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Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu
Events During the 2011 Spring Semester
January 2011
- Thursday, January 27th
- Immanuel Buder, University of Chicago
- New CMB Polarization Results from QUIET at 43-GHz
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Peter Timbie
February 2011
- Thursday, February 3rd
- Yi Mao, UT Austin
- Peculiar Velocity and its Effects on Cosmology with 21cm Tomography
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Peter Timbie and Vernon Barger
- Tuesday, February 15th
- Roger Wendell, Duke University
- Long and Longer Baseline Neutrino Oscillations: Searching for Symmetry Violation
- 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger
- Thursday, February 17th
- Alex Friedland, LANL
- Supernova Burst Studies in DUSEL Detectors
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, February 18th
- Prof. Daniel Ferenc, University of California Davis
- New Spectacles for Spectacular Discoveries
- 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Teresa Montaruli
- Tuesday, February 22nd
- Lauren Hsu, Fermilab
- Searching for the Identity of Dark Matter
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger
March 2011
- Tuesday, March 1st
- Erik Blaufuss, University of Maryland
- Probing the Universe with Neutrinos
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger
- Thursday, March 3rd
- Dan Dwyer, Caltech
- Neutrinos and the Future of the Standard Model
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, March 14th
- Spring Break
- Tuesday, March 15th
- Spring Break
- Wednesday, March 16th
- Spring Break
- Thursday, March 17th
- Spring Break
- Friday, March 18th
- Spring Break
- Furlough Day
- Thursday, March 24th
- Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame
- Symmetry methods for the nuclear shell model
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Baha Balantekin
April 2011
- Friday, April 1st
- Patrick Fox, Fermilab
- Dark Matter at LEP and the Tevatron
- 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Neil Christensen
- Monday, April 18th
- Catherine Bailey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Microcalorimeter Arrays for High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy
- 1:30 pm; 5310, hosted by Reina Maruyama
- Tuesday, April 19th
- Xiang Liu
- China Jinping underground lab and the PANDAX dark matter experiment
- 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Karsten Heeger
- Thursday, April 21st
- Andrew Smith, Argonne National Laboratory
- Recent Results From The VERITAS TeV Gamma-Ray Observatory
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff
- Thursday, April 28th
- Le Zhang, UW-Madison/Hamburg University/DESY
- A Holistic View of Unstable Dark Matter: Spectral and Anisotropy Signatures in Astrophysical Backgrounds
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Peter Timbie
May 2011
- Tuesday, May 3rd
- John G. Learned, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Exciting Prospects in the Study of the Ghostly Neutrino: the Reactor Anti-Neutrino Anomaly
- 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger
- Thursday, May 5th
- Bob Wagner, Argonne
- The Development of Large Area Microchannel Plate Photodetectors
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Teresa Montaruli
- Friday, May 6th
- Last Day of Class
- Thursday, May 12th
- Jeff Allen, NYU
- Title to be announced
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff
- Friday, May 13th
- Mischa Malkov, UCSB
- Title to be announced
- 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Simona Toscano
- Monday, May 16th
- Furlough Day
- Monday, May 23rd
- Arnd Junghans, Institut für Strahlenphysik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
- Transmutation of nuclear waste: Basics, Methods, Perspectives
- 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger
- Monday, May 30th
- Memorial Day
June 2011
July 2011
- Monday, July 4th
- 4th of July