Physics Dept. Seminars and Colloquia

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Categorification"
Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Nuclear Physics Seminar
"Photoproduction at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider"
Yury Gorbunov, Creighton University
Hosted by Jeffery Mitchell
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Strategies for New Physics Searches at Lepton Colliders"
Benjamin Hooberman, University of California/Berkeley
Hosted by Hong Ma
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Study of Multi-muon events at CDF"
Mark Kruse, Duke University
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 13, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"LHC searches: what role for QCD"
Gavin Salam, University of Paris VI
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 13, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"CP violation in hadronic penguins at BABAR"
James Hirschauer, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hosted by Hong Ma
9:30 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"The CMS Detector and LHC Physics: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Nick Hadley, University of Maryland
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Early Results from the Fermi Large Area Telescope"
Eduardo do Couto e Silva, KIPAC/SLAC National Laboratory
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 20, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Adrian Dumitru, Baruch College
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Jean-Yves Ollitrault, Saclay
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Nuclear Physics Seminar
"Medium-modified jets and their role for heavy-ion physics"
Thorsten Renk, University of Jyvaskyla
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"New 'Low Energy' High-Energy Experiments"
Dr. William Marciano, Physics Dept., Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Dr. Larry Trueman
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar
"Methods for ab-initio determination of nanostructure from the atomic pair distribution function"
Phillip Duxbury, Michigan State University
Hosted by Simon Billinge
1:30 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 27, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"The Response of a Thermal QGP to Radiating Hard Partons"
Bryon Neufeld, Duke University
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Ab Initio calculations in Lattice QCD"
Zoltan Fodor, Wuppertal University
Hosted by Peter Petreczky
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Nuclear Physics Seminar
"Hadronic observables from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV/nucleon and Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(s) = 5.5 TeV/nucleon from a simple kinematic model"
Thomas Humanic, Ohio State University
Hosted by Jeffery Mitchell
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"The Lee-Wick Standard Model"
Donal O'Connell, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Hosted by Christian Sturm
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Higgs Coupling Measurements at the LHC - LHC at BNL Seminar Series"
Ketevi Assamagan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Abid Patwa
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Superstrings and RHIC"
Steven Gubser, Princeton University
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Doreen Wackeroth, SUNY at Buffalo
Hosted by Christian Sturm
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"The 5-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation"
Eiichiro Komatsu, University of Texas
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, March 13, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Joshua Vredevoogd, Michigan State University
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Mass Bounds on a Very Light Neutralino (Joint Experimental/Theory Seminar)"
Dr. Herbi Dreiner, Bonn University, Germany
Hosted by Dr. Larry Trueman
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Dark Matter (TBD)"
Daniel Boyanovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Parity violation in Heavy Ion Collisions (TBD)"
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
10:00 AM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, March 27, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Barak Bringoltz, University of Washington
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Stefano Profumo, SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Exploring the Proton Spin in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions"
Werner Vogelsang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Larry Trueman
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, April 3, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Thomas Cohen, University of Maryland
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Cosmic rays precision studies with the satellite-borne apparatus PAMELA"
Andrea Vacchi, INFN Trieste
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Michel Tytgat, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Signatures for Dark Matter at the LHC - LHC at BNL Seminar Series"
Dr. Neal Weiner, New York University (NYU)
Hosted by Larry Trueman
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, April 17, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Tibetan Buddhism and Science (TBD)"
Donald Lopez, Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of Michigan
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Nuclear Physics Seminar
Pasi Huovinen, Purdue University
Hosted by Peter Petreczky
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Leonard Sander, University of Michigan
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"On the Antikythera Mechanism"
Dr. Alexander Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Tom Russell, University of Massachusetts
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Scott Willenbrock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
2:30 PM, YITP, SUNY Stony Brook (Room Math 6-125)

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Physics Colloquium
Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Matthew Reece, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science)
Hosted by Christian Sturm
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Sebastian Klein, DESY
Hosted by Christian Sturm
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Last Modified: February 22, 2008