Events at Physics |
Events During the Week of August 30th through September 6th, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
- First Day of Class
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
- Special Atomic Physics Seminar
- Double beta decay of Zr-96 and the search for neutrinoless mechanisms.
- Time: 10:00 am
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Matt Kauer, University College London
- Abstract: Using 1221 days of data from the NEMO--3 detector, the measurement of Zr-96 2vbb decay half-life is [2.35 +- 0.14(stat) +- 0.19(syst)]x10^19 yr. A 90% CL limit is set on the 0vbb decay half-life of > 9.2 x10^21 yr corresponding to a limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass of < 7.2-19.5 eV.
- Host: Mark Saffman
- Special Plasma Seminar
- New Directions for Magnetic Mirror Fusion Research
- Time: 12:00 pm
- Place: 106 ERB
- Speaker: Dr. Tom Simonen, Director DIII-D Tokamak Program, Retired
- Introductory Graduate Seminar
- Atomic and Molecular
- Time: 5:30 pm
- Place: 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Wehlitz, Yavuz, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
Friday, September 4th, 2009
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar
- Recursive Methods for QCD Calculations
- Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Jan Winter, Fermilab
- Host: F. Petriello
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Hunt for the Last Neutrino Mixing Angle
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Speaker: Morgan Wascko
- Abstract: The discovery of neutrino flavor oscillation, and the existence of non-zero neutrino masses, is the first observation of phenomena not allowed by the standard model of particle physics. In this colloquium I will describe the experimental evidence for neutrino oscillation and discuss the open questions of neutrino physics. I will focus on the hunt for the last neutrino mixing angle with the T2K experiment, which will send the world's most powerful accelerator neutrino beam 295 km across the island of Japan to the largest particle detector in the world.
- Host: Westerhoff