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Colloquia and Other Seminars 2008-2009 Academic Year

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Colloquia and Other Seminars 2007-2008 Academic Year

Colloquia and Other Seminars 2006-2007 Academic Year

 

 

August 2008

Nuclear Seminar - August 4

Measurement of Nuclear Astrophysics Reactions in CIAE

Prof. W.P. Liu

CIAE, China Institute of Atomic Energy

Nuclear Seminar - August 5

Study of Nuclear Weak Response by Using Strong Interaction

Prof. Yoshitaka Fujita

Osaka University

Special Summer Astrophysics Seminar - August 5

Neutrino Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae with Neutrino Oscillations

Dr. Takashi Yoshida

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Special Condensed Matter Seminar - August 14

Nematic colloidal superstructures: from dimers to braids

Professor Slobodan Zumer

Physics Department, University of Ljubljana & Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Nuclear Seminar - August 18

Studies on nuclear structure on and away from the stability line

Dr. Maitreyee Saha Sarkar

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

Colloquium - August 27

SUSY & The Lords of the Ring

Sylvester J. Gates, Jr. John S. Toll Professor of Physics and Center for String and Particle Theory Director

University of Maryland

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September 2008

Astrophysics Seminar - September 2

Key Questions in Big Bang Cosmology and the Birth of Space-Time

Prof. Grant J. Mathews

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - September 2

Anti-protons at Fermilab: New directions in Hyperon, Charm, and Antimatter Physics

Prof. Dan Kaplan

Illinois Institute of Technology

Colloquium - September 3

Making Scientific Datasets Universally Accessible and Useful

Jon Trowbridge

Google, Inc.

Nuclear Seminar - September 8

JINA REACLIB in Type-I X-ray Bursts

Prof. Richard H. Cyburt

NSCL, Michigan State University

High Energy Seminar - September 9

GammeV: A Gamma to milli-eV Particle Search

Dr. William Wester

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Colloquium - September 10

The Physics of Theoretical Computation

Prof. Edward Fredkin

Carnegie Mellon University

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 11

Applications of Cellular Neural/Nonlinear Networks in Physics

Dr. Maria Magdolna Ercsey-Ravasz

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - September 16

On the Importance of Outflows and Infall in Spiral Galaxies: Interstellar Dust as a Probe of Galaxy Assembly

Prof. J. Christopher Howk

University of Notre Dame

Special Nuclear Seminar - September 16

The New Advanced Physics Laboratory in Jordan Hall

Prof. J.W. Hammer

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - September 16

Little Higgs Models

Ayan Paul

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - September 17

Recent results on particles of the highest energy using the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

Prof. Paul Sommers

Pennsylvania State University

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 18

From nanostructures to biomaterials

Professor László Forró

Institute of Physics and Complex Matter Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Nuclear Seminar - September 22

Determination of the 233Pa(n,f) Reaction Cross-Section by Surrogate Ratio Method

Dr. Basanta Nayak

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - September 23

Phase Transitions

Dr. Jose No

University of Madrid

Colloquium - September 24

Opportunities for nuclear physics in safeguards

Dr. Jo Ressler

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 25

Graphene based Nanoelectronics

Professor Debdeep Jena

University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - September 29

Reaction Processes in 8Li+208Pb

Dr. E.F. Aguilera

Instituto National de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico

Special Nuclear Seminar - September 30

Alpha-Particle Resonances and Algebraic Cluster Models

Prof. Jozsef Cseh

Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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October 2008

Colloquium - October 1

The Physics of NASCAR

Prof. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky

University of Nebraska

Library Seminar - October 6

Citation Management (Refworks)

Sponsored by the Engineering, Chemistry/Physics, and Mathematics Libraries

University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - October 6

Experiments and detectors at TRIUMF for Nuclear Astrophysics

Dr. Lothar Buchmann

TRIUMF Canada

Astrophysics Seminar - October 7

Formation of Binary Asteroids

Kevin Walsh

Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur

Colloquium - October 8

A Recipe for the Universe. The research program of the Large Hadron Collider

Prof. Randal Ruchti

University of Notre Dame

Library Seminar - October 10

Citation Management (Refworks)

Sponsored by the Engineering, Chemistry/Physics, and Mathematics Libraries

University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - October 13

Nucleosynthesis Processes in the Explosion of Massive Stars

Dr. Carla Froehlich

University of Chicago

Astrophysics Seminar - October 14

The Detection of z ~ 2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields

Jeff Cooke

University of California - Irvine

High Energy Seminar - October 14

Unparticles

Prof. Antonio Delgado

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - October 15

Connecting String Theory to the Real World

Prof. John Schwarz

California Institute of Technology

Condensed Matter Seminar - October 16

Spectral weight transfer for Holstein polarons

Prof. Mona Berciu

University of British Columbia

Condensed Matter Seminar - October 23

Ultra-high efficiency multijunction solar cells using monolithically integrated II/VI and III/V materials

Prof. Yong-Hang Zhang

Arizona State University

Nuclear Seminar - October 27

Nucleosynthesis Modes in the High-Entropy-Wind of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Dr. Khalil Farouqui

University of Chicago

Astrophysics Seminar - October 28

The Life Cycle of Star Clusters - Universal or Special?

Prof. Rupali Chandar

University of Toledo, Ohio

Colloquium - October 29

Switchable Photonic Crystals-Mesoscale Bravais Lattices and Quasi-Crystal Structures

Gregory P. Crawford Dean of the College of Science Professor of Physics

University of Notre Dame

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November 2008

Nuclear Seminar - November 3

Pairing in hot rotating nuclei

Dr. N. Quang Hung

RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Saitama, Japan

Colloquium - November 5

What the most metal-poor stars tell us about the early Universe

Dr. Anna Frebel

McDonald Observatory - University of Texas at Austin

Joint Biocomplexity Colloquium and Condensed Matter Seminar - November 6

Advanced Optimization and Sampling Strategies in Structural Biocomputing

Dr. Peter Minary

Stanford University School of Medicine

Special Astrophysics Seminar - November 7

Data Science Challenges from Petascale Astronomical Sky Surveys

Dr. Kirk Borne

George Mason University

Nuclear Seminar - November 10

Proximity Decay of Nuclei

Dr. Sylvia Hudan

Indiana University

Astrophysics Seminar - November 11

The Hunt for Dark Matter with Superheated Fluids

Ilan Livine

Indiana University - South Bend

Colloquium - November 12

Stellar Explosions, Neutrinos and Nucleosynthesis

Prof. Gail C. McLaughlin

North Carolina State University

Nuclear Seminar - November 17

First Direct Measurement of the Astrophysically Important 17F(p, gamma)18Ne Cross Section

Kelly Chipps

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

High Energy Seminar - November 18

Searching for Higgs at CDF

Jason Sloanwhite

Ohio State University

Colloquium - November 19

Frame Dragging: A Half Century Hunt for an Elusive Effect

Prof. Irwin Shapiro

Harvard University

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 20

Peptide Design Using Unnatural Amino Acids & Multivalent Antibody Aggregation

Prof. Basar Bilgicer

University of Notre Dame

Special Astrophysics Seminar - November 21

The Observation of Warm Gas in Transitional Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars

Prof. Sean Brittain

Clemson University

Nuclear Seminar - November 24

Measuring reaction cross sections to understand the p process

Dr. Artemis Spyrou

NSCL, Michigan State University

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December 2008

Nuclear Seminar - December 1

To Be Rescheduled

Dr. Walter Reviol

Washington University, St. Louis

High Energy Seminar - December 2

Top Production at CDF

Tom Schwarz

University of California - Davis

Colloquium - December 3

Expanding universe and shrinking budgets...what they mean for planning your research

Prof. Ani Aprahamian

University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - December 8

Experiments to Further the Understanding of the Triple-alpha Process in Hot Astrophysical Scenarios

Dr. Nidhi Patel

Argonne National Laboratory

High Energy Seminar - December 9

Commissioning the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter

Ted Kolberg

University of Notre Dame

Condensed Matter Seminar - December 9

Discovering the 6th Sense: The physics and biology of magnetoreception

Prof. Thorsten Ritz

University of California - Irvine

Colloquium - December 10

Unconventional Pairing and Impurities in Superfluid 3He

Prof. William P. Halperin

Northwestern University

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January 2009

Colloquium - January 14 *CANCELED*

Picking up good vibrations -- Mechanical oscillations of viral capsids and their excitation with lasers.

Regents' Professor Otto F. Sankey

Arizona State University

Colloquium - January 21

The Greatest Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope

Prof. Mario Livio

Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescpe Science Institute

Nuclear Seminar - January 26

Neutron Physics for Nuclear Astrophysics at Los Alamos

Dr. Aaron Couture

Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico

Astrophysics Seminar - January 27

Ultra High-Energy Neutrinos via Heavy-Meson Synchrotron Emission in Strong Magnetic Fields

Prof. Grant Mathews

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - January 27

How well do we understand the Standard Model at high pT?

Dr. Steve Mrenna

Fermilab

Colloquium - January 28

CP Violation -- Report on an Unfinished Business

Professors Ikaros Bigi, Colin Jessop, and John LoSecco

University of Notre Dame

Condensed Matter Seminar - January 29

3D structure of materials for energy application by high-energy XRD

Prof. Valeri Petkov

Central Michigan University

Special Nuclear Seminar - January 29

Evaluation of the influence of Solar Model parameters on the expected neutrino fluxes

Prof. Gianluca Imbriani

University Federico Secundo, Naples, Italy

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February 2009

Nuclear Seminar - February 2

Octupole collectivity near N = 126

Dr. Walter Reviol

Washington University

Astrophysics Seminar - February 3

Research at the 213th American Astronomical Society Meeting

Brian Hayden, Joseph Ribaudo, Katherine Rueff and William Zech

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - February 3

How light can the SUSY charged Higgs be?

Brian Dudley

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - February 4

Biomechanics across scales: from the subcellular to the organismal

Gabor Forgacs George H. Vineyard Distinguished Professor

University of Missouri

Special ITS Colloquium - February 5

What do ultracold Fermi gases teach us about high temperature superconductors and vice versa?

Prof. Kathy Levin

James Franck Institute, University of Chicago

Nuclear Seminar - February 9

Development and implementation of a new technique to study (p,a) resonances

Brian Moazen

University of Tennessee

Special Nuclear Seminar - February 11

The Science of Poisonous Polonium-210

Prof. Patrick Regan

University of Surrey

Colloquium - February 11

Spectroscopy of the Most Exotic Nuclei: Where Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics Meet

Prof. Patrick H. Regan

University of Surrey

Condensed Matter Seminar - February 12

Direct observation of the mechano-chemical coupling in Myosin Va during processive movement

Dr. Takeshi Sakamoto

National Inst. of Health, Laboratory of Molecular Physiology

Astrophysics Seminar - February 17

Cosmology from the First Year of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

Prof. Peter Garnavich

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - February 18

Formation of Wigner molecules in small quantum dots

Dr. Steven Blundell

Institute for Nanoscience and Cryogenics, Grenoble, France

Atomic Physics Seminar - CANCELED

Calculation of QED corrections in highly charged Cu-like and Zn-like ions

Dr. Steven Blundell

Institute for Nanoscience and Cryogenics, Grenoble, France

High Energy Seminar - February 19

Anomalous multi-muon events at CDF

Prof. Kevin Pitts

University of Illinois

Special Nuclear Seminar - February 20

Study of Nuclear Weak and Electromagnetic Responses by Using Intermediate-Energy Beams

Prof. Yoshitaka Fujita

Osaka University, Japan

Nuclear Seminar - February 23

Real Life Applications of a Nuclear Physics Degree

Prof. Rebecca Detwiler

University of Florida

Astrophysics Seminar - February 24

Probing the Molecular ISM in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Tony Wong

University of Illinois

Colloquium - February 25

SNOLAB: A Laboratory for Underground Physics Research

Arthur B. McDonald Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics Director SNO Institute

Queens University, Kingston, Ontario

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March 2009

Nuclear Seminar - March 2

11,12B(n,g) -- The influence of r-process nucleosynthesis of light elements

Dr. Hye Young Lee

Argonne National Laboratory

Special Colloquium - March 2

Probing quantum coherence and ultracold collisions with an 87 Strontium Optical Lattice Clock

Dr. Gretchen Campbell

JILA-NIST, University of Colorado

Astrophysics Seminar - March 3

Lyman Break Galaxies in Large Quasar Groups at z~1

Prof. Gerry Williger

University of Louisville

Colloquium - March 4

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics at the microscale

Prof. Christopher Jarzynski

University of Maryland

Condensed Matter Seminar-March 5

Holes in GaAs: from spontaneous polarization to magnetization reversal

Prof. Leonid Rokhinson

Purdue University

Nuclear Seminar - March 9

The role of physicists on Wall Street

Dr. Boris Skorodumov

Mitsui Energy Risk Management

Special Colloquium - March 16

Patterns and transitions in lipid membranes

Dr. Vernita Gordon

University of Illinois - Urbana

Astrophysics Seminar - March 17

New Views and Feedback in the Magellanic Clouds

Prof. Nicolas Lehner

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - March 18

The Universe at 3 Minutes and 400 Thousand Years

Gary Steigman, Distinguished Professor

The Ohio State University

Condensed Matter Seminar-March 19-CANCELED

Stability of Bio-macromolecular Structures: from Carbohydrates to Proteins for Future Energy Security

Dr. Tongye Shen

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nuclear Seminar - March 23

Many-body appoach to nuclear pairing

Dr. Roman Sen'kov

Michigan State University

Astrophysics Seminar - March 24

Probing the Baryon Content of Galaxy Groups: A Radio Perspective

Professor Eric Wilcots

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Colloquium - March 25

The supramolecular design of photosynthesis

Dr. Raoul Frese

Leiden University and Rutgers University

Nuclear Seminar - March 30

Study of the Nuclear Dipole Resonance using the Monoenergetic and Polarized Gamma Beams at HIgS

Dr. Anton Tonchev

Duke University and TUNL

Special Colloquium - March 30

Quantitative 3D nanoscale imaging of biological systems

Dr. Maria A. Aronova

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering NIH, Bethesda, Maryland

Astrophysics Seminar - March 31

The Solar Nebula on Fire: The Carbon Deficit in the Inner Solar System

Professor Edwin Bergin

University of Michigan

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April 2009

Colloquium - April 1

Progress in Developing the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake

Dr. Kevin T. Lesko

Lawrence Berkekey National Laboratory

Nuclear Seminar - April 6

First Results from the new RNB facility RESOLUT and nuclear astrophysics with stable beams at FSU

Dr. Grisha Rogachev

RESOLUT at Florida State University

High Energy Seminar - April 14

Observation of Single Top Events

Prof. Kevin Lannon

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - April 15

Nanosculpting and Nanoelectronics

Prof. Marija Drndic

University of Pennsylvania

Condensed Matter Seminar-April 16

The Low Energy Neutron Source in Bloomington - A regional resource for Materials Research

Prof. David V. Baxter

Indiana University - Bloomington

Nuclear Seminar - April 20

Symmetries in the Geometrical Collective Model

Dr. Stijn De Baerdemacker

University of Toronto

Astrophysics Seminar - April 21

The Formation and Evolution of Circumstellar Disks

Professor Shantanu Basu

University of Western Ontario

John A. Lynch Lecture - April 23

From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and on to the James Webb Space Telescope

Dr. John C. Mather

Observational Cosmology Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Special Astrophysics Seminar - April 24

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Exoplanets

Dr. John C. Mather

Goddard Space Flight Center

High Energy Seminar - April 28

Review of flavor physics

Prof. Ikaros Bigi

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - April 29

Milton meets Einstein: Inquiring minds want to know

Dr. Mary Hynes-Berry, Erikson Institute for Early Childhood Development, Chicago

Prof. H. Gordon Berry, University of Notre Dame

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May 2009

Nuclear Seminar - May 18

Towards a better understanding of the r-process from studies of exotic nuclei in the A~120 region

Prof. Henryk Mach

University of Notre Dame and Uppsala University

Condensed Matter Seminar-May 21

Molecular conduction and beyond

Prof. Abraham Nitzan

Tel Aviv University

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June 2009

Nuclear Seminar - June 10

Measurements of double-beta decay matrix elements: some surprises in nuclear physics

Prof. Dr. Dieter Frekers

University of Muenster, Germany

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July 2009

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