Events During November, 2025
- Monday, November 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Felix Parra-Diaz, PPPL
- Preliminary Exam; 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5310
- Direct measurement of the energy spectrum of a quantum dot artificial molecule, Jack Reily
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Probing Dark Matter with Pulsar Timing Arrays and Gravitational Wave Detectors, Vincent S.H. Lee, UC, Berkeley
- Wednesday, November 5th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Laboratory Investigation of Collisionless Kinetic Effects and 3D Topological Triggers for Magnetic Reconnection, Paul Gradney
- Thursday, November 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Searching for Experimental Signatures of Fractionalization, Pietro Bonetti, Harvard
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Dynamics and Energetic Transients in Galactic Nuclei, Dr. Itai Linial, Hubble Fellow at NYU
- Friday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Opportunities and Challenges of the AI Revolution for Scientific Research, Rick Stevens, University of Chicago
- Monday, November 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Masayuki Ono, PPPL
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The Galactic Center Excess: what AI/ML is teaching us about a potential dark-matter signal, Nicholas L. Rodd, LBL, Berkeley
- Tuesday, November 11th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; B343 Sterling Hall
- Instability Saturation and Turbulent Dynamos in Shear Flows, Bindesh Tripathi
- Graduate Program Event; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Register to attend via this Zoom link:
- Virtual Open House for PhD Program Applicants, Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program Manager
- Black and Brown in Physics; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling B343
- BBiP Native American Heritage Month Celebration
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, November 12th
- Special seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Bayesian epistemology in a quantum world, Alexander Meehan, UW–Madison, Dept of Philosophy
- Thursday, November 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Trimming Quantum Many-body States, Hao Zhang, UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Planet-Forming and Photoevaporating Disks in the Orion Nebula Cluster: The View from ALMA and JWST, Dr. Nick Ballering, Research Scientist at SSI/UW-Madison
- Friday, November 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Distributed quantum science with neutral atom arrays, Jake Covey, University Illinois Ubana-Champaign
- Monday, November 17th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- What is the QCD axion mass?, Joshua N. Benabou, UC, Berkeley
- Wednesday, November 19th
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5310
- Searches for High-energy Neutrinos Accompanying Astrophysical Transients, Alicia Mand
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin & Zoom:
- Higgs boson pair production, Irene Dutta, Fermilab
- Thursday, November 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Disorder-induced fractionalization of pair density waves, Julian May-Mann, Stanford University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- TeV Astronomy: Highlighting Recent Contributions from the HAWC Collaboration, Sam Groetsch, WIPAC
- Friday, November 21st
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5280
- Measuring the Flavor Composition of the Cosmic Neutrino Flux at High Energies with IceCube, Hannah Erpenbeck
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Have we observed neutron star rockets?, Yuri Levin, Columbia University
- Monday, November 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Valerian Hall-Chen and Mike Zarnstorff, A*Star and PPPL Emeritus
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Challenging the standard neutrino sector from cosmology, Toni Bertólez-Martínez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- First ionization potentials of Cr, Mo, and W calculated with SHCI, Zachary Jerzyk, Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, November 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 28th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Saturday, November 29th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Sunday, November 30th
- Academic Calendar
- Thanksgiving Recess