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SPRING 2008 SEMINARS
 

MONDAY MARCH 31, 2008
 
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Fracis Halzen- University of Wisconsin
Title: High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory.
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

THURSDAY APRIL 3, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker:
Title:
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Kieron Burke- UC Irvine
Title: Density Functional Theory: A Great Mistake?
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY APRIL 7, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Chandra Varma- UC Riverside
Title: How do Electrons Attract Each Other?
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Dr Zacharia Chacko- University of Maryland
Title: Composite Little Higgs and Twin Higgs Models
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

TUESDAY APRIL 8, 2008
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title:TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO


Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker:Dr. Jorge Zanelli- Centro de Estudios Cientificos
Title: Chern-Simons Theory: That Obscure Object of Desire
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

WEDNESDAY APRIL 16, 2008
Nuclear Physics Seminar
Speaker: Prof Jennifer Klay - Cal Poly, SLO
Title:Heavy ion collisions at the LHC with the ALICE experiment
Time and Place: 2:30 PM in room 432 PHY/GEO

THURSDAY APRIL 17, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Ian Dell'Antonio- Brown University
Title: Weak lensing, mass clustering and dark energy from DLS to Destiny
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Congjun Wu- UC San Diego
Title: Novel Orbital Physics with Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY APRIL 21, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr Miguel Mostafa- University of Utah
Title: Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler


THURSDAY APRIL 24, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Bahram Mobasher- UC Riverside
Title: Old Galaxies in a Young Universe: Searching for Massive Galaxies at High Redshift
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Steve White- UC Irvine
Title: Numerical Studies of 2D Frustrated and Doped Quantum Systems
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY APRIL 28, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Richard Kiehl - UC Davis Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: Molecular and Biological Routes to Future Electronics
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

THURSDAY MAY 1, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. John Moustakas- NYU
Title: Ten Billion Years of Chemical Evolution in Star-Forming Galaxies
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Professor Ivan Schuller- UC San Diego
Title: NANOSTRUCTURES: CONFINEMENT, PROXIMITY AND INDUCED EFFECTS
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY MAY 5, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Stanley Deser- Caltech and Brandeis University
Title: Quantum Gravity - New Hope for the Dead?
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Dr. David Poland - UC Berkeley
Title: More Visible Effects of the Hidden Sector
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

WEDNESDAY May 7, 2008
Colloquium- Joint  Physics and Geology Department
Speaker: Dr. Bill McDonough
Title:Geoneutrinos and Heat Production int the Earth: Constraints and Implications
Time and Place: 4:10 PM room 55 Roessler


THURSDAY MAY 8, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: David Schlegel - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Title: BOSS: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Sriram Shastry- UC Santa Cruz
Title: A Model for Many Seasons:Magnetism and Superconductivity in 2-d
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY MAY 12 , 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Eiirichiro Komatsu - University of Texas at Austin
Title: Most Recent WMAP5 Release of CMB Data and its Implications for Cosmology
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Anibal Medina - University of Chicago
Title: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Collider phenomenology in Gauge-Higgs Unification Scenarios in Warped Extra Dimensions
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

TUESDAY MAY 13, 2008
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Itay Yavin - Princeton University
Title:Spin Determination at the LHC
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

THURSDAY MAY 15, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Michael Busha - Stanford University
Title: The Dark Energy Survey
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO


MONDAY MAY 19, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: TBA
Title:TBA
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker:TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

TUESDAY MAY 20, 2008
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title:TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

THURSDAY MAY 22, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr Alex Abate
Title: The Three Faces of Omega_m: Testing Gravity with Low and
 High Redshift SN Ia Surveys

Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Zack Schlesinger- UC Santa Cruz
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY MAY 26, 2008
MEMORIAL DAY- NO SEMINARS

TUESDAY MAY 27, 2008

High Energy Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title:
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

THURSDAY MAY 29, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Chris Taylor- Sacramento State
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Brian Maple- UC San Diego
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY JUNE 2, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Ian Shipsey- Physics Department - Perdue University
Title: Bringing Hearing to the Deaf - Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

TUESDAY JUNE 3, 2008
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Prof Lawrence Krauss - Case Western Reserve University
Title:Hiding in the Mirror:  The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

THURSDAY JUNE 5, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Gillian Wilson- UC Riverside
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Dr. William Evans- Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GE

MONDAY JUNE 9, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

TUESDAY JUNE 10, 2008
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title:TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY JUNE 16, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

TUESDAY JUNE 17, 2008
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title:TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

THURSDAY JUNE 19, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY JUNE 23, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

TUESDAY JUNE 24, 2008
High Energy Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title:TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

THURSDAY JUNE 26, 2008
Cosmology Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 12:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10 PM in room 416 PHY/GEO

MONDAY JUNE 30, 2008
Colloquium
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 4:10PM in room 55 Roessler

Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time and Place: 11:00AM Room 432 PHY/GEO

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