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Events During the 2021 Spring Semester
January 2021
- Wednesday, January 13th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Quantum Machine Learning in High Energy Physics, Sofia Vallecorsa, CERN
- Thursday, January 14th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute, MSE Seminar;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Access seminar: - Optical probing emergent orderings and their quantum properties in layered materials., Jun Xiao, Stanford University
- Monday, January 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Wednesday, January 20th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;
- Optical Dipole Trapping, Narrow-line Cooling, and Single Atom Observation of Holmium Atoms, Christopher Yip, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Online - Faculty Spotlight: Innovation in Instructional Design
- Thursday, January 21st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Friday, January 22nd
- Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am - 5:30 pm; ONLINE
- Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Monday, January 25th
- Academic Calendar
- Instruction begins
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Status and progress in the domestic liquid metal plasma-facing component design program, Rajesh Maingi and Andrei Khodak, PPPL
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Robert Benjamin (University of Wisconsin - Whitewater), Dr. Robert Benjamin, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
- Tuesday, January 26th
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, January 27th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- The Importance of Being Interpretable, Michelle Ntampaka, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; CANCELLED due to lack of urgent business.
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
- Exploring Galaxy Evolution from Radio Observations, Hansung Gim, Arizona State University
- Thursday, January 28th
- Astro Tool Exchange; 10:00 am - 11:00 am;
- High Dimensional Data Visualization with Glue, Cameren Swiggum, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Virtual
- A Quick Look at the 3GHz Radio Sky: Early Continuum Science from the VLA Sky Survey, Yjan Gordon, University of Manitoba
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- "Spatially Resolved Galaxy Interactions, Jorge Moreno, Pomona College
- Friday, January 29th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- A physical protocol to obtain information in quantum gravity, Chandramouli Chowdhury, ICTS, Bangalore
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Quantum simulation of spin models with tunable arrays of 200 single Rydberg atoms, Thierry Lahaye, Université Paris Saclay & CNRS, Palaiseau
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
February 2021
- Monday, February 1st
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Monday Science Seminar w/ Benjamin Rosenwasser (UW-Madison), Benjamin Rosenwasser, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
- Real-time wall conditioning of fusion devices by injection of low-Z powders, Alessandro Bortolon, PPPL
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- MHD Transient Seeding of Disruptive Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs), J. D. Callen, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, February 2nd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap, Sam McDermott , Fermilab
- Wednesday, February 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- TBD, Justyna Zwolak
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; Zoom Meeting
- The diffusion of cosmic rays and post-doc application, Yingying Guo, Institute of High Energy Physics, China
- Graduate Program Event; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; or see Facebook link in abstract
- 3MT® Three Minute Thesis Finals, Jimena Gonzalez, UW–Madison Physics
- Thursday, February 4th
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL TIME 10 AM;
10:00 am - 11:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) SPECIAL TIME 10AM - Interstellar Shocks, Antoine Gusdorf, Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure & Paris Observatory, Paris, France
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Friday, February 5th
- Women+ in Plasma Physics (W+iPP); 12:00 pm; Zoom
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Phenomenological and Quantum Gravity constraints from Charged Black Hole Evaporation in de Sitter Space, Gerben Venken, Heidelberg University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm; Zoom meeting
- Long-term TeV spectra of blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501, Sara Coutino, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, February 8th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting
- Data Analysis and Simulations of Compact Objects and Performance of the X-Calibur Telescope, Banafsheh Beheshitour, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Stellarator Optimization in the 2020s, Aaron Bader, UW-Madison
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- no Plasma Theory Seminar
- Tuesday, February 9th
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
- Online - Faculty Spotlight: Commitment to Equity
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, February 10th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Physics meets ML to solve cosmological inference, Ben Wandelt, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Institut Lagrange, Sorbonne University and Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, February 11th
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm; visit for YouTube or Facebook watch links
- Women of CTA, Leslie Taylor, UW–Madison Physics
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- The Astrophysics of Gas with Simulations , Simeon Bird, UC Riverside
- Friday, February 12th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Closing in on the sources of UHECRs: A multimessenger approach, Marco Muzio, New York University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Phenomenology of Magnetic Black Holes, Nicholas Orlofsky, Carleton University
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Department Meeting
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Zoom:
- Monday, February 15th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting
- The High Energy Light Isotope Experiment (HELIX) and Galactic Cosmic Rays, Keith McBride, Ohio State University
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- , Dr. Leon Trapman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Poking the pedestal: Progress and Potential of Pellet ELM Pacing, Bob Wilcox, ORNL
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- tbd, J. S. Schmitt, Auburn University
- Tuesday, February 16th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; online
- MINERvA measurements of Neutrino Interactions in the GeV Regime, Xianguo Lu, University of Oxford
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Hydrogen Mixing and the EDGES Anomaly, Luke Johns, UC-Berkeley
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm; Zoom meeting
- Neutrino astronomy with IceCube: an improved muon track reconstruction and a search for cross-correlations with AGN cores, Federica Bradascio, DESY and Humboldt University of Berlin
- Wednesday, February 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business
- Thursday, February 18th
- Graduate Program Event; Virtual
- Prospective Ph.D. Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- Looking at the Universe through gravitational lenses, Lindsay King, University of Texas-Dallas
- Friday, February 19th
- Graduate Program Event; Virtual
- PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications and KKLT, Jakob Moritz, Cornell University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:40 pm; Zoom meeting
- Searching for UHE- photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory: a two variable approach exploiting the air-shower Universality, Pierpaolo Savina, Università del Salento, Italy and Université Paris-Saclay, France
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, February 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom
- DIII-D and The Advanced Tokamak Path to Fusion Energy, Richard Buttery, GA
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom meeting
- Automated Normal Mode Analysis in Reduced Models of Turbulence for Stellarator Optimization, Ben Faber, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, February 23rd
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, February 24th
- Plasma Theory Seminar, Special Plasma Seminar;
9:00 am; Zoom Meeting - Plasma rotation: from mass separation applications to light manipulation, Renaud Gueroult, Laplace, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Neural Mechanics: Symmetry and Broken Conservation Laws in Deep Learning Dynamics, Daniel Kunin and Hidenori Tanaka, Stanford University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, February 25th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- PHANGS Results: Connecting the Small Scale ISM Physics to the Galaxy Structures, Dyas Otomo, NRAO
- Friday, February 26th
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm;
- Thermal Transport Across Interfaces, Two-Dimensional Materials, and III-V Ternary-Alloy Superlattice, Gabriel Jaffe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Decoding and bootstrapping cosmological fluctuations, Guilherme Pimentel, Leiden University & University of Amsterdam
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
March 2021
- Monday, March 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Predicting runaway electron generation, confinement, and mitigation at ORNL, Matt Beidler, ORNL
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm;
- Monday Science Seminar w/ Courtney Crawford (Louisiana State University), Courtney Crawford , Lousiana State University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom meeting
- Effects of Triangularity on Ion Temperature Gradient Turbulence Saturation, Joey Duff, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, March 2nd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Shining Light on Dark Matter with Black Holes, Volodymyr Takhistov , Kavli-IPMU
- Wednesday, March 3rd
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; link to be provided
- Hostile and Intimidating Behavior Training
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, March 4th
- Graduate Program Event; Virtual
- PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- What Sets the Efficiency of Radial Migration is Spiral Galaxies?, Kate Daniel, Bryn Mawr
- Friday, March 5th
- Graduate Program Event; Virtual
- PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Long Range Interactions in Cosmology: Implications for Neutrinos, Jordi Salvadó, University of Barcelona
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom:
- From galaxies to faces: recognizing the implications of Artificial Intelligence in astronomy and society, Dr. Brian Nord, Fermilab
- Monday, March 8th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 9:00 am; zoom meeting
- Modeling RFPs with self-consistent steady states of a cylindrical pinch, Urvashi Gupta, UW-Madison
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom
- Progress on high-field HTS magnets for SPARC, a compact net-energy fusion tokamak, Prof. Zach Hartwig, MIT
- Graduate Program Event; 2:00 pm;
- Electron-electron interactions in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots, Ekmel Ercan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, March 9th
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, March 10th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Generative and Invertible Networks for the LHC, Tilman Plehn, Heidelberg University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, March 11th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Student Social Hour with Physics Colloquium Speaker; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Student Social Hour with Physics Colloquium Speaker Dr. Brian Nord, Dr. Brian Nord, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting (see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- A Collage of Exoplanets on the Mass-Period Diagram, Ji Wang, Ohio State
- Friday, March 12th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap, Djuna Croon, TRIUMF
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, March 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Magnetically dominated plasma turbulence, Prof. Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, March 16th
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Join at
- Major Discovery Week -- Physics, Dan McCammon, UW–Madison Physics
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Major Discovery Week -- AMEP, Deniz Yavuz, UW–Madison Physics
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Matter Outflows in Neutron Star Mergers, Francois Foucart , University of New Hampshire
- Wednesday, March 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF URGENT BUSINESS
- Thursday, March 18th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; SPECIAL TIME 9:00 AM . Zoom link below in Abstract
- Planet Formation and the Composition of Rocky Planets, Amy Bonsor, University of Cambridge UK
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- MS&E Spring Virtual Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Exploiting soft X-ray ARPES to look beyond the surface in correlated electron systems, Dr. Jessica McChesney , Argonne National Laboratory
- Friday, March 19th
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Major Discovery Week -- AMEP, Deniz Yavuz, UW–Madison Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Axion Searches with two Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities, Christina Gao, Fermilab
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Saturday, March 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- tbd, Britton Plourde, Syracuse
- Monday, March 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Fusion plasma physics issues for tokamak DEMOnstration reactors, Prof. Hartmut Zohm, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, March 23rd
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, March 24th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Algebraic Neural Networks, Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, March 25th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 pm
- Galaxy Evolution from Large Surveys of Nearby Resolved Galaxies, Karen Masters, Haverford College
- Friday, March 26th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Gamma-ray flashes from dark photons in neutron star mergers, Gustavo Marques Tavares, University of Maryland
- Graduate Program Event; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Register here:
- Faculty/Grad Student Summer RA Meet & Greet (Virtual), Faculty/Grad Students, Looking for Summer 2021 RA's
- Monday, March 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- The Centrifugal Mirror Fusion Experiment (CMFX): Parameter Space Design, Diagnostics and Construction Process, Prof. Carlos Romero-Talamas, Univ of Maryland-Baltimore County
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, March 30th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; hosted by Baha Balantekin
- Theory of Fast Flavor Conversion of Supernova Neutrinos, Soumya Bhattacharyya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- Wednesday, March 31st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
April 2021
- Thursday, April 1st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- New results from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, Danny Jacobs, Arizona State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- How do galaxies in the nearby Universe grow?, Sanchayeeta Borthakur,, Arizona State
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm;
- Exploring the Use of Signal Envelopes for Neutrino Detection with In-Ice Radio Arrays, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, April 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 10:00 am - 11:00 am; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Amplitude Techniques for Cosmology, Scott Melville, University of Cambridge
- Astronomy Special Friday Lunch Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Zoom Meeting See Abstract for Link
- Making Use of Imaged Spotted Stellar Surfaces, Rachael Roettenbacher, Yale University
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; CANCELLED this week
- Department Coffee Hour - CANCELLED
- Saturday, April 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
- Sunday, April 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
- Monday, April 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Classes resume
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- NSTX-U Recovery — Motivation and Progress Toward the Resumption of Plasma Operations, Dr. Stefan Gerhardt, PPPL
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, April 6th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, April 7th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- A Mathematical Exploration of Why Language Models Help Solve Downstream Tasks, Nikunj Saunshi, Princeton University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled today due to lack of urgent business
- Thursday, April 8th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- Investigating the Origin of the Stars Closest to the Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole, Devin Chu, UCLA
- Friday, April 9th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, April 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Creating Astrophysically Relevant Systems in the Laboratory in the High-Energy-Density Regime, Prof. Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Multidimensional Progenitor Models For Core-collapse Supernovae, Dr. Carl Fields, Michigan State University and Arizona State University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, April 13th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Nucleosynthesis in magneto-rotational driven supernovae, Moritz Reichert , TU – Darmstadt
- Wednesday, April 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Cancelled - due to lack of urgent business.
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm;
- Stellarator Beta Limits with Extended MHD Modeling Using NIMROD, Torrin Bechtel, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm;
- Overlapping Aluminum-Gate Quantum Dots for Valley-Orbit Based Qubits in Si/SiGe, JP Dodson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, April 15th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, expectations for diffuse fluxes and arrival-direction correlations, Arjen van Vliet, DESY Zeuthen, Germany
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- Planets, Patterns, and the Origin of Life, Lauren Weiss, University of Hawaii at Monoa
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- First results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab, Liang Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Friday, April 16th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- The Impact of a Midband Gravitational Wave Experiment On Detectability of Cosmological Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds, Yanou Cui, UC Riverside
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Request for all Master's and Ph.D. Degree Warrants
- Monday, April 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report, Prof. Troy Carter, UCLA
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm;
- The Chemical Quandaries of Titan’s Atmosphere (and How We Can Solve Them), Erin Flowers, Princeton University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Development and testing of a reduced runaway electron model for disruption simulation, Alex Sainterme, UW
- Tuesday, April 20th
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, April 21st
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Machine Learning for Calabi-Yau metrics, Fabian Ruehle, CERN and Oxford
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Cancelled due to lack of urgent business
- Thursday, April 22nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- High Energy Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Searches for New Physics with Long Lived Particles, Lesya Horyn, Fermi Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom:
- Searches for New Physics with Long Lived Particles, Lesya Horyn, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- Simulating Galaxy Formation, Mark Vogelsberger, MIT
- Friday, April 23rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- The Weak Scale as a Trigger, Raffaele-Tito D'Agnolo, Université Paris-Saclay
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, April 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm – ARCS: a Heliophysics mission concept for decoding the aurora , K A Lynch, Dartmouth College Physics and Astronomy, for the ARCS team
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, April 27th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am;
- Heterostructure Modifications, Fabrication Improvements, and Measurement Automation of Si/SiGe Quantum Dots for Quantum Computation, Thomas McJunkin, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Institute for Nuclear Energy Systems (INES) Colloquium ; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Multiphysics analysis of fusion nuclear systems with the MOOSE framework, Dr. Paul Humrickhouse, leads the Fusion Safety Program at Idaho National Laboratory
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Axion Production in Magnetars, Steven Harris, INT-U. Washington
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;
- The Role of Chaos and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy, Vanessa Lopez Barquero , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, April 28th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, April 29th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; online
- Searching for new physics during gravitational waves propagation, Leïla Haegel, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Paris & Swiss National Science Foundation
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual Zoom meeting - See Abstract, Coffee and Tea 3:30pm, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Dust in galaxies: extinction, attenuation and emission, Samir Salim, Indiana University
- Friday, April 30th
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
May 2021
- Saturday, May 1st
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Monday, May 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Lessons learned from Pushing REBCO coated conductor coils from 30 to 45 Tesla, Prof. David Larbalestier, Florida State University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, May 4th
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, May 5th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Explorations at the Physics ∩ ML Interface, Kyle Cranmer, New York University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business
- Thursday, May 6th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Explorer, Prof. Matthias Danninger, Simon Fraser University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Zoom:
- Stop, hammer time! Using novel tools to nail down the top squark after Run 2, Dr. Daniel Spitzbart, Boston University
- Friday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Dept of Ag & Applied Economics 2021 Spring Hooding and Recognition of Graduates
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Master's Degree Deadline
- Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- DDEEA Graduation Recognition Virtual Celebration
- Saturday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Commencement
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Commencement
- Sunday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Spring term 2021
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Doctoral Degree Deadline
- Monday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Summer degree window period begins
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Adam Schaefer (MPIA), Adam Schaefer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- Tuesday, May 11th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Latest Science Results, Ting Li, Carnegie Observatories
- Wednesday, May 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, May 13th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Recent work on high-energy neutrinos, Bei Zhou, Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, May 14th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Sunday, May 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year ends
- Wednesday, May 19th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Are wider nets better given the same number of parameters?, Anna Golubeva, Perimeter Institute
- Thursday, May 20th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Cosmic rays, astrophysics and astrobiology, Noemie Globus, ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic / Flatiron Institute, USA
- Tuesday, May 25th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Thursday, May 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm