Events During November, 2017
- Wednesday, November 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Science on Tap; 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm; Nomad World Pub 418 E. Wilson St.
- Did the Universe pour us a stout?, K. Palladino, UW- Madison
- Thursday, November 2nd
- Wisconsin Science Festival; 9:00 am; Discovery Building
- IceCube at Wisconsin Science Festival, IceCube faculty and staff
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Design and Synthesis of 1D and 2D Nanomaterials Away from Equilibrium, Xudong Wang, UW-Madison (Materials Science and Engineering)
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 pm
- The magnetic interstellar medium: cosmological and astrophysical perspectives, Susan Clark, Institute for Advanced Study
- Friday, November 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Unlocking the mysteries of the Universe with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, Tulika Bose, Boston University
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Graduate School Admissions Q&A I: Meeting with an Admissions Committee Member
- Monday, November 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- A General Framework to Analyzing Multi-Scale Complex Flows: Applications to Oceanic, Plasma, and Compressible Flows, Prof. Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester
- Tuesday, November 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Multidimensional spectroscopy of complex chemical systems: Using nonlinearity to isolate signals, Blaise Thompson, UW Department of Chemistry
- Thursday, November 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Enhancing cavity QED via anti-squeezing: synthetic ultra-strong coupling and entangled cat-states, Dr. Luke Govia, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Stering Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 pm
- Simulations of Black hole Accretion and Outflows, Alexander Tchekhocvskoy, Northwestern University
- Friday, November 10th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- WIPAC: IceCube, HAWC, CTA, ARA, Halzen, Hanson, Karle, Vandenbroucke, Westerhoff
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino Oscillations - A Door to New Physics, Brian Rebel, Fermi Lab
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Graduate School Admissions Q&A II: Graduate Student Panel
- Monday, November 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Schnack Memorial Seminar: Nonlinear Modeling of Mode Locked States Induced by Transient Magnetic Perturbations, Dr. Matthew Beidler, Department of Engineering Physics, UW Madison
- Tuesday, November 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Inference for high-dimensional self-exciting point processes, Becca Willett, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- A New Dark Matter (in)Direct Search Strategy, Doo Jin Kim, CERN
- Wednesday, November 15th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 16th
- Astronomy Department Whitford Lecturer; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 pm
- CHILES, the COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey, Jacqueline VanGorkom, Columbia University
- Friday, November 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Assembly and eco-evolutionary dynamics of communities of antibiotic producing bacteria, Kalin Vetsigian, UW-Madison Bacteriology and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Monday, November 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Multiscale computational modeling and materials research for next-step devices after ITER , Prof. Brian D. Wirth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Tuesday, November 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Artificial intelligence: Evolution and agency, Terry Allard, Office of Naval Research and NASA (retired)
- Monday, November 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Magnetic monopoles on cosmic scales, Prof. Mikhail Medvedev, University of Kansas
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, November 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Activation versus information in visual working memory, Brad Postle, UW Department of Psychology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Rise of the Leptons: Pulsar Emission Dominates the TeV Sky, Tim Linden, CCAP, Ohio State University
- Wednesday, November 29th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- From Cat State to Entangled Cat State – Experimental Realization in Circuit QED, Chen Wang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Phenomenology Seminar; 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs and superparticle mass predictions from the string theory landscape, Howie Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM, Talk Begins 3:45 PM
- Studying the Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation from the Stratosphere, Laura Fissel, NRAO