2007-2008

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 2008

2 April
"The CMS experiment at the LHC:Preparing for early discoveries"
Prof. Albert De Roeck
CERN

8 April (TUESDAY @ 4:15pm, Joint HEAP & Nuclear Physics Seminar)
"Double-Beta Decay: Strengths and Weakness of the Leading Experimental Proposals"
Prof. Frank Avignone
University of South Carolina

16 April
"Spooky Quantum Neutrino Antics in Supernovae: A New Window on Neutrino Properties?"
Prof. George Fuller
UCSD

30 April
"Progress on the Development of a Muon Collider in the USA"
Prof. David Cline
UCLA

14 May
"Progress on the Search for Dark Matter with Noble Gas Detector"
Dr. Hanguo Wang
UCLA

21 May
"Search for Maximal Flavor Violation"
Dr. Daniel Whiteson
UC Irvine

27 May (*Special date/time: Tuesday@11:30am)
"Precision top quark mass measurement simultaneously in dilepton and lepton + jets decay channels."
Dr. Wojciech Fedorko
Univ. of Chicago

27 May (Tuesday, Joint HEAP & Nuclear Physics Seminar)
"Anatomy of the double beta decay matrix elements"
Dr. Petr Vogel
Caltech

4 June
"Higgs Searches at the Tevatron"
Dr. Gregorio Bernardi
LPNHE, Univ. of Paris VI

Winter 2008

9 January
No seminar yet scheduled
Speaker
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles

16 January
"A Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment at Fermilab"
Dr. Eric Prebys
FNAL

 23 January
"Gamma to milli-eV Particle Search"
Dr. William Wester
FNAL

29 January
"Search for the Standard Model Higgs in the Dilepton+Neutrino Final State at CDF II"
Dr. Shih-Chieh Hsu
UCSD

30 January
"Understanding Cosmic-Ray Acceleration at Supernova Remnants on a 3-Dimensional Model"
Prof. Tune Kamae
SLAC/KIPAC

6 February
"High-Energy Neutrino Detection at the S. Pole - Latest Results"
Dr. Spencer Klein
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

13 February
"Compton Telescopes for Gamma-ray Astrophysics"
Prof. Steve Boggs
UC, Berkeley

20 February
Reserved for DM meeting
Speaker
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles

27 February
"Designing a Detector for the ILC"
Prof. John Jaros
SLAC

5 March
"Gamma-Ray Astronomy with HESS, GLAST and Beyond"
Dr. Stefan Funk
SLAC/KIPAC

12 March
"Higgs Searches at the Tevatron." (tentative)
Prof. Gregorio Bernardi
LPNHE, Univ. of Paris VI

19 March
"New Dark Matter search results from CDMS-II"
Dr. Raul Hennings-Yeomans
Case Western Reserve University

27 March (*Special Seminar: Thursday, 3/27 from 2-3 pm)
"Direct Dark Matter Detection with XENON"
Dr. Kaixuan Ni
Columbia University

Fall 2007

26 September (Special Seminar @3pm)
"The Compact Muon Solenoid: getting ready for the LHC run."
Prof. Thomas Muller
University of Karlsruhe

1 October
No seminar yet scheduled

3 October
HEAP Welcome back party
Prof. Jay Hauser
UCLA

10 October
"Searching for new particles with Z's and jets at the LHC"
Prof. David Stuart
UCSB

17 October
"Preparing CMS for the first physics at the Large Hadron Collider"
Prof. Darin Acosta
University of Florida

24 October
"XAX: the Ultimate Multi-purpose Detector for Dark Matter, Double Beta Decay and Solar Neutrino"
Prof. Katsushi Arisaka
UCLA

31 October
No seminar yet scheduled (Halloween)

7 November
No seminar yet scheduled

14 November
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Research with the HiRes
Dr. Konstantin Belov
UCLA

21 November
"What are these UHE Cosmic Rays observed by Pierre-Auger?"
Dr. Matthew Healy & Prof. Katsushi Arisaka
UCLA

28 November
Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Observations with Bolocam
Prof. Sunil Golwala
Caltech

5 December
"A physicist for 66 years-memoirs of an experimenter"
Prof. Bernard Hamermesh
UCLA