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Monday, May 12, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Trueman Fest: Celebrating 46 Years of Scientific Work and Service: T. Laurence Trueman"
9:30 AM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 and Berkner Hall
http://quark.phy.bnl.gov/www/meetings/truemanfest.html

Monday, May 12, 2008
NSLS-II Seminar
"A Very Simple Method of Effectively Detecting All the Magnet Misalignments Almost at Once."
Hiroshi Nishimura, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Naitonal Lab.
Hosted by Sam Krinsky
11:00 AM, NSLS-II Seminar Room, Bldg. 817

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"CESR's Last Campaign - Latest Results from CLEO-c"
Ian P. Shipsey, Purdue University
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Chemistry Department Colloquium
"Discovery of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials: An Atomic Scale Computational Approach"
Professor Christopher Wolverton, Northwestern University, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
Hosted by Ping Liu
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
"Dark matter annihilations in the WMAP sky"
Dan Hooper, Fermilab
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Life Sciences Seminar
"Toxicogenomics of an Environmental Disease"
Arthur Grollman, Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University
Hosted by Carl Anderson
11:00 AM, Biology Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar
"Morphology Control of Lithographically Patternable Diblock Copolymer by Solvent Annealing"
Katy Bosworth, Cornell University
Hosted by Chuck Black
11:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar
"Tunable Crystalline Structures in Polymeric Semiconductor Films for Organic-based Electronics Applications"
Hoichang Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hosted by Ben Ocko
1:30 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, May 15, 2008
BSA Distinguished Lecture
"Unraveling the Mystery of an Environmental Disease"
Arthur Grollman, Stony Brook University, Dept. of Pharmacology
Hosted by Peter Wanderer
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Friday, May 16, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Gravitational lensing in the era of large surveys"
Brice Menard, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Hosted by Morgan May
11:00 AM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, May 16, 2008
HET Lunch Seminar
Yasumichi Aoki, Brookhaven National Laboratory - RBRC
Hosted by Amarjit Soni
12:00 PM, Room 2-95, Bldg. 510

Friday, May 16, 2008
RSC Meeting - Discussion and Planning Spin RUN08
"RHIC Spin Collaboration Meeting"
Hosted by A. Bazilevsky
9:00 AM, Bldg. 1005, 3rd floor conf. room
http://www.bnl.gov/riken/

Friday, May 16, 2008
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Kirill Tuchin, Iowa State University/RIKEN BNL
Hosted by Harmen Warringa
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Monday, May 19, 2008
Users' Meeting
"2008 NSLS and CFN Joint Users' Meeting"
8:30 AM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.nsls.bnl.gov/users/meeting/2008/

Monday, May 19, 2008
Defensive Driving, Part 1
Edward Sierra, BNL
6:00 PM, Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
http://www.bnl.gov/esh/shsd/Article_Defensive_Driving.asp

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Transverse Spin Physics"
Akio Ogawa, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, May 23, 2008
Scholaraship ceremony
"Goldhaber prize ceremony"
Christine Nattrass, Yale University, US
3:00 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, May 23, 2008
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Dr. Yong Chen, Purdue University
Hosted by Harmen Warringa
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Workshop I
"High Momentum Probes and the Medium's Response"
Joern Putschke, John Chen, Sean Gavin, Raju Venugo, RHIC
Hosted by Helen Caines and Anne Sickles
8:30 AM, TBA
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Workshops/1.asp

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Workshop 2
"Charm and Beauty school: What heavy quarks can tell us about the sQGP"
Ramona Vogt (Livermore), Peter Petreczky (BNL), De, RHIC
Hosted by Alex Linden Levy and Agnes Mocsy
1:30 PM, TBA
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Workshops/2.asp

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Workshop 4
"Electromagnetic Probes: Photons and Dileptons"
Hosted by Alberica Toia and Zhangbu Xu
8:30 AM, TBA
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Workshops/4.asp

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Worrying about the LHC, a lesson from astrophysics?"
Alvaro de Rujula, CERN, Switzerland
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Workshop 3
"Probing the nucleon's spin structure with transversely polarized beams"
Tod Satogata (TBC), Helen Caines, Flemming Videbae, RHIC
Hosted by Mickey Chiu and Xin Dong
1:30 PM, TBA
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Workshops/3.asp

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Workshop 5
"Puzzling Spin : A testbed for QCD"
Jim, Metz, Vogelsang, Bruell, Matthias, and others, RHIC
Hosted by Renee Fatemi, Ralf Seidl, Feng Yu, and local conta
8:30 AM, TBA
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Workshops/5.asp

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Chemistry Department Colloquium
"The sigma-CAM mechanism: The dance of sigma-complexes that achieves metathesis at late transition metals"
Professor Robin Perutz, University of York, Dept. of Chemistry, U.K.
Hosted by Etsuko Fujita
10:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg.555

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2008 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Special Symposium
"RHIC & It's Impact on Nuclear Science"
UEC Chair 1, G. Baym (UIUC), E. Leader (UCL), J. S,
9:00 AM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Agenda/symposium_wed.asp

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Brookhaven Lecture Series
"437th Brookhaven Lecture"
Wally Mangel, Ph.D., Biology Department
Hosted by Brant Johnson and Fulvia Pilat
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Thursday, May 29, 2008
RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Workshop 6
"Diversity in Physics: What can we do better?"
Hosted by Astrid Morreale and Christine Nattrass
5:00 PM, Berkner Hall, Room B
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Workshops/6.asp

Thursday, May 29, 2008
Particle Physics Seminar
"Search for Supersymmetry at CDF using Trileptons"
Sourabh Dube, Rutgers University
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, May 29, 2008
Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar
"Nanostructures in the light of synchrotron radiation: From ensemble average to single object properties"
Till Metzger, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
Hosted by Ben Ocko
1:30 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, May 30, 2008
2008 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Open Forum
Special Guest TBA,
12:00 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/open_forum.asp

Friday, May 30, 2008
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"Questioning hydro at RHIC: Is it QCD all the way down?"
Tom Trainor, University of Washington
Hosted by Harmen Warringa
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Nuclear Physics Seminar
"Instabilities Driven Equilibration of the Quark-Gluon Plasma"
Stanislaw Mrowczynski, Swietokrzyska Academy, Kielce, Poland & Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
Hosted by Rachid Nouicer
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
http://www4.rcf.bnl.gov/~nouicer/BNL_seminars/Nuclear_Physics_Seminars.html

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Particle Physics Seminar
Matthew Mewes,
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, June 6, 2008
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"Perfect Fluids: From Nano to Terra (Kelvin)"
Thomas Schaefer, North Carolina State University
Hosted by Harmen Warringa
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Monday, June 9, 2008
BSA Distinguished Lecture
"Network Science: From the Web to human diseases"
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University
Hosted by Peter Wanderer
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.nd.edu/~networks/Image%20Gallery/gallery.htm

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Physics Colloquium
Scott Aaronson, MIT
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Chemistry Colloquium
"TBA"
Hua-Gen Yu, Brookhaven National Laboratory - Chemistry Department
Hosted by James Muckerman
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Friday, June 13, 2008
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Asmita Mukherjee, India Institute of Technology, Bombay
Hosted by Werner Vogelsang
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Monday, June 16, 2008
Annual Meeting
"2008 Open Science Grid Annual Meeting"
Hosted by Torre Wenaus and Maxim Potekhin
8:30 AM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
http://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1683

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Annual Meeting
"2008 Open Science Grid Annual Meeting"
Hosted by Torre Wenaus and Maxim Potekhin
9:00 AM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
http://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1683

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Brookhaven Lecture Series
"438th Brookhaven Lecture"
Michael Rosenthal, Ph.D., Nonproliferation & National Security Department
Hosted by Brant Johnson and Fulvia Pilat
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Chemistry Colloquium
"Metal-Loaded Liquid Scintillator for Neutrino Physics"
Minfang Yeh, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chemistry Department
Hosted by Richard Hahn
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
BSA Noon Recital
"Pianofest"
Hosted by BSA Concert Committee
12:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Friday, June 27, 2008
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Uri Maor, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Hosted by Harmen Warringa
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Monday, July 14, 2008
Chemistry Department Colloquium
"TBA"
Professor Robin D. Rogers, University of Alabama, Department of Chemistry
Hosted by James Wishart
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Brookhaven Lecture Series
"439th Brookhaven Lecture"
Guangyong Xu, Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department
Hosted by Brant Johnson and Fulvia Pilat
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Sambamurti Lecture
"The whole story behind a half: The quest to understand the proton's spin"
Christine Aidala, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hosted by Laurence Littenberg
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
BSA Noon Recital
"Pianofest"
Hosted by BSA Concert Committee
12:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Chemistry Department Colloquium
"TBA"
Professor David Sinclair, Carleton University, Director & Principal Investigator of SNOLAB, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by Minfang Yeh
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Chemistry Department Colloquium
"TBA"
Profesor Paul F. Barbara, University of Texas at Austin
Hosted by John Miller
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

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