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Events During the 2025 Spring Semester
January 2025
- Wednesday, January 8th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Developing Josephson Junction Microwave Spectroscopy as a Modality Compatible with Scanned Probe Microscopy at LHe Temperatures, Margaret Fortman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, January 9th
- Outreach; 7:00 pm; Working Draft Beer Company, 1133 E Wilson St, Madison, WI 53703
- Badgers on Tap, Dan Hooper and Hannah Erpenbeck, WIPAC
- Friday, January 10th
- Careers for Physicists; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom
- Community College Instructor Pathway Q&A Panel, Brent Studer, Scott Hildreth, and James Espinosa
- Tuesday, January 14th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Thursday, January 16th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Friday, January 17th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Dissertator eligibility for the spring
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Spring Degree Window Period deadline for master’s students
- Monday, January 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Spring Degree Window Period deadline for doctoral students
- Tuesday, January 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Spring semester instruction begins
- Wednesday, January 22nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, January 23rd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Particle Acceleration by Astrophysical Shocks: A Microphysical Perspective, Karol Fulat, UW-Madison
- Friday, January 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Solid-state spin-photon interfaces for quantum information processing, Peter Lodahl, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Monday, January 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Optimizing a quasi-helically-symmetric stellarator for reduced TEM-driven transport", Michael Gerard, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Tuesday, January 28th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall. Also on Zoom:
- Spring Brown Bag/ Planning Meeting, Physics Education Innovation Seminar Steering Committee, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, January 29th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Interpolation in Cell-Based Coaddition Images and Impacts on Shear Measurements, Miranda Gorsuch, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 6242 CH or
- A high-spectral resolution study of the galactic center soft X-ray bulge with the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter, Conjeepuram V Ambarish, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, January 30th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Shake, rattle, and roll: waves, turbulence, and tides in stellar and planetary systems, Janosz Dewberry, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)
- Friday, January 31st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- FRB science results from CHIME, Kendrick Smith, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
February 2025
- Monday, February 3rd
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Emergent collective phenomena in macroscopic and mesoscopic systems, Dr. Zhenjie Yan, Univ. California Berkeley
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Learning magnetic field structure from trajectories", David Bindel, Cornell University
- Tuesday, February 4th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 CH
- Novel Quantum Devices for Computation and Sensing, Abigail Shearrow, Physics PhD student
- Wednesday, February 5th
- Preliminary Exam; 3:00 pm;
- Search for New Physics Phenomenon via Higgs Boson Pair Production and Novel Machine Learning Methods, Chi Lung Cheng, Physics PhD student
- Thursday, February 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Probing and controlling 2D magnets through the lens of quantum sensors, Brian Zhou, Boston College
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Adventures in optical clocks: quantum engineering, fundamental physics, and new frontiers, Dr. Tobias Bothwell, NIST Boulder
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Inside NASA Communication: Incredible Science, Excruciating Suspense, SMH SNAFU’s and the Challenge of Communicating it All, Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA
- Friday, February 7th
- Climate & Diversity, Diversity Forum Fridays;
9:00 am - 10:30 am; Chamberlin 5310 and Zoom - Diversity Forum Fridays! 2/7/5: Your Brain is Good at Inclusion…Except When It’s Not
- Climate & Diversity, Diversity Forum Fridays;
9:00 am - 10:30 am; Chamberlin 5310 and Zoom - Diversity Forum Fridays! 2/7/5: Your Brain is Good at Inclusion…Except When It’s Not
- Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Sterling B343
- General Meeting
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Entanglement of Astrophysical Neutrinos - APS Bethe Prize Talk, Prof. Baha Balantekin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium, Science Communication Talk;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - Science Communication: It's Not About You., Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA
- Saturday, February 8th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 9th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 10th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Dr. Josiah Sinclair, MIT
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Chemical mixing by stratified MHD turbulence in stars", Adrian Fraser, University of Colorado - Boulder
- Plasma Theory Seminar, Journal Club;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 Engineering Research Bldg - “Non-ideal instabilities in sinusoidal shear flows with a streamwise magnetic field”, Adrian Fraser, University of Colorado - Boulder
- Tuesday, February 11th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- New requirements for ADA compliance in instruction, Jonothan Kein, Director, L&S Instructional Design Collaborative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, February 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, February 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Past, present, and future of Superconducting Diode Effects, Daniel Shaffer , UW-Madison
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Making and probing Bose-Einstein condensates of polar molecules, Dr. Ian Stevenson, Columbia University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Vera C. Rubin Observatory On-sky Commissioning, Keith Bechtol, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Friday, February 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Discovering the Particle Physics of Dark Matter with Cosmology, Hongwan Liu, Boston University
- Saturday, February 15th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Outreach; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2nd Floor of Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Fair
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 16th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 17th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Dr. Haocun Yu, University of Vienna, Austria
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Solar wind turbulence in the young solar wind", Anna Tenerani, University of Texas at Austin
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Monday Colloquium;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH & - Future particle colliders: promise and challenges and how AI/ML can help, Prof. Ken Bloom, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Tuesday, February 18th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 965 9696 7335
- Simulating and Interpreting the Multimessenger Picture of Neutron Star Mergers, Tim Dietrich , AEI, Potsdam & Potsdam University
- Wednesday, February 19th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH &
- From Data to Discovery: Machine Learning and Real-Time AI at the Frontier of Particle Physics, Dr. Abhijith Gandrakota, Fermilab
- Thursday, February 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spontaneous synchronization: from fireflies to Schmidt-Higgs mode in Superconductors, Maxim Dzero , Kent State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Strengthening our profession through structured learning experiences, Nicholas J. McConnell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Friday, February 21st
- Climate & Diversity; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; All Sessions 9-10:30am in Chamberlin 5310 & Zoom
- Antisemitism, Democracy, and the Struggle for an Inclusive and Resilient America, 2024 Diversity Forum
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Path to Scale QCCD Architecture for Trapped Ion Quantum Computers , Patty Lee, Quantinuum
- Monday, February 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Radiatively-cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments on the Z Machine", Jack Hare, Cornell University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH &
- Finding Neutrinos: Advancing Neutrino Detection, Reconstruction, and Analysis, Dr. Jessica Micallef, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
- Plasma Theory Seminar, Journal Club;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 Engineering Research Bldg - “A Brief Review of Magnetic Wells” by J.M. Greene, Justin Frazier, UW-Madison, NEEP
- Tuesday, February 25th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Multimodal vision-language modeling for advanced quantitative analysis of positron emission tomography imaging, Zachary Huemann, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, February 26th
- Department Meeting
- 11:45 am - 12:30 pm; VIRTUAL - link to be sent by Lefkow
- Climate & Diversity; 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm; Sterling B343 and Zoom
- Improving Department Culture with the Office of Inclusive Excellence, DeVon Wilson, Mel Freitag, and Jasmia Hamilton , Office of Inclusive Excellence
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH &
- Beyond the Observable: A Machine Learning perspective on modern Cosmology, Dr. Carolina Cuesta Lazaro, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, MIT
- Thursday, February 27th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; VIRTUAL - link to be sent by Lefkow
- Friday, February 28th
- Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling B343
- BBiP Black History Heritage Month Event
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Centaur Science: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning, Jesse Thaler, MIT
March 2025
- Saturday, March 1st
- Graduate Program Event; 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Sub-Zero Ice Rink, Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center,1976 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706
- Physics Ice Skating Social
- Monday, March 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Multi-fidelity digital models for fusion energy device optimization, design, and operation", Michael Churchill, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Relics, Asher Berlin, Fermilab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH &
- Towards Differentiable Physics Analysis at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider and Beyond, Dr. Matthew Feickert, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Wednesday, March 5th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH &
- Invisible Cities: Imagining the next era of AI-enabled fundamental physics research, Dr. Mariel Pettee, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Thursday, March 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum many-body scars in Rydberg atom simulators, Ian Mondragon Shem, Northwestern
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Milky Way as a Prototypical Disk Galaxy: Galactic Archeology and Chemical Evolution in Context, Boquan Erwin Chen, Ohio State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH &
- Seeing with Structure: Physics and The Art of Model-Building, Dr. Garrett Merz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Friday, March 7th
- Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am; all over Chamberlin
- Prospective Visit Days
- Climate & Diversity; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; in Chamberlin 5310 & Zoom
- Diversity Forum Fridays: Fostering Psychological Safety to Enhance Belonging and Community
- HXS Group Meeting; 2:30 pm - 3:10 pm; 106 Engineering Research Bldg
- "Real-Time Plasma Control of LHD by Data Assimilation System: ASTI", Prof. Sadayoshi Murakami, Kyoto University
- HXS Group Meeting; 3:15 pm - 3:55 pm; 106 Engineering Research Bldg
- "Status of design activity of QA-QI flexible stellarator at NIFS", Prof. Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, National Institute for Fusion Studies
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Investigating cosmic origin and evolution with the oldest photons, Zeeshan Ahmed, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Monday, March 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Structure-exploiting sparse grid approximations for efficient uncertainty quantification and surrogate model construction", Ionut Farcas, Virginia Tech
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Quantum-corrected Black Hole Entropy and EFT Transitions, Alberto Castellano, Chicago University
- Graduate Program Event; 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- How to Prelim, Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program Manager
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH &
- Overcoming challenges of quantum interference in Higgs physics with high-dimensional statistics, Dr. Aishik Ghosh, University of California - Irvine
- Plasma Theory Seminar, Journal Club;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 Engineering Research Bldg - "A gyrokinetic simulation model for 2D equilibrium potential in the scrape-off layer of a field-reversed configuration", Aaron Tran, UW-Madison, Physics
- Tuesday, March 11th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall and on Zoom
- Physics Education Research Projects in the Department of Physics, Ayshea Banes, Isaac Barnhill, and Mihir Manna, UW Madison, Department of Physics
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, March 12th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5280 &
- Thinking Fast & Slow with AI, Sash Sarangi, EMAlpha
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, March 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Recent research progress in making quantum computers useful for finance, Ruslan Shaydulin, JPMChase
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Mapping the Milky Way in n-Dimensions, Andrew Saydjari, Harvard University
- Friday, March 14th
- Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am; all over Chamberlin
- Prospective Visit Days
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies, Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington
- Monday, March 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Uncertainty quantification in fusion power plant design”, Enrique Miralles-Dolz , PPPL/UW-Madison
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; VIRTUAL - Lefkow will send link
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Observable CMB B-modes from Cosmological Phase Transitions, Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab
- Tuesday, March 18th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; VIRTUAL - Lefkow will send link
- Graduate Program Event, Mental Health for Graduate Students - Part 1 (of 3);
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling - Self-Care in Grad School + Overview of Mental Health Services (MHS), Neeti Shenoy, MA and Sara Beachy Waters, JD, Mental Health Services/University Health Services
- Thursday, March 20th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Towards a Unified picture of Planet Formation, Songhu Wang, Indiana University
- Friday, March 21st
- Climate & Diversity; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; in Chamberlin 5310 & Zoom
- Diversity Forum Fridays: The Islamophobia Sniff Test
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Telescope Array and the Dawn Goddess of the North, Doug Bergman, University of Utah
- Saturday, March 22nd
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Sunday, March 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Monday, March 24th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Graduate Program Event; 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- How to FInish, Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program Manager
- Tuesday, March 25th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, March 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Thursday, March 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Friday, March 28th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Saturday, March 29th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Sunday, March 30th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess
- Monday, March 31st
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Semester classes resume
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Generalized symmetry constraints on deformed 4d (S)CFTs, Craig Lawrie, DESY, Hamburg
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Astrophysical Neutrinos Uncover Neutrino Properties and Decode New Physics, Anna Suliga , New York University
April 2025
- Tuesday, April 1st
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall and Zoom:
- Promoting Student Learning and Success through Interactive Web-Based Tutorials, Kathy Koenig, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 965 9696 7335
- EFT at Neutrino Experiments, Dr. Zahra Tabrizi , University of Pittsburgh
- Thursday, April 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Justyna Zwolak, NIST
- Graduate Program Event; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- PhD Handbook Q&A session, Keith Bechtol, Sharon Kahn, PhD program
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- New Phenomena Around Supermassive Black Holes: Dynamics and Chemistry, Mark Gorski, CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow
- Graduate Program Event; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- International Student Tax Session
- Friday, April 4th
- Climate & Diversity; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; Chamberlin 5310 & Zoom
- Diversity Forum Fridays! The Math Ain’t Mathing: Professionals of Color Working Twice as Hard to Get Half as Far, Rachel Zizmann
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- The Future of Quantum Supremacy Experiments, Scott Aaronson, University of Texas Austin
- Saturday, April 5th
- Wonders of Physics
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Tuesday, April 8th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, April 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Graduate Program Event, Mental Health for Graduate Students - Part 2 (of 3);
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling - Imposter Fears, Dr. Kathy Wierzchowski, Mental Health Services/University Health Services
- Thursday, April 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Microcavity sensing of molecules, Randy Goldsmith, UW-Madison
- Friday, April 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- title to be announced, Jodi Cooley, Queen's University
- Wednesday, April 16th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Sterlin B343 or Zoom
- Physics Microagressions Workshop, Triston Kin, Office of Inclusion Education
- Thursday, April 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Field theory of monitored, interacting fermions with charge-conservation, Matthew Foster, Rice University
- High Energy Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 5280
- Axial Form Factor from MINERvA, Richard Gran, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Friday, April 18th
- Climate & Diversity; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; Chamberlin 5310 & Zoom
- Diversity Forum Fridays! Use Plain Language to Build a More Inclusive Workplace Community, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- The Compact, High Field Mirror Path to Fusion and First Results from the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror, Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Tuesday, April 22nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall &
- MAIA - a detector for muon collider, Benjamin Rosser, University of Chicago
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Rm.5280, Chamberlin Hall
- PsiQuantum's Vision for Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, PsiQuantum
- Wednesday, April 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Alex High , University of Chicago
- Thursday, April 24th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Galactic Correlates of Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Their Application, Niel Brandt, Penn State
- Friday, April 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Carbon Dioxide Removal: Scaling Technologies to Combat Climate Change, Jan Huckfeldt, Climeworks
- Tuesday, April 29th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- WQI Colloquium-TBD, Andrea Morello, UNSW
- Graduate Program Event, Mental Health for Graduate Students - Part 3 (of 3);
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling - Conflict Resolution, Neeti Shenoy, MA, and felix savino, Staff Psychologist, Mental Health Services/University Health Services
- Outreach; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Working Draft Beer Company, 1133 E Wilson St, Madison, WI 53703
- Badgers on Tap, Noah Hurst and Juliana Pacheco Duarte, UW–Madison Physics and NEEP
- Wednesday, April 30th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
May 2025
- Thursday, May 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Hart Goldman, UMN
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The BayesLIM Project to map the high-redshift universe , Nick Kern, MIT
- Friday, May 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Last Spring Semester class day
- Climate & Diversity; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; Chamberlin 5310 & Zoom
- Diversity Forum Fridays! Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Underrepresented Collegiate Students , Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- TBD, Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Awards; 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm; Discovery Building
- Physics Student & Alumni Awards Banquet, Kevin Black
- Saturday, May 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Study Day
- Sunday, May 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Monday, May 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Tuesday, May 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Thursday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Wuerzburg
- Friday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Commencement Weekend
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Physics Graduation Ceremony; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- , various
- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Master's degree deadline
- Saturday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Commencement Weekend
- Sunday, May 11th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, May 12th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Semester Grading deadline
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, Michael Nee, Harvard University
- Wednesday, May 14th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Sterling B343
- Suicide Prevention Workshop: Physics Department, Wendy Ellis, University Health Services
- Sunday, May 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year ends
- Monday, May 19th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session begins
- Monday, May 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Memorial Day (Observed)
- Tuesday, May 27th
- Academic Calendar
- 3-week Summer session begins
