Events During March, 2008
- Monday, March 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Anomalous Diffusion in Satellite Data and Tokamaks, George Rowlands, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Low Mass Higgs Searches at CDF, Ben Kilminster, Ohio State University
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Protons, Rockwell Mackie, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- Tuesday, March 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Larry Schulman, Clarkson University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How does your garden grow: the complex nature of plant growth below ground, Simon Gilroy, Botany
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Gone with the Wind: Galactic Outflows driven by Stars and Quasars and their Impact on Galaxy Evolution, Christy Tremonti, University of AZ- Steward Observatory
- Wednesday, March 5th
- Undergraduate Resume Writing/Career Planning Workshop; 3:45 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- (none), Greg Iaccarino
- Thursday, March 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Klaus Molmer, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Physics Teaching Forum; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Women in Physics: Data and Strategies, Various Speakers
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Heterotic Road to the MSSM, Stuart Raby, Ohio
- Friday, March 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Quantum Measurements: From a Philosophical Dilemma to a Technological Resource, Klaus Molmer, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Monday, March 10th
- Galaxies Lunch!; 12:00 pm; 6515 Sterling
- Loose Ends in Cosmic Rays, Pasquale Blasi, Arcetri & Fermliab
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Field Error Effects on Tokamak Plasmas, Andrew Cole, UW-Madison, Department of Engineering Physics
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- New Physics Search in Tau Decays, Sanjay Swain, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- TBD, Sheridan Griffin-Meltsner, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- Tuesday, March 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Technological change and the global energy system, Gregory Nemet, La Follette School of Public Affairs
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Dark Matter Substructure in the Milky Way, Mike Kuhlen, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
- Thursday, March 13th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Finding Clusters of Galaxies Using the South Pole Telescope, Bradford Benson, UC Berkeley
- Friday, March 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Quest for Spinning Glue, Bernd Surrow, MIT
- Monday, March 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- LiWall Fusion (LiWF) and its Three Step Program Toward a Reactor Development Facility, Leonid Zakharov, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, Shuai Leng, student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm)
- GammeV: Gamma to milli-eV Particle Search, William Wester, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Tuesday, March 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Computational constraints in Hebbian learning: relationship to epileptogenesis and other neurological disorders, David Hsu, Neurology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Smith's Cloud: The Most Interesting Hydrogen Cloud in the Local Universe, Jay Lockman, NRAO
- Wednesday, March 26th
- Informal Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- If the WIMP will not come to the neutron star; the neutron star will go to the WIMP, Hakki B. Ogelman, UW-Madison
- Thursday, March 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Wolfram Brenig, Technishce Universitat Branuschweig
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnant Shocks, Pat Slane, Harvard
- Friday, March 28th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Scale of Left-Right Symmetry from CP-violating Observables, Xiangdong Ji (TBC), University of Maryland
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Particle Acceleration and Explosive Energy Release by the Sun, Bob Lin, University of California - Berkeley
- Monday, March 31st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- What about Fusion Reactors?, John Sheffield, Retired, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Charmed Meson Mixing, Michael Sokoloff, University of Cincinnati
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Prospects for Effective Uterine and Cervical Elastography, Maritza Hobson, Research Assistant, student of Dr. Ernest Madsen, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health