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Events During the 2018 Summer Semester
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
June 2018
- Thursday, June 28th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; chamberlin 5310
- Non-equilibrium quasi-particles in disordered superconductors, Manuel Houzet, Grenoble
July 2018
- Thursday, July 12th
- WIPAC Press Conference (live event); 9:30 am - 10:30 am; Room 1111, UW-Madison Biotechnology Center (425 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706)
- Please join us celebrating a major breakthrough in multimessenger astrophysics led by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory!, Profs. Justin Vandenbroucke and Prof. Jay Gallagher, UW Madison Physics & Astronomy
- Friday, July 20th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Rotational-state-selective field ionization of H_2 Rydberg states, William Setzer, Thomas Morgan's group, Wesleyan University
August 2018
- Thursday, August 2nd
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310, Chamberlin Hall
- From atomic clocks to cryo-EM: Pushing measurement limits in time and space, Dr. Sara Campbell, Postdoc in Holger Müller's group, UC Berkeley
- Thursday, August 23rd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Development of Large Scale Detector Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Science, Tom Cecil, Argonne National Lab
- Wednesday, August 29th
- Wednesday Nite @ the Lab- Breakthrough in Multimessenger Astronomy talk; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Biotech Building, 425 Henry Mall, Room: 1111 (auditorium)
- , Justin Vandenbroucke
