Events During the 2019 Spring Semester
January 2019
- Thursday, January 10th
- Kerry Kresse Retirement Celebration; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4220 Chamberlin - Physics Library
- Kerry Kresse (Physics Librarian) Retirement Celebration
- Thursday, January 17th
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology Journal Club
- Tuesday, January 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Order and simplicity in the 2018 elections, Barry Burden, UW Department of Political Science
- Wednesday, January 23rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Dept of Philosophy Job Talk; 4:00 pm; Memorial Union, Old Madison Room
- STRUCTURE AND EQUIVALENCE IN YANG-MILLS THEORY, Sarita Rosenstock University of California, Irvine, University of California, Irvine Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
- Whitord Public Talk Astronomy ; 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Einstein's Waves: Cosmic Sounds from Black Holes and Neutron Stars, Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
- Thursday, January 24th
- Astronomy Colloquium, Whitford Lecturer;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM - Probing Compact Objects with Gravitational Waves, Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
- Monday, January 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The new Divertor Tokamak Test facility project, Piero Martin, University of Padova and Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy
- Tuesday, January 29th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Screening for “normal” genetic variants: Using survey data to inform precision medicine, Marsha Mailick, Waisman Center
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, January 31st
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Continuous loading of ultracold ground state molecules in a dipole trap using a single light beam, Professor Luis Marcassa, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology Journal Club
February 2019
- Friday, February 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Competing orders in non-centrosymmetric superconductors, Maxim Khodas
- Department Meeting
- 11:30 am - 12:30 pm; B343 STERLING HALL
- Astronomy Colloquium, UPDATED TIME AND DATE;
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 2:30 PM, Talk begins 2:45 PM - Infrared Spectroscopy of Stars and Planets, Ian Crossfield, MIT Dept of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 chamberlin Hall
- Making Movies of Molecules - The Application of X-ray Lasers , Junko Yano, LBNL
- Monday, February 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Available energy of magnetically confined plasmas, Per Helander, Max Plank Institue for Plasma Physics
- Tuesday, February 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The changing context for the social sciences -- and especially for social and behavioral science research, Cora Marrett, UW Department of Sociology
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The changing context for the social sciences -- and especially for social and behavioral science research, Cora Marrett, UW Department of Sociology
- Thursday, February 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Strongly correlated models with odd frequency pairing, Alexei Tsvelik , BNL
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology Journal Club
- Friday, February 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Quest for Neutrino Mass Ordering, Wei Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
- Saturday, February 9th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 10th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 11th
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Monday 2/11/19 ;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM - Structure formation and turbulent processes in the Universe: from cosmology to star formation, Philip Mocz, Princeton University, Einstein postdoc Fellow
- Tuesday, February 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Books build better brains: How promoting literacy is key to early brain and child development, Dipesh Navsaria, UW Department of Pediatrics
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, February 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Fusion concept exploration and basic plasma shock research on the Plasma Liner Experiment at Los Alamos, Scott Hsu, Los Alamos National Lab
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum realizations of non-Hermitian (PT-symmetric) systems, Prof. Yogesh Joglekar, Indianapolis
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology Journal Club
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Tracing the chemical origins of exoplanetary worlds, Ke (Coco) Zhang, University of Michigan
- Friday, February 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic clocks as quantum sensors, Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada
- Saturday, February 16th
- Physics Fair; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Lobby
- , Physics Department Faculty, Staff, and Students
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 17th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Energetic Particle Physics in the 3D Reversed-Field Pinch, Philip Bonofiglo, UW-Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium, Please note special date/time;
4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Quantum Diamond Sensors, Ron Walsworth, Harvard
- Tuesday, February 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Taming the energy of stars, John Sarff, UW Department of Physics
- Thursday, February 21st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Gravity safe, electroweak natural axionic solution to strong CP and SUSY mu problems, Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Preparing for Earth 2.0: The Detailed Properties of Terrestrial Planets, Andrew Vanderburg, University of Texas
- Friday, February 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Blanchard Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - The arXiv: current status and future plans, Steinn Sigurdsson, Penn State (arXiv Scientific Director)
- Monday, February 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantifying heating by magnetic pumping through in situ spacecraft observations, Emily Lichko , UW Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies are served at 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- From Cores to Disks: Probing the Initial Conditions for Stars and Planets, Sarah Sadavoy, Harvard CfA
- Tuesday, February 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Our changing National climate: Vulnerabilities to adaptations, John Young, Wisconsin State Climatology Office
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, February 27th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 28th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Exploring Planet Habitability, Meredith MacGregor, Havard University
March 2019
- Friday, March 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring extreme states of matter at the Linac Coherent Light Source, Frederico Fiuza, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Monday, March 4th
- Special Noon Talk 3/4/19; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Star Formation, etc, Nia Imara, Harvard CfA
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Ion-scale turbulence in the presence of a large magnetic island, Lucas Morton, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, March 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Projecting future floodplains and the impacts to future risks and vulnerabilities in the United States, Shane Hubbard, UW Space Science and Engineering Center
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Tuesday Talk ;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM - Understanding the Relationship between Dense Gas and Star Formation in Galaxy Nuclei, Betsy Mills, Brandeis University
- Wednesday, March 6th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 7th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Caught in the act - witnessing the formation of the most massive galaxies across cosmic time, Chien-Chou Chen, ESo Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany
- Friday, March 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How Much Time Does a Tunneling Atom Spend In The Forbidden Region?, Aephraim Steinberg, U Toronto
- Monday, March 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Numerical modeling of magnetic self-organization at the top of the solar convection zone, John O'Bryan, University of Washington-Seattle
- Astronomy Colloquium, Monday special talk;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, 3:30 PM Coffee and cookies, 3:45 PM Talk Begins - Decoding the Magnetic Universe, Ann Mao , Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy
- Tuesday, March 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Big data ecology: Advancing the study of the natural world through citizen science, Ben Zuckerberg, UW Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- gFEX: A Level 1 Calorimeter Trigger for ATLAS at the Run3 LHC (and beyond), Sabine Lammers , University of Indiana-Bloomington
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, March 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, March 14th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Measure what is measurable and make measurable what is not so — Uncover new physics with bosons at the LHC and upgrades of the CMS detector to maximize the discovery potential, Miaoyuan Liu, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Building a Gravitational Wave Detector with Millisecond Pulsars, Joseph Swiggum, NANOGrav Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, & Astrophysics University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Friday, March 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Kerst Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - The long way to steady state fusion plasmas - the superconducting stellarator device Wendelstein 7-X, Thomas Klinger, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik and Greifswald University
- Monday, March 18th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Astronomy Science Lunch (Pizza served at 12, talk starts at 12:15);
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - From Cosmology to Galaxy Evolution and Star Formation with Line Intensity Mapping , Adam Beardsley, Arizona State University
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- spring break
- Thursday, March 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor Composition With Cosmic Tau Neutrinos , Juliana Stachurska, DESY
- Monday, March 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- On The Interactions of Magnetic Fluctuations, Zonal Flows, and Microturbulence in Fusion Plasmas, Zach Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics
- Tuesday, March 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A form for the feeling of being alive and kicking”: Chaos and structure in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Kevin Reilly, Former President UW System
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 28th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- WISELI Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Role of Confidence-Building (By Self & Others) in the Recruitment and Retainment of Underrepresented Students in STEM, Dr. Rellen Hardtke, UW River Falls
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Clues to Globular Cluster Formation, David Nataf, The Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, March 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions for Cryogenic Memory, Norman O. Birge, Michigan State University
April 2019
- Monday, April 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Electrostatically driven helical plasma state, John Finn, Tibbar Plasma Technologies
- Tuesday, April 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Disruptive technologies in the transition to renewable energy: The future of energy production and storage, Michael Winokur, UW Department of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, April 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; b343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, April 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Advantage for Annealing, Dr. David Ferguson, Northrop Grumman
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Science with a Complete Catalog of Galactic HII Regions, Loren Anderson, West Virginia University
- Friday, April 5th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Large Field Ranges from Aligned and Misaligned Winding, Andreas Schachner, Heidelberg University
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Stefan Westerhoff Memorial Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Exploring Nature's Extreme Accelerators, Julie McEnery, NASA
- Stefan Westerhoff Memorial Concert; 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Chamber Music, Solano Quartet, UW-Madison
- Monday, April 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Observation of nonlinear coupling between Kelvin-Helmholtz and drift wave instability in IMPED, Prabal Chattopadhyay, Institute for Plasma Research (India)
- Tuesday, April 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- In the beginning: children with disabilities in American policy, 1912-1960, Walter Schalick, UW Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Wednesday, April 10th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Few and many-body dynamics of Rydberg excitations in a lattice, Dr. David Petrosyan , Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Thursday, April 11th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- High-energy emissions from neutron star mergers, Shigeo Kimura, PennState
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Molecular clouds and star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies, Deidre Hunter, Lowell Observatory
- Monday, April 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Overview of TAE Technologies’ Norman/C-2W Field-Reversed Configuration Experiments, Hiroshi Gota, TAE Technologies
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Opportunities in Entrepreneurship and Medicine with a Physics PhD, Rock Mackie, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, UW Health
- Tuesday, April 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates, Kevin Burke, UW Department of Geography
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates, Kevin Burke, UW Department of Geography
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, April 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, April 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chambering 5310
- Exciting dynamics in multiple time dimensions , Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Why the Higgs is light, Why it has SM couplings to gauge bosons and fermions, and where there are more Higgses to be found., Ken Lane, Boston University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Diermier Colloquium Talk- Revealing the Atomic Hydrogen in the small Magellanic cloud with the Australian Square Kilmetre Array Pathfinder", Naomi McClure-Griffiths, The Australian National University
- Friday, April 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Postcards from the Future — The Physics Landscape at the High-Luminosity LHC , Meenakshi Narain, Brown University
- Monday, April 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Diagnosing impurity transport in the scrape-off layer of DIII-D using outer-midplane collector probes with isotopically enriched tungsten tracer particles, Professor David C. Donovan, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK)
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall - Photoinduced reaction mechanisms in molecular systems probed with elemental specificity via ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy, Nils Huse, Hamburg University
- Tuesday, April 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Energy, evolution, and the origins of life?, Terry Allard, Office of Naval Research and NASA
- Thursday, April 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Realistic numerical modeling of Majorana nanowires, John Gamble, Microsoft
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Low-Redshift Hydrogen Intensity Mapping, Trevor Oxholm
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- The Central Engine and Outflows in the Nuclear Starburst of NGC 253 as Revealed by ALMA, Albert Bollato, University of Maryland
- Friday, April 26th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Systematic expansion of tunneling rates, Björn Garbrecht, Technical University Munich
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- New Science Opportunities at X-ray Free Electron Lasers , Uwe Bergmann, Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Monday, April 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- SPARC and the high-field, privately-funded path to fusion energy, Martin Greenwald, MIT
- Tuesday, April 30th
- Noon Colloquium; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Noon Talk
- An introduction to radiatively driven stellar winds , Wolf-Rainer Hamann, Institute for Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Year-end celebration, Various, UW Madison
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
May 2019
- Wednesday, May 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, May 2nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Implications of gravitational wave detections for stellar astrophysics, Lidia Oskinova, University of Potsdam
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Please note special time!;
4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall - Optical and transport properties of metals with nontrivial band geometry, Dima Pesin , University of Virginia
- Friday, May 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum mechanics of fluids in solids, Dima Pesin , University of Virginia
- Physics Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm; Memorial Union - Tripp Commons
- Thursday, May 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum piezoacoustics: From low-dimensional electrons to qubits, Johannes Pollanen, Michigan State University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Planets in a bottle: Exploring planetary atmospheres in the lab, Sarah Horst, The Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, May 10th
- Undergraduate Graduation Reception; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- , Sridhara Dasu, UW - Madison
- Thursday, May 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Coherence and wave-particle duality relations, Prof. Mark Hillery , CUNY
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, May 17th
- PGSC Professional Development Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Breaking the Myth of the "Non-Traditional" Physicist, Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society (APS)
- Tuesday, May 21st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 9:00 am - 10:00 am; H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building (WID)
- Ice Fishing for Neutrinos: Exploring the mysteries of the cosmos from beneath the South Pole, Francis Halzen, UW-Madison
- Thursday, May 23rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, May 30th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall