Events During May, 2022
- Monday, May 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Thesis Defense; 9:30 am; B343 Sterling
- The Influence of Cosmic Ray Transport on the Stability of Interstellar Gas, Evan Heintz, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- GREAT IDEAS coffee hour (led by GMaWiP); 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 CH (coffee and snacks provided)
- GREAT IDEAS coffee hour (GMaWiP), N/A - discussion session
- Tuesday, May 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall and Zoom
- CANCELLED --- The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM), Eric Switzer, NASA/Goddard
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, May 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- 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.
- Renormalization Group Flow as Optimal Transport, Semon Rezchikov, Harvard University
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Thursday, May 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Revealing Obscured Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies in the Early Universe, Dr. Sinclaire Manning, Univ. Massachusetts - Amherst
- Friday, May 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Hot Atmospheres of Cool Stars: From Physical Conditions to Physical Processes, Dr. Nancy S. Brickhouse, 2022 Distinguished Alumni Awardee, Senior Science Advisor Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University & Smithsonian
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- String Solutions Without Supersymmetry, Savdeep Sethi, University of Chicago
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Metasurfaces for Mid-Infrared Applications, Gregory Holdman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The topology of tuning a non-Hermitian instrument: knots, braids, and exceptional points, Jack Harris, Yale
- Saturday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Academic Calendar
- Final exam block
- Sunday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Monday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Hunting for Multimessenger Transients and Lensed Supernovae, Robert Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual - Join Zoom Meeting
- Light Dark Matter: Collective Effects in the Lab and in Stars, Edoardo Vitagliano, UCLA
- Wednesday, May 11th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Networking at AFRL, Dr. Kathy-Anne Soderberg , Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
- Thursday, May 12th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CDF, Bo Jayatilaka, Fermilab
- Friday, May 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- School of Nursing Graduate Graduation Celebration and Hooding Ceremony
- Academic Calendar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
- Commencement (Doctoral and Medical Professional)
- Academic Calendar; 5:30 pm - 11:00 pm
- DDEEA Spring 2022 Graduation Recognition
- Saturday, May 14th
- Academic Calendar; 9:30 am - 10:45 am
- School of Human Ecology Undergraduate Graduation Open House
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Commencement (Bachelor's, Master's, Law)
- Academic Calendar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- School of Nursing Undergraduate Graduation Celebration
- Sunday, May 15th
- Academic Calendar; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- iSchool Graduation Celebration
- Tuesday, May 17th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Implicit correlations within phenomenological parametric models of the neutron star equation of state, Isaac Legred, Caltech
- Wednesday, May 18th
- 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
- Simulation-based inference for astrophysical dark matter searches, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, MIT
- Monday, May 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- 4 week summer session begins
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Ruling out QCD phase transition behind a PBH origin of LIGO/Virgo events, Pasquale Serpico, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), France
- Tuesday, May 24th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session
- Wednesday, May 25th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chanberlin
- Indoor recess (it's a rainy Wednesday!), Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, May 26th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session
- Tuesday, May 31st
- Academic Calendar
- 3 week summer session begins