Events During the 2026 Spring Semester
January 2026
- Tuesday, January 13th
- Linipun Phuttitarn
- Progress towards Quantum Error Correction (QEC) on Neutral atom quantum computing.
- 10:30 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5280, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Wednesday, January 14th
- Joseph Flahavan
- Tokamak Plasmas above Traditional Density Limits in the Madison Symmetric Torus
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by John Sarff
- Thursday, January 15th
- Braden Buck, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Kinetic impacts on Rayleigh-Taylor-driven magnetic reconnection in accretion flows
- 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by Vladimir Zhdankin
February 2026
- Tuesday, February 17th
- Puxin (David) Lin, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Dynamics and implications of black hole decay
- 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Gary Shiu
- Thursday, February 26th
- Mitanshu Thakore
- Searches for heavy resonances decaying into two Higgs bosons (HH) in the bb tau tau final state using Run 3 data from the CMS experiment.
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Tulika Bose
March 2026
April 2026
- Friday, April 3rd
- Sophia Nowak
- Design of Magnetic Shielding for a Wide Field of View Sounding Rocket Instrument
- 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Sterling B343, hosted by Dan McCammon
- Thursday, April 30th
- Matthias Thiesmeyer, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Measurement of the Neutrino Flux from the Milky Way using the IceCube Multi-Flavor Astrophysical Neutrino Sample
- 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 CH, hosted by Lu Lu
May 2026
- Friday, May 1st
- Soren Ormseth, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Modelling Nonequilibrium Superconducting Dynamics for MKID Applications
- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin, hosted by Peter Timbie
- Monday, May 4th
- Shihui Zang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Cosmological Information Recovery from Large-Scale Structure
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Moritz Munchmeyer
- Carter Fox, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- New low-switching orderings by stacking order engineering of 2d materials
- 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Jun Xiao
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Samyak Jain, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Neutrino astronomy and oscillations with IceCube
- 10:15 am - 12:15 pm; 5310 CH, hosted by Francis Halzen and Dan Hooper