Board of Visitors - October 2023

Oct 12, 2023, 9:00 AM → Oct 13, 2023, 10:00 PM America/Chicago

B343 (Sterling)

Mark Eriksson (UW-Madison), Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin), Tom Holley (Physics Board of Visitors)

Zoom Connection: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92829035724?pwd=Sm5jS1BRNE16cVdxWHE0bEZhR21Mdz09

 

Thursday, October 12

1 Overflow faculty engagement sessions

2 Assemble for drive to PSL (At Charter St Chamberlin Hall entrance)

3 Drive to PSL

4 WHAM Tour

Speaker: Cary Forest (U. Wisconsin)

5 Lunch + PSL Presentations

Panera sandwich lunch boxes provided
Welcome from PSL Director, Terry Benson
Presentation on PSL vis-a-vis Physics: History and Future

Speakers: Prof. Albrecht Karle (U. Wisconsin), Terry Benson (U. Wisconsin)

6 Tour of other PSL Facilities

7 Drive back to Chamberlin

8 Dinner at Cento 122 W Mifflin St

Friday, October 13

State of the Enterprise

9 Department Update Including Research Highlights

Speaker: Prof. Mark Eriksson (UW-Madison)

10 L&S Dean Update

Speakers: Prof. Eric Wilcots (UW-Madison, L&S), Prof. Ruth Litovsky (UW-Madison, L&S)

11 Development Update

Speaker: Ms Mae Saul (UW-Foundation)

12 AMEP Update

Speakers: Craig Heberer (Physics BoV), Dan Koellen, Prof. Deniz Yavuz (UW-Madison), Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Prof. Saverio Spagnolie (U. Wisconsin)

AMEP_update_October_2023.pptx

10:30 AM Break

Student Research Presentations

13 Anomalous Josephson effect in planar noncentrosymmetric superconducting devices

Graduate Student Advisor Prof. Alex Levchenko

Speaker: Jaglul Hasan (U.Wisconsin)

BoV_Anomalous_Josephson_Effect_Slides.pdf

Link to the published article

14 TBD

Undergraduate Advisor Prof. Mark Saffman

Speaker: Nathan Wagner (U. Wisconsin)

Benchmarking a Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer.pdf

Student Organization Presentations

Conveners: Arifa Khatee Zathul (U.Wisconsin), Elise Chavez (UW Madison), Lucas Rogers, Marcus Hletko (U.Wisconsin), Rachel Sassella (UW-Madison), Zach Curtis-Ginsberg (U.Wisconsin)

UPS presentation.pptx

12:15 PM Lunch with participants including students

BoV Initiatives

15 Faculty Engagement Idea Session No. 1

Francis et al
Department rankings

16 Faculty Engagement Idea Session No. 2

Mark Saffman et al
Quantum Science Research and the BoV

2023.10.13 quantum for BoV.pdf

17 Faculty Engagement Idea Session No. 3

Kevin Black, Sridhara Dasu, et al
Mentoring, networking, and career assistance to Physics undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral associates.

18 BoV processing of faculty input

Looking Forward

19 Logistics of future meetings

20 Membership Review

21 Emphasis for Next Six Months

22 Any Other Business

23 Dinner at Cary Forest's Home