Board of Visitors - May 2024

Friday May 3, 2024, 8:00 AM → 6:00 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

 

8:30 AM → 8:35 AM Welcome

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

8:35 AM → 10:05 AM State of the Enterprise

8:35 AM Department Update Including Research Highlights

Speaker: Prof. Mark Eriksson (UW-Madison)

9:00 AM Development Update

Speaker: Ms Mae Saul (UW-Foundation)

9:30 AM Introduction of Incoming Chair Team

Speakers: Prof. Brian Rebel (UW-Madison), Prof. Keith Bechtol (UW-Madison), Kevin Black (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Prof. Maxim Vavilov (UW-Madison)

10:05 AM → 10:30 AM Break

10:30 AM → 11:30 AM BoV Initiatives

10:30 AM AMEP Update

Speakers: Craig Heberer (Physics BoV), Prof. Deniz Yavuz (UW-Madison), Prof. Fabian (Wally) Waleffe (UW-Madison), Prof. JEAN-LUC THIFFEAULT (UW-Madison), Prof. Saverio Spagnolie (UW-Madison)

11:00 AM Working Session on Student Internship

11:30 AM → 12:10 PM Student Research Presentations

11:30 AM Search for Vector-Like Leptons

Under Graduate Student of Prof. Tulika Bose
Thaxton Fellow and APS Best Speaker Award Winner

Speaker: Nadia Talbi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

BOV_ A Search for Vector-Like Leptons.pdf

11:50 AM Backgrounds at Cool Copper Collider

Undergraduate Advisor Abdollah Mohammadi
Hilldale Fellow and APS Best Speaker Award Winner

Speaker: Elias Mettner (UW-Madison)

C3_APS_Mettner.pdf

12:10 PM → 1:00 PM Informal Discussion with Graduate Students Regarding Their Research

12:10 PM Discussion

Participants:
Zach Curtis-Ginsberg (2nd year) (Vandenbroucke)
Minhal Gardezi (3rd year) (Bergmann)
Ben Antognetti (2nd year) (Sarff)
Ricardo Ximenes (5th year) (Everett)
Sam Kramer (2nd year) (Timbie)
Victor Shang (7th year) (Bose)
Eunji Oh (4th year) (Saffman)
Yurii Kvasiuk (4th year) (Muenchmeyer)

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch with Dean Wilcots - Associate Dean Litovsky joins remotely

BoV meeting participants and students are invited to join the lunch

2:30 PM → 3:15 PM Break

3:15 PM → 4:45 PM Faculty Meet & Greet + Colloquium

4:45 PM → 5:30 PM Looking Forward

4:45 PM Membership Review

5:00 PM Emphasis for Next Six Months

Industry sponsored research
Internships

5:15 PM Any Other Business