Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu

Events During the 2010 Spring Semester

January 2010

   Monday, January 18th

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

   Tuesday, January 19th

First Day of Class

   Thursday, January 21st

Fedor Simkovic, Comenius University

Double Beta Decay: A challenge for particle, nuclear and atomic physics

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Baha Balantekin

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   Friday, January 29th

Mark B. Wise, Caltech

Violating Rotational or Translational Invariance During Inflation (Joint with Phenomenology)

2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Pavel Fileviez Perez

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February 2010

   Thursday, February 11th

Tao Liu, University of Chicago

Electroweak Baryogenesis in Supersymmetric U(1)' Models

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

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   Thursday, February 18th

Ted Bunn, University of Richmond

The Axis of Evil - Large Scale Anomalies in Maps of the CMB

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Timbie

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   Friday, February 26th

Philip Mannheim, University of Connecticut

Joint with Phenomenology

Comprehensive Solution to the Cosmological Constant, Zero-Point Energy, and Quantum Gravity Problems

2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin

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March 2010

   Thursday, March 11th

Peter Geltenbort, Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble

Physics with ultra-cold and very cold neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France

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

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   Thursday, March 25th

David Ernst, Vanderbilt University

Title to be announced

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Baha Balantekin

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   Monday, March 29th

Spring Break

   Tuesday, March 30th

Spring Break

   Wednesday, March 31st

Spring Break

April 2010

   Thursday, April 1st

Spring Break

   Friday, April 2nd

Spring Break

   Thursday, April 8th

Dmitri Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Laboratory

The Chiral Magnetic Effect and local parity violation at RHIC

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin

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   Friday, April 9th

Petra Huentemeyer, Michigan Technological University

Diffuse Emission of GeV and TeV Gamma Rays: Prospects with Fermi and HAWC

2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Segev BenZvi

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   Thursday, April 15th

Darren Grant, University of Alberta

DeepCore - Extending the physics reach of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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   Wednesday, April 21st

Dr. Brian Mercurio, The Ohio State University

A search for ultrahigh energy neutrinos in the ANITA experiment

2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Peter Timbie

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Kate Scholberg, Duke University

Core Collapse Supernova Neutrino Detection

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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   Monday, April 26th

Stefano Profumo, U.C. Santa Cruz

Joint with High Energy

Cosmic Rays and the Quest for New Physics

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

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   Thursday, April 29th

Raju Venugopalan, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Many-body high energy QCD: from wee partons to the perfect fluid

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

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   Friday, April 30th

Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky

Joint with Phenomenology

A Lattice Calculation of QCD Critical Point from Canonical Ensemble

2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin

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May 2010

   Friday, May 7th

Last Day of Class

   Thursday, May 13th

Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University

Joint Seminar with String Theory

Inflationary Cosmology on Trial

4:00 pm; 4274, hosted by Gary Shiu

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June 2010

July 2010