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Events During the 2017 Spring Semester
January 2017
Tuesday, January 17th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Control of Ultracold Dipolar Molecules, Huanqian Loh, MIT; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin; How worried should we be about congenital Zika virus?, Dave O'Connor, UW Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; The Fate of Axion Stars, Hong Zhang, Ohio State; Presentation: Axion_Hong_Zhang.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 19th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Physics / Electrical and Computer Engineering;
10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Physics after the lab and the desk: Your work in PRL, Samindranath Mitra , Editor in Physical Review Letters; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum entanglement for precision sensing with atoms and light, Onur Hosten, stanford; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Cosmic-ray proton measurements with the Fermi-LAT, David Green, University of Maryland/Goddard; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 20th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics with HAWC, Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Tech; Presentation: Hawc-340day-constellations-english.png; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 23rd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Divertor Transport Physics in the LargeHelical Device, Dr. Masahiro Kobayashi, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 24th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; A Brief History of Time(keeping): Metrology and quantum simulation with optical lattice clocks, Shimon Kolkowitz, JILA - University of Colorado Boulder; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); The Lyapunov exponent, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Hunting for Sterile Neutrinos at Long and Short Baselines, Adam Aurisano, UC Cincinnati; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 25th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 26th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin hall; Observation of new fractional quantum Hall states in graphene heterostructures, Andrea Young, University of California Santa Barbara; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; From fundamental physics to aspects of photosynthesis: Controlling and studying complex quantum systems, Boerge Hemmerling, UC Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Multi-messenger searches for astrophysical sources at ultra-high energies, Foteini Oikonomou, Penn State University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm, Talk at 3:45 pm; An X-ray View of the Dusty Universe, Lia Corrales, Einstein Fello, UW Madison Astronomy Department; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Discovering a new approach to cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Fermi Lab; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 27th: Atomic Physics Seminar, AMO ;
10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Ultralow-Power Nonlinear Optics using Metastable Xenon in a Cavity, Garrett Hickman, UMBC; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; A New Spin on Superconductivity, Amir Yacoby, Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 30th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; New Insights into the Origin of Cosmic Rays, Dr. Damiano Caprioli, University of Chicago, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 31st: Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Building materials from light: Photonic Landau levels and Rydberg-mediated interactions, Ariel Sommer, MIT; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Climate change science, impacts, and mitigation strategies, Susan Nossal, UW Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Top Yukawa coupling enhancement in the composite Higgs models, Da Liu, Argonne National Laboratory; Presentation: Talk_Da.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
February 2017
Thursday, February 2nd: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 PM; Gas and Star Formation In Minor Mergers: Molecular gas feeding the central starbursts in NGC 1614 and the Medusa mergers, Sabine Koenig, Chalmers University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 3rd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Lab Astro and the Origins of the Chemical Elements, James E. Lawler, introduced by UW Emeritus Prof. Wilmer Anderson, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 6th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; An Overview of the DIII-D Metal Tile Mini-Campaign: Initial Result Highlighting the Characterization of Different Divertor Tungsten Sources, Migration and Impact on the Core in H-mode Conditions, Dr. Ezekial Unterberg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 5:15 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 7th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Child poverty in the United States, Julia Isaacs, UW Urban Institute; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Cosmology with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, Daniel Jacobs, Arizona State; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 8th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 9th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Two-dimensional epitaxial superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures: A platform for topological superconducting networks, Javad Shabani , City College, City University of New York; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm. Talk Begins 3:45 PM; Insights into Galaxies using Dynamical Modeling, Shravan Shetty, UW Madison Astronomy Department; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Neutrinos: From idea to discovery to precision measurements, Minerba Betancourt, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 10th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; The Science Driving Particle Physics, JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 13th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Plasma Material Interaction in Radiation Environments - the Next Grand Challenge- CANCELLED, Dr. Juergen Rapp, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 14th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Functional integration and split in the brain, Shun Sasai, UW Department of Psychiatry; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Studying Neutrino Oscillations at NOvA: From Experimental Design to Pioneering Analysis, Alexander Radovic, William and Mary; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 16th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310; Exploring the analogy between atoms and optical nanoresonators -- atomic metasurfaces, super-scattering, and super-radiant thermal emission, Zongfu Yu, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Physics with a 10-year Color Movie of 40 Billion Stars and Galaxies, Keith Bechtol, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk Begins 3:45 PM; Systematic Serendipity: Novel Discoveries in Astronomical Surveys, Lucianne Walkowicz, Chicago Planetarium; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; Unlocking neutrino mysteries with the NOvA experiment, Chris Backhouse, Caltech; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 17th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; The basic physics of collisionless magnetic reconnection, Michael Hesse, NASA & Birkeland Centre for Space Science; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 20th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Optimizing 3-D Configurations, Dr. Andrew Ware, University of Montana, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Faculty Search Committee Meeting, Dasu; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 21st: Council Meeting; 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; A Deep Look for New Physics with Neutrino Oscillations, Taritree Wongjirad, MIT; Add this event to your calendar; 5:15 pm - 6:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Faculty Search Committee Meeting, Dasu; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 22nd: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 23rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Semi-classical limit for the Schrodinger equation with lattice potential, and band-crossing, Qin Li , UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 27th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Plasma Stability and Impurity Radiation Physics, Dr. Luis Delgado-Aparicio, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 28th: Council Meeting; 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); The future of nuclear energy in a carbon constrained world, Mike Corradini, UW Department of Engineering Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Supersymmetry, Bibhushan Shakya, University of Cincinnati/University of Michigan; Presentation: Wisconsin seminar.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
March 2017
Thursday, March 2nd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310; Spiraling energy dispersion of arc states in Weyl semimetals, Anton Andreev, University of Washington; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM. Talk starts 3:45 PM; "The Internal Structure of Interstellar Filaments in the Southern Milky Way" , Audra Hernandez, UW Madison Astronomy Dept; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 3rd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; Quantum measurement in superconducting circuits: mapping quantum trajectories from spontaneous emission., Kater Murch, Washington University, St. Louis; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 6th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Edge Localized Mode Suppression by Resonant Magnetic Perturbation Fields at DIII-S and ASDEX-Upgrade, Dr. Raffi Nazikian, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 7th: Council Meeting; 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Bach's integration of complexity and simplicity, Trevor Stephenson, Harpsicord; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 8th: 9:45 am - 10:30 am; 4272 Chamberlin Hall; Faculty Candidate Search Committee Meeting , Dasu, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 9th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Hyperpolarized Spins in Nanodiamond, Ewa Rej, University of Sydney; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Physical Sciences Lab, Stoughton, WI; Neutrinos, DUNE, and Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers, Michelle Stancari, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM. Talk begins 3:45 PM; Physical Conditions in the Cold ISM of Nearby Galaxies and Their Relation to Star Formation, Adam Leroy, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 10th: Physics Department Colloquium, ****NOTE SPECIAL START AND END TIMES: 3:00 - 5:00 PM****;
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; Breaking the Bias Habit, Jennifer Sheridan & Prof. Molly Carnes, UW Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 13th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; High Energy Density Plasmas, Dr. Hye-Sook Park, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 14th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); The complexity of the U.S. tax system and the consequences for reform, John Witte, UW Lafollette Institute; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Lattice Insights for Composite BSM Models, Ethan Neil, University of Colorado, Boulder; Presentation: madison-0317-web.pdf; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Physics Education and Active Learning, Ben Spike, UW - Madison Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 16th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM Talk at 3:45 PM; Seven Years of Wise, Ned Wright, UCLA; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 17th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; Theories and Signals of a "Dark" Photon, Spencer Chang, Oregon University; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 20th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Revealing quantum behavior with coupled superconducting devices , Prof. Nadav Katz, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 21st: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Relaxion from particle production, Gustavo Marques Tavares, Stanford University; Presentation: gmt-relaxion.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 23rd: Atomic Physics Seminar; 8:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; ARL CDQI Review, Mark Saffman, et al.; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 24th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Rydberg crystals in a cold lattice gas, Prof. David Petrosyan, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser (IESL) Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Heraklion, Crete, GREECE; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 27th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Plasma Shocks, Dr. Paul Drake, University of Michigan, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar; Faculty Candidate Seminar ; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall; How to find dark matter, Dr. Bjoern Penning, University of Bristol; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 28th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); 2016 Polling in Nation and State: A scorecard, Charles Franklin, Law and Public Policy and Director of the Marquette University Law School Poll; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Cosmology from Non-Linear Weak Lensing, Zoltan Haiman, Columbia Univ; Presentation: Haiman-slides.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 30th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Micro-X: A Sounding Rocket Dark Matter Search, Antonia Hubbard, Northwestern; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins 3:45 pm; Towards understanding the inefficiency of star formation in galaxies, Andrey Kravtsov, The University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 31st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; The Dark Matter in the Universe, Katherine Freese, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
April 2017
Monday, April 3rd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Fast Ion Confinement in Tokamaks, Dr. Benedikt Geiger, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (SPECIAL LOCATION AND DATE); Hidden Valley searches at the LHCb, Yue Zhao, University of Michigan; Presentation: HV-LHCb.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 4th: Council Meeting; 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); “Wet chaos”: Characteristics of extreme rains in a changing climate, John Young, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Next steps in new physics searches, LHC and beyond. , Liantao Wang, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 5th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 6th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Coherent coupling between a quantum dot and a donor in silicon, Patrick Harvey-Collard, Sandia National Labs; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies at 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM; Turbulence and Dynamo Action in Accretion Flows, Fausto Cattaneo, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 7th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; Quark Gluon Plasma: Surprises from strongly coupled QCD matter, Barbara Jacak, UC-Berkeley/LBL; Presentation: jacakfordirectory.jpg; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 10th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Laboratory Investigation of the Dynamics of Jets and Spheromaks in a Background Magnetized Plasma, Dr. Mark Gilmore, University of New Mexico, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club ; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 11th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 am - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); The influence of spatial connectivity on landscape regime shifts and pattern formation after external pulses, Zak Ratajczak, UW Department of Zoology; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Dark Matter Interpretations of the AMS Positron Excess, Ian Low, Northwestern; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 12th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 13th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; A new top-down model of inflation, Marjorie Schillo, K.U. Leuven; Presentation: Madison13417.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 14th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; New Dark Matter Search Results from PICO 60, Carsten Krauss, University of Alberta; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 17th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Multi-Scale Plasma Modeling, Dr. Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 18th: Council Meeting; 2314 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Life inside the black box: Soil microbes, climate change, and fire, Thea Whitman, UW Department of Soil Science; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Ubiquity of non-geometry in heterotic string compactifications, Stefano Massai, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 19th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 20th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Entangling approaches for capacitively coupled semiconductor spin qubits, Vanita Srinivasa, Sandia; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM; Galaxy Transformations And The Quenching of Star Formation at High Redshift, Mauro Giavalisco, University of Massachusetts; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 21st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Carbon Dioxide – A Force for Global Change Throughout the Earth’s Atmosphere, Martin Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Center; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 24th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Understanding the Plasma Response to Resonant Magnetic Perturbations, Dr. Alan Turnbull, General Atomics, USA; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 25th: Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Scenarios, simulations, and sustainability science: Planning for the future of complex systems , Chris Kucharik, UW Nelson Institute; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; what can we learn from the current Higgs data? , Peisi Huang, Texas A&M; Presentation: Huang_tth.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 27th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk at 3:45 PM; Simulating the Evolving Milky Way: From Disk to Halo, Sarah Loebman, University of MI; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 28th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall; A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division physics courses, Steve Pollock, Colorado University; Add this event to your calendar; 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm; The University Club; Physics Awards Banquet; Add this event to your calendar
May 2017
Monday, May 1st: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall; Advances in Stellarator Optimization, Dr. David Gates, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA; Add this event to your calendar; BAUTZ LECTURE; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Physics Of The Stochastic Excitation Of Stellar Modes, Peter Goldreich, CALTECH; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 2nd: Council Meeting; 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar; Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served); Year-end celebration; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 3rd: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 4th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Coherent defects in diamond, Nathalie de Leon, Princeton; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and Coffee at 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM; The IllustrisTNG Simulations: Elemental Evolution in Cosmological Simulations, Jill Naiman, CfA Boston; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 5th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin hall; Simulating the Ionosphere, one electron at a time, Meers Oppenheim, Boston University, Astronomy Department; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 8th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 11th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Next-Generation Cosmological Simulations: Galaxy Assembly and Evolution, Lars Hernquist, ITC/Harvard; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 12th: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; 2241 Chamberbelin; The Department of Physics Undergraduate Reception; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 15th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall; An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 18th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk starts at 3:45 PM; Deep spectroscopy in nearby galaxy clusters: the cases of A85 and Hercules clusters, Alfonso Aguerri, Titular OPI en Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - ?Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 22nd: High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 23rd: High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Emerging Jets, Daniel Stolarski; Presentation: Wisconsin.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 24th: High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP; Add this event to your calendar; High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; US CMS HL-LHC Trigger Project Workshop date; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 25th: High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; US CMS HL-LHC Trigger Project Workshop; Add this event to your calendar

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