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  1. NSLS-II Seminar

    7:30 am, Berkner Hall, Room B

    The Photon Sciences Directorate is hosting a workshop about developing an inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) spectrometer for the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). The workshop will be held in Berkner Room B on Tuesday, Oct. 1, beginning at 7:30 a.m.

  2. Nuclear Physics Seminar

    11 am, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

    I will show that it is possible to start from kinetic theory and successfully solve all standard hydrodynamics tests. In addition, our approach extends naturally to Reynolds and Knundsen numbers outside the hydrodynamics domain. This is vitally important for addressing realistic problems in relativistic heavy ion collisions and in supernova precursor dynamics, two problems of vastly different scale showing a surprising number of commonalities.

  3. Healthfest Event

    12 pm, Starts at Blg 438 on Brookhaven Ave

    Hosted by: Michael Thorn

    Join the BNL community in a great walk down Brookhaven Ave to the weather station and back. Of course there will be T-shirts!

  4. Physics Colloquium

    3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

    Humans consume approximately 16 TW of power, generated mainly from burning of fossil fuels. This leads to a significant change in the composition of our planet's atmosphere and global warming due to this human activity. I will discuss the impact that alternative and renewable energy and power sources can have on slowing down global warming and the associated ocean acidification, sea-level rise, and other environmental impacts. In particular I will concentrate on biomass-based approaches.

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality & Play Group

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join play group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    Brookhaven Veterans Association

    11 am, Berkner Meeting Rooms C & D

    Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 11:00 am

    Hosted by: BERA Brookhaven Veterans Association

    • If you have recently served in Iraq or Afghanistan, you may qualify for a service connected disability monthly cash payment if you experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In the event that you do not at present suffer from PTSD, it may be a good idea to sign up for VA Healthcare should you start to experience any changes to your health status in the future. Veterans who served in other combat theatres who have PTSD but never signed up for VA benefits are eligible to do so. • If you take any medications on a regular basis, for any condition, you might have a zero copayment. This is also true for copayments for doctors' visits if you utilize the VA healthcare system. In no way would using the VA healthcare system for all or some conditions preclude your using your regular BNL health insurance. You are entitled to utilize the VA healthcare system as a result of your service to our country, and using it may qualify you for benefits that you do not have on your regular insurance plan. • Also, if you were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam era and you have been diagnosed with diabetes or prostate cancer, you are eligible for a service connected disability in the form of a monthly cash payment. There are a number of other medical conditions for which you might also qualify for a service connected disability monthly cash payment. • The Veterans Administration ID card is considered an acceptable ID to prove you are a veteran for discounts at Home Depot, restaurants, and local merchants.

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    Wednesday

    Health Promotion Program Lecture

    12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Michael Thorn

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    Thursday

    Pine Barrens

    8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Thursday, October 3, 2013, 8:30 am

    Hosted by: Tim Green

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    Thursday

    Healthfest Lecture

    12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

    Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12:00 pm

    The Effects Of Aging..Why do I have all these aches and pains. All welcome.

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    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    12:30 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Koji Kashiwa

    It was suggested that supersymmetry (SUSY) is broken at finite temperature, and as a result, a Nambu-Goldstone fermion (goldstino) related to SUSY appears. Since dispersion relations of quarks and gluons are almost degenerate at extremely high temperature, quasi-zero energy quark excitation was suggested to exist though QCD does not have exact SUSY. As for the condensed matter system, a setup of cold atom system in which the Hamiltonian has SUSY was proposed, the goldstino was suggested to exist, and the dispersion relation of that mode at zero temperature was obtained recently.

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    Friday

    HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Friday, October 4, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

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    Friday

    Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Friday, October 4, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Shu Lin

    A general quantum mechanical or quantum field theoretical system in the path integral formulation has both real and complex saddles (instantons and ghost-instantons). Resurgent asymptotic analysis implies that both types of saddles contribute to physical observables, even if the complex saddles are not on the integration path i.e., the associated Stokes multipliers are zero. I show explicitly that instanton-anti-instanton and ghostâ€"anti-ghost saddles both affect the expansion around the perturbative vacuum via a self-dual model in which the analytic continuation of the partition function to negative values of coupling constant gives a pathological exponential growth, but a homotopically independent combination of integration cycles (Lefschetz thimbles) results in a sensible theory. These two choices of the integration cycles are tied with a quantum phase transition. The general set of ideas in this construction may provide new insights into non-perturbative QFT, string theory, quantum gravity, and the theory of quantum phase transitions.

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    Monday

    C-AD Accelerator Physics Seminar

    3:30 pm, Bldg 911B, Large Conf. Rm., Rm A202

    Monday, October 7, 2013, 3:30 pm

    "Alpha-emitters have been investigated for targeted therapy of cancer for several decades and some of the alpha-emitter based radiopharmaceuticals have been approved by FDA for clinical use or are in advanced stage clinical trials. In our laboratory we are investigating radioimmunotherapy of pancreatic cancer with 213Bismuth labeled antibodies to single stranded DNA. We have pioneered the use of alpha-emitters for radioimmunotherapy of infectious diseases including fungal, bacterial and viral (HIV) infections. Targeted alpha therapy is an effective and safe treatment modality for both cancer and infectious diseases."

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    Tuesday

    Physics Colloquium

    3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 3:30 pm

    Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality & Play Group Event

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    Healthfest

    11:15 am, Berkner Hall Lobby

    Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 11:15 am

    Hosted by: Michael Thorn

    Stop by health screenings, balance testing, Weight Watchers, raffles and more!

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    Wednesday

    BSA Noon Recital

    12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: BSA

    The sopranos of early-music group Tenet, Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, accompanied by period instruments, will present a concert titled UNO + ONE: Italia Nostra, based on the works of Claudio Monteverdi.

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    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    12:30 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, October 10, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Kouji Kashiwa

    The collider experiments at RHIC and LHC have shown the quark-gluon matter around the crossover temperature has unique properties including near perfect fluidity. I will cover several topics related to non-equilibrium dynamics for the strongly-coupled quark gluon plasma.

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    Thursday

    Community Advisory Council Meeting

    6:30 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

    Thursday, October 10, 2013, 6:30 pm

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    Tuesday

    Physics Colloquium

    3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 3:30 pm

    Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group (10am-noon)

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgrou Tours, snacks, ifnromation and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    Joint BNL/SBU HET-RIKEN Seminar

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Hooman Davoudiasl

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    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    12:30 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, October 17, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Koji Kashiwa

    : High energy hadron scattering is a powerful tool to investigate the internal structure of the hadrons. The perturbative QCD analysis have been successful in giving the quantitative description for many high energy processes and the knowledge of hadron structure based on the first principle. Recently some observables have shown the apparent disagreement with the conventional pQCD calculation. These novel observables have received much attention in recent decades and many theoretical works were proposed to solve the problems. In this talk, I introduce the twist-3 mechanism as the recent important progress of pQCD analysis. I especially discuss the application of the framework to the two unsolved problems, the single spin asymmetry and the proton spin problem.

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    Thursday

    Brookhaven Women In Science (BWIS) Event

    4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Thursday, October 17, 2013, 4:00 pm

    Hosted by: Vivian Stojanoff

    The truth and beauty in quasicrystals Abstract: Like mosaics observed in our childhood kaleidoscope, quasicrystals show remarkable patterns that can not be repeated in a regular manner. Discovered in 1982 quasicrystals are very hard and break easily, like glass. Due to their unique properties they can be used to convert heat into electricity, in surface coatings for frying pans, or can be used in energy saving LED's. In this talk Senechal, Louise Wolf Kahn Professor Emerita in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology at Smith College, and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, will discuss the beauty and applications of the patterns observed in artificial and natural quasicrystal structures.

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    Friday

    HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    12 pm, Physics, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160

    Friday, October 18, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa

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    Friday

    Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Friday, October 18, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Shu Lin

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality & Play Group Event

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    BSA Distinguished Lecture

    4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 4:00 pm

    Hosted by: Peter Wanderer

    KAUST is a graduate research institution with research thrusts in energy, environment, food, and water for a sustainable planet, and supporting thrusts in core capabilities (modeling, simulation, analytics, software, and hardware). Created as a 21st century 'House of Wisdom' in the tradition of the ancient Bayt al Hikmah that gave the world much of its modern mathematics, physics, chemistry, and medicine , KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) has been endowed with world-class facilities and has recruited a world-competitive research faculty. KAUST awards degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Bioscience, Chemical Science, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Earth Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Marine Science, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Currently, KAUST enrolls students from 47 different countries, and the language of instruction is English. KAUST is seeking ambitious, academically talented, and highly motivated [students] from the world's leading institutions to be trained in sustainable technologies and the enabling sciences, to participate in discovery and delivery in pursuit of MS and PhD degrees. KAUST has a special dual degree program with students of UCAS. (The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is the British admission service for students applying to university and college.) The Dean of the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division will present KAUST's programs and world-class programs from the perspective of a graduate student seeking to compare her or his opportunities there in to those of the leading universities of the United States.

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    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    12:30 pm, Physics, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, October 24, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa

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    Thursday

    Particle Physics Seminar

    3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Thursday, October 24, 2013, 3:00 pm

    Hosted by: David Jaffe

    We show how electron scattering data from Jefferson Lab and SLAC is used to model Quasielastic and Inelastic neutrino charged current interactions on nuclear targets. The models which are currently implemented in the GENIE MC generator include: Bodek-Ritchie Fermi motion, Bodek-Yang modeling of inelastic neutrino interactions, and Bodek-Budd-Bradford-Avvakumov nucleon form factors. Most recently we have added the Bodek-Budd-Christy modeling of the transverse enhancement (Meson Exchange Currents) of quasielastic scattering on nuclear targets.

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    Friday

    HET/ATLAS Joint Lunch Seminar

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Friday, October 25, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group Event

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality & Play Group

    "Hospitality Coffee & Play Group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join play group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    Brookhaven Veterans Association

    "Veterans Outreach Program"

    11 am, Berkner Meeting Rooms C & D

    Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 11:00 am

    Hosted by: BERA Brookhaven Veterans Association

    • If you have recently served in Iraq or Afghanistan, you may qualify for a service connected disability monthly cash payment if you experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In the event that you do not at present suffer from PTSD, it may be a good idea to sign up for VA Healthcare should you start to experience any changes to your health status in the future. Veterans who served in other combat theatres who have PTSD but never signed up for VA benefits are eligible to do so. • If you take any medications on a regular basis, for any condition, you might have a zero copayment. This is also true for copayments for doctors' visits if you utilize the VA healthcare system. In no way would using the VA healthcare system for all or some conditions preclude your using your regular BNL health insurance. You are entitled to utilize the VA healthcare system as a result of your service to our country, and using it may qualify you for benefits that you do not have on your regular insurance plan. • Also, if you were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam era and you have been diagnosed with diabetes or prostate cancer, you are eligible for a service connected disability in the form of a monthly cash payment. There are a number of other medical conditions for which you might also qualify for a service connected disability monthly cash payment. • The Veterans Administration ID card is considered an acceptable ID to prove you are a veteran for discounts at Home Depot, restaurants, and local merchants.

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    Wednesday

    Health Promotion Program Lecture

    "Living Life, Allergy-Free"

    Atul Shah, MD

    12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Michael Thorn

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    Thursday

    Pine Barrens

    "18th Annual Pine Barrens Research Forum"

    8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Thursday, October 3, 2013, 8:30 am

    Hosted by: Tim Green

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    Thursday

    Healthfest Lecture

    "The Effects Of Aging...Why Do I Have All These Aches and Pains?"

    Joanne Sommaruga, PTA, BNL Physical Therapy

    12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

    Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12:00 pm

    The Effects Of Aging..Why do I have all these aches and pains. All welcome.

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    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "(Quasi) Nambu-Goldstone Fermion in QGP and Cold Atom System"

    Presented by Daisuke Satow, RIKEN / BNL

    12:30 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Koji Kashiwa

    It was suggested that supersymmetry (SUSY) is broken at finite temperature, and as a result, a Nambu-Goldstone fermion (goldstino) related to SUSY appears. Since dispersion relations of quarks and gluons are almost degenerate at extremely high temperature, quasi-zero energy quark excitation was suggested to exist though QCD does not have exact SUSY. As for the condensed matter system, a setup of cold atom system in which the Hamiltonian has SUSY was proposed, the goldstino was suggested to exist, and the dispersion relation of that mode at zero temperature was obtained recently.

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    Friday

    HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "Top Partners and Higgs Production"

    Presented by Sally Dawson, BNL

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Friday, October 4, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

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    Friday

    Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

    "Resurgence theory, ghost instantons and analytical continuation of path integrals"

    Presented by Gokce Basar, Stony Brook

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Friday, October 4, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Shu Lin

    A general quantum mechanical or quantum field theoretical system in the path integral formulation has both real and complex saddles (instantons and ghost-instantons). Resurgent asymptotic analysis implies that both types of saddles contribute to physical observables, even if the complex saddles are not on the integration path i.e., the associated Stokes multipliers are zero. I show explicitly that instanton-anti-instanton and ghostâ€"anti-ghost saddles both affect the expansion around the perturbative vacuum via a self-dual model in which the analytic continuation of the partition function to negative values of coupling constant gives a pathological exponential growth, but a homotopically independent combination of integration cycles (Lefschetz thimbles) results in a sensible theory. These two choices of the integration cycles are tied with a quantum phase transition. The general set of ideas in this construction may provide new insights into non-perturbative QFT, string theory, quantum gravity, and the theory of quantum phase transitions.

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    Monday

    C-AD Accelerator Physics Seminar

    "Research on Alpha Emitters"

    Presented by Dr. Ekaterina Dadachova, College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, NY

    3:30 pm, Bldg 911B, Large Conf. Rm., Rm A202

    Monday, October 7, 2013, 3:30 pm

    "Alpha-emitters have been investigated for targeted therapy of cancer for several decades and some of the alpha-emitter based radiopharmaceuticals have been approved by FDA for clinical use or are in advanced stage clinical trials. In our laboratory we are investigating radioimmunotherapy of pancreatic cancer with 213Bismuth labeled antibodies to single stranded DNA. We have pioneered the use of alpha-emitters for radioimmunotherapy of infectious diseases including fungal, bacterial and viral (HIV) infections. Targeted alpha therapy is an effective and safe treatment modality for both cancer and infectious diseases."

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    Tuesday

    Physics Colloquium

    "TBA"

    Presented by Harald Fritzsch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet

    3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 3:30 pm

    Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality & Play Group Event

    "Hospitality & Play Group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    Healthfest

    "Healthfest Fair & Raffle"

    11:15 am, Berkner Hall Lobby

    Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 11:15 am

    Hosted by: Michael Thorn

    Stop by health screenings, balance testing, Weight Watchers, raffles and more!

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    Wednesday

    BSA Noon Recital

    "Vocal Ensemble Tenet to Perform at Brookhaven Lab October 9"

    12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: BSA

    The sopranos of early-music group Tenet, Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, accompanied by period instruments, will present a concert titled UNO + ONE: Italia Nostra, based on the works of Claudio Monteverdi.

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    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "Non-equilibrium collective dynamics in high-energy heavy ion collisions"

    Presented by Akihiko Monnai, RIKEN BNL

    12:30 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, October 10, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Kouji Kashiwa

    The collider experiments at RHIC and LHC have shown the quark-gluon matter around the crossover temperature has unique properties including near perfect fluidity. I will cover several topics related to non-equilibrium dynamics for the strongly-coupled quark gluon plasma.

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    Thursday

    Community Advisory Council Meeting

    "Open to the Public"

    6:30 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

    Thursday, October 10, 2013, 6:30 pm

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    Tuesday

    Physics Colloquium

    "TBA"

    Presented by Gerald Guralnik, Brown University

    3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 3:30 pm

    Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group (10am-noon)

    "Hospitality Coffee & Play Group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgrou Tours, snacks, ifnromation and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    Joint BNL/SBU HET-RIKEN Seminar

    "Bounding the Higgs width using interferometry"

    Presented by Lance Dixon, SLAC

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Hooman Davoudiasl

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    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "Application of the twist-3 framework to the high energy spin physics"

    Presented by Shinsuke Yoshida, Nishina Center, RIKEN

    12:30 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, October 17, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Koji Kashiwa

    : High energy hadron scattering is a powerful tool to investigate the internal structure of the hadrons. The perturbative QCD analysis have been successful in giving the quantitative description for many high energy processes and the knowledge of hadron structure based on the first principle. Recently some observables have shown the apparent disagreement with the conventional pQCD calculation. These novel observables have received much attention in recent decades and many theoretical works were proposed to solve the problems. In this talk, I introduce the twist-3 mechanism as the recent important progress of pQCD analysis. I especially discuss the application of the framework to the two unsolved problems, the single spin asymmetry and the proton spin problem.

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    Thursday

    Brookhaven Women In Science (BWIS) Event

    "The truth and beauty in quasicrystals"

    Presented by Marjorie Senechal, Smith College

    4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Thursday, October 17, 2013, 4:00 pm

    Hosted by: Vivian Stojanoff

    The truth and beauty in quasicrystals Abstract: Like mosaics observed in our childhood kaleidoscope, quasicrystals show remarkable patterns that can not be repeated in a regular manner. Discovered in 1982 quasicrystals are very hard and break easily, like glass. Due to their unique properties they can be used to convert heat into electricity, in surface coatings for frying pans, or can be used in energy saving LED's. In this talk Senechal, Louise Wolf Kahn Professor Emerita in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology at Smith College, and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, will discuss the beauty and applications of the patterns observed in artificial and natural quasicrystal structures.

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    Friday

    HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Oleg Ruchayskiy, EPFL

    12 pm, Physics, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160

    Friday, October 18, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa

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    Friday

    Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Denes Molnar, Purdue

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Friday, October 18, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Shu Lin

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    Wednesday

    Hospitality & Play Group Event

    "Hospitality & Play Group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

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    Wednesday

    BSA Distinguished Lecture

    "Paradigms for a 21st Century University"

    Presented by David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

    4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

    Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 4:00 pm

    Hosted by: Peter Wanderer

    KAUST is a graduate research institution with research thrusts in energy, environment, food, and water for a sustainable planet, and supporting thrusts in core capabilities (modeling, simulation, analytics, software, and hardware). Created as a 21st century 'House of Wisdom' in the tradition of the ancient Bayt al Hikmah that gave the world much of its modern mathematics, physics, chemistry, and medicine , KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) has been endowed with world-class facilities and has recruited a world-competitive research faculty. KAUST awards degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Bioscience, Chemical Science, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Earth Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Marine Science, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Currently, KAUST enrolls students from 47 different countries, and the language of instruction is English. KAUST is seeking ambitious, academically talented, and highly motivated [students] from the world's leading institutions to be trained in sustainable technologies and the enabling sciences, to participate in discovery and delivery in pursuit of MS and PhD degrees. KAUST has a special dual degree program with students of UCAS. (The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is the British admission service for students applying to university and college.) The Dean of the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division will present KAUST's programs and world-class programs from the perspective of a graduate student seeking to compare her or his opportunities there in to those of the leading universities of the United States.

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    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Anna Hasenfratz, University of Colorado

    12:30 pm, Physics, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, October 24, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa

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    24

    Thursday

    Particle Physics Seminar

    "Modeling Neutrino Quasielastic and Inelastic Scattering Using Electron Scattering Data"

    Presented by Arie Bodek, University of Rochester

    3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Thursday, October 24, 2013, 3:00 pm

    Hosted by: David Jaffe

    We show how electron scattering data from Jefferson Lab and SLAC is used to model Quasielastic and Inelastic neutrino charged current interactions on nuclear targets. The models which are currently implemented in the GENIE MC generator include: Bodek-Ritchie Fermi motion, Bodek-Yang modeling of inelastic neutrino interactions, and Bodek-Budd-Bradford-Avvakumov nucleon form factors. Most recently we have added the Bodek-Budd-Christy modeling of the transverse enhancement (Meson Exchange Currents) of quasielastic scattering on nuclear targets.

  27. OCT

    25

    Friday

    HET/ATLAS Joint Lunch Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Ketvei Assamagan, BNL

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Friday, October 25, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

  28. OCT

    30

    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group Event

    "Hospitality Coffee & Play group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

  29. OCT

    30

    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group

    "Hospitality Coffee & Play Group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

  30. NOV

    1

    Friday

    High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Taichi Kawanai, BNL

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Friday, November 1, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

  31. NOV

    1

    Friday

    Particle Physics Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Nuno Viegas Guerreiro Leonardo, CERN

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Friday, November 1, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Marc-Andre Pleier

  32. NOV

    4

    Monday

    Particle Physics Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Victor Gehman, LBL

    3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Monday, November 4, 2013, 3:00 pm

    Hosted by: David Jaffe

  33. NOV

    6

    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group

    "Hospitality Coffee & Play Group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

  34. NOV

    6

    Wednesday

    High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Jose Wudka, UC Riverside

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

  35. NOV

    7

    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Keitaro Nagata, KEK

    12:30 pm, Physics, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, November 7, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Kouji Kashiwa

  36. NOV

    8

    Friday

    HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Shaouly Bar-Shalom, Technion

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-95

    Friday, November 8, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

  37. NOV

    8

    Friday

    Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Azwinndini Muronga, University of Johannesburg

    2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Friday, November 8, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Hosted by: Raju Venugopalan

  38. NOV

    11

    Monday

    High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Amarjit Soni, BNL

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Monday, November 11, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

  39. NOV

    13

    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group Event

    "Hospitality Coffee & Play Group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

  40. NOV

    14

    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Shigemi Ohta, KEK/RBRC

    12:30 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, November 14, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa

  41. NOV

    14

    Thursday

    Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

    "TBA"

    Presented by Maxim Dzero, Kent University, Kent, Ohio

    1:30 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Thursday, November 14, 2013, 1:30 pm

    Hosted by: Cedomir Petrovic

    TBA

  42. NOV

    14

    Thursday

    Particle Physics Seminar

    "TBD"

    Presented by Tolga Yapici, Michigan Technological University

    3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Thursday, November 14, 2013, 3:00 pm

    Hosted by: David Jaffe

  43. NOV

    15

    Friday

    HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Ian Lewis, BNL

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-95

    Friday, November 15, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

  44. NOV

    18

    Monday

    Defensive Driving: Part 1

    "Defensive Driving: Part 1"

    Edward Sierra, BNL

    6 pm, Brookhaven Center: South Room

    Monday, November 18, 2013, 6:00 pm

  45. NOV

    20

    Wednesday

    Hospitality Coffee & Play Group

    "Hospitality Coffee & Play Group (10am-noon)"

    10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

    Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 10:00 am

    To join Play Group, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Tours, snacks, information and general socializing! All are welcome!

  46. NOV

    25

    Monday

    Defensive Driving: Part II

    "Defensive Driving: Part II"

    Edward Sierra, BNL

    6 pm, Brookhaven Center: South Room

    Monday, November 25, 2013, 6:00 pm

  47. NOV

    26

    Tuesday

    Physics Colloquium

    "From unitary dynamics to statistical mechanics in isolated quantum systems"

    Presented by Marcos Rigol, Pennsylvania State University

    3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 3:30 pm

    Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

    Recently, experiments with ultracold gases have made it possible to study dynamics of (nearly) isolated many-body quantum systems. This has revived theoretical interest on this subject. In generic isolated systems, one expects nonequilibrium dynamics to result in thermalization: a relaxation to states where the values of macroscopic quantities are stationary, universal with respect to widely differing initial conditions, and predictable through the time-tested recipe of statistical mechanics. However, it is not obvious what feature of a many-body system makes quantum thermalization possible, in a sense analogous to that in which dynamical chaos makes classical thermalization possible. Underscoring that new rules could apply in the quantum case, experimental studies in one-dimensional systems have shown that statistical mechanics can provide wrong predictions for the outcomes of relaxation dynamics. Analyzing specific examples, we argue that generic isolated quantum systems do in fact relax to states where observables are well-described by statistical mechanical. Moreover, we show that time evolution itself plays a merely auxiliary role as thermalization happens at the level of individual eigenstates. We also discuss what happens at integrability points, where a different set of rules apply.

  48. DEC

    6

    Friday

    HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Bill Marciano, BNL

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-160

    Friday, December 6, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

  49. DEC

    12

    Thursday

    Blood Drive

    "BNL Blood Drive"

    9:30 am, Brookhaven Center

    Thursday, December 12, 2013, 9:30 am

    Hosted by: Liz Gilbert

  50. DEC

    12

    Thursday

    RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Ethan Neil, University of Colorado / RBRC

    12:30 pm, Physics, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160

    Thursday, December 12, 2013, 12:30 pm

    Hosted by: Kouji Kashiwa

  51. DEC

    13

    Friday

    HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk

    "TBA"

    Presented by Rouven Essig, YITP

    12 pm, Physics, Building 510, Room 2-95

    Friday, December 13, 2013, 12:00 pm

    Hosted by: Amarjit Soni