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

 

Welcome

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

State of the Enterprise

1 Department Update Including Research Highlights

Speaker: Prof. Mark Eriksson (UW-Madison)

2 Development Update

Speaker: Ms Mae Saul (UW-Foundation)

3 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 Break

BoV Initiatives

4 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)

5 Working Session on Student Internship

Student Research Presentations

6 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

7 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

Informal Discussion with Graduate Students Regarding Their Research

8 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 Lunch with Dean Wilcots - Associate Dean Litovsky joins remotely

BoV meeting participants and students are invited to join the lunch

2:30 PM Break

Faculty Meet & Greet + Colloquium

Looking Forward

9 Membership Review

10 Emphasis for Next Six Months

Industry sponsored research
Internships

11 Any Other Business