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Events During the 2019 Summer Semester
May 2019
- Wednesday, May 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, May 2nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Implications of gravitational wave detections for stellar astrophysics, Lidia Oskinova, University of Potsdam
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Please note special time!;
4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall - Optical and transport properties of metals with nontrivial band geometry, Dima Pesin , University of Virginia
- Friday, May 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum mechanics of fluids in solids, Dima Pesin , University of Virginia
- Physics Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm; Memorial Union - Tripp Commons
- Thursday, May 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum piezoacoustics: From low-dimensional electrons to qubits, Johannes Pollanen, Michigan State University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Planets in a bottle: Exploring planetary atmospheres in the lab, Sarah Horst, The Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, May 10th
- Undergraduate Graduation Reception; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- , Sridhara Dasu, UW - Madison
- Thursday, May 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Coherence and wave-particle duality relations, Prof. Mark Hillery , CUNY
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, May 17th
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Breaking the Myth of the "Non-Traditional" Physicist, Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society (APS)
- Tuesday, May 21st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 9:00 am - 10:00 am; H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building (WID)
- Ice Fishing for Neutrinos: Exploring the mysteries of the cosmos from beneath the South Pole, Francis Halzen, UW-Madison
- Thursday, May 23rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, May 30th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
June 2019
- Tuesday, June 4th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for permanent electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms using cold atom techniques, Dr. Tian Xia, USTC, Hefei, China
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5290 Chamberlin Hall
- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with Time-dependent Quark Mass, Kanji Mori, University of Tokyo
- Thursday, June 6th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, June 10th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 chamberlin Hall
- 3D-printed stellarators: Towards high-field ignition stellarators, Vicente Queral, National Fusion Laboratory, CIEMAT, Spain
- Thursday, June 13th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, June 20th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, June 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
July 2019
- Thursday, July 11th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, July 26th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Topics in Quantum Information: Error Correction and Mitigation, Vickram Premakumar, Physics Graduate Student
- Public Lecture – Hess Memorial Lecture by Alan Watson; 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm; Memorial Union, Shannon Hall
- The Origins of the Highest Energy Particles in Nature - Where we've got to and where we go next , Alan Watson, University of Leeds
- Wednesday, July 31st
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Local Velocity Measurements in the Saturated Single Helical Axis State, John Boguski
August 2019
- Thursday, August 1st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, August 5th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Investigations of a Two-Level Quantum Ensemble Coupled to a Boson Bath, Benjamin Lemberger , Physics Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 6th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Optimization of qubit operations and readout process , Zhenyi Qi, Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 8th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, August 21st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Quantum non-linear evolution of inflationary tensor perturbations, Jinn-Ouk Gong, KASI
- Thursday, August 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Engineering Superconductivity in Semiconductor Nanowires for Quantum Device Applications, Stephen Gill
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, August 29th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, August 30th
- WesleyFest; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- , Wesley Smith
- Saturday, August 31st
- WesleyFest; 9:30 am - 1:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- , Wesley Smith