Events During the 2023 Summer Semester
May 2023
- Monday, May 1st
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Nanoscale Enhancement of Dipole Emission: Modeling Multi-Photon Effects and Microwave Emission from Small Josephson Junctions, Colin Whisler, Physics Graduate Student
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Initial Results from the DIII-D Negative Triangularity Campaign, Kathreen Thome, General Atomics
- Tuesday, May 2nd
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Search for dark matter produced in association with Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pair, Shivani Lomte, Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Auditorium of Genetics/Biotech
- Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?, Minhal Gardezi, Dept of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, May 3rd
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- Multi-Messenger Searches for High Energy Cosmic Ray Accelerators, David Guevel, Physics Graduate Student
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Building non-vanilla QCD axion models, Felix Yu, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life in space, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands
- Thursday, May 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- SQUID-Based Broadband Microwave Isolator, Matt Beck, IBM Yorktown Heights
- Friday, May 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Last class day for spring semester
- Academic Calendar
- Deadline for Graduate students to withdraw from the Spring term
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from sampling to clocks to qubits, Adam Kaufman, UC Boulder
- Physics Student/Alumni Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm; WID
- , Mark Eriksson, UW-Madison
- Saturday, May 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Sunday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Monday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Higgs production with a top quark pair in the diphoton channel, di-Higgs production in the bb-diphoton channel, and Inner Tracker upgrade with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, Alex Zeng Wang, Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Investigation of Higgs Boson Decaying to Di-muon and Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson decaying to Di-b-quark, Jay Chan, Physics Graduate Student
- Tuesday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Neutron Star Weather Forecasting , Joonas Nättilä , Columbia University, Flatiron Institute
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Mathematics of evolving ecologies in chemical reaction networks and the origins of biochemical life, Praful Gagrani, Physics Graduate Student
- Wednesday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Thursday, May 11th
- Academic Calendar
- Final exams
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin or - New Approaches to Transverse NMR Gyroscopes, Susan Sorensen, Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH4274/https://wipac-science.zoom.us/j/98113285101?pwd=RlNKY2I4Uzg5K2QxVWJmZTJ4eVpWQT09
- Gravitational Wave Science with Gamma Rays, Matthew Kerr , US Naval Research Laboratory
- Friday, May 12th
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
10:00 am - 12:00 pm; - Pressure-driven tearing and energy transport in finite beta Reversed Field Pinch computations, Urvashi Gupta, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Probing The Impact of Cluster Weak Lensing Bias On DES Y1 Cluster Cosmological Results, Johnny Esteves, University of Michigan
- Graduation Event; 3:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Graduate Celebration Event, Sharon Kahn and Evan Heintz
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, May 14th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, May 15th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall -
- Wednesday, May 17th
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin - Nanoscale metrology using the spin and charge states of single nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, Aedan Gardill, Physics Graduate Student
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Investigating the Collisionless Kinetic Regime with the New TREX Drive Cylinder, Paul Gradney
- Thursday, May 18th
- Graduate Program Event, PhD Final Defense;
10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Macroscopic Dark Matter, Mrunal Prashant Korwar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, WIPAC seminar;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; WIPAC supernova - Searches for Dark Matter with IceCube, Thien Nhan Chau, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Gravitational particle production in inflationary models using Stokes phenomenon, Nidhi Sudhir Kandathpatinharuveetil, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, May 25th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm;
- Electron antineutrino scattering on protons: history, applications, and theoretical estimates, Professor Francesco Vissani, INFN, Gran Sasso, Italy
- Tuesday, May 30th
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Precision Measurements with a Multiplexed Optical Lattice Clock, Jack Dolde, Department of Physics Graduate Student
June 2023
- Monday, June 5th
- Graduate Program Event, Thesis Defense;
10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin or - The Magellanic Corona and its Role in the Evolution of the Magellanic Stream, Scott Lucchini, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Tuesday, June 6th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- Will gamma rays break superconducting quantum computers? And can surface encapsulation improve the performance of individual quantum bits?, Sohair Abdullah, Physics Graduate Student
- Dept of Physics - Cookie Potluck - Summer Edition; 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm; foyer outside 2241 Chamberlin
- , Jarrett Rosenberg, Zachary Jerzyk, Sharon Kahn, Graduate Program
- Wednesday, June 7th
- Graduate Program Event, Final Thesis Defense;
10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or - Lundquist Number Scaling in the MST Reversed-Field Pinch, Steph Kubala, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, June 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Diode effects in current-biased Josephson junctions, Jacob F. Steiner, Caltech
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Wednesday, June 14th
- Graduate Program Event, Thesis Defense;
9:00 am - 11:00 am; - Characterization of noise sources in semiconductor qubit devices, Yujun Choi, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event, Thesis Defense;
11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin and - Measurement of the Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Flux using Starting Track Events in IceCube, Manuel Silva, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, June 15th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, June 22nd
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Tuesday, June 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Atomic and Molecular Calculations Using Quantum Algorithms, Srinivasa Prasannaa V, Centre for Quantum Engineering, Research and Education (CQuERE), TCG CREST, Kolkata, India
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Dark matter in compact stars and galactic structure , Joseph Bramante , Queen's University, Canada
- Thursday, June 29th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interactions Between Nitrogen-Based Spin Defects in Diamond, Jonathan Marcks, Argonne National Laboratory
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- , Sharon Kahn
July 2023
- Tuesday, July 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Independence Day
- Wednesday, July 5th
- Outreach, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab;
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; 1111 Genetics/Biotech or sign up for the zoom link at go.wisc.edu/240r59 - IceCube detection of neutrinos from a galaxy near, near by, Justin Vandenbroucke, UW–Madison Physics / WIPAC
- Thursday, July 6th
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Toward implementation of protected charge-parity qubits, Abigail Shearrow, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Tuesday, July 11th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- NICER and its view of neutron stars , Anna Watts , University of Amsterdam
- Thursday, July 13th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, July 20th
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Probing defects in WSe2 with combined cryogenic STM/KPFM, Keenan Smith, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, July 27th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Friday, July 28th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Self-Similar Gravitational Dynamics, Singularities and Criticality in 2D, Upamanyu Moitra, ICTP
August 2023
- Thursday, August 3rd
- Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Analysis on ZZ vector boson polarization using CMS Run 2 data, Susmita Mondal, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Friday, August 4th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Requests for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Tuesday, August 8th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Unmatched Precision on Neutrino Oscillation Parameters using Complementarity between DUNE and T2HK , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Institute of Physics, India
- Wednesday, August 9th
- High Energy Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280 /
- On the origin of ANITA's intriguing events, Jordi Salvado, University of Barcelona
- Thursday, August 10th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Sunday, August 13th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session ends
- Thursday, August 17th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event, Final Thesis Defense;
2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin - Biophysical applications of Lie groups and moving frames, Wilson B Lough, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Monday, August 21st
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year begins
- Physics Department Colloquium; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Design and Testing of a Laser Thermal Propulsion Facility, Siera Riel , REU student, McGill University
- Tuesday, August 22nd
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm; Please note the unusual time...Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- The imprint of their explosions: Using supernova remnants to understand stellar death , Katie Auchettl , University of Melbourne, Australia
- Wednesday, August 23rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Practical Dirac-Majorana Confusion Theorem: Issues and Applicability, C S Kim, Yonsei U.
- Thursday, August 24th
- Graduate Program Event, Thesis Defense;
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin - Defect Identification using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Optimization of Long Single-Channel One-dimensional Quantum Wires, Leah Tom, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Friday, August 25th
- Graduate Program Event, Final Thesis Defense;
10:00 am - 11:30 am; B343 Sterling - Rydberg Physics in a Cryogenic System for Hybrid Quantum Interfaces, Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 27th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 28th
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period begins
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2223 CH
- Incoming PhD Orientation, variety of speakers
- Wednesday, August 30th
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill (rain location: Birge Hall atrium)
- Grad Student lunch/Recess
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Sharpening Weak Gravity Bounds with Charged Superradiance, Lars Aalsma, Arizona State University
- Thursday, August 31st
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Classical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Integer and fractional Chern insulators in twisted bilayer MoTe2 , Yihang Zeng, Cornell
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Statistical Mechanics, Sharon Kahn