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