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Events During the 2009 Spring Semester
January 2009
Thursday, January 15th: Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Observation of Magnetocoriolis Waves in the Princeton Experiment, Mark Nornberg, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 19th: Martin Luther King, Jr Day
Tuesday, January 20th: First Day of Class
Monday, January 26th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:15 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; "A Kalman Filter for Feedback Control of Rotating External Kink Instabilities in a Tokamak, Jeremy Hanson, Columbia University; Add this event to your calendar; High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm); On the road to the Higgs: evidence for semileptonic WW/WZ decays at DZero, Wade Fisher, FNAL; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 27th: Special Plasma Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:15 pm; Room 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Magnetic Fluctuations in Maryland Centrifugal Experiment (MCX), Ilker Uzun-Kaymak, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 28th: Astronomy Colloquium, Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk;
12:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters, Klaus Dolag, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 29th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Status and ﬁrst results of the ANTARES neutrino telescope, Simona Toscano, Valencia; Add this event to your calendar; Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Room 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Upgrade of Motional Stark Effect Diagnostic on Alcator C-Mod, Jinseok Ko, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 30th: Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Long range interactions between Rydberg atoms, Saffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
February 2009
Monday, February 2nd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; Recent 2-Fluid Simulation Results on Internal Kink and Tearing, Prof. Carl Sovinec, UW-Madison, Dept of EP; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB; Dissipation Range of MHD Turbulence, Paul Terry, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 3rd: Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; "Tests of Collision Operators Using Laboratory Measurements of Shear Alfven Wave Dispersion and Damping, Derek Thuecks, University of Iowa; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Norepinephrine, Networks, and Behavior: One aproach to Systems Neuroscience, David Devilbiss, UW Department of Psychology; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; The Incredible Omega Centauri- A Laboratory for Chemical Enrichment, Caty Pilachowski, Univ of Indiana-Bloomington; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 5th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Probing Electron Energy Distribution in Carbon Nanotubes, Yung-Fu Chen, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab, UIUC; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Cosmology and the LHC, Carlos E M Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar; Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; "Ion Current Estimations in the Irvine Field Reversed Configuration:, Wayne Harris, University of California/Irvine; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 6th: Physics Department Colloquium, Ingersoll Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm); Exploiting protein-crystal interactions to build switches, throttles and brakes: what shells, bones and kidney stones can teach us about managing CO2, James J. De Yoreo, Molecular Foundry, LBNL; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 9th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; News from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak Programme, Professor Hartmut Zohm, Max-Planck Intsitut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, German7; Add this event to your calendar; Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Phase-space Structure of the Milky Way's Dark Halo, Leanne Duffy, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; High Energy Seminar, Joint HEP-NPAC Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm; Latest Results from MiniBoone, Chris Polly, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC Forum/HEP Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; New oscillation results from MiniBooNE, Chris Polly, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 10th: Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Measurements of Fast Ion Profiles During High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating on NSTX, Deyong Liu, University of California/Irvine; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; A brief survey of financial derivatives, Don Hester, UW Department of Economics; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; The Evolution of AGN in Clusters of Galaxies, Paul Martini, Ohio State; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium, Astronomy/Physics Colloquium;
3:45 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Science with the International X-ray Observatory, Randall Smith, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 12th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Precision Measurements of the London Penetration Depth and Pairing Symmetry in Superconductors, Ruslan Prozorov, Iowa State University & Ames Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Ultracold plasma dynamics in a magnetic field, Xianli Zhang, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Covariance, Dynamics and Symmetries, and Hadron Physics, Craig Roberts, Argonne National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 13th: Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm); Gravity on the Test Bench: Torsion Balance Renaissance, Jens Gundlach, University of Washington; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 16th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; Exponential Growth and Filamentary Structure of Nonlinear Ballooning Instability, Ping Zhu, UW-Madison, Dept of EP; Add this event to your calendar; High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm); Search for charged massive stable particles at D0, Tulika Bose, Boston University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 17th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Poetry, mathematics, and science, Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communicative Disorders; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; Title to be announced, Ethan Vishniac, Johns Hopkins University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 18th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Cosmological recombination: The effect of high-n states, Daniel Grin, Caltech; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 19th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Science with the International X-ray Observatory, Randall Smith, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 20th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Disorder-induced superfluid-to-insulator transition in an optical lattice, Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Add this event to your calendar; Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Spontaneous R-parity Violation in Supersymmetry, Sogee Spinner, UW-Madison Physics Dept.; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm); Experiments on Dirty Bosons, Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 23rd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:15 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; Beyond MHD in Astrophysics: Buoyancy Instabilities in Galaxy Clusters, Dr. Ian Parrish, Dept of Astronomy at University of California-Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB; Magnetic REconnection with Asymmetry in the Outflow Direction, Nick Murphy, University of Wisconsin. Dept of Astronomy/Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 24th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Studying Dynamical Systems with Computer Algebra Systems, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; Structure and Generation of the Solar Transition Region, Hakeem Oluseyi, Florida Institute of Technology; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 25th: Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Heavy-flavor Inclusive Production: Formalism and Applications, Bernd Kniehl, University of Hamburg; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 26th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Supersymmetric U(1)' Models, Gil Paz, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 27th: Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm); Diatomic Molecules as Quantum Tools, David DeMille, Yale University; Add this event to your calendar
March 2009
Monday, March 2nd: Atomic Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; High-Precision Single-Ion Penning Trap Mass Spectrometry, Matthew Redshaw, Florida State University; Add this event to your calendar; High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm); The Truth the Top Quark is Hiding, Andrew Ivanov, University of California Davis; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 3rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Radio Frequency Spectroscopy in Ultra-cold Fermi gases Undergoing BCS-BEC Crossover, Yan He, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Place; It's complicated: Nagas in the Himalaya, Chris Limburg, UW Department of Geography; Add this event to your calendar; String Theory Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; An Inverted Mass Hierarchy for Exciting Dark Matter, Andrew Frey, McGill University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; The Origins and Evoluation of Weak MB II Quasar Absorption Line Systems, Anand Narayanan, UW Astronomy Dept; Add this event to your calendar; String Theory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chmaberlin Hall; A Tour of Flux Compactification Dynamic, Andrew Frey McGill; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 5th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Quantum computing with Ba ions, Boris Blinov, University of Washington - Seattle; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Active Galactic Nuclei: Sources for ultra high energy cosmic rays?, Peter L. Biermann, MPI Bonn; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 6th: Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Distinguished Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm); Harnessing Attosecond Science in the Quest for Coherent X-Rays, Margaret Murnane, JILA/UC-Boulder; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 9th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; Helical States and Feedback Control in RFX: Building the RFP Future in the ITER ERA, Piero Martin, Consorzio RFX, Physics Dept., University of Padova, ITALY; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB; RF Stabilization Mechanisms for Resistive Tearing Modes, Tom Jenkins, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 10th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Single-Particle Properties of Graphene: Magnetotransport and Superlattice-Controlled Band Gap, Rakesh Tiwari, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Engaging the flow: a creative dialogue revisited, Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; The Local Group Manifesto, Kathryn Johnston, Columbia University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 12th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Coulomb Correlations and the Wigner-Mott Scenario for the 2D-MIT, Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Florida State University; Add this event to your calendar; Whitford Lecture; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; A brief History of Cosmic Expansion and Acceleration, Adam Riess, JHU and STSci; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; New Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory, Segev BenZvi, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 16th: Spring Break
Tuesday, March 17th: Spring Break
Wednesday, March 18th: Spring Break
Thursday, March 19th: Spring Break; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Spring Break, No Herb Seminar scheduled; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 20th: Spring Break; Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; --; No Colloquium--Spring Break, --
Monday, March 23rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Circuit QED<sup>2</sup>: Two amplifiers, two resonators, and two photons, Matteo Mariantoni, Walther-Meissner-Institut and Technical University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 24th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Dynamics of the white pine blister rust pathogen on wild gooseberry hosts, Maria Newcomb, UW Department of Plant Pathology; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; The Magnetic Universe Revealed Through Radio Polarimetry, Bryan Gaensler, The University of Sydney; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 26th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; What can we learn from spin-dependent shot noise in semiconductor and graphene nanostructures?, Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; M-flation, Amjad Ashoorioon, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 30th: Quantum Computing Seminar; 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Single Charge Detection in Silicon Using Vertically Coupled Al and Si Single-Electron Transistors, Luyan Sun, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 31st: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Room Temperature demonstration of Quantum Cellular Automata formed by Single Si Atom Quantum Dots, Baseer Haider, University of Alberta; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; The origins of emergent behavior in bacterial communities, Douglas B. Weibel, UW Department of Biochemistry; Add this event to your calendar; High Energy Seminar, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin(Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm); DUSEL - Progress on the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, Kevin Lesko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; DUSEL - Progress on the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, Kevin Lesko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
April 2009
Thursday, April 2nd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310; Nonequilibrium effects in single-channel and two-channel Kondo systems, Aditi Mitra, New York University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Echoes of Supersymmetry: Baryon Asymmetry, Relic Q-balls, and Gravity Waves, Alex Kusenko, UCLA; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 3rd: Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm); Neutrinos, and the Dark Side of the Light Fermions, Alex Kusenko, UCLA; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 6th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; Experiments on Turbulence and Zonal Flows in TJ-K, Prof. Uli Stroth, University of Stuttgart-Germany; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB; Instability-Enhanced Collisional Effects Near Plasma Boundaries:Langmuir's Paradox and Bohm's Criterion, Scott Baalrud, UW-Madison, CPTC; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 7th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; A search for the simplest chaotic partial differential equation, Charlie Brummitt, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; Massive Star Clusters in the Milky Way: The known and the known unkowns, Margaret Hanson, University of Cincinnati Physics Dept; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 9th: Passover; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Simple Atom, Extreme Nucleus: Laser Trapping and Probing of Helium-8, Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory an University of Chicagod; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310; Coulomb drag in quantum circuits, Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 10th: Good Friday; Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; Positron Annihilation Radiation from the Center of our Galaxy, Nidhal Guessoum, American University of Sharjah,; Add this event to your calendar; Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Light Higgsino-LSP Scenario in the BMSSM, Jeonghyeon Song, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm); What's so Cool about Ultra-Cold Neutrons, Brad Filippone, Caltech; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 13th: High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm) i; A study of Z events produced at low transverse momentum using a novel technique, Mika Vesterinen, University of Manchester; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 14th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Taking the pulse of the geodynamo, Brad S. Singer, UW Department of Geoscience; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; Polarized FIR Emission from T Tauri Disks, Jungyeon Cho, UW Astronomy Dept; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Recent Results from MINOS (Joint NPAC/HEP Seminar), Christopher White, Illinois Institute of Technology; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 15th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Electroweak phase transition in the U(1)'-extended MSSM, Eibun Senaha, National Central University, Taiwan; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 16th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Quantum Control and Measurement of Spins in Cold Atomic Gases, Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; High Energy Cosmic Rays with CREAM, Fermi, and Beyond, Terri J. Brandt, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Quark Matter in Neutron Stars, Mark Alford, Washington University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 17th: Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Implications of a Scalar Dark Force for Terrestrial Experiments, Sonny Mantry, UW-Madison Physics Dept.; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm); Neutrino Physics Beyond SNO, Mark Chen, Queen's University; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 20th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; Electron Bernstein Waves in Tokamaks, Spherical Tokamaks, Stellarators and RFPs, Francesco Volpe, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Engineering Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB; Title to be announced, Andrew Cole, UW-Madison, CPTC & Dept of EP; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 21st: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Olga Trubetskoy, Pharmacy and Comparative Biosciences; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; A Census of Baryons in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies, Ann Zabludoff, Univ of AZ, Steward Observatory; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 22nd: Special Plasma Seminar - Dept of ECE; 12:00 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; Impact of Wall Conditioning on Plasma Parameters in the TJ-II Stellarator, Francisco Tabares, CIEMAT-Madrid, Spain; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 23rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Fluctuations and Vortices, Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:30 pm - 2:25 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Poincare Invariant Three-Body Scattering, Charlotte Elster, Ohio University, Athens; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Searching for exoearths and measuring the acceleration of the universe with femtosecond laser frequency combs, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Harvard CFA; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 24th: Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm); Let's go Skating... and do some Physics on the Ice, Charlotte Elster, Ohio University; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 27th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; Particle Acceleration and Magnetic Field Amplification in Collsionless Shocks, Brian Reville, Max-Planck Intsitut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany; Add this event to your calendar; Special Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4534 Sterling Hall; Cosmic Rays emission from active and non-active Galaxies, Dr. Julia Becker, Physics Institute, Gothenberg University Sweden; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 28th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Applications of neural networks in time-series analysis, Adam Maus, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; How Black Holes get their Kicks, Kelley Holley-Bockelman, Vanderbilt University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 30th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Giant Nernst Effect due to Fluctuating Cooper Pairs in Superconductors, Andrei Varlamov, INFM & CNR, Italy, Moscow Technological University, Russia; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; AdS/QCD, Misha Stephanov, U. Illinois Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
May 2009
Friday, May 1st: Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm); Physics in the Kitchen, Andrei Varlamov, INFM & CNR, Italy, Moscow Technological University, Russia; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 4th: Physics Department Lecture; 7:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall; Angels & Demons of the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Wesley Smith, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 5th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Earthquakes beneath the sea: Understanding the mechanics of fault zones through subsurface imaging and scientific drilling, Harold Tobin, UW Department of Geology and Geophysics; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall; The Power of Cooling Cores in Clusters in Galaxies, Mateusz Ruszkowski, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 6th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Electronic, spin and transport properties of a triple quantum dot molecule, Yun-Pil Shim; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall; "Simultaneous Measurement of Electron temperature and Density Fluctuations in the Core of DIII-D Plasmas and Comparison with Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations, Dr. Anne White, General Atomics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 7th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Let there be light: from graphene oxide to dark excitons, Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar-Note special time; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Schlieren measurements of Hg density gradients in an ultra-high pressure arc lamp, Joe Kane, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; High Precision Cosmology with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Hee-Jong Seo, Fermilab and U. Arizona; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 8th: Last Day of Class; Physics Department Colloquium, Physics Department Awards Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm); What life is like for a physicist in Congress, Bill Foster, U.S. Congressman Representing the 14th District of Illinois; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 11th: Joint HEP-NPAC Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, David Hertzog, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Add this event to your calendar; String Theory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chmaberlin Hall; Title to be announced, Koji Hashimoto, RIKEN (tentative); Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 14th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Fermionic spinons in two and three dimensions, Zhihao Hao, Johns Hopkins University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:45 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; (Joint with Phenomenology) A New Approach to Flavor (?), Keith Dienes, University of Arizona; Add this event to your calendar; Joint NPAC Forum/HEP Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; The Fermilab Neutrino Program, Steve Brice, FNAL; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 15th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Michael Weissman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 18th: Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB; Elgenmode Decomposition of Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations, David Hatch, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 19th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Electrical Control of a Hydrogenic Donor's Spin in Semiconductor Nanostructures, Amrit De, University of Iowa; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 21st: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Rare-earth impurities in conventional and unconventional superconductors: Pr-based filled-skutterudite and UPd2Al3, Ilya Eremin, TU Braunschweig and MPI Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden; Add this event to your calendar

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