Events During April, 2022
- Friday, April 1st
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- HQAN Quantum Research Colloquium, Elizabeth Goldschmidt (UIUC), Edgar Solomonik (UIUC)
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The Festina Lente Bound, Thomas Van Riet, Leuven University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring anyons and black holes-like dynamics in flatland , Smitha Vishveshwara, UIUC
- Saturday, April 2nd
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 9:00 am - 9:00 pm; to indicate interest:
- HQAN visit to UChicago, various, HQAN
- Monday, April 4th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Pathways to Detecting and Characterizing Rocky Habitable Planets, Gudmundur Stefansson, Princeton University
- Tuesday, April 5th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum stochastic resonance of individual Fe atoms, Sue Coppersmith, UNSW Sydney
- Wednesday, April 6th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Formal Mathematics Statement Curriculum Learning, Stanislas Polu, OpenAI
- Careers for Physicists; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlain 4274
- PGSC Professional Development Event, Ryan Roussell, SLAC
- Thursday, April 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing, Dr. Nathan Holman
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual, please register at
- RED Talk: Data Science is on its Feet, Now Where is it Going?, Kyle Cranmer, AmFam Data Science Institute
- Friday, April 8th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Hot Qubits on the Horizon, Greg Kaplanek, McMaster University, Perimeter Institute
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring the Heart of Quantum Matter with Extreme Magnetic Fields, Gregory Boebinger, NHMFL-FSU
- Saturday, April 9th
- Wonders of Physics
- 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall lobby
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Sunday, April 10th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall or watch virtually at
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall or virtually at
- Monday, April 11th
- APS Chapters; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- APS Chapters Coffee Hour
- Tuesday, April 12th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual -
- Black hole archeology with gravitational waves, Djuna Croom, IPPP Durham University
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, April 13th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- A duality connecting neural network and cosmological dynamics, Sven Krippendorf, Ludwig Maximilian University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Thursday, April 14th
- ECE Distinguished Seminar Series; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
- Geospatial Sensor Networks for Water and Agriculture, Supratik Guha, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Argonne National Labs
- Friday, April 15th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- HQAN Quantum Research Colloquium, Angela Kou (UIUC), Smitha Vishveshwara (UIUC)
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- A Cosmological Lithium Solution from Discrete Gauged Baryon Minus Lepton Number, Seth Koren, University of Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Atoms Interlinked by Light: Programmable Interactions and Emergent Geometry, Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University
- Wednesday, April 20th
- 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. We will also livestream the talk in Chamberlin 5280.
- Effective Theory of Deep Neural Networks, Sho Yaida, Meta AI
- Friday, April 22nd
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 9:00 am - 4:30 pm;
- Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction: Second Annual Symposium , Various, Various
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Searching for Axion Conversion with the Breakthrough Listen GBT Galactic Center Survey, Joshua Foster, MIT
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall -
- Physics Department Climate Survey Results, Prof. Tulika Bose, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Tuesday, April 26th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Hunting for cosmic neutrino sources from Giga- to Exa-electronvolt with IceCube, Alex Pizzuto, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Euclidean Wormholes: Conceptual Issues and Applications, Pablo Soler Gomis, CTPU - Institute for Basic Science
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; virtual - Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- From SNe to SNRs: Hunting Legacies of Supernova Explosions in Supernova Remnants, Hiro Nagataki, RIKEN ABBL
- Wednesday, April 27th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link for those attending online: )
- Quantum field theory and deep neural networks, Ro Jefferson, Nordita
- Thursday, April 28th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Few-layer MoTe2: an Unconventional, Ferroelectric Superconductor, Prof. Daniel Rhodes, UW-Madison Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
- Friday, April 29th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- A chiral SU(5) theory with three generations, Daniel Stolarski, Carleton University
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling or join online:
- Intensity Mapping: Science and Instrumentation Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum, Trevor Oxholm, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Structural Dynamics in Biology using LCLS, Mark Hunter, SLAC