Events at Physics |
Events During the 2020 Summer Semester
May 2020
- Friday, May 1st
- Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Register for zoom event: - TBD, Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- *CANCELLED* TBD, David Weiss, Penn State
- Tuesday, May 5th
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Online
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- Natural Graph Networks, Taco Cohen, Qualcomm AI Research
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Online
- Thursday, May 7th
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
- Department Coffee Hour
- Awards; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; Blackboard Collaborate; see link and dial-in access below
- 2020 Scholarships & Awards
- Friday, May 8th
- Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at: - , Holger Muller, University of California, Berkeley
- Commencement; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm;
- 2020 Virtual Commencement Ceremony
- Wednesday, May 13th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
11:00 am - 12:00 pm; - Mathematics of post-quantum cryptography & the CyberSecurity Non-Profit, Emily Stamm, Allstate & CyberSecurity Non-Profit
- Thursday, May 14th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Virtual:
- Progress Towards an Atomic Metamaterial, Zachary Buckholtz, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
- Department Coffee Hour
- Friday, May 15th
- Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at: - Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, Vedika Khemani, Stanford University
- Wednesday, May 20th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- Building symmetries into generative flow models, Phiala Shanahan, MIT
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
- Career Opportunities in Quantum Technology at HRL Laboratories, Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories
- Thursday, May 21st
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Email quantum@uchicago.edu to request access; - Understanding sources of decoherence for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW–Madison Physics
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
- Friday, May 22nd
- Board of Visitors; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual
- Board of Visitors meeting, Craig Heberer, Chair, BoV
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
- Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, Monika Aidelsburger, LMU
- Tuesday, May 26th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
- Quantum Employer Spotlight: Atom Computing, TBA
- Wednesday, May 27th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 11:30 am; Join Virtually:
- CQE Research Briefing — Learning to Optimize Variational Quantum Circuits to Solve Combinatorial Problems, Yuri Alexeev, Argonne National Laboratory
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
- Thursday, May 28th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; Virtual
- Continuous-Wave Optical Modulation via Stimulated Raman Scattering, David Gold, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
- Friday, May 29th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; RSVP here for the virtual event:
- Quantum Employer Spotlight: IBM, TBA, IBM
June 2020
- Monday, June 1st
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; Virtual
- Stability of Diffuse Optical Tomography in the Bayesian Framework, Kit Newton, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, June 2nd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Exposing the astrophysical conditions of r-process events through observable signatures of lanthanide and actinide production, Nicole Vassh, Notre Dame
- Wednesday, June 3rd
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- Why do neural networks generalise in the overparameterised regime?, Ard Louis, University of Oxford
- Thursday, June 4th
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
- Department Coffee Hour
- Tuesday, June 9th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Evaluating Neutrino Moment Closures in Neutron Star Mergers, Sherwood Richers , UC Berkeley
- Wednesday, June 10th
- Diversity and Inclusion Plan and Town Hall ; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Webex:
- , Kevin Black, UW-Madison
- Thursday, June 11th
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Department Coffee Hour
- Friday, June 12th
- Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at: - Long-lived spin squeezing in a metrologically relevant regime, Jakob Reichel, Sorbonne University / Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'ENS
- Tuesday, June 16th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Co-SIMP freezeout: a novel Dark Matter Production Mechanism, Juri Smirnov , Ohio State U.
- Wednesday, June 17th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; Virtual
- Theory and Simulations of Interacting Quantum Systems, Baris Ozguler, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- Deep Learning and Quantum Gravity, Koji Hashimoto, Osaka University
- Thursday, June 18th
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Department Coffee Hour
- Friday, June 19th
- Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at: - Virtual AMO Seminar — Title TBD, Tilman Esslinger, ETH
- Tuesday, June 23rd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- On the minimum radius of very massive neutron stars, Sophia Han, Ohio U.
- Wednesday, June 24th
- Department Meeting
- 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
- Thursday, June 25th
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Department Coffee Hour
- Friday, June 26th
- Atomic Physics Seminar, Virtual AMO Seminar Series;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at: - Virtual AMO Seminar — Title TBD, Jonathan Home, ETH
- Tuesday, June 30th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Thermal evolution of neo-neutron stars, Mikhail Beznogov, National Autonomous University of Mexico
July 2020
- Wednesday, July 1st
- Physics meets ML; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- Learning for Safety-Critical Control in Dynamical Systems, Yisong Yue, CalTech
- Thursday, July 2nd
- Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Zoom
- Exploring driven, high Lundquist number magnetic reconnection in the laboratory: studies of sub-ion scale plasmoids, and the interplay between shocks and magnetic flux pileup, Joseph Olson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Department Coffee Hour
- Tuesday, July 7th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- The dark matter neutrino portal and implications for stellar collapse, Amol Patwardhan, INT
- Thursday, July 9th
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Department Coffee Hour: Consequences of our teaching plan and International student status
- Friday, July 10th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
- Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, David Demille, Yale
- Monday, July 13th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
- Instability, ion heating, and flow drive in high-? hall plasmas, Jason Milhone, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, July 14th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Exciting Prospects for Detecting Late-Time Neutrinos from Core-Collapse Supernovae, Shirley Li, SLAC
- Wednesday, July 15th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 12:00 pm
- String data and machine learning , Andre Lukas, University of Oxford
- Thursday, July 16th
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Department Coffee Hour
- Friday, July 17th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
- Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, James Thompson, JILA
- Tuesday, July 21st
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Dark photons and supernovae: Lessons from astrophysics, Ermal Rrapaj, Minnesota
- Wednesday, July 22nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
- Thursday, July 23rd
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Chicago Quantum Exchange Seminar Series;
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; - Launch to the Future: Quantum Internet, DOE and UChicago
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Department Coffee Hour
- Friday, July 24th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual
- Techniques to improve neurovascular 4D-flow MRI and its applications, Dahan Kim, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
- Virtual AMO Seminar Series, Normal Yao, UC Berkeley
- Tuesday, July 28th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Neutron Star Merger Dynamics, David Radice, Penn State
- Wednesday, July 29th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
- Cosmic Ray Transport and the Galaxy Gas Cycle, Chad Bustard, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- Discovering Symbolic Models in Physical Systems using Deep Learning, Shirley Ho, Flatiron Institute
- Chicago Quantum Exchange Briefing; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; please email quantum@uchicago.edu to request access
- Quantum simulations of materials on near-term quantum computers, Marco Govoni, Argonne National Laboratory
- Thursday, July 30th
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Department Coffee Hour
- Friday, July 31st
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; register for the Zoom link at:
- Virtual AMO Seminar — TBD, TBD, TBD
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2020: Degree Warrant Request Deadline
August 2020
- Monday, August 3rd
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
- Development of high-beta weakly magnetized plasma Couette flow in pursuit of electromagnetic instabilities in the Hall regime, Ken Flanagan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 4th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Gamma rays from neutron star mergers: a unique signature of the r process, Xilu Wang, Notre Dame
- Wednesday, August 5th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual
- A study of Collective effects and Dark state based localization protocols in cold atoms, Diptaranjan Das, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 6th
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual
- Precision measurements of the astrophysical neutrino flux, Austin Schneider, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 7th
- M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 12:00 pm; Virtual
- MSPQC Virtual Graduation
- Tuesday, August 11th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- On massive neutrino emission from primordial black holes via Hawking radiation , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Northwestern
- Wednesday, August 12th
- Physics Meets ML; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- Discovering new phases of matter with unsupervised and interpretable support vector machines , Lode Pollet, LMU Munich
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual
- Role of Stable Eigenmodes in Shear-flow Instability Saturation and Turbulence, Adrian Fraser, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Virtual
- Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Cosmological and String Theoretic Data, Alex Cole, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar
- Thursday, August 13th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Friday, August 14th
- Madison Astronomical Society monthly meeting; 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm; virtual, email to madisonastro.info@gmail.com by noon Friday August 14 to receive the zoom link
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Optical atomic clocks and their applications, Shimon Kolkowitz
- Monday, August 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year begins
- Tuesday, August 18th
- Graduate Program Event, PGSC Professional Development Seminar;
2:30 pm; - Nanoscale Metrology with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond, Aedan Gardill, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- The Sterile Neutrino is Dead; Long Live the Sterile Neutrino!, Jeffrey Berryman, Kentucky
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Effective Field Theory Search Results from the LUX Run 4 Data Set, and Construction of the LZ System Test Platforms, Shaun Alsum, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
- Wednesday, August 19th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Virtual
- High-Fidelity Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit using an On-Chip Microwave Photon Counter, Alex Opremcak, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual
- Flavored Gauge Mediation with Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries, Neil Leonard, Physics MS Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 20th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Friday, August 21st
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2020: Master’s Degree Deadline
- Sunday, August 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Summer term 2020
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline
- Tuesday, August 25th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Constraining cold dense matter using multi-wavelength & multi-messenger observations of merging neutron stars, Ben Margalit , Berkeley
- Wednesday, August 26th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:
- The large learning rate phase of deep learning , Yasaman Bahri, Google Brain
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, August 27th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Friday, August 28th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual
- Reconnection in the Age of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, Blake Wetherton, Physics PhD Graduate Student
