2005-2006

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 2006

5 April
"The Dark Universe: The Search for Dark Matter and Understanding Dark Energy"
Prof. David Cline
University of California, Los Angeles

12 April
"Probing the Boundaries of the Standard Model with B Physics at CDF"
Dr. Alessandro Cerri
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

19 April
"First Results from the MINOS Neutrino Oscillation Search"
Prof. Sacha Kopp
University of Texas, Austin

26 April
TBA
Speaker
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles

3 May
"Coherent Scattering, Oversampling, and Application of X-ray Free Electron Laser"
Prof. John Miao
University of California, Los Angeles

10 May
"Catch it and you keep it - neutrino detection at the South Pole"
Prof. David Besson
University of Kansas

17 May
"DRIFT Dark Matter Detector Update"
Prof. Daniel Snowden-Ifft
Occidental College

24 May
Results from the Collider Detector at Fermilab 
Part 1: Search for R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry,
Part 2: A Precise Measurement of the Top Quark Mass.
Alon Attal and Brian Mohr
University of California, Los Angeles

31 May
TBA
Speaker,
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles

7 June
"The status of ZEPLIN II Detector - a WIMP dark matter directsearch detector using two phase xenon"
Dr. Hanguo Wang,
University of California, Los Angeles

Winter 2006

11 January
No seminar scheduled

18 January
Kinematics of Hadron Colliders: A Primer
Prof. Drew Baden
University of Maryland

25 January
Reaching EeV Neutrinos with ANITA and Beyond
Amy Connolly,
University of California, Los Angeles.

1 February
Probing high energy physics with a torsion pendulum: a new axion search and short range tests of the inverse square law.
Dr. Seth Hoedl,
University of Washington, Seattle.

8 February
VHE Astronomy with a 1km2 Cherenkov Array
Dr. Stephen Fegan,
University of California, Los Angeles.

15 February
No seminar scheduled

22-25 February
DM 2006 Conference see
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/hep/dm06/dm06.htm

22 February
Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering in Polarized ep Collisions with HERMES (Title TBC)
Dr. Hrachia Marukian,
Yerevan Institute Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.

1 March
Recent Progress on Photon Detectors in High Energy and Astroparticle Physics
Prof. Katsushi Arisaka,
University of California, Los Angeles.

8 March
New Accelerators Title (TBC)
Prof. Jamie Rosenzweig,
University of California, Los Angeles.

15 March
Searches for New Physics at CDF Title (TBC)
Dr. Beate Heinemann,
University of Liverpool, UK

Fall 2005

5 October
Welcome Back Party ALL

12 October
"Detection and imaging of cosmic ray air showers by radio flashes"
Dr. Hartmut Gemmeke,
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

19 October
"The Future Landscape for Particle Astrophysics"
Prof. Rene Ong,
University of California, Los Angeles

26 October
"Pierre Auger Observatory: First Results and Status"
Dr. Arun Tripathi,
University of California, Los Angeles

2 November
"CP violation and the CKM matrix, a report from the B factories"
Professor Owen Long
University of California, Riverside

9 November
"The MINOS Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment"
Dr. Caius Howcroft
Caltech

16 November
"Status of ZEPLIN II Dark Matter Detector"
Dr. Hanguo Wang
University of California, Los Angeles

"Future Directions for Ground-Based Cherenkov Telescopes"
Prof. Vladimir Vassiliev
University of California, Los Angeles

23 November
No seminar yet scheduled
Speaker,
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles

30 November
"LIGO Perks up its Ears"
Dr. Peter Shawhan
California Institute of Technology

7 December
"Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations at K2K and T2K"
Professor Scott Oser,
University of British Columbia