Events During the Week of August 11th through August 18th, 2024
Sunday, August 11th, 2024
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session ends
- Abstract: *Note: actual end time may vary.*
Monday, August 12th, 2024
- Thesis Defense
- Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Quark and Lepton Flavor Models
- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Shu Tian Eu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Abstract: The origin of the masses and mixing angles of quarks and leptons remains one of the most intriguing problems to explore in particle physics. In the quark sector, we studied a minimal flavored gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking model in which the Higgs and messenger doublets are embedded in multiplets of the S3 symmetry. This discrete non-Abelian symmetry correlates the flavor structure of the quark and lepton Yukawa couplings with the structure of the messenger Yukawa couplings that contribute to the soft supersymmetry breaking mass parameters. In the lepton sector, we focused our studies in a class of leptonic portal matter models with an additional U(1) symmetry, as motivated by sub-GeV dark matter models. We presented a minimal construction of such leptonic model that address the muon g-2 anomaly, and we provided a more complete theory based on a SU(2) x SU(2) dark gauge group. We also employed new machine learning techniques, namely reinforcement learning, to develop a machine learning model builder to explore this framework. We successfully trained a reinforcement learning agent to explore this model space and found new possible portal matter models that are consistent with experimental constraints including the anomalous muon magnetic moment.
- Host: Lisa Everett
Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Place: Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Abstract: Please join us for the WQI Quantum Coffee today at 3PM in the Physics Faculty Lounge (Rm.5294 in Chamberlin Hall). This series, which takes place approximately every other Tuesday, aims to foster a casual and collaborative atmosphere where faculty, post-docs, students, and anyone with an interest in quantum information sciences can come together. There will be coffee and treats.
- Worlds in the Making: Origins of Stars, Planets, and Life
- Cosmic Cradles: Understanding the Formation of Stars and Planets
- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Place: Space Place
- Speaker: Coco Zhang, UW-Madison
- Abstract: A series of talks by UW-Madison scientists from the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research (WiCOR), hosted by UW Space Place.
- Host: Jim Lattis
Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
- Academic Calendar
- Summer Semester Grading deadline (8-week)
- Abstract: *Note: actual end time may vary.*
- Summer Recess
- Time: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
- Place: Bascom Hill outside Birge
- Speaker: Sharon Kahn
- Abstract: Come take a break and play from 12:30-1 on Bascom Hill (outside of Birge)! Some of us will be walking up, leaving from the courtyard between Chamberlin and Sterling ~12:25 – feel free to walk with us!
Cornhole, ladder toss, frisbee, juice boxes. . . .
Hope you’ll join us! Thursday, August 15th, 2024
- No events scheduled
Friday, August 16th, 2024
- No events scheduled