Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu

Events During the 2009 Spring Semester

January 2009

   Monday, January 19th

Martin Luther King, Jr Day

   Tuesday, January 20th

First Day of Class

   Thursday, January 29th

Simona Toscano, Valencia

Status and first results of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Teresa Montaruli

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February 2009

   Thursday, February 5th

Carlos E M Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago

Cosmology and the LHC

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by M J Ramsey-Musolf

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   Monday, February 9th

Chris Polly, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Joint NPAC Forum/HEP Seminar

New oscillation results from MiniBooNE

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger & Mat Herndon

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   Thursday, February 12th

Craig Roberts, Argonne National Laboratory

Covariance, Dynamics and Symmetries, and Hadron Physics

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by M J Ramsey-Musolf

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   Wednesday, February 18th

Daniel Grin, Caltech

Cosmological recombination: The effect of high-n states

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Daniel Chung

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   Thursday, February 19th

Randall Smith, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Science with the International X-ray Observatory

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Dan McCammon

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   Thursday, February 26th

Gil Paz, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Supersymmetric U(1)' Models

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

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March 2009

   Thursday, March 5th

Peter L. Biermann, MPI Bonn

Active Galactic Nuclei: Sources for ultra high energy cosmic rays?

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff

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   Thursday, March 12th

Segev BenZvi, University of Wisconsin - Madison

New Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff

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   Monday, March 16th

Spring Break

   Tuesday, March 17th

Spring Break

   Wednesday, March 18th

Spring Break

   Thursday, March 19th

Spring Break

   Friday, March 20th

Spring Break

   Thursday, March 26th

Amjad Ashoorioon, University of Michigan

M-flation

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Dan Chung

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   Tuesday, March 31st

Kevin Lesko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

DUSEL - Progress on the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger

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April 2009

   Thursday, April 2nd

Alex Kusenko, UCLA

Echoes of Supersymmetry: Baryon Asymmetry, Relic Q-balls, and Gravity Waves

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by M J Ramsey-Musolf

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   Thursday, April 9th

Passover

Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory an University of Chicagod

Simple Atom, Extreme Nucleus: Laser Trapping and Probing of Helium-8

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger

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   Friday, April 10th

Good Friday

   Tuesday, April 14th

Christopher White, Illinois Institute of Technology

Recent Results from MINOS (Joint NPAC/HEP Seminar)

4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger

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   Wednesday, April 15th

Eibun Senaha, National Central University, Taiwan

Electroweak phase transition in the U(1)'-extended MSSM

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin

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   Thursday, April 16th

Terri J. Brandt, Ohio State University

High Energy Cosmic Rays with CREAM, Fermi, and Beyond

2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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Mark Alford, Washington University

Quark Matter in Neutron Stars

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

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   Thursday, April 23rd

Charlotte Elster, Ohio University, Athens

Poincare Invariant Three-Body Scattering

1:30 pm - 2:25 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Baha Balantekin

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Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Harvard CFA

Searching for exoearths and measuring the acceleration of the universe with femtosecond laser frequency combs

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Francis Halzen

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   Thursday, April 30th

Misha Stephanov, U. Illinois Chicago

AdS/QCD

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by M J Ramsey-Musolf

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May 2009

   Thursday, May 7th

Hee-Jong Seo, Fermilab and U. Arizona

High Precision Cosmology with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Peter Timbie

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   Friday, May 8th

Last Day of Class

   Thursday, May 14th

Keith Dienes, University of Arizona

(Joint with Phenomenology) A New Approach to Flavor (?)

1:45 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Sky Bauman and Lisa Everett

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June 2009

   Thursday, June 18th

Andre Fuzfa, GAMASCO, University of Namur (FUNDP); Louvain U; Paris Observatory;

Cosmic acceleration as the gravitational feedback of mass-varying dark matter

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by S Mantry

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July 2009

   Monday, July 27th

Angelo Nuciotti, University of Milan Bicocca

The MARE project: status and perspectives

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger

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