Physics Division Colloquium

Auditorium, Building 203, Argonne National Laboratory

Fridays at 11:00 AM

2013-2014 Program

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

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6 Sep 2013	Madappa Prakash, Ohio University Lessons from New Observations of Neutron Stars Host: Bob Wiringa
13 Sep 2013	Kwang-Je Kim, University of Chicago and Accelerator Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory The Art of Producing Bright X-Rays and Its Current Revolution Host: Brahim Mustapha
20 Sep 2013	Calem Hoffman, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory The Evolution of Shell Spacing in Light Nuclei Host: Bob Wiringa
27 Sep 2013	Ian Cloët, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Images from Inner Space: Exposing the Quantum Mechanics within Nucleons and Nuclei Host: Craig Roberts
4 Oct 2013	Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University Towards 1% Measurements of Cosmological Distances with Cosmic Sound Host: Katrin Heitmann
11 Oct 2013	Michael Rust, University of Chicago Robust Circadian Rhythms from Three Proteins Host: Paul Reimer
18 Oct 2013	Don Geesaman, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Nuclear Physics Serving Society Host: Paul Reimer
25 Oct 2013	Fall DNP Meeting Newport News, VA, 23--26 Oct 2013
1 Nov 2013	Chen-Yu Liu, Indiana University Neutron Lifetime: What's the deal? Host: Adrian Perez Galvan
8 Nov 2013	Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, University of California, Berkeley Feedback-Regulated Star Formation on Galactic and Cosmological Scales Host: Katrin Heitmann
15 Nov 2013	Matt Strassler, Harvard University What the Large Hadron Collider Has Taught Us So Far Host: Paul Reimer
22 Nov 2013	Lisa Kaufman, Indiana University Back to the Salt Mines: The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Xe-136 Host: Ben Kay
29 Nov 2013	Thanksgiving - No colloquium
6 Dec 2013	Dean Lee, North Carolina State University Lattice Effective Field Theory Applied to Nuclear Physics Host: Ian Cloët
13 Dec 2013	Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University X-ray Bursts, Palladium Oceans and Rare Isotope Crusts - the Strange World of Accreting Neutron Stars Host: Ernst Rehm
20 Dec 2013	Cancelled
27 Dec 2013	Christmas break - No colloquium
3 Jan 2014	New Year break - No colloquium
10 Jan 2014	Ian Spielman, National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Maryland Gauge Fields with Cold Atoms Host: Adrian Perez Galvan
17 Jan 2014	Mike Norman, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory Monopoles, Anapoles, Skyrmions, Majoranas and Higgs - Welcome to the New World of Condensed Matter Physics Host: Bob Wiringa
24 Jan 2014	Omar Benhar, Virginia Tech and INFN / Sapienza Univeristy, Rome Towards a unified description of the electroweak nuclear response Host: Bob Wiringa
31 Jan 2014	Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis Strength in Numbers: Studying the Cosmic Neutrino Background with Gravity Host: Ian Cloët
7 Feb 2014	Francesco Pederiva, Univeristy of Trento Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo Methods: From Baryonic Matter to Quantum Wells Host: Ian Cloët
Tuesday, 18 Feb 2014	Klaus Blaum, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Heidelberg Fundamental tests of nature with cooled and stored exotic ions Host: Ben Kay
21 Feb 2014	Lene Broeng Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen Long-range ordered vorticity patterns in living tissue induced by cell division Host: Ben Kay
28 Feb 2014	Zheng-Tian Lu, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater/i> Host: Bob Wiringa
7 Mar 2014	Larry Weinstein, Old Dominion University Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin Host: Bob Wiringa
14 Mar 2014	Zein-Eddine Meziani, Temple University Quarks and Color Forces with a Spin Host: Ian Cloët
21 Mar 2014	Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Magnetoelectric Interfaces and Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions Host: Amanda Petford-Long
28 Mar 2014	Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals Host: Ian Cloët
4 Apr 2014	Adam Burrows, Princeton University Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Core-Collapse Supernovae Host: Ernst Rehm
5 Apr 2014	APS April Meeting Savannah, GA, 5--8 Apr 2014
11 Apr 2014	Oliver Jäkel, Heidelberg University Hadron Cancer Therapy -- Relative Merits of X-ray, Proton, and Carbon Beams Host: Jerry Nolen
18 Apr 2014	Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Jefferson Laboratory Nucleon Structure from Elastic Electron/Photon Scattering Host: Ian Cloët
25 Apr 2014	Michael Romalis, Princeton University Precision Measurements with Atomic Magnetometers Host: Adrian Perez Galvan
2 May 2014	Peter Ostroumov, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Accelerator Perspectives for Nuclear Physics Host: Brahim Mustapha
9 May 2014	Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee Nuclear Physics with Neutrons in Tennessee Host: Adrian Perez Galvan
16 May 2014	William Noel, University of Pennsylvania Libraries EUREKA! The Archimedes Palimpsest Host: Paul Reimer
23 May 2014	Matthew Shepherd, Indiana University The Ongoing Quest to Understand the QCD Spectrum of Mesons Host: Ian Cloët
20 Jun 2014	Zeev Vager, Weizmann Institute of Science Molecular Handedness with Don Gemmell Host: John Schiffer

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2013-2014 Committee

Ian Cloët ([email protected] mail)
Katrin Heitmann ([email protected] mail)
Benjamin Kay ([email protected] mail)
Brahim Mustapha ([email protected] mail)
Adrian Perez Galvan ([email protected] mail)
Amanda Petford-Long ([email protected] mail)
Karl Ernst Rehm ([email protected] mail)
Paul Reimer ([email protected] mail)
Robert Wiringa (Chair) ([email protected] mail)

Secretary: Colleen Tobolic (630-252-3663, [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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