Events
Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2025 Spring Semester
January 2025
- 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
- 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
February 2025
- Friday, February 7th
- 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
- Friday, February 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Discovering the Particle Physics of Dark Matter with Cosmology, Hongwan Liu, Boston University
- Monday, February 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Monday Colloquium;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH & - Future particle colliders: promise and challenges and how AI/ML can help, Prof. Ken Bloom, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Friday, February 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Path to Scale QCCD Architecture for Trapped Ion Quantum Computers , Patty Lee, Quantinuum
- Friday, February 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Centaur Science: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning, Jesse Thaler, MIT
March 2025
- Friday, March 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Investigating cosmic origin and evolution with the oldest photons, Zeeshan Ahmed, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Friday, March 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies, Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington
- Friday, March 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Telescope Array and the Dawn Goddess of the North, Doug Bergman, University of Utah
April 2025
- Friday, April 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- The Future of Quantum Supremacy Experiments, Scott Aaronson, University of Texas Austin
- Friday, April 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- Discoveries in the Deep: The Future of Science at SNOLAB, Jodi Cooley, Queen's University
- Friday, April 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 CH
- The Compact, High Field Mirror Path to Fusion and First Results from the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror, Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 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
- Wednesday, April 30th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Wisconsin Union Directorate / Donald Kerst Distinguished Lecture Series ;
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Memorial Union, Shannon Hall - Adam Riess: The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe, Adam Riess, Space Telescope Science Institute
May 2025
- Friday, May 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 -
- Unearthing the history of our disciplines to better science, Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin–Madison