Events During October, 2017
- Monday, October 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- FLASH simulations of a magnetized turbulence experiment at the National Ignition Facility, Dr. Scott Feister, Flash Center for Computational Science, University of Chicago
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, October 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Systematic misperceptions of 3D motion explained by Bayesian inference, Bas Rokers, UW Department of Psychology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Topics in Axion Cosmology, Andrew Long, KICP/University of Chicago
- PUMP: Perspective Undergrads Majoring in Physics; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberbelin
- Wednesday, October 4th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Stark-tuned Forster resonances in Rydberg atoms and their application for quantum information, Dr. Ilya Beterov, Institute of Semiconductor Physics Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum dot chains as emulators of topological superconductors, Sergey Frolov, University of Pittsburgh
- Friday, October 6th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Brar, Eriksson, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Winokur
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exciton Condensates are Super!, Allan MacDonald , The University of Texas at Austin
- Monday, October 9th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, and Theoretical Cosmology, Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Palladino, Pan, Smith, Wu, Bai, Balantekin, Barger, Chung, Everett, Hashim
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Taming the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors, Prof. Jean Paul Allain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Tuesday, October 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Understanding complexities of human development in terms of space, time, and energy realities Part 1: Growing up and growing old, Bernard Z. Friedlander, Department of Psychology, University of Hartford (emeritus)
- Thursday, October 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- All-Dielectric Optical Metamaterials, Jason Valentine , Vanderbilt University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino Quantum Kinetics and the Early Universe, Evan Grohs , University of Michigan
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM. Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Observing gas in the circumgalactic medium and the Cosmic Web, Bart Wakker, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
- Friday, October 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, *** SPECIAL TIME ***;
11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall - Revealing Interactions in Complex Systems with Coherent Multi-Dimensional Spectroscopy, Jeffrey Davis, Swinburne University of Technology-Melbourne Australia
- Monday, October 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Cosmic Ray Dynamics in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters, Dr. Joshua Wiener, UW Madison
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, October 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Chaos theory from a topological perspective, Anda Xiong, UW Department of Physics
- Wednesday, October 18th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday Nite @ the Lab; 7:00 pm; 425 Henry Mall, Room 1111 (UW Biotechnology Center)
- Thursday, October 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Cyclotron resonance in graphene: Kohn’s theorem, many-particle physics, and more, Erik Henriksen , Washington University in St. Louis
- 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall Conference room
- Round Table Discussion of Recruitment and Retention of Women in the Graduate Program, Jenni Strabley
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookes 3:30 PM. Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Climate Cycles and the History of Our Solar System, Stephen Meyers, Department of Geoscience, UW Madison
- Friday, October 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Ultra-high Q Superconducting RF Cavities: from particle accelerators to quantum computing, Alex Romanenko, Fermilab
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics , Coppersmith, Ioffe, Joynt, Levchenko, Vavilov
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- An Economically Attractive Path to Commercializing Nuclear Fusion and Bettering our World, Greg Piefer, SHINE Technologies
- Monday, October 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar
- No Seminar - APS DPP Meeting
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophyiscs, McCammon, Timbie
- Tuesday, October 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- How an important Supreme Court case was created, Bill Whitford, UW Law School
- Thursday, October 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 53100
- Watching a quantum system: How to continuously measure a superconducting qubit, Justin Dressel, Chapman University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM. Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- The Plasma Physics of TeV Blazars, Phil Chang, UW - Milwaukee
- Friday, October 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE OF MOLTEN SALT COOLANTS FOR THEIR APPLICATION TO ADVANCED NUCLEAR REACTORS , Raluca Scarlat, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison
- Monday, October 30th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Turbulence Driven by Compressional Magnetic Fluctuations in Laboratory, Space, and Pair Plasmas, Dr. M. J. Pueschel, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, October 31st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Partisan redistricting in Wisconsin, David Canon, UW Department of Political Science
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Traces in polar ice: neutrinos, dust, life and a million-year core, Ryan Bay, UC Berkeley