2011-2012

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 2012

3 April, 3:00 p.m. PAB 4-330
***This is a joint TEP/EEP/AMO Seminar - Note the special date and time***
“Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF”
Speaker:  Dr. Bo Jayatilaka, Duke University
Host:  David Saltzberg

4 April, 4:30 p.m.
“Current Status of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment”
Speaker:  Dr. Alexey Lyashenko, Yale University
Host:  Katsushi Arisaka

11 April
No seminar scheduled

18 April
No seminar scheduled

25 April
No seminar scheduled

2 May
No seminar scheduled

9 May
"The New Techniques for Detection of WIMPS"

Speaker: Andrzej Drukier, President, Biomarker Technologies, LLC
Host: Graciela Gelmini

16 May
No seminar scheduled

22 May, Tuesday
"The Extreme Universe Space Observatory Mission on the International Space Station"

Speaker: James Adams, NASA
Host:  David Cline

23 May
"Searching for the Imprint of Inflation on the Cosmic Microwave Background from the South Pole"

Speaker: Dr. Abigail Vieregg, Harvard University
Host: David Saltzberg 

24 May, Thursday
**Time:  2:00 p.m., 1:45 p.m. Refreshments**
"Study Heavy Flavor Hadrons Production through their Semi-leptonic Decays at RHIC and LHC"
Speaker:  Wei Xie, Purdue University
Host:  Huan Huang

30 May
No seminar scheduled

6 June
No seminar scheduled

20 June
No seminar scheduled

Winter 2012

 10 January, 3:00 p.m. PAB 4-330
***This is a joint TEP/EEP/AMO Seminar - Note the special date and time***
"Magic, Precise, and Electroweak"
Speaker: Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada-Reno
Host: Eric Hudson

 11 January
"Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target"

Speaker: Xin Qian, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Host: Huan Z. Huang

18 January
"Neutrinos and Next Steps for the Standard Model"

Speaker: Daniel Dwyer, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Host: Huan Z. Huang

25 January
"WIMP Dark Matter Detection"

Speaker: Chamkaur Ghag, UCLA
Host: Huan Z. Huang

1 February
"The CUORE Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment"

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Banks, UC Berkeley
Host: Huan Z. Huang

8 February
"The Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the WW to Dilepton Final State"

Speaker: Corrinne Mills, Harvard University
Host: Huan Z. Huang

15 February
"Novel Probes of the Nucleon Spin Structure and the QCD Vacuum"

Speaker: Anselm Vossen, Indiana University CEEM
Host: Huan Z. Huang

22 February
"Electroweak Physics with the ATLAS Detector: From Detector Commissioning to Constraining the Standard Model"

Speaker: Alberto Belloni, Harvard University
Host: Huan Z. Huang

29 February
"From Data to Discovery: Evolving New Physics Searches with CMS Detector"

Speaker: Steven Lowette, UC Santa Barbara
Host: Huan Z. Huang

7 March
No seminar scheduled

14 March
No seminar scheduled

21 March
No seminar scheduled

Fall 2011

28 September
No seminar scheduled

5 October
No seminar scheduled

12 October
No seminar scheduled

19 October
No seminar scheduled

26 October
No seminar scheduled

2 November
No Seminar Scheduled

9 November
No seminar scheduled

16 November
No seminar scheduled

22 November, 4:00 p.m.
***Note the special date and time***
"Observation of Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200"
Speaker: Jesse Wodin, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Host: Huan Z. Huang

23 November
No seminar scheduled

30 November
"The Quest for the Last Mixing Angle: First Results from Double Chooz"

Speaker: Dr. Lindley Winslow, MIT
Host: Huan Z. Huang

7 December
"An Excess of Needles in the Haystack? The Hunt for New Physics at ATLAS"

Speaker: Jahred Adelman, Yale University
Host: Huan Z. Huang

14 December
"Antiparticles in the Shadow of the Earth: Cosmic-Ray Positrons with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope"

Speaker: Justin Vandenbroucke, Stanford University
Host: Huan Z. Huang