Events During December, 2020
- Tuesday, December 1st
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
- Online - Program Overview: Masters in Learning Analytics Program
- Wednesday, December 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- All classes in virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- 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
- Harnessing Data Revolution in Quantum Matter, Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CLOSED MEETING FOR TENURED FACULTY ONLY
- Thursday, December 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Astronomy Colloquium; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Zoom meeting (see Abstract ) meet the students at 10am, coffee and tea at 10:45am
- A Predictive Theory of Star Formation and Turbulence Driving Across Cosmic Time, Blakesley Burkhart, Rutgers/Flatiron Institute
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Zoom:
- Search for pp → ttc, ttt and btb at the LHC as Probe of Top-changing Extra Higgs Bosons, George W.S. Hou , National Taiwan University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Friday, December 4th
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate
- 1) Anomalous Quantum Transport: Interactions, Disorder, Topology 2) Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits, 1) Alex Levchenko 2) Robert McDermott, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Replica wormholes, the black hole information paradox, and cosmology, Edgar Shaghoulian, University of Pennsylvania
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Saturday, December 5th
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Sunday, December 6th
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Monday, December 7th
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Demonstration of helium exhaust enhancement during resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) field application at DIII-D, Edward Hinson, UW Engineering Physics department
- Tuesday, December 8th
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Okay, Google: Help Me with My Resume, Homer Wolfmeister, Google
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;
- Potential Effects of Fast Neutrino Flavor Transformations on Neutrino-Driven Wind and Supernova Nucleosynthesis, Andre Sierverding , University of Minnesota
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; sign up to receive the webinar link:
- WARF Innovation Awards, Cary Forest, UW–Madison Physics
- Wednesday, December 9th
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, December 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Last day of instruction
- Academic Calendar
- All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
- Muon Collider Explorations, Sarah Demers, Vladimir Shiltsev, Tao Han, Simone Pagan Griso, US HEP Community
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- Multi-messenger Astrophysics: Probing Compact Objects with Cosmic Particles, Ke Fang, UW Astronomy Department
- Friday, December 11th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Electric-Magnetic S-matrix, Sungwoo Hong, Cornell University
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Saturday, December 12th
- Academic Calendar
- Summary period (exams)
- Sunday, December 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Summary period (exams)
- Academic Calendar
- Commencement
- Monday, December 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Summary period (exams)
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Zoom:
- Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Veronica Allen (Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center), Veronica Allen, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
- Tuesday, December 15th
- Academic Calendar
- Summary period (exams)
- Wednesday, December 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Summary period (exams)
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED
- Thursday, December 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Summary period (exams)
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Friday, December 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Summary period (exams)
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Observations of Hawking radiation: the Page curve and baby universes, Henry Maxfield, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2020: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, December 20th
- Academic Calendar
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Fall term 2020
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline
- Tuesday, December 22nd
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual