Events During November, 2023
- Wednesday, November 1st
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Sterling B343
- GREAT IDEAS Coffee Hour
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Van Vleck B223 (Note Special Room)
- Anomalies and bordism of non-supersymmetric heterotic strings, Miguel Montero, Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- How to do particle physics in a climate emergency?, Ken Bloom , University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Thursday, November 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Theory of Pines' demon in multiband metals, Edwin Huang, Notre Dame
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH5310 /
- Looking inside the Earth with neutrinos, Sergio Palomares Ruiz, IFIC (CSIC - University of Valencia)
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Electromagnetic Transients in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei, Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook University
- Friday, November 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Multimessenger View of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrino Sources, Kohta Murase, Penn State
- Monday, November 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- On the physical principles of power exhaust and novel divertor solutions for tokamak fusion reactors, Prof. Ulrich Stroth, IPP Garching, Germany
- Tuesday, November 7th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 10:30 am - 1:30 pm; Rm. 5310, Chamberlin Hall
- Accelerating Quantum Research - Academia Meets Industry, Various, UW-Madison and Quantum Machines
- Wednesday, November 8th
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The stellarator Wendelstein 7-X: Towards long pulse, high performance operation, Olaf Grulke, Lead Plasma Operation Wendelstein 7-X
- Thursday, November 9th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Generation and detection of axions using four-wave mixing in optical fibers, Shay Inbar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Scaling Deep Learning for Materials Discovery, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Google Brain
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
10:30 am - 12:00 pm; 2104 Chamberlin - Extracting Contributions to Qubit Loss from Superconducting Microwave Resonators, Shravan Patel, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310 CH
- Measurement of the ttH and tH Production Rates in theH to bb Decay Channel at CMS, Abhisek Datta, UCLA
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin or
- Exploring New Physics with Background Radiation Fields, Justin Finke, Naval Research Labs
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Using polluted white dwarf stars to learn about exoplanetary systems now, and in the future, Amy Steele, Yerkes Observatory
- Friday, November 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Cancelled
- Cancelled, Nicole Vassh , TRIUMF
- Monday, November 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators, Antonio Coelho, EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, France
- Tuesday, November 14th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Free-Streaming Neutrinos in the Early Universe , Benjamin Wallisch , Stockholm University & UT Austin
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, November 15th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Upgraded Electronics for the Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Gamma-Ray Telescope, Luca Riitano, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, November 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Strongly interacting excitons and electrons in atomically thin semiconducting heterostructures, You Zhou, U Maryland
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or
- Detecting the highest energy neutrinos...with radar? A new tool in the astroparticle toolbox, Steven Prohira, The University of Kansas
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Dancing with the stars: next generation models of binary star systems, Meng Sun, Northwestern University
- Friday, November 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Quantum Information and Materials for Dark Matter Detection, Kathryn Zurek , Caltech
- Monday, November 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Note: change of location - 1325 Computer Science
- “Results and Future Directions of the HSX stellarator“, Benjamin Faber, UW-Madison
- Thursday, November 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 24th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Saturday, November 25th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Sunday, November 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving recess
- Monday, November 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- “The Challenge of Fusion - Being Caught between Plasma and Wall", Dr. Jan W. Coenen, Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-4), Juelich, Germany; and UW-Madison
- Tuesday, November 28th
- Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Finding Radio-Loud Strong Gravitational Lenses Using Large Surveys, Michael Martinez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, November 29th
- Preliminary Exam; 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm; B343 Sterling
- PeV Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube, Emre B. Yildizci, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, November 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Coupling an Andreev spin qubit to a transmon, Angela Kou, UIUC
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Studying the Evolution of Radio Galaxies With the VLA Sky Survey, Yjan Gordon, UW-Madison