Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu

Events During the 2016 Spring Semester

January 2016

   Wednesday, January 27th

Peter Timbie, UW - Madison, Department of Physics

Discovery of a Fast Radio Burst

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Vandenbroucke

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February 2016

   Thursday, February 4th

Rebecca Surman, Notre Dame

Forging the Heaviest Elements

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Balantekin

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   Thursday, February 11th

Sara Simon, Princeton

The Atacama B-mode Search: Cosmology at 17,000 Feet

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Kam Arnold

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Brad Dober, University of Pennsylvania

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Kam Arnold

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   Friday, February 12th

Luigi Tibaldo, MPIK, Heidelberg

High- and intermediate-velocity clouds as a tracer of cosmic rays in the Galactic halo

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Justin Vandenbroucke

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   Wednesday, February 17th

Joshua Wood, University of Maryland

Initial Results from HAWC on Gamma-Ray Bursts

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff

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   Wednesday, February 24th

Adam Schreckenberger, Univ. of Texas-Austin

Scintillating v's

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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   Thursday, February 25th

Matt Toups, MIT

MicroBooNE: Unlocking the Secrets of the Neutrino with Liquid Argon Detector Technology

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Baha Balantekin

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March 2016

   Wednesday, March 16th

Seon-Hee Seo, Seoul National University

New results from RENO

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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   Wednesday, March 30th

Amanda Weinstein, Iowa State University

Accelerating the Search for Cosmic Accelerators

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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April 2016

May 2016

   Wednesday, May 11th

Viviana Niro, Madrid, Autonoma U. & Madrid, IFT

Neutrino mass limits from galaxy surveys and implications for particle physics

10:00 am - 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Markus Ahlers

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   Thursday, May 12th

David Kaplan, UW - Milwaukee

A Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxy

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5248 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Peter Timbie

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   Tuesday, May 17th

Darcy Barron, University of California, Berkeley

CMB Polarization Measurements: Cutting the trail to CMB-S4

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Kam Arnold

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   Wednesday, May 18th

Tom Weisgarber

HAWC: A New View of the Very High Energy Sky

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff

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   Friday, May 27th

Mayra Cervantes, Purdue University

Leptophilic Dark Matter searches with XENON100 detector

11:00 am; Room 4274, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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June 2016

   Tuesday, June 21st

Tianlu Yuan, University of Colorado

Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Section on Water with Zero Outgoing Pions

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Vandenbroucke

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July 2016

   Tuesday, July 26th

Kfir Blum, Weizmann Institute

Neutrino Signal of Collapse-Induced Thermonuclear Supernovae: The Case for Prompt Black Hole Formation in SN1987A

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Markus Ahlers

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