Events During August, 2024
- Friday, August 2nd
- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, August 5th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Generating entangling gates in superconducting quantum circuit, Yinqi Chen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 7th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Black and Brown in Physics info meeting
- Friday, August 9th
- Outreach; 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm; online and UW Space Place
- Madison Astronomical Society meeting featuring Justin Vandenbroucke, Justin Vandenbroucke, Physics, WIPAC
- Sunday, August 11th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session ends
- Monday, August 12th
- Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Quark and Lepton Flavor Models, Shu Tian Eu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 13th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Worlds in the Making: Origins of Stars, Planets, and Life; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Space Place
- Cosmic Cradles: Understanding the Formation of Stars and Planets, Coco Zhang, UW-Madison
- Wednesday, August 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Summer Semester Grading deadline (8-week)
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Monday, August 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year begins
- Climate & Diversity, Processing Space;
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5313 - Climate and Diversity Processing Space
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; WIPAC Supernova
- The Camera System and Tau Neutrino Research in the TRIDENT Experiment, Wei Tian, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Tuesday, August 20th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Entanglement in String Theory, Upamanyu Moitra, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
- Wednesday, August 21st
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Characterizing the Diffuse Astrophysical Neutrino Flux from the Galactic Plane using IceCube Data, Jesse Osborn, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 22nd
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin -
- Available Energy and Slow Eigenmodes for Understanding Moisture and Phase Changes in Atmospheric Physics, Brad Kumm, Physics Graduate Student
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343, Sterling Hall
- Line Intensity Mapping: A Novel Technique to Measure Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Evolution, Sam Kramer, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 23rd
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 25th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Fall Degree Window Period begins
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Incoming PhD Orientation and Welcome, various
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall;
- Nonlinear X-ray Optics for Transition Metal Chemistry and Coherent X-ray Spectroscopy, Zain Abhari, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 27th
- Outreach; 9:00 am - 4:00 am; 2223 Chamberlin
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, König/Perkins/Song/Esterlis/Levchenko/Kuzmin/Vavilov
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling Hall, Room B343
- Cosmology and HI Intensity Mapping, John Podczerwinski, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, August 28th
- Outreach; 9:00 am - 4:00 am; 2223 Chamberlin
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, König/Perkins/Song/Esterlis/Levchenko/Kuzmin/Vavilov
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill (rain location: Birge Hall atrium)
- All grad lunch/recess
- Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Experimental and Theoretical Progress of the Rubidium Magneto Optical Trap and the trapping arrays for Electro magnetically induced transparency and Super-, Sub-radiance experiments, Utku Saglam, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 29th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Outreach; 9:00 am - 4:00 am; 2223 Chamberlin
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, König/Perkins/Song/Esterlis/Levchenko/Kuzmin/Vavilov
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Statisical Mechanics
- Friday, August 30th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics