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Colloquia and Other Seminars 2009-2010 Academic Year

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August 2009

Nuclear Seminar - August 24

Half-Life of Fe-60

Dr. Georg Rugel

TU Munich, Germany

Colloquium - August 26

Where, oh Where is the Proton Spin?

Prof. Matthias Grosse Perdekamp

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nuclear Seminar - August 31

The German Response to the Chernobyl Disaster from 1986: A Radiation Detection System to Discover Nuclear Incidents from the Beginning

Dr. Andreas Woehr

Saarland University, Germany

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September 2009

Colloquium - September 2

Picking up good vibrations - Mechanical oscillations of viral capsids and their excitation with lasers

Regents' Professor Otto F. Sankey

Arizona State University

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 3

Going to Extremes: Energy Materials by Design

Professor Greg B. Olson

Northwestern University and QuesTek Innovations LLC

Nuclear Seminar - September 7

Photo-induced reactions for nuclear astrophysics

Dr. Kerstin Sonnabend

University of Notre Dame and TU Darmstadt, Germany

Astrophysics Seminar - September 8

Evidence for a Primordial Magnetic field in the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure

Professor Grant Mathews

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - September 8

Charged Cosmic Rays and Dark Matters

Dr. Dan Hooper

Fermilab

Colloquium - September 9

The Hunt for Dark Matter's Particle Identity

Dr. Dan Hooper

Fermilab

Colloquium - September 16

Rethinking Particle Identification Techniques: The DIRC Imaging Cherenkov Detector

Dr. Blair N. Ratcliff

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Nuclear Seminar - September 17

Test of level density models from nuclear reactions

Dr. Babatunde Oginni

Ohio University

Nuclear Seminar - September 21

Nuclear band structure in the mass A~100 and ~130 regions

Prof. N. Singh

Panjab University, India

Colloquium - September 23

Massless and Massive Electrons in Atomically-thin Carbon

Professor Michael Fuhrer

University of Maryland

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 24

II-VI-based DMSs from Discovery to Spintronics

Marquez Professor Jacek K. Furdyna

University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - September 28

Studying Strong Interactions Using Five Dimensions

Dr. Hovhannes Grigoryan

Argonne National Laboratory

Astrophysics Seminar - September 29

A Bright Transient from the ESSENCE Supernova Search: What Is It?

Professor Peter Garnavich

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - September 30

Interband Tunnel Transistors

Professor Alan C. Seabaugh

University of Notre Dame Department of Electrical Engineering

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October 2009

Condensed Matter Seminar - October 1

Quantum Dot Wars

Professor Pavel Frantsuzov

University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - October 5

Pycnonuclear Fusion in the Crust of Accreting Neutron Stars

Mary Beard

New Experimental Studies of 44Ti Production

Daniel Robertson

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - October 6

Effects of Structure Formation on the Expansion Rate of the Universe: a Realistic Estimate Direct from N-body Simulations

Xinghai Zhao

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - October 7

Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology

Robert Kirshner Clowes Professor of Science

Harvard University

Nuclear Seminar - October 8

Giant-resonance damping: semi-microscopic description (methods, results, perspectives)

Professor Michael Urin

Moscow Engineering & Physics Institute, Russia

The Edison Lecture Series - October 8

Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Cosmos Einstein's Blunder Undone

Robert Kirshner Clowes Professor of Science

Harvard University

Astrophysics Seminar - October 13

Cosmic-Superstrings: Dynamics and Cusps

Dr. William Nelson

Penn State

Colloquium - October 14

Detecting Extrasolar Planets as Blemishes in Einstein's Lenses

Professor David Bennett

University of Notre Dame

Condensed Matter Seminar - October 15

Study of magnetic anisotropy and IEC in GaMnAs-based tri-layer structures by Planar Hall Effect

Jonathan Leiner (Advisor: Margaret Dobrowlska)

X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Investigation of Uranyl-Phosphate Biomineralization

Xue "Snow" Rui (Advisor: Bruce Bunker)

Weak Ferromagnetism in La2CuMO6

Matthew Smylie (Advisor: Howard Blackstead)

University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - October 19

A new study of low energy (p, gamma) resonances on Magnesium isotopes

Dr. Gianluca Imbriani

University of Naples, Italy

Colloquium - October 21

No Colloquium Today - Midsemester Break

Nuclear Seminar - October 26

New Measurement and R-Matrix Analysis of 15N(p,g)16O

P.J. LeBlanc

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - October 27

Simulating Dust in Protoplanetary Disks

Dr. David Tilley

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - October 28

Exploring the Universe with Gamma-Rays

Professor Brian Winer

Ohio State University

Condensed Matter Seminar - October 29

Phase Diagram and Vortex Pinning of Iron-Arsenide Superconductors

Dr. Ulrich Welp

Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

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November 2009

High Energy Seminar - November 3

Lighting up the Higgs sector with photons at CDF

Dr. Craig Group

Fermilab

Colloquium - November 4

The Structure of Super-Heavy Atomic Nuclei

Dr. Roderick Clark

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Nuclear Seminar - November 5

Single-particle structure of neutron-rich nuclei explored through single neutron transfer reactions

Prof. Kate Jones

University of Tennessee

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 5

Graphene Transistors

Prof. Huili Xing

University of Notre Dame

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 6

C3O: Complex Complexity in Complex Oxides

Prof. Lance DeLong

University of Kentucky, Lexington

Nuclear Seminar - November 9

Spectrometers and (p,t) reactions: Tools for understanding X-ray bursts

Shawn O'Brien

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - November 10

Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars in the Magnetic Domain Model

Dr. In-Saeng Suh

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - November 10

Highlights of the Tevatron program and a look into the future

Dr. Rob Roser

Fermilab

Colloquium - November 11

Biosphere 2 — Under New Management

Regents Professor Pierre Meystre

University of Arizona

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 12

Distance Rules in the Cortex

Dr. Maria Ercsey-Ravasz

University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - November 16

Dominance of low spin & high deformation in ab initio approaches to the structure of light nuclei

Tomas Dytrych

Louisiana State University

Colloquium - November 18

Ab initio theory - Building bridges from quarks to the cosmos

Professor James P. Vary

Iowa State University

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 19

Josephson Junctions with Ferromagnets

Prof. Norman O.Birge

Michigan State University

Nuclear Seminar - November 23

First experiments with the RIBF facility at RIKEN

Dr. Georg Berg

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - November 24

Top Forward-Backward Asymmetry

Glen Strycker

University of Michigan

Colloquium - November 25

No Colloquium Today - Thanksgiving Break

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December 2009

High Energy Seminar - December 1

The Mu2e Experiment

Dr. Robert Kutschke

Fermilab

Colloquium - December 2

Muon Colliders

Dr. Alan Bross

Fermilab

Condensed Matter Seminar - December 3

Statistical mechanical problems of cellulose structures: from single chain dynamics, assembly, to depolymerization

Prof. Tongye Shen

University of Tennessee

Nuclear Seminar - December 7

Nuclear Many-body Physics with a Time-dependent Approach

Alexander Volya

Florida State University

Colloquium - December 9

Rare isotopes in cosmic explosions and in accelerators on earth?

Professor Hendrik Schatz

Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Condensed Matter Seminar - December 10

Using the Pair-Distribution-Function Approach to Study Materials In-situ

Dr. Peter Chupa

Argonne National Laboratory

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January 2010

Colloquium - January 20

Interacting Gases of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Dr. Nathan Gemelke

James Franck Institute University of Chicago

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February 2010

Colloquium - February 3

Nuclear Science and the New Standard Model

Professor Michael Ramsey-Musolf

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Colloquium - February 17

Biomolecules under pressure: Why it matters

Professor Sol M. Gruner

Cornell University

Colloquium - February 24

SUSY

Professor Carlos Wagner

Enrico Fermi Institute - University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratry

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March 2010

Colloquium - March 3

Doped Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Electronic structures, spin effects, and other physical characteristics

Professor Daniel R. Gamelin

University of Washington

Colloquium - March 17

TBA

Professor Jolie A. Cizewski

Rutgers University

Colloquium - March 24

TBA

Professor Filomena M. Nunes

Michigan State University

Colloquium - March 31

TBA

Chris Carilli

National Radio Astronomy Observatories

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April 2010

Colloquium - April 7

TBA

M. Brian Maple Matthias Professor of Physics, Chair, Department of Physics, Director, Inst. for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences

University of California San Diego

Colloquium - April 14

TBA

Professor Brian DeMarco

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Colloquium - April 21

The Fluid Nature of Quark-Gluon Plasma

Professor William A. Zajc

Columbia University

Colloquium - April 28

TBA

Professor Jane Wang

Cornell University

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