Events During 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