2010-2011

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 2011

30 March
No seminar scheduled

6 April
No seminar scheduled

13 April
No seminar scheduled

20 April
"Correlations from Conservation Constraints in Heavy Ion Collisions"
Speaker: Scott Pratt, Michigan State University
Host: Huan Z. Huang

27 April
"New Results from the XENON100 Dark Matter Search"
Speaker: Emilija Pantic, UCLA
Host: Katsushi Arisaka

28 April, 11:00 a.m.
***Note the special date and time***
"Prospect of Particle Physics Experiments in China"
Speaker: Hesheng Chen, Director of IHEP Beijing
Host: Hanguo Wang

4 May, 4:00 p.m.
***Note the special time***
"Hydrodynamic + Boltzmann Hybrid Approach for Viscous QCD Matter at RHIC and LHC Energies"
Speaker: Dr. Huichao Song, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Host: Huan Z. Huang

9 May, 2:00 p.m.
***Note the special date and time***
"The ZEPLIN-III Dark Matter Search: Backgrounds and Veto Performance"
Speaker: Dr. Chamkaur Ghag, University of Edinburgh, UK
Host: Katsushi Arisaka

11 May
No seminar scheduled

18 May
***Joint TEP/HEAP Seminar***
"Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Electroweak Bremsstrahlung and Other Stories"
Speaker: Nicole Bell, University of Melbourne, Australia
Host: Alex Kusenko

25 May
***Joint TEP/HEAP Seminar***
"Learning from Atmospheric Neutrinos in IceCube and the IceCube Deep Core Array"
Speaker: Irina Mocioiu, Penn State
Host: Alex Kusenko

31 May, 4:00 p.m.
Joint TEP/HEAP Seminar
***Note the special date and time***
"25 Events, Please!": A Generic Dark Matter Search at CMS, LHC"
Speaker: Sue Ann Koay, UC Santa Barbara
Host: David Saltzberg

8 June
No seminar scheduled

Winter 2011

5 January
"Dark Matter Search with Fermi"
Speaker: Emanuele Bonamente, Perugia University (Italy)
Host: Vladimir Vassiliev

12 January
"Unveiling Nuclear Reaction Processes with a Space-Born Laue Lens"
Speaker: Julien Rousselle, University of Toulouse, CESR, France
Host: Vladimir Vassiliev

19 January
No seminar scheduled

26 January
"ZEPLIN III: A Two-Phase Xenon Dark Matter Detector"
Speaker: Paul Scovell, University of Edinburgh, UK
Host: Hanguo Wang

2 February
No seminar scheduled

9 February
No seminar scheduled

16 February
No seminar scheduled

23 February
No seminar scheduled

2 March
No seminar scheduled

9 March
"Search for New Physics in Events with Same-Sign Isolated Di-Leptons with the CMS Experiment"
Speaker: Guenakh Mitselmakher, University of Florida
Host: Robert Cousins

Fall 2010

29 September
No seminar scheduled

5 October, 3:00 p.m.
(**Note special date and time**)
"Laboratory Constraints on Chameleon Dark Energy from CHASE"
Speaker: Jason Steffen, Fermilab
Host: David Saltzberg

13 October
No seminar scheduled

20 October
"Electromagnetic Cascades from AGNs: Phenomenological Consequences"
Speaker: Dr. Ricard Tomas Bayo, II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg
Host: Pratik Majumdar

27 October
"Toward the Measurement of IGMF: Evidence of Gamma-ray Halos around Fermi AGN"
Speaker: Shin'ichiro Ando, Caltech
Host: Alexander Kusenko

3 November
"Direct Neutrino Mass Measurements: KATRIN and Project 8"
Speaker: Benjamin Monreal, UC Santa Barbara
Host: David Saltzberg

 10 November
No seminar scheduled

17 November
"The ANITA Balloon-Borne Interferometer: Radio Detection of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays and Cosmogenic Neutrino Limits"
Speaker: Dr. Andres Romero-Wolf, University of Hawaii
Host: Vladimir Vassiliev

1 December, 11:00 a.m.
(**Note: this is a special seminar added to December 1st**)
"KLOE Hadronic Cross Section Measurement and its Impact on Muon g-2"
Speaker: Dr. Paolo Beltrame, Marie Curie Fellow at CERN
Host: Katsushi Arisaka

4:30 p.m.
"The Search for Dark Matter: Present and Future"
Speaker: David B. Cline, UCLA

8 December
"Applying Novel Analysis Techniques to Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory"
Speaker: Ross Burton, Case Western Reserve University
Host: Vladimir Vassiliev