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Events During the 2010 Spring Semester
January 2010
- Tuesday, January 12th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:10 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Magnetic Fields in the Cosmic-ray modified shocks, Andrey Beresynak, UW Madison Astronomy
- Thursday, January 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Charge sensing and excited state spectroscopy in a Si/SiGe quantum dot, Madhu Thalakulam, UW-Madison
- Monday, January 18th
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Tuesday, January 19th
- First Day of Class
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- An Aamazing Freak Wave, Chin H. Wu
- Wednesday, January 20th
- Undergrad Lunch with John Orrell; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Coffee & Cookies; 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Coffee & Cookies with John Orrell, John Orrell, Pacific Northwest Lab
- Thursday, January 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Double Beta Decay: A challenge for particle, nuclear and atomic physics, Fedor Simkovic, Comenius University
- Friday, January 22nd
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Violating Rotational or Translational Invariance During Inflation, Yang Bai, Fermilab
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Quark-Gluon Plasma in QCD, at RHIC and LHC, and in String Theory, Krishna Rajagopal, MIT
- Monday, January 25th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Nimrod Simulations of Dynamo in Cylindrical and Spherical Geometries, Ivan Khalzov, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, January 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Auditory Activation with Electric Hearing: Studies on Auditory Plasticity in Deaf Humans, Ruth Litovsky, UW-Madison Department of Communicative Disorders
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Star Formation and Gas in Nearby Galaxies, Adam Leroy, NRAO
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Toric Lego: A Modular Approach to Model Building in String Theory, Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria, UPenn
- Wednesday, January 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University
- Thursday, January 28th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Competition between superconductivity and magnetism in the iron arsenides, Rafael Fernandes, Ames National Laboratory
- Friday, January 29th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Violating Rotational or Translational Invariance During Inflation (Joint with Phenomenology), Mark B. Wise, Caltech
- Special Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, Oleg Kamaev, University of Minnesota
February 2010
- Monday, February 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlain
- Simulations of the global-dynamo in stars like the Sun, Ben Brown, University of Wisconsin Department of Astronomy
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, February 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Coherent transport in driven optical lattices, Andrea Alberti, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Complex Families: Some Implications of Multiple Partner Fertility for Research and Policy, Marie Cancian, UW-Madison La Folette School of Public Affairs
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Infrared Astronomy at 45,000 Feet, Pam Marcum, NASA
- Wednesday, February 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, February 5th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Holography and the Speed of Sound at High Temperature, Paul Hohler, University of Illinois at Chicago
- SPECIAL ASTRONOMY TALK; 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Breaching the Eddington Limit in the Most Massive, Most Luminous Stars", Professor Stan Owocki, University of Delaware
- Monday, February 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Nonlinear Evolution of Resistive Tearing Mode with Sub-Alfvenic Shear Flow, Zheiwei Ma, Zhejiang University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- An Update on Two-fluid Single-Helicity Tearing Mode Relaxation in a Cylindrical Pinch: Larger Lindquist Number and Helical Flow Visualization, Jake King, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/CPTC
- Tuesday, February 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Elegant Chaos: Algebraically Simple Chaotic Flows, Clint Sprott, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Thursday, February 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Biomimetic Color Detection Using Chromophore-Nanotube Hybrid Devices, Dr. Francois Leonard & Dr. Andy Vance, Sandia National Laboratory, CA
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Electroweak Baryogenesis in Supersymmetric U(1)' Models, Tao Liu, University of Chicago
- Friday, February 12th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Boosting BSM Higgs Discovery with Jet Substructure, Adam Martin, Fermilab
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Stanislav Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin, Department of Physics
- Saturday, February 13th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Sunday, February 14th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Electron Gyroscale Fluctuations in the National Spherical Torus Experiment, David Smith, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Kinetic Theory of Instability-Enhanced Collective Interactions in Plasmas, Scott Baalrud, CPTC
- Tuesday, February 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Mike Arnold, UW-Madison, Dept. of Material Science and Engineering
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- A Life for Stars, Alexander Heger, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- Wednesday, February 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- From quantum electronics to quantum nanofluidics, Guillaume Gervais, McGill University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Axis of Evil - Large Scale Anomalies in Maps of the CMB, Ted Bunn, University of Richmond
- Friday, February 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Turning Photons into Polarized Nuclei, Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin, Department of Physics
- Saturday, February 20th
- Physics Fair; 11:00 am; Chamberlin Hall - Various Labs
- 3rd Annual Physics Fair - Open House, Open House, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Sunday, February 21st
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Measurements of Core Turbulence Suppression on DIII-D, Morgan Shafer, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics/General Atomics
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Multiple Mirror Effects in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Vladimir Mirnov, UW-Madison Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, February 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Pictures fro Piles of Data, Michael Gleicher, UW-Madison, Dept. of Computer Science
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The MiMeS Project: Magnetism in Massive Stars, Gregg Wade, Royal Military College of Canada
- Thursday, February 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:30 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- FFLO and pair density wave superconductivity, Daniel Agterberg, UW-Milwaukee
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, February 26th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint with Phenomenology;
2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Comprehensive Solution to the Cosmological Constant, Zero-Point Energy, and Quantum Gravity Problems, Philip Mannheim, University of Connecticut
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium Talk;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Confronting the Dark Energy Crisis in Fundamental Physics, Christopher Stubbs, Harvard University, Physics and Astronomy
March 2010
- Monday, March 1st
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Spontaneous Stochasticity and the Breakdown of Flux-Freezing in a Turbulent Plasma, G. L. Eyink, John Hopkins University
- Tuesday, March 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Overview of Satellite-based Aviation Application for Detection of Thunderstorms, Turbulence and Volcanic Ash, Wayne Feltz, UW-Madison, Dept. of Space Science and Engineering Center
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Interstellar Constraints on the Evolution of Cosmic Lithium, Chris Howk, Notre Dame University, Physics Dept
- Wednesday, March 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Seminar; 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- From Space Surveillance to Microelectronics: A Survey of Research at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Matthew Vanderhill, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Thursday, March 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Fermi Surface investigation across the quantum critical point in CeIrIn5 and CeCoIn5 via de Haas van Alphen measurements, Cidgem Capan, UC-Irvine
- Friday, March 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Direct Detection Experiments. Status and Prospects from a XENON Perspective., Uwe Oberlack, Rice University
- Monday, March 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Varying Stochasticity in the Core of the MST RFP, Joshua Reusch, UW-Madison Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Magnetic Barriers as Possible q95-Dependence Inhibitors of ELM Control by Resonant Magnetic Perturbations at DII-D, Jonathan Kessler, Southeast Missouri State
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- On the existence of meta-stable vacua in the Klebanov-Strassler Background, Nick Halmagyi, Saclay
- Tuesday, March 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Ultrafast physics in photosynthesis: Mapping sub-nanometer energy flow, Naomi Ginsberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Why We Need to Conserve Crop Diversity and What We Need to Know-An Example from the Andes, Eve Emshwiller, UW-Madison, Dept of Botany
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The Role of Gas Bearing Dwarfs in Near Field Cosmology, Dr. Sabrina Stierwalt, CALTECH
- Thursday, March 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Theory of nonequilibrium magnetooscillations in 2D electron transport in high Landau levels, Ivan Dmitriev, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe University, Germany
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Physics with ultra-cold and very cold neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, Peter Geltenbort, Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble
- Friday, March 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Richards Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Probing Early Universe Particle Physics with Neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Peter Geltenbort, ILL Grenoble
- Monday, March 15th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Double-Diffusive Magnetic Buoyancy and Shear Dynamics, Dr. Geoff Vasil, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophyiscs
- Tuesday, March 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring the Conformational Search Leading to Protein Folding in Vitro and in the Cell, Silvia Cavagnero, UW-Madison, Dept. of Chemistry
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Synergistic Transient Searches in the Ultraviolet and Optical, Suvi Gezari, Hubble Fellow, John Hopkins
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Non-perturbative effects on seven-brane Yukawa couplings, Fernando Marchesano, CERN
- Wednesday, March 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Information Science with Trapped Ca<sup>+</sup> Ions, Rainer Blatt, Universitat Innsbruck
- Friday, March 19th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Electroweak Contributions to Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC, Maike Trenkel, UW-Madison, Physics Department
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Quantum Computer: Dream and Realization, Rainer Blatt, Institute for Experimental Physics University of Innsbruck and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
- Monday, March 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Research on DIII-D to Address the Challenges of Fusion Power, Richard Buttery, General Atomics
- Tuesday, March 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Emotional Communication in Primates: Music to Their Ears?, Chuck Snowdon, UW-Madison, Dept. of Psychology
- Astronomy Colloquium, Whitford Lecture;
3:30 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall - Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics, Andrea Ghez, UCLA
- Thursday, March 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Holographic Algorithms Capture Precisely Tractable Planar Counting Problems, Jin-Yi Cai, UW-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
- Friday, March 26th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark Matter from the Baryon Asymmetry, Kathyrn Zurek, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Increasing Diversity in Physics: the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters to PhD Bridge Program, David J. Ernst, Vanderbilt University, Fisk University
- Monday, March 29th
- Spring Break
- Tuesday, March 30th
- Spring Break
- Wednesday, March 31st
- Spring Break
April 2010
- Thursday, April 1st
- Spring Break
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic Orbital Currents and Polarization in Mott Insulators, Cristian Batista, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Friday, April 2nd
- Spring Break
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm
- No Colloquium--Spring Break
- Monday, April 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How to Make a Big International Project Happen: Lessons from ITER, James W. Van Dam, University of Texas-Austin/Institute for Fusion Studies
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at Fermilab, Dr. Robert Bernstein, FNAL
- Tuesday, April 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Running Form Modification: When Self-selected is not Preferred, Bryan Heiderscheit, UW-Madison, Dept. of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Astronomy Colloquium, Sponsored by WOWSAP (Women of WI Strengthening Astronomy and Physics";
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall - Probing the Inner and Outer Milky Way, Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie Observatories
- Wednesday, April 7th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin electronics for materials spectroscopy, Christoph Boehme, University of Utah
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Chiral Magnetic Effect and local parity violation at RHIC, Dmitri Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Friday, April 9th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Diffuse Emission of GeV and TeV Gamma Rays: Prospects with Fermi and HAWC, Petra Huentemeyer, Michigan Technological University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Baryons: Testing Ground of QCD Dynamics, Jose Goity, JLab/Hampton University
- Monday, April 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Ideal and Non-Ideal Tokamak Edge Stability Calculations, Nate Ferraro, General Atomics
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- New Results for Electron-Neutrino Appearance in MINOS, Prof. Mayly Sanchez, Iowa State
- Tuesday, April 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Shock Waves in Nature and in Numerical Computations, James Rossmanith, UW-Madison, Dept. of Mathematics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars, David Kaplan, UW-Milwaukee
- Wednesday, April 14th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 11:00 am; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- Precise Predictions for Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders within the SM and Beyond, Radja Boughezal, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich
- Thursday, April 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Critical Behavior in Cuprate Superconductors, Tom Lemberger, The Ohio State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- DeepCore - Extending the physics reach of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Darren Grant, University of Alberta
- Friday, April 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Dark Matter in the Universe, Katherine Freese, University of Michigan
- Monday, April 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Multi-Energy SXR Imaging for Magnetically Confined Fusion Studies, Luis Felpe Delgado-Aparicio, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Tuesday, April 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Dynamics of Performance Management: Governance Reform Amidst Complexity, Donald Moynihan, UW-Madison La Folette School of Public Affairs
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Modeling surface velocity fields from tidal interactions: the one-layer approximation, Gloria Konigsberger, UNAM
- Wednesday, April 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A search for ultrahigh energy neutrinos in the ANITA experiment, Dr. Brian Mercurio, The Ohio State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Core Collapse Supernova Neutrino Detection, Kate Scholberg, Duke University
- Thursday, April 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Emergent Supersymmetry and String in Condensed Matter Systems, Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster University
- Friday, April 23rd
- Physics & Astronomy Department; 12:00 pm; Courtyard between Chamberlin & Sterling (weather permitting)
- Senior Sendoff Pizza Party
- Special Plasma Theory Seminar; 12:00 pm; 414 ERB
- Two Novel Diagnostic Techniques for Spherical Tokamaks (plus a bit of biology), Dr. Roddy Vann, University of York, York, UK
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Prospects for Hypercharged and Gaugino AMSB at the LHC, Howie Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Transient Revolution in Astrophysics, Eliot Quataert, UC-Berkeley
- Monday, April 26th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint with High Energy;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Cosmic Rays and the Quest for New Physics, Stefano Profumo, U.C. Santa Cruz
- Tuesday, April 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Ananth Seshadri, UW-Madison, Dept. of Economics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The Nova Outburst: Evidence for a New Paradigm?, Dr. Robert Williams, STSci
- Thursday, April 29th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Can the Moon affect entanglement transfer?, Joseph H. Eberly, University of Rochester
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Many-body high energy QCD: from wee partons to the perfect fluid, Raju Venugopalan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Friday, April 30th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint with Phenomenology;
2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - A Lattice Calculation of QCD Critical Point from Canonical Ensemble, Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Plasma Turbulence in the Solar Wind, Bill Dorland, University of Maryland
May 2010
- Monday, May 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- H-Mode Relevance and Physics, Fritz Wagner, IPP Greifswald
- Special Astronomy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Why So Few? Unconscious Bias and Women in STEM, Meg Urry, Israel Munson Prof. of Physics & Astronomy, Director of the Yale Center for Astrophysics
- Tuesday, May 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Effect of order parameter fluctuations on the spectral density in d-wave superconductors, Maxim Khodas, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Who Wants to Know? - The Nature of our Subjective "I", Deric Bownds, UW-Madison, Dept. of Zoology
- Astronomy Colloquium, WISELI Talk - Sponsored by WOWSAP;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall - Molecular Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies, Meg Urry, YALE
- Wednesday, May 5th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, May 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Kondo Physics at the Nanoscale: From Kondo Droplets to Kondo Holes, Dirk Morr, University of Illinois-Chicago
- Friday, May 7th
- Last Day of Class
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Benjamin Fuks, IPHC Strasbourg/University of Strasbourg
- Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Does the Nation have a Nuclear Future? The Role of Science in the Regulation of the Nation's Most Controversial Energy Source, Dr. Gregory B. Jaczko, Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Tuesday, May 11th
- Special Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems: Relics from the Early Epochs of Galaxy Formation, Dr. Eric Peng, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics & Peking University
- Wednesday, May 12th
- String Theory Seminar, (Note special date & time);
4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - Stability of non-BPS states in heterotic string theory, Jihye Seo, Harvard University
- Thursday, May 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin-triplet superconductivity in Co-based Josephson junctions, Norman Birge, Michigan State University
- Atomic Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Polarization and hyperfine transitions of metastable <sup>129</sup><i>Xe</i> in discharge cell, & Nonlinear Pressure Shifts of Cs Atoms in Neon, Tian Xia, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint Seminar with String Theory;
4:00 pm; 4274 - Inflationary Cosmology on Trial, Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
- Friday, May 14th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Jong-Chul Park, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
- Thursday, May 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Transport experiments on carbon nanotube double quantum dots, Simon Chorley, Cambridge University