Events During September, 2016
- Friday, September 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- Light from Darkness? Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky, Tracy Slatyer, MIT
- Tuesday, September 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Teaching science fiction: Milton College 1969-73, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Impact of Self-Interacting Dark Hydrogen on Structure Formation, Kimberly Boddy, University if Hawai I
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hal
- Biophysics , Coppersmith, Gilbert
- Wednesday, September 7th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Monday, September 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- An Introduction to Bayesian Analysis for Fusion Science, Lisa Reusch, UW Madison
- Tuesday, September 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Correspondence between intonation and expression in music, Trevor Stephenson, Madison Bach Musicians
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Baryogenesis from Decaying Magnetic Helicity, Andrew Long, University of Chicago, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP)
- Wednesday, September 14th
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin hall
- An Effective Field Theory Analysis of LUX and Other Direct Dark Matter Searches , Nicole Larsen, Kalvi Institute for Cosmological Physics, Univ Chicago
- Thursday, September 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum annealing--advantages and pitfalls , Hari Krovi, BBN Technologies
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk starts 3:45 PM
- Cosmic Rays in Galaxies - Drivers of Winds?, Joshua Wiener, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
- Friday, September 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- The Signal Above the Noise: the Importance of Physics Policy and Advocacy, Gregory Mack , APS Physics
- Monday, September 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Overview of flow and radial electric field studies in LHD and the link to transport, Professor Ida, National Institute for Fusion Science Japan
- Tuesday, September 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Numerical modeling: Error, stability, and chaos, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- (Fundamental) Composite Models at the TeV scale, Andrea Tesi, University of Chicago
- Wednesday, September 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Thursday, September 22nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM , Talk at 3:45 PM
- Low Mass Galaxies and their Gas at the Peak Epoch of Star Formation, Dawn Erb, UW Milwaukee
- Monday, September 26th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Lin, Lawler, Saffman, Walker, Yavuz
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Turbulent Dynamo Amplification of Magnetic Fields in Laser-Produced Plasmas, Petros Tzeferacos, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Lunch Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling
- Formation of low-mass helium white dwarfs orbiting millisecond pulsars , Alina Istrate, UW-Milwaukee
- Tuesday, September 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Forecasting change in U.S. breeding bird distributions, Brooke Bateman, UW Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Discovering or Falsifying sub-GeV Thermal Dark Matter , Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab
- Thursday, September 29th
- Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
- Nuclear clusters and (supermassive) black holes, Fabio Antonini, Northwestern University
- Friday, September 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Engineering light-matter interactions with atom-like systems, Jennifer Choy, Draper Laboratory
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- Nuclei and Cosmos, Ani Aprahamian, Notre Dame University