Physics Division Colloquium

Auditorium, Building 203, Argonne National Laboratory

Fridays at 11:00 AM

2012-2013 Program

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

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7 Sep 2012	Tom LeCompte , Argonne High Energy Physics Division The Outcome of the LHC Search for the Higgs Boson Host: Paul Reimer
14 Sep 2012	Heinrich Jaeger, University of Chicago Dynamically Jammed Liquids: A New Perspective on Shear Thickening of Dense Suspensions Host: Jeff Guest
21 Sep 2012	Geoffrey Greene, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab. & U. Tennessee, Knoxville The Neutron Lifetime Host: Jaideep Singh
28 Sep 2012	Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab Twenty-first Century Lattice Gauge Theory: Consequences of the QCD Lagrangian Host: Paul Reimer
5 Oct 2012	Sarah Milkovich, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Science Laboratory: Where Our Curiosity Is Taking Us Host: Jaideep Singh
12 Oct 2012	Douglas Clowe, Ohio U., Athens, Ohio Through a Lens, Darkly Host: Lucas Platter
19 Oct 2012	Allan Franklin, U. Colorado, Boulder, CO Experiment, Then and Now Host: Jaideep Singh
26 Oct 2012	Fall DNP Meeting Newport Beach, CA, 24--27 Oct. 2012
2 Nov 2012	James Vary, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Atomic nuclei at low and high resolution Host: Dick Chasman
9 Nov 2012	Dietrich Müller, University of Chicago Hundred Years of Cosmic Rays: Some Reflections on the Research in Chicago Host: Jason Clark
16 Nov 2012	Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Dark Matter in a Weakly Coupled Universe Host: Paul E. Reimer
23 Nov 2012	Thanksgiving - No colloquium
30 Nov 2012	Daniel Fabrycky, University of Chicago Planetary System Architectures from Kepler Host: Dariusz Seweryniak
7 Dec 2012	Benjamin Kay, University of York Probing nuclear structure through single-nucleon transfer Host: Jason Clark
14 Dec 2012	Chris Greene, Purdue University Universal few-body states related to Efimov physics: 3, 4, and 5 particles, and beyond Host: Zhen-tian Lu
21 Dec 2012	Christmas, New Year break (almost) - No colloquium
28 Dec 2012	Christmas, New Year break - No colloquium
4 Jan 2013	Jason Clark, Argonne Physics Division A CARIBU is born: first results from our new baby Host: Paul Reimer
11 Jan 2013	Jonathan Simon, U. Chicago Engineering Quantum Materials from Cold Atoms: Mott Insulators to Emergent Crystals Host: Jaideep Singh
18 Jan 2013	Paul McEuen, Cornell University Graphene at the Boundaries Hosts: Jeff Guest and Paul Reimer
25 Jan 2013	Jun Ye, JILA and U. Colorado, Boulder, CO Precision metrology and many-body quantum physics Host: Jeff Guest
1 Feb 2013	Holger Müller, U.C. Berkeley Matter-wave Clocks Host: Darek Seweryniak
8 Feb 2013	Cancelled
15 Feb 2013	Luming Duan, University of Michigan Recent progress in quantum computation, networking, and simulation with trapped ions Host: Lucas Platter
22 Feb 2013	Michael Rust, U. Chicago Robust Circadian Rhythms from Three Proteins Host: Paul Reimer
1 Mar 2013	Gretina workshop - No colloquium
8 Mar 2013	Haiyan Gao, Duke University, Durham NC New searches on parity and time-reversal symmetry violating quantities or interactions Host: Paul E. Reimer
15 Mar 2013	Achim Schwenk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Three nucleon forces: From neutron-rich nuclei to neutron stars Host: Lucas Platter
22 Mar 2013	William Happer, Princeton University Why Has Global Warming Paused? Host: Richard Chasman
29 Mar 2013	Kartik Srinivasan, National Institute of Standards and Technology Manipulating the Color and Shape of Single Photons generated by Quantum Nanophotonic Devices Host: Jaideep Singh
5 Apr 2013	Steven E. Koonin, New York University, New York, NY The Promise of Urban Science Host: David Potterveld
Thursday, 11 Apr 2013	Frank Zimmermann, CERN LHC accelerator, Higgs factory, and a long-term strategy for High Energy Physics Slides of talk (10 Mbyte pdf) Host: Peter Ostroumov
12 Apr 2013	William Phillips, NIST Atomtronic circuitry: A Bose-Einstein condensate in ring Host: Paul E. Reimer
19 Apr 2013	Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University First Precision Measurement of the Antiproton Magnetic Moment Host: Jason Clark
26 Apr 2013	Stacy McGaugh, Case Western Reserve Modified Gravity as a Possible Approach to the Missing Mass Problem Host: Paul Reimer
3 May 2013	Ralf Gothe, University of South Carolina Experimental Probes into the Essence of Matter Host: Craig Roberts
10 May 2013	Gerald Gwinner, University of Manitoba Fundamental symmetry tests with cooled atoms: From Lorentz invariance to parity Host: Jason Clark
17 May 2013	Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago The physics of climate sensitivity Host: Paul Reimer
24 May 2013	Peter J. Lu, Harvard University Modern math in medieval Islamic architecture Host: Lucas Platter
31 May 2013	Vladimir N. Litvinenko, Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Novel Techniques for Hadron Beam Cooling in Hadron and Electron-Hadron Colliders Host: Peter Ostroumov
7 Jun 2013	Francesca Casadio, Art Institute of Chicago State of the Art: Probing Complexity in Paint Host: Jaideep Singh

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2012-2013 Committee

Dick Chasman ([email protected] mail)
Jason Clark ([email protected] mail)
Jeffrey Guest ([email protected] mail)
Thomas LeCompte ([email protected] mail)
Peter Ostroumov ([email protected] mail)
Lucas Platter ([email protected] mail)
David Potterveld ([email protected] mail)
Paul Reimer (Chair) ([email protected] mail)
Dariusz Seweryniak ([email protected] mail)
Jaideep Singh ([email protected] mail)

Secretary Janet Bergman (630-252-4085, [email protected] mail)
Web Guys Robert Wiringa (630-252-6134, [email protected] mail)
                   Steven Pieper (630-252-4232, [email protected] mail)

 

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