Events During November, 2022
- Tuesday, November 1st
- Non-Partisan Voter Information Session; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- , Susan Nossal
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin or
- Astophysical Neutrino Source Searches Using IceCube Starting Tracks, Sarah Mancina, Physics Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Gravitational production of scalar dark matter, Sarunas Verner, University of Florida
- Wednesday, November 2nd
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Bayesian Updating and dynamical flows, David Berman, Queen Mary University
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- Thursday, November 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Topological Superconductivity and the Braiding of Majorana Zero Modes in Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid Systems, Dirk Morr, UIC
- IceCube webinar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building or online at
- Join IceCube as they announce exciting new results!, various, IceCube
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421
- How Circumgalactic Medium Dynamics Impact Galaxy Evolution, Dr. Cassi Lochhaas, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Friday, November 4th
- Grad Town Hall; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- , Kevin Black and Sharon Kahn, Physics Grad Program
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How do we know what we know? The importance of absolute anchors in cosmology, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, University of New Mexico
- Monday, November 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Enrollment appointment times for Spring term assigned to students (throughout week)
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The magnetic field scale length: an influential property of stellarators, Matt Landreman, University of Maryland
- Tuesday, November 8th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- A status update on the Galactic Center GeV gamma-ray excess, Tracy Slatyer , MIT
- MRSEC Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Materials Science & Engineering Building, Room 265
- New Frontiers in Nanoscale Magnetism: Towards Three-Dimensional Materials and Devices, Amalio Fernández-Pacheco, Institute of Nanoscience & Materials of Aragón CSIC-University of Zaragoza, Spain
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Cosmological Constant and Gravitino Mass: Statistical Correlations from the Nilpotent Goldstino Formalism., Kajal Singh, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
- Wednesday, November 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Outreach, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab;
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; free and open to the public; Biotech Bldg auditorium or register for zoom link at go.wisc.edu/240r59 - Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?, Minhal Gardezi, UW–Madison physics graduate students
- Thursday, November 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of unconventional superconductors, Pavlo Sukhachov, Yale
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building, Tong Auditorium
- Let's Talk Fusion Energy, U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E Program Director, et al., U.S. DOE
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey, Prof. Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University
- Friday, November 11th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Vescent Photonics: Overview of Technologies & Student Opportunities , Eduardo Oteiza, Vescent Photonics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- On the Threshold of Laser Fusion Ignition and the Pathway to Inertial Fusion Energy, Tammy Ma, LLNL
- Saturday, November 12th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall
- Midwest Cold Atom Workshop, Various, Various
- Monday, November 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Students begin enrolling for Spring term courses according to their appointment times
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 8:00 am - 7:00 pm; Online:
- Diversity Forum
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Characterization of Intermittency and Energy Transfer via Three-Wave Coupling in a Turbulent Dipole Plasma, Mel Abler, Space Science Institute
- Tuesday, November 15th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 8:00 am - 7:00 pm; Online:
- Diversity Forum
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Constraining the CP character of the Higgs-fermion interactions, Henning Bahl, U. Chicago
- Wednesday, November 16th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Anomaly detection in the search for new physics, Gregor Kasieczka, Hamburg University
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- Thursday, November 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Local observables and Loschmidt echo of quenched paired fermionic superfluids, Victor Gurarie, UC Boulder
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Boosted Higgs and the Effective Field Theory, Nick Smith, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Introducing TIGRESS-NCR: current status of numerical modeling of the star-forming ISM, Dr. Chang-Goo Kim, Princeton University
- Friday, November 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Discovery Building
- Planning for the unexpected: Science, invention and the art of the possible, Thomas F. Kelly, Mark Saffman, and Cary Forest
- Monday, November 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- High-Energy Density Physics and Inertial Confinement Fusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Liz Merritt, Los Alamos National Lab
- Tuesday, November 22nd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Constraining modifications of black hole perturbation potentials near the light ring with quasinormal modes, Nicola Franchini , APC, Paris/CPB, Berkeley
- Thursday, November 24th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to change variable credits
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Fall term course
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 25th
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students (except Graduate) to withdraw from Fall term
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to add a Fall term course with department permission
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to change Honors Optional course status
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for students to drop a Fall term course
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Saturday, November 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Sunday, November 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Monday, November 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Advanced Approaches in Stellarator Optimization, Sophia Henneberg, IPP Greifswald
- Tuesday, November 29th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Asymptotic series and gravitational particle production, Edward Basso, Physics Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Dark Matter Substructure: simulations, semi-analytic models and observations, Xiaolong Du, Carnegie Observatories & UCLA