2004-2005

Seminars are held on Wednesdays, unless otherwise noted, in Fourth Floor Conference Room (Knudsen 4-134) at 12:00 PM. Pizza is served 15 minutes prior.

SPRING 2005

6 April
UCLA Brief Research Updates
Profs. Arisaka, Cousins, Hauser, Huang, Saltzberg, Wallny and Dr. Wang
U.C.L.A.

14 April* Thursday at 12:30pm
"Diamond Detectors for Particle Detection"
Prof. Harris Kagan,
Ohio State University

20 April
No seminar yet scheduled

27 April
"New Results from CDMS II"
Prof. Harry Nelson,
UC Santa Barbara

4 May- CANCELLED
title TBD
Prof. Leslie Rosenberg
LLNL

10 May, **** Tuesday at 3pm (SPECIAL EEP Seminar)
"Measuring Geo-nus and the Search for a Geo-reactor with KamLAND
and a New Experiment, Hanohano, in the mid-Pacific"
Prof. John Learned
University of Hawaii

11 May
"Determining the Neutrino Mixing Angle theta_13 At Daya Bay"
Prof. Kam-Biu Luk
UC Berkeley

17 May****(Tuesday)
“Looking for neutrinos from 2 km underground: The SNO Project”
Prof. Jimmy Law
University of Guelph

25 May
"Neutrino Physics at the Energy Frontier"
Prof. Steve Barwick,
UC Irvine

1 June
"Measuring the Top Quark Mass Using b-Hadron Decay Lengths"
Dr. Chris Hill
UC Santa Barbara

8 June
TBD

Winter 2005

19 January
The Braidwood Experiment: Measuring theta13 with a reactor experiment. (talk)
Dr. Matthew Worcester,
University of Chicago

26 January
Is There a Theta++ State?
Huan Zhong Huang,
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

2 February
CCD-based Vertex Detectors for the International Linear Collider (talk)
Konstantin Stefanov,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

9 February
The International Linear Collider: Physics, Detectors, the Accelerator, and the Roadmap (talk)
Prof. James E. Brau
Center for High Energy Physics, University of Oregon.

16 February
JADE Analysis in the New Millenium (talk)
Dr. Pedro Movilla Fernandez
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

23 February
An indirect search for Dark Matter Annihilation with VERITAS (talk)
Dr. Stephen Fagan
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

2 March
Electroweak Single Top Production at CDF
Dr. Bernd Stelzer,
Physics Dept., University of Toronto.

9 March
Probing the Standard Model using Heavy Quark Resonances
Prof. Steven Blusk
Physics Dept, Syracuse University.

16 March
Top lifetime tagging CANCELLED - no seminar scheduled
Dr. Christopher Hill,
University of California, Santa Barbara

23 March
Status of KAMLand (talk)
Dr. Bruce Berger,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Fall 2004

29 September
EEP Welcome Back Party
All
University of California, Los Angeles

6 October
The Future of Radio and Acoustic Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos
David Saltzberg
University of California, Los Angeles

13 October
No seminar today

20 October
At the Top of CDF: Our Run-II Experience with the Top Quark
Charles Plager
University of California, Los Angeles

27 October
Status of Pierre Auger Observatory
Arun Tripathy,
University of California, Los Angeles

3 November
Overview of the Status of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Robert Cousins
University of California, Los Angeles

10 November
Hadron Formation from High-Density, High-Temperature Quark-Gluon Matter
Paul Sorenson
University of California, Berkeley

17 November
Diamonds are Forever: The Future of Radiation-Hard Tracking Detectors
Rainer Wallny,
University of California, Los Angeles

24 November
No seminar: Thanksgiving

1 December
The Search for Dark Matter Particles
David Cline,
University of California, Los Angeles

8 December
Status of VERITAS and a Little Science in the Theme of VHE Gamma Rays
Vladimir Vassiliev
University of California, Los Angles

14 December
*** JOINT TEP/EEP SPECIAL SEMINAR ***
Note special time and place: New PAB 2-748 at 4pm
Status of Theoretical and Observational Work on Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Prof. Alan Watson
University of Leeds