Events During August, 2025
- Friday, August 1st
- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, August 4th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Scaling Technologies for Si/SiGe Spin Qubits, Michael Wolfe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 6th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Thursday, August 7th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Utilizing the Quadrupole Transition for Cooling and Imaging of Cs Atoms, Jacob Scott, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 8th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Characterization of Tearing Mode Dynamics with the Radial Interferometer-Polarimeter on DIII-D, Rachel Myers, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 1310 Sterling or
- Discovery and Characterization of Strong Gravitational Lenses in the Dark Energy Survey with Machine Learning, Jimena Gonzalez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Synthetic source injection in photometric surveys for cosmology, Julian Beas-Gonzalez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Sunday, August 10th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session ends
- Tuesday, August 12th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, August 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Summer Semester Grading deadline (8-week)
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Monday, August 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year begins
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- PhD Orientation
- M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- MSPQC Welcome and Program Overview, Deniz Yavuz
- Preliminary Exam; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Searches for astrophysical neutrinos from compact object mergers and gamma-ray active galactic nuclei with IceCube, Sam Hori, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Tuesday, August 19th
- Graduate Program Event; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Grad Professional Development
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Wednesday, August 20th
- Thesis Defense; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; B343 Sterling
- Searches for transient astrophysical neutrino sources in real time with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Jessie Thwaites, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- All Grad lunch/recess
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Thursday, August 21st
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Preliminary Exam; 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Search for the Highest Energy Neutrinos in IceCube, Maxwell Nakos, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 22nd
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Symmetry enhancements in Maxwell theory on four-manifolds, Raffaele Savelli, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 24th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 25th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 3320 CH
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Preliminary Exam; 9:00 am - 11:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Applications of the 6s-5d quadrupole transition in neutral Cesium atoms, Hong Ming Lim , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 26th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 3320 CH
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Outreach; 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm; Memorial Union, Great Hall, 4th floor
- Particle Physics, Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe, Mark Thomson, Director-General Designate, CERN
- Wednesday, August 27th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 3320 CH
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum statistics of single mode light interacting with an atomic ensemble, Anirudh Yadav, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 28th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 CH
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 CH
- Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Graduate Program Event; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 3328 Chamberlin
- Notebook reclamation project - 2025 edition
- Friday, August 29th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 CH
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 CH
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Progress toward efficient quantum networking with neutral atoms, Eunji Oh, Physics PhD Graduate Student