2012-2013

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 2013

3 April
No talk scheduled

10 April
No talk scheduled

17 April
"Recent Higgs results from CMS (and a few from ATLAS)"

Speaker: Robert Cousins, UCLA, Physics Department
 

24 April
"Are the Fermi-LAT Lines Real?"
Speaker: Daniel Whiteson, UC Irvine
Host: David Saltzberg

1 May
"Shedding Light on Dark Matter and Astrophysical Sources with Gamma-Ray Anisotropy"
Speaker: Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, California Institute of Technology
Host: Graciela Gelmini

8 May
"Reactor Neutrinos and the Double Chooz Experiment"
Speaker: John Felde, UC Davis
Host: Lindley Winslow

15 May
"Spin Structure of the Proton from Measurments at STAR"
Speaker: Stephen Trentalange, UCLA
Host: George Igo

22 May
"Dark Matter Detectors as Dark Photon Helioscopes"

Speaker: Haipeng An, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Host: Hanguo Wang

29 May
No talk scheduled
 

5 June
"Results on Cosmic Rays from the MINOS Neutrino Experiment"
Speaker: Maury Goodman, Argonne National Laboratory
Host: Lindley Winslow

12 June
No talk scheduled

19 June
No talk scheduled

Winter 2013

Seminars are held on Wednesdays, unless otherwise noted, in Fourth Floor Conference Room (Knudsen 4-134) at 4:30 p.m. Coffee and cookies are served 15 minutes prior.

 

6 February
No talk scheduled

11 February
**Note the special date and time**
11:00 am, Knudsen 4-134
Title: "Hadron Production and QGP Hadronization: Comparison of LHC with RHIC"
Speaker: Projessor Johann Rafelski, University of Arizona
Host: Huan Z. Huang

13 February
No talk scheduled

20 February
No talk scheduled

25 February
**Note the special date and time**
11:00 am, Knudsen 4-134
Title: "An Ultra-Sensitive Search for Dark-Matter Axions"
Speaker: Leslie Rosenberg, University of Washington
Host: Katsushi Arisaka

27 February
No talk scheduled

1 March
**Note the special date and time**
2:00 pm, Knudsen Hall 4-134
"The PandaX Dark Matter Experiment at China's Jinping Underground Lab"
Speaker: Kaixuan Ni, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Host: Emilijia Pantic

6 March
"QCD at the LHC, Blackhat+Sherpa, and Me"
Speaker: Joey Huston, Michigan State University
Host: David Saltzberg

13 March
No talk scheduled

20 March
"Latest News About the Higgs-Boson"
Speaker: Thomas Muller, Karlsruhe 
Host: Jay Hauser

27 March
"Searches for Heavy Stable Charged Particles at CMS" 
Speaker: Chris Farrell, UCLA
Host: Jay Hauser

Fall 2012

26 September
No seminar scheduled

03 October
No seminar scheduled

10 October
"Status of the NOvA Experiment"

Speaker: Christopher Backhouse, Caltech
Host: Lindley Winslow

17 October
No Seminar Scheduled

24 October
No seminar scheduled

31 October
"The ATLAS Forward Physics Project (AFP)"

Speaker: Christophe Royon, CEA Saclay
Host: George Igo

07 November
"Improved Measurement of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay"

Speaker: Xin Qian, Caltech
Host: Lindley Winslow

14 November
"Neutrino Oscillation Above a Black Hole Accretion Disk"

Speaker: Annie Malkus, North Carolina State University
Host: Lindley Winslow

21 November
No seminar scheduled

28 November
No seminar (room reserved for the STAR analysis meeting)

05 December
"Recent Results from the T2K Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment"

Speaker: Kendall Mahn, TRIUMF (Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
Host: Lindley Winslow

12 December
"The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of Germanium-76 in the Presence of Backgrounds"
Speaker: Alexis Schubert, University of Washington
Host: Lindley Winslow