Seminars

Fermilab Particle Astrophysics Seminars          Past seminars

"Curia II" is on the 2nd floor of Wilson Hall, in the South-West corner.
"1 West" is on the 1st floor of Wilson Hall, in the West side.
"3 East - Theory Conference Room" is on the 3rd floor of Wilson Hall, in the North-East corner.
"Dark Side" is on the 6th floor of Wilson Hall, in the North-West corner.


2011 - 2012


2011 Fall seminars

When & Where

Speaker

Title (link to abstract)

Slides and notes

Tuesday August 2, 2011 2:30PM

One West Wilson Hall

Jihn Kim

Seoul National University

"Weak and strong CP, axions, and DM"

Slides

Monday September 26, 2011 2:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Pat Scott

McGill University

New results from dark matter minihalos: limits on the spectrum of cosmological perturbations, reionization and dark stars Slides

Monday October 3, 2011 2:30pm

Comittium (WH2XO) Wilson Hall

Johannes M. Oberreuter

University of Amsterdam

Multiple problems with multiple sectors in supergravity  

Monday October 10, 2011 2:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Surhad S. More

University of Chicago

Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection: A cosmological perspective  

Thursday October 13, 2011 1:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Miquel Ramirez

Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

Undersea Neutrino Telescopes ANTARES and KM3NeT Slides

Monday October 17, 2011 2:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Oscar Agertz

Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago

Recent advances in computational galaxy formation

 

Monday October 24, 2011 2:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Godfrey Miller

University of Pennsylvania

Spatially Covariant Theories of a Transverse, Traceless Graviton  

Thursday October 27, 2011 1:30pm

Curia II - Wilson Hall SPECIAL LOCATION

Eric Linder

University of California -Berkeley / LBNL

Chasing Down Cosmic Acceleration

Slides

Monday October 31st, 2011 2:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Tracy Slatyer

Institute for Advanced Study

Signatures of Dark Matter Annihilation in the Cosmic Microwave Background  

Monday November 7, 2011 2:30pm

Curia II - Wilson Hall NOTE LOCATION

Brian Odom

Northwestern University

MilliKelvin Trapped Molecular Ions.  A New Tool for New Physics.  

Wednesday November 9, 2011 1:30pm

Curia II - Wilson Hall NOTE LOCATION & TIME

Stephen Leman

MIT

Searcing for the Universe, from an Iron Mine  

Wednesday November 16, 2011 1:30pm

One West - Wilson Hall NOTE TIME

Eric Dahl

University of Chicago

The COUPP Dark Matter Search-Results from the First Year of Deep Underground Running at SNOLAB  

Monday November 21, 2011 2:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Peter Maksym

Northwestern University

New Light on Tidal Disruption Flares  

Wednesday November 23, 2011 1:30pm

One West Wilson Hall NOTE TIME

Jason Steffen

Fermilab

Illuminating the Dark Sector PDF

Wednesday December 5, 2011 2:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Bhuvnesh Jain

University of Pennsylvania

Tests of Gravity in the Local Universe  

Tuesday December 6, 2011 3:30pm Race Track, Wilson Hall 7W

NOTE LOCATION & TIME

Keith Bechtol Stanford

 

The Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background: A Census of High Energy Phenomena in the Universe PDF

Wednesday December 7, 2011 10:00AM Dark Side, Wilson Hall 6W

NOTE LOCATION & TIME

Luca Grandi

Princeton

 

The Dark Side of Dark Matter  

Monday December 12, 2011 2:30pm

One West Wilson Hall

Petra Huentemeyer

Michigan Technological University

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in Mexico pdf

Wednesday December 14, 2011 10:00AM Dark Side, Wilson Hall 6W

NOTE LOCATION & TIME

Jeter Hall

Fermilab

Searching for Low Mass Dark Matter  

 

     

 

2012 Spring seminars

When & Where

Speaker Title (link to abstract) Slides and notes

Thursday, January 5, 2011 10:00AM One West, Wilson Hall

NOTE SPECIAL DAY & TIME

Brian Nord

University of Michigan

Can we realize the potential of galaxy cluster surveys with multi- wavelength analyses? PDF

Monday January 9, 2011 2:30PM

One West Wilson Hall

J. Patrick Harding

University of Maryland

Current and Upcoming Sensitivities to Dark Matter in Gamma-Ray Observatories PDF

Tuesday January 17, 2011 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall

NOTE SPECIAL DATE

Kyle Barbary

LBNL

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae from Their Rates PDF
Monday, January 23, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall

Alvaro Chavarria

Princeton

First evidence of pep solar neutrinos by direct detection in Borexino 1 PDF
Monday, January 30, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall

Andres Plazas

University of Pennsylvania

Weak lensing pipleline accuracy and validation tests for the Dark Energy Survey PDF

Monday February 6, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Immanuel Buder

University of Chicago

Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Results from the QUIET Experiment PDF

Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:30PM

Curia II, Wilson Hall

NOTE SPECIAL DATE/TIME

Lauren Hsu

Fermilab

Next-generation dark matter searches with SuperCDMS PDF

Friday, February 17, 2012 1:30PM

Curia II, Wilson Hall

NOTE SPECIAL DATE/TIME

Stephen Leman

MIT

Bringing Light to a Dark Matter Search PDF

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:30PM

Curia II, Wilson Hall

NOTE SPECIAL DATE/TIME

Henning Back

Princeton

DarkSide and its low radioactivity argon target PDF

Monday March 5, 2012 1:00pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Anders Pinzke

Univ. of California -Santa Barbara

Gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies - a competition between cosmic rays and dark matter PDF

Wednesday March 7, 2012 1:00pm

Curia II, Wilson Hall

Matthew Malek

Imperial College

Using Neutrinos as a Cosmic Messenger PDF

Monday March 12, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Craig Booth

Univ. of Chicago

Feedback and galaxy formation from small scales to large: Insights from extremely large cosmological simulations PDF

Friday, March 14, 2012 1:30PM

Curia II, Wilson Hall

NOTE SPECIAL DATE/TIME

Jeter Hall

Fermilab

How to Discover WIMP Dark Matter pdf, pptx

Monday March 19, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Mark Trodden

University of Pennsylvania

Galileons and their Generalizations PDF

Monday March 26, 2012 2:30pm

Curia II, Wilson Hall, 2-W

NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION

Andrew Hime

LANL

A Noble Attack on Dark Matter  

Thursday March 29, 2012 1:00pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Matthew Colless

Australian Astronomical Observatory

Expansion, acceleration and growth rate of the universe from the 6dF and WiggleZ surveys  

Monday April 2, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Louie Strigari

Stanford

Dark Matter Properties from the Faintest Galaxies PDF

Friday April 13, 2012 11:00am

Curia II, Wilson Hall

SPECIAL DAY & TIME

Matthew Evans

MIT

Ground Based Gravitational-Wave Antennae PDF

Monday April 16, 2012 2:30pm

Curia II, Wilson Hall

NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION

Peter Nugent

LBNL

Observations of a Type Ia Supernova within Hours of Explosion in the Pinwheel Galaxy PDF

Monday April 23, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Kathryn Zurek

Univ. of Michigan

Asymmetric Dark Matter PDF

Monday May 7, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Kfir Blum

IAS

High energy cosmic rays: lessons from radioactive nuclei and positron data,and robust tests for exotic sources  

Monday May 14, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Tommaso Treu

Univ. of California - Santa Barbara

Measuring Dark Energy and Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing PDF

Monday May 21, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Pearl Sandick Univ. of Utah    

Monday June 4, 2012 2:30pm

One West, Wilson Hall

Sonia El Hedri

Stanford

   
       
       

 

Committee Members
Matt Buckley mbuckley@fnal.gov  
Robert Feldmann feldmann@fnal.gov  
Jeter Hall jeter@fnal.gov  
Albert Stebbins stebbins@fnal.gov  
Jason Steffen jsteffen@fnal.gov