Events During April, 2021
- Thursday, April 1st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- New results from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, Danny Jacobs, Arizona State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- How do galaxies in the nearby Universe grow?, Sanchayeeta Borthakur,, Arizona State
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm;
- Exploring the Use of Signal Envelopes for Neutrino Detection with In-Ice Radio Arrays, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, April 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 10:00 am - 11:00 am; For zoom link, sign up at:
- Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Amplitude Techniques for Cosmology, Scott Melville, University of Cambridge
- Astronomy Special Friday Lunch Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Zoom Meeting See Abstract for Link
- Making Use of Imaged Spotted Stellar Surfaces, Rachael Roettenbacher, Yale University
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; CANCELLED this week
- Department Coffee Hour - CANCELLED
- Saturday, April 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
- Sunday, April 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021)
- Monday, April 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Classes resume
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- NSTX-U Recovery — Motivation and Progress Toward the Resumption of Plasma Operations, Dr. Stefan Gerhardt, PPPL
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, April 6th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, April 7th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- A Mathematical Exploration of Why Language Models Help Solve Downstream Tasks, Nikunj Saunshi, Princeton University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled today due to lack of urgent business
- Thursday, April 8th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- Investigating the Origin of the Stars Closest to the Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole, Devin Chu, UCLA
- Friday, April 9th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, April 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Creating Astrophysically Relevant Systems in the Laboratory in the High-Energy-Density Regime, Prof. Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Multidimensional Progenitor Models For Core-collapse Supernovae, Dr. Carl Fields, Michigan State University and Arizona State University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, April 13th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Nucleosynthesis in magneto-rotational driven supernovae, Moritz Reichert , TU – Darmstadt
- Wednesday, April 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Cancelled - due to lack of urgent business.
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm;
- Stellarator Beta Limits with Extended MHD Modeling Using NIMROD, Torrin Bechtel, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm;
- Overlapping Aluminum-Gate Quantum Dots for Valley-Orbit Based Qubits in Si/SiGe, JP Dodson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, April 15th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, expectations for diffuse fluxes and arrival-direction correlations, Arjen van Vliet, DESY Zeuthen, Germany
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- Planets, Patterns, and the Origin of Life, Lauren Weiss, University of Hawaii at Monoa
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- First results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab, Liang Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Friday, April 16th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- The Impact of a Midband Gravitational Wave Experiment On Detectability of Cosmological Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds, Yanou Cui, UC Riverside
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Request for all Master's and Ph.D. Degree Warrants
- Monday, April 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report, Prof. Troy Carter, UCLA
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm;
- The Chemical Quandaries of Titan’s Atmosphere (and How We Can Solve Them), Erin Flowers, Princeton University
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Development and testing of a reduced runaway electron model for disruption simulation, Alex Sainterme, UW
- Tuesday, April 20th
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- Wednesday, April 21st
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
- Machine Learning for Calabi-Yau metrics, Fabian Ruehle, CERN and Oxford
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Cancelled due to lack of urgent business
- Thursday, April 22nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- High Energy Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Searches for New Physics with Long Lived Particles, Lesya Horyn, Fermi Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom:
- Searches for New Physics with Long Lived Particles, Lesya Horyn, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
- Simulating Galaxy Formation, Mark Vogelsberger, MIT
- Friday, April 23rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
- The Weak Scale as a Trigger, Raffaele-Tito D'Agnolo, Université Paris-Saclay
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Monday, April 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm – ARCS: a Heliophysics mission concept for decoding the aurora , K A Lynch, Dartmouth College Physics and Astronomy, for the ARCS team
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, April 27th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am;
- Heterostructure Modifications, Fabrication Improvements, and Measurement Automation of Si/SiGe Quantum Dots for Quantum Computation, Thomas McJunkin, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Institute for Nuclear Energy Systems (INES) Colloquium ; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
- Multiphysics analysis of fusion nuclear systems with the MOOSE framework, Dr. Paul Humrickhouse, leads the Fusion Safety Program at Idaho National Laboratory
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Axion Production in Magnetars, Steven Harris, INT-U. Washington
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;
- The Role of Chaos and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy, Vanessa Lopez Barquero , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, April 28th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, April 29th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; online
- Searching for new physics during gravitational waves propagation, Leïla Haegel, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Paris & Swiss National Science Foundation
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual Zoom meeting - See Abstract, Coffee and Tea 3:30pm, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Dust in galaxies: extinction, attenuation and emission, Samir Salim, Indiana University
- Friday, April 30th
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)