2008-2009
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 2009
1 April
"Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes: Bursts of X-rays and Gamma rays from Lightning"
Dr. Brian Greffenstette
UCSC
8 April (Special HEAP seminar at NOON, Pizza lunch provided.)
"Observations of distant blazars with the MAGIC telescope"
Dr. Manel Errando
IFAE, Barcelona
8 April
"Status of the Search for Dark Matter"
Prof. David Cline
UCLA
14 April (*Tuesday at 4:00pm)
"ANITA and Ultra High Energy Astrophysics: Ballooning in Search of Neutrinos"
Dr. Kimberly Palladino
Ohio State University
21 April (*Tuesday, Special HEAP seminar at NOON, Pizza lunch provided @11:45am.)
"Observations of the Galactic Center and Searches for Exotic Signals with H.E.S.S."
Dr. Matthieu Vivier
CEA-Saclay
22 April
"Recent Results in Dark Matter Search"
Prof. Graciela Gelmini
UCLA
28 April (Tuesday @ 4pm, Special Joint Nuclear and HEAP Seminar)
"Hard probes physics at RHIC and the LHC: from jets to heavy quarks"
Dr. Ivan Vitev
Los Alamos National Lab
29 April (Special HEAP Seminar at NOON, Pizza lunch provided @ 11:45am).
"Applied Antineutrino Physics"
Dr. Adam Bernstein
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
29 April
"New TeV Gamma Sources and a Surprising Cosmic Ray Anisotropy - Recent Results from Milagro"
Prof. Jordan Goodman
University of Maryland
30 April (Special HEAP Seminar at NOON, Pizza lunch provided @11:45am.)
"An Extragalactic View of the VHE Gamma Ray Sky with the MAGIC Telescope"
Dr. Pratik Majumdar
DESY-Zeuthen
6 May (Special HEAP Seminar at NOON, Pizza lunch provided @11:45am.)
"Multi-Messenger Astronomy with the AMANDA and IceCube Neutrino Observatories"
Dr. Kyler Kuehn
Ohio State University
6 May
"The Xenon 100 and Max dark Matter Project"
Dr. Hanguo Wang
UCLA
14 May *(Thursday, Special HEAP Seminar at NOON, Pizza lunch provided @11:45am)
"The Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass Experiment"
Dr. Issac Mognet
Penn State University
20 May (Special HEAP Seminar at NOON, Pizza lunch provided @11:45am)
"Novel Reflective Elements and Indirect Dark Matter Searches with the MAGIC telescope and Future IACTs "
Dr. Michele Doro
University of Padova & INFN Padov
20 May
"The LUX and High Pressure Detector Dark Matter Project"
Prof. James White
Texas A&M University
27 May
"Results from Fermi Space Gamma Ray Telescope"
Prof. Elliott Bloom
Stanford
3 June
"Neutrino physics with the IceCube detector"
Dr. Joanna Kiryluk
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Winter 2009
7 January
No seminar yet scheduled
Speaker
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles
14 January
No seminar yet scheduled
Speaker
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles
21 January
No seminar yet scheduled
Speaker
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles
28 January
"A new limit on the permanent electric dipole moment of 199Hg"
Dr. Tom Loftus
University of Washington
4 February
No seminar yet scheduled
Speaker
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles
11 February
"First Results from South Pole Telescope (SPT)"
Joaquin Vieira
University of Chicago
18 February
"The Development of a 100 KT LAR Detector for DUSEL in the USA."
Prof. David Cline and Dr. Hanguo Wang
UCLA
19 February (Special HEAP Seminar, 12:30pm - 2pm in PAB 3-703)
"The Search for Supersymmetry at CDF"
Prof. David Toback
Texas A&M University
19 February (Special HEAP Seminar, 2pm - 3pm)
"DM-TPC: a novel approach to directional Dark Matter detection"
Prof. Gabriella Sciolla
MIT
25 February
No seminar yet scheduled
Speaker
Institution, e.g. University of California, Los Angeles
4 March
"A condensed-matter search for violation of parity and time-reversal symmetries."
Dr. Alex Sushkov
Yale
11 March (Special HEAP Seminar at 12 noon)
"VHE gamma-rays from AGN with H.E.S.S. Multiwavelength Studies and Radiative Modeling."
Dr. Jean-Philippe Lenain.
L'Observatoire de Paris
11 March (Special Joint Nuclear and HEAP Seminar)
"Cadmium Zinc Telluride detector for neutrinoless double beta decay experiment."
Dr. Thomas Bloxham
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
18 March (Special HEAP Seminar at 12 noon)
"Nuclear Spin-Dependent Parity Nonconservation (NSD-PNC) in Diatomic Molecules."
David Rahmlow
Yale University
18 March
"Pop goes the Neutrino: Acoustic detection of astrophysical neutrinos."
Justin Vandenbroucke
U. C. Berkeley
Fall 2008
15 October
No seminar yet scheduled
22 October
"Dark Matter Searches Status as of ICHEP08"
Prof. Graciela Gelmini
University of California, Los Angeles
29 October
No seminar yet scheduled
5 November
No seminar yet scheduled
12 November
No seminar yet scheduled
19 November
No seminar yet scheduled
26 November
No seminar yet scheduled
3 December
No seminar yet scheduled
10 December (Special time10:30am, Nuclear & Particle Physics seminar)
"Physics with Tagged Forward Protons at the Hadron Colliders"
Dr. Wlodek Guryn
Brookhaven National Laboratory
17 December
No seminar yet scheduled