Events During February, 2021
- Monday, February 1st
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Monday Science Seminar w/ Benjamin Rosenwasser (UW-Madison), Benjamin Rosenwasser, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
- Real-time wall conditioning of fusion devices by injection of low-Z powders, Alessandro Bortolon, PPPL
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- MHD Transient Seeding of Disruptive Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs), J. D. Callen, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, February 2nd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap, Sam McDermott , Fermilab
- Wednesday, February 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- TBD, Justyna Zwolak
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; Zoom Meeting
- The diffusion of cosmic rays and post-doc application, Yingying Guo, Institute of High Energy Physics, China
- Graduate Program Event; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; or see Facebook link in abstract
- 3MT® Three Minute Thesis Finals, Jimena Gonzalez, UW–Madison Physics
- Thursday, February 4th
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL TIME 10 AM;
10:00 am - 11:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) SPECIAL TIME 10AM - Interstellar Shocks, Antoine Gusdorf, Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure & Paris Observatory, Paris, France
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Friday, February 5th
- Women+ in Plasma Physics (W+iPP); 12:00 pm; Zoom
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Phenomenological and Quantum Gravity constraints from Charged Black Hole Evaporation in de Sitter Space, Gerben Venken, Heidelberg University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm; Zoom meeting
- Long-term TeV spectra of blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501, Sara Coutino, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, February 8th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting
- Data Analysis and Simulations of Compact Objects and Performance of the X-Calibur Telescope, Banafsheh Beheshitour, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Stellarator Optimization in the 2020s, Aaron Bader, UW-Madison
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- no Plasma Theory Seminar
- Tuesday, February 9th
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
- Online - Faculty Spotlight: Commitment to Equity
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, February 10th
- 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
- Physics meets ML to solve cosmological inference, Ben Wandelt, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Institut Lagrange, Sorbonne University and Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, February 11th
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm; visit for YouTube or Facebook watch links
- Women of CTA, Leslie Taylor, UW–Madison Physics
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- The Astrophysics of Gas with Simulations , Simeon Bird, UC Riverside
- Friday, February 12th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Closing in on the sources of UHECRs: A multimessenger approach, Marco Muzio, New York University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Phenomenology of Magnetic Black Holes, Nicholas Orlofsky, Carleton University
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Department Meeting
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Zoom:
- Monday, February 15th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting
- The High Energy Light Isotope Experiment (HELIX) and Galactic Cosmic Rays, Keith McBride, Ohio State University
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- , Dr. Leon Trapman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Poking the pedestal: Progress and Potential of Pellet ELM Pacing, Bob Wilcox, ORNL
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- tbd, J. S. Schmitt, Auburn University
- Tuesday, February 16th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; online
- MINERvA measurements of Neutrino Interactions in the GeV Regime, Xianguo Lu, University of Oxford
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Hydrogen Mixing and the EDGES Anomaly, Luke Johns, UC-Berkeley
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm; Zoom meeting
- Neutrino astronomy with IceCube: an improved muon track reconstruction and a search for cross-correlations with AGN cores, Federica Bradascio, DESY and Humboldt University of Berlin
- Wednesday, February 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business
- Thursday, February 18th
- Graduate Program Event; Virtual
- Prospective Ph.D. Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- Looking at the Universe through gravitational lenses, Lindsay King, University of Texas-Dallas
- Friday, February 19th
- Graduate Program Event; Virtual
- PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications and KKLT, Jakob Moritz, Cornell University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:40 pm; Zoom meeting
- Searching for UHE- photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory: a two variable approach exploiting the air-shower Universality, Pierpaolo Savina, Università del Salento, Italy and Université Paris-Saclay, France
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, February 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom
- DIII-D and The Advanced Tokamak Path to Fusion Energy, Richard Buttery, GA
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom meeting
- Automated Normal Mode Analysis in Reduced Models of Turbulence for Stellarator Optimization, Ben Faber, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, February 23rd
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, February 24th
- Plasma Theory Seminar, Special Plasma Seminar;
9:00 am; Zoom Meeting - Plasma rotation: from mass separation applications to light manipulation, Renaud Gueroult, Laplace, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
- 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
- Neural Mechanics: Symmetry and Broken Conservation Laws in Deep Learning Dynamics, Daniel Kunin and Hidenori Tanaka, Stanford University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, February 25th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- PHANGS Results: Connecting the Small Scale ISM Physics to the Galaxy Structures, Dyas Otomo, NRAO
- Friday, February 26th
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm;
- Thermal Transport Across Interfaces, Two-Dimensional Materials, and III-V Ternary-Alloy Superlattice, Gabriel Jaffe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Decoding and bootstrapping cosmological fluctuations, Guilherme Pimentel, Leiden University & University of Amsterdam
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)