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			1 Brookhaven Forum 2013 9 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: Amarjit Soni There will be plenary talks all 3 mornings and parallel sessions on Wed and Thurs. The meeting covers a very broad area of Particle Physics as well as Astroparticle Physics & cosmology. For further details please visit our web site. We hope very much you will be able to join us. Thanks very much, Hooman and Soni Play Group Event 10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation To Join, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar 10:30 am, Bldg. 735, Conf. B Hosted by: Lijun Wu Precession electron diffraction (PED) in a TEM is a new emerging promissing technique using electron diffraction patterns collection very close to kinematical condition (like in x-ray diffraction) useful to solve ab-initio crystal structures of nanocrystals. TEM based 3-D diffraction tomography technique consists in a collection of a series of randomly oriented diffraction patterns in precession mode of the same crystal through the whole TEM angular range, usually from -45º to +45º, at 1º angular intervals. The resulting 3D PED set of reflections can be visualized as clear 3D picture of the reciprocal cell of the crystal and enable direct cell determination and structure determination by measuring reflections intensitities .More than 60 structures have been solved using 3D diffraction tomography the last few years dealing with nm size crystals of complex minerals, complex zeolites, MOFs , organic and pharmaceutical compounds and important application examples will be presented. PED tomography can be the ideal tool to solve crystal structures even in cases where X-Ray synchtrotron data may fail to solve the structure. Another new precession diffraction based application has been recemtly developed for a TEM based phase and orientation maps for nanocrystal (EBSD-SEM like). A TEM precession interface may perform a scanning through a sample area (typical area 5x5 m2), collecting a large number of PED patterns which are compared one by one by cross-correlation techniques with a series of generated diffraction patterns (templates) of all possible orientations of known phases existing on the sample scanned area.Resulting high quality nanoscale (1-2 nm) orientation / phase maps obtained with TEM-FEG/LaB6 are much superior to equivalent EBSD-SEM orientation maps.Such orientation/ phase maps may be produced very fast , making the technique highly attractive for high throughput TEM based orientation imaging analysis. May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 12 pm, RSB (Bldg. 400), Rm. 1 Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association This 3-day noon-time tournament from May 22 - May 24 features a fascinating board game called "GO" popular in many Asian countries and growing in the US since the founding of the 'American Go Association'. Drop by to see what the craze is all about! For further information, contact Xin Zhao at xzhao@bnl.gov (Ext. 2107), or go to: http://www.usgo.org/what-go Brookhaven Forum 2013 2 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: Anze Slosar The vast majority of the wealth of cosmological information we have has come from power spectra (or equivalently, two-point correlation function, for the CMB temperature and for the mass distribution in the Universe today. But there is far more that can be sought in the future with the deluge of data from current and forthcoming surveys. I will discuss how the data can be used to look for new fields during inflation; to test geometrically for their properties; to seek parity breaking in the early and late Universe; to look for exotic dark-energy physics; to inquire about nontrivial cosmic topologies; to identify preferred-frame effects; etc. I will also draw connections to some of the possible CMB anomalies. BSA Distinguished Lecture 5:30 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: Peter Wanderer With the start of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, particle physics entered a new era. The LHC will provide a deeper understanding of the universe and the insights gained could change our view of the world, and the talk will present some of the reasons for the excitement surrounding the LHC. The LHC is expected to yield insights into the origin of mass, the nature of dark matter and into many other key questions. This lecture will address the exciting physics prospects offered by the LHC, present first results, in particular the recent discovery of a new 'Higgs-like' Boson, and also a look forward.	2 Brookhaven Forum 2013 9 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: Amarjit Soni There will be plenary talks all 3 mornings and parallel sessions on Wed and Thurs. The meeting covers a very broad area of Particle Physics as well as Astroparticle Physics & cosmology. For further details please visit our web site. We hope very much you will be able to join us. Thanks very much, Hooman and Soni National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar 10 am, Conference Room A/B, Bldg. 490 Hosted by: Elio Vescovo The presentation will focus both on scientific and technical aspects of modern angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). In the firs part I will provide a brief introduction into ARPES, explaining why it has evolved into an indispensable experimental technique, when a basic band structure and/or many-body effects of a new material has to be studied. As an illustration several particular studies will be provided, focused on: (1) renormalization effects in hole doped Bi-122; (2) superconductivity and renormalization in YBa2Cu3O7�'δ; (3) origin of pseudogap in electron doped Pr2�'xCexCuO4; (4) stripe phase in La1.8�'1/8Eu0.2Sr1/8CuO4 ; and finally (5) peculiarities of electronic structure of Ba1-xKxFe2As2 and LiFeAs. The second part of my presentations will cover certain aspects of 13 ARPES end-station development at BESSY and argumentation for introduction micrometer (or better) lateral resolution in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. NSLS-II Seminar 10:30 am, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Hosted by: Samuel Krinsky I'll give an overview of recent and ongoing accelerator physics efforts at SSRL, including orbit stability improvements from mitigating SPEAR3 diurnal tunnel floor motion; timing mode development, including low alpha "hybrid" mode operations and preliminary investigations of high voltage superconducting RF; and lower emittance lattice development. National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar 11 am, Large Conferrence Room, Building 703 Hosted by: Aesook Byon The design, construction, integration and commissioning of the current generation of highly automated; remotely operated beamlines holds many challenges. All the aspects of hardware and software integration must be of the highest specification and quality to achieve stable user operations with low levels of intervention from operations staff with high reliability. I will describe the many successes and few less successful aspects of the management and implementation of the two MX beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron from 2005 till 2009. I will then touch on advances in the newest generation of beamline diagnostics and detectors RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk 12:30 pm, Bldg. 510 / Room 2-160 Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa An approach to the formulation of chiral gauge theories on the lattice is to start with a vector- like theory, but decouple one chirality (the "mirror" fermions) using strong Yukawa interactions with a chirally coupled "Higgs" field. While this is an attractive idea, its viability needs to be tested with nonperturbative studies. The model that we studied here, the so- called "3-4-5" model, is anomaly free and the presence of massless states in the mirror sector is not required by anomaly matching arguments, in contrast to the "1-0" model that was studied previously. I will talk about the results we got from the study of the "3-4-5" model, which does not suggest the decoupling of the mirror fermions and therefore no emergence of the chiral gauge theory.	3 Brookhaven Forum 2013 9 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: Amarjit Soni There will be plenary talks all 3 mornings and parallel sessions on Wed and Thurs. The meeting covers a very broad area of Particle Physics as well as Astroparticle Physics & cosmology. For further details please visit our web site. We hope very much you will be able to join us. Thanks very much, Hooman and Soni Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar 2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Hosted by: Vladimir Skokov I will talk about our recent attempt to formulate lattice QCD in rotating frames for the purpose of studying the physics of QCD matter under rotation. We construct the lattice QCD action with the rotational metric and apply it to a Monte Carlo simulation. As an application, we calculate the angular momentum densities of gluons and quarks in the rotating QCD vacuum. BERA AAAG Scholarship Reception 5 pm, Brookhaven Center Hosted by: BERA African American Affinity Group On Fri., May 3, 2013, 5:00-6:30 pm at the Brookhaven Center (South Room) the African American Affinity Group will present their first annual STEM Scholarship Reception to recognize the academic excellence of their '2013 Scholarship Recipients' Refreshments will be served. Please R.S.V.P. (with number of guests) to: Patrice Greenwood greenwood@bnl.gov	4 Office of Educational Programs Event 8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: Bernadette Uzzi
5 There are no events scheduled at this time.	6 National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar 2 pm, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Hosted by: Wah-Keat Lee Ph.D. work (The College of William and Mary, 08/2007-10/2011) �– Medical Image non-rigid registration �– A partial image non-rigid registration method to deal with tumor resection using pre-operative MRI and intra-operative MRI �– Moving propagation in myocardium (Siemens intern) �– A hybrid registration method to propagate the motion of the myocardium using Cine MRI �– Real-time physics-based registration �– A real-time registration method using GPU and Multicores. �– Multi-tissue mesh generation �– A mesh generation method for Finite Element Analysis Postdoc work (NIH, 10/2011-04/2013) �– Multimodal image driven cancer modeling �– Build a model to predict tumor growth based on dual phase CT and FDG-PET �– Myocardial fibrosis detection �– Develop a tool to detect myocardial fibrosis using low dose CT. This tool includes segmentation, registration, modeling and mesh editor �– Software: Medical Image Computing (MIC) �– Software demo Particle Physics Seminar 3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Hosted by: David Jaffe	7 Hospitality Event 10:30 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation Coffee at 10:30am. Free knitting class at 2pm. Plenty of free supplies. Come socialize & lean this useful craft. CFN Internal Research Seminar 11 am, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Block copolymer self assembly is a particularly convenient method for fabricating nanostructured materials and devices, having the ability to spontaneously form regular patterns over arbitrarily large areas with feature sizes in the range of 10 nanometers. Because block copolymers can be processed in a manner similar to polymer photoresists, they are used by our group and many groups throughout the world to build nanostructures by combining with more conventional top-down fabrication approaches. Several CFN staff members have significant experience and knowledge of block copolymers, and we should consider use of these materials as a strategic scientific strength of our center. I will describe some of our current projects using block copolymers to fabricate nanostructures for solar devices, as well as new directions we will pursue in the near future. A goal of my presentation will be finding other ongoing or planned CFN research that can benefit from the types of structures we can fabricate by this approach. EAP Lunchtime Talk 12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B Topics to be covered: -Define emotional resilience -Identify the ways emotional resilience benefits health, relationships and success at work -Explore techniques and practices that strengthen emotional resilience -Identify resources Seating is limited, so registration is required. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association An assortment of vibrant cultural dances from China, Nepal, and India in celebration of diversity and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Physics Colloquium 3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Hosted by: Peter Petreczky The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a TeV multipurpose particle physics detector installed on the International Space Station in May of 2011. The first 18 months result on positron fraction will be presented.	8 Workshop on Radiation Safety 8:30 am, Berkner Hall, Room B Hosted by: Panakkal Job Play Group Event 10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation To join, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar 10 am, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Hosted by: Evgeny Nazaretski The discovery of graphene, a unique two- dimensional electron system with extraordinary physical properties, has ignited tremendous research activity in both science and technology. Graphene can be obtained from graphite by moving its top layer until it becomes locally decoupled from the bulk. However, a detailed microscopic understanding of this process has yet to be completed. Here a series of measurements on HOPG surface using a technique called electrostatic-manipulation scanning tunneling microscopy (EM-STM) are presented. These measurements successfully reduce the interplanar coupling strength between top plane of graphite and the bulk resulting in transition from graphite to graphene. In addition, STM images which reveal several intermediate stages in between pure graphene and pure graphite are also presented. Density functional theory was used to simulate STM images from a six-layer slab of graphite. A continuous transition from pure graphite to pure graphene was observed with the simulations. ASAP Cross Talk Presentations 12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room D Hosted by: BNL Association of Students and Postdocs (ASAP) Imaging Anti-Ferromagnetic A-type domains in strongly correlated LaSr2Mn2O7 Mirian García-Fernández Supervisor: Stuart B. Wilkins Abstract: Strongly correlated electron systems display a wide range of potentially useful properties. In these systems the correlation of electrons results in very rich phase diagrams with different and interesting ground states. As a consequence of the competition between different phases, very interesting properties like superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance can occur. This competition between phases leads to electronic domains and inhomogeneities over a range of real-space length scales, from nanometers to hundreds of microns. Understanding the role that these domains play in defining the properties of strongly correlated electron systems appears as a mandatory requirement in order to achieve a full understanding of these systems. Among one of the most challenging properties to be studied in these materials antiferromagnetic order, one of the most ubiquitous ground states. The absence of any net magnetic moment from antiferromagnetic domains prohibits the use of most magnetic imaging techniques. Here we present results from a new imaging technique, soft x-ray resonant nano-diffraction. Reciprocal-space resolved soft x-ray diffraction, sensitive to long range electronic ordering, with a nano sized x-ray probe, focused by a Fresnel zone plate is used to study A-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) domains in La0.96Sr2.04Mn2O7. The existence of two different A-type AFM regions in the sample is demonstrated. These regions have the same magnetic Q-vector, but differing orientations of the ordered moment, at 90 degrees to one another. The two regions have an unequal population, and when studied in retail, they are found not to be symmetry related. Further, we found that one of the regions exhibits a type of fine structure that is absent in the other region. A possible explanation f Shopping Shuttle & Transportation 5:15 pm, Shopping Shuttle Continuous loop in Apartment area Wednesday Evening & Saturday Morning Weekly Shopping Shuttles from the Apartment Area and at the Cavendish & Curie Dorms to the South Port Shopping Center in Shirley. Enjoy Stop & Shop for groceries, Kohl's Department Store, and more. Call Ext. 2535 for more information.	9 7th International Workshop on Radiation Safety 8:30 am, Berkner Hall, Room B Hosted by: Panakkal Job Town Hall Meeting 9 am, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Hosted by: Gerald M. Stokes National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar 10 am, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Hosted by: Evgeny Nazaretski The discovery of graphene, a unique two- dimensional electron system with extraordinary physical properties, has ignited tremendous research activity in both science and technology. Graphene can be obtained from graphite by moving its top layer until it becomes locally decoupled from the bulk. However, a detailed microscopic understanding of this process has yet to be completed. Here a series of measurements on HOPG surface using a technique called electrostatic-manipulation scanning tunneling microscopy (EM-STM) are presented. These measurements successfully reduce the interplanar coupling strength between top plane of graphite and the bulk resulting in transition from graphite to graphene. In addition, STM images which reveal several intermediate stages in between pure graphene and pure graphite are also presented. Density functional theory was used to simulate STM images from a six-layer slab of graphite. A continuous transition from pure graphite to pure graphene was observed with the simulations. Adopt-a-Platoon Spring Plant Sale 11:30 am, Outside of Berkner Hall Adopt-a-Platoon Spring Plant Sale 11:30-1:00 New Guinea Impatiens Hanging Baskets Photon Sciences 1:30 pm, Large Conference Room, Bldg. 703 Hosted by: Mourad Idir This talk will provide a background on Aperture Optical Sciences Inc. Topics to be addressed will be: Robotic Polishing Aspheric Polishing and testing of SiC optics Specifying Optics for low Mid-spatial content http://www.apertureos.com/ Community Advisory Council Meeting 6:30 pm, Brookhaven Center	10 7th International Workshop on Radiation Safety 8:30 am, Berkner Hall, Room B Hosted by: Panakkal Job AdoptaPlatoon Fundraising Event 11:30 am, Outside of Berkner Hall Adopt-a-Platoon Spring Plant Sale 11:30-1:00 New Guinea Impatiens Hanging Baskets National Synchrotron Light Source Lunch Time Seminar 12 pm, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Hosted by: Dario Arena and Klaus Attenkofer HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk 12 pm, Physics, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160 Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar 2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Hosted by: Vladimir Skokov I discuss how global QCD fits of parton distribution functions can make the somewhat separated fields of high-energy particle physics and lower energy hadronic and nuclear physics interact to the benefit of both. In particular, I will argue that large rapidity gauge boson production at the Tevatron, RHIC and the LHC has the highest short-term potential to constrain the theoretical nuclear corrections to DIS data on deuteron targets necessary for up/down flavor separation. This in turn can considerably reduce the PDF uncertainty on cross section calculations of heavy mass particles such as $W'$ and $Z'$ bosons. BrookhavenSphere Seminar 2:30 pm, Bldg. 515 Seminar Room, ITD Hosted by: Information Technology Division Dr. Victor Skormin is a Distinguished Service Professor at Binghamton University involved in the cyber security research under the Air Force funding. At Binghamton University he organized two research laboratories specializing in laser communication and computer network security, and established and served as the Director of a Center for Advanced Information Technologies. Since 2001 he is an organizer and co-chair of the bi-annual International Workshop "Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Networks Security" in St. Petersburg, Russia funded by US Air Force and Navy. Dr. Skormin is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has served as an IEEE AES Transaction Editor. He authored/edited several books and many journal publications. He has served as a consultant on a number of industrial and Air Force projects.	11 There are no events scheduled at this time.
12 There are no events scheduled at this time.	13 Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar 11 am, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Hosted by: Eric Stach Bimetallic nanoparticles are promising candidates for electro- and heterogeneous catalysis because their catalytic activity is frequently superior to their monometallic counterparts. However, the additional degree of freedom introduces a new complexity into the mechanism because the distribution of the two metals may vary during reaction. For example, preferential adsorption of reactive molecules can induce segregation of one component, structural changes, and element-specific phase transformations. Uncovering the chemistry, structure, and degradation pathways of materials under catalytic conditions is of fundamental importance for establishing structure-property relationships and for the design of new catalytic materials. Aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), in combination with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), is exquisitely poised for studying structural, compositional, and electronic properties of nanocatalysts. The enlarged numerical aperture coupled with the use of a cold-field-emission gun allows for the acquisition of 2-D compositional and bonding maps of both bulk and nanostructured materials at atomic resolution. Additionally, the development and inclusion of differentially-pumped gas cells inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM) permits the visualization of solid-gas chemical reactions in situ. Imaging atomic-scale reaction dynamics and the acquisition of spectroscopic fingerprints allows us to reveal reaction pathways that cannot be resolved by any other approach. Here, I will provide background on our techniques, including STEM, EELS, electron tomography, and in situ environmental methods, and I will show how the surface and internal structures of Pt-transition metal bimetallic nanocatalysts reconstruct in response to annealing, acid leaching, operational aging, gas oxidation, and reduction. I will also discuss the current challenges and future prospects for quantitative environmental TEM. NSLS-II Seminar 2:30 pm, Bldg 703, large conference room Hosted by: Bob Sweet Macromolecular crystallisation is often a long and iterative process where initial promising conditions are optimised until crystals suitable for the diffraction experiments are obtained. Crystallisation is in most cases separated from the diffraction experiment, and crystals are more often than not optimised on the basis of their appearance, due to the difficulty in cryocooling and shipping every potential sample to the synchrotron. The objective for a new in situ beamline is to include and develop in situ analysis (diffraction with the crystal still in the crystallization chamber) seamlessly within existing crystallisation pipelines and provide an entirely automated facility for the characterisation of crystallization experiments, and data collection directly from crystals, in situ. High photon flux will enable fast data collection and the possibility to outrun radiation damage. Higher flux can be achieved by using multilayer optics which would deliver a broader bandpass beam. Such a beam would in addition simplify the screening mode as still images would contain relatively more diffraction spots, reducing the need for oscillation images. Beamlines with beams of between 5 and 20 mmicrons in size, and photon fluxes exceeding, 10^12 ph/s, are now available at most 3rd generation synchrotron sources. Their impact has been profound since they have enabled high quality data to be measured from small, poorly ordered, inhomogeneous and weakly diffracting crystals of membrane proteins, large macromolecular complexes and viruses. It has been demonstrated that datasets can be measured and compiled from crystals as small as 1.3 microns in non-optimal conditions using a 5 x 5 micron beam at Diamond beamline I24. Combined with the demonstration that X-ray free electron lasers can yield diffraction data from crystals <500 nm in size there is great potential for the use of submicron beams at synchrotrons with	14 Hospitality Event 10:30 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation Coffee at 10:30am. Free knitting class at 2pm. Plenty of free supplies. Come socialize & learn this useful craft. Nuclear Physics Seminar 11 am, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Hosted by: Anne Sickles The observation of a long-range, near-side two-particle angular correlation in very high multiplicity proton-proton (pp) and proton-lead (pA) collisions at the LHC has changed our view of multiparticle production in these small systems. This phenomenon, known as the "Ridge", was first seen in high energy nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions at RHIC, and is believed to be related to the collective evolution of a strongly interacting QCD matter created in AA. In this talk, I will first briefly review the history of ridge studies in AA and unexpected discovery of the ridge correlations in pp and pA systems. Focus will then be given to the most recent results of pA collisions at CMS from 2013 LHC run on two- and multi-particle correlations. I will discuss the new insights these results provide us toward disentangling different theoretical interpretations (i.e. CGC v.s. flow) to the physical origin of the ridge phenomenon in small systems of pp and pA.	15 Play Group Event 10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation To join, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup Estate Planning II - Caring for Parents 12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event 12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room D Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association Are you looking to enhance your speaking and leadership skills? Join in on a Toastmasters demo workshop lead by Beth Lin where you can learn to sharpen these skills in a no-pressure atmosphere 'Get to Know the Lab' Series 1 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) Board Chair Ron Townsend will present this session in the ongoing "Get to Know the Lab" series. This is an opportunity for members of the Lab community to learn more about the BSA partnership between Battelle and Stony Brook University and its key role as the contractor-operator of Brookhaven Lab. There will also be plenty of time for questions. Brookhaven Lecture 4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: Allen Orville Shopping Shuttles on Wed. & Sat. & Transportation info 5 pm, Vairious pick up locations on a loop Wednesday Evening and Saturday morning weekly Shopping Shuttles from the Apartment area & the Cavendish & Curie Dorms to the South Port Shopping Center in Shirley. Enjoy Stop & Shop for groceries, Kohl's Dept. stora, and more. Call ext. 2535 for more information.	16 Health Promotion Program 10 am, Occupational Medicine Clinic, Bldg 490 Your current foot complaint or concern will be discussed along with all available treatment options.This free service is provided by Comprehensive Podiatry Associates, P.C. Please note that space is VERY limited. To schedule an appointment please contact: Michael Thorn via email at mthorn@bnl.gov or extension 8612. Environmental Sciences Department Seminar 11 am, Conference Room, Bldg 815E Hosted by: Stephen Schwartz In July 2011, NASA conducted the DISCOVER-AQ campaign over Maryland. Several aircraft and a ship were deployed with the goal of bridging the gap between space-based observations and surface concentrations. Along the way, substantial insight was gained into the chemistry, physics, and meteorology of smog events over the eastern US. This talk will summarize these findings and discuss broader uses of existing instruments such as OMI (SO2, NO2) and MOPITT (CO) and plans for the Geostationary Infrared Pollution Sounder, GRIPS, for trace gases and aerosols. Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar 11 am, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Hosted by: Eric Stach Electron diffraction techniques are versatile method that can be employed to study many fundamental questions of crystal structure. In this presentation, I will introduce two important diffraction methods and their application in crystallography and material science. First topic is quantitative energy-filtered convergent beam electron diffraction (QCBED). It can be employed to measure the low order structure factor amplitudes and phases of microcrystals of known structure very accurately. Many difficulties of X-ray diffraction, such as extinction corrections, absorption corrections and scaling problems are avoided in electron diffraction. The accuracy is equivalent to that of the X-ray Pendullösung method, allowing the covalent and ionic contributions to be separately visualized. Accurate structure factors of Cu, GaN, AlN, SrTiO3, TiO2, Mg have been measured by QCBED. The measurement standard deviations are normally less than 0.2% for both amplitudes and phases of low order structure factors. Thus, accurate charge density maps have been obtained and the bonding character has been studied. Second topic is electron diffractive imaging. Diffractive imaging uses diffraction intensity and phase retrieval to form real-space images. Nanodiffraction patterns from carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles are recorded, and then a fienup algorithm is used to retrieve phases of these diffraction patterns to reconstruct atomic structure of these nanotubes and nano-particles. This lensless diffraction imaging method avoids the resolution limitation owning to objective lens aberration, and can enhance the resolution of TEM to sub-angstrom level using a conventional FEG gun TEM. Particle Physics Seminar 3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Hosted by: Anze Slosar I will discuss an ongoing project to better understand quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by using cross correlations with BOSS galaxies that overlap in volume. We have the current best constraints showing quasar clustering does not appear to be dependent on the quasar luminosity, completely unlike what is seen with galaxies. I will also describe how we are using these measurements to further understand quasar properties, such as how they occupy dark matter halos and if their environment can provide clues on their formation and evolution.	17 Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar 10:30 am, Bldg. 480 Conference Room Hosted by: Qiang Li Biosciences Department Seminar 11 am, Biosciences Seminar Room, Bldg. 463 Hosted by: Benjamin Babst, Ph.D., Biosciences Dept. Effector proteins are exported to the interior of host cells by numerous plant pathogens. Effector proteins have been well characterized in bacteria. Contrastingly, the mechanisms through which these effectors promote virulence are largely unknown. Bioinformatic analysis of genome sequences from oomycete pathogens Phytophthora sojae, P. ramorum, P. infestans and Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis (Hpa) have led to the identification of a large number of candidate effector genes. These effector genes have characteristic motifs (signal peptide, RxLR and dEER) that target the effectors into plant cells. Although these effector genes are very diverse, certain genes are conserved between P. sojae and H. arabidopsidis, suggesting that they play important roles in pathogenicity. The goal of my first project was to characterize a pair of conserved effector candidates from Hpa and P.sojae. We hypothesized that these effectors have important conserved roles with regard to infection. We found that the Hpa effector was expressed early during the course of infection of Arabidopsis and triggered an ecotype-specific defense response in Arabidopsis, suggesting that it was recognized by host surveillance proteins. Both the effectors from Hpa and P. sojae respectively could suppress immunity triggered by pathogen associated molecular patterns (PTI) and by effectors (ETI) in planta. They also enhanced bacterial virulence in Arabidopsis when delivered by the Type III secretion system. Similar results were seen with experiments with transgenic Arabidopsis expressing the effectors. HET/BNL Lunch Time Talk 12 pm, Phyiscs, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160 Hosted by: Amarjit Soni National Synchrotron Light Source Lunch Time Seminar 12 pm, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Hosted by: Dario Arena and Klaus Attenkofer Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar 2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Hosted by: Vladimir Skokov Born in core-collapse supernovae, neutron stars contain matter at densities far beyond the ground state density of atomic nuclei. Measurements of neutron star properties, such as their masses and radii offer intriguing possibilities to probe the properties of dense nuclear matter like its compressibility and the nuclear symmetry energy. The composition of matter under neutron star conditions is currently unknown, but theoretical predictions range from pure nucleonic matter to the presence of hyperons or deconfined quarks. Since the appearance of hyperons or quark matter is often associated with a softening of the nuclear equations of state (and thereby low neutron star masses), the recent finding of a pulsars with masses of around two solar masses reignited the debate of whether hyperons or quarks can exist in neutron star interiors. However, various studies suggest that both quarks and hyperons can have stiff equations of state and therefore populate the interior of high mass stars. As a consequence, the question about the composition of high density neutron star matter remains undetermined. It is a continuing challenge for astrophysical and nuclear theory, experiment, and observations to determine clear constraints and signatures that would be able to confirm or exclude different neutron star compositions. With this in mind, I will discuss possible impacts of quark matter in neutron star interiors and core-collapse supernovae. Office of Educational Programs Event 4 pm, Office of Educational Programs (Bldg. 438) Hosted by: Scott Bronson	18 There are no events scheduled at this time.
19 There are no events scheduled at this time.	20 Annual Users' Meeting 1 pm, Berkner Hall Lobby Hosted by: NSLS/CFN Users' Meeting Workshop 1:45 pm, Building 735 Seminar Room	21 Annual Users' Meeting 8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium Hosted by: NSLS/CFN Plenary Hospitality Event 10:30 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation Coffee at 10:30am. Free knitting class at 2pm. Plenty of free supplies. Come socialize & learn this useful craft.	22 Annual User's Meeting 8 am, Berkner Hall Lobby Annual Users' Meeting 8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium Users' Meeting Workshop 8:30 am, Building 735 Seminar Room Play Group Event 10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation To join, go to: meetup.com/BNL-playgroup MAY 22 Today Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event 12 pm, RSB (Bldg. 400), Rm. 1 Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:00 pm Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association This 3-day noon-time tournament from May 22 - May 24 features a fascinating board game called "GO" popular in many Asian countries and growing in the US since the founding of the 'American Go Association'. Drop by to see what the craze is all about! For further information, contact Xin Zhao at xzhao@bnl.gov (Ext. 2107), or go to: http://www.usgo.org/what-go MAY 22 Today Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar 12:30 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:30 pm Hosted by: Shu Lin The dilute Fermi gas at unitarity is scale invariant and its bulk viscosity vanishes. We compute the leading contribution to the bulk viscosity when the scattering length is not infinite. A measure of scale breaking is provided by the ratio P-2/3E, where P is the pressure and E is the energy density. In the high temperature limit this ratio scales as z/a, where z is the fugacity and a is the scattering length. We show that the bulk viscosity scales as the second power of this parameter. MAY 22 Today Computational Science Center Seminar 1 pm, Biosciences Seminar Room, Bldg. 463 Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 1:00 pm Hosted by: Robert Harrison The recent progress made in devising chemical methods for the synthesis of defect-free one-dimensional and two-dimensional organic nanosystems with reproducible properties has prompted an enormous interest in developing a quantitative understanding of the assembly process and the resulting intrinsic properties of the structures ad they interact with their environment. In this presentation, I will review a number of examples where theoretical nanoscience and computational sciences can be used to account for experimental findings and to predict emergent properties in a range of systems. Spin-depending electronic transport, thermoelectricity, heterostructures, chemical doping, effects of substrate, will be discussed and placed in the perspective of the general objective of designing materials with tailored properties. In each case, success and failure of atomistic theories, ranging from self-consistent tight-binding, density functional theory, and many-body perturbation theory, will be discussed within the context of current developments in their respective fields.	23 MAY 23 Thursday Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event 12 pm, RSB (Bldg. 400), Rm. 1 Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:00 pm Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association This 3-day noon-time tournament from May 22 - May 24 features a fascinating board game called "GO" popular in many Asian countries and growing in the US since the founding of the 'American Go Association'. Drop by to see what the craze is all about! For further information, contact Xin Zhao at xzhao@bnl.gov (Ext. 2107), or go to: http://www.usgo.org/what-go MAY 23 Thursday EAP BVA movie 12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:00 pm The Brookhaven Veterans Association (BVA) has been working with the Employee Assistance Program to highlight some of the issues that are being confronted by returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. As a society and a caring community here at BNL, we owe it to our veterans to reach out and show our support besides thanking them for their service to our country. As we approach Memorial Day, the BVA will be showing a fascinating 30 minute film. No registration is required. MAY 23 Thursday RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk 12:30 pm, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160 Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:30 pm Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa	24 MAY 24 Friday Nuclear Physics Seminar 10 am, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Friday, May 24, 2013, 10:00 am Hosted by: Nick Simos The recent WMAP data not only have confirmed the previously existing gravitational evidence for the presence of dark matter in galactic halos, but they have also shown that this type is the dominant form of mater in the Universe. Modern particle theories provide viable cold dark matter candidates with masses in the GeV-TeV region. All such candidates are called WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). The nature of dark matter, however, can only be unraveled by its direct detection in the laboratory. Since the WIMPS have an average energy in the keV region, they cannot excite the nucleus and their detection consists of measuring the nuclear recoil energy. We will discuss all factors contributing to the event rate, namely : i) the nucleon cross section, which depends on particle physics information, ii) the WIMP velocity distribution and iii) the relevant nuclear structure. The experiments are hard, since the expected cross sections are small and the signal spectrum cannot be easily distinguished from the background. None of the experiments has yet detected dark matter, but the impressive limit on the coherent nucleon cross section of 10�'44cm2 = 10�'8pb has been reached, assuming that it is dominant. Limits which are 4 orders of magnitude larger have also been reached for the spin induced cross sections. The two modes cannot be separated in a single target experiment. We will show, however, that given a judicious choice of at least three odd mass targets one may be able to extract from experiments all three nucleon cross sections (coherent as well as the proton and neutron spin induced). For an unambiguous detection of dark matter one would like exploit some characteristic signatures of the reaction. These are a) The modulation effect, i.e. the time dependence of the rate due to the Earth's annual motion and b) rhe correlation of the event rates with sun's direction of motion in directional experiments, i.e. those that MAY 24 Friday Memorial Day Ceremony 12 pm, 9/11 Memorial on lawn @ Berkner Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:00 pm Hosted by: BERA Brookhaven Veterans Association MAY 24 Friday Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event 12 pm, RSB (Bldg. 400), Rm. 1 Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:00 pm Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association This 3-day noon-time tournament from May 22 - May 24 features a fascinating board game called "GO" popular in many Asian countries and growing in the US since the founding of the 'American Go Association'. Drop by to see what the craze is all about! For further information, contact Xin Zhao at xzhao@bnl.gov (Ext. 2107), or go to: http://www.usgo.org/what-go MAY 24 Friday Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar 2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Friday, May 24, 2013, 2:00 pm Hosted by: Vladimir Skokov Electric polarizability measures the ability of the electric field to deform a particle. Experimentally, the electric and magnetic polarizabilities can be measured in Compton scattering experiments. To compute these quantities theoretically we need to understand the internal structure of the scatterer. For hadrons — bound stated of quarks and gluons — this is a very difficult problem since their internal structure cannot be parametrized easily. While quantum chromodynamics describes accurately the interactions between quarks and gluons, direct computations of hadron properties in terms of the quark degrees of freedom are very challenging. In this talk I will show how to use lattice QCD to extract the electric polarizability of hadrons, outlining both the theoretical and computational challenges we must overcome to arrive at the final answer.	25 There are no events scheduled at this time.
26 There are no events scheduled at this time.	27 There are no events scheduled at this time.	28 MAY 28 Tuesday Hospitality Event 10:30 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 10:30 am Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation Coffee at 10:30am. Free knitting class at 2pm. Plenty of free supplieis. Come socialize & learn this useful craft. MAY 28 Tuesday Nuclear Physics Seminar 11 am, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 11:00 am Hosted by: Oleg Eyser The measurement of $W^{\pm}$ production in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC is an important probe of the proton's polarized sea quark distributions which are poorly constrained at present compared to the valence quarks distributions. Parity-violating single-spin asymmetries, $A_{L}$, measured in $W^{\pm}$ production in longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions provide access to the flavor-separated light quark and anti-quark polarized parton distribution functions. The PHENIX experiment observes $W^{\pm}$ through their leptonic decay to $e^{\pm}$ at mid-rapidity ($\|\eta\|<0.35\|$) and to $\mu^{\pm}$ at forward/backward rapidities ($1.2<\|\eta\|<2.2$). These complementary measurements give access to the sea quark polarizations over different ranges in partonic momentum of a quark/antiquark. In succession to the first measurements performed in 2009 (mid-rapidity) and in 2011 (forward/backward rapidities), in 2012 PHENIX recorded data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 510 GeV with an integrated luminosity of $\approx $50 pb$^{-1}$ which is about twice the size of previous data sets and also takes an advantage of improved beam polarization ($P\approx$ 55$\%$). The parity-violating single-spin asymmetries for $W$ production from the 2012 dataset will be presented; as well as, details and status of the recent analyses and future prospects will be reported. MAY 28 Tuesday Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event 12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 12:00 pm Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association Join us for a musical treat with works played by a group of musicians on strings and percussion lead by Korean-born musical artist, Younggul Yoon.	29 MAY 29 Wednesday Play Group Event 10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317 Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 10:00 am Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation Coffee at 10:30am. Free knitting class at 2pm. Plenty of free supplies. Come socialize & learn this useful craft. MAY 29 Wednesday Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar 11 am, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 11:00 am Hosted by: Eric Stach Development of sustainable energy technologies requires new materials with properties tailored for specific needs. Nano-phase-separation observed in many material systems opens a wide range of possibilities for manipulating specific properties as well as for creating new properties not observed in homogeneous systems. Generally, targeted material design requires an understanding of underlying structure. One important example of nanophase-separated system is a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM). In PEM a hydrophilic phase provides charge transport while a hydrophobic phase is responsible for mechanical properties and stability of the material. The geometry of phase separation governs performance of membrane providing continuous pathways for charge transfer. The goal of my research is to determine the structure of conductive pathways and to design a membrane with maximum connectivity in the hydrophilic phase. This goal can be achieved by exploiting self-organization in block copolymers that produces naturally aligned nano-sized phases. This approach has already allowed us to overcome difficulties in electron microscopy imaging of ionomer morphology and to report the first direct observation of sulfur clusters in PEM. Using a block copolymer system, we have shown that the clustering reduces conductivity of the ionomer and suggested a way to reduce clustering by decreasing the size of conductive domains. The next step towards development of an improved membrane material is determining water distribution in PEM which may be achieved by advanced electron microscopy techniques. MAY 29 Wednesday Health Promotion Program Lecture 12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 12:00 pm All are invited to a talk on exercise safety by orthopedic surgeon Michael Sileo and Brookhaven Lab physical therapist Gary Welch on Wednesday, May 29, at noon in Berkner Hall. An excellent opportunity for those who are physically active, ranging from recreational softball players to marathon runners, Sileo and Welch will discuss exercising safely, focusing on their guidelines for a smart start and safe finish.	30 MAY 30 Thursday RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk 12:30 pm, Physics, Bldg. 510, Room 2-160 Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:30 pm Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa MAY 30 Thursday Particle Physics Seminar 3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 Thursday, May 30, 2013, 3:00 pm Hosted by: David Jaffe The MiniBooNE experiment was designed to test the LSND evidence for neutrino oscillations. After taking data for a decade in both neutrino and antineutrino modes, MiniBooNE observes a 3.8 sigma excess of events that is consistent with neutrino oscillations at the ~1 eV2 scale and with the LSND oscillation signal. The MiniBooNE results will be described, as well as 3+N sterile neutrino models that can explain the existing short-baseline neutrino anomalies. Future short-baseline neutrino experiments, which can prove whether sterile neutrinos exist, will also be discussed.	31 There are no events scheduled at this time.

MAY

22

Today

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event

"GO Tournament Series (#1)"

12 pm, RSB (Bldg. 400), Rm. 1

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:00 pm

Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association

This 3-day noon-time tournament from May 22 - May 24 features a fascinating board game called "GO" popular in many Asian countries and growing in the US since the founding of the 'American Go Association'. Drop by to see what the craze is all about! For further information, contact Xin Zhao at xzhao@bnl.gov (Ext. 2107), or go to: http://www.usgo.org/what-go
MAY

22

Today

Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

"Bulk viscosity and conformal symmetry breaking in the dilute Fermi gas near unitarity"

Presented by Kevin Dusling, North Carolina State

12:30 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:30 pm

Hosted by: Shu Lin

The dilute Fermi gas at unitarity is scale invariant and its bulk viscosity vanishes. We compute the leading contribution to the bulk viscosity when the scattering length is not infinite. A measure of scale breaking is provided by the ratio P-2/3E, where P is the pressure and E is the energy density. In the high temperature limit this ratio scales as z/a, where z is the fugacity and a is the scattering length. We show that the bulk viscosity scales as the second power of this parameter.
MAY

22

Today

Computational Science Center Seminar

"Computational Design of Bottom-Up Organic Nanoelectronics with Controlled Properties"

Presented by Vincent Meunier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1 pm, Biosciences Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 1:00 pm

Hosted by: Robert Harrison

The recent progress made in devising chemical methods for the synthesis of defect-free one-dimensional and two-dimensional organic nanosystems with reproducible properties has prompted an enormous interest in developing a quantitative understanding of the assembly process and the resulting intrinsic properties of the structures ad they interact with their environment. In this presentation, I will review a number of examples where theoretical nanoscience and computational sciences can be used to account for experimental findings and to predict emergent properties in a range of systems. Spin-depending electronic transport, thermoelectricity, heterostructures, chemical doping, effects of substrate, will be discussed and placed in the perspective of the general objective of designing materials with tailored properties. In each case, success and failure of atomistic theories, ranging from self-consistent tight-binding, density functional theory, and many-body perturbation theory, will be discussed within the context of current developments in their respective fields.
MAY

23

Thursday

EAP BVA movie

"Veteran Nation" (30 min film)"

Presented by Nancy Losinno, EAP

12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:00 pm

The Brookhaven Veterans Association (BVA) has been working with the Employee Assistance Program to highlight some of the issues that are being confronted by returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. As a society and a caring community here at BNL, we owe it to our veterans to reach out and show our support besides thanking them for their service to our country. As we approach Memorial Day, the BVA will be showing a fascinating 30 minute film. No registration is required.
MAY

23

Thursday

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event

"GO Tournament Series (#2)"

12 pm, RSB (Bldg. 400), Rm. 1

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:00 pm

Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association

This 3-day noon-time tournament from May 22 - May 24 features a fascinating board game called "GO" popular in many Asian countries and growing in the US since the founding of the 'American Go Association'. Drop by to see what the craze is all about! For further information, contact Xin Zhao at xzhao@bnl.gov (Ext. 2107), or go to: http://www.usgo.org/what-go
MAY

23

Thursday

RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

"GPU computations for lattice QCD"

Presented by Hyung-Jin Kim, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:30 pm

Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa
MAY

24

Friday

Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Searching for Dark Matter"

Presented by John D. Vergados, University of Ioannina

10 am, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, May 24, 2013, 10:00 am

Hosted by: Nick Simos

The recent WMAP data not only have confirmed the previously existing gravitational evidence for the presence of dark matter in galactic halos, but they have also shown that this type is the dominant form of mater in the Universe. Modern particle theories provide viable cold dark matter candidates with masses in the GeV-TeV region. All such candidates are called WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). The nature of dark matter, however, can only be unraveled by its direct detection in the laboratory. Since the WIMPS have an average energy in the keV region, they cannot excite the nucleus and their detection consists of measuring the nuclear recoil energy. We will discuss all factors contributing to the event rate, namely : i) the nucleon cross section, which depends on particle physics information, ii) the WIMP velocity distribution and iii) the relevant nuclear structure. The experiments are hard, since the expected cross sections are small and the signal spectrum cannot be easily distinguished from the background. None of the experiments has yet detected dark matter, but the impressive limit on the coherent nucleon cross section of 10�'44cm2 = 10�'8pb has been reached, assuming that it is dominant. Limits which are 4 orders of magnitude larger have also been reached for the spin induced cross sections. The two modes cannot be separated in a single target experiment. We will show, however, that given a judicious choice of at least three odd mass targets one may be able to extract from experiments all three nucleon cross sections (coherent as well as the proton and neutron spin induced). For an unambiguous detection of dark matter one would like exploit some characteristic signatures of the reaction. These are a) The modulation effect, i.e. the time dependence of the rate due to the Earth's annual motion and b) rhe correlation of the event rates with sun's direction of motion in directional experiments, i.e. those that
MAY

24

Friday

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event

"GO Tournament Series (#3)"

12 pm, RSB (Bldg. 400), Rm. 1

Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:00 pm

Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association

This 3-day noon-time tournament from May 22 - May 24 features a fascinating board game called "GO" popular in many Asian countries and growing in the US since the founding of the 'American Go Association'. Drop by to see what the craze is all about! For further information, contact Xin Zhao at xzhao@bnl.gov (Ext. 2107), or go to: http://www.usgo.org/what-go
MAY

24

Friday

Memorial Day Ceremony

Nancy Losinno, Manager, EAP

12 pm, 9/11 Memorial on lawn @ Berkner

Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:00 pm

Hosted by: BERA Brookhaven Veterans Association
MAY

24

Friday

Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

"Hadron electric polarizability from lattice QCD"

Presented by Andrei Alexandru, The George Washington University

2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, May 24, 2013, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Vladimir Skokov

Electric polarizability measures the ability of the electric field to deform a particle. Experimentally, the electric and magnetic polarizabilities can be measured in Compton scattering experiments. To compute these quantities theoretically we need to understand the internal structure of the scatterer. For hadrons — bound stated of quarks and gluons — this is a very difficult problem since their internal structure cannot be parametrized easily. While quantum chromodynamics describes accurately the interactions between quarks and gluons, direct computations of hadron properties in terms of the quark degrees of freedom are very challenging. In this talk I will show how to use lattice QCD to extract the electric polarizability of hadrons, outlining both the theoretical and computational challenges we must overcome to arrive at the final answer.
MAY

28

Tuesday

Hospitality Event

"Hospitality Coffee Social & Knitting Class 10:30am & 2:00pm"

10:30 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 10:30 am

Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation

Coffee at 10:30am. Free knitting class at 2pm. Plenty of free supplieis. Come socialize & learn this useful craft.
MAY

28

Tuesday

Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Status of W Boson Production Measurements at PHENIX"

Presented by Mikhail Stepanov, UMass Amherst

11 am, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 11:00 am

Hosted by: Oleg Eyser

The measurement of $W^{\pm}$ production in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC is an important probe of the proton's polarized sea quark distributions which are poorly constrained at present compared to the valence quarks distributions. Parity-violating single-spin asymmetries, $A_{L}$, measured in $W^{\pm}$ production in longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions provide access to the flavor-separated light quark and anti-quark polarized parton distribution functions. The PHENIX experiment observes $W^{\pm}$ through their leptonic decay to $e^{\pm}$ at mid-rapidity ($|\eta|<0.35|$) and to $\mu^{\pm}$ at forward/backward rapidities ($1.2<|\eta|<2.2$). These complementary measurements give access to the sea quark polarizations over different ranges in partonic momentum of a quark/antiquark. In succession to the first measurements performed in 2009 (mid-rapidity) and in 2011 (forward/backward rapidities), in 2012 PHENIX recorded data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 510 GeV with an integrated luminosity of $\approx $50 pb$^{-1}$ which is about twice the size of previous data sets and also takes an advantage of improved beam polarization ($P\approx$ 55$\%$). The parity-violating single-spin asymmetries for $W$ production from the 2012 dataset will be presented; as well as, details and status of the recent analyses and future prospects will be reported.
MAY

28

Tuesday

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event

"Younggul Yoon Composition Recital"

12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 12:00 pm

Hosted by: Asian Pacific American Association

Join us for a musical treat with works played by a group of musicians on strings and percussion lead by Korean-born musical artist, Younggul Yoon.
MAY

29

Wednesday

Play Group Event

"Play Group QOL/BERA/Recreation"

10 am, Recreation Hall, Bldg. 317

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 10:00 am

Hosted by: QOL/BERA/Recreation

Coffee at 10:30am. Free knitting class at 2pm. Plenty of free supplies. Come socialize & learn this useful craft.
MAY

29

Wednesday

Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar

"Ordering Phases in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane"

Presented by Sergey Yakovlev, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

11 am, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 11:00 am

Hosted by: Eric Stach

Development of sustainable energy technologies requires new materials with properties tailored for specific needs. Nano-phase-separation observed in many material systems opens a wide range of possibilities for manipulating specific properties as well as for creating new properties not observed in homogeneous systems. Generally, targeted material design requires an understanding of underlying structure. One important example of nanophase-separated system is a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM). In PEM a hydrophilic phase provides charge transport while a hydrophobic phase is responsible for mechanical properties and stability of the material. The geometry of phase separation governs performance of membrane providing continuous pathways for charge transfer. The goal of my research is to determine the structure of conductive pathways and to design a membrane with maximum connectivity in the hydrophilic phase. This goal can be achieved by exploiting self-organization in block copolymers that produces naturally aligned nano-sized phases. This approach has already allowed us to overcome difficulties in electron microscopy imaging of ionomer morphology and to report the first direct observation of sulfur clusters in PEM. Using a block copolymer system, we have shown that the clustering reduces conductivity of the ionomer and suggested a way to reduce clustering by decreasing the size of conductive domains. The next step towards development of an improved membrane material is determining water distribution in PEM which may be achieved by advanced electron microscopy techniques.
MAY

29

Wednesday

Health Promotion Program Lecture

"Exercise Safely: Your Guide to a Smart Start & Safe Finish"

12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 12:00 pm

All are invited to a talk on exercise safety by orthopedic surgeon Michael Sileo and Brookhaven Lab physical therapist Gary Welch on Wednesday, May 29, at noon in Berkner Hall. An excellent opportunity for those who are physically active, ranging from recreational softball players to marathon runners, Sileo and Welch will discuss exercising safely, focusing on their guidelines for a smart start and safe finish.
MAY

30

Thursday

RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk

"TBA"

Presented by Fedor Bezrukov, UCONN/RBRC

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

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:30 pm

Hosted by: Tomomi Ishikawa
MAY

30

Thursday

Particle Physics Seminar

"MiniBooNE Neutrino Oscillation Results"

Presented by William Louis, LANL

3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 3:00 pm

Hosted by: David Jaffe

The MiniBooNE experiment was designed to test the LSND evidence for neutrino oscillations. After taking data for a decade in both neutrino and antineutrino modes, MiniBooNE observes a 3.8 sigma excess of events that is consistent with neutrino oscillations at the ~1 eV2 scale and with the LSND oscillation signal. The MiniBooNE results will be described, as well as 3+N sterile neutrino models that can explain the existing short-baseline neutrino anomalies. Future short-baseline neutrino experiments, which can prove whether sterile neutrinos exist, will also be discussed.
JUN

3

Monday

Office of Educational Programs Event

"Arrival of DOE Summer Interns"

8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Monday, June 3, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Noel Blackburn
JUN

3

Monday

Technology Commercialization and Partnerships Workshop

"Business Model Development Workshop"

Fermin Ezquer-Matallana, Think Creative

12 pm, Brookhaven Center

Monday, June 3, 2013, 12:00 pm

So you've decided to start a business, you have had a great idea or you have discovered a new technology. Great! But how will you make the money? Join us for this hands-on workshop and take the next step in your business development journey!
JUN

6

Thursday

Joint High Energy Physics/Instrumentation Seminar

"New detector to search for Dark Matter, slightly differently"

Presented by Jaroslav Va'vra, SLAC

3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 3:00 pm

Hosted by: Tom Ludlam
JUN

6

Thursday

Office of Educational Programs Event

"Open Space Stewardship Celebration"

4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 4:00 pm

Hosted by: Mel Morris
JUN

7

Friday

Instrumentation Division Seminar

"Silicon Pixel Sensors for the European XFEL"

Presented by Dr. Robert Klanner, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany

10:30 am, Large Conference Room, Bldg. 535

Friday, June 7, 2013, 10:30 am
JUN

10

Monday

Office of Educational Programs Event

"Nuclear Non Proliferation Summer School Begins"

8:30 am, Office of Educational Programs Bldg

Monday, June 10, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Catherine Osiecki
JUN

10

Monday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Polarized neutron scattering investigations on magneto-electric materials with complex magnetic structures"

Presented by Kazuhisa Kakurai, Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan

11 am, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Monday, June 10, 2013, 11:00 am

Hosted by: John Tranquada

In studying modern functional materials, one is often confronted with complex spin configurations, for example, non-collinear, incommensurate magnetic structure such as helimagnetic structure as a result of frustrated magnetic interactions. Since the giant functional responses in these materials are direct consequences of these complicated magnetic structures, the detailed knowledge of the structure is mandatory to understand the essence of the magnetic functional materials. In this seminar talk I would like to present some polarized neutron studies on magneto-electric materials with complex magnetic structures. These include investigations on complex multiferroic behaviour in RMn2O5 (R: rare earth elements) compounds, on ferroelectricity induced by a proper screw-type helical ordering in CuFeO2 and on transverse conical structure in hexaferrites showing a route to the possible RT functional multiferroic systems. These invetigations were performed in collaboration with S. Wakimoto, M. Matsuda, M. Takeda, Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, N. Terada, H. Kitazawa, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, , T. Nakajima, S. Mitsuda, Dep. of Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Japan, S. Ishiwata, D. Okuyama, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokunaga, Y. Kaneko, Y. Tokura, Cross-Correlated Materials Research Group and Correlated Electron Research Group, RIKEN, Japan, M. Nishi, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan and T. Arima, Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. The neutron scattering studies were in part supported by the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (Grant No.19052004).
JUN

11

Tuesday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"TBD"

Presented by Masaki Fujita, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan

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

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: John Tranquada

TBD
JUN

13

Thursday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"TBA"

Presented by Gabi Kotliar, Rutgers

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

Thursday, June 13, 2013, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: Peter Johnson
JUN

13

Thursday

Computational Science Center Seminar

"MULTISCALE SCIENCE FOR TUNING INTERFACES AT NANOSCALE"

Presented by Predrag S. Krstić, Universtity of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2 pm, Biosciences Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

Thursday, June 13, 2013, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Robert J. Harrison

Plasma-Material Interface (PMI) mixes materials of the two worlds, creating a dynamical surface which is one of the most challenging areas of multidisciplinary science, with many fundamental processes and synergies. The traditional trial-and-error approach to developing first-wall material and component solutions for current and future fusion devices is becoming prohibitively costly because of the increasing device size, curved toroidal geometry, access restrictions, and complex programmatic priorities. The experimentally validated atomistic theory and computation for studying the dynamics of the creation and evolution of the PMI under irradiation by heavy particles (atoms, molecules) at carbon, lithiated carbon and tungsten, as well as the emerging elastic and inelastic processes, in particular retention and sputtering chemistry will be presented. The National Institute of Health research initiatives over the past ten years resulted in the reduction of the human DNA sequencing cost by more than 100,000 times, reflecting the highest rate of progress in history of science. This research still requires development of fast, label-free and cheaper technologies, which can be massively produced and used. Particularly interesting is the prospect of the so-called physics-based third-generation methods, since they are intrinsically fast and can operate on a single DNA OR protein polymer. Multiscale theory and computation, with predictive powers for localization, control, detection and recognition of biomolecules in nanofluidic environment will be presented. Predrag Krstic is senior research scientist of Joint institute of Computational Sciences and adjunct professor of physics at Department of Physics and Astronomy of University of Tennessee, founder of TheoretiK Consulting, till recently senior staff scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Krstić completed his PhD degree at City College of C.U.N.Y on the multiphoton theory,
JUN

14

Friday

Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

"From the QCD flux tube to the integrable theory of quantum gravity and back"

Presented by Sergei Dubovski, NYU, Physics Department

2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, June 14, 2013, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Vladimir Skokov

We propose a new approach for the calculation of the spectrum of excitations of QCD flux tubes. It relies on the fact that the worldsheet theory is integrable at low energies. The corresponding integrable model features a number of surprising properties characteristic for gravity rather than for conventional field theory. These include the absence of local off-shell observables, a minimal length, a maximum achievable (Hagedorn) temperature, as well as black hole precursors. It exhibits a new type of renormalization group flow behavior, "asymptotic fragility". With this approach, energy levels can be calculated for much shorter flux tubes than was previously possible, allowing for a quantitative comparison with existing lattice data. The improved theoretical control makes it manifest that existing lattice data provides strong evidence for a new pseudoscalar particle localized on the QCD fluxtube - the worldsheet axion.
JUN

18

Tuesday

Passport to Retirement

"Presented by The Foundation for Personal Financial Education"

12 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 12:00 pm
JUN

19

Wednesday

Interactive Fair

"Safety Day 2013"

11 am, Berkner Lobby and Surrounding Area

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 11:00 am

Safety Day is a Lab-wide event for employees providing many different activities, vendors, talks, and hands-on activities related to safety. Prizes, giveaways, and refreshments will be given.
JUN

19

Wednesday

Brookhaven Lecture

"488th Brookhaven Lecture: 'TBD'"

4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 4:00 pm

Hosted by: Allen Orville
JUN

20

Thursday

Brookhaven Women In Science (BWIS) Event

"New Piece of Old Lace in My Office, Come See!"

Laurie Waters, Los Alamos National Lab

4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Thursday, June 20, 2013, 4:00 pm

Hosted by: Vivian Stojanoff

New Piece of Old Lace in My Office, Come See! Abstract: Textiles are a fascinating combination of art, anthropology, sociology, and the physical sciences. In her talk Waters will discuss how genetics and carbon dating can help in one of the biggest mysteries of the lace community - the virtual disappearance of the superfine linen thread used in 17th and early 18th centuries. A nuclear physicist, Waters is a Stony Brook Alumni and led the spallation target research efforts for the Accelerator Production of Tritium at Los Alamos.
JUN

20

Thursday

Defensive Driving, Part 1

Edward A. Sierra, BNL

6 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

Thursday, June 20, 2013, 6:00 pm
JUN

24

Monday

Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

"Free energy versus internal energy potential for heavy quark system at finite temperature"

Presented by Su Houng Lee, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

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

Monday, June 24, 2013, 12:30 pm

Hosted by: Vladimir Skokov
JUN

25

Tuesday

Annual Users Meeting

"2013 RHIC & AGS Annual Users Meeting"

8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Berndt Mueller
JUN

26

Wednesday

Annual Users Meeting

"2013 RHIC & AGS Annual Users Meeting"

8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Berndt Mueller
JUN

26

Wednesday

BSA Noon Recital

"Pianofest"

12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 12:00 pm

Hosted by: Geoffrey Hind

Pianofest is a unique performance workshop, located in the Hamptons, which offers concentrated study to younger pianists selected by audition. Pianofest alumni have made their mark nationally and around the world. The workshop spans a two-month period, and its Director, Paul Schenly, brings his selection of soloists from the first session.
JUN

27

Thursday

Annual Users Meeting

"2013 RHIC & AGS Annual Users Meeting"

8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Thursday, June 27, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Berndt Mueller
JUN

27

Thursday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"TBA"

Presented by Philip Phillips, UIUC

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

Thursday, June 27, 2013, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: Wei Ku
JUN

27

Thursday

Defensive Driving, Part 2

Edward A. Sierra, BNL

6 pm, Brookhaven Center, South Room

Thursday, June 27, 2013, 6:00 pm
JUN

28

Friday

Annual Users Meeting

"2013 RHIC & AGS Annual Users Meeting"

8:30 am, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, June 28, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Berndt Mueller
JUL

8

Monday

Office of Educational Programs Event

"STEM Prep Program Begins"

8:30 am, Office of Educational Programs Bldg

Monday, July 8, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Scott Bronson
JUL

8

Monday

Office of Educational Programs Event

"High School Research Internship Program Begins"

8:30 am, Office of Educational Programs Bldg

Monday, July 8, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Scott Bronson
JUL

18

Thursday

Brookhaven Women In Science (BWIS) Event

"Incentives for Innovation!"

Gustavo Manso, University of California, Berkley

4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Thursday, July 18, 2013, 4:00 pm

Hosted by: Vivian Stojanoff

Abstract: Gustavo Manso is Associate Professor of Finance at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Manso's research focuses on corporate finance, financial institutions, financial markets, and entrepreneurship. Studying financial incentives, his research revealed that tolerance for early failure and reward for long-term success are essential ingredients in motivating both creativity and innovation.
JUL

24

Wednesday

BSA Noon Recital

"Pianofest-II"

12 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 12:00 pm

Hosted by: Geoffrey Hind

Pianofest is a unique performance workshop, located in the Hamptons, which offers concentrated study to younger pianists selected by audition. Fine young soloists will visit BNL, selected from the second session of the Hamptons workshop. In addition to emphasizing the solo repertoire, performers may accompany each other in concertos, on two pianos, and explore the duet literature.
JUL

26

Friday

Colloquium

"Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XII)"

8 am, Berkner Hall, Room A

Friday, July 26, 2013, 8:00 am

Hosted by: Ernie Lewis
AUG

1

Thursday

Defensive Driving, Part 1

Edward A. Sierra, BNL

6 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

Thursday, August 1, 2013, 6:00 pm
AUG

7

Wednesday

Defensive Driving, Part 2

Edward A. Sierra, BNL

6 pm, Brookhaven Center, South Room

Wednesday, August 7, 2013, 6:00 pm
AUG

8

Thursday

Office of Educational Programs Event

"DOE Summer Intern Closing Ceremony"

8:30 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Thursday, August 8, 2013, 8:30 am

Hosted by: Noel Blackburn
SEP

18

Wednesday

Brookhaven Women In Science (BWIS) Event

"Wife, Mother, Scientist or is it the other way around?!"

Presented by Mina Bissell, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory

4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 4:00 pm

Hosted by: Vivian Stojanoff

Wife, Mother, Scientist or is it the other way around?! Abstract: Mina Bissell's groundbreaking research has proven that cancer is not only caused by cancer cells, but is caused by an interaction between cancer cells and the surrounding cellular microenvironment. In her talk Bissell will discuss how she balanced family and a successful research career. Dr. Bissell earned an A.B. with honors in chemistry from Harvard/Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in bacterial genetics from Harvard University. She joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1972. Director of the Life Sciences Division since 1992 she was named Distinguished Scientist upon stepping down. She is also the OBER/DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow in Life Sciences. An AAAS fellow Dr. Bissell is recipient of numerous awards, most recently the AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research and the Lifetime Achievement Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
SEP

23

Monday

Pegram Lecture

"Dark Energy and the Evolution of the Universe"

Presented by Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University

4 pm, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Monday, September 23, 2013, 4:00 pm

Hosted by: P. Wanderer
SEP

24

Tuesday

Pegram Lecture

"Dark Energy and the Evolution of the Universe"

Presented by Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University

11 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 11:00 am

Hosted by: P. Wanderer
OCT

17

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.
OCT

17

Thursday

Defensive Driving, Part 1

Edward A. Sierra, BNL

6 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

Thursday, October 17, 2013, 6:00 pm
OCT

24

Thursday

Defensive Driving, Part 2

Edward A. Sierra, BNL

6 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 6:00 pm
DEC

5

Thursday

Defensive Driving, Part 1

Edward A. Sierra, BNL

6 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

Thursday, December 5, 2013, 6:00 pm
DEC

11

Wednesday

Defensive Driving, Part 2

Edward A. Sierra, BNL

6 pm, Berkner Hall, Room B

Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 6:00 pm

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