SPRING 2006 DEPARTMENT SEMINARS & COLLOQUIA (ARCHIVE)

Monday, April 3, 2006
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey West (Santa Fe Institute)
Title: "Universal Scaling Laws in Biology from Genomes to Ecosystems; Towards a Quantitative Unified Theory of Biological Structure and Organization"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 55 Roessler

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Nuclear Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Sevil Salur (Yale University)
Title: "Hadronic Strange Resonances in STAR"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Thursday, April 6, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Julie Comerford (UC Berkeley)
Title: "The Density Profiles of Observed Galaxy Clusters from Strong Lensing Arcs"
Time & Location: 12:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, April 10, 2006
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University)
Title: "The Spin Hall Effect"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Patrick Meade (Cornell University)
Title: "A Model Independent Look at LHC Phenomenology"
Time & Location: 11:30am 432 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Robert Svoboda (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
Title: "Measuring the Last Unknown Neutrino Mixing Angle with Double Chooz"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Thursday, April 13, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Anatoly Spitkovsky (KIPAC, Stanford University)
Title: "Physics of Extreme Magnetospheres"
Time & Location: 12:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Friday, April 14, 2006
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Martin Schmaltz (Boston University)
Title: "Supersymmetry Breaking and Conformal Sequestering"
Time & Location: 3:00pm 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, April 17, 2006
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Zackaria Chacko (University of Arizona)
Time & Location: 11:30am 432 PHY/GEO

Thursday, April 20, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: David Schlegel (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
Title: "Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, and Cosmological Implications"
Time & Location: 12:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Stefano Profumo (Cal Tech)
Title: "Probing Supersymmetric Baryogenesis: from Electric Dipole Moments to Neutrino Telescopes"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Stefano Profumo (CalTech)
Title: "Probing Supersymmetric Baryogenesis: from Electric Dipole Moments to Neutrino Telescopes"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Center for Computational Science and Engineering Seminar
Speaker: Robert Shcherbakov (UC Davis)
Title: "Complex Behavior in Aftershock Sequences"
Time & Location: 4:00pm 1147 Mathmatical Sciences Bldg

Thursday, April 27, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Mike Boylan-Kolchin (UC Berkeley)
Title: "Major Mergers and the Assembly of Massive Elliptical Galaxies"
Time & Location: 12:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Brian Moritz (University of British Columbia)
Title: "The Effect of Electron-phonon Interaction on Antiferromagnetism and Pairing in the 2D Hubbard Model"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Special Theory Seminar
Speaker: Minjoon Park (University of Chicago)
Title: "Almost Complete Linearized Analysis on Braneworld Gravity"
Time & Location: 3:30pm 432 PHY/GEO

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Center for Computational Science and Engineering Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Schank
Title: "Simple Rules, Morphology, and the Physical Environment: Modeling
the Sensorimotor Behavior of Infant Mammals"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 1147 Mathematical Sciences Bldg

UC Davis Public Lecture
Speakers: Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams
Title: "The View from the Center of the Universe:
Discovering our Extaordinary Place in the Cosmos"
Time & Location: 8:00-9:15pm 123 Sciences Lecture Hall

Thursday, May 4, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Joel Primack (UC Santa Cruz)
Title: "Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and Active Galactic
Nuclei (AGN)"
Time & Location: 12:10pm 432 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Jeanie Lau (UC Riverside)
Title: ”Nanoscale Superconductivity and Electronic"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 416 PHY/GEO

Friday, May 5, 2006
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Jordi Sort (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Title: "Hysteresis Loops of Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic (AFM)
Systems after Imprinting Inhomogeneous Magnetization states in the AFM"
Time & Location: 11:00am 432 PHY/GEO

Monday, May 8, 2006
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Ian Low (The Institute for Advanced Study)

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Nuclear Seminar
Speaker: Vi Nham Tram
Time & Location: 4:10-6pm at 416 PHY/GEO.

Thursday, May 11, 2006
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Alex Friedland (Los Alamos)

Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine)
Title: "A New Look at Dark Matter in the Universe"
Time & Location: 12:10pm in 416 PHY/GEO.

Monday, May 15, 2006
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Cristiano Germani (University of Cambridge, UK)
Title: "Brane Black Holes and Holography"
Time & Location: 11:40am at 432 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Fabio Scardigli (University of Milano)
Title: "Generalized uncertainty principles and holography"
Time & Location: 4:10pm in 416 PHY/GEO

Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Center for Computational Science and Engineering Seminar
Title: "A Campus 'Town Hall' Meeting: Complex Systems and Nonlinear Science"
Time & Location: 4:10pm 1147 Mathematical Sciences Bldg

Thursday, May 18, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Xiaosheng Huang (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Title: "Photometric Redshifts of Luminous Red Galaxies at z~1.0"
Time & Location: 12:10pm in 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Nicole Bontemps (ECSPI, Paris)
Title: "In-plane optical conductivity and electronic kinetic energy in cuprate Superconductors"
Time & Location: 4:10pm in 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, May 22, 2006
Colloquium
Speaker: Giulia Galli
Title: "Quantum Simulations of Nanostructures"
Time & Location: 4:10pm in 55 Roessler

HEFTI/Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Patrick Fox (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Title: "Naturalness and Higgs decays in the MSSM with a singlet"
Time & Location: 11:40am at 432 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Marc Henneaux
Title: "Hidden Symmetries of Gravity and Lorentzian Kac-Moody Algebras"
Time & Location: 4:10pm at 416 PHY/GEO

Thursday, May 25, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Eric Linder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Title: "Dark Energy and Dark Gravity"
Time & Location: 12:10pm at 416 PHY/GEO

Special Theory Seminar
Speaker: Alberto Iglesias (New York University)
Title: "Nonperturbative effects of DGP"
Time & Location: 3:30pm at 432 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Claire Yu (UC Irvine)
Title: "The Transportation System Inside a Living Cell"
Time & Location: 4:10pm at 416 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Aron Soha (Fermi Lab)
Title: "Search for Third Generation Vector Leptoquarks at CDF"
Time & Location: 4:10pm at 416 PHY/GEO

Special Colloquium
Speaker: Robert Svoboda (Louisiana State University, on leave at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory due to Katrina)
Title: "The Secret Life of Neutrinos"
Time & Location: 11:30am at 416 PHY/GEO

Thursday, June 1, 2006
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Erik Helgren (UC Berkeley)
Title: "The Metal Insulator Quantum Phase Transition"
Time & Location: 4:10pm at 416 PHY/GEO

Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Christopher Gordon
Title: " Large Scale Anomalies in the Cosmic Microwave Background"
Time & Location: 12:10pm at 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, June 5, 2006
Physics Colloquium
Speaker: Robert D. Shull (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland)
Title: "Magnetic Refrigeration"
Time & Location: 4:10pm at 55 Roessler

Friday, June 9, 2006
Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Seongchan Park (Cornell University)
Title: "Gauge-Higgs Unification in 5D and 6D"
Time & Location: 11:00am at 432 PHY/GEO