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Colloquia and Other Seminars 2008-2009 Academic Year

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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

Colloquium - October 15

Connecting String Theory to the Real World

Prof. John Schwarz

California Institute of Technology

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

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

Nuclear Seminar - November 10

Proximity Decay of Nuclei

Dr. Sylvia Hudan

Indiana University

Colloquium - November 12

Nucleosynthesis from Black Hole - Neutron Star Mergers

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

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

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

TBA

Dr. Walter Reviol

Washington University, St. Louis

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

TBA

Dr. Nidhi Patel

Argonne National Laboratory

Colloquium - December 10

TBA

Prof. William P. Halperin

Northwestern University

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January 2009

Colloquium - January 14

Vibrating virus capsids and interaction with light

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

Colloquium - January 28

Recruiting

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February 2009

Colloquium - February 4

Recruiting

Colloquium - February 11

Recruiting

Colloquium - February 18

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

Dr. Patrick H. Regan

University of Surrey

Colloquium - February 25

The SNO Experiment and the new SNOLAB Underground Laboratory

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

Queens University, Kingston, Ontario

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March 2009

Colloquium - March 4

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics at the microscale

Prof. Christopher Jarzynski

University of Maryland

Colloquium - March 18

The Universe at 3 Minutes and 400 Thousand Years

Gary Steigman, Distinguished Professor

The Ohio State University

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April 2009

Colloquium - April 1

TBA

Dr. Kevin T. Lesko

Lawrence Berkekey National Laboratory

Colloquium - April 22

TBA

Professor Charles E. Woodward

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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