University of Wisconsin–Madison

Program

The program listed here is also available as a PDF. Click on each person’s name to see and hear their recorded talk, now posted on YouTube.

Sunday, June 19

Sterling Hall, room 1310, 475 North Charter Street, Madison.

Session I: Working and having fun with Willy

8:30 amInformal get-together with refreshments
9:27 amMark A. Eriksson, Chair of the department, Welcome to UW-Physics
9:30 amTom Clegg (University of North Carolina), early polarized source work  in Madison and other labs (30+5 mins)
10:05 amPupa Gilbert (University of Wisconsin), teaching with Willy, cooking with Willy and Gaby (20+5 mins)
10:30 amCoffee Break
11:10 amPaula Panczenko (Tandem Press), Willy and Gaby’s art collecting (15+5 mins)
11:30 amFleming Crim (University of Wisconsin and NSF), Willy at the National Academy of Sciences, plus comments on NSF expansion (15+5 mins)
11:50 pmTime for short, contributed reminiscences
12:30 pmLunch Break (boxed lunch in Sterling Hall or just outside in the garden by the Newton apple tree, if the weather is good)

Session II: Polarized Beams and Targets

2:00 pmTom Wise (University of Wisconsin), polarized sources and internal targets developed with Willy for outside user experiments (30+5 mins)
2:35 pmErhard Steffens (University of Erlangen), European experiments with polarized gas targets (30+5 mins)
3:10 pmHans-Otto Meyer (Indiana University), physics with polarized beams and polarized internal targets in storage rings (30+5 mins)
3:45 pmCoffee Break
4:05 pmThomas Roser (Brookhaven National Laboratory), accelerating polarized ion beams in RHIC and EIC, plus reminiscences of working on Simonius-Haeberli pp parity violation experiment (30+5 mins)
4:40 pmYousef Makdisi (Brookhaven National Laboratory), polarized hydrogen jet target and absolute beam polarization calibration at RHIC (20+5 mins)
5:05 pmTime for short, contributed reminiscences
5:45 pmBreak before dinner
7:00 pmBanquet Dinner in a private room (Great Hall) at Memorial Union, with after-dinner speaker Jay Davis (formerly at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, President Emeritus of The Hertz Foundation, Owner and Chief Sharecropper, Talking Bull Vineyard)

Monday, June 20

Sterling Hall, room 1310, 475 North Charter Street, Madison

Session III: Willy’s Legacy, Part I: Symmetry and Fundamental Interaction Tests

9:00 amKrishna Kumar (University of Massachusetts), status and future of parity-violating electron scattering experiments (30+5 mins)
9:35 amSteve Vigdor (Indiana University), Willy’s descendants and charge symmetry Breaking (30+5 mins)
10:10 amFrank Rathmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Search for the deuteron electric dipole moment at COSY (30+5 mins)
10:45 amCoffee Break
11:05 amEd Stephenson (Indiana University), EDM searches with polarized beams (30+5 mins)
11:40 pmGroup Photo
12:00 pmBuffet lunch at Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Orchard View room.

Session IV: Willy’s Legacy, Part II: Nucleon Spin Structure

2:00 pmRichard Milner (MIT), Visualizing the proton: a collaboration between art and science (30+5 mins)
2:35 pmCarl Gagliardi (Texas A&M University), RHIC Spin program and gluon polarization in the proton (30+5 mins)
3:10 pmCoffee Break
3:30 pmElke Aschenauer (Brookhaven National Laboratory), spin structure investigations planned for EIC (30+5 mins)
4:05 pmTime for short, contributed reminiscences
4:30 pmBaha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin), closing tribute to Willy
5:00 pmSymposium adjournment
5:30 pmChazen Museum of Art (800 University Avenue), Unveiling of the art donated by Willy