Events During March, 2019
- Friday, March 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring extreme states of matter at the Linac Coherent Light Source, Frederico Fiuza, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Monday, March 4th
- Special Noon Talk 3/4/19; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Star Formation, etc, Nia Imara, Harvard CfA
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Ion-scale turbulence in the presence of a large magnetic island, Lucas Morton, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, March 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Projecting future floodplains and the impacts to future risks and vulnerabilities in the United States, Shane Hubbard, UW Space Science and Engineering Center
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Tuesday Talk ;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM - Understanding the Relationship between Dense Gas and Star Formation in Galaxy Nuclei, Betsy Mills, Brandeis University
- Wednesday, March 6th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 7th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Caught in the act - witnessing the formation of the most massive galaxies across cosmic time, Chien-Chou Chen, ESo Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany
- Friday, March 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How Much Time Does a Tunneling Atom Spend In The Forbidden Region?, Aephraim Steinberg, U Toronto
- Monday, March 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Numerical modeling of magnetic self-organization at the top of the solar convection zone, John O'Bryan, University of Washington-Seattle
- Astronomy Colloquium, Monday special talk;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, 3:30 PM Coffee and cookies, 3:45 PM Talk Begins - Decoding the Magnetic Universe, Ann Mao , Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy
- Tuesday, March 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Big data ecology: Advancing the study of the natural world through citizen science, Ben Zuckerberg, UW Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- gFEX: A Level 1 Calorimeter Trigger for ATLAS at the Run3 LHC (and beyond), Sabine Lammers , University of Indiana-Bloomington
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, March 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, March 14th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Measure what is measurable and make measurable what is not so — Uncover new physics with bosons at the LHC and upgrades of the CMS detector to maximize the discovery potential, Miaoyuan Liu, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Building a Gravitational Wave Detector with Millisecond Pulsars, Joseph Swiggum, NANOGrav Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, & Astrophysics University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Friday, March 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Kerst Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - The long way to steady state fusion plasmas - the superconducting stellarator device Wendelstein 7-X, Thomas Klinger, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik and Greifswald University
- Monday, March 18th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Astronomy Science Lunch (Pizza served at 12, talk starts at 12:15);
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - From Cosmology to Galaxy Evolution and Star Formation with Line Intensity Mapping , Adam Beardsley, Arizona State University
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- spring break
- Thursday, March 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor Composition With Cosmic Tau Neutrinos , Juliana Stachurska, DESY
- Monday, March 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- On The Interactions of Magnetic Fluctuations, Zonal Flows, and Microturbulence in Fusion Plasmas, Zach Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics
- Tuesday, March 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A form for the feeling of being alive and kicking”: Chaos and structure in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Kevin Reilly, Former President UW System
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 28th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- WISELI Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Role of Confidence-Building (By Self & Others) in the Recruitment and Retainment of Underrepresented Students in STEM, Dr. Rellen Hardtke, UW River Falls
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Clues to Globular Cluster Formation, David Nataf, The Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, March 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions for Cryogenic Memory, Norman O. Birge, Michigan State University