Third Circular

We are looking forward to your attendance next week, Friday and Saturday, October 24-25 at the Midwest Relativity Meeting (MWRM18) at the University of Notre Dame.

The preliminary program and list of participants has been posted to the conference web site http://www.nd.edu/~astro/MWRM18/. All talks will be held in Room 101 Jordan Hall of Science (see map at the conference web site). Please note that all talks are 15 min. + 5 min. discussion. There will be a computer available if you bring your talks on a thumb drive. Otherwise, you can plug in your laptop at the podium.

We look forward to seeing you next week!

Local Organizing Committee:

Grant Mathews - gmathews@nd.edu, 574-631-6919
Chris Kolda
Xinghai Zhao

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Grant Mathews
Chris Kolda
Samir Bose
David Garfinkle
Gregory Comer

Conference Secretary: Susan Baxmeyer sbaxmeye@nd.edu, 574-631-6387

 

A Symposium on Atomic Physics: A Tribute to Walter Johnson

Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, 2008

The Organizing Committee

At Notre Dame: Gordon Berry (hgberry@nd.edu) telephone: 574-631-4012, Gene Livingston (alivings@nd.edu) telephone: 574-631-7554, Jonathan Sapirstein (jsapirst@nd.edu) telephone: 574-631-5570, Carol Tanner (tanner.1@nd.edu) telephone: 574-631-8369. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Kwok-Tsang Cheng (cheng1@llnl.gov).

Plans are being finalized for our weekend celebration of Walter's work in Physics and other fields. We are grateful to you for all the large number of positive responses to our requests for speakers and attendees. The program for Friday (April 4) and Saturday (April 5), and the titles are given below.

A Proceedings of the meeting will be published in the Canadian Journal of Physics. You are very welcome to submit a title for a talk and/or prepare a manuscript. We hope that everyone who wishes to contribute may do so. The Proceedings will be dedicated to Walter. We will send out details of deadlines and formats for written contributions later.

If you plan to attend, and have not already let us know, please respond by email, mail, telephone, text message or otherwise to any or all of the organizing committee members. (Contact details are given above.) You may register for the symposium directly on the web site for the Center for Continuing Education.

A group of hotel rooms at the Waterford Estates Lodge (877-783-8496) and at the Inn at Saint Mary's (877-567-1438) have been reserved for the meeting.

For a complete list of speakers and their talks, click here.

Read more on the College of Science web page.

The 12th International Conference on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics will be held from September 4-9, 2005 at the University of Notre Dame.

Conference themes include current topics in Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Symmetries, Nuclear Reactions with stable as well as radioactive ion beams, Nuclear Astrophysics, Tools of Nuclear Science from instrumentation to facilities, as well as Applications of Nuclear Science from AMS to nuclear energy. The last meeting of the series, CGS-11, was held in Pruhonice near Prague in the Czech Republic in 2002.

The venue for the conference is the Center for Continuing Education at the University of Notre Dame. Lodging and registration can be made through the conference website http://isnap.nd.edu/cgs12. All participants will be housed on the campus of the University of Notre Dame at the Morris Inn. The conference site is just across the street within a three minute walk.

Looking forward to seeing you at CGS-12!

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) will organize a 2-day Workshop focused on Nuclear Incompressibility and the Nuclear Equation of State, to be held at the University of Notre Dame July 14-15, 2005.

This meeting follows a similar Workshop held at Notre Dame in January 2001, and the Symposium on Nuclear Equation of State used in Astrophysics Models, held at the ACS meeting in Philadelphia last Summer.

The primary aim of the Workshop is to bring together interested physicists from the areas of Astrophysics, Giant Resonances, and Heavy-Ion Reactions, to discuss current status of experiments and theoretical models related to nuclear incompressibility and the equation of state, and to explore what experiments might be needed to clarify some of the outstanding issues.

Most of the Workshop will be devoted to talks, with a lot of time allowed for discussions and interactions. In that spirit, we will follow a somewhat flexible schedule for talks.

There is no registration fee but participants are requested to register via the webpage (http://www.jinaweb.org) so that we can make appropriate arrangements.

A second special school on "Tools and Toys in Nuclear Astrophysics" will be held at Notre Dame from June 20 - July 1, 2005.

Reaction network techniques have been developed as an important tool for applications in nuclear astrophysics and many other physics areas. This technique is particularly important for simulating nucleosynthesis processes and for predicting element production as well as energy generation in both stellar evolution and stellar explosion processes. The increasing need for using computational networking techniques requires special training in the development and application of network programs. This school will provide an overview about the mathematical background as well as the computational network techniques. Different applications for stellar nucleosynthesis simulations will be presented and discussed. In addition to the lectures, the participants will have time to work with the various network codes under the guidance of the lecturers. Codes will be shared freely and will be available to participants after the workshop.

Participants will be selected from applications. Please submit an application through the JINA webpage (http://www.jinaweb.org). Travel and housing assistance will be made available for all participants in need. Deadline for submission is June 1, 2005.

Featured speakers:

Dr. Brad Meyer, Clemson University
Dr. Frank Timmes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame:

The Institute for Theoretical Sciences will organize a 3-day Workshop focused on The Possibility of Room Temperature Superconductivity & Related Topics, to be held in McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame June 10, 11 and 12, 2005.

Topics include:
Routes to higher transition temperature
Materials
Mechanisms
Theoretical Limits
Exotic Condensates

Featured Speakers:
Alexei Abrikosov, Meigan Aronson, Neil Ashcroft, Gennady Logvenov, Paul Canfield, Paul Chu, Laura Greene, Art Freeman, John Ketterson, Igor Mazin, Warren Pickett, Mohit Randeria, John Sarrao, Douglas Scalapino, Masashi Tachiki and Anthony Leggett

For more information visit:
http://www.theoryinstitute.org/

Cosmology is one area of fundamental physics where the complementary perspectives of the physicist and the philosopher of physics have proven to be especially valuable. At Notre Dame, in particular, cosmology has long been a place where the research trajectories of physicists and philosophers have intersected. This conference celebrates that heritage at Notre Dame by bringing together seven scholars whose work has contributed to the ongoing dialogue between the two disciplines.

Conference Web Site:
http://www.jinaweb.org/events/cosmo05/cosmology announcement.pdf

All conference sessions will be held in rooms 100 of McKenna Hall, the Center for Continuing Education.

Wednesday, April 20:

9:00-9:30: Ani Aprahamian, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, USA
“Welcome & Opening Remarks”

9:30-10:20: Ikaros Bigi, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, USA
“The Snake Biting its Tail - Fundamental Physics and the Universe”

10:20-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:00: Jeremy Butterfield, Faculty of Philosophy and All Souls College, Oxford University
“Spacetime as a Causal Set: A Philosophers Introduction ”

12:00-2:00: Lunch Break

2:00-2:50: Peter Garnavich, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, USA
“Hunting Dark Energy”

2:50-3:40: Bill Stoeger, Vatican Observatory, University of Arizona, USA
“Are Multiverses Legitimate Objects of Scientific Cosmology”

3:40-4:00: Coffee

4:00-4:50: Yuri Balashov, Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia, USA
“A Cognizable Universe: Transcendental Arguments in Physical Cosmology”

4:50-5:40: Harvey Brown, Faculty of Philosophy and Wolfson College, Oxford University
“Rods, Clocks and Photons in General Relativity and a Recent Modification”

5:40-6:30: Sean Carroll, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, USA
“The Preposterous Universe”

6:30: Don Howard, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA
“Closing Remarks”

Conference Program:
http://www.jinaweb.org/events/cosmo05/cosmology program.pdf

A Conference in Memory of James T. Cushing
(1937-2002)
University of Notre Dame
November 5-6, 2002

Conference Web Site:
http://www.nd.edu/~hps/CushConf.html

All conference sessions will be held in rooms 210-214 of McKenna Hall, the Center for Continuing Education.

The Second Notre Dame Biocomplexity Workshop Fall 2001
Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility
November 10 and 11th, (Saturday and Sunday)
with
Modeling Limb and Organ Development
November 9th and 12th (Friday and Monday)
Location: Center for Continuing Education -McKenna Hall
(Lower Level) ETS Theatre

Now is an exciting time for researchers in quantitative biology, both experimental and computational. Our improved understanding of reaction pathways and molecular kinetics makes large scale modeling of cellular and developmental processes possible for the first time. The purpose of this workshop is to survey recent developments in cytoskeletal, cell motility and organ development issues and to suggest new directions for modeling and quantitative experiments. The workshop will include research lectures, tutorials and ample opportunity for discussion. Talks will be made available on a Workshop Website.

Organizers: James Glazier, Department of Physics, Mark Alber, Department of Mathematics, Jesus Izaguirre, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Sponsored by: N.S.F. Biocomplexity Initiative, the Center for Applied Mathematics and the Departments of Mathematics and Physics, University of Notre Dame.