Events During September, 2024
- Monday, September 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Labor Day
- Tuesday, September 3rd
- Climate & Diversity; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Article Discussion: Moving Through Performative Allyship
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Department Coffee Hour; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; University Ave steps or (in case of bad weather) 2120 CH
- Physics Cookie Potluck
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Fall degree window period deadline for master's students
- Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Dissertator eligibility for the fall
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Fall semester instruction begins
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall -
- Thursday, September 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum gates and simulations with Rydberg atoms in a lattice, David Petrosyan, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Colloquium Show and Tell
- Friday, September 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- State of the Department, Kevin Black, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Monday, September 9th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- First plasma experiments in WHAM, Dmitry Yakovlev, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Tuesday, September 10th
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Implementing Structured Inquiry Labs and Researching Equity of Group Dynamics at UT Austin, Andrew Loveridge, The University of Texas at Austin
- 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
- How Can We Find Other Life in the Universe?, Thomas Beatty, UW-Madison
- Wednesday, September 11th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall -
- Thursday, September 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Measurement-induced criticality, Romain Vasseur, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Colloquium Show and Tell
- Friday, September 13th
- Graduate Program Event; 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Botany Garden
- PGSC Headshot Event
- Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Sterling B343
- BBiP First General Meeting
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- TBD
- Monday, September 16th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Hot Electron Instabilities in Magnetic Mirrors and Dipoles, Prof. Michael Mauel, Columbia University
- Tuesday, September 17th
- Climate & Diversity, DEI Lunch and Learn;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Zoom - How to integrate DEI into faculty and staff hiring process, L&S DEI Leadership
- Thursday, September 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Tunable contributions from charge-rectification and momentum transfer to 1D Coulomb drag, Dominique Laroche, University of Florida
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Quantum systems engineering, John Martinis, Qolab and UC Santa Barbara
- Friday, September 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Exploring Magnetic Reconnection With Phase Space Measurements, Earl Scime, West Virginia University
- WiCOR Speaker Event; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Life in the Cosmic Trenches: The Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth, Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Saturday, September 21st
- UW Madison Physics Department Picnic; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Garner Park, 333 S. Rosa Road
- Monday, September 23rd
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Experimental and Modeling Results from the HSX Stellarator, Alexis Wolfmeister, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Tuesday, September 24th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Careers for Physicists; 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm; Wisconsin Energy Institute, 1552 University Ave., or via Zoom (see website for reg info)
- Fusion Forward: Commercializing Fusion Technology in Wisconsin, Various, Various
- Wednesday, September 25th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Constraints on Kahler moduli space of 6d N=1 Supergravity, Hee-Cheol Kim, POSTECH and Harvard
- Thursday, September 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electron Interactions in Rashba Materials, Yasha Gindikin, University of Minnesota
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Things you should know about the Milky Way, Bob Benjamin, UW-Madison/UW-Whitewater
- Friday, September 27th
- Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlain 5310
- BBiP Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- FASER: New Eyes for the LHC, Jonathan Feng, University of California-Irvine
- Monday, September 30th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Climate and Diversity Committee Open Hours, Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- High-Fidelity Multiphysics for Nuclear Engineering, April Novak, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign