FALL 2007 DEPARTMENT SEMINARS & COLLOQUIA (ARCHIVE)
Monday
September 24,
2007
Joint
Theory Seminar
Speaker:
Nobuchika Okada
KEK, Japan
Title: Economical
deflected anomaly mediation
Time
and Place: 12:10 PM
Room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday September 24, 2007
Cosmology
Seminar
Speaker:
Ben Freivogel- UC
Berkeley
Title: Observational
Signatures of the String Theory Landscape
Time
and Place: 12:10PM Room
416 PHY/GEO
Monday October 1, 2007
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Hock Seng Goh. University of
California Berkeley
Title: A
Little Twin Higgs- More Natural Left-Right Model
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30 in Room 432 PHY/GEO
Colloquia
Speaker: Professor Shirley Chiang. Professor and
Department Chair, UC Davis Physics Department
Title: State of the
Department
Time and Place: 4:10 to 5:40 Room 55 Roessler Hall
Tuesday October 2, 2007
Particle Physics/High
Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Michel Herquet- Universita Catholique
de Louvain-Belguim
Title: Twisted
Higgs Phenomology at Hadron Colliders
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Tuesday October 2, 2007
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Professor Frank De Groot- Utrecht
University, Netherlands
Title: Novel
Techniques and Approaches in X-Ray Absorption and Spectroscopy
Time and Place: 1:10 to 2PM Room 432 PHY/GEO
Thursday October 4, 2007
Cosmology
Seminar
Speaker: Dr Matt Richter
Title: Mid-infrared
spectroscopy of protoplanetary disk-gas.
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday October 8, 2007
Joint Theory Seminar-canceled
Colloquium
Speaker: John Terning/ UC Davis
Title: Extra Dimensions
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 55 Roessler
Tuesday October 9, 2007
Particle Physics
Seminar/High Energy- canceled
Speakers: Group Members
Title: research summaries to be presented by various group members
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday October 11, 2007
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: David Rapetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center
Title: New constraints on
dark energy from X-Ray Galaxy cluster studies
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30 PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed
Matter Seminar
Speaker: Warren Pickett- UC Davis
Title: Mott Transition vs.
Kondo Collapse Under Pressure: Recent Results
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday October 15, 2007
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Dr Devin Walker UC Berkeley
Title: Mass Scales and Unparticle Physics at the LHC
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30 PM Room 432 PHY/GEO
Colloquium
Speaker: Marc Kamionkowski- Cal Tech
Title: Dark Matter,
Dwarf Galaxies, and the Equivalence Principle
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6 PM Room 55 Roessler
Tuesday October 16, 2007
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. David Shih - Institute for Advanced Studies
Title: (Extra) Ordinary Guage Mediation
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6 PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday October 18, 2007
Cosmology
Seminar
Charles Keeton- Rutgers University
Title: A new
Channel for detecting dark matter substructure in Galaxies
Time and Place: 12:10 -1:30 room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed
Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. M. Huijben
Title: Tunability
of Artificial Interface Phases in LsAio3/SrTi03 Heterostructures
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday October 22, 2007
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed- IAS Harvard University
Title: Physics,
Cosmology and the Large Hadron Collider
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6:00 PM in room 55 Roessler Hall
Joint
Theory Seminar
Speaker: Dr Nima Arkani-Hamed
Title: Possible
and Impossible in Quantum Gravity
Time and Place: 12:00 to 1:30PM in room 432 PHY/GEO
Tuesday October 23, 2007
High
Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr Xavier Calmet
Title: TeV Scale Quantum
Gravity in 4 Dimensions?
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6:00PM in room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday October 25, 2007
Cosmology
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Tolley- Perimenter
Title: Enhanced
Non-Guassianity from Excited Initial States
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30PM in room 416 PHY/GEO
HEFTI
Seminar
Speaker: Professor Djordje Minic
Title: OM- the Spectrum of
Pure QCD in 3 and 4D
Time and Place: 4:00 to 5:00 PM in room 432 PHY/GEO
Monday October 29, 2007
Joint
Theory Seminar
Speaker:Matthew Buckley- UC Berkeley
Title: Discriminating Spin
Through Quantum Interference
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30 PM room 432 PHY/GEO
Colloquium
Speaker: Blas Cabrera
Title: The Cryogenic Dark
Matter Search
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6:00 in room 55 Roessler Hall
Tuesday October 30,
2007
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Swarup Majee-Harish
Chandra Research Institute/ India
Title: Can We Have a Low
Intermediate Scale?
Time and Place:
This seminar has been cancelled
Thursday November 1, 2007
Cosmology
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Cooke
Title: Detecting z>2 type
IIn Supernovae
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30 PM room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed
Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Jong Han
Title: Simulating Steady-State
Strongly Correlated Nonlinear Transport
Time and place: 4:10 to 6 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday November 5, 2007
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Juan Maldecena- Institute for Advanced Studies
Title: QCD, strings and
black holes: A duality between gravity and field
theory.
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6:00 PM in room 55 Roessler Hall
Joint
Theory Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Luca Grisa
Title: Tales from a Braneworld -- The DW's New Clothes
Time and Place: 12:00 to 1:30PM in room 432 PHY/GEO
Tuesday November 6, 2007
High
Energy Seminar
Speaker: Jack Gunion
Title: Theoretical Ideas
About and Experimental Probes of Light Higgs Bosons
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday November 8, 2007
Cosmology
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Dimitrios Psaltis - University of Arizona
Title: New Tests of
Strong-Field General Relativity with Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30 PM room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. H.R. Krishnamurthy- Visiting Researcher
Title: Understanding
the Exotic Properties of Doped Manganites
Time and place: 4:10 to 6 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday November 12, 2007
Veterans Day- No seminars
Tuesday November 13, 2007
High
Energy Seminar
Speaker: Takemichi Okui- Johns Hopkins University
Title: Light Colored Resonances at the TeVatron and the (Very Early) LHC
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday November 15,2007
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Salman Habib/ LANL
Title: Percolation and the
Large Scale Structure of the Universe
Time and Place:12:10 to 1:30PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Special
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. G.W.S Hou/ National Taiwan University
Title:Minority Report on Flavor
TeV Link
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6:00 PM room 432 PHY/GEO
Condensed
Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr Ahanron Kapitulnik/ Stanford University
Title: Search for
Broken Time Reversal Symmetry State in Unconventional Superconductors
Time and place: 4:10 to 6 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday November 19, 2007
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Michael Peskin
Title: Dark Matter in the
Cosmos and in the Lab
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6:00 PM in room 55 Roessler Hall
Joint
Theory Seminar
Speaker:
Title:
Time and Place: 12:00 to 1:30PM in room 432 PHY/GEO
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
High
Energy/ Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker : Dr. Ian Lowe/ Northwestern University
Title: KK Parity in Warped Extra Dimension
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday November
22, 2007,
Thanksgiving Day- campus closed
Monday November 26, 2007
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Shinji Mukohyama
Title: Brane Inflation
in a Warped Throat
Time and Place: 12:00 to 1:30PM in room 432 PHY/GEO
Colloquium
Speaker:Professor Jay Wacker/ Stanford Linnear Accelerator Center
Title: New searches for
sub-gravitational forces
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6:00 PM in room 55 Roessler Hall
Tuesday November 27, 2007
High
Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Akin Wingerter- Ohio State
Title: MSSM- like Models
from Strings
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday November 29, 2007
High
Energy Seminar- special date and time
Speaker: Maria Jose Rodriguez- University of Barcelona
Title: The Phase
Structure of Higher Dimensional Black Rings and Black Holes
Time and Place: 2:00 to 3:30PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Cosmology
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Gregory Gabadadze- NYU
Title: Charged
Condensation
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed
Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Chris Marianetti
Title: Electronic
Properties of Pu Via the Dynamical-Mean Field Theory
Time and place: 4:10 to 6 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday December 3, 2007
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Stuart Parkin/ IBM Fellow
Director, IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science & Applications Center
(SpinAps)
Title: The Spin on
Electronics!
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6:00 PM in room 55 Roessler
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Dr Roni Harnik- Stanford SLAC
Title: Hierarchy, quirks, and the LHC
Time and Place: 12:00 to 1:30PM in room 432 PHY/GEO
Tuesday December 4, 2007
High
Energy/Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 to 6PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Special Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr Chris Packham- University of Florida
Title: Mid-IR
Instrumentation and Observations of AGN
Time and Place: 11:00 AM Room 525 PHY/GEO
Wednesday December 5, 2007
HEFTI
Seminar
Speaker: Miguel-Angel Sanchis-Lozano (Valencia U. & Valencia U.,
IFIC)
Title: B Factory
Probes of a light CP-odd Higgs boson
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in Room 416 PHY/GEO
Thursday December 6th, 2007
Cosmology
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Jose J. Blanco-Pillado/ Tufts University
Title: Superconducting
Cosmic Superstrings
Time and Place: 12:10 to 1:30 PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Condensed
Matter Seminar
Speaker: Professor Yalin Lu/ US Airforce Academy
Title: A few
interesting areas related to surface plasmonics
Time and place: 4:10 to 6 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO
Tuesday December 11, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Csaba Csaki- Cornell University
Title: GIM or shining from
warped extra dimensions?
Time and Place: 4:10 PM Room 416 PHY/GEO
Monday
December 17, 2007
Joint
Theory Seminar
Speaker: Mr. Ruven Essig- Rutgers University
Title: Meta-Stable Dynamical
Supersymmetry Breaking near Points of
Enhanced Symmetry
Time and Place: 12:10 PM - Room 432 PHY/GEO
Cosmology
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Neelima Sehgal- Rutgers
Title: Measuring the Growth
of Structure with Multi-Wavelength Surveys of Galaxy Clusters
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 525 PHY/GEO
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