Physics Dept. Seminars and Colloquia

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Physics Colloquium
"Water on the Moon"
Arlin Crotts, Columbia University
Hosted by Morgan May
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
"NLO QCD Predictions for Vector Bosons Plus Jets at the LHC"
Lance Dixon, SLAC
Hosted by Sally Dawson
2:30 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 11, 2010
Particle Physics Seminar
"New weak lensing results from the COSMOS survey"
Alexie Leauthaud, LBNL
Hosted by Anze Slosar
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 11, 2010
Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar
"Recent Advances in Thermoelectric Energy Conversion and Refrigeration Materials: Nanocomposite Thermoelectrics"
Terry Tritt, Clemson University
Hosted by Qiang Li
1:30 PM, Bldg. 480 conference room

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Physics Colloquium
"Many-body systems and gauge theory"
Nikita Nekrasov, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics/SUNY SB
Hosted by Bill Morse
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"Nonuniversal Gaugino Masses, Dark Matter and the LHC"
Brent Nelson, Northeastern University
Hosted by Jennifer Kile
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Particle Physics Seminar
"Neutrino Cross-Section Measurements at SciBooNE"
Hide Tanaka, MIT
Hosted by Serban Protopopescu
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 19, 2010
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"Stellar Riddles"
Carlos Bertulani, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Hosted by Kevin Dusling
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Physics Colloquium
"The SNS Neutron EDM Experiment"
Martin Cooper, Los Alamos Natl Laboratory
Hosted by Bill Morse
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Nuclear Physics Seminar
"Precision Measurements of Parity Violation in Polarized Cold Neutron Capture on the Proton: the NPDGamma Experiment"
Jiawei Mei, Indiana University
Hosted by David Jaffe
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
"Top-Quark Pair Production Beyond Next-To-Leading Order"
Andrea Ferroglia, Mainz University
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 25, 2010
Particle Physics Seminar
"Low-Backround Searches for Rare Events: the MAJORANA Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment, and the CLEAN/DEAP Dark Matter Search"
Victor Gehman, Los Alamos Natl Laboratory
Hosted by Serban Protopopescu
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 26, 2010
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"Bulk viscosity and the applicability of viscous hydrodynamics at RHIC"
Pasi Huovinen, University of Frankfurt
Hosted by Kevin Dusling
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 26, 2010
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"Transport and Screening in the Magnetized Neutron Star Crusts"
Sanjay Reddy, Los Alamos National Lab
Hosted by Kevin Dusling
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
C-AD Accelerator Physics Seminar
"Applications of Linacs in the Medical Field"
Dr. Samy M. Hanna, Microwave Innovative Accelerators (MINA), Danville, CA
Hosted by Coordinator: G. Robert-Demolaize
3:00 PM, Large Conferrence Room, Bldg. 911B

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"TBA"
Jamie Gainer, Northwestern University and Argonne National Lab
Hosted by Jennifer Kile
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, March 4, 2010
Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar
"TBA"
Alex Travesset, Iowa State University
Hosted by Masafumi Fukuto
1:30 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"TBA"
Antonio Delgado, University of Notre Dame
Hosted by Jennifer Kile
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Physics Colloquium
"Inflation and dark matter in the standard model of the universe"
Hector de Vega, Uniersity of Paris VI
Hosted by Rob Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, March 25, 2010
Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar
"Revealing the role of anchoring groups in the electrical conduction through single-molecule junctions"
Artur Erbe, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.
Hosted by Adrian Gozar
1:30 PM, Small seminar room, Bldg 510

Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Physics Colloquium
"TBA"
David Kaplan,
Hosted by Kevin dusling
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Elizabeth Simmons, Michigan State University
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, April 22, 2010
Particle Physics Seminar
"HALO: the High Altitiude Lensing Observatory"
Jason Rhodes, JPL/Caltech
Hosted by Anze Slosar
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Physics Colloquium
"Intracellular networks in bacteria"
Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
2:00 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"Quantum criticality, the cuprate superconductors, and the AdS/CFT correspondence"
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Hosted by Sally Dawson
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Physics Colloquium
"The Development of Large Area Fast Photo-Detectors for Collider and Neutrino Physics"
Henry Frisch, University of Chicago
Hosted by Bill Morse
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

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