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Events During April, 2026
Wednesday, April 1st: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310; Some statistical results in ion temperature gradient-driven turbulence theory, Augustus Azelis; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 2nd: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 3rd: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Sterling B343; Design of Magnetic Shielding for a Wide Field of View Sounding Rocket Instrument, Sophia Nowak; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, April 4th: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, April 5th: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 6th: Academic Calendar; Classes Resume; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall - 1227; Explosive Instability in Fusion and Astrophysical Plasmas, Professor Steven Cowley, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; A simple, UV-complete model for neutrino decoherence, Pedro Machado, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 7th: Outreach; 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm; IceCube on the Larry Meiller Show, Justin Vandenbroucke and Delaney Butterfield, UW–Madison Physics, WIPAC; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 9th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Strongly correlation and topology in Kondo lattice systems, Sheng Ran, Washington University in St Louis; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Bascom Hill (if the weather is nice!) or 911 Van Vleck (if the weather is not nice!); Physics-Math-Chemistry Graduate Student Appreciation Week edition of recess; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; The SPHEREx Space Mission: Preliminary Results , Dr. Roberta Paladini, IPAC; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 10th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Neutrinos: A window into the unknown, Justin Evans, University of Manchester; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, April 11th: Wonders of Physics; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Outreach; 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall, Lobby, Museum, 2103; Science Expeditions; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 13th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Constructibility of Massive Helicity Amplitudes and the ALT Shift, Zhen Liu, Minnesota U.; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 14th: Physics Education Innovation Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall and on Zoom; Physics Education Innovations at UW Madison, Ayshea Banes, Isaac Barnhill, Mihir Manna, and Abdollah Mohammadi, UW Madison Department of Physics; Attachments: PEIF 14 April 2026.png; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; System-Level Quantum Networking: Entanglement, Metrology, and Quantum Memory in Deployed Fiber Systems, Dr. Jing Su, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 16th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Anomalous Hall effect and piezomagnetism in altermagnets, Maxim Khodas , Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Single-lined Eclipsing Binary Stars: A Stellar Astronomy Multi-Tool, Prof. Daniel Stevens, UMN-Duluth; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 17th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Playing with Quantum Annealers , Alex Kamenev , FTPI-UMN; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 20th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall - 1227; Effects of magnetic geometry and neutrals in gyrokinetic simulations of magnetized boundary plasmas, Dr. Tess Bernard, General Atomics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, Hongwan Liu, Boston U.; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5290; A search for dark matter recoiling from the standard model Higgs boson using the CMS experiment, Shivani Lomte; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 22nd: Board of Visitors Meeting; 8:00 am - 5:00 pm; B343 Sterling; , Various; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 23rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; High-Temporal-Resolution Measurements of the Impacts of Ionizing Radiation on Superconducting Qubits, Brad Christensen, Northrop Grumman; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; The Virtual Planetary Laboratory and the Search for Signs of Life on Exoplanets, Victoria Meadows, Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 24th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; The attosecond-Ångstrom frontier at x-ray free-electron lasers, Linda Young, ANL; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 27th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, José Calderón-Infante, Caltech; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 28th: Council Meeting; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 29th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 30th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; A universal model of Floquet operator Krylov Space, Aditi Mitra, NYU; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 CH; Measurement of the Neutrino Flux from the Milky Way using the IceCube Multi-Flavor Astrophysical Neutrino Sample, Matthias Thiesmeyer, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Whitford Lecture, Prof. Bruce Draine, Princeton; Add this event to your calendar

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