2014-2015
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 Quarter 2015
April 1
No Seminar Scheduled
April 8
No Seminar Scheduled
April 16
"Glimpse to the present and future of TeV gamma-ray astronomy: Discovery of the pulsar wind nebula 3C 58 and MACHETE, a new IACT to survey half of the gamma-ray sky"
Speaker: Ruben Lopez, Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE)-Barcelona
Host: Rene Ong
**Please note the special date, time, and location**
April 22
"Exploring the origin of galactic cosmic rays with the positron fraction and gamma-ray observations of M31"
Speaker: Ralph Bird, University College Dublin
Host: Rene Ong
April 29
Results from the Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of 130Te with CUORE-0
Speaker: Thomas O'Donnell, Lawrence Berekley National Laboratory
Host: Huan Zhong Huang
May 6
No Seminar Scheduled
May 13
No Seminar Scheduled
May 20
No Seminar Scheduled
May 27
No Seminar Scheduled
June 3
No Seminar Scheduled
Winter Quarter 2015
January 20 @ 4pm
"Ωccc Production in High Energy Nuclear Collisions"
Speaker: Pengfei Zhuang, Tsinghua University
Host: Huan Huang
**Note special day and time**
January 21
"Results of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment"
Speaker: Carmen Carmona, UC Santa Barbara
Host: Lindley Winslow
January 28
No Seminar Scheduled
February 4
No Seminar Scheduled
February 11
"What we've learned about the Higgs so far, and some new strategies for Run2 of the LHC"
Speaker: Kyle Cranmer, New York University
Host: Robert Cousins
February 18
No Seminar Scheduled
February 25
"The Long-Baseline Neutrino Program and the CAPTAIN Project"
Speaker: Christopher Mauger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Hanguo Wang
March 4
No Seminar Scheduled
March 11
No Seminar Scheduled
March 18
No Seminar Scheduled
Fall Quarter 2014
October 1
No seminar scheduled
October 8
"Dark matter searches at ATLAS"
Speaker: Ning Zhou, UC Irvine
Host: Robert Cousins
October 15
No seminar scheduled
October 20 @ 3pm
"Towards a Neutrino Mass Measurement via Holmium Electron Capture Spectroscopy"
Speaker: Dr. Gerd Kunde, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Huan Huang
*Note Special Time*
October 22
No seminar scheduled
October 29
No seminar scheduled
November 5
No seminar scheduled
November 12
"Dark matter search with liquid argon detectors"
Speaker: Biagio Rossi, Princeton University / INFN Naples
Host: Hanguo Wang
November 17
"New detection concepts for future noble-liquid detectors for dark matter and other rare-event searches"
Speaker: Dr. Lior Arazi, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Host: Hanguo Wang
November 19
"Current status of sterile neutrino dark matter"
Speaker: George Fuller, UC San Diego
Host: David Cline
November 25 @ 4pm
"The High Pt Surprise in Forward Transverse Single Spin Pion Asymmetries from pp Collisions"
Speaker: Steve Heppelmann, Penn State University
Host: Huan Huang
*Note special day and time*
December 3
"Project 8: Towards a Radio-Frequency Measurement of the Neutrino Mass"
Speaker: Luiz de Viveiros, UC Santa Barbara
Host: Lindley Winslow
December 9 @ 3pm
"The Quark-Gluon Plasma at its Most Strongly Coupled: Current and Future Measurements at RHIC"
Speaker: Ann Sickles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Huan Huang
*Note special day and time*
December 10
"Quantum statistics measurements using 2-, 3-, and 4-pion Bose-Einstein correlations"
Speaker: Dr. Dhevan Gangadharan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Host: Huan Huang