Physics Division Colloquium

Auditorium, Building 203, Argonne National Laboratory

Fridays at 11:00 AM

2017-2018 Program

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

8 Sep 2017	Michelle Dolinski, Drexel University Current and future searches for neutrinoless double beta decay Host: Sereres Johnston
15 Sep 2017	Joint Physics and Materials Science Colloquium J. C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University & Brookhaven National Laboratory Visualizing Quantum Matter Host: Wai-Kwong Kwok
22 Sep 2017	Dale van Harlingen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign S-TI-S Josephson junction networks: a platform for exploring and exploiting topological states and Majorana fermions Host: Wai-Kwong Kwok
29 Sep 2017	Mark G. Alford, Washington University Transport and dissipation in neutron star mergers Host: Robert Wiringa
6 Oct 2017	Curtis A. Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University The Search for Gluonic Excitations Host: Seamus Riordan
13 Oct 2017	Andrew Cleland, The University of Chicago Quantum information in superconducting and nanomechanical systems Host: Wai-Kwong Kwok
20 Oct 2017	Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University The Cosmic Debate Host: Ian Cloët
26 Oct 2017 Thursday	Joint Physics and Director's Special Colloquium John C. Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The History of the Universe from the beginning to the end: where did we come from, where can we go? Host: Seamus Riordan
27 Oct 2017	2017 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Pittsburgh, PA, 25-28 Oct
3 Nov 2017	Joint Physics and High-Energy Physics Colloquium Chris Quigg, Fermilab Fermilab’s Greatest Hits: Scientific Highlights from the First Fifty Years Host: Seamus Riordan
10 Nov 2017	David Hertzog, University of Washington Next-Generation Muon g-2: An indirect, but highly sensitive search for New Physics Host: Seamus Riordan
17 Nov 2017	Gerald A. Miller, University of Washington The Proton Radius Puzzle- Why we all should care Host: Ian Cloët
24 Nov 2017	Thanksgiving - No colloquium
1 Dec 2017	Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab & The University of Chicago Beam cooling in hadron accelerators Host: Zack Conway
8 Dec 2017	Berndt Mueller, Brookhaven National Laboratory The Unbearable Burden of Being Light: Exploring the emergence of ordinary matter from quarks and gluons Host: Ian Cloët
15 Dec 2017	Physics Division Holiday Party - No colloquium
22 Dec 2017	Christmas - No colloquium
29 Dec 2017	New Year's - No colloquium
5 Jan 2018	Matthew R. Dietrich, Physics Division, Argonne National Lab Advances in the Search for Radium’s EDM Host: John Arrington
12 Jan 2018	Jun Ye, JILA, NIST & University of Colorado Atomic clock based on quantum matter Host: Michael Bishof
19 Jan 2018	Jeroen van Tilborg, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Progress towards the Free Electron Laser driven by a Laser Plasma Accelerator Host: Zach Conway
26 Jan 2018	Chris J. Benmore, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab High temperature x-ray diffraction from nuclear materials Host: Filip Kondev
2 Feb 2018	Rebecca Surman, University of Notre Dame Forging the heaviest elements Host: Filip Kondev
9 Feb 2018	CANCELLED due to weather Rouven Essig, Stony Brook University Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter Host: Seamus Riordan
16 Feb 2018	Witek Nazarewicz, Michigan State University At the End of the Nuclear Chart: Physical and Chemical Properties of Oganesson Host: Robert Wiringa
23 Feb 2018	Christian Forssen, Chalmers University of Technology The precision era of nuclear theory Host: Daniel Santiago-Gonzalez
2 Mar 2018	Melina Avila, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Type I X-ray bursts: explosions in binary star systems and the role of nuclear physics Host: Calem Hoffman
9 Mar 2018	Daniel Lopez, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory Embracing nonlinearity and thermal fluctuations in nanomechanics Host: Ian Cloët
16 Mar 2018	Thomas Glasmacher, Michigan State University Building FRIB Host: Torben Lauritsen
23 Mar 2018	Maryellen L. Giger, The University of Chicago Deciphering Breast Cancer through Breast MRI, Radiomics, and Deep Learning Host: Salman Habib
30 Mar 2018	Intersections between Nuclear Physics and Quantum Information Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory 28–30 March
6 Apr 2018	Michael Ramsey-Musolf, University of Massachusetts Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Lepton Number, Neutrino Mass, and the Origin of Matter Host: Sereres Johnston
13 Apr 2018	American Physical Society April Meeting 2018 Columbus, OH 14-17 April
20 Apr 2018	Christopher W. Stubbs, Harvard University Next-Generation Dark Energy Measurements- Challenges and Opportunities Host: Salman Habib
27 Apr 2018	Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University Machine Learning for Materials Modeling Host: Ian Cloët
4 May 2018	Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology Black holes, neutron stars and the birth of gravitational wave astronomy Host: Seamus Riordan
11 May 2018
18 May 2018	Laura Newburgh, Yale University New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping and the Cosmic Microwave Background Host: Salman Habib
25 May 2018	CANCELLED due to illness Neil F. Johnson, University of Miami New Physics of Extremes — and Extremism Host: Torben Lauritsen

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2017-2018 Committee

Michael Bishof (252-5008, [email protected] mail)
Ian Cloët (Chair) (252-4093, [email protected] mail)
Zachary Conway (252-0874, [email protected] mail)
Salman Habib (HEP) (252-1110 [email protected] mail)
Sereres Johnston ([email protected] mail)
Filip Kondev (NE) (252-4877, [email protected] mail)
Wai-Kwong Kwok (MSD) (252-5539, [email protected] mail)
Torben Lauritsen (252-4026, [email protected] mail)
David Potterveld (252-6589, [email protected] mail)
Seamus Riordan (252-4101, [email protected] mail)
Daniel Santiago-Gonzalez (252-6870, [email protected] mail)
Coordinator Colleen Tobolic (252-3663, [email protected] mail)
Web Guy Robert Wiringa (252-6134, [email protected] mail)
Phone numbers are area code 630
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