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FALL 2006 DEPARTMENT SEMINARS & COLLOQUIA (ARCHIVE)
Monday,
December 4, 2006
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Leonardo Senatore
Title: Limits on f_NL parameters from WMAP 3yr data
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO
Colloquium - CANCELLED
Speaker: Francis Slakey
Title:"Fixing a Flat at the
Noisy Intersection of Science and Politics"
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 55 Roessler
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Sasha Baroiant, UC Davis - Grad Student Thesis Presentation
Title: Search for
Doubly-Charged Higgs at CDF
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Alex Kim
Title: Reality Pill for
Future Supernova Cosmology Surveys
Time & Location: 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Erich Poppitz
Time & Location: 2:30 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Kevin Moore, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Transmission electron
microscopy and synchrotron radiation as tools to interrogate the
electronic structure of the actinides.
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416.
Monday, October 2, 2006
COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Lu J. Sham, University of California, San Diego
Title: "Quantum Control of electron
spins: Where the macro meets the micro?"
Time & Location: 4:10pm, room 55 Roessler
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Joseph Davies, University of California, Davis
Title: Fingerprinting Magnetization
Reversal in Co/Pt and Spring Magnet Thin Films
Time & Location: 4:10pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Martin White, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Dark Energy &
Cosmic Sound
Time & Location: 12:10pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday, October 9, 2006
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Shufang Su, University of Arizona
Title: Phenomenology of
Left-Right Twin Higgs Model
Time & Location: 11am, room 432 PHY/GEO
Physics Colloquium
Speaker: Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Is spacetime
an emergent phenomenon?
Time & Location: 4:10pm, room 55 Roessler
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Weidong Li, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Transient Observations With the
Robotic KAIT
Time & Location: 12:10pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed Matter
Seminar
Speaker: Amit Ghousal, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Toward Strong
Interactions in Circular Quantum Dots:
Correlation Induced Inhomogeneity
Time & Location: 4:10pm, room 416 PHYS/GEO
Monday, October, 16, 2006
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Jesse Thaler, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Unified
Frameworks for the LHC
Time & Location: 11am, room 432 PHY/GEO
Colloquium
Speaker: Daniel Cox
Title: The Physics of Amyloid Diseases
Time & Location: 4:10pm, room 55 Roessler
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Particle Physics Seminar-High Energy
Speaker: Linda Carpenter, University of California, Santa Clara
Title: "R Parity Violation and Light
Higgs Scenarios"
Time & Location: 3pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday,
October 19, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: David Hogg, New York University
Title: The Growth of Galaxies by Merging
Time & Location: 12:10pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed Matter
Seminar
Speaker: Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Colloids as a Model
System to Explore Complex Matter
Time & Location: 4:10pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday, October 23, 2006
Colloquium
Speaker: Gordon Baym, University of Illinois
Title: New States of Quantum Matter
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 55 Roessler
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Christopher Hill, Chair of Fermilab Theory Department
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Christopher Hill, Chair of Fermilab Theory Department
Title: Symmetry and the
Origin of Mass
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Johan Akerman
Title: Synchronization of
serially connected Spin Torque Oscillators
Time & Location: 11 am, room 432 PHY/GEO
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Jun Zhang
Title: Two small topics in
weak lending: 1. Isolating geometry in lensing measurements;
2. A new method of measuring the cosmic shear.
Time & Location: 12:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday, October 30, 2006
Colloquium
Speaker: David Ceperley, UIUC
Title: Is Helium a Supersolid?
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 55 Roessler
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Carl Bender
Title: Making sense of
non-Hermitian Hamiltonians
Time & Location: 11 am, room 432 PHY/GEO
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Carl Bender
Title: Faster than Hermitian
Quantum Mechanics
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Nikolai Zhitenev, Bell Labs., Lucent Technologies
Title: Electronic
conducting states in nano-and mesoscale molecular junctions
Time & Location: 4:10pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Steve Allen, Stanford University
Title: Cosmological
constraints from X-ray studies of the largest dynamically relaxed
clusters.
Time & Location: 12:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday, November 6, 2006
COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Shirley Chiang, Department Chair
Title: State of the Department Colloquium
Abstract: A review of the current
state of the department, including the numbers of faculty, staff, and
students. Most of the talk will review current research in the
department.
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 55 Roessler
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Yuri Shirman
Time & Location: 11 am, room 432 PHY/GEO
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Bolek Wyslouch
Title: Heavy Ion
Physics with the CMS detector at the LHC
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Cosmology Seminar Announcement
Speaker: Lee Armus, California Institute of Technology
Title: Observations of
Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies with the IRS on Spitzer
Time & Location: 12:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Yayoi Takamura
Title: Surface and Interface
Magnetism in Complex Oxide Thin Films and Nanostructures
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 1065 Kemper
Tuesday,
November 14, 2006
High - Energy Seminar
Speaker: Jason Nielsen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Experimental Probes of
Electroweak Scale Physics
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Victor I. Klimov
Title: Exciton-Exciton Interactions in
semiconductor nanocrystals from the perspective of solar-energy
conversion
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Rogier A. Windhorst, Arizona State
Title: The James Webb
Space Telescope: How can it measure First Light, Reionization,
and Galaxy Assembly?
Time & Location: 12:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Friday, November 17, 2006
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Girsh Blumberg, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Title: Competing
orders in low-dimensional doped quantum spin systems
Time & Location: 1:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday, November 20, 2006
Colloquium
Speaker: Tony Tyson
Title: "The New Digital Sky:
from Solar System to Dark Energy"
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., 55 Roessler
Monday,
November 27, 2006
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Hock Seng Goh
Title: "Folded Supersymmetry"
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO
Colloquium
Speaker: Adam Bernstein
Title: Direct Detection
of Dark Matter with Dual Phase Noble Liquid Detectors: Recent Results
from the XENON Collaboration
Time & Location: 4:10pm, room 55 Roessler
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Tuhin Roy
Title: "Can we see Unification at the LHC?"
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Kristjan Haule, Rutgers University
Title: Uncovering the secrets of
Actinides using Dynamical Mean Field Theory
Time & Location: 4:10 pm, room 416 PHY/GEO
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