Events During April, 2008
- Tuesday, April 1st
- Special Plasma Seminar; 1:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Experimental Investigation of Turbulence at the Transition from Closed to Open Field Lines, Ulrich Stroth, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
- Special Plasma Seminar; 2:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Gerhard Bonhomme, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Gabriela Cezar, Animal Science
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- A Multiwavelength Study of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies over 8 Billion Years, D.J. Pisano, NRAO
- Wednesday, April 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Set My Vortices Free: Observing the Kosterlitz-Thouless Crossover in an Optical Lattice, Nobel Prize Winner Eric Cornell, University of Colorado-JILA
- Thursday, April 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Vortex dynamics in tailored superconducting channels: ratchets and circles, Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Searching for double beta decay with the Enriched Xenon Observatory, Carter Hall, University of Maryland
- Monday, April 7th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Recent Experimental Results from the Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive Helicity Injection (HIT-SI), Aaron Redd, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Engineering Physics
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Sean Cornelius, Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Title to be announced, Roger Chevalier, University of Virginia
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, RTingliang Zhuang (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen) Assistant Professor, Department of Therapeutic Radiology
- Tuesday, April 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Metal-Insulator Transition (MIT) in MgTi2O4 Spinel, Stefano Leoni, Max Planck - Dresden
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (refreshments served in the library at 3:30 pm)
- The Death and Afterlife of Massive Stars, Roger Chevalier, University of Virginia
- Wednesday, April 9th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Reconstructing the Wigner function of a photonic Schrodinger cat in a cavity: a movie of decoherence, Serge Haroche, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
- Thursday, April 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum computation using tunable flux qubits, Matthias Steffen, IBM Yorktown Heights
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The role of SUSY flat directions in reheating, Marco Peloso, University of Minnesota
- Friday, April 11th
- Seminar; 8:30 am; MSC Room 281
- Temporal resolution and bandwidth of human hearing, Milind N. Kunchur, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC and Pheno Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Dark-matter sterile neutrinos from decays of a gauge-singlet Higgs, Kalliopi Petraki, UCLA
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Trapping and Counting Photons without Destroying Them: A New Way to Look at Light, Serge Haroche, Ecole Normale Superieure
- Monday, April 14th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- D retentions in a Tokamak with High-Z Plasma Facing Components--Implications for ITER and Reactors, Bruce Lipschultz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, A. Sam Bedder, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Single Top at CDF, Kevin Lannon, The Ohio State University
- Tuesday, April 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaotic dynamics on large networks, Clint Sprott, UW Department of Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Globular Clusters, Galaxy Formation, Dark Matter, and Black Holes, Kathy Rhode, University of Indiana
- Thursday, April 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Double Quantum Dots, Jason Petta, Princeton University
- Special Joint Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics Seminar; 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Polarized Antiprotons, Hans-Otto Meyer, Indiana University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Colliders to the Cosmos: Dark Matter and Electroweak Phase Transition, Maxim Perelstein, Cornell
- Friday, April 18th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Antonio Delgado, Univ. of Notre Dame
- Physics Department Colloquium, H. H. Barschall Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Recent Developments in Neutron Radiography, Hans Otto Meyer, Indiana University
- Monday, April 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Kinetic Studies of Low Temperature Non-Equilibrium Weakly Ionized Air Plasmas, Walter Lempert, Ohio State University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A Complex Systems Engineering approach to software development in large organizations, Jacob Jesson, Shared Context Inc.
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Outflows from massive (proto) stars and evidence for an 'improved' evolutionary sequence, Debra Shepherd, NRAO
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, Brian Nett, Resarch Assistant, student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm
- Mixing and CP Violation in Bs Meson Decays, Hal Evans, Indiana University
- Tuesday, April 22nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Outflows from massive (proto) stars and evidence for an 'improved' evolutionary sequence, Debra Shepherd, NRAO
- Educational Technology in Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Mathematica 6 in Education and Research, Josh Lietz, Wolfram Research, Inc.
- Thursday, April 24th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Rare events and phase transitions in reaction-diffusion systems, Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota
- Special Atomic Physics Seminar; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum memory for sqeezed light, Dmitry Korystov, Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Minimal Flavor Violation: from quarks to leptons, Vincenzo Cirigliano, Los Alamos
- Friday, April 25th
- High Energy Seminar, Joint High Energy and Neutrino Physics Seminar;
11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - NuMI Muon Monitor Studies and First Results from the MINOS Sterile Neutrino Search, Jason Koskinen, University College, London
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint Pheno and NPAC Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Disentangling the Strong Interactions in Two-Jet Event Shapes, Chris Lee, LBL
- Monday, April 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Toward the Ultimate Goal of Radwaste-Free Fusion: Recycling and Clearance, Avoiding Geological Disposal, Laila A. El-Guebaly, UW-Madison, Fusion Technology Institute
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, John Moreau, Geology and Geophysics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Title to be announced, Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Tech - Department of Physics, Socorro
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- A Comparison of Computational Methods to Calculate Effective Connectivity from fMRI Time Series Data, Suzanne Witt, Research Assistant, student of Dr. M. Elizabeth Meyerand, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Neutrino-less double-beta decay, WIMPs, and Xenon: Will the Quest Converge?, David Nygren, LBNL and Stockholm University
- Tuesday, April 29th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer - A Fully Optimized Aperature Synthesis Array, Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Tech - Department of Physics, Socorro