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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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Friday, May 27th
- Mayra Cervantes, Purdue University
- Leptophilic Dark Matter searches with XENON100 detector
- 11:00 am; Room 4274, hosted by Albrecht Karle
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
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