Argonne Physics Division Colloquium

Physics Division Colloquium

Auditorium, Building 203, Argonne National Laboratory

Fridays at 11:00 AM

2011-2012 Program

Please contact the host if you wish to arrange a discussion with the speaker.

9 Sep 2011	John P. Schiffer, ANL Physics Division 100th Anniversary of the Nucleus Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
16 Sep 2011	Margaret Gardel, U. of Chicago Cellular Mechanics Host: Ken Nollett
23 Sep 2011	Michael Wiescher, U. of Notre Dame Nuclear Astrophysics Underground Host: Kim Lister
30 Sep 2011	Daniel Baker, U of Colorado The Impacts of Space Weather on Society and the Economy Host: Ken Nollett
7 Oct 2011	Larry Nittler, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington Hermeochemistry: The composition of Mercury from MESSENGER X-ray, Gamma-ray, and Neutron Measurements Host: Ken Nollett
14 Oct 2011	Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale University Mapping dark matter and dark energy in the Universe using gravitational lensing by clusters Host: Ken Nollett
21 Oct 2011	Salman Habib, Argonne High Energy Physics Division Precision Cosmology: Prospects and Challenges Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
28 Oct 2011	Fall DNP Meeting East Lansing, MI, 26--29 Oct. 2011
4 Nov 2011	Martin Freer, University of Birmingham Simplicity from Complexity: Clustering in Nuclei Host: Kim Lister
11 Nov 2011	Jeffrey S. Hangst, Aarhus University Trapped Antihydrogen - Stable, Neutral Antimatter Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
18 Nov 2011	Dam Thanh Son, University of Washington Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theory Host: Carlos Wagner
25 Nov 2011	Thanksgiving - No colloquium
2 Dec 2011	C.W. Francis Everitt, Stanford University Frame-Dragging, Cryogenics, and Space: The Gravity Probe B Experiment Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
9 Dec 2011	Walter Kutschera, University of Vienna Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Climate Change Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
16 Dec 2011	Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Football Physics Host: Stephen Pratt
23 Dec 2011	Christmas - No colloquium
30 Dec 2011	New Year's - No colloquium
6 Jan 2012
13 Jan 2012	Todd Ditmire, U. Texas, Austin Petawatt to Exawatt Lasers: The Science and Technology of the Highest Power Lasers Ever Built Host: Stephen Pratt
20 Jan 2012	Elena Shevchenko, Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials Design of nanostructures: synthesis and properties Host: Kawtar Hafidi
27 Jan 2012	Piers Coleman, Rutgers University Magnetism and Superconductivity: A new era of convergence in condensed matter physics Host: Craig Roberts
3 Feb 2012	Sebastian Schmidt , Forschungszentrum Jülich Forschungszentrum Jülich: Highlights from the Present and Directions for the Future Host: Craig Roberts
10 Feb 2012	Paul Debevec, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Understanding the Energy Challenge: Science, Technology, Economics and Policy Host: Zach Conway
17 Feb 2012	Timothy C Beers , Kitt Peak National Observatory Highly r-Process Enhanced Stars: New Perspectives on Old Stars Host: Darek Seweryniak
24 Feb 2012	Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern University Molecular Mesoscopics: Transport in Molecular Junctions Host: Stephen Pratt
2 Mar 2012	Michael Pennington , Jefferson Lab Can experiment distinguish a four-quark state, from a molecule, or a quark-antiquark meson? Host: Kawtar Hafidi
9 Mar 2012	Fred Wietfeldt, Tulane University Precision Neutron Scattering Length Measurements Using Neutron Interferometry Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
12 Mar 2012 Monday	Peter B. Littlewood, Argonne Physical Sciences & Engineering, U. of Chicago, and U. of Cambridge Polariton Condensation and Collective Dynamics Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
23 Mar 2012	Jozef Dudek, Jefferson Lab and Old Dominion U. Gluonic Excitations in QCD Host: Craig Roberts
30 Mar 2012	April APS Meeting Atlanta, Ga, 31 Mar -- 3 Apr
6 Apr 2012	Sudeep Das, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & U. California, Berkeley Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background: A New Frontier Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
13 Apr 2012	Stuart Henderson, Fermi National Accelerator Lab The Future of High Intensity Hadron Accelerators Host: Zachary Conway
20 Apr 2012	Lucas Platter, Argonne Physics Division From cold atoms to light nuclei Host: Craig Roberts
27 Apr 2012	Vivek Sharma, University of California at San Diego The Hunt for the Higgs Boson at CERN Host: Carlos Wagner
4 May 2012	Ann Nelson, U. Washington Portals for New Physics at the Intensity Frontier Host: Carlos Wagner
11 May 2012	Meredith Nettles, Columbia University Geophysical Constraints on Glacial Earthquakes and Glacier Dynamics in Greenland Host: Zachary Conway
18 May 2012	Brian DeMarco, U.of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 3D Anderson Localization of Ultracold Matter Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
25 May 2012	Nadya Mason , U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Using graphene to study superconductivity (new tricks for an old dog) Host: Kawtar Hafidi
1 Jun 2012	Dmitry Budker, University of California "Atomic physics" of nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond Host: Zheng-tian Lu
8 Jun 2012	David Schuster, University of Chicago Cavity QED with electrons on helium Host: Dariusz Seweryniak

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2011-2012 Committee

Zach Conway ( [email protected] mail)
Kawtar Hafidi ( [email protected] mail)
Kim Lister ( [email protected] mail)
Ken Nollett ( [email protected] mail)
Stephen Pratt ( [email protected] mail)
Craig Roberts ( [email protected] mail)
Andrew Rogers ( [email protected] mail)
Dariusz Seweryniak (chair) ( [email protected] mail)
Carlos Wagner ( [email protected] mail)

Secretary Jeannie Glover (630-252-4020, [email protected] mail)
Web Guy Steven Pieper (630-252-4232, [email protected] mail)

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