Events During April, 2019
- Monday, April 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Electrostatically driven helical plasma state, John Finn, Tibbar Plasma Technologies
- Tuesday, April 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Disruptive technologies in the transition to renewable energy: The future of energy production and storage, Michael Winokur, UW Department of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, April 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; b343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, April 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Advantage for Annealing, Dr. David Ferguson, Northrop Grumman
- 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
- Science with a Complete Catalog of Galactic HII Regions, Loren Anderson, West Virginia University
- Friday, April 5th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Large Field Ranges from Aligned and Misaligned Winding, Andreas Schachner, Heidelberg University
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Stefan Westerhoff Memorial Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Exploring Nature's Extreme Accelerators, Julie McEnery, NASA
- Stefan Westerhoff Memorial Concert; 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Chamber Music, Solano Quartet, UW-Madison
- Monday, April 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Observation of nonlinear coupling between Kelvin-Helmholtz and drift wave instability in IMPED, Prabal Chattopadhyay, Institute for Plasma Research (India)
- Tuesday, April 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- In the beginning: children with disabilities in American policy, 1912-1960, Walter Schalick, UW Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Wednesday, April 10th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Few and many-body dynamics of Rydberg excitations in a lattice, Dr. David Petrosyan , Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Thursday, April 11th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- High-energy emissions from neutron star mergers, Shigeo Kimura, PennState
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Molecular clouds and star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies, Deidre Hunter, Lowell Observatory
- Monday, April 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Overview of TAE Technologies’ Norman/C-2W Field-Reversed Configuration Experiments, Hiroshi Gota, TAE Technologies
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Opportunities in Entrepreneurship and Medicine with a Physics PhD, Rock Mackie, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, UW Health
- Tuesday, April 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates, Kevin Burke, UW Department of Geography
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates, Kevin Burke, UW Department of Geography
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, April 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, April 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chambering 5310
- Exciting dynamics in multiple time dimensions , Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Why the Higgs is light, Why it has SM couplings to gauge bosons and fermions, and where there are more Higgses to be found., Ken Lane, Boston University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Diermier Colloquium Talk- Revealing the Atomic Hydrogen in the small Magellanic cloud with the Australian Square Kilmetre Array Pathfinder", Naomi McClure-Griffiths, The Australian National University
- Friday, April 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Postcards from the Future — The Physics Landscape at the High-Luminosity LHC , Meenakshi Narain, Brown University
- Monday, April 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Diagnosing impurity transport in the scrape-off layer of DIII-D using outer-midplane collector probes with isotopically enriched tungsten tracer particles, Professor David C. Donovan, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK)
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall - Photoinduced reaction mechanisms in molecular systems probed with elemental specificity via ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy, Nils Huse, Hamburg University
- Tuesday, April 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Energy, evolution, and the origins of life?, Terry Allard, Office of Naval Research and NASA
- Thursday, April 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Realistic numerical modeling of Majorana nanowires, John Gamble, Microsoft
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Low-Redshift Hydrogen Intensity Mapping, Trevor Oxholm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- The Central Engine and Outflows in the Nuclear Starburst of NGC 253 as Revealed by ALMA, Albert Bollato, University of Maryland
- Friday, April 26th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Systematic expansion of tunneling rates, Björn Garbrecht, Technical University Munich
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- New Science Opportunities at X-ray Free Electron Lasers , Uwe Bergmann, Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Monday, April 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- SPARC and the high-field, privately-funded path to fusion energy, Martin Greenwald, MIT
- Tuesday, April 30th
- Noon Colloquium; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Noon Talk
- An introduction to radiatively driven stellar winds , Wolf-Rainer Hamann, Institute for Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Year-end celebration, Various, UW Madison
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall