Events During the 2024 Summer Semester
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
- 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
- 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
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 CH -
- Frontiers in Neutrino Astronomy, John Beacom, Ohio State University
- Friday, May 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Last Spring Semester class day
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm; Sterling 1313;
- A Study of Magnetized Plasma Turbulence in the Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Regimes, Cristian Vega, Physics Graduate Student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH -
- The future of particle physics, Prof. Hitoshi Murayama, UC-Berkeley
- Saturday, May 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Study day
- Sunday, May 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Final Exams
- Monday, May 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Final Exams
- Tuesday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Final Exams
- Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 CH
- Personal Finance Workshop for Grad Students, Carol Hulland
- 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
- 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
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Final Exams
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture, Alessandro Mininno, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
- Thursday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Final Exams
- 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
- 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
- Friday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Final Exams
- 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
- Graduation Event; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Graduation Celebration Event, various
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2024: Master's degree deadline
- Academic Calendar; 5:30 pm - 12:00 am
- Commencement: Doctoral & Medical Professional
- Saturday, May 11th
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Commencement: Bachelor's, Master's, Law
- Sunday, May 12th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Spring 2024: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, May 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Semester Grading deadline
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Summer Degree Window Period begins
- 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
- Department Coffee Hour; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; University Ave steps or (in case of bad weather) 2120 CH
- Physics Cookie Potluck
- Thursday, May 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Joynt Fest , Invited Speakers
- 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
- Sunday, May 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year ends
- Monday, May 20th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session begins
- 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
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, May 22nd
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- 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
- 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
- Monday, May 27th
- Academic Calendar
- Memorial Day observed
- Tuesday, May 28th
- Academic Calendar
- 3-week summer session begins
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; VIRTUAL - link to be sent.
- Wednesday, May 29th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; VIRTUAL - link to be sent.
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- 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
June 2024
- Tuesday, June 4th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, June 5th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, June 6th
- Careers for Physicists; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Rm. 5280
- Thermo Fisher Scientific careers for Physicists, Mostafa Maazouz, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Wednesday, June 12th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Friday, June 14th
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Summer Degree Window Period deadline for master's students
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Dissertator eligibility for summer
- Sunday, June 16th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session ends
- Academic Calendar
- 3-week summer session ends
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Summer degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Monday, June 17th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session begins
- Tuesday, June 18th
- High Energy Seminar; 11:30 am - 12:15 pm; zoom, register at
- New Directions in Particle Physics, Tulika Bose, UW–Madison Physics
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, June 19th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall;
- Computational Magnetohydrodynamics for Stellarators, Sanket Patil, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Wednesday, June 26th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
July 2024
- Monday, July 1st
- Preliminary Exam; 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall;
- Tuning Techniques for Si/SiGe Quantum Dot Qubit Devices, Sanghyeok Park, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, July 2nd
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, July 3rd
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, July 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Independence Day observed
- Wednesday, July 10th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Tuesday, July 16th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 106 Engineering Research Building;
- Suppressing Drift-Wave-Driven Turbulence with Magnetic Field Shaping, Joseph Duff, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Ultrafast quantum simulation and quantum computing with ultracold atom arrays at quantum speed limit, Kenji Ohmori, Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
- Wednesday, July 17th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Wednesday, July 24th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Monday, July 29th
- Preliminary Exam; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Computation with Neutral Rubidium and Cesium Atoms, Sam Norrell, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, July 30th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for exotic Higgs boson decays with CMS and fast machine learning solutions for the LHC, Ho Fung Tsoi, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, July 31st
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
August 2024
- Friday, August 2nd
- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, August 5th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Generating entangling gates in superconducting quantum circuit, Yinqi Chen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 7th
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Graduate Program Event; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Black and Brown in Physics info meeting
- Friday, August 9th
- Outreach; 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm; online and UW Space Place
- Madison Astronomical Society meeting featuring Justin Vandenbroucke, Justin Vandenbroucke, Physics, WIPAC
- Sunday, August 11th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session ends
- Monday, August 12th
- Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Quark and Lepton Flavor Models, Shu Tian Eu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 13th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Worlds in the Making: Origins of Stars, Planets, and Life; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Space Place
- Cosmic Cradles: Understanding the Formation of Stars and Planets, Coco Zhang, UW-Madison
- Wednesday, August 14th
- Academic Calendar
- Summer Semester Grading deadline (8-week)
- Summer Recess; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill outside Birge
- , Sharon Kahn
- Monday, August 19th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year begins
- Climate & Diversity, Processing Space;
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5313 - Climate and Diversity Processing Space
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; WIPAC Supernova
- The Camera System and Tau Neutrino Research in the TRIDENT Experiment, Wei Tian, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Tuesday, August 20th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Entanglement in String Theory, Upamanyu Moitra, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
- Wednesday, August 21st
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Characterizing the Diffuse Astrophysical Neutrino Flux from the Galactic Plane using IceCube Data, Jesse Osborn, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 22nd
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin -
- Available Energy and Slow Eigenmodes for Understanding Moisture and Phase Changes in Atmospheric Physics, Brad Kumm, Physics Graduate Student
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343, Sterling Hall
- Line Intensity Mapping: A Novel Technique to Measure Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Evolution, Sam Kramer, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 23rd
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 25th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Fall Degree Window Period begins
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Incoming PhD Orientation and Welcome, various
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall;
- Nonlinear X-ray Optics for Transition Metal Chemistry and Coherent X-ray Spectroscopy, Zain Abhari, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 27th
- Outreach; 9:00 am - 4:00 am; 2223 Chamberlin
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, König/Perkins/Song/Esterlis/Levchenko/Kuzmin/Vavilov
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling Hall, Room B343
- Cosmology and HI Intensity Mapping, John Podczerwinski, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, August 28th
- Outreach; 9:00 am - 4:00 am; 2223 Chamberlin
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, König/Perkins/Song/Esterlis/Levchenko/Kuzmin/Vavilov
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill (rain location: Birge Hall atrium)
- All grad lunch/recess
- Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Experimental and Theoretical Progress of the Rubidium Magneto Optical Trap and the trapping arrays for Electro magnetically induced transparency and Super-, Sub-radiance experiments, Utku Saglam, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 29th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Outreach; 9:00 am - 4:00 am; 2223 Chamberlin
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, König/Perkins/Song/Esterlis/Levchenko/Kuzmin/Vavilov
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Statisical Mechanics
- Friday, August 30th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics