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Events During the 2025 Spring Semester
January 2025
Wednesday, January 8th: Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Developing Josephson Junction Microwave Spectroscopy as a Modality Compatible with Scanned Probe Microscopy at LHe Temperatures, Margaret Fortman, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 9th: Outreach; 7:00 pm; Working Draft Beer Company, 1133 E Wilson St, Madison, WI 53703; Badgers on Tap, Dan Hooper and Hannah Erpenbeck, WIPAC; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 10th: Careers for Physicists; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom; Community College Instructor Pathway Q&A Panel, Brent Studer, Scott Hildreth, and James Espinosa; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 14th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 16th: Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin; Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics; 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 17th: Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin; Qualifying Exam - Electricity and 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; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Spring 2025: Dissertator eligibility for the spring; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Graduate School Spring 2025: Spring Degree Window Period deadline for master’s students; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 20th: Academic Calendar; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Spring 2025: Spring Degree Window Period deadline for doctoral students; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 21st: Academic Calendar; Spring semester instruction begins; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, January 22nd: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 23rd: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Particle Acceleration by Astrophysical Shocks: A Microphysical Perspective, Karol Fulat, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 24th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; Solid-state spin-photon interfaces for quantum information processing, Peter Lodahl, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen; Attachments: Abstract-Lodahl-Wisconsin2025.pdf; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 27th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Optimizing a quasi-helically-symmetric stellarator for reduced TEM-driven transport", Michael Gerard, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 28th: Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall. Also on Zoom:; Spring Brown Bag/ Planning Meeting, Physics Education Innovation Seminar Steering Committee, University of Wisconsin - Madison; 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, January 29th: Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling; Interpolation in Cell-Based Coaddition Images and Impacts on Shear Measurements, Miranda Gorsuch, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar; Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 6242 CH or; A high-spectral resolution study of the galactic center soft X-ray bulge with the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter, Conjeepuram V Ambarish, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 30th: Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Shake, rattle, and roll: waves, turbulence, and tides in stellar and planetary systems, Janosz Dewberry, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA); Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 31st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; FRB science results from CHIME, Kendrick Smith, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; Add this event to your calendar
February 2025
Monday, February 3rd: Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Emergent collective phenomena in macroscopic and mesoscopic systems, Dr. Zhenjie Yan, Univ. California Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Learning magnetic field structure from trajectories", David Bindel, Cornell University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 4th: Thesis Defense; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 CH; Novel Quantum Devices for Computation and Sensing, Abigail Shearrow, Physics PhD student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 6th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Probing and controlling 2D magnets through the lens of quantum sensors, Brian Zhou, Boston College; Add this event to your calendar; Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Adventures in optical clocks: quantum engineering, fundamental physics, and new frontiers, Dr. Tobias Bothwell, NIST Boulder; Attachments: 1_final.jpg; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Inside NASA Communication: Incredible Science, Excruciating Suspense, SMH SNAFU’s and the Challenge of Communicating it All, Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 7th: Black and Brown in Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Sterling B343; General Meeting; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH; Entanglement of Astrophysical Neutrinos - APS Bethe Prize Talk, Prof. Baha Balantekin, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Add this event to your calendar; Astronomy Colloquium, Science Communication Talk;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall; Science Communication: It's Not About You., Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 8th: 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 9th: 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 10th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Dr. Josiah Sinclair, MIT; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Chemical mixing by stratified MHD turbulence in stars", Adrian Fraser, University of Colorado - Boulder; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 Engineering Research Bldg; Journal Club; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 11th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, February 12th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 13th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Dr. Ian Stevenson, Columbia University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 14th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH; title to be announced, Hongwan Liu, Boston University; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 15th: 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 16th: 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 17th: Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Dr. Haocun Yu, University of Vienna, Austria; Add this event to your calendar; Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Solar wind turbulence in the young solar wind", Anna Tenerani, University of Texas at Austin; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 20th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Maxim Dzero , Kent State University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 21st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; [Cosponsored with WQI Seminar], Patty Lee, Quantinuum; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; WQI Colloquium-title to be announced, Patty Lee, Quantinuum; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, February 24th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Radiatively-cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments on the Z Machine", Jack Hare, Cornell University; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, February 25th: Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin; Multimodal vision-language modeling for advanced quantitative analysis of positron emission tomography imaging, Zachary Huemann, Physics PhD 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
Friday, February 28th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241; title to be announced, Jesse Thaler, MIT; Add this event to your calendar
March 2025
Monday, March 3rd: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; Title to be announced, Michael Churchill, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 6th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Ian Mondragon Shem, Northwestern; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 7th: Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am; all over Chamberlin; Prospective Visit Days; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH; Cosmic Microwave Background: Current Status & Future Prospects, Zeeshan Ahmed, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 10th: Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall; "Structure-exploiting sparse grid approximations for efficient uncertainty quantification and surrogate model construction", Ionut Farcas, Virginia Tech; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 11th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, March 12th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 13th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Recent research progress in making quantum computers useful for finance, Ruslan Shaydulin, JPMChase; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 14th: Graduate Program Event; 8:30 am; all over Chamberlin; Prospective Visit Days; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; WQI Colloquium-title to be announced, Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 17th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 21st: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH; title to be announced, Doug Bergman, University of Utah; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, March 22nd: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, March 23rd: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 24th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 25th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; 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 26th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 27th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 28th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, March 29th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, March 30th: Academic Calendar; Spring recess; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 31st: Academic Calendar; Spring Semester classes resume; Add this event to your calendar
April 2025
Thursday, April 3rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Justyna Zwolak, NIST; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 4th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH; Title to be announced, Scott Aaronson, University of Texas Austin; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 8th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 9th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 10th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Microcavity sensing of molecules, Randy Goldsmith, UW-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 11th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH; title to be announced, Jodi Cooley, Queen's University; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 17th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Field theory of monitored, interacting fermions with charge-conservation, Matthew Foster, Rice University; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 18th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH; title to be announced, Erin Kara, MIT; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Graduate School Spring 2025: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, April 22nd: Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall; Quantum Coffee Hour; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 23rd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Title to be announced, Alex High , University of Chicago; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 24th: Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum; WQI Colloquium-TBD, Andrea Morello, UNSW; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 25th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH; Carbon Dioxide Removal: Scaling Technologies to Combat Climate Change, Jan Huckfeldt, Climeworks; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, April 30th: Department Meeting; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall; Add this event to your calendar
May 2025
Friday, May 2nd: Academic Calendar; Last Spring Semester class day; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; TBD, Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, May 3rd: Academic Calendar; Study Day; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, May 4th: Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 5th: Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 6th: Academic Calendar; Exams; 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 7th: Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 8th: Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 9th: Academic Calendar; Commencement Weekend; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar; Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Graduate School Spring 2025: Master's degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, May 10th: Academic Calendar; Commencement Weekend; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, May 11th: Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am; Graduate School Spring 2025: Doctoral degree deadline; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 19th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, Asher Berlin, Fermilab; Add this event to your calendar

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