Events During December, 2018
- Monday, December 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall
- The new, flexible upper divertor at ASDEX-Upgrade, Dr. T. Lunt, IPP Garching
- Tuesday, December 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Advancing climate science education, inquiry, and literacy across rural Wisconsin communities, Michael Notaro and Rosalyn Pertzborn, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research and UW Space Science and Engineering Center
- Thursday, December 6th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Energy-Interaction Diagrams: Fostering resources for productive disciplinary engagement with energy, Dr. Benedikt Harrer, San Jose State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph, Sabyasachi Chattpadhyay, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
- Friday, December 7th
- SPECIAL SEMINAR; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling Hall
- Proposal of International Mega-science Project on Fusion Volumetric Neutron Source (FVNS), Zhibin CHEN, Frontier Development of Science
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs and Dark Matter: Absence of Evidence != Evidence of Absence?, Prof Nausheen Shah, Fermilab
- Monday, December 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall
- Towards steady-state fusion reactor with Wendelstein 7-X, Marcin Jakubowski, IPP Greifswald
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Final Word from MINOS+ on Neutrino Oscillations, Tom Carroll, University of Texas at Austin
- Tuesday, December 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Social and economic mobility in an era of extreme inequality; Who owns the robots?, Tim Smeeding, UW LaFollette School of Public Affairs and Economics
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- MicroBooNE and the Path to Resolving the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess, Adam Lister, Lancaster University
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, December 12th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Creating and imaging atomic wave functions with diffraction-breaking resolution, Dr. Yang Wang , Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum simulation: progress and prospects, Dr. Peter Love , Tufts University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium
- Monday, December 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:00 pm; ***5280 Chamberlin Hall***
- Rays-based learning and auto-tuning of devices in quantum dot experiments, Justyna Zwolak
- Wednesday, December 19th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Update on the GNOME Experiment, Ibrahim Sulai (for the GNOME collaboration), Bucknell University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Invisible Worlds: Rare Event Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Danielle Speller, Wright Laboratory, Yale University