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Events During the 2022 Fall Semester
August 2022
Tuesday, August 2nd: Non-partisan voting information session; 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom:; , Susan Nossal; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 3rd: Academic Calendar; 8 week summer session ends; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar; APS Chapters Virtual Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274; , Marciano Bagnoli; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, August 4th: Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall or; Nanophotonic Systems for Novel Applications: From Spaceflight to Self-Assembled Materials to Thermal Radiation, Joel Siegel, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, August 5th: Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274; Improving the performance of quantum computing with neutral atoms, Xiaoyu Jiang , Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Summer 2022: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, August 8th: Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall; Random Entanglement and History-Dependent Random Sequences, Gage Bonner, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, August 9th: Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm; Election Day; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 10th: Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, August 11th: Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; Chamberlin 5280; On the Measurement of Graphene Systems using Scanned Probe Techniques, Wyatt Behn , Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, August 12th: Physics Town Hall; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall or; Physics Town Hall - Reporting, various speakers; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, August 16th: GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or online at; GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Effects of Nuclear Uncertainties on r-Process Observables, Kelsey Lund , NC State University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 17th: Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 4274; New Physics with PeV Astrophysical Neutrino Beams, Ibrahim Safa , Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, August 22nd: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Interesting Aspects of Nearly Extremal Black Holes, Upamanyu Moitra, ICTP; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, August 23rd: Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; Chamberlin 4274; Sterile Neutrino Search with the NOvA Detectors, Harry Hausner , Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 24th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Two problems for strong CP: Topological quantization and the first postulate of quantum mechanics, Bjorn Garbrecht, Munich Tech. U.; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274; Measuring the Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with IceCube DeepCore, Kayla DeHolton , Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, August 25th: Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm;; A Few New Techniques for Probing IceCube Data and a Search for High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos, Bunheng Ty, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, August 26th: Thesis Defense; 11:00 am;; Constructing an Extended TFT from an A-infinity Algebra, Weng-Him Cheung , Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Summer 2022: Master's degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, August 28th: Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Summer 2022: Doctoral degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, August 29th: Academic Calendar; Graduate School Fall 2022: Fall Degree Window Period begins; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, August 30th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting; Escapers, merger remnants and double-faced stars: studying exotic white dwarfs with ZTF and Gaia, Ilaria Caiazzo , Caltech; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, August 31st: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar; Climate & Diversity; 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin; Bystander Intervention Skills for Physics Faculty and Staff, Tamie Klumpyan, UW Office of Human Resources; Add this event to your calendar
September 2022
Thursday, September 1st: Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2022 - Classical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2022 - Statistical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Mid-circuit correction of correlated phase errors on a dual-element atom array, Hannes Bernien , U. Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 2nd: Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2022 - Electricity and Magnetism, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2022 - Quantum Mechanics, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, September 5th: Academic Calendar; Labor Day; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, September 6th: Academic Calendar; Deadline for students to cancel fall enrollment and have no fall term record on transcript; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Fall 2022: Fall degree window period deadline for master's students; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Fall 2022: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, September 7th: Academic Calendar; Fall semester instruction begins; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, September 8th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Axion Solar Halos, Joshua Eby, Tokyo U., IPMU; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274; Light at the end of the tunnel: Astrophysical searches for axion-like particles in gamma-ray energies, Milena S. Crnogorcevic, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 9th: Academic Calendar; Deadline for students (except Special and Guest) to begin initial Fall term enrollment without $50 late fee; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Cherenkov Imaging in Humans, during Radiation Therapy, Brian W. Pogue, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, September 12th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Formation and Particle Acceleration in Large-Scale Diamagnetic Cavities at the Boundary of Earth’s Magnetic Shield, Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle University; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; The Partonic Picture at High-Energy Lepton Colliders, Yang Ma, University of Pittsburgh; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, September 13th: Picnic planning; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Dept Picnic planning meeting, Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, September 14th: Academic Calendar; Deadline to drop a course or withdraw from the university without having the course(s) appear on the transcript; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 10:00 am - 4:00 pm; Virtual, learn more and register at; Quantum Information Science (QIS) Career Fair, various, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; The BOSS bispectrum analysis at one loop from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure, Matthew Lewandowski, Northwestern U.; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, September 15th: GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Special GREAT IDEAS DEI Discussion: Prof. Marin-Spiotta, Humanities Education for Anti-Racism Literacy (HEAL) in the Sciences: Informing Research and Teaching Practices, Prof. Marin-Spiotta, UW-Madison Dept. of Geography; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 16th: Academic Calendar; Deadline for students to add, swap, or change sections in a Fall term course; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Deadline for students to begin initial Fall enrollment; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Deadline for students to drop a Fall term course and receive 100% tuition adjustment; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Vera C. Rubin Observatory: from Commissioning to Cosmology, Keith Bechtol; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, September 19th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Challenges towards the engineering solution of fusion Blanket and Shield, Laila El-Guebaly, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, September 20th: APS Chapters Virtual Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274; APS Chapters Virtual Seminar - Xuan Chen, Xuan Chen, Cornell University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, September 21st: Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Engineering 3609 and virtual-https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94242686133?pwd=MjhURDFhVFJjYU1VY25Vcit5dElZZz09; Micro- and nano-optical components for quantum technologies, Zhaoning April Yu , Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at; GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Results of the SHAFT experiment, Alexander Gramolin, Riverlane; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, September 22nd: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421; via Zoom:; Characterizing the Multiphase Interstellar Medium in the Milky Way and Beyond, Dr. Nick Pingel, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 23rd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Diversifying Science: Lessons from the Field, Elaine Ecklund, Rice; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, September 24th: UW Madison Physics Department Picnic; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Westmoreland Park, 4114 Tokay Blvd.; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, September 26th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; The plasma edge and beyond: application of plasma edge diagnostics at W7-X, Philip Drews, Heinrich-Heine-Universitä Düsseldorf; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, September 27th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Distribution Functions of Dark Matter Halos, Axel Gross , University of Minnesota; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Coupling a Cosmic String to a TQFT, Sungwoo Hong, (Argonne, U. Chicago); Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, September 29th: Physics Department Colloquium; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Orchard View Room, Discovery Building; Justin Kasper: Nuclear Power (fusion and fission), Galactic Radiation, and Space Exploration , Justin Kasper, PhD, BWX Technologies, Inc. and University of Michigan Climate & Space; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274; Tau appearance and quantum gravity with high-energy neutrinos, Alfonso Garcia , Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421; or via Zoom:; Galactic HII Regions and Structure in the Milky Way, Trey Wenger, NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, September 30th: Academic Calendar; Deadline for students (except Graduate) to change variable credits; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Deadline for students (except Graduate) to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Fall term course; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Deadline for students to drop a Fall term course and receive 50% tuition adjustment; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Black holes and quantum information, Tom Hartman, Cornell; Add this event to your calendar
October 2022
Monday, October 3rd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Prospects for experiments to measure the lifetime of spin polarized fuel, Bill Heidbrink, UC-Irvine; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, October 4th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Quantum current dissipation in superconducting strings, Yoshihiko Abe, UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, October 5th: 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; Maths with transformers, François Charton, Meta; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, October 6th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Or via zoom; The dark side of massive galaxies and new light with JWST, Christina Williams, NOAO; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 7th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Future Colliders: The Higgs and Beyond, Patrick Meade, SUNY-Stony Brook; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, October 10th: Plasma Theory Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Celebrating Women and Gender Diversity in Plasma Physics Seminar Series: Saskia Mordjick, Saskia Mordjick, College of William & Mary; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; The plasma density as the main lever to controlling fusion reactors, Saskia Mordic, William & Mary; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, October 11th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; New Insights Into Lepton-Axion Interactions , Jeff Dror , UCSC; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5290 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Over-Extremal Brane Shells from String Theory, Vincent Van Hemelryck, Leuven U.; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, October 12th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, October 13th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Measurement-induced Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Quantum Entanglement, Brian Skinner , Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Or via zoom; The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Dartmouth University; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; MS&E Building room 265; Quantum Nanophotonics Hardware: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping, Marina Radulaski, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California - Davis; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 14th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Climate Change: Science, Technology and Policy, George Crabtree; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm; State Street; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, October 18th: Thesis Defense; 8:00 am; EH 4610 in Engineering Hall; Characterizations of ultrathin interfacial atomic-layer-deposited oxides and nitrides for semiconductor grafting applications, Jiarui Gong, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Statistical significances and projections for proton decay experiments, Prudhvi Bhattiprolu, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, October 19th: GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at; GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, October 20th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421; Towards precision measurements of dark matter, Sukanya Chakrabarti, University of Alabama, Huntsville; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 21st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall or online:; Barschall Lecture: Shocking New Insights into Novae, Brian Metzger, Columbia University & CCA Flatiron Institute; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, October 24th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Exploring the new electron-positron plasma frontier: the annihilation signature of cold magnetically-confined pairs and accessing the relativistic and magnetized regime, Jens von der Linden, IPP Garching; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Zoom (registration required); Actions to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in science, Candace Harris + Rowan Thomson, Carleton University; Attachments: poster.pdf; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 2401 Chemistry (enter in new North Tower, 2nd floor); Molecular Quantum Photonics, Alex S. Clark, Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, University of Bristol; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, October 25th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Axion wind detection with the homogeneous precession domain of superfluid helium-3, Christina Gao, Illinois U., Urbana; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, October 27th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; 2D Electronics, Layer by Layer , Shawna Hollen, UNH; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421; White Dwarf Binaries across the H-R diagram, Dr. Borja Anguiano, University of Notre Dame; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; White Dwarf Binaries across the H-R diagram, Dr. Borja Anguiano, University of Notre Dame; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, October 28th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; CH 4274; Powerful Indirect Constraints on the Origins of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays , Glennys Farrar, NYU; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; The seemingly-anomalous magnetic moment of the muon - a novel reconciliation with the Standard Model and connection with Dark Matter, Glennys Farrar, NYU; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, October 31st: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Isotope Mass Dependence of Turbulence and Transport in H-Mode Plasmas on DIII-D, George McKee, UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar
November 2022
Tuesday, November 1st: Non-Partisan Voter Information Session; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;; , Susan Nossal; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin or; Astophysical Neutrino Source Searches Using IceCube Starting Tracks, Sarah Mancina, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Gravitational production of scalar dark matter, Sarunas Verner, University of Florida; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, November 2nd: 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; Bayesian Updating and dynamical flows, David Berman, Queen Mary University; Add this event to your calendar; GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at; GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, November 3rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Topological Superconductivity and the Braiding of Majorana Zero Modes in Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid Systems, Dirk Morr, UIC; Add this event to your calendar; IceCube webinar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building or online at; Join IceCube as they announce exciting new results!, various, IceCube; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Sterling Hall 4421; How Circumgalactic Medium Dynamics Impact Galaxy Evolution, Dr. Cassi Lochhaas, Space Telescope Science Institute; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, November 4th: Grad Town Hall; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; , Kevin Black and Sharon Kahn, Physics Grad Program; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; How do we know what we know? The importance of absolute anchors in cosmology, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, University of New Mexico; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, November 7th: Academic Calendar; Enrollment appointment times for Spring term assigned to students (throughout week); Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; The magnetic field scale length: an influential property of stellarators, Matt Landreman, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, November 8th: Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm; Election Day; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; A status update on the Galactic Center GeV gamma-ray excess, Tracy Slatyer , MIT; Add this event to your calendar; MRSEC Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Materials Science & Engineering Building, Room 265; New Frontiers in Nanoscale Magnetism: Towards Three-Dimensional Materials and Devices, Amalio Fernández-Pacheco, Institute of Nanoscience & Materials of Aragón CSIC-University of Zaragoza, Spain; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Cosmological Constant and Gravitino Mass: Statistical Correlations from the Nilpotent Goldstino Formalism., Kajal Singh, Harish-Chandra Research Institute; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, November 9th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Outreach, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab;
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; free and open to the public; Biotech Bldg auditorium or register for zoom link at go.wisc.edu/240r59; Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?, Minhal Gardezi, UW–Madison physics graduate students; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, November 10th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of unconventional superconductors, Pavlo Sukhachov, Yale; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building, Tong Auditorium; Let's Talk Fusion Energy, U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E Program Director, et al., U.S. DOE; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; The Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey, Prof. Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, November 11th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Vescent Photonics: Overview of Technologies & Student Opportunities , Eduardo Oteiza, Vescent Photonics; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; On the Threshold of Laser Fusion Ignition and the Pathway to Inertial Fusion Energy, Tammy Ma, LLNL; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, November 12th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall; Midwest Cold Atom Workshop, Various, Various; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, November 14th: Academic Calendar; Students begin enrolling for Spring term courses according to their appointment times; Add this event to your calendar; GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 8:00 am - 7:00 pm; Online:; Diversity Forum; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Characterization of Intermittency and Energy Transfer via Three-Wave Coupling in a Turbulent Dipole Plasma, Mel Abler, Space Science Institute; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, November 15th: GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 8:00 am - 7:00 pm; Online:; Diversity Forum; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Constraining the CP character of the Higgs-fermion interactions, Henning Bahl, U. Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, November 16th: 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; Anomaly detection in the search for new physics, Gregor Kasieczka, Hamburg University; Add this event to your calendar; GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or online at; GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, November 17th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Local observables and Loschmidt echo of quenched paired fermionic superfluids, Victor Gurarie, UC Boulder; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Boosted Higgs and the Effective Field Theory, Nick Smith, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Introducing TIGRESS-NCR: current status of numerical modeling of the star-forming ISM, Dr. Chang-Goo Kim, Princeton University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, November 18th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Discovery Building; Planning for the unexpected: Science, invention and the art of the possible, Thomas F. Kelly, Mark Saffman, and Cary Forest; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, November 21st: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; High-Energy Density Physics and Inertial Confinement Fusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Liz Merritt, Los Alamos National Lab; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, November 22nd: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;; Constraining modifications of black hole perturbation potentials near the light ring with quasinormal modes, Nicola Franchini , APC, Paris/CPB, Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, November 24th: Academic Calendar; Deadline for Graduate students to change variable credits; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Deadline for Graduate students to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Fall term course; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Thanksgiving recess; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, November 25th: Academic Calendar; Deadline for students (except Graduate) to withdraw from Fall term; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Deadline for students to add a Fall term course with department permission; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Deadline for students to change Honors Optional course status; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Deadline for students to drop a Fall term course; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Thanksgiving recess; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, November 26th: Academic Calendar; Thanksgiving recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, November 27th: Academic Calendar; Thanksgiving recess; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, November 28th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Advanced Approaches in Stellarator Optimization, Sophia Henneberg, IPP Greifswald; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, November 29th: Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Asymptotic series and gravitational particle production, Edward Basso, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Dark Matter Substructure: simulations, semi-analytic models and observations, Xiaolong Du, Carnegie Observatories & UCLA; Add this event to your calendar
December 2022
Thursday, December 1st: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Imaging the Breaking of Electrostatic Dams in Graphene for Ballistic and Viscous Fluids, Zachary Krebs , UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling or; Exploration of problems in space physics using the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, Jack Schroeder, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 4274; The Changing Landscape of Astrophysical Searches and Indirect Detection of Dark Matter, Eric Charles, SLAC; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Why do massive stars have "inflated" cores?, Dr. Evan Henry Anders, Northwestern University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, December 2nd: Preliminary Exam; 9:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin; First Steps for a Joint Analysis of the MINOS and NOvA Experiments, Anna Cooleybeck, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 11:00 am - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Physicists in Finance. A Personal Journey, Dr. Senthil Sundaram, KULA Investments, LLC; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall -; Quantitative Trading and Portfolio Management, Senthil Sundaram; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Fall 2022: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, December 5th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Disruptive Tearing Modes In DIII-D IBS Discharges, Professor Emeritus James D. Callen, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, December 6th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Gravitational-wave signatures of dense matter in neutron star binary inspirals , Tanja Hinderer , Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Electroweak Symmetric Balls, Mrunal Prashant Korwar, UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, December 7th: Physics Department Colloquium; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling 4421 or zoom:; Moons, Planets, and Suns in Context: Environments & Evolutionary Pathways, Melinda Soares-Furtado, UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Talk: Melinda Soares-Furtado; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Moons, Planets, and Suns in Context: Environments & Evolutionary Pathways, Melinda Soares-Furtado, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; Meet in Chamberlin lobby to walk to Chazen museum; GREAT IDEAS Excursion to Sifting & Reckoning Exhibit; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, December 8th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Spin-phonon effects in nitrogen-vacancy centers, Matt Cambria , UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm;; Constraining the Diffuse Flux of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos with the Askaryan Radio Array’s Largest Analysis Ever, Abigail Bishop, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Linking Planet Formation to Exoplanet Composition , Prof. Edwin(Ted) Bergin, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; CH 4274; Treasure Maps for Detections of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays, Anatoli Fedynitch, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, December 9th: Thesis Defense; 10:30 am - 6:00 pm;; Physical structure of tooth enamel at the nano- and micro-scales, revealed by x-ray linear dichroism, and displayed by polarization-dependent imaging contrast mapping, Cayla Stifler, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or; New Frontiers in Collisionless Reconnection: Exploring Magnetosphere-Relevant Reconnection with Experiments and Custom Kinetic Simulations, Samuel Greess, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, December 12th: Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; B343 Sterling; Superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems for quantum computing applications, Ben Harpt, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall; Heat and particle transport in the JET DT2 campaign, Philip Schneider, IPP Garching; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, December 13th: Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin; Portal Matter, Kinetic Mixing, and Muon g − 2, Ricardo Alexandre Dos Santos Ximenes Filho, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Search for dark matter recoiling from a Higgs boson, which decays to tau lepton pairs, with the CMS detector at the LHC, Jithin Madhusudanan Sreekala, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5290 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, December 14th: Academic Calendar; Deadline for Graduate students to withdraw from the Fall term; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Last class day for fall 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. We will also livestream the talk in Chamberlin 5280.; Differentiable Programming in HEP, Lukas Heinrich, TU Munich; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Outreach, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab;
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 1111 Genetics/Biotech or sign up for the zoom link at go.wisc.edu/240r59; What the heck is x-ray astronomy and why do we bother?, Dan McCammon, UW–Madison physics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, December 15th: Academic Calendar; Study day; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Monolayers and bilayers of the topological semimetal WTe2, David Cobden, U Washington; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; WIPAC (222 W. Washington Ave., 5th floor, Supernova Conference Room); Searching for UHE Neutrinos with PUEO, William Luszczak, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, December 16th: Academic Calendar; Final exams; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; VIRTUAL - Link will be sent later; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, December 17th: Academic Calendar; Final exams; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, December 18th: Academic Calendar; Final exams; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 10:00 am - 12:00 am; Winter Commencement; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, December 19th: Academic Calendar; Final exams; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, December 20th: Academic Calendar; Final exams; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Towards Powerful Probes of Neutrino Self-Interactions in Supernovae, Po-Wen Chang , CCAPP, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, To Be Determined; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, December 21st: Academic Calendar; Final exams; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or (passcode 630477); Valley splitting and alloy disorder in Si/SiGe quantum dots, Merritt Losert, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall & Zoom:; Looking for new physics in rare and novel processes at the LHC, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Northwestern University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, December 22nd: Academic Calendar; Final exams; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, December 23rd: Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Fall 2022: Master's degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, December 25th: Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Fall 2022: Doctoral degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar

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