Events During the 2021 Summer Semester
May 2021
- Saturday, May 1st
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- 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
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
- NO SEMINAR
- Tuesday, May 4th
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
- 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
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business
- Thursday, May 6th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Explorer, Prof. Matthias Danninger, Simon Fraser University
- 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
- Friday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Dept of Ag & Applied Economics 2021 Spring Hooding and Recognition of Graduates
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Master's Degree Deadline
- Academic Calendar; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- DDEEA Graduation Recognition Virtual Celebration
- Saturday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Commencement
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Commencement
- Sunday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Spring term 2021
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- GRADUATE SCHOOL SPRING 2021: Doctoral Degree Deadline
- Monday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Summer degree window period begins
- Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
- Monday Science Seminar w/ Dr. Adam Schaefer (MPIA), Adam Schaefer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- 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
- Wednesday, May 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Thursday, May 13th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Recent work on high-energy neutrinos, Bei Zhou, Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, May 14th
- Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
- Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
- Sunday, May 16th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year ends
- 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
- 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
- Tuesday, May 25th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Thursday, May 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
June 2021
- Wednesday, June 2nd
- 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
- Deep Neural Networks for Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry, David Pfau, Deepmind
- Thursday, June 3rd
- Thesis Defense; 10:30 am;
- DISCRETE NON-ABELIAN SYMMETRIES BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL, Ariel Rock, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, June 8th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Thursday, June 10th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Friday, June 11th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Dissertator Eligibility for summer 2021
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Summer Degree Window Period deadline for master's students
- Sunday, June 13th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Summer Degree Window Period doctoral degree deadline
- Tuesday, June 15th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom
- Signature of a quark-hadron phase transition from g-mode oscillations in neutron stars, Prashanth Jaikumar, California State University Long Beach
- Wednesday, June 16th
- 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
- Explaining Neural Scaling Laws, Ethan Dyer, Google
- Thursday, June 17th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 10:00 am - 11:00 am;
- Detection of 12 potential PeVatrons by LHAASO and Implications for Galactic Neutrino Emission and Diffuse sub-PeV Gamma-ray Emission, Ruoyu Liu, Nanjing University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, June 22nd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Thursday, June 24th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Friday, June 25th
- Thesis Defense; 10:30 am; B343 Sterling Hall
- The Formation of Parallel and Perpendicular Collisionless Shocks on the Big Red Ball, Doug Endrizzi, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 10:30 am - 12:00 pm;
- Quantum Computing Industry Panel, Moderator: Professor Robert Joynt, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, June 29th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Mergers as a Probe of Particle Dark Matter, Anupam Ray, Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research, India
July 2021
- Thursday, July 1st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, July 6th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Tuesday, July 13th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Neutrino gravitational wave memory from a core-collapse supernova, Mainak Mukhopadhyay, Arizona State University
- Wednesday, July 14th
- 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
- Learning Differential Equations, Jesse Bettencourt, University of Toronto
- Thursday, July 15th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, July 20th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Wednesday, July 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual - coordinates to be sent soon
- Thursday, July 22nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Monday, July 26th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; 2241 Chamberlin and zoom link in description
- Multi-messenger Astrophysics, Raamis Hussain, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, July 27th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
- Dark Neutrons: Cosmology and New Astrophysical Signatures, Nirmal Raj, TRIUMF, Canada
- Wednesday, July 28th
- 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
- Compositionality of Symmetry in Equivariant Multilayer Perceptrons, Siamak Ravanbaksh, McGill University
- Thursday, July 29th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Friday, July 30th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Requests for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
August 2021
- Tuesday, August 3rd
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- Wednesday, August 4th
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm; on zoom-link below
- Many-body Theory of Collective Neutrino Oscillations, Michael Cervia, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 6th
- M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Fluno Center
- MSPQC Summer 2021 Graduation Ceremony
- Tuesday, August 10th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Probing the Dense-Matter Equation of State with Neutron Star Mergers, Carolyn Raithel, Institute for Advanced Study
- Wednesday, August 11th
- 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
- Interpretable Deep Learning for Physics, Miles Cranmer, Princeton University
- Monday, August 16th
- Graduate Program Event; 2:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall and zoom link below
- high-energy cosmic neutrinos as a window to the Universe, Qinrui Liu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 17th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm
- TBD
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom:
- C3: An Advanced Concept for a e+e- Linear Collider, Prof. Emilio Nanni, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford
- Thursday, August 19th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; 2241 or 4274 CH
- Untriggered Searches for Astrophysical Neutrino Transients Using Data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Will Luszczak, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 20th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Master's Degree deadline
- Sunday, August 22nd
- Academic Calendar
- Official degree conferral date on diploma for students graduating at the end of Summer term 2021
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2021: Doctoral Degree Deadline
- Monday, August 23rd
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Fall 2021: Fall degree window period begins
- Thesis Defense; 4:00 pm; Zoom link below
- Coherent and cavity-based measurement of two-particle states, Joelle Corrigan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 25th
- 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
- Towards Flow-based MCMC for Lattice Gauge Theory with Fermions, Danilo Rezende, Deepmind
- Thursday, August 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 2103
- Imaging work and dissipation in the quantum Hall state of graphene, Arthur
- Tuesday, August 31st
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm;
- High-entropy ejecta plumes in Cassiopeia A from neutrino-driven convection, Toshiki Sato from Rikkyo University