Credits: 1 Credit, may not be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: Physics 207-208 or equivalent.
Meetings: Tuesdays, 1:20 - 2:10, 2241 Chamberlin.
Coursework: Describe a particular piece of physics research being actively pursued this year. The paper is due for submission by a pdf file (MS-word is accepted but not preferred) that has your name and "301" in the file name using the following link by 5:00 PM CDT on May 1
https://www.physics.wisc.edu/classpaper/301/
The topic selected with a one page outline must be submitted using the same link above by 5:00 PM CDT on April 3. The paper must be typed double spaced, use proper footnotes and have a total length of not less than 7 and not more than 10 pages. The primary resource for this paper is the Physics Dept. Library . The librarian, Kerry Kresse , will be able to assist you. Honors students must proceed under the direction of a faculty member of their own choice.
Office Hours: By appointment, 4275 Chamberlin, 262-4690. wsmith@hep.wisc.edu , http://www.hep.wisc.edu/wsmith/
Speaker | Title | Date | Notes | ||
Matthew | Herndon | Discovery of the Higgs Boson | 23-Jan-18 | ||
Jennifer | Thomas | Neutrino oscillation experiments | 30-Jan-18 | ||
Pupa | Gilbert | Coral skeleton growth | 6-Feb-18 | ||
Justin | Vandenbroucke | Astrophysics with the highest energy photons in the Universe | 13-Feb-18 | ||
Mark | Eriksson | Quantum Bits in Silicon Quantum Dots | 20-Feb-18 | ||
Stefan | Westerhoff | Exploring the High-Energy Universe with HAWC | 27-Feb-18 | ||
Shimon | Kolkowitz | Building clocks out of atoms & nanoscale probes out of diamond | 6-Mar-18 | ||
Albrecht | Karle | Neutrino astronomy at the South Pole | 13-Mar-18 | ||
Susan | Nossal | Physics of Climate Change | 20-Mar-18 | ||
Maxim | Vavilov | Cloud Quantum Computing | 3-Apr-18 | (Outline Due) | |
Dan | McCammon | X-ray Astronomy from Sounding Rockets | 10-Apr-18 | ||
Jan | Egedal | Magnetic reconnection, a celestial phenomenon in the laboratory | 17-Apr-18 | ||
Clint | Sprott | Chaos | 24-Apr-18 | ||
Kimberly | Palladino | LZ and Dark Matter at UW | 1-May-18 | (Paper Due) |