Events During January, 2026
- Thursday, January 8th
- Joshua Henry Peterson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Improved Techniques for the Determination of the Neutrino Mass Ordering with IceCube1 DeepCore and the IceCube Upgrade
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Francis Halzen
- Tuesday, January 13th
- Linipun Phuttitarn
- Progress towards Quantum Error Correction (QEC) on Neutral atom quantum computing.
- 10:30 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5280, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Wednesday, January 14th
- Joseph Flahavan
- Tokamak Plasmas above Traditional Density Limits in the Madison Symmetric Torus
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5290, hosted by John Sarff
- Thursday, January 15th
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Braden Buck, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Kinetic impacts on Rayleigh-Taylor-driven magnetic reconnection in accretion flows
- 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by Vladimir Zhdankin
- Friday, January 16th
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
- Monday, January 19th
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Tuesday, January 20th
- Spring Semester Instruction Begins