Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu

Events During the 2012 Spring Semester

January 2012

   Monday, January 16th

Martin Luther King Day

   Monday, January 23rd

First Day of Class

   Thursday, January 26th

Tom Weisgarber, University of Chicago

Measuring the Extragalactic Magnetic Field Via Gamma-Ray Blazar Observations

2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff

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February 2012

   Thursday, February 2nd

Andrew Sonnenschein, Fermilab

Recent Results from the COUPP Dark Matter Search

2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Karsten Heeger

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   Thursday, February 9th

Dan Hooper, Fermilab / University of Chicago

The Empirical Case For 10 GeV Dark Matter

2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Reina Maruyama

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Aous Abdo, George Mason University

Cosmic Accelerators: Pulsars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae

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

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   Tuesday, February 14th

Darren Grant, University of Alberta

Ghosts in the ice - Searching for the Universe's most elusive particles at the South Pole

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

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   Wednesday, February 15th

Carsten Rott, Ohio State University

Hunting for Dark Matter in Antarctica

11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Halzen

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   Monday, February 20th

John Pretz, Los Alamos National Lab

High-Energy Astrophysics with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment

11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Halzen

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   Thursday, February 23rd

Ines Valino Rielo, University of Santiago de Compostela

The Pierre Auger Observatory: the highest energy frontier

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

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   Monday, February 27th

David Jason Koskinen, Penn State

Neutrino Oscillation Physics at the South Pole

11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Halzen

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   Wednesday, February 29th

Teppei Katori, MIT

Tests of Lorentz Invariance with Neutrinos

11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Halzen

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March 2012

   Monday, March 5th

Justin Vandenbroucke, SLAC

Antiparticles in the shadow of the Earth: cosmic-ray positrons with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Halzen

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   Thursday, March 8th

Bruce Mellado, University of Wisconsin Madison

Higgs Results From ATLAS

3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Matthew Herndon

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   Tuesday, March 13th

Karsten M. Heeger, University of Wisconsin

Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Herndon

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   Monday, March 26th

Raul Hennings-Yeomans, Los Alamos National Laboratory

The search for direct detection of Dark Matter with MiniCLEAN

1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Reina Maruyama

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   Thursday, March 29th

Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Probing TeV scale physics in ultra-cold neutron decays

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin

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April 2012

   Monday, April 2nd

Spring Break

   Tuesday, April 3rd

Spring Break

   Wednesday, April 4th

Spring Break

   Thursday, April 5th

Spring Break

   Friday, April 6th

Spring Break

   Thursday, April 12th

Soo-Bong Kim, Seoul National University

Observation of Reactor Antineutrino Disappearance at RENO

2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Karsten Heeger

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   Tuesday, April 24th

David Webber, University of Wisconsin Madison

Experimental Muon Physics: an Overview

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Karsten Heeger

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   Thursday, April 26th

Jennifer Kile, Northwestern University

Dark Matter from Weak Polyplets

2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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May 2012

   Friday, May 4th

Allen Caldwell, Director, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany

CANCELED

Uncovering the nature of neutrinos via double beta decay

2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Westerhoff

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   Friday, May 11th

Last Day of Class - No Colloquium

   Tuesday, May 15th

Walter Winter, University of Würzburg, Germany

A neutrino beam to IceCube/PINGU?

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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   Thursday, May 17th

Tim Chupp, University of Michigan

Probing Time-reversal Invariance with Atoms and Neutrons

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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   Monday, May 28th

Memorial Day

June 2012

July 2012

   Wednesday, July 4th

4th of July