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Events During the 2023 Spring Semester
January 2023
- Tuesday, January 3rd
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (PVL 267644); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 3290A Chamberlin Hall
- , Paul Terry, UW Physics
- Thursday, January 5th
- test; 11:50 am; Chamberlin 5310
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- Tuesday, January 10th
- Winter Recess; 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- , Sharon Kahn
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (PVL 267644); 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 3290A
- , Paul Terry, UW Madison Physics
- Wednesday, January 11th
- 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. We will also livestream the talk in Chamberlin 5280.
- Implicit Regularization in Quantum Tensor Networks, Nadav Cohen, Tel Aviv University
- Thursday, January 12th
- Cookie potluck; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- , Sharon Kahn
- Monday, January 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Tuesday, January 17th
- Winter Recess; 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- , Sharon Kahn
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Search for dark matter using diffuse gamma rays discovered by Tibet AS_{\gamma}, Tarak Nath Maity , IISc, India
- Wednesday, January 18th
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 3290 A Chamberlin Hall
- Facutly Search Committee Meeting, Paul Terry, UW-Madison
- Thursday, January 19th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Spring 2023 - Classical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Spring 2023 -Statistical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- Friday, January 20th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Spring 2023 - Electricity & Magnetism, Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Spring 2023 - Quantum Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- Monday, January 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to cancel spring enrollment and have no spring term record on transcript
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Spring degree window period deadline for master's students
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Dissertator eligibility for spring 2023
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Spring degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Tuesday, January 24th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring semester instruction begins
- Wednesday, January 25th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Precision measurements to search for gravitational waves and dark matter, Nancy Aggarwal
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, January 26th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH4274 /
- Reactor Neutrino Experiments in China: Daya Bay and JUNO, Wei Wang, Sun Yat-sen University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Seeking the nature of dark matter with the Milky Way halo and wide-field photometric surveys, Peter Ferguson, UW-Madison
- Friday, January 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Special and Guest) to begin initial Spring term enrollment without $50 late fee
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Importance of Being Eccentric, Ann-Marie Madigan, UC Boulder
- Monday, January 30th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Where is All the Antimatter? Electron EDM Search in Cold Molecules Edges Closer, Xing Wu, Harvard University
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- CANCELLATION: No seminar for Monday, January 30, 2023
- Tuesday, January 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Locality, universality, and quantum dynamics with measurements, Aaron Friedman, UC Boulder
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- High-Energy Multimesssenger Emission from Supermassive Black Holes, Kohta Murase, Penn State
February 2023
- Wednesday, February 1st
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline to drop a course or withdraw from the university without having the course(s) appear on the transcript
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Superradiance in ordered atomic arrays, Stuart Masson , Columbia University
- Thursday, February 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Emergence of Quantum Order, Elio Konig , Max Planck (Stuttgart)
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The discovery and properties of binary-stripped helium stars, Ylva Götberg, Carnegie Observatories
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Discovery and Properties of Binary-Stripped Helium Stars, Dr. Ylva Götberg , Carnegie Observatories
- Friday, February 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to add, swap, or change sections in a Spring term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to begin initial Spring enrollment
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course and receive 100% tuition adjustment
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; CH4274/https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94714568988?pwd=TnRuZFNQaFErZDZ6V29DL0VpSC9rUT09
- Exploiting stellar explosion induced by the QCD phase transition in large-scale neutrino detectors, Anna Suliga, UC Berkeley/UW Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Multi-messenger scanning probe microscopy for the investigation of electronic properties of materials., Victor Brar, UW Madison
- Monday, February 6th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Beyond quantum circuits with trapped-ion qubits , Or Katz, Duke University
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Eulerian space-time correlation of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the analysis of Parker Solar Probe measurements, Jean Carlos Perez, Florida Institute of Technology
- Tuesday, February 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Building Tools for the Quantum Many-Body Problem: The Case of Fractional Chern Insulators, Daniel Parker , Harvard
- Wednesday, February 8th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Searches for transient astrophysical neutrino sources with IceCube, Jessie Thwaites, Physics Graduate Student
- 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
- Bayesian Renormalization: An explicit correspondence between statistical inference and exact renormalization, Marc Klinger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum many-body physics with ultracold molecules, Zoe Yan , Princeton University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; virtual - link to be sent later.
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- New Physics with Gravitational Waves , Jan Schuette-Engel, University of Illinois
- Thursday, February 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Constructive approaches to frustrated magnetism: Moiré and Measurements, Zhu-Xi Luo, Harvard University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Hunting EeV Neutrinos with RNO-G and PUEO, Cosmin Deaconu, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Blue Stragglers, Blue Lurkers and Stars that Go Bump In the Night, Robert Mathieu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Friday, February 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Ultracold Inferno” to Quantum Computing: Collisions Under Quantum Control, Micheline Soley , UW Madison - Department of Chemisty
- Saturday, February 11th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 12th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 13th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The geometry of quantum error correction under biased noise, Arpit Dua
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Multiscale Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas , Yan Yang, University of Delaware
- Tuesday, February 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Discovering and Engineering Two-Dimensional Magnetism and Superconductivity, Tiancheng Song, Princeton
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, February 15th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Achieving Practical Computations on Quantum Computers: From Better Qubits to Better Algorithms, Matthew Otten , Hughes Research Laboratories
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, February 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Strange Metal Behavior in the Hall Coefficient of BaFe2(As,P)2, Ian Hayes, University of Maryland
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH4274/Invite Link Invite Link
- Particle acceleration in astrophysical, magnetized turbulent plasmas, Martin Lemoine , Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS
- Physics Majors Fair; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; University Ave Lobby and Physics Museum
- , Evan Heintz, Undergraduate Advisor
- Friday, February 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Graduate) to change variable credits
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Graduate) to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Spring term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course and receive 50% tuition adjustment
- Preliminary Exam; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 2335 Sterling or
- 2D Convolutional Network for IceCube DeepCore Oscillation Studies, Josh Peterson, Physics Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:25 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- So a quantum computer walks into the White House…, Charles Tahan , Laboratory for Physical Sciences
- Saturday, February 18th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 19th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Into the Nonthermal Landscape: Searching for a Statistical Mechanics for Turbulent Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Plasmas, Vladimir Zhdankin, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
- Tuesday, February 21st
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interacting Opto-Moiré Quantum Matter, Xi Wang, U Washington
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm;
- Photon Assisted Quasiparticle Poisoning and Single Flux Quantum-Based Digital Control of Superconducting Qubits, Chuanhong Liu, Physics Graduate Student
- Wednesday, February 22nd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Geometry of Conformal Manifolds and the Inversion Formula, Bruno Balthazar, University of Chicago
- Thursday, February 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- VdW heterostructures: a new route to designing quantum matters, Xiameng Liu, Princeton
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 2:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Breaking Barriers in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Using Direct Construction Methods, Rogério Jorge, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The next generation of gravitational wave counterpart discovery, Charlie Kilpatrick, Northwestern University
- Entropy, molecular motors, and non-thermal equilibrium statistical physics; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- , Steven Chu, Stanford University
- Friday, February 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Julian E. Mack Distinguished Lectures;
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall - Climate Change and innovative paths to a sustainable future, Steven Chu, Stanford University
- Monday, February 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Advances in Stellarator Optimization, Sophia Henneberg, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Thunder and Lightning: New Frontiers in Time-domain Astronomy, Ben Margalit, University of California, Berkeley
- Tuesday, February 28th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Reacceleration of Galactic Cosmic Rays Beyond the Knee at the Termination Shock of a Cosmic-Ray-Driven Galactic Wind, Payel Mukhopadhyay , UC-Berkeley
March 2023
- Wednesday, March 1st
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or online
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Machine Learning for String Compactifications, Anthony Ashmore, U. Chicago
- Thursday, March 2nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, WIPAC-astro discussion;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; - Where are Milky Way’s Hadronic PeVatrons?, Takahiro Sudo, Ohio State University
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 2:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Life Cycle of Magnetized Plasmas in the Universe, Young Dae Yoon, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
- Friday, March 3rd
- Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am - 5:30 pm; all over Chamberlin
- Prospective Visit Days, Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; CH4274/Join Zoom Meeting
- Machine Learning and its Applications in IceCube, Claudio Kopper, Michigan State University/Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Cool Copper Collider, Emilio Nanni, SLAC, Stanford University
- Monday, March 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Predicting the nonlinear properties of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics and the applications to advanced stellarators for fusion energy, Adelle Wright, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Wednesday, March 8th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Black holes and vacuum decay, Andrey Shkerin, Univ. Minnesota
- Thursday, March 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Single Photon Computational imaging and Quantum Information, Andreas Velten, UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Students Learn More from Interactive and Inclusive Teaching, Julia Kregenow, Penn State University
- Friday, March 10th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; VIRTUAL - Link will be sent later.
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Imprints of the Quantum Physics on the Universe, Jun'ichi Yokoyama, University of Tokyo
- Saturday, March 11th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Sunday, March 12th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Monday, March 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Tuesday, March 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Dept potluck; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Spring break potluck lunch/Pi Day, Sharon Kahn
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Recent Progress of String Lamppost Principle, Yuta Hamada, KEK
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Neutron star mass and radius constrained from the magnetar QPOs, Hajime Sotani
- Wednesday, March 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; VIRTUAL - link will be sent later.
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced
- Thursday, March 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Friday, March 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Saturday, March 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Sunday, March 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Monday, March 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Deciphering the Non-Thermal Universe with First Principles Modeling of Plasma Turbulence, Luca Comisso, Columbia University
- Tuesday, March 21st
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Planet formation insights from debris disk dust and gas, Meredith Hughes, Wesleyan University
- Wednesday, March 22nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Molecules For Dark Matter Detection, Benjamin Lillard, U. of Oregon
- Friday, March 24th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 7:00 pm; various locations
- Prospective Visit Days (#2), Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Theory of Three-Dimensional Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions, Adam Burrows, Princeton University
- Monday, March 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Enrollment appointment times for Spring term assigned to students (throughout week)
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Overview of research highlights, growth, and diversification at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Jonathan Menard, Deputy Director for Research and Chief Research Officer, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Tuesday, March 28th
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (closed); 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 3290A Chamberlin Hall
- , Paul Terry, UW-Madison
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547 NOTE: All participants and hosts are now required to sign into a Zoom account prior to joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley.
- Dirac Neutrinos & Spectral Distortions to the Cosmic Neutrino Background, Evan Grohs, NCSU
- Wednesday, March 29th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or online
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Axion assisted Schwinger effect, Yohei Ema, University of Minnesota
- Thursday, March 30th
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (closed); 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 3290A Chamberlin Hall
- , Paul Terry, UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Photochemical Processing in Protoplanetary Disks: Insights from Our Solar System, Fred Ciesla, University of Chicago
- Friday, March 31st
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm; William Eckhardt Research Center, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
- Quantum Recruiting Forum 2023
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (closed); 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 3290A Chamberlin Hall
- , Paul Terry, UW-Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- UW Physics Graduate Students Research Presentations, UW Physics Graduate Students
- Undergraduate Program Event; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Graduate Student Panel, UW Physics Graduate Students
April 2023
- Monday, April 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Students begin enrolling for Summer term courses according to their appointment times
- Academic Calendar
- Enrollment appointment times for Fall term assigned to students (throughout week)
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmic Ray Transport Theory in light of Milky Way Data, Philipp Kempski, Princeton University
- Tuesday, April 4th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day In Wisconsin, including same-day registration
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547 NOTE: All participants and hosts are now required to sign into a Zoom account prior to joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley.
- Constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the CMB with POLARBEAR, Jacob Spisak, UCSD
- Wednesday, April 5th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Detecting Axion-Like Particles with Primordial Black Holes, Tao Xu, Oklahoma U.
- Thursday, April 6th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Reverberation mapping the inner environments of AGN, Yasaman Homayouni, Penn State University
- Friday, April 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmic Neutrinos at the Highest Energies, Stephanie Wissel, Penn State
- Monday, April 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Students begin enrolling for Fall term courses according to their appointment times
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetohydrodynamics of Dirac Plasma in Graphene, Alex Levchenko, UW - Madison
- Tuesday, April 11th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Light sterile neutrinos in compact binary merger remnants , Irene Tamborra , Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
- Graduate Program Event; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- A(ction) functional gradient descent algorithm for estimating instantons in chemical reaction networks, Praful Gagrani, Physics Graduate Student
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum and streaming; see for full details
- Wisconsin's role in harnessing fusion energy, Cary Forest , Physics, Realta Fusion
- Wednesday, April 12th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; VIRTUAL - link will be sent later.
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Late-time accelerating cosmologies, Flavio Tonioni, UW Madison
- The James Webb Space Telescope - Launching a New Astronomical Era; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- , Dr. Steph LaMassa, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Thursday, April 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Valley and Momentum Polarization in Multilayer Graphene, Jia Leo Li, Brown University
- Chancellor Mnookin's Investiture Events; 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Marquee Theater, Union South and virtual; see
- Discovery Past, Present, and Future: Black Holes, Neutrinos, and Life in our Galaxy, Francis Halzen, Andrea Ghez, Susanna Widicus Weaver, and Eric Wilcots, Various
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; CH 4274
- LDMX: The Light Dark Matter eXperiment, Matthew Solt, The University of Virginia
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Unveiling Luminous Obscured Black Hole Growth with the Wide-Area Multi-Wavelength Stripe 82X Survey, Dr. Stephanie LaMassa, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Friday, April 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Knowns and Unknowns in Neutrinos, Peter Denton , Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Saturday, April 15th
- Outreach; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall
- The Physics Fair, Various, Dept of Physics
- Outreach; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- The Wonders of Physics show
- Outreach; 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- The Wonders of Physics show
- Monday, April 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Schnack Memorial Seminar: Simulating Transient Excitation of Neoclassical Tearing Modes, Eric Howell, Tech-X Corporation
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; VIRTUAL - link will be sent later.
- Tuesday, April 18th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Outreach; 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Working Draft Beer Company, 1129 E Wilson St, Madison
- Astronomy on Tap, various, UW–Madison
- Wednesday, April 19th
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Reconstruction of the Radial Velocity Field of the Universe with a joint CMB and Large Scale Structure likelihood analysis, Yurii Kvasiuk, Physics Graduate Student
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- New inflationary probes of axion dark matter, Lingfeng Li, Brown University
- Thursday, April 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Spring term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to change variable credits
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Driven-dissipative dynamics of coupled atomic clocks , Emil Yuzbashyan, Rutgers
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 2124 Chamberlin or
- Unraveling the Dynamics of the Milky Way: Investigations into the Asymmetries of the Galactic Disk, Lekshmi Thulasidharan, Physics Graduate Student
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The path to high-performance long-duration plasmas on Wendelstein 7-X, Prof. Thomas Klinger, IPP Greifswald, Germany
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 1313 Sterling
- Hunting for new physics at CERN : Highlights and Prospects, Niki Saoulidou, University of Athens
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Mapping the circumgalactic medium with Lyα emission, Dawn Erb, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Graduate Program Event; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Disorder in the Kitaev Spin Liquid, Wen-Han Kao, PhD graduate student in Physics at Univ of Minnesota
- Friday, April 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Spring term course
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to change Honors Optional course status
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to add a Spring term course with department permission
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Graduate) to withdraw from Spring term
- Climate & Diversity; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; foyer outside 2241 Chamberlin
- Climate and Diversity Coffee Hour , Tulika Bose
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Request for all master's and doctoral degree warrants
- Monday, April 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Dipole Traps for Non-neutral and Pair Plasma Studies, Matthew Stoneking, Lawrence University
- Tuesday, April 25th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
- TBD, Carla Fröhlich , NC State University
- Wednesday, April 26th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour - Cancelled
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Status of negative coupling modifiers for extended Higgs sectors, Carlos Henrique de Lima, Carleton University
- Thursday, April 27th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH4274 or
- Landscape of CP Violation in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar/UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- High-Resolution Far-Infrared Spectroscopy, Darek Lis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Friday, April 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism, Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
May 2023
- Monday, May 1st
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Nanoscale Enhancement of Dipole Emission: Modeling Multi-Photon Effects and Microwave Emission from Small Josephson Junctions, Colin Whisler, Physics Graduate Student
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Initial Results from the DIII-D Negative Triangularity Campaign, Kathreen Thome, General Atomics
- Tuesday, May 2nd
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Search for dark matter produced in association with Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pair, Shivani Lomte, Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Auditorium of Genetics/Biotech
- Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?, Minhal Gardezi, Dept of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, May 3rd
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- Multi-Messenger Searches for High Energy Cosmic Ray Accelerators, David Guevel, Physics Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Building non-vanilla QCD axion models, Felix Yu, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life in space, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands
- Thursday, May 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- SQUID-Based Broadband Microwave Isolator, Matt Beck, IBM Yorktown Heights
- Friday, May 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day for spring semester
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to withdraw from the Spring term
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from sampling to clocks to qubits, Adam Kaufman, UC Boulder
- Physics Student/Alumni Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm; WID
- , Mark Eriksson, UW-Madison
- Saturday, May 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Sunday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Monday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Higgs production with a top quark pair in the diphoton channel, di-Higgs production in the bb-diphoton channel, and Inner Tracker upgrade with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, Alex Zeng Wang, Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Investigation of Higgs Boson Decaying to Di-muon and Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson decaying to Di-b-quark, Jay Chan, Physics Graduate Student
- Tuesday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Neutron Star Weather Forecasting , Joonas Nättilä , Columbia University, Flatiron Institute
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Mathematics of evolving ecologies in chemical reaction networks and the origins of biochemical life, Praful Gagrani, Physics Graduate Student
- Wednesday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Thursday, May 11th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin or - New Approaches to Transverse NMR Gyroscopes, Susan Sorensen, Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH4274/https://wipac-science.zoom.us/j/98113285101?pwd=RlNKY2I4Uzg5K2QxVWJmZTJ4eVpWQT09
- Gravitational Wave Science with Gamma Rays, Matthew Kerr , US Naval Research Laboratory
- Friday, May 12th
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
10:00 am - 12:00 pm; - Pressure-driven tearing and energy transport in finite beta Reversed Field Pinch computations, Urvashi Gupta, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Probing The Impact of Cluster Weak Lensing Bias On DES Y1 Cluster Cosmological Results, Johnny Esteves, University of Michigan
- Graduation Event; 3:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Graduate Celebration Event, Sharon Kahn and Evan Heintz
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, May 14th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, May 15th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall -
- Wednesday, May 17th
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin - Nanoscale metrology using the spin and charge states of single nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, Aedan Gardill, Physics Graduate Student
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Investigating the Collisionless Kinetic Regime with the New TREX Drive Cylinder, Paul Gradney
- Thursday, May 18th
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Macroscopic Dark Matter, Mrunal Prashant Korwar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, WIPAC seminar;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; WIPAC supernova - Searches for Dark Matter with IceCube, Thien Nhan Chau, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Gravitational particle production in inflationary models using Stokes phenomenon, Nidhi Sudhir Kandathpatinharuveetil, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, May 25th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Electron antineutrino scattering on protons: history, applications, and theoretical estimates, Professor Francesco Vissani, INFN, Gran Sasso, Italy
- Tuesday, May 30th
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Precision Measurements with a Multiplexed Optical Lattice Clock, Jack Dolde, Department of Physics Graduate Student