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Events During the 2020 Fall Semester
August 2020
Monday, August 3rd: Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual; Development of high-beta weakly magnetized plasma Couette flow in pursuit of electromagnetic instabilities in the Hall regime, Ken Flanagan, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, August 4th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Gamma rays from neutron star mergers: a unique signature of the r process, Xilu Wang, Notre Dame; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 5th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual; A study of Collective effects and Dark state based localization protocols in cold atoms, Diptaranjan Das, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, August 6th: Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual; Precision measurements of the astrophysical neutrino flux, Austin Schneider, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, August 7th: M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 12:00 pm; Virtual; MSPQC Virtual Graduation; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, August 11th: Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm; Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; On massive neutrino emission from primordial black holes via Hawking radiation , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Northwestern; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 12th: Physics Meets ML; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:; Discovering new phases of matter with unsupervised and interpretable support vector machines , Lode Pollet, LMU Munich; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual; Role of Stable Eigenmodes in Shear-flow Instability Saturation and Turbulence, Adrian Fraser, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Virtual; Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Cosmological and String Theoretic Data, Alex Cole, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm; Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, August 13th: Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, August 14th: Madison Astronomical Society monthly meeting; 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm; virtual, email to madisonastro.info@gmail.com by noon Friday August 14 to receive the zoom link; A Brief History of Time(keeping): Optical atomic clocks and their applications, Shimon Kolkowitz; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, August 17th: Academic Calendar; Faculty contract year begins; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, August 18th: Graduate Program Event, PGSC Professional Development Seminar;
2:30 pm;; Nanoscale Metrology with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond, Aedan Gardill, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; The Sterile Neutrino is Dead; Long Live the Sterile Neutrino!, Jeffrey Berryman, Kentucky; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Effective Field Theory Search Results from the LUX Run 4 Data Set, and Construction of the LZ System Test Platforms, Shaun Alsum, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 19th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Virtual; High-Fidelity Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit using an On-Chip Microwave Photon Counter, Alex Opremcak, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual; Flavored Gauge Mediation with Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries, Neil Leonard, Physics MS Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, August 20th: Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, August 21st: Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Summer 2020: Master’s Degree Deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, August 23rd: Academic Calendar; Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Summer term 2020; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Summer 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, August 25th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Constraining cold dense matter using multi-wavelength & multi-messenger observations of merging neutron stars, Ben Margalit , Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 26th: Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Please register for this online event:; The large learning rate phase of deep learning , Yasaman Bahri, Google Brain; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, August 27th: Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, August 28th: Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual; Reconnection in the Age of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, Blake Wetherton, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
September 2020
Tuesday, September 1st: 2:30 pm; Zoom:; PGSC Seminar, Ben Harpt, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Diffuse supernova neutrinos: ubiquitous and driving fundamental physics , Manibrata Sen, Northwestern; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Fall 2020: Fall degree window period deadline for master's students; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Fall 2020: Doctoral Degree Window Period Deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, September 2nd: Academic Calendar; Instruction begins; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 4th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Introduction to Research in the Department, Sridhara Dasu, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; Virtual; State of the Department , Sridhara Dasu, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, September 7th: Academic Calendar; Labor Day; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, September 8th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Dark matter , Tongyan Lin, UCSD; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, September 9th: Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:30 pm; Please register for this online event:; Insights on gradient-based algorithms in high-dimensional learning, Lenka Zdeborova, Université Paris-Saclay; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 11:30 am; Join Virtually:; CQE Briefing: Universal Coherence Protection in a Solid-State Spin Qubit, David Awschalom and Kevin Miao UChicago, UChicago, Argonne; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 11th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Science Opportunities with New Ultrafast X-ray Sources, Uwe Bergmann, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, September 14th: Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Online-https://honeywellrandstad.recsolu.com/external/events/zRziEFSOj1tWSNIWPsg1jQ; Honeywell Info Session, Panel discussion featuring UW Physics Alumni-Trevor Knapp, Honeywell; Presentation: Honeywell Info Session.pdf; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; VIRTUAL; Electron Scattering by Low-frequency Whistler Waves at Earth’s Bow Shock, Mitsuo Oka, Scientist at Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, September 15th: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, September 16th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, September 17th: 2:30 pm; Zoom:; PGSC Seminar, Rob Morgan, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 18th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm; BBCollaborate; Particle Astrophysics, Justin Vandenbroucke; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Classical aspects of black hole interiors, Jorrit Kruthoff, Stanford University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, September 21st: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Using Fundamental Turbulence Saturation to Improve Fast Transport Frameworks, M.J. Pueschel, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research & Eindhoven University of Technology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, September 22nd: Graduate Program Event; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; PGSC Professional Development Event , Angela Zito (from the UW Writing Center), Justin Vandenbroucke, Victor Brar, Uwe Bergmann; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Microscopic black holes in neutrino telescopes, colliders and cosmology, Ningqiang Song , Queen’s University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, September 23rd: Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Please register for this online event:; Science is a verb: adopting the scientific method and best practices in AI research, Michela Paganini, Facebook AI Research; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm;; Observations of helical plasma dynamics using complementary x-ray diagnostics in the MST, Patrick VanMeter, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, September 24th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom,; PhD Defense, Usama Hussain, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM; Knitting Together a New 3D View of our "Milky Way Galaxy"., Catherine Zucker, Harvard CfA; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 25th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Frontiers in Linear and Nonlinear Plasma Physics, Jeff Parker, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Probing Particle Physics with Gravitational Waves, Horng Sheng Chia, Institute for Advanced Study; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, September 28th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; in present experiments , Dr. Alberto Loarte, Head of Science Division of the ITER Organization; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, September 29th: PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm;; PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminar, Greg Loges, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, September 30th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; contact quantum@uchicago.edu for login info; CQE Seminar Series: A Commercial Perspective on Quantum Networks, Warren Grice, Vice President of Research and Development, Quibitekk; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
October 2020
Thursday, October 1st: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:45pm, Talk 4:00 PM; "What we learn when we're careful: the power of Seismic Stellar Evolution" , Meridith Joyce, ANU; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 2nd: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Astrophysics and Cosmology Experiment, Peter Timbie, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Gradient effects on false vacuum decay in gauge theory , Juan S. Cruz, Technical University Munich; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, October 5th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Core transport model validation towards building the physics basis for the SPARC tokamak, Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, October 6th: PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; LinkedIn, Michelle Holland, Physics Graduate Programs Coordinator; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Properties of r-Process-Producing Neutron Star Mergers: What We Can Learn from Metal-Poor Stars, Erika Holmbeck , University of Notre Dame; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, October 7th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; contact quantum@uchicago.edu for login info; CQE Seminar Series: Building the second quantum revolution by training Schrödinger cats, from very fat to very fast, Tommaso Calarco, Institute for Quantum Control, Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich; Add this event to your calendar; Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Please sign up at physicsmeetsml.org for this online event.; Machine learning as a discovery tool in hep-th, Vishnu Jejjala, University of Witwatersrand; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, October 8th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; Particle acceleration by pressure anisotropy plasma instabilities: from black hole accretion disks to solar flares., Mario Riquelme, University of Chile; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 9th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Linking the theory and observation of astroparticles , Ke Fang, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Gravitational wave probes of axion-like particles, Ben Stefanek, Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, October 12th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; A Novel Theory of Particle Acceleration at Shocks, Damiano Caprioli, Assistant Professor University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, October 13th: 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm;; PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminar, Brent Mode, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, October 14th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual; contact quantum@uchicago.edu for login info; CQE Seminar Series: TBD, Marco Pistoia, JPMorgan Chase; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED.; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm; Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm; Online - Program Overview: Masters in Learning Analytics Program; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, October 15th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Zoom:; Lepton flavor violating Higgs boson decays, Prasanna Siddireddy, University of Notre Dame; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM; ` JWST status as of 2020, and some of its first Science Programs: Time Domain Science, Cluster Lensing \& Caustic Transits '', Rogier Windhorst, Regents' and Foundation Professor, JWST Interdisciplinary Scientist, Arizona State; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 16th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Probing the early universe with new data and new computational methods, Moritz Munchmeyer, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Islands, cosmology, and baby universes, Arjun Kar, University of British Columbia; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, October 19th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Magnetic reconnection under the microscope: 3D PIC simulations of reconnecting current sheets, Dr. Ari Le, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, October 20th: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; PGSC Professional Development - Science Communication, Sarah Perdue and Madeleine O'Keefe, Department of Physics & WIPAC; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Double bang cascades from atmospheric neutrinos , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Northwestern University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, October 21st: 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; Neural Scaling Laws and GPT-3, Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, October 22nd: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Zoom :; Evidence for the Higgs boson decays to dimuons , Stephane Cooperstein, UCSD; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM; Scaling Laws for Large Scale Magnetic Fields in Stars and in the Laboratory, Ethan Visniac, John Hopkins University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 23rd: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Semiconductor qubits, Mark Eriksson, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; New roads to discovery of light states, Jeff Dror, UC Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, October 26th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom meeting; Zonal Flow Generation by Convectively Excited Waves, Prof. Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, October 27th: 2:30 pm;; PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminar, Trevor Oxholm, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;; Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Si/SiGe Quantum Dots, Nathan Holman, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, October 28th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, October 29th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; Illuminating the Chemistry of Planet Formation with X-ray Flares, isle Cleeves, University of Virginia; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 30th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Using physics to understand and save coral reefs from climate change, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Quantum Penrose Inequality, Marija Tomašević, Universitat de Barcelona; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
November 2020
Monday, November 2nd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; ZOOM Meeting; Magnetic Reconnection and the Acceleration of Electrons in Macroscale Systems, Dr. Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, November 3rd: Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm; Election Day, including same-day registration; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, November 4th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute, QuantHEP Seminar;
10:00 am - 11:00 am; Livestreaming on QuantHEP Seminar YouTube channel:; APPLICATION OF QUANTUM MACHINE LEARNING TO HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS ANALYSIS AT LHC USING QUANTUM COMPUTER SIMULATORS AND QUANTUM COMPUTER HARDWARE, Sau Lan Wu, UW–Madison Physics, CERN; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 10:00 am - 11:00 am;; QuantHEP – Quantum Computing Solutions for High-Energy Physics, Prof. Sau Lan Wu, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Add this event to your calendar; 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; Flow-based likelihoods for non-Gaussian inference, Ana Diaz Rivero, Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, November 5th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Zoom :; Study of triple heavy boson production at the LHC, Hannsjörg Weber, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM), Eric Switzer, NASA/Goddard; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, November 6th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; The Energy Frontier at the LHC, Kevin Black, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Heavy Neutrinos and Where to Find Them, Kevin Kelly, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, November 10th: 2:30 pm;; PGSC Seminar, Jimena Gonzalez, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, November 11th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm;; Chicago Quantum Summit, Various, see website and agenda; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED for 11/11/2020; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, November 12th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm;; Chicago Quantum Summit, Various, see website and agenda; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM; Understanding Planetary Evolution with Eclipsing Disks & Transiting Planets, Joey Rodriguez,, Harvard CfA, Michigan State 1/2021; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Visit to register and receive the link; Fueling Discovery, Mark Saffman and others; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, November 13th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; Chicago Quantum Summit; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Atomic, molecular, and optical physics research overview. , Shimon Kolkowitz, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Two topics in quantum gravity, Oliver Janssen, ICTP, Trieste; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, November 16th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; ZOOM Meeting; From SOL turbulence to planetary magnetospheres: computational plasma physics at (almost) all scales using the Gkeyll code, Dr. Ammar Hakim , Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, November 17th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; virtual; please email Sarah (saperdue@wisc.edu) for log-in info and agenda; HQAN kickoff meeting, various, HQAN; Add this event to your calendar; PGSC Seminar; 2:30 pm;; , Adam Frees, Matthew Beck, Jonathan Koliner, Dan Minette, Chris Greiveldinger, https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93446409919; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Dark Matter: A Cosmological Perspective, Katie Mack , North Carolina State University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, November 18th: 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; Euclidean Neural Networks: Adventures in learning with 3D geometry and geometric tensors, Tess Smidt, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; virtual; please email Sarah (saperdue@wisc.edu) for log-in info and agenda; HQAN kickoff meeting, various, HQAN; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, November 19th: Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm; Online - Faculty Spotlight: Masters in Learning Analytics Program; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; Investigating the Signatures of Substellar Ingestion, Melinda Soares-Furtado, UW Astronomy Department; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Masters in Learning Analytics Webinar; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, November 20th: Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; Neutrino Oscillations - A Door To New Physics, Brian Rebel, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm; BBCollaborate; Neutrino Oscillations - A Door To New Physics, Brian Rebel, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, November 23rd: Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Zoom:; , Goni Halevi (Princeton) and Theron Carmichael (Harvard CfA); Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Science Basis and Present Status of the new Divertor Tokamak Test facility, Piero Martin, University of Padova and Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy; DTT Consortium, Frascati, Italy; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, November 24th: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, November 25th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED for 11/25/2020; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, November 26th: Academic Calendar; Thanksgiving recess; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, November 27th: Academic Calendar; Thanksgiving recess; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, November 28th: Academic Calendar; Thanksgiving recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, November 29th: Academic Calendar; Thanksgiving recess; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, November 30th: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; online; Predicting Stability and Performance of Tokamak Plasmas Using Flexible, Integrated Modeling, Brendan Lyons, General Atomics; Add this event to your calendar
December 2020
Tuesday, December 1st: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm; Online - Program Overview: Masters in Learning Analytics Program; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, December 2nd: Academic Calendar; All classes in virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; 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; Harnessing Data Revolution in Quantum Matter, Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CLOSED MEETING FOR TENURED FACULTY ONLY; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, December 3rd: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Zoom meeting (see Abstract ) meet the students at 10am, coffee and tea at 10:45am; A Predictive Theory of Star Formation and Turbulence Driving Across Cosmic Time, Blakesley Burkhart, Rutgers/Flatiron Institute; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Zoom:; Search for pp → ttc, ttt and btb at the LHC as Probe of Top-changing Extra Higgs Bosons, George W.S. Hou , National Taiwan University; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, December 4th: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; BBCollaborate; 1) Anomalous Quantum Transport: Interactions, Disorder, Topology 2) Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits, 1) Alex Levchenko 2) Robert McDermott, UW Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Replica wormholes, the black hole information paradox, and cosmology, Edgar Shaghoulian, University of Pennsylvania; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, December 5th: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, December 6th: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, December 7th: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Demonstration of helium exhaust enhancement during resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) field application at DIII-D, Edward Hinson, UW Engineering Physics department; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, December 8th: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; Okay, Google: Help Me with My Resume, Homer Wolfmeister, Google; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 3:30 pm;; Potential Effects of Fast Neutrino Flavor Transformations on Neutrino-Driven Wind and Supernova Nucleosynthesis, Andre Sierverding , University of Minnesota; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; sign up to receive the webinar link:; WARF Innovation Awards, Cary Forest, UW–Madison Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, December 9th: Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, December 10th: Academic Calendar; Last day of instruction; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; All classes move to virtual format for the remainder of the semester; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm;; Muon Collider Explorations, Sarah Demers, Vladimir Shiltsev, Tao Han, Simone Pagan Griso, US HEP Community; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM; Multi-messenger Astrophysics: Probing Compact Objects with Cosmic Particles, Ke Fang, UW Astronomy Department; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, December 11th: Academic Calendar; Study day; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Electric-Magnetic S-matrix, Sungwoo Hong, Cornell University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, December 12th: Academic Calendar; Summary period (exams); Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, December 13th: Academic Calendar; Summary period (exams); Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Commencement; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, December 14th: Academic Calendar; Summary period (exams); Add this event to your calendar; Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Zoom:; Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Veronica Allen (Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center), Veronica Allen, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, December 15th: Academic Calendar; Summary period (exams); Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, December 16th: Academic Calendar; Summary period (exams); Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; CANCELLED; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, December 17th: Academic Calendar; Summary period (exams); Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, December 18th: Academic Calendar; Summary period (exams); Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Observations of Hawking radiation: the Page curve and baby universes, Henry Maxfield, University of California, Santa Barbara; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Fall 2020: Master's degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, December 20th: Academic Calendar; Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Fall term 2020; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Fall 2020: Doctoral Degree Deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, December 22nd: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Add this event to your calendar

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