 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- On the physical principles of power exhaust and novel divertor solutions for tokamak fusion reactors, Prof. Ulrich Stroth, IPP Garching, Germany
- Tuesday, November 7th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 10:30 am - 1:30 pm; Rm. 5310, Chamberlin Hall
- Accelerating Quantum Research - Academia Meets Industry, Various, UW-Madison and Quantum Machines
- Wednesday, November 8th
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The stellarator Wendelstein 7-X: Towards long pulse, high performance operation, Olaf Grulke, Lead Plasma Operation Wendelstein 7-X
- Thursday, November 9th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Generation and detection of axions using four-wave mixing in optical fibers, Shay Inbar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Scaling Deep Learning for Materials Discovery, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Google Brain
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
10:30 am - 12:00 pm; 2104 Chamberlin - Extracting Contributions to Qubit Loss from Superconducting Microwave Resonators, Shravan Patel, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310 CH
- Measurement of the ttH and tH Production Rates in theH to bb Decay Channel at CMS, Abhisek Datta, UCLA
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin or
- Exploring New Physics with Background Radiation Fields, Justin Finke, Naval Research Labs
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Using polluted white dwarf stars to learn about exoplanetary systems now, and in the future, Amy Steele, Yerkes Observatory
- Friday, November 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Cancelled
- Cancelled, Nicole Vassh , TRIUMF
- Monday, November 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators, Antonio Coelho, EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, France
- Tuesday, November 14th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Free-Streaming Neutrinos in the Early Universe , Benjamin Wallisch , Stockholm University & UT Austin
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, November 15th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Upgraded Electronics for the Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Gamma-Ray Telescope, Luca Riitano, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, November 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Strongly interacting excitons and electrons in atomically thin semiconducting heterostructures, You Zhou, U Maryland
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or
- Detecting the highest energy neutrinos...with radar? A new tool in the astroparticle toolbox, Steven Prohira, The University of Kansas
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Dancing with the stars: next generation models of binary star systems, Meng Sun, Northwestern University
- Friday, November 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Quantum Information and Materials for Dark Matter Detection, Kathryn Zurek , Caltech
- Monday, November 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Note: change of location - 1325 Computer Science
- “Results and Future Directions of the HSX stellarator“, Benjamin Faber, UW-Madison
- Thursday, November 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 24th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Saturday, November 25th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Sunday, November 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Monday, November 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- “The Challenge of Fusion - Being Caught between Plasma and Wall", Dr. Jan W. Coenen, Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-4), Juelich, Germany; and UW-Madison
- Tuesday, November 28th
- Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Finding Radio-Loud Strong Gravitational Lenses Using Large Surveys, Michael Martinez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, November 29th
- Preliminary Exam; 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm; B343 Sterling
- PeV Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube, Emre B. Yildizci, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, November 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Coupling an Andreev spin qubit to a transmon, Angela Kou, UIUC
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Studying the Evolution of Radio Galaxies With the VLA Sky Survey, Yjan Gordon, UW-Madison
December 2023
- Friday, December 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Cancelled, Kendall Mahn , Michigan State University
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Outreach; 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm; Discovery Building
- SoundWaves: Celebrations of Time, part 2, Lu Lu and others, UW–Madison Physics / WIPAC and others
- Monday, December 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Dept of Energy Fusion Energy Sciences Town Hall, Dr. Jean-Paul Allain, DOE Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) Associate Director
- Tuesday, December 5th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, December 6th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Graduate Program Event; 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Towards Measurement of Pressure Anisotropy during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection, Cameron Kuchta, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, December 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Inducing non-equilibrium phases in semiconductors with time-periodic drives, Ilya Esin, Caltech
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Decoding Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Revolutionary Role of JWST, Luis Welbanks, Arizona State University
- Friday, December 8th
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 2301 Sterling - Detection and Characterization of Core Magnetic Fluctuations on DIII-D using Faraday-Effect Polarimetry, Rachel Myers, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Q&A with ISS representative
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Origins of nematicity and field-induced superconductivity in iron-based materials, Shua Sanchez, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
- Monday, December 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Fusion-relevant studies using the LAPD: ICRF and mirror physics, Dr. Troy Carter, Director of Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) at UCLA
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Discovery, Demographics, and Dark Matter Implications of Faint Dwarf Galaxies in Wide-area Optical Surveys, Mitch McNanna, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, December 12th
- Preliminary Exam; 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Subatomic to Supernova: Two unrelated tales of neutrinos and dark matter, Daniel Heimsoth, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Synthetic Source Injection in The Dark Energy Survey: Measurements of the Survey Transfer Function and Applications to Precision Cosmology, Megan Tabbutt, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Finding the neutrino mass mechanism at muon colliders , Kåre Fridell , KEK, Tsukuba
- Wednesday, December 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Last Fall Semester class day
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 CH
- Naturalness Demands an Answer: The Imperative of Natural SUSY at the HL-LHC, Kairui Zhang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin
- A Search for Vector-Like Leptons (VLLs), Elise Chavez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Preliminary Exam; 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; B343 Sterling
- Investigation of oxide defects and heterostructure modifications for use in quantum computing, Emily Joseph, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, December 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Climate & Diversity; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall, 2nd floor lobby
- Climate & Diversity Committee all-department coffee hour, Various, UW–Madison physics
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Under the hood: microscopic noise characterization in semiconductor quantum dots, John Nichol, University of Rochester
- Friday, December 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Saturday, December 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Sunday, December 17th
- Academic Calendar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Commencement
- Monday, December 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Tuesday, December 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Graduate Program Event; 3:00 pm; 5310 CH
- Cosmology at the Field Level with Probabilistic Machine Learning, Adam Rouhiainen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, December 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; 5310 CH
- The Hall effect in Nonmagnetic, Ferromagnetic, and Antiferromagnetic Thin films, Neil Campbell, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, December 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; virtual via zoom
- Neutrino signal from Cygnus region of the Milky Way, Andrii Neronov, Ecole Polytechnique (Lausanne) and Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory (Paris)
- Friday, December 22nd
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, December 24th
- Academic Calendar
- Fall Semester Grading deadline
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
