Events During March, 2026
- Sunday, March 1st
- Graduate Program Event; 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Bakke Recreation and Wellbeing Center: Sub-Zero Ice Rink (1976 Observatory Drive | Madison, WI 53706)
- Ice Skating Social
- Monday, March 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall 1227
- The Case for Using Liquid Lithium for Low Recycling Fusion Reactor Operations and Why the Sun Works! , Dr. Daniel Andruczyk, University of Illinois at Urbanan-Champaign
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- BSM Light Mediator Opportunities from On-Going SM Experiments, Isaac R. Wang, Fermilab
- Wednesday, March 4th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Hunting heavy di-Higgs resonances in bbtautau final states and commissioning of GPUs for the CMS High-Level Trigger., Ganesh Parida
- Thursday, March 5th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 9:30 am; 2314 Chamberlin
- How to Prelim Workshop, Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program Manager
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Dynamical breaking of inversion symmetry, strong second harmonic generation, and ferroelectricity with nonlinear phonons, Egor Kiselev , MPIPKS
- Graduate Program Event; 11:00 am - 11:30 am; 2314 Chamberlin
- How to Prelim Workshop, Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program Manager
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- How to Finish your PhD Workshop, Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program Manager
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Making a Map of Shadows and Stars: Astrophysical Probes of Dark Sectors, Dr. Caleb Gemmell, UW-Madison
- Friday, March 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- From Dirac fermions to topological materials to the Standard Model: A common thread in particle and condensed matter physics, David B. Kaplan, University of Washington
- Monday, March 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Versatile Nonlinear Laser-based Diagnostics for High Spatio-temporal Measurements in High to Low Pressure Plasmas , Prof. Marien Simeni, University of Minnesota
- Tuesday, March 10th
- Physics Education Innovation Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Sterling Hall room B343 and on Zoom
- What You Need to Know about AI in the Classroom, John Martin and Janet Staker Woerner, UW-Madison Center for Teaching, Learning and Mentoring
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, March 11th
- Department Meeting
- Council of Full Professors
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling and video link to be sent later.
- Thursday, March 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Only the ambidextrous can flock: chirality destroys order in polar active matter, John Toner, University of Oregon
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Probing Supermassive Black Holes in the Golden Era of Time Domain Astronomy, Dr. Jason Hinkle, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Friday, March 13th
- Graduate Program Event; 8:00 am; 5280 CH
- Prospective Visit Days, Sharon Kahn
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The whole is greater than the sum of its parts – a multimethod, multimessenger perspective on the quantum many-body problem, Thomas Schaefer, University of Trieste
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Birth, Death, and Flocking: The Hydrodynamics of Dry Active matter, John Toner, U Oregon
- Monday, March 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall - 1227
- Title: BC, Prof. Mike Brown , Swarthmore College
- Tuesday, March 17th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, March 18th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Thursday, March 19th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- TBD, TBD, TBD
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- JWST Imaging of the Stellar Populations of Andromeda and Triangulum, Prof. David Nataf, University of Iowa
- Friday, March 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Gravity, Geometry and the Quantum, Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State
- Monday, March 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall 1227
- Statistical equilibrium model for stellarators, Joshua W. Burby, University of Texas at Austin
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Collapsing Halo Cores with Self-Interacting Dark Matter, Kimberly K. Boddy, University Texas, Austin
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Shannon Hall, Memorial Union
- Engineering the Quantum Future — A Donald Kerst Lecture Series, John Martinis, QoLab, UCSB
- Wednesday, March 25th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Thursday, March 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Information on Quantum Matter, Dafei Jin, University of Notre Dame
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Toward Real Rocky Planet Interiors with Ideal Multicomponent Mixing, Dr. David Rice, UW-Madison
- Friday, March 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Neutrinos in the Universe, Cecilia Lunardini, Arizona State University
- Saturday, March 28th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Recess
- Sunday, March 29th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Recess
- Monday, March 30th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Recess
- Department Coffee Hour; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 chamberlin
- Spring Break Lunch Potluck!
- Tuesday, March 31st
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Recess