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Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu
Events During the 2015 Spring Semester
January 2015
- Tuesday, January 20th
- Kevin O'Sullivan, Yale
- The LUX and LZ Dark Matter Experiments
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
- Wednesday, January 21st
- Markus Ahlers, UW - Madison
- The non-thermal Universe
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
- Tuesday, January 27th
- Daniel C. Jacobs, NSF Fellow, Arizona State University
- Chasing our Cosmic Dawn: Opening the 21cm cosmological window on the universe
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
- Benjamin Monreal, UCSB
- One century of neutrino mass experiments: from radium salts to microwaves
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
February 2015
- Monday, February 2nd
- Victor Gehman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Expeditions to the Next Energy Scale
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Dasu
- Tuesday, February 3rd
- Kim Palladino, SLAC
- It's a Marvel: LZ and the Next Era of Dark Matter Searches
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Dasu
- Tuesday, February 17th
- Joshua Spitz, MIT
- Using kaons to unlock the secrets of the neutrino
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
- Wednesday, February 18th
- Noah Oblath, MIT
- Measuring the Neutrino Mass with Tritium Beta Decays
- 8:30 am - 9:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
- Monday, February 23rd
- Gray Rybka, University of Washington
- Benchtop Particle Astrophysics
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
- Tuesday, February 24th
- Meng Su, MIT, Joint MIT Pappalardo and NASA Einstein Fellow
- The Discovery of Fermi Bubbles and Future Gamma-ray Telescopes
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
March 2015
- Monday, March 2nd
- Kam Arnold, UC San Diego, Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences
- Fundamental Physics with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dasu
- Thursday, March 12th
- Bannanje Sripathi Acharya, Tata Institute
- The status of Himalayan Gamma Ray Observatory (HiGRO)
- 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mike Duvernois
April 2015
- Wednesday, April 22nd
- Dan Guest, Yale University
- Charm jet identification in searches for new physics with the ATLAS detector
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff
- Thursday, April 23rd
- Bannanje Sripathi Acharya, Tata Institute
- The status of India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)
- 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Justin Vandenbrouke
May 2015
- Thursday, May 7th
- Anatoli Fedynitch, Karlsruhe
- Probing hadronic interactions with atmospheric leptons
- 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Paolo Desiati
- Thursday, May 14th
- Bryce Littlejohn, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Anomalous reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum measurements
- 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, May 22nd
- Andy Perch, University College London
- Three flavour neutrino oscillations with MINOS and CHIPS
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Kael Hanson
June 2015
July 2015