Events During the 2019 Fall Semester
August 2019
- Thursday, August 1st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, August 5th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Investigations of a Two-Level Quantum Ensemble Coupled to a Boson Bath, Benjamin Lemberger , Physics Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 6th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Optimization of qubit operations and readout process , Zhenyi Qi, Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 8th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, August 21st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Quantum non-linear evolution of inflationary tensor perturbations, Jinn-Ouk Gong, KASI
- Thursday, August 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Engineering Superconductivity in Semiconductor Nanowires for Quantum Device Applications, Stephen Gill
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, August 29th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, August 30th
- WesleyFest; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
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- Saturday, August 31st
- WesleyFest; 9:30 am - 1:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
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September 2019
- Thursday, September 5th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, September 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- State of the Department followed by reception, Sridhara Dasu, UW-Madison
- Monday, September 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Effect of Magnetic Perturbations on Turbulence-Flow Dynamics at the L-H Transition on DIII-D, Matt Kriete, UW Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin (if available)
- Towards the Atomic Tritium Future of Neutrino Mass Measurement, Walter Pettus, University of Washington
- Tuesday, September 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Do plants feel pain?, Simon Gilroy, UW Department of Biology
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, September 11th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, September 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Transport properties of a compensated metal: the Lorentz ratio and the absence of mass renormalization near a Pomeranchuk quantum critical point, Songci Li , UW-Madison
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- The Yin and Yan of Slowly-Pulasting B Stars: Asteroseismology and Angular Momentum Redistribution, Professor Richard Townsend, UW Madison Astronomy Department
- Friday, September 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino: Chronicles of an Aloof Witness, Goran Senjanovic, ICTP
- Monday, September 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Computational approaches for nuclear design analyses of the stellarator power reactor HELIAS, A. Haeussler, KIT
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Parity and the origin of (neutrino) mass, Speaker Goran Senjanovic, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ITALY
- Tuesday, September 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Data and computational advances in the fight against floods, Dan Wright, UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Thursday, September 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Optical control of free-electron decoherence, Wayne Huang, Northwestern University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Building a Free Professional Website for Your Research in 10 Minutes!, Rob Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- The Geometry, Energetics, and Environment of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817: The Radio View, David Kaplan, UW Milwaukee Physics Department
- Friday, September 20th
- Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Ethan Peterson Thesis Defense, Ethan Peterson, Physics Graduate Student
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Engineering Solutions for Fusion Energy: Control and Liquid Metals, Egemen Kolemen, Princeton University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Work and Dissipation in the Cell Cytoskeleton, Michael Murrell, Yale
- Tuesday, September 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- How solar energy became cheap: A model for low-carbon innovation, Greg Nemet, La Follett School of Public Affairs
- Wednesday, September 25th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- An Entropic Bound on the Lifetime of De Sitter Space, Lars Aalsma, UW-Madison dept of Physics
- Thursday, September 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Spin transport in ferromagnet-InSb nanowire quantum devices , Vlad Pribiag, University of Minnesota
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- WISELI Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics In Concert With The Arts, Agnes Mocsy, Pratt Institute
- Friday, September 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Superconductivity in Nickelates: Similarities and Differences from Cuprates, Michael Norman, Argonne National Lab
- Monday, September 30th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Experiments on ExB shear instabilities and vortex dynamics in pure electron plasmas, Noah Hurst, UCSD
October 2019
- Tuesday, October 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Building the American Family Insurance Data Science Partnership, Brian Yandell, UW Departments of Statistics and Horticulture
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Electroweak probes of the nucleus and the era of precision neutrino physics, Dan Ruterbories, University of Rochester / MINERvA
- Wednesday, October 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, October 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Science Opportunities with Powerful New X-ray Sources, Uwe Bergmann, Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, October 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The 2017 Lake Michigan Ozone Study, Brad Pierce, UW Space Sciences and Engineering Center
- Monday, October 7th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Facing Materials for Fusion – From Challenge to Realisation, J. Coenen, Julich
- Tuesday, October 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Spectroscopy with Josephson Junctions, Dr. Çaglar Girit, College de France
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Beer, biofuels, and beyond: yeast biodiversity in the era of genomics, Chris Hittinger, UW Department of Genetics
- Thursday, October 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum computing with superconducting circuits, Yu Chen , Google
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Where Physics Ph.D.'s Work and How to Get There, Rob Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Milky Way Science with the Dark Energy Survey, Keith Bechtol, UW Madison Physics Department
- Friday, October 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) for structural biology and more: How the (relatively) new European XFEL really can do more!, Adrian Mancuso
- Monday, October 14th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- APS Invited Talk Rehearsals, TBD, UW Madison
- Tuesday, October 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Lake Michigan water-level changes and their impacts on shorelines and shoreline property owners, Dave Mickelson, UW Department of Geology
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, October 16th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino masses and Gravitational waves, Oleg Popov, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST
- Thursday, October 17th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Your Resume: From Good to Great!, Michelle Holland, Physics Graduate Programs Coordinator
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Probing White Dwarf Binaries with Post-outburst Novae, Bill Wolf, UW Eau Claire
- 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Physics Museum, Chamberlin Hall lobby
- Physics Major Fair
- Friday, October 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits, Hakan Tureci, Princeton/Rigetti Computing
- Tuesday, October 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A brief history of the soul from antiquity to integrated information theory, Peter Sobol, Wisconsin Public Media
- Wednesday, October 23rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology), TIME & LOCATION CHANGED!;
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Axion Dark Matter Production and Sub-Structure in Non-Standard Cosmologies, Nikita Blinov, Fermilab
- Thursday, October 24th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Open Cluster Variables: Essential Astrophysical Probes, Melinda Soares, Princeton University
- Friday, October 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- NO COLLOQUIUM 10/25/19
- Monday, October 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Efficient Numerical Methods for Stellarator Optimization, Antoine Cerfon, NYU
- Tuesday, October 29th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The role of auditory hair cells in frequency discrimination, Robert Fettiplace, UW Department of Neuroscience
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, October 30th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, October 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Wrestling with ultrastrongly coupled parasitic modes in circuit quantum electrodynamics, Dr. Ivan Pechenezhskiy , University of Maryland
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- "Suppressed Superwinds: A New Paradigm for Extreme Massive-Star Feedback”, Sally Oey, University of Michigan
November 2019
- Friday, November 1st
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling Hall
- Justin Walker Thesis Defense, Justin Walker, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Monday, November 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Future of Nuclear Power in a Carbon-constrained World, Michael Corradini, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, November 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A Tiny Earth, global crises, Sarah Miller, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Wednesday, November 6th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- The MICROBOONE Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab., Wouter Van De Pontseele
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Interiors for AdS Black Holes, Sagar Lokhande, UIUC
- Thursday, November 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Atom-based Silicon Devices for Quantum Technologies, Dr. Rick Silver, NIST
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Star Formation and Nuclear Activity: Dwarf Galaxies to Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, George Privon, University of Florida
- Friday, November 8th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Black Holes to Algebraic Curves: Consequences of the Weak Gravity Conjecture, Tom Rudelius, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Introduction to Quantum Error Correction: Schrödinger meets Maxwell’s Demon, Steven Girvin, Yale
- Monday, November 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- First-time realization of a stably detached, efficient-particle-exhaust divertor regime in the island divertor at Wendelstein 7-X., Oliver Schmitz, UW Madison
- Tuesday, November 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Transits and life, Jaime Cordova, UW Department of Genetics
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology in the machine learning era, Dr. Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Princeton University
- Wednesday, November 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Faculty & Postdoc Career Panel, Panel: Lisa Everett, Kim Palladino, Shimon Kolkowitz, Lars Aalsma, Ross Cawthon, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Deciphering the Archaeological Record: Cosmological Imprints of Non-Minimal Dark Sectors, Jeff Kost, IBS-CTPU; Daejeon, Korea
- Thursday, November 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Benchmarking near-term quantum information processors, Kenny Rudinger, Sandia National Laboratory
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Truth or Dare?, Ken Bloom, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- "Why Galaxies are Pickle-Shaped - An historical introduction to Dark Matter and Galaxy formation, Joel Primack, UC Santa Cruz
- Employer Visit; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Honeywell Info Session & Career Opportunities, Honeywell
- Friday, November 15th
- Astronomy Special Talk; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The SPLASH Survey of the Andromeda Galaxy, Raja GuhaThakurta, UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California Santa Cruz
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Black Hole Ergomagnetospheres, Electromagnetic Jets and Ejection Disks, Roger Blandford, KIPAC, Stanford
- Monday, November 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Consistent Closures for Plasma Fluid Equations, Eric Held, Utah State
- Tuesday, November 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Will global precipitation trends be observable in our lifetime?, Tristan L'Ecuyer, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Wednesday, November 20th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Aspects of Neutrino Masses, Jessica Turner, Fermilab
- Friday, November 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Looking for excitations with fractional statistics in the quantum Hall regime, Mike Manfra, Purdue University
- Monday, November 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Turbulent impurity transport in the W7-X stellarator, Benedikt Geiger, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, November 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- On the road to sustainable production of fuels and chemicals from biomass, Tim Donohue, UW Department of Bacteriology
December 2019
- Monday, December 2nd
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Numerical Simulation of Intense Ultrafast Quantum Phenomena, Joshua Tree Karpel, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Multi-field Ion Fluctuation Measurements with Ultra Fast Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy (UF-CHERS) in the DIII-D Tokamak, Dinh Truong, GA/UW
- Tuesday, December 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A case study of bacterial pathogen emergence: Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Caitlin Pepperell, UW Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, December 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, December 5th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physicists at Google, Homer Wolfmeister, Google
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Journey: Jets & Outflows Revealing the Nature and Evolution of Massive YSO's", Esteban Araya, Western Illinois
- Friday, December 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium, 3rd Year Graduate Students, UW-Madison
- Monday, December 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Integrated Solenoid-Free Tokamak Startup Studies on Pegasus and Pegasus-III, Michael Bongard, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, December 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The poetry of chaos, Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Wednesday, December 11th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark Matter and Dark Radiation from Primordial Black Hole Domination, Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab
- Thursday, December 12th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 12:00 pm; CANCELLED Supernova Conference Room (5117),WIPAC offices at 222 West Washington Ave., Suite 500
- CANCELLED: Making space telescopes happen, Max Mutchler
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum combinatorial optimization algorithms, Dr. Yuri Alexeev, Argonne Argonne National Laboratory
- Friday, December 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Thermodynamics away from equilibrium: Watching biological systems break time reversal symmetry, Michael Murrell, Yale
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Sterling B343 (NOTE NEW LOCATION)
- Exploring the Cosmic Dark Ages: the Lunar Orbit Array, Xuelei Chen, National Astronomical Observatories of China/ Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)
- Tuesday, December 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Lithium Plasma Facing Component Characterization and Plasma Performance for the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment-Beta, Anurag Maan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Wednesday, December 18th
- Thesis Defense; 9:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Sam Neyens PhD Thesis Defense, Sam Neyens, Physics PhD Graduate Student