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Events During the 2008 Spring Semester
January 2008
- Tuesday, January 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Sleep need and synaptic homeostasis, Chiara Cirelli, UW Department of Psychiatry
- Thursday, January 24th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- How Difficult is Quantum Many-Body Theory?, Matthew Hastings, Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Friday, January 25th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Very Energetic Top Quarks and the Search for New Physics at the LHC, Ulrich Baur, SUNY at Buffalo
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- From ASDEX Upgrade to ITER: Preparing the Next Step in Fusion Research, Hartmut Zohm, Max Planck Institute
- Monday, January 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Modern Magnetic Mirrors in Novosibirsk: New results and Their Implications for the Future, Alexander Ivanov, Budker Institute, Noisibirsk, Russia
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Evaluation of a Pressure Sensing Array for use with Ultrasound Strain Imaging, Lee Kiessel Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- Tuesday, January 29th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Femtosecond Electron Diffraction:'Making the Molecular Movie', Dwayne Miller Chemistry and Physics University of Tornonto
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Cluster optimization in protein docking, Julie Mitchell, UW Department of Mathematics
- Thursday, January 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Evgeny Tsymbal, Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Astronomy Colloquium; 12:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 11:30 am in 6521 Sterling)
- Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions: An X-ray Tour of Massive Star- forming Regions, Leisa Townsley, Penn State
February 2008
- Monday, February 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- "Physics Results from the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), Stan Kaye, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- MRI - Molecular Imaging, from Vision to Reality, Hanns-Joachim Weinmann Ph.D., Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany
- Tuesday, February 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Seeing with the mind as well as the eye, Bob Greenler, UW-Milwaukee, Department of Physics
- Thursday, February 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics at the University of Colorado, Kyle McElroy, Physics, University of Colorado
- Friday, February 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Bringing Hearing to the Deaf, Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
- Monday, February 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- (none), Jim Drake, University of Maryland
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, Katie McMillian, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- Materials Science & Engineering Seminar; 4:00 pm; 265 MSE
- Structure, Processing, Properties, and Applications of Carbon-based Organic Semiconductors and Carbon Nanotubes, Michael S. Arnold, Post-doctoral research fellow University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Tuesday, February 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Electoral dynamics in the 2008 presidential primaries, Charles Franklin, Political Science
- Plasma Seminar--Special Day; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Ion Pickup and Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts, Jim Drake, University of Maryland
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Evolution of the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation, Yancy Shirley, University of Arizona
- Thursday, February 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Electronic transport in inhomogeneous quantum wires, Jerome Rech, Argonne National Laboratory
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Stellar Archaeology: Galaxy Evolution from the Ground Up, Jason Harris University of AZ - Steward Observatory
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- How Does A Thing Like That Work?, David Willey, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
- Friday, February 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Hot On The Trail of Particle Dark Matter, Dan Hooper, Fermilab
- Math Colloquium; 4:00 pm; B239 Van Vleck
- Geometry of boundary shear turbulence: a stroll through 61,506 dimensions, Predrag Cvitanovic, Center for Nonlinear Sciences, Georgia Tech
- Monday, February 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Validation in Fusion Research: Toward Guidelines and Best Practices, Terry, Department of Physics/Plasma, University of Wisconsin
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Brachytherapy Facility Shielding, Glenn P. Glasgow, M.S. Ph.D., F.A.A.P.M., F.A.C.R Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiation Oncology Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
- Tuesday, February 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Acceleration of human evolution: interactions of genes with culture and geography, John Hawks, Anthropology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Illuminating the Glowing Magnetospheres of Massive, Luminous Stars, Richard Townsend, University of Delaware- Bartol Research Institute
- Thursday, February 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Anderson localization transitions, multifractal wave functions, and conformal invariance, Ilya Gruzberg, Physics Dept. University of Chicago
- Friday, February 22nd
- Special Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Engineering a Quantum Information Processor, Professor Jungsang Kim, Duke University
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Matching NLO Calculations with Parton Shower: the POsitive-Weight Hardest Emission Generator, Carlo Oleari, Univ. di Milano-Bicocca
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Visualizing Pair Formation and the Riddle of High-Temperature Superconductivity, Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
- Monday, February 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic Fields in HIgh Intensity-Laser Produced Plasmas, Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan
- Tuesday, February 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Generalising the Reynolds number from turbulence to sand-piles(S.O.C.) to ecosystems, George Rowlands, University of Warwick
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy, Jason Kalirai, University of California - Santa Cruz
- Thursday, February 28th
- String Theory Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Yu Nakayama, Berkeley
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; Room TBA
- Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies, Josh Simon, CALTECH
- Special Plasma Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Testing Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations, Dr. Robert Budny, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Friday, February 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 1:00)
- Topological defects in nanomagnets, Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Probing the sources of solar magnetism with helioseismology and simulations, Juri Toomre, JILA and Dept Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado
March 2008
- Monday, March 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Anomalous Diffusion in Satellite Data and Tokamaks, George Rowlands, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Low Mass Higgs Searches at CDF, Ben Kilminster, Ohio State University
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Protons, Rockwell Mackie, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- Tuesday, March 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Larry Schulman, Clarkson University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How does your garden grow: the complex nature of plant growth below ground, Simon Gilroy, Botany
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Gone with the Wind: Galactic Outflows driven by Stars and Quasars and their Impact on Galaxy Evolution, Christy Tremonti, University of AZ- Steward Observatory
- Wednesday, March 5th
- Undergraduate Resume Writing/Career Planning Workshop; 3:45 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- (none), Greg Iaccarino
- Thursday, March 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Klaus Molmer, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Physics Teaching Forum; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Women in Physics: Data and Strategies, Various Speakers
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Heterotic Road to the MSSM, Stuart Raby, Ohio
- Friday, March 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Quantum Measurements: From a Philosophical Dilemma to a Technological Resource, Klaus Molmer, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Monday, March 10th
- Galaxies Lunch!; 12:00 pm; 6515 Sterling
- Loose Ends in Cosmic Rays, Pasquale Blasi, Arcetri & Fermliab
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Field Error Effects on Tokamak Plasmas, Andrew Cole, UW-Madison, Department of Engineering Physics
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- New Physics Search in Tau Decays, Sanjay Swain, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- TBD, Sheridan Griffin-Meltsner, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- Tuesday, March 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Technological change and the global energy system, Gregory Nemet, La Follette School of Public Affairs
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Dark Matter Substructure in the Milky Way, Mike Kuhlen, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
- Thursday, March 13th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Finding Clusters of Galaxies Using the South Pole Telescope, Bradford Benson, UC Berkeley
- Friday, March 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Quest for Spinning Glue, Bernd Surrow, MIT
- Monday, March 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- LiWall Fusion (LiWF) and its Three Step Program Toward a Reactor Development Facility, Leonid Zakharov, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, Shuai Leng, student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm)
- GammeV: Gamma to milli-eV Particle Search, William Wester, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Tuesday, March 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Computational constraints in Hebbian learning: relationship to epileptogenesis and other neurological disorders, David Hsu, Neurology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Smith's Cloud: The Most Interesting Hydrogen Cloud in the Local Universe, Jay Lockman, NRAO
- Wednesday, March 26th
- Informal Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- If the WIMP will not come to the neutron star; the neutron star will go to the WIMP, Hakki B. Ogelman, UW-Madison
- Thursday, March 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Wolfram Brenig, Technishce Universitat Branuschweig
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnant Shocks, Pat Slane, Harvard
- Friday, March 28th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Scale of Left-Right Symmetry from CP-violating Observables, Xiangdong Ji (TBC), University of Maryland
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Particle Acceleration and Explosive Energy Release by the Sun, Bob Lin, University of California - Berkeley
- Monday, March 31st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- What about Fusion Reactors?, John Sheffield, Retired, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Charmed Meson Mixing, Michael Sokoloff, University of Cincinnati
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Prospects for Effective Uterine and Cervical Elastography, Maritza Hobson, Research Assistant, student of Dr. Ernest Madsen, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
April 2008
- Tuesday, April 1st
- Special Plasma Seminar; 1:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Experimental Investigation of Turbulence at the Transition from Closed to Open Field Lines, Ulrich Stroth, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
- Special Plasma Seminar; 2:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Gerhard Bonhomme, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Gabriela Cezar, Animal Science
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- A Multiwavelength Study of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies over 8 Billion Years, D.J. Pisano, NRAO
- Wednesday, April 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Set My Vortices Free: Observing the Kosterlitz-Thouless Crossover in an Optical Lattice, Nobel Prize Winner Eric Cornell, University of Colorado-JILA
- Thursday, April 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Vortex dynamics in tailored superconducting channels: ratchets and circles, Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Searching for double beta decay with the Enriched Xenon Observatory, Carter Hall, University of Maryland
- Monday, April 7th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Recent Experimental Results from the Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive Helicity Injection (HIT-SI), Aaron Redd, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Engineering Physics
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Sean Cornelius, Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Title to be announced, Roger Chevalier, University of Virginia
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, RTingliang Zhuang (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen) Assistant Professor, Department of Therapeutic Radiology
- Tuesday, April 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Metal-Insulator Transition (MIT) in MgTi2O4 Spinel, Stefano Leoni, Max Planck - Dresden
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (refreshments served in the library at 3:30 pm)
- The Death and Afterlife of Massive Stars, Roger Chevalier, University of Virginia
- Wednesday, April 9th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Reconstructing the Wigner function of a photonic Schrodinger cat in a cavity: a movie of decoherence, Serge Haroche, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
- Thursday, April 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum computation using tunable flux qubits, Matthias Steffen, IBM Yorktown Heights
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The role of SUSY flat directions in reheating, Marco Peloso, University of Minnesota
- Friday, April 11th
- Seminar; 8:30 am; MSC Room 281
- Temporal resolution and bandwidth of human hearing, Milind N. Kunchur, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC and Pheno Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Dark-matter sterile neutrinos from decays of a gauge-singlet Higgs, Kalliopi Petraki, UCLA
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Trapping and Counting Photons without Destroying Them: A New Way to Look at Light, Serge Haroche, Ecole Normale Superieure
- Monday, April 14th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- D retentions in a Tokamak with High-Z Plasma Facing Components--Implications for ITER and Reactors, Bruce Lipschultz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, A. Sam Bedder, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Single Top at CDF, Kevin Lannon, The Ohio State University
- Tuesday, April 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaotic dynamics on large networks, Clint Sprott, UW Department of Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Globular Clusters, Galaxy Formation, Dark Matter, and Black Holes, Kathy Rhode, University of Indiana
- Thursday, April 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Double Quantum Dots, Jason Petta, Princeton University
- Special Joint Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics Seminar; 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Polarized Antiprotons, Hans-Otto Meyer, Indiana University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Colliders to the Cosmos: Dark Matter and Electroweak Phase Transition, Maxim Perelstein, Cornell
- Friday, April 18th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Antonio Delgado, Univ. of Notre Dame
- Physics Department Colloquium, H. H. Barschall Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Recent Developments in Neutron Radiography, Hans Otto Meyer, Indiana University
- Monday, April 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Kinetic Studies of Low Temperature Non-Equilibrium Weakly Ionized Air Plasmas, Walter Lempert, Ohio State University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A Complex Systems Engineering approach to software development in large organizations, Jacob Jesson, Shared Context Inc.
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Outflows from massive (proto) stars and evidence for an 'improved' evolutionary sequence, Debra Shepherd, NRAO
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, Brian Nett, Resarch Assistant, student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm
- Mixing and CP Violation in Bs Meson Decays, Hal Evans, Indiana University
- Tuesday, April 22nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Outflows from massive (proto) stars and evidence for an 'improved' evolutionary sequence, Debra Shepherd, NRAO
- Educational Technology in Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Mathematica 6 in Education and Research, Josh Lietz, Wolfram Research, Inc.
- Thursday, April 24th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Rare events and phase transitions in reaction-diffusion systems, Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota
- Special Atomic Physics Seminar; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum memory for sqeezed light, Dmitry Korystov, Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Minimal Flavor Violation: from quarks to leptons, Vincenzo Cirigliano, Los Alamos
- Friday, April 25th
- High Energy Seminar, Joint High Energy and Neutrino Physics Seminar;
11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - NuMI Muon Monitor Studies and First Results from the MINOS Sterile Neutrino Search, Jason Koskinen, University College, London
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint Pheno and NPAC Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Disentangling the Strong Interactions in Two-Jet Event Shapes, Chris Lee, LBL
- Monday, April 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Toward the Ultimate Goal of Radwaste-Free Fusion: Recycling and Clearance, Avoiding Geological Disposal, Laila A. El-Guebaly, UW-Madison, Fusion Technology Institute
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, John Moreau, Geology and Geophysics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Title to be announced, Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Tech - Department of Physics, Socorro
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- A Comparison of Computational Methods to Calculate Effective Connectivity from fMRI Time Series Data, Suzanne Witt, Research Assistant, student of Dr. M. Elizabeth Meyerand, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Neutrino-less double-beta decay, WIMPs, and Xenon: Will the Quest Converge?, David Nygren, LBNL and Stockholm University
- Tuesday, April 29th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer - A Fully Optimized Aperature Synthesis Array, Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Tech - Department of Physics, Socorro
May 2008
- Thursday, May 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Magnetic 1/f noise from the semiconductor/oxide interface and spin-dependent scattering in silicon transistors, Rogerio de Sousa, University of Victoria
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Effective Field Theory of Light Nuclei, Bira van Kolck, University of Arizona
- Physics Department Colloquium, Winner of the Distinguished Alumni Award 2008;
5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Exoplanet Detection and Characterization: Status and Prospects, Wesley A. Traub, Jet Propulsion Lab
- Friday, May 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium, H.T. Richard Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Neutrino Oscillations: Recent Triumphs and Future Challenges, Bob McKeown, Caltech
- Monday, May 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic Reconnection, a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory, Jan Egedal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Seach for SM Higgs with H to tautau and 2 Jets, Kohei Yorita, University of Chicago
- Tuesday, May 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Addressing complex challenges by engaging groups, Darin Harris and Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Quality Improvement
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Molecular Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies, Andrew Baker, Rutgers University
- String Theory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Timo Weigand, University of Pennsylvania
- Wednesday, May 7th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC/Pheno Seminar;
3:30 pm - 4:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin - Dirac Leptogenesis in Extended nMSSM, Eung Jin Chun, KIAS
- Thursday, May 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Force-Producing Machines in Living Cells, Ben OShaughnessy, Columbia University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The South Pole Telescope: Beyond Clusters, Tom Crawford, University of Chicago
- Friday, May 9th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Terrance Figy, University of Durham
- Department of Geology & Geophysics General Talk; 3:30 pm; Room AB20 Weeks Hall
- Exploring Mercury by Spacecraft: Seeking clues to the formation and evolution of the inner planets, Sean C Solomon, Director, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Climate Change: Local to Global and Back Again, John Magnuson, Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Limnology, UW-Madison
- Saturday, May 10th
- Physics Department; 9:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Huber-Fest, Multiple Speakers
- Monday, May 12th
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 am; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- New Physics in B to Kll Decays, Kevin Flood, University of Wisconsin
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) (refreshments at 3:30)
- Radiation Therapy of Moving & Deforming Patients, Katja M. Langen, Ph.D., M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Orlando, Orlando, Florida
- Thursday, May 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Mach-Zehnder Interferometry and Microwave-Induced Cooling in Persistent-Current Qubits, Will Oliver, MIT/Lincoln Labs
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Probing the TeV Scale with Parity-Violating Electron Scattering, Krishna Kumar, UMass
- Friday, May 16th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Christian Bauer, LBNL & UC-Berkeley
- Thursday, May 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Order by distortion and chiral magnetism in frustrated pyrochlore magnet, Gia-Wei Chern, Johns Hopkins University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Measurement of muon neutrino charged current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on carbon in MiniBooNE, Teppei Katori, Indiana University
- Tuesday, May 27th
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL Astronomy Colloquim;
3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall - Dissecting the Red Sequence: Star Formation Histories and Structural Evolution of Early Type Galaxies, Genevieve Graves, UC - Santa Cruz