Fall Quarter 2004

COLLOQUIA
Fall Quarter, 2004 - Kaloper &
MONDAY- 4:10 p.m., 55 Roessler Hall


October 11
Dr. David Pines, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
"Emergent Behavior in Correlated Electron Superconductors"
Abstract

October 18
Dr. Thomas Himel, Stanford Linear Accelerator Collider (SLAC)
"The International Linear Collider"
Abstract

October 25
Dr. Shirley Chiang, University of California Davis
"State of the Department"
Abstract

November 1
Dr. Emlyn W. Hughes, California Institute of Technology
"Parity Violation in Electron Scattering"
Abstract

November 8
Dr. Donald Turcotte, University of California Davis, Department of Geology
"Statistical Physics of Earthquakes"
Abstract

November 15
Dr. Warren Pickett, University of California Davis, Department of Physics
"Paradigm Shifts and Alternative Universes in Strong Coupling Superconductivity"
Abstract

November 22
Dr. Henry Sobel, University of California Irvine
"The Unfolding Story of the Neutrino"
Abstract

November 29
Dr. Hitoshi Murayama, University of California Berkeley
"The Next Twent Years in Particle Physics"
Abstract

December 6
Dr. Andreas Albrecht, University of California Davis
"The Quantum Universe Report and the Recent Advances in Cosmology and Fundamental Physics"
Abstract

HIGH ENERGY/ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS SEMINAR
Fall Quarter, 2004 - Gunion

TUESDAY - 4:10 p.m., Room 416 Physics/Geology

October 12
Dr. Klaus Behrndt, LMU Munich
"Fixing of Moduli by Fluxes in Type IIA String Theory"
Abstract

October 19
Dr. Nemanja Kaloper, University of California Davis
"Exorcising w<-1"
Abstract

October 26
Dr. Veronika Hubeny, University of California, Berkeley
"Probing Bulk Via Correlators"

November 9
Dr. Guido Marandella, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Predictive Models of Supersymmetry and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking by a Compact Extra Dimension"
Abstract

November 16
Dr. Pavlos Vranas, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
"Lattice Gauge Theory and the BlueGene/L Supercomputer; The Next Generation"
Abstract

November 23
Dr. Yasunori Nomura, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Supersymmetric Unification in Warped Space"
Abstract

December 7
Dr. Lorenzo Sorbo, University of California Davis
"Moduli Entrapment with Primordial Black Holes"
Abstract



NUCLEAR SEMINAR
Fall Quarter, 2004 - Cebra

COSMOLOGY SEMINAR
Fall Quarter, 2004 - Albrecht

THURSDAY - 12:10 p.m., Room 416 Physics/Geology

Possibly a more up to date version here

September 30

Seminar Cancelled
Dr. Richard Massey, Caltech
"Measuring The Shapes of Galaxies in the HST COSMOS Survey"

October 7
Dr. Ted Baltz, Stanford Linear Accelerator Collider (SLAC)
"Understanding Dark Matter: From Accelerators to Galaxies"
Abstract

October 8
Dr. Suketu Bhavsar, University of Kentucky
"The Filament-Void Network and Scale of Homogeneity in the Universe"
Abstract

Seminar Cancelled
October 21
Dr. James Schombert, University of Oregon
"The Evolution of Cluster Populations"
Abstract

October 28
Dr. Dan Stern, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
"High-Redshift Galaxies and the Epoch of Reionization"
Abstract

November 4
Dr. Tzu-Ching Chang, University of California Berkeley
"Cosmic Shear Measurement with FIRST"
Abstract

Special Seminar Date
November 8
Dr. Andrei Frolov, Stanford University
"Is It Really Naked? On Cosmic Censorship in String Theory"
Abstract

November 18
Dr. Crystal Martin, University of California Santa Barbara
"The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Formation"
Abstract

Special Seminar
November 22
Dr. David Sand, California Institute of Technology
"A Search for Gravitationally-Lensed Arcs in the HST/WFPC2 Archive"
Abstract

Special Seminar
November 30
Dr. Jo Dunkley, Oxford University
"Non-adiabatic models: CMB constraints using fast MCMC"
Abstract

December 9
Dr. Maxim Pospelov, CGuleph University
"Lorentz Violation in Effective Field Theory and Supersymmetry"
Abstract

CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR
Fall Quarter, 2004 - Zhu

THURSDAY - 4:10 p.m., Room 416 Physics/Geology

For information on past speakers

October 19
Dr. Nirmal Singh, Panjab University
"Recent Experimental Studieson Photo-Atom Scattering in the X-Ray Energy Region"
Abstract

October 21
Dr. Andreas Bill, ETH Zurich & Paul Scherrer Institute
"Influence of Superconducting Electronic Properties on the Dynamical Magnetic Susceptibility of High-Tc Materials"
Abstract

October 28
Dr. Dung-Hai Lee, University of California, Berkeley
"Recent Advances in High Temperature Superconductivity"
Abstract

November 4
Dr. Jabez McClelland, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Nanotechnology with Atom Optics"
Abstract

November 18
Dr. William Klein, Boston University
"Nucleation, Critical Points and Phase Transitions in Metals and Earthquakes"
Abstract

December 2
Dr. Meichun Qian, University of California Davis
"An Ab Initio Investigation on the Half-Metallicity of the Transition Metal Compounds with Zinc-Blende Structure"
Abstract

PHYSICS EDUCATION SEMINAR- PHYSICS 298-23
Fall Quarter, 2004- Potter

FRIDAY- 12:00-1:00, Room 113 Walker Annex


STUDENTS ONLY SEMINAR
Fall Quarter, 2004

WEDNESDAY - 12:30 p.m., 416 Physics/Geology


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