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Events During the 2021 Spring Semester
January 2021
Wednesday, January 13th: 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; Quantum Machine Learning in High Energy Physics, Sofia Vallecorsa, CERN; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 14th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute, MSE Seminar;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Access seminar:; Optical probing emergent orderings and their quantum properties in layered materials., Jun Xiao, Stanford University; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 18th: Academic Calendar; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 20th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;; Optical Dipole Trapping, Narrow-line Cooling, and Single Atom Observation of Holmium Atoms, Christopher Yip, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm; Online - Faculty Spotlight: Innovation in Instructional Design; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 21st: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 22nd: Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am - 5:30 pm; ONLINE; Ph.D. Qualifying Exam; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 25th: Academic Calendar; Instruction begins; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Status and progress in the domestic liquid metal plasma-facing component design program, Rajesh Maingi and Andrei Khodak, PPPL; Add this event to your calendar; Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;; Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Robert Benjamin (University of Wisconsin - Whitewater), Dr. Robert Benjamin, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater; Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 26th: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 27th: 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; The Importance of Being Interpretable, Michelle Ntampaka, Space Telescope Science Institute; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; CANCELLED due to lack of urgent business.; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual; Exploring Galaxy Evolution from Radio Observations, Hansung Gim, Arizona State University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 28th: Astro Tool Exchange; 10:00 am - 11:00 am;; High Dimensional Data Visualization with Glue, Cameren Swiggum, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Presentation: Astro_Tool_Exchange.pdf; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Virtual; A Quick Look at the 3GHz Radio Sky: Early Continuum Science from the VLA Sky Survey, Yjan Gordon, University of Manitoba; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM; "Spatially Resolved Galaxy Interactions, Jorge Moreno, Pomona College; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 29th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; A physical protocol to obtain information in quantum gravity, Chandramouli Chowdhury, ICTS, Bangalore; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm;; Quantum simulation of spin models with tunable arrays of 200 single Rydberg atoms, Thierry Lahaye, Université Paris Saclay & CNRS, Palaiseau; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
February 2021
Monday, February 1st: Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;; Monday Science Seminar w/ Benjamin Rosenwasser (UW-Madison), Benjamin Rosenwasser, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting; Real-time wall conditioning of fusion devices by injection of low-Z powders, Alessandro Bortolon, PPPL; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; MHD Transient Seeding of Disruptive Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs), J. D. Callen, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 2nd: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;; New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap, Sam McDermott , Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 3rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; TBD, Justyna Zwolak; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; Zoom Meeting; The diffusion of cosmic rays and post-doc application, Yingying Guo, Institute of High Energy Physics, China; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; or see Facebook link in abstract; 3MT® Three Minute Thesis Finals, Jimena Gonzalez, UW–Madison Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 4th: Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL TIME 10 AM;
10:00 am - 11:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) SPECIAL TIME 10AM; Interstellar Shocks, Antoine Gusdorf, Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure & Paris Observatory, Paris, France; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 5th: Women+ in Plasma Physics (W+iPP); 12:00 pm; Zoom; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Phenomenological and Quantum Gravity constraints from Charged Black Hole Evaporation in de Sitter Space, Gerben Venken, Heidelberg University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm; Zoom meeting; Long-term TeV spectra of blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501, Sara Coutino, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 8th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting; Data Analysis and Simulations of Compact Objects and Performance of the X-Calibur Telescope, Banafsheh Beheshitour, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Stellarator Optimization in the 2020s, Aaron Bader, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; no Plasma Theory Seminar; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 9th: Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm; Online - Faculty Spotlight: Commitment to Equity; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 10th: 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; Physics meets ML to solve cosmological inference, Ben Wandelt, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Institut Lagrange, Sorbonne University and Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 11th: Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm; visit for YouTube or Facebook watch links; Women of CTA, Leslie Taylor, UW–Madison Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM; The Astrophysics of Gas with Simulations , Simeon Bird, UC Riverside; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 12th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm; Zoom Meeting; Closing in on the sources of UHECRs: A multimessenger approach, Marco Muzio, New York University; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Phenomenology of Magnetic Black Holes, Nicholas Orlofsky, Carleton University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Zoom:; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 15th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting; The High Energy Light Isotope Experiment (HELIX) and Galactic Cosmic Rays, Keith McBride, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar; Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;; , Dr. Leon Trapman, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Poking the pedestal: Progress and Potential of Pellet ELM Pacing, Bob Wilcox, ORNL; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; tbd, J. S. Schmitt, Auburn University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 16th: Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm; Election Day; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; online; MINERvA measurements of Neutrino Interactions in the GeV Regime, Xianguo Lu, University of Oxford; Presentation: xlu_20210216_Wisconsin_abstract.pdf; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;; Hydrogen Mixing and the EDGES Anomaly, Luke Johns, UC-Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm; Zoom meeting; Neutrino astronomy with IceCube: an improved muon track reconstruction and a search for cross-correlations with AGN cores, Federica Bradascio, DESY and Humboldt University of Berlin; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 17th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 18th: Graduate Program Event; Virtual; Prospective Ph.D. Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; Looking at the Universe through gravitational lenses, Lindsay King, University of Texas-Dallas; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 19th: Graduate Program Event; Virtual; PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications and KKLT, Jakob Moritz, Cornell University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:40 pm; Zoom meeting; Searching for UHE- photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory: a two variable approach exploiting the air-shower Universality, Pierpaolo Savina, Università del Salento, Italy and Université Paris-Saclay, France; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 22nd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom; DIII-D and The Advanced Tokamak Path to Fusion Energy, Richard Buttery, GA; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom meeting; Automated Normal Mode Analysis in Reduced Models of Turbulence for Stellarator Optimization, Ben Faber, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 23rd: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 24th: Plasma Theory Seminar, Special Plasma Seminar;
9:00 am; Zoom Meeting; Plasma rotation: from mass separation applications to light manipulation, Renaud Gueroult, Laplace, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France; 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; Neural Mechanics: Symmetry and Broken Conservation Laws in Deep Learning Dynamics, Daniel Kunin and Hidenori Tanaka, Stanford University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 25th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; PHANGS Results: Connecting the Small Scale ISM Physics to the Galaxy Structures, Dyas Otomo, NRAO; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 26th: Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm;; Thermal Transport Across Interfaces, Two-Dimensional Materials, and III-V Ternary-Alloy Superlattice, Gabriel Jaffe, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Decoding and bootstrapping cosmological fluctuations, Guilherme Pimentel, Leiden University & University of Amsterdam; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
March 2021
Monday, March 1st: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Predicting runaway electron generation, confinement, and mitigation at ORNL, Matt Beidler, ORNL; Add this event to your calendar; Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm;; Monday Science Seminar w/ Courtney Crawford (Louisiana State University), Courtney Crawford , Lousiana State University; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom meeting; Effects of Triangularity on Ion Temperature Gradient Turbulence Saturation, Joey Duff, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 2nd: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;; Shining Light on Dark Matter with Black Holes, Volodymyr Takhistov , Kavli-IPMU; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 3rd: Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; link to be provided; Hostile and Intimidating Behavior Training; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 4th: Graduate Program Event; Virtual; PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; What Sets the Efficiency of Radial Migration is Spiral Galaxies?, Kate Daniel, Bryn Mawr; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 5th: Graduate Program Event; Virtual; PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Long Range Interactions in Cosmology: Implications for Neutrinos, Jordi Salvadó, University of Barcelona; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Zoom:; From galaxies to faces: recognizing the implications of Artificial Intelligence in astronomy and society, Dr. Brian Nord, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 8th: Plasma Theory Seminar; 9:00 am; zoom meeting; Modeling RFPs with self-consistent steady states of a cylindrical pinch, Urvashi Gupta, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom; Progress on high-field HTS magnets for SPARC, a compact net-energy fusion tokamak, Prof. Zach Hartwig, MIT; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 2:00 pm;; Electron-electron interactions in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots, Ekmel Ercan, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 9th: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 10th: 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; Generative and Invertible Networks for the LHC, Tilman Plehn, Heidelberg University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 11th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Student Social Hour with Physics Colloquium Speaker; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;; Student Social Hour with Physics Colloquium Speaker Dr. Brian Nord, Dr. Brian Nord, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting (see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM; A Collage of Exoplanets on the Mass-Period Diagram, Ji Wang, Ohio State; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 12th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap, Djuna Croon, TRIUMF; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 15th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Magnetically dominated plasma turbulence, Prof. Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; NO SEMINAR; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 16th: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Join at; Major Discovery Week -- Physics, Dan McCammon, UW–Madison Physics; Add this event to your calendar; "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;; Major Discovery Week -- AMEP, Deniz Yavuz, UW–Madison Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;; Matter Outflows in Neutron Star Mergers, Francois Foucart , University of New Hampshire; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 17th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF URGENT BUSINESS; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 18th: Astronomy Colloquium; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; SPECIAL TIME 9:00 AM . Zoom link below in Abstract; Planet Formation and the Composition of Rocky Planets, Amy Bonsor, University of Cambridge UK; Add this event to your calendar; Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; MS&E Spring Virtual Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Exploiting soft X-ray ARPES to look beyond the surface in correlated electron systems, Dr. Jessica McChesney , Argonne National Laboratory; Presentation: Dr. Jessica McChesney, 3_18, MSE Spring Seminar '2, McChesney Biosketch 21.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 19th: "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;; Major Discovery Week -- AMEP, Deniz Yavuz, UW–Madison Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Axion Searches with two Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities, Christina Gao, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, March 20th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; tbd, Britton Plourde, Syracuse; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 22nd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Fusion plasma physics issues for tokamak DEMOnstration reactors, Prof. Hartmut Zohm, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; NO SEMINAR; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 23rd: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 24th: 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; Algebraic Neural Networks, Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 25th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 pm; Galaxy Evolution from Large Surveys of Nearby Resolved Galaxies, Karen Masters, Haverford College; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 26th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; Gamma-ray flashes from dark photons in neutron star mergers, Gustavo Marques Tavares, University of Maryland; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Register here:; Faculty/Grad Student Summer RA Meet & Greet (Virtual), Faculty/Grad Students, Looking for Summer 2021 RA's; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 29th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; The Centrifugal Mirror Fusion Experiment (CMFX): Parameter Space Design, Diagnostics and Construction Process, Prof. Carlos Romero-Talamas, Univ of Maryland-Baltimore County; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; NO SEMINAR; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 30th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; hosted by Baha Balantekin; Theory of Fast Flavor Conversion of Supernova Neutrinos, Soumya Bhattacharyya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 31st: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
April 2021
Thursday, April 1st: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; New results from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, Danny Jacobs, Arizona State University; Presentation: zoom_20210401.txt; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; How do galaxies in the nearby Universe grow?, Sanchayeeta Borthakur,, Arizona State; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm;; Exploring the Use of Signal Envelopes for Neutrino Detection with In-Ice Radio Arrays, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 2nd: Academic Calendar; Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021); Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 10:00 am - 11:00 am; For zoom link, sign up at:; Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Amplitude Techniques for Cosmology, Scott Melville, University of Cambridge; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Special Friday Lunch Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Zoom Meeting See Abstract for Link; Making Use of Imaged Spotted Stellar Surfaces, Rachael Roettenbacher, Yale University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; CANCELLED this week; Department Coffee Hour - CANCELLED; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, April 3rd: Academic Calendar; Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021); Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, April 4th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess (reduced for spring 2021); Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 5th: Academic Calendar; Classes resume; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; NSTX-U Recovery — Motivation and Progress Toward the Resumption of Plasma Operations, Dr. Stefan Gerhardt, PPPL; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; NO SEMINAR; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 6th: Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm; Election Day; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 7th: 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; A Mathematical Exploration of Why Language Models Help Solve Downstream Tasks, Nikunj Saunshi, Princeton University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled today due to lack of urgent business; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 8th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; Investigating the Origin of the Stars Closest to the Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole, Devin Chu, UCLA; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 9th: Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 12th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Creating Astrophysically Relevant Systems in the Laboratory in the High-Energy-Density Regime, Prof. Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar; Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;; Multidimensional Progenitor Models For Core-collapse Supernovae, Dr. Carl Fields, Michigan State University and Arizona State University; Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; NO SEMINAR; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 13th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;; Nucleosynthesis in magneto-rotational driven supernovae, Moritz Reichert , TU – Darmstadt; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 14th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Cancelled - due to lack of urgent business.; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm;; Stellarator Beta Limits with Extended MHD Modeling Using NIMROD, Torrin Bechtel, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm;; Overlapping Aluminum-Gate Quantum Dots for Valley-Orbit Based Qubits in Si/SiGe, JP Dodson, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 15th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, expectations for diffuse fluxes and arrival-direction correlations, Arjen van Vliet, DESY Zeuthen, Germany; Presentation: zoom_20210415.txt; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45 PM; Planets, Patterns, and the Origin of Life, Lauren Weiss, University of Hawaii at Monoa; Add this event to your calendar; High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; First results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab, Liang Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 16th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; The Impact of a Midband Gravitational Wave Experiment On Detectability of Cosmological Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds, Yanou Cui, UC Riverside; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Request for all Master's and Ph.D. Degree Warrants; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 19th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report, Prof. Troy Carter, UCLA; Add this event to your calendar; Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm;; The Chemical Quandaries of Titan’s Atmosphere (and How We Can Solve Them), Erin Flowers, Princeton University; Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Development and testing of a reduced runaway electron model for disruption simulation, Alex Sainterme, UW; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 20th: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 21st: Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link; Machine Learning for Calabi-Yau metrics, Fabian Ruehle, CERN and Oxford; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Cancelled due to lack of urgent business; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 22nd: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; High Energy Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm;; Searches for New Physics with Long Lived Particles, Lesya Horyn, Fermi Lab; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom:; Searches for New Physics with Long Lived Particles, Lesya Horyn, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm; Simulating Galaxy Formation, Mark Vogelsberger, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 23rd: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:; The Weak Scale as a Trigger, Raffaele-Tito D'Agnolo, Université Paris-Saclay; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 26th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm – ARCS: a Heliophysics mission concept for decoding the aurora , K A Lynch, Dartmouth College Physics and Astronomy, for the ARCS team; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; NO SEMINAR; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 27th: Thesis Defense; 9:00 am;; Heterostructure Modifications, Fabrication Improvements, and Measurement Automation of Si/SiGe Quantum Dots for Quantum Computation, Thomas McJunkin, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Institute for Nuclear Energy Systems (INES) Colloquium ; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Multiphysics analysis of fusion nuclear systems with the MOOSE framework, Dr. Paul Humrickhouse, leads the Fusion Safety Program at Idaho National Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;; Axion Production in Magnetars, Steven Harris, INT-U. Washington; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm;; The Role of Chaos and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy, Vanessa Lopez Barquero , Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 28th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 29th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; online; Searching for new physics during gravitational waves propagation, Leïla Haegel, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Paris & Swiss National Science Foundation; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Virtual Zoom meeting - See Abstract, Coffee and Tea 3:30pm, Talk begins 3:45 PM; Dust in galaxies: extinction, attenuation and emission, Samir Salim, Indiana University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 30th: Academic Calendar; Last class day; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
May 2021
Saturday, May 1st: Academic Calendar; Study day; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 3rd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting; Lessons learned from Pushing REBCO coated conductor coils from 30 to 45 Tesla, Prof. David Larbalestier, Florida State University; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; NO SEMINAR; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 4th: Council Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 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; Explorations at the Physics ∩ ML Interface, Kyle Cranmer, New York University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 6th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Explorer, Prof. Matthias Danninger, Simon Fraser University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Zoom:; Stop, hammer time! Using novel tools to nail down the top squark after Run 2, Dr. Daniel Spitzbart, Boston University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 7th: Academic Calendar; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Dept of Ag & Applied Economics 2021 Spring Hooding and Recognition of Graduates; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Master's Degree Deadline; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; DDEEA Graduation Recognition Virtual Celebration; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, May 8th: Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Commencement; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Commencement; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, May 9th: Academic Calendar; Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Spring term 2021; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Doctoral Degree Deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 10th: Academic Calendar; Graduate School Summer 2021: Summer degree window period begins; Add this event to your calendar; Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;; Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Adam Schaefer (MPIA), Adam Schaefer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 11th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;; The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Latest Science Results, Ting Li, Carnegie Observatories; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 12th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 13th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; Recent work on high-energy neutrinos, Bei Zhou, Johns Hopkins University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 14th: Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info); Department Coffee Hour (Virtual); Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, May 16th: Academic Calendar; Faculty contract year ends; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 19th: 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; Are wider nets better given the same number of parameters?, Anna Golubeva, Perimeter Institute; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 20th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; Cosmic rays, astrophysics and astrobiology, Noemie Globus, ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic / Flatiron Institute, USA; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 25th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; TBD; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 27th: Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Add this event to your calendar

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