Events During the 2012 Summer Semester
May 2012
- Tuesday, May 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- From dragonfly eyes to fish eyes: a summary of ways to understand social-ecological systems across disciplinary lines, Bethany Laursen, UW Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
- Wednesday, May 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, May 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Non-classical noise in quantum optomechanical systems, Aashish Clerk, McGill University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Here be dragons :The Dynamic Radio Sky, Geoffrey Bower, University of California - Berkeley
- Friday, May 4th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- VBFNLO: vector boson fusion and more, Dieter Zeppenfeld, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, CANCELED;
2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Uncovering the nature of neutrinos via double beta decay, Allen Caldwell, Director, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany
- Physics Department Colloquium, 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Alumni Award Speaker, Ronald Lockwood, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Monday, May 7th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas; a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory, Prof. Jan Egedal, MIT
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- The finite temperature phase diagram for Kitaev-Heisenberg model, Craig Price, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, May 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Are you holding your breath? - Structures of arousal and calm, Deric Bownds, UW Department of Zoology
- Thursday, May 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Shedding Light on Artificial Quantum Materials and Interfaces by Photoemission Spectroscopy, Kyle Shen, Cornell University
- Friday, May 11th
- Last Day of Class - No Colloquium
- Dissertation Defense; 8:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Observation of Electron Antineutrino Disappearance at the Daya Bay Experiment, Bryce Littlejohn, UW Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Structure of dimension-six derivative interactions in pseudo Nambu-Goldstone N Higgs doublet models, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, University of Tokyo
- Tuesday, May 15th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A neutrino beam to IceCube/PINGU?, Walter Winter, University of Würzburg, Germany
- Thursday, May 17th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Probing Time-reversal Invariance with Atoms and Neutrons, Tim Chupp, University of Michigan
- Monday, May 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Advancements in epitaxial trilayer growth utilizing Nb/Re bilayers on sapphire, Paul Welander, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Monday, May 28th
- Memorial Day
June 2012
- Monday, June 4th
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Magnetic Ordering of the Heisenberg J1 – J2 – J3 Model, Samuel Ducatman, UW-Madison
- Thursday, June 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Chiral Fermi liquids, Dmitrii Maslov, University of Florida
- Friday, June 8th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Thursday, June 14th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Quantum Computer Game: Democratic Science and Game Based Learning, Prof. Jacob Sherson, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Friday, June 15th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, June 19th
- CMSO Teleconference Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Spherical dynamo: effect of the boundary conditions and flow optimization, Ivan Khalzov, UW Madison
- Friday, June 22nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, June 26th
- CMSO Teleconference Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Guide Field Effects on Hall Reconnection in MRX, Tim Tharp, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
- Friday, June 29th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Direct Observation of Base-Pair Stepping and Conformational Dynamics in Molecular Nanomachines, Yann Chemla, University of Illinois
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
July 2012
- Wednesday, July 4th
- 4th of July
- Friday, July 6th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, July 9th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Single impurity atoms immersed in an ultracold gas, Nicolas Spethmann, Institute for Applied Physics, University of Bonn
- Friday, July 13th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, July 16th
- Department of Physics Public Lecture; 7:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Hunt for the Higgs Boson, Sridhara Dasu, UW department of Physics
- Friday, July 20th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Friday, July 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
August 2012
- Friday, August 3rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology