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Events During the 2018 Spring Semester
January 2018
- Thursday, January 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Anomalous Josephson effect in spin-orbit coupled Nanowires, Gabriele Campagnano, University of Naples "Federico II"
- Friday, January 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Anomalous Quantum Transport - Hall, Kerr, and Josephson Effects, Alex Levchenko, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, January 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- What Have We Learned From Gravity?, Georgy Hrabovsky, UW Department of Physics
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Discovery of the Higgs Boson, Matthew F Herndon, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, January 24th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, January 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Connecting the dots: the interactions and environment of electrons in zero dimensions, Xanthe Croot, University of Sydney
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins 3:45PM
- Probing Galaxy Cluster Formation Through Dynamics of the Hot, Intracluster Medium (ICM), Tom Jones, University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy
- Friday, January 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Nanowire Technology and Toxicity, Benjamin Gilbert, LBNL
- Monday, January 29th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Top quarks & beyond at the Large Hadron Collider, Louise Skinnari, Cornell
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, January 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Stochastic optimization: Making complex design, planning, and operation decisions in the face of uncertainty, Jim Luedtke, UW Department of Industrial Engineering
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino oscillation experiments, Jennifer A Thomas, UW Madison Department of Physics
February 2018
- Thursday, February 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; chamberlin 5310
- Supercurrent in the quantum Hall regime, Gleb Finkelstein, Duke University
- Friday, February 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Playing Newton: Learning equations of motion from data, Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
- Monday, February 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Progress Toward Magnetic Confinement of Positron-Electron Plasma, Dr. Matthew Stoneking, Lawrence University
- Tuesday, February 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Prions and the environment, Joel Pedersen, UW Department of Soil Science
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Coral skeleton growth, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Thursday, February 8th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk Begins 3:45 PM
- Stellar Binaries: a Testbed for Planetary Formation and Dynamics, Diego Munoz, Northwestern University
- Friday, February 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The hunt for dark matter with neutrinos, Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
- Monday, February 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Particle transport from the bottom up, Dr. Saskia Mordijck, College of William and Mary
- Tuesday, February 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Complexity in gene editing outcomes with defined CRISPR nanoparticles, Kris Saha, UW Department of Biomedical Engineering
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics with the highest energy photons in the Universe, Justin Vandenbroucke, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, February 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 15th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for Dark Matter: CMS Strikes Back!, Zeynep Demeragli, MIT
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee at 3:30 pm, Talk begins 3:45 pm
- The Microphysics of AGN Feedback , Karen Yang, University of Maryland
- Careers for Physicists, Women and Gender Minorities in Physics;
5:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall Conference room - Communication and Negotiation Skills Seminar for Women, Prof. Laura McCollough
- Friday, February 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in space and astrophysical systems, James Drake, University of Maryland
- Saturday, February 17th
- Wonders of Physics
- 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Tokamak Disruption Simulation: Progress toward Comprehensive Modeling, Prof. Carl Sovinec, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, February 20th
- Department Meeting
- 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Interactions between environment and host epigenome: metabolism, the microbiota, and hibernation, Kim Krautkramer, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
- Council Meeting
- 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Bits in Silicon Quantum Dots, Mark A Eriksson, UW Madison Department of Physics
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The neutrino quantum system and DUNE, Jonathan Miller, Fermilab
- Wednesday, February 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 22nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Where is all the antimatter?, Nuno Barros, University of Pennsylvania
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and coffee 3:30 pm , Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- The Positive Side of the Galactic Baryon Ledger: the Evidence for Cold Inflow, Chris Howk, University of Notre Dame
- Friday, February 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Metrology, quantum simulation, and tests of relativity with optical lattice clocks, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW-Madison
- Monday, February 26th
- Council Meeting
- 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- nitial Results on the Impact of Background Hydrogen Isotope on Impurity Behavior in the EC-heated LHD plasmas, Prof. N. Tamura, NIFS (National Institute for Fusion Science) at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKEDAI) in Japan.
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Understanding CP-Violation in Leptons , Daniel Cherdack, Colorado State University
- Tuesday, February 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Thoughts on drumlins, a major component of Wisconsin's glacial landscape, David Mickelson, UW Department of Geology
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring the High-Energy Universe with HAWC, Stefan Westerhoff, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Wednesday, February 28th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
March 2018
- Thursday, March 1st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- What's New with the Pierre Auger Observatory, Corbin Covault , Case Western Reserve University
- Friday, March 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring the dark universe with cosmic surveys, Keith Bechtol, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Monday, March 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- MHD modeling of DIII-D QH-mode discharges and comparison to observations, Dr. Jacob King, Tech-X Corporation
- Tuesday, March 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Wada basins and distributed fields of determination, UW Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Steve Ridgely
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Building clocks out of atoms and nanoscale probes out of diamond, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Thursday, March 8th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 am - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, 3:30 PM Coffee and cookies, 3:45 PM Talk Begins
- Probing Composition and Alignment of Interstellar Dust Grains via Stratospheric Observations of Dust Emission Polarization Spectra , Giles Novak, Northwestern University and CIERA
- Friday, March 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Magnetic cooling and On-chip thermometry for nanoelectronics below 10 mK, Mario Palma
- Spanish night at the planetarium; 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm; 201 S Gammon Rd. Madison, WI
- , WIPAC/ El Universo es Tuyo
- Monday, March 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- X-ray sources from laser-plasma acceleration: development and applications for high energy density sciences, Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Tuesday, March 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Speech as a dynamical system, Ben Parrell, UW Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino astronomy at the South Pole, Albrecht Karle, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Wednesday, March 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamerlin Hall
- Correlated Nanoelectronics, Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- De Sitter from D3-branes?, Ander Retolaza, DESY Theory Group
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Planet Formation in the Era of ALMA, Ke Zhang, University of Michigan
- Monday, March 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Heavy Ion Fusion: New Paradigm and Strategy to Fit the Technology, Dr. Alex T. Burke, Arcata Systems
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, March 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- What makes math hard? Hint: It’s not the math, Mitchell J. Nathan, UW School of Education
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics of Climate Change, Susan M Nossal, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Flavor Gauge Models below the Fermi Scale, Pedro Machado, Fermilab
- Open Forum with Graduate Students; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 22nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- SDSS-V: Pioneering Pantopic Spectroscopy, Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie Observatories
- Friday, March 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using a Radio Phased Array, Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago
April 2018
- Monday, April 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- NO SEMINAR TODAY
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, April 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- The invention of public radio at the UW--Madison Physics Department, 1917-1919 , Jim Reardon, UW Department of Physics
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Cloud Quantum Computing, Maxim G Vavilov, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs Couplings at High Scales, Tao Han, University of Pittsburg
- Wednesday, April 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Special Event Talk; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- IRAM and it's Activities, Dr. Karl Schuster, IRAM Director
- Thursday, April 5th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and Coffee at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- X-Ray Binaries in the Early Universe, Philip Kaaret, University of Iowa
- Friday, April 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Accelerating Electrons with Protons in Plasma - the AWAKE Project, Allen Caldwell, Max Planck Institute, Germany
- Monday, April 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Mechanisms for onset of the whistler chorus in Earth’s magnetosphere , Dr. Ge Wang, UW-Madison Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, April 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Cloud quantum computing, Maxim Vavilov, UW Department of Physics
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- X-ray Astronomy from Sounding Rockets, Dan McCammon, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Disentangling the Top-Higgs Yukawa CP Structure in the Dileptonic tth with M2-?Assisted reconstructions, Jeong Han Kim, University of Kansas
- Wednesday, April 11th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Photonic analogues of topological superconductors , Aashish Clerk, McGill University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM. Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- MHD turbulence in the interstellar medium, Siyao XU, Hubble Fellow UW Astronomy Dept
- Friday, April 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum quivering from dissipation and noise, Aashish Clerk, McGill University
- Monday, April 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Unique Solutions to the Challenges of Microwave Coupling in Overdense Plasmas, Dr. Stephanie J. Diem, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Tuesday, April 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Are modern psychological and social behavior investigators missing a boat developmental neuroscience could help them catch?, Bernard Z. Friedlander, Department of Psychology, University of Hartford
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic reconnection, a celestial phenomenon in the laboratory, Jan Egedal, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Thursday, April 19th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Ultracold Polyatomic Molecules via Laser Cooling – N Atoms Too Many, Prof. John Doyle , Harvard
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and Coffee 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 4:00 PM
- The Atomic to Molecular (HI-to-H2) Transition in Galaxy Star-Forming Regions, Dr. Amiel Sternberg, Tel Aviv University, Max Planck Inst. for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation USA
- Friday, April 20th
- JIMFEST 2018; 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- High energy density plasma simulations using ultracold neutral plasmas, Scott Bergeson, Brigham Young University
- JIMFEST 2018; 1:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- UW Laboratory Astrophysics, Elizabeth DenHartog, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- JIMFEST 2018; 2:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Spectroscopic study of the 7p J=1/2 and 7p J=3/2 states in neutral cesium-133, Maria-Teresa Herd, Mt. Holyoke College
- JIMFEST 2018; 2:45 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- A Fresh Look at Abundances of Iron-group Elements in Very Metal-Poor Stars, Chris Sneden, University of Texas, Austin
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The astrophysical r-process: what we are learning from gravitational waves, dwarf galaxies, and stellar archaeology, Ian Roederer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- JIMFEST 2018; 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Measurements of branching fractions using Fourier transform and grating spectroscopy, Gillian Nave, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- JIMFEST 2018; 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Downstream hydrogen plasma cleaning for mass metrology at NIST, Eric Benck, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Saturday, April 21st
- JIMFEST 2018; 9:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Six Lines to Tell a Story, Michael Wood, University of St. Thomas
- JIMFEST 2018; 10:00 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- TBD, Uwe Kortshagen, University of Minnesota
- JIMFEST 2018; 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How I Became a Non-Chemist, Ken Menningen, UW Stevens Point
- JIMFEST 2018; 11:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Studying interesting phenomena: GE and Jim Lawler, Tim Sommerer, GE Global Research
- JIMFEST 2018; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Gas Discharge Lamps – A Requiem, Graeme Lister, Lighting Consultant
- Monday, April 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Helicons, Whistlers, Lower Hybrid Waves: Physics of Wave Propagation and Absorption for Current Drive Via Landau Damping, Robert I. Pinsker, General Atomics
- Tuesday, April 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Postgenomic complexity, Joan Fujimura, UW Department of Sociology
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaos, Clint Sprott, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, April 25th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum field theory of nematic transitions in spin orbit coupled spin-1 polar bosons, Elio König , Rutgers University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Observation of the highest-energy gamma rays with the HAWC Observatory, Kelly Malone, Penn State
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- Star formation, polarization, and magnetic fields in the ALMA era, Chat Hull, NAOJ Fellow, NAO of Japan, NAPJ Chile Observatory, Joint Alma Observatory
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Can a tool developed for hurricane prediction be taken to predict neutrino flavor evolution?, Eve Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania
- WIPAC at Women in STEM outreach event; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Kromery Middle School, 7009 Donna Dr. Middleton, WI 53562
- , WIPAC researchers, WIPAC
- Friday, April 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- When the Universe was one second old, George Fuller , UC San Diego
- Monday, April 30th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Centrifugal Confinement for Fusion and the Maryland Experiment (MCX), Adil Hassam, University of Maryland, College Park
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
May 2018
- Tuesday, May 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Year-end celebration, General discussion, UW Madison
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- LZ and Dark Matter at UW, Kimberly J. Palladino, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Wednesday, May 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, May 3rd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Fission and the formation of the r-process rare-earth abundance peak in neutron star mergers, Nicole Vassh, University of Notre Dame
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Can we send relativistic-speed nanocrafts to nearby exoplanets? Challenges and Solutions?, Thiem Hoang, University of Toronto
- Friday, May 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The microphysics of the GW170817 kilonova, Rebecca Surman, Notre Dame University
- 5:30 pm; The University Club
- Physics Awards Banquet
- Tuesday, May 8th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin hall
- Summary of Recent Higgs results with a look forward towards the HL-LHC, Isobel Ojalvo, Princeton
- Thursday, May 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 2:45 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Earth Observations and Modeling for Decision Making, Dr. David Fahey, NOAA
- Tuesday, May 22nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin hall
- The Problem of Mass: The Higgs and Beyond, Laura Dodd, UW-Madison
- Thursday, May 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Ultra-compact, multi-functional photonics via nanofabrication & computation , Rajesh Menon, University of Utah