Seminars
Fermilab Particle Astrophysics Seminars Past seminars
"Curia II" is on the 2nd floor of Wilson Hall, in the South-West corner.
"One 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.
2012 - 2013
2013 Spring seminars
When & Where |
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Monday, June 10, 2013, 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall
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Nathan Whitehorn University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Observation of High-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube | |
Monday, June 3, 2013, 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall
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NO SPEAKER |
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 1:30PM DarkSide, 6NW, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL TIME & LOCATION |
Tim Eifler University of Pennsylvania |
Constraining cosmology and dark energy models with current and future wide-field imaging surveys | |
Monday, May 20, 2013, 2:30PM Curia II, Wilson Hall PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE |
Cora Dvorkin IAS |
Traces of Dark Matter Annihilation in the CMB | |
Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 1:30PM Curia II, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL TIME & LOCATION |
Stefan Ballmer Syracuse University |
Experimental Challenges in Gravitational Wave Astronomy | PPT |
Monday, May 13, 2013, 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
NO SPEAKER |
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Monday, May 6, 2013, 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Neal Dalal University of Illinois |
Probing dark matter substructure with dusty galaxies | |
Monday, April 29, 2013, 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Matt Kauer University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Operation, performance and first results from DM-Ice17: a NaI dark matter detector in the South Pole ice | |
Monday, April 22, 2013, 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Matt Walker Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Galactic Dynamics and the Nature of Dark Matter | |
Friday April 19, 2013 2:00PM Curia II, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL TIME & LOCATION |
Christoph Weniger GRAPPA Institute |
Gamma-ray lines in the Fermi LAT Data? | |
Monday April 8, 2013 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Eric Charles SLAC |
The Fermi Large Area Telescope at Four and a Half: Astrophysics, Dark Matter Searches and the 130 GeV Line | |
Monday March 25, 2013 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Dan Hooper Fermilab |
Gamma rays from dark matter annihilations in the Galactic Center and the Inner Galaxy | pptx |
Monday March 18, 2013 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Greg Dobler Univ. of California - Santa Barbara |
From Hazes to Bubbles: an Enormous Eruption from the Heart of the Milky Way | |
Monday March 4, 2013 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Meng Su Harvard University |
Recent evidence for Gamma-ray Line Emission from Fermi-LAT: WIMP or artifact? | |
Monday February 25, 2013 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Daniel O. Whiteson Univ. of California- Irvine |
Are the FermiLAT Lines Real? | |
Monday February 18, 2013 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Steve Kent Fermilab |
Worlds in Collision: the Chelyabinsk Meteor |
2012 Fall seminars
When & Where |
Speaker |
Title (link to abstract) |
Slides and notes |
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Monday December 17, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
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No Seminar speaker for this week, seminars will resume in JAN 2013 |
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Monday December 10, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Yookyung Noh University of California, Berkeley |
Filamentary Environment and Mass Measurements of Galaxy Clusters | |
Monday December 3, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Dan Grin Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
New light on cosmic initial conditions and dark matter | |
Monday November 26, 2012 2:30PM Curia II, Wilson Hall |
David Bennett University of Notre Dame |
Most Plants are Cold and Lonely: The Latest Results from Gravitational Microlensing | |
Monday November 19, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
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Thanksgiving Week- No Seminar Speaker for this week |
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Monday November 12, 2012 2:30PM CURIA II, Wilson Hall |
Tim Linden University of California, Santa Cruz |
Understanding High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center |
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Monday November 5, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
John Peterson Purdue University |
Simulating the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) One Photon at a Time | |
Monday October 29, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
F. William High University of Chicago |
Targeted weak-lensing follow-up of galaxy clusters in the South Pole Telescope survey | |
Monday October 22, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Alexander Belikov Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
Indirect Detection of Dark Matter at GeV and TeV Scales | |
Monday October 15, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Chris Morrison University of California, Davis |
The Universe Under a Magnifying Glass | |
Monday September 24, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Anastasia Fialkov Tel Aviv University, Israel |
Velocity and feedback enhance 21-cm signal from first stars at z ~ 20 | |
Monday September 17, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall |
Alex Geringer-Sameth Brown University |
Results of dark matter searches in dwarf galaxies with Fermi |
2012 Spring seminars
When & Where |
Speaker | Title (link to abstract) | Slides and notes |
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Monday August 06, 2012 1:30pm Hornet's Nest, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL TIME & LOCATION |
Vuk Mandic Univ. of Minnesota |
Searching for Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with LIGO | |
Monday July 30, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION |
Joseph Zuntz Univ. College London |
Cosmic Shear Challenges | |
Monday July 30, 2012 11:00am One West, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION / TIME |
Eric Vasquez SNOLAB |
Deep Underground Astroparticle Physics | |
Monday June 25, 2012 12:30pm Hornet's Nest, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION / TIME |
Lisa Barsotti MIT |
Squeezing in Gravitational Wave Detectors | |
Monday June 4, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Sonia El Hedri Stanford |
Dark Matter in 3D | |
Monday May 21, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hal |
Pearl Sandick Univ. of Utah | Dark Matter and EWSB Naturalness in Unified SUSY models | |
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 | |
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 April 23, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Kathryn Zurek Univ. of Michigan |
Asymmetric Dark Matter | |
Monday April 16, 2012 2:30pm Curia II, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION |
PeterNugent LBL |
Observations of a Type Ia Supernova within Hours of Explosion in the Pinwheel Galaxy | |
Friday April 13, 2012 11:00am Curia II, Wilson Hall SPECIAL DAY & TIME |
Matthew Evans MIT |
Ground Based Gravitational-Wave Antennae | |
Monday April 2, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Louie Strigari Stanford |
Dark Matter Properties from the Faintest Galaxies | |
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 March 26, 2012 2:30pm Curia II, Wilson Hall, 2-W NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION |
Andrew Hime LANL |
A Noble Attack on Dark Matter | |
Monday March 19, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Mark Trodden Univ. of Pennsylvania |
Galileons and their Generalizations | |
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 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 | |
Wednesday March 7, 2012 1:00pm Curia II, Wilson Hall |
Matthew Malek Imperial College |
Using Neutrinos as a Cosmic Messenger | |
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 | |
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:30PM Curia II, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL DATE/TIME |
Henning Back Princeton |
DarkSide and its low radioactivity argon target | |
Friday, February 17, 2012 1:30PM Curia II, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL DATE/TIME |
Stephen Leman MIT |
Bringing Light to a Dark Matter Search | |
Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:30PM Curia II, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL DATE/TIME |
Lauren Hsu Fermilab |
Next-generation dark matter searches with SuperCDMS | |
Monday February 6, 2012 2:30pm One West, Wilson Hall |
Immanuel Buder University of Chicago |
Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Results from the QUIET Experiment | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
Tuesday January 17, 2012 2:30PM One West, Wilson Hall NOTE SPECIAL DATE |
Kyle Barbary LBNL |
The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae from Their Rates | |
Monday January 9, 2012 2:30PM One West Wilson Hall |
J. Patrick Harding University of Maryland |
Current and Upcoming Sensitivities to Dark Matter in Gamma-Ray Observatories | |
Thursday, January 5, 2012 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? | |
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Committee Members
| Matt Buckley | mbuckley@fnal.gov | |
| Ilias Cholis | cholis@fnal.gov | |
| Andrew Hearin | aphearin@fnal.gov | |
| Ben Loer | bloer@fnal.gov | |
| Albert Stebbins | stebbins@fnal.gov |