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Events During the 2024 Spring Semester
January 2024
Monday, January 15th: Academic Calendar; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 16th: Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5310 CH; Multimodal vision-language modeling for advanced quantitative analysis of positron emission tomography imaging, Zach Huemann, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 18th: Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin; Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Inelastic decay from integrability, Amir Burshtein, Tel Aviv U; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 10:30 am - 11:30 am;; Probing Cosmic Ray Physics at TeV-PeV Energies with GRAPES-3 Experiment , Pravata Kumar Mohanty, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 19th: Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin; Qualifying Exam - Electricity & Magnetism; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 22nd: Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Spring 2024: Spring Degree Window Period deadline for master's students; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Spring 2024: Spring Degree Window Period deadline for doctoral students; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 23rd: Academic Calendar; Spring semester instruction begins; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 24th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 25th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; Semiconductor qubits on the move: low power and high-fidelity quantum gates, Menno Veldhorst, QuTech – Delft University of Technology; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 26th: Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; B343 Sterling or; Developing an Analysis Pipeline, and mm/sub-mm Spectrometer for a Novel Balloon-Borne Intensity Mapping Experiment., Faizah Karim Siddique, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 5280; The flavor composition of high-energy cosmic neutrinos: towards high statistics and ultra-high energies, Mauricio Bustamante, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Gravitational-wave astronomy with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, Patrick Brady, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 29th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; Challenges and opportunities associated with first principal optimal design of fusion energy systems, Prof. Andrew Christlieb, Michigan State University; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; B343 Sterling or; MULTI-SCALE INTERACTIONS OF TEARING MODES WITH MICROTURBULENCE AND ITG SATURATION-CHANNEL SELECTION, Taweesak Jitsuk, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 30th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Explaining nonlinearities in black hole ringdowns from symmetries, Antonio Riotto , Geneva U; Add this event to your calendar
February 2024
Thursday, February 1st: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Dissipative mechanisms in SNS junctions and magnetic vortex lattices, Tony Liu, U Washington; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;; Low-energy Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations, Kevin Kelly , Texas A&M University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Bursty star formation: physical drivers and implications for JWST observations of high-redshift galaxies, Chris Hayward, CCA; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Novel Methods for the Detection of Dark Matter, Carlos Blanco, Princeton University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 2nd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Effective field theories of thermalizing systems, Luca Delacretaz, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 5th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Novel strategies for hardware-efficient quantum processors, Harry Levine, AWS Center for Quantum Computing; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; Magnetohydrodynamics of tokamak disruptions, Prof. Carl Sovinec, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 6th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 7th: Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling; Neutral Beam Injection on WHAM, Kunal Sanwalka, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Science with Ultracold Atoms: from Quantum Simulation to Quantum Networking, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 8th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; X-Ray Spectroscopic Insights Into the Microphysics of Collisionless Shocks, Ehud Behar, Technion; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 9th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Retrieving images from tarnished 19th century daguerreotypes using X-ray fluorescence imaging with an X-ray micro beam with tunable energy, Tsun-Kong (T.K.) Sham, Western University, Ontario; Add this event to your calendar; Outreach; 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm; Space Place, 2300 S Park St and virtual, see abstract for link; Chasing ghost particles: searching for neutrinos from high-energy sources in real time, Jessie Thwaites, UW–Madison Physics / WIPAC; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 10th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 11th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 12th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum metrology with an optical lattice atom interferometer interrogated for one minute, Cristian Panda, UC Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Stellarator optimization through coil shaping", Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, National Institute for Fusion Studies; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Mapping New Physics from the UV to the IR, Grant Remmen, NYU; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 13th: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Light Dark Sector: Inelastic Exploration, Prof. Bhaskar Dutta , Texas A&M University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 14th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Photonic Links for Rydberg Atom Arrays, Ivana Dimitrova, Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 15th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Stellarators Linking Axisymmetric Mirrors (SLAM), Tony Qian, Princeton Universtiy; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Tabletop to Telescope: Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Matter, Tanner Trickle, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 17th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 18th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 19th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Using precision measurements to study the interplay of quantum mechanics and gravity and explore the universe, Tejas Deshpande, Northwestern University; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Coherent structures in non-neutral electron plasmas, 2D fluids, and beyond", Noah Hurst, WiPPL, UW-Madison Physics Department; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Hierarchies from string theory, Jakob Moritz, CERN; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 21st: Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2104; Diffusion Models - A Thermodynamic Perspective, Akhil Premkumar, KICP Chicago, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Cavity-enabled measurements and interactions in neutral atoms, Zhenjie Yan, UC Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Axion Dark Matter: From the Laboratory to the Cosmos, Joshua Foster, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 22nd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Superconductor — Insulator Transition and Coulomb drag in non-Fermi-Liquid modelled by an array of SYK grains, Alexander Chudnovskiy, Hamburg; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; Exploring many-body problems with arrays of individual atoms, Antoine Browaeys, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, CNRS; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Building Planetary Systems: The Formation of Planetesimals, Jake Simon, Iowa State University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 23rd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory, Clay Córdova, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 26th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "From the laboratory to astrophysics: the Rayleigh-Taylor instability", Dr. Bhuvana Srinivasan, Director, PLASMAWISE Laboratory - Univ of Washington; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Seminar; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Highlights from the path toward confined e+e- pair plasmas, Eve Stenson, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 27th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 28th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Effective Field Theory Approach to Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Xiaochuan Lu, UC San Diego; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 29th: Plasma Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Investigations of fundamental Alfvénic Wave Physics, Seth Dorfman, Space Science Institute; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Supernova @WIPAC; New probes of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray source evolution, Marco Muzio, Penn State University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Exploring the diversity of H2-H2O subNeptunes, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford; Add this event to your calendar
March 2024
Friday, March 1st: Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am; all over Chamberlin; Prospective Visit Days, various; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum engineering for superconducting quantum computers, Prof. Yasunobu Nakamura , University of Tokyo; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 4th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; Schnack Memorial Seminar: "Plasma instabilities associated with runaway electron beam and their potential influences”, Dr. Chang Liu, PPPL (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory); Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; tbd, tbd, tbd; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 6th: Undergraduate Program Event; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Chamberlin Hall Lobby; Physics and Astronomy Majors Fair, Evan Heintz; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 7th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; CANCELLED: NIRWALS: the Near InfraRed Washburn Astronomical Laboratories Spectrograph on SALT, Marsha Wolf, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 8th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Using Radio Detectors to Discover the Highest Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos, Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 11th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Advances in optimization for stellarator design", Elizabeth Paul, Columbia University; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Seminar; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Structuring Light: The Next Frontier in Laser-Plasma Interactions, Andrew Longman, Lawrence Livermore National Lab; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 12th: Council Meeting; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; Theory of g factors in semiconductors -- some history, and new insights, David DiVincenzo, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 13th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 14th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Detecting, Studying, and Eliminating Quasiparticles in Superconducting Circuits, Eli Levenson-Falk, USC; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Understanding the plasma universe through laboratory experiments and related models, Yang Zhang, Caltech; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Supercomputer Simulations of the Universe: Interfacing galaxy formation with precision cosmology, Volker Springel, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 15th: Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am; all over Chamberlin; Prospective Visit Days, various; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Using Dissipation to Preserve Superconducting Qubit Coherence, Eli Levinson-Falk, USC; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 18th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Quantum skyrmion Hall effect, Ashely Cook, Max Planck Institutes for the Physics of Complex Systems and the Chemical Physics of Solids; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Cylindrical Implosion Experiments at Los Alamos National Laboratory", Josh Sauppe, LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory); Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 19th: Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling; Electron Cyclotron Heating in the WHAM device, Jonathan Pizzo, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 20th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Protecting Qubits from High-energy Impacts, Britton Plourde, Syracuse University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 21st: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; The cosmic journey of the elements, from dust to life, Lia Corrales, University of Michigan; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 22nd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Towards EeV neutrino astronomy with GRAND, Kumiko Kotera , Institut d'astrophysique de Paris; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, March 23rd: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, March 24th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 25th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling; A CHAPMAN-ENSKOG-LIKE (CEL) CONTINUUM KINETIC CLOSURE APPROACH IN NIMROD, Joseph Jepson, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 5310 CH; How to Prelim; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 26th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; The present and future of flavor in high-energy cosmic neutrinos, Mauricio Bustamante , NBIA, Denmark; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 27th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar; ALMA Community Day Event; 9:00 am - 4:00 pm; B343, Sterling Hall; ALMA Proposal Preparation Workshop, Stephen McKay, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 5310 CH; How to finish your PhD; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 28th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar; Spring Break Potluck Lunch; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 29th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, March 30th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, March 31st: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
April 2024
Monday, April 1st: Academic Calendar; Spring Semester Classes resume; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall and; Opening the PeV Neutrino Window with Trinity, A. Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; “Disruption physics gaps encountered in the SPARC design pertinent to the design of the ARC power plant”, Ryan Sweeney, MIT PSFC/CFS; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 2nd: Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm; Election Day - Wisconsin Presidential Primary, including same-day registration; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Last Steps to Completing the Doctoral Degree; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 4th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Tuning into Cosmic Neutrinos at the Highest Energies, Stephanie Wissel, Penn State; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Quantum materials through the nano-lens: surprises beyond the diffraction limit, Alexander McLeod, UMN; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin; The Cosmic Symphony: Magnetic Fields and Turbulence Across Clouds, Galaxies, to Galaxy Clusters, Yue Hu, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 5280; Multi-wavelength emission from Jets of nearby radio galaxies, Riku Kuze, Tohoku University; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; CANCELLED; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 5th: Physics Department Colloquium; 1:00 pm - 4:15 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; 2024 UW Physics Student Research Colloquium, UW Physics Students, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Falling Walls Lab Wisconsin, various, various; Presentation: Falling Walls program draft.png; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, April 6th: Outreach; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall, 2nd floor lobby; Physics Fair, Various, Dept of Physics; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 11:30 am - 12:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 8th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Dr; “Controlling plasma-material interactions with real-time powdered material injection”, Florian Effenberg, PPPL; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 11th: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall and; Mysteries of the High-Energy Sky, Dan Hooper, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Water under X-ray Vision - A Molecular Look at Life’s Mysterious Elixir, Uwe Bergmann, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 12th: Climate & Diversity; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Climate and Diversity Committee End of Year Town Hall and Mixer, , Climate and Diversity Committee; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Mitigating climate and air pollution from the electricity and transportation sectors in the United States , Inês Azevedo, Stanford University; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 15th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; “Continuum gyrokinetic study of high-field mirror fusion plasmas”, Manaure Francisquez, PPPL; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 16th: Council Meeting; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 17th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Add this event to your calendar; Careers for Physicists; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Career Talk - Inpleo Data Science, Orly Olbum, Chief of Data Science, Inpleo, Inc.; Presentation: Inpleo.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 18th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; New twists on topology in moiré quantum matter, Matthew Yankowitz, U Washington; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 5310 /; Hunting for Galactic PeVatrons in the X-ray Regime, Shuo Zhang, MSU; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; Visible-Light Photonic Integration for Atomic and Quantum Sciences and Applications, Daniel J Blumenthal, University of California Santa Barbara; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; NIRWALS: the Near InfraRed Washburn Astronomical Laboratories Spectrograph on SALT, Marsha Wolf, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 19th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Dual-Species Quantum Processors and Quantum Networks, Hannes Bernien, University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Spring 2024: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 22nd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Advancing Fusion Research through Virtual Design", Frank Jenko, IPP; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 23rd: Preliminary Exam; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; Nonlocal transport effects in electron bilayers, Dmitry Zverevich, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Council Meeting; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Microscopic calculations of neutrino scattering and absorption in warm dense nuclear matter, Prof. Jeremy Holt , Texas A&M University; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 24th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin or; Scaling Technologies for Si/SiGe Quantum Dot Qubits, Michael Wolfe, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 25th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Rydberg physics: From Ultralong-Range Molecules to Quantum Simulation and Quantum Optimization, Peter Schmelcher, U Hamburg; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Sterling Hall B343; Progress towards cooling and imaging on an alkali atom forbidden transition, Jacob Scott, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; NOvA Cross-section Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Charge Current Inclusive Interactions, Prabhjot Singh, Queen Mary University of London; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Goodbye to “Chi-by-Eye” : Results from a Bayesian Analysis of Photometric Binaries in Open Clusters, Aaron M Geller, Northwestern University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 26th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Structure and Dynamics from Random Observations, Abbas Ourmazd, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 29th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; “Metastability of stratified magnetohydrodynamic equilibria and their relaxation”, David Hosking, Princeton University; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall and Zoom:; Physics Potential at a future Muon Collider, Cari Caserotti, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 30th: Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin;; Modeling Solar Neutrino Flavor Evolution with Data Assimilation, Caroline Laber-Smith; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; Nano-Photonic Emitters for the “Quantum Age”: where imperfections lead to opportunities, Evelyn Hu, Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar
May 2024
Wednesday, May 1st: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall and Zoom:; Expanding Horizons: Novel Strategies in low mass BSM Physics Exploration with CMS, Abhijith Gandrakota, FNAL; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 2nd: Thesis Defense; 9:30 am - 11:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; A SEARCH FOR A STABLE SIX-QUARK BOUND STATE IN P-P COLLISIONS AT √ S = 13 TEV IN PARKED 2018 DATA AT CMS AND A STUDY OF THE AGING OF CATHODE STRIP CHAMBERS IN HIGH RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS., Wren Vetens, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Exploring Exoplanets in the Era of JWST and Beyond, Knicole Colon, NASA's Goddard; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 CH -; Frontiers in Neutrino Astronomy, John Beacom, Ohio State University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 3rd: Academic Calendar; Last Spring Semester class day; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; Sterling 1313;; A Study of Magnetized Plasma Turbulence in the Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Regimes, Cristian Vega, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH -; The future of particle physics, Prof. Hitoshi Murayama, UC-Berkeley; Presentation: Hitoshi-Madison-2024.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, May 4th: Academic Calendar; Study day; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, May 5th: Academic Calendar; Final Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 6th: Academic Calendar; Final Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 7th: Academic Calendar; Final Exams; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 CH; Personal Finance Workshop for Grad Students, Carol Hulland; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343, Sterling Hall; Flow-based Nonperturbative Simulation of First-order Phase Transitions, Dean Chen, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Phenomenology of Effective Field Theory with Sterile Neutrinos, Kaori Fuyuto , LANL; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 8th: Academic Calendar; Final Exams; Add this event to your calendar; Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin; The Minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture, Alessandro Mininno, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 9th: Academic Calendar; Final Exams; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Proper correlation measures: the case with Rényi mutual information, Laimei Nie, Purdue; Add this event to your calendar; NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 5280 /; High-energy and ultrahigh-energy neutrinos: a new window for astrophysics and particle physics, Bei Zhou, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 10th: Academic Calendar; Final Exams; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 9:00 am - 11:00 am;; Application of geometric deeping learning in charged-particle track reconstruction in the ATLAS ITk, Tuan Pham, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Graduation Event; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Graduation Celebration Event, various; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Spring 2024: Master's degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 5:30 pm - 12:00 am; Commencement: Doctoral & Medical Professional; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, May 11th: Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Commencement: Bachelor's, Master's, Law; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, May 12th: Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Spring 2024: Doctoral degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 13th: Academic Calendar; Spring Semester Grading deadline; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Graduate School Summer 2024: Summer Degree Window Period begins; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 15th: Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Sterling Hall, Room B343; The Physical Characteristics of Faint, High-redshift Dusty Star-forming Galaxies, Stephen McKay, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Department Coffee Hour; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; University Ave steps or (in case of bad weather) 2120 CH; Physics Cookie Potluck; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 16th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Joynt Fest , Invited Speakers; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall; Large Blue isocurvature from a classical conformal limit, Sai Chaitanya Tadepalli, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, May 19th: Academic Calendar; Faculty contract year ends; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 20th: Academic Calendar; 4-week summer session begins; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 21st: Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547; Asteroseismology: diving deep into stars, Prof. Conny Aerts , KU Leuven, Radboud University, and MPIA; Add this event to your calendar; Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 22nd: Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge; , Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 23rd: NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Supernova, WIPAC; New Prospects for Probing Dark Matter with High-Energy Cosmic Observations , Qinrui Liu, Queen's University, Canada; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 24th: Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling or; Measurement of the Neutrino Mass Ordering with IceCube DeepCore, Maria Prado Rodriguez, Physics Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 27th: Academic Calendar; Memorial Day observed; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 28th: Academic Calendar; 3-week summer session begins; Add this event to your calendar; Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; VIRTUAL - link to be sent.; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 29th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; VIRTUAL - link to be sent.; Add this event to your calendar; Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge; , Sharon Kahn; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 30th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Resonant Bloch oscillations in transmons embedded in high-impedance circuits , Benjamin Remez, Yale University; Add this event to your calendar

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