Events During September, 2021
- Wednesday, September 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- Monday, September 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Labor Day holiday
- Tuesday, September 7th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2021: Fall degree window period deadline for master's students
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2021: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Fall semester instruction begins
- 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
- JAX MD: A Framework for Differentiable Atomistic Physics, Sam Schoenholz, Google Brain
- Department Meeting
- WN@TL
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Discovery Building, H.F. DeLuca Forum, or register for Zoom link at:
- Thursday, September 9th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Show and Tell - One Slide to tell it all! Special Time: 3:00 - 3:45 pm, 4:00 - 4:45 pm., Ellen Zweibel, UW Astronomy Department
- Friday, September 10th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Emerging ideas for future colliders, Sridhara Dasu, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- State of the Department , Mark Eriksson, Department Chair, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Saturday, September 11th
- Graduate Program Event; In Person-Chamberlin Hall
- Fall 2021 Qualifying Exam
- Monday, September 13th
- Plasma Theory Seminar
- NO SEMINAR
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Applying Fast-Ion Transport Control Methods and Predictive Modeling in a Steady-State Tokamak Scenario, Cami Collins , ORNL
- Tuesday, September 14th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The Geometric SMEFT description of curved Higgs Field Space(s), Michael Trott, Niels Bohr Institute
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 5:00 pm;
- The Milky Way is not special: accreted stars also inhabit the Spite Plateau, Dr. Jeffrey Simpson, UNSW, Australia
- Wednesday, September 15th
- Wednesday Nite @ The Lab; 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; 1111 Biotech or sign up for zoom link:
- IceCube Turns Ten: Past, Present and Future for the World’s Biggest and Strangest Observatory, Francis Halzen, John Kelly, and Lu Lu, Physics/WIPAC/IceCube
- Thursday, September 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Laboratory Astrochemistry, Gustavo Cruz Diaz, UW Madison
- Friday, September 17th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; zoom link below
- ITG Turbulence Saturation and Near-Resonant Heat Flux Reduction in Gyrokinetic Dimits-Shift Analysis, Ping-Yu Li , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Intersection of Neutrino/Dark Matter Physics and Astrophysics with Quantum Information Science, A. Balantekin, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Supermassive Black Holes and Merging Galaxies: Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection with Pulsar Timing Arrays, Sarah Vigeland, UW-Milwaukee
- Monday, September 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Pegasus, Stephanie Diem , UW
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- New MHD equilibrium tools for stellarators, Sanket Patil, UW
- Tuesday, September 21st
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Transport in Neutron Star Mergers, Alexander Haber, Washington University in St. Louis
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; Zoom:
- Correlated Charge Noise and Relaxation Errors in Superconducting Qubits, Chris Wilen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Computation of Gravitational Particle Production Using Adiabatic Invariants, Edward Basso, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday, September 22nd
- 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
- Differentiable Physics Simulations for Deep Learning, Nils Thuerey, TU Munich
- Thursday, September 23rd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Coffee and Tea 3:30 pm, Talk begins 3:45 pm
- Sizing up Protoplanetary Disks, Leon Trapman, UW Madison
- Friday, September 24th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Biomineralization: past, present, and future climate change, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Electronic Hydrodynamics , Alex Levchenko, UW-Madison
- Monday, September 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Toward prediction, avoidance, and mitigation of tokamak disruptions: research on MST and DIII-D, Brett Chapman , UW
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB or by Zoom
- Progress on Coupling CEL drift kinetics into NIMROD's Fluid Advance, Joseph Jepson (UW)
- Tuesday, September 28th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Impact of EoS on Neutrino Opacities in Core-collapse Supernovae, Zidu Lin , University of Tennessee Knoxville/ORNL
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- SU(4) Flavorful Portal Matter, George Wojcik, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thursday, September 30th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Reassessing Impact Bombardment in the Earth-Moon System, Nicolle Zellner, Albion College