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Events During February, 2026
Monday, February 2nd: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Freezing-in the Axiverse, Christopher Dessert, Flatiron Inst., New York; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 5th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling; The Spectral Revolution at Cosmic Dawn: Interpreting High-Redshift JWST Observations with Next-Generation Models, Prof. Harley Katz, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 6th: Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241; General Meeting; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Search for Anyons in Quantum Materials, Philip Kim, Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 7th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 8th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 12th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Orbital magnetism and flat bands in magnetic field, Oskar Vafek , UMN-FTPI; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Unlocking Planetary Potential Through Studying Formation Environments, Prof. Ilse Cleeves, University of Virginia; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 13th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; The Black Hole Diet: How Accretion Controls Spin, Growth, and Feedback, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern University; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 14th: Outreach; 12:00 pm - 4:00 am; 2nd Floor of Chamberlin Hall; Physics Fair; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 15th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 17th: Preliminary Exam; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Dynamics and implications of black hole decay, Puxin (David) Lin, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 18th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 19th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; Phase-Aligned TeV Neutrinos from Pulsars and the Physics Behind the Fermi Fundamental Plane, Zorawar Wadiasingh, University of Maryland at College Park; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Cosmic rays in cosmological simulations - bridging scales, Dr. Ludwig Boess, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 20th: Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241; BBiP Black History Heritage Month Celebration, Taylor Bailey, Center for Campus History; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Dense matter and neutron stars: what we have learned from NICER, M. Coleman Miller, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 21st: physics of curling; 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Curling, Sarah Perdue; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 23rd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall - 1227; Optical analogy for stellarators: Ridges as caustics and coils as singularities, Dr. Wrick Sengupta , Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 26th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; APS March Meeting Practice Talks , Students , UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Searches for heavy resonances decaying into two Higgs bosons (HH) in the bb tau tau final state using Run 3 data from the CMS experiment., Mitanshu Thakore; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Uncovering the Nature of Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Disks with Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations, Machine Learning, and Laboratory Experiments, Dr. Amy Secunda, Flatiron Institute/CCA; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 27th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Materials that exceed classical thermodynamic bounds on properties, Roderic Lakes, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Add this event to your calendar

Events During February, 2026