Events During October, 2024
- Tuesday, October 1st
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Magnetar Giant Flares: A New Site of R-Process Nucleosynthesis, Brian Metzger , Columbia University
- Thursday, October 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Experiments with Strontium Rydberg States: Spatial Correlations and Synthetic Dimensions, Yi Lu, Rice
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5280
- Mapping cosmic star formation with the CO Mapping Array Project, Patrick Breysse, Southern Methodist University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Massive Ancient Galaxies At z>3 NEar-infrared Survey -- Hunting Monster Galaxies in the Early Universe, Ian McConachie, UW-Madison
- Friday, October 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Blanchard Lecture: Physics of Climate and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Reduction (CDR), Washington Taylor, MIT
- Monday, October 7th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Preliminary Exam; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for TeV Halos Using HAWC Data, Hongyi Wu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Machine Learning Symmetries in Physics from First Principles, Konstantin Matchev, University of Florida
- Tuesday, October 8th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; WiCOR 6th Floor Sterling
- ALMA and JWST team up to understand the formation of planets, Dr. Nicolas Kurtovic, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physical Signatures of Fermion-Coupled Axions, Alexander J. Millar, Fermilab
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Sterling B343
- Use of inclusive teaching practices to improve teamwork and communication skills in STEM education, Angela Kita and Christa Wille, Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Worlds in the Making: Origins of Stars, Planets, and Life; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Space Place
- From Astronomy to Chemistry: Towards a Continuous Path for the Origins of Life, Zoe Todd, UW-Madison
- Wednesday, October 9th
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall or
- Connecting Multimessenger Observations to Theory in Particle Astrophysics from GeV to EeV, Angelina Partenheimer, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- 6220 Nesbitt Rd, Fitchburg, WI 53719, Cash Hauptmann, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Thursday, October 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- An Electron Linear Accelerator for On-Demand Qubit Irradiation, Dwight Luhman, Sandia National Labs
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280 /
- A stress test of Galactic cosmic rays, Philipp Mertsch, RWTH Aachen University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Our Chemical Origins: Tracing the History of Cold and Hot Gas During Planet Formation, Abygail Waggoner, UW-Madison
- Friday, October 11th
- Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; Sterling B343
- BBiP General Meeting, Taylor Bailey, Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History (CCH)
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- How national lab science advances economic and national security, Sean Jones, Argonne National Laboratory
- Monday, October 14th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Improved NBI and diagnostics on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment-β, Bill Capecchi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Tuesday, October 15th
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting ID: 989 8774 9464 Passcode: 986897
- Leptogenesis with testable right-handed neutrinos, Stefan Sandner , LANL
- Wednesday, October 16th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall -
- Thursday, October 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- An Electron Linear Accelerator for On-Demand Qubit Irradiation, Thomas McJunkin, Johns Hopkins University
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Zoom
- L & S Lunch and Learn, L&S DEI Leadership
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; VIRTUAL, link will be sent later.
- Astronomy Colloquium; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- High Fidelity Spectroscopy of Exoplanet and Protoplanetary Disk Atmospheres, Geoffrey A. Blake, California Institute of Technology
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Quantum Computing and Quantum Security for the Financial Industry, Marco Pistoia, JPMorganChase
- Friday, October 18th
- Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall or
- Gate tunable spin splitting of germanium quantum well Josephson junctions, Avani Vivrekar, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Backlighting the large-scale structure with the cosmic microwave background, Emmanuel Schaan, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford
- Monday, October 21st
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 8:45 am - 5:00 pm; David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
- Chicago Quantum Summit, Various, Various
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Thermonuclear Fusion in a Stabilized Z Pinch and Integration into a Technology Demonstrator, Prof. Uri Shumlak, University of Washington-Seattle and ZAP Energy
- Preliminary Exam; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Instrumentation Development & Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, Zach Curtis-Ginsberg, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, October 22nd
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 8:45 am - 5:00 pm; David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
- Chicago Quantum Summit, Various, Various
- Graduate Program Event; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Zoom:
- Virtual Open House for Physics Graduate Applicants
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, October 23rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- A Twist on Heterotic Little String Dualities, Hamza Ahmed, Northeastern University
- Thursday, October 24th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- In-situ twisting and imaging of moiré superlattices, Monica Allen, UCSD
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Characterizing the Diffuse Astrophysical Neutrino Flux with Contained and Uncontained Cascades in IceCube, Zoe Rechav, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The X-ray Sky in High Definition: Twenty-five Years of Astrophysics with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Patrick Slane, Harvard Center for Astrophysics
- Friday, October 25th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall;
- Alloy disorder, valley splitting, and shuttling for spin qubits in Si/SiGe heterostructures, Merritt Losert, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- No nus is good news, Daniel Green, UC San Diego
- Black and Brown in Physics, Gender Minorities and Women in Physics;
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm; Chamberlain 2241 - BBiP & GMaWiP LGBTQ+ Heritage Month Movie Night
- Monday, October 28th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Realta Fusion's axisymmetric mirror development program, Sam Frank, Realta Fusion
- Tuesday, October 29th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Detecting Ultrashort Gamma-ray Bursts Originated from Ultraheavy Dark Matter Collisions, Xuheng Luo, Johns Hopkins University
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- SIMP Miracles and WIMP Dead Ends: Navigating the Freeze-Out of MeV Dark Matter, Joseph Pradler, HEPHY, Vienna
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Road to Minimal WIMPs, Rodolfo Capdevilla Roldan, FNAL
- Thursday, October 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Optical signatures of interlayer electron coherence in a bilayer semiconductor, Pavel Dolgirev , Harvard University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Building a Multidisciplinary Community: The Impact of Sonification World Chat in Astronomy, Kate Meredith, Geneva Lake Astrophysics and STEAM