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WINTER 2007 DEPARTMENT SEMINARS & COLLOQUIA (ARCHIVE)


Thursday, January 4, 2007

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Stephen Maat, San Jose Research Center
Title: Current perpendicular to the plane magnetic recording read heads: An example of applied nano-structures
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, January 8, 2007
COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Manoj Kaplinghat
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 55 Roessler

Thursday, January 11, 2006
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dan Coe, John Hopkins Univ. & Instituto de Astrofisica de Andaluncia
Title: Lens Perfect: Exact massmap solutions to gravitationally lensed multiple images
Time & Location: 1:30 p.m., room 525 PHY/GEO

Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: David Crotton, UC Berkeley
Title: Galaxy Formation: why the devil really is in the detail
Time & Location: 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: David Rainwater, University of Rochester
Title: "Breakdown of the narrow width approximation"
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Yun Daniel Park,Seoul National University
Title: Interplays in diluted magnetic semiconductor GaMnAs
Time & Location: 4 p.m., room 432 PHY/GEO

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dale Kocevski
Title: Mapping Large-Scale Structures Behind the Galactic Plane
Time & Location: 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Chih-Huang Lai,  National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Title: Nano-bits for Tera-world
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, January 22, 2007
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Lorenzo Sorbo,University of Massachusetts
Title: N-flationary Magnetic Fields
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO

COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Cherry Murray, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Science and Technology Underpinning National Security
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 55 Roessler

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Karl van Bibber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Ultrasensitive searches for the axion
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Ross McKenzie, University of Queensland, Australia
Title: Interplay of unconventional superconductivity
and frustrated antiferromagnetism
Time & Location: 10 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO

Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Yun Wang, Oklahoma University
Title: Key Issues in Dark Energy
Time & Location: 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: Magnetic Nanostructures Beyond Nature
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, January 29, 2007
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Scott Watson
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO

Special Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Chien Peng
Time & Location: Noon, room 514 PHY/GEO

COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Jose Onuchic, UCSB
Title:The energy landscape for folding and function.
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 55 Roessler

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Andrea Pocar, Stanford University
Title: The Enriched Xenon Observatory for Double Beta Decay
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: D.J. Scalapino, UCSB
Title: "The Hubbard model and the high Tc cuprates"
Time & Location: 1 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Special Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: M. James Lee
Title: Dark Matter Substructures in Galaxy Clusters Revealed by
ACS Gravitational Lensing
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 525 PHY/GEO

COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Newman
Title: DEEP and Deeper: Studying the Universe with Galaxy Surveys
Time & Location: 4 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO.

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Jeffrey Newman
Title: Studying Galaxies and the Universe with Surveys
Time & Location: 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Peter Young, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Phase Transitions in Spin Glasses
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, February 5, 2007
HEFTI Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Oriol Pujolas, New York University
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO

Cosmology Colloquium
Speaker: Darren J. Croton, UC Berkeley
Title: Galaxies and super-massive black holes in the nearby and distant
universe

Time & Location: 3 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Michel Kenzelmann
Title: Competing interactions in quantum magnetic insulators
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 55 Roessler

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Special Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Darren J. Croton, U.C. Berkeley
Title:  Why I love large-scale galaxy surveys and why we need more
Time & Location: 11 am, room 416 PHY/GEO

Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Alessandro Strumia, Pisa University
Title: Minimal Dark Matter
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

HEFTI Public Lecture
Speaker: Lylie Fisher
Time & Location:  7:30 p.m. Alumni and Visitor Center
http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/hefti/lecture.html

Thursday February 8, 2007
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Armen N. Kocharian, California State University, Northridge
Title: Exact thermodynamics of electron pairing and ferromagnetism in small Hubbard nanoclusters.
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, February 12, 2007
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Piero Nicolini, University of Trieste
Title: "New black hole solutions of Einstein's equations, insprired by noncommutatative geometry"
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO

COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Robert Roser, Fermi National Accelerator Lab, Spokesperson for CDF Experiment
Title: The Tevatron Physics Program -- Marching Toward the Higgs
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 55 Roessler

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Hanguo Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Search for Dark matter with ZEPLIN II Liquid Xenon Detector and LUX
Time & Location:  4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Wedneday, February 14, 2007
Cosmology Colloquium
Speaker: Rebecca A. Bernstein, University of Michigan
Time & Location: TBA

Thursday, February 15, 2007
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Rebecca A. Bernstein, University of Michigan
Time & Location: 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Kendrick Smith, University of Chicago
Title: MB polarization: past, present, and future
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 525 PHY/GEO

Friday, February 16, 2007
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Michael Bolte, Director of University of California Observatories
Title: The Thirty-Meter Telescope Project
Time & Location:  Noon, room 416 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Partical Physics Seminar
Speaker: Don Page
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Nuclear Physics Seminar
Speaker: Andrew Rose, LBNL


Friday, February 23, 2007

Cosmology Recruitment SEMINAR
Speaker: Marusa Bradac, Kavli Institute
Title: Dark matter and the highest redshift galaxies:
measuring the invisible with gravitational lensing

Time & Location: 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Bogdan Dobrescu, Fermilab
Title: Cascades of spinless adjoints at the LHC
Time & Location: 2 p.m. room 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, February 26, 2007

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Veronica Sanz
Title: Holography: a tool for the LHC
Time & Location: 11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO


Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Special HEFTI Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Olindo Corradini
Title: The worldine formalism: new results and applications
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Special Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Matt Francis, University of Sydney
Title: Cosmological Structure: The Effects of Dark Energy
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 525 PHY/GEO

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Joanne Cohn, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Two Filter Cluster Finding in the Millennium Simulation
Time & Location: March 1, 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, March 5, 2007

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Johannes Hirn
Title: (Not) Summing over Kaluza-Kleins
Time & Location:  11 a.m., room 432 PHY/GEO

Colloquium
Speaker: Marjorie Shapiro
Title: TBA
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m, room 55 Roessler

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Gabriella Sciolla
Title: Searching for New Physics in B decays at BaBar
Time & Location:  4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Nuclear Physics Seminar
Speaker: Bedanga Mohanty, LBNL - CANCELED
Time & Location: March 7, 4:10 p.m. room 416 PHY/GEO

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Risa Wechsler, Stanford
Title: Lighting Up the Dark: Connecting Galaxies to Mass
Time & Location: 12:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Monday, March 12, 2007

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Kaustubh Agashe
Title: Signals for Composite Higgs Models in Top and W/Z Physics
Time & Location: 11 a.m. room 432 PHY/GEO

Colloquium
Speaker: Raphael Bousso, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Precision Cosmology and the Landscape of String Theory
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 55 Roessler

Tuesday, March 13

Particle Physics Seminar
Speaker: Stan Brodsky, SLAC
Title: AdS/CFT and QCD
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room 416 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Jose Edelstein, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Title: TBA
Time & Location: 4:10 p.m., room PHY/GEO

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