Chalk talk archive 2012

Raw date Event date Title Speakers Host Summary Links
20120119 Jan. 19, 2012 US/Central Other Things That Bubble Chambers Can Do
20120126 Jan. 26, 2012 US/Central Cancelled
20120202 Feb. 2, 2012 US/Central Extensions of the Standard Model: Alternatives to SUSY
20120209 Feb. 9, 2012 US/Central Quantum Effects during Inflation
20120216 Feb. 16, 2012 US/Central What I think I know about Type Ia SN
20120223 Feb. 23, 2012 US/Central The Milky Way as a drum - What GAIA can tell us about DM halos around the Galaxy
20120301 March 1, 2012 US/Central Light Stops at the LHC *SPECIAL LOCATION: Race Track (WH7X)
20120308 March 8, 2012 US/Central Underground Argon Separation with Pressure Swing Absorption
20120315 March 15, 2012 US/Central Status of Low Mass WIMPs
20120322 March 22, 2012 US/Central Two for the price of one: spontaneous parametric down-conversion
20120329 March 29, 2012 US/Central BTFR, MOND, LCDM and other 4-letter words *SPECIAL LOCATION: Race Track (WH7X)
20120405 April 5, 2012 US/Central Searching for Stops with an invisible razor
20120412 April 12, 2012 US/Central How to take the DES data: through clouds or through bad seeing?
20120419 April 19, 2012 US/Central Taming the atmospheric seeing without deformed mirrors: another promise of MKIDS?
20120426 April 26, 2012 US/Central Duck! (before that roving blob of dark matter hits your favorite galaxy in the disk)
20120503 May 3, 2012 US/Central ReThinking inflation at the TeV scale
20120510 May 10, 2012 US/Central My new favorite dark matter model
20120517 May 17, 2012 US/Central Latest results from DAMIC
20120524 May 24, 2012 US/Central White Dwarfs as Black Bodies
20120531 May 31, 2012 US/Central Calibrating the CDMS energy scale
20120607 June 7, 2012 US/Central Supernovae and Strongly Lensed QSOs in the DES Wide-Area Survey
20120614 June 14, 2012 US/Central Emergent space-time
20120927 Sept. 27, 2012 US/Central HR-DECam: thinking about a substantial improvement to DECam's photo-z
20120927 Sept. 27, 2012 US/Central HR-DECam: thinking about a substantial improvement to DECam's photo-z
20121004 Oct. 4, 2012 US/Central The claims for ~130 GeV gamma-ray line(s) and implications for annihilating dark matter
20121004 Oct. 4, 2012 US/Central The claims for ~130 GeV gamma-ray line(s) and implications for annihilating dark matter
20121011 Oct. 11, 2012 US/Central Type II's Strike Back!
20121011 Oct. 11, 2012 US/Central Type II's Strike Back!
20121018 Oct. 18, 2012 US/Central Testing the light dark matter hypothesis with AMS
20121018 Oct. 18, 2012 US/Central Testing the light dark matter hypothesis with AMS
20121025 Oct. 25, 2012 US/Central Challenges for Telescopes With 'Big' Focal Planes ** SPECIAL LOCATION: Race Track (WH7X) **
20121025 Oct. 25, 2012 US/Central Challenges for Telescopes With 'Big' Focal Planes
20121101 Nov. 1, 2012 US/Central I hate backgrounds: Surface backgrounds in DEAP and CRESST
20121101 Nov. 1, 2012 US/Central I hate backgrounds: Surface backgrounds in DEAP and CRESST
20121108 Nov. 8, 2012 US/Central MMC detectors: Using phonons and magnons to find neutrino mass, perform X-ray spectroscopy and more
20121108 Nov. 8, 2012 US/Central MMC detectors: Using phonons and magnons to find neutrino mass, perform X-ray spectroscopy and more
20121115 Nov. 15, 2012 US/Central Adaptive Optics for the Giant Magellan Telescope
20121115 Nov. 15, 2012 US/Central Adaptive Optics for the Giant Magellan Telescope
20121122 Nov. 22, 2012 US/Central THANKSGIVING (No Meeting)
20121122 Nov. 22, 2012 US/Central Thanksgiving
20121129 Nov. 29, 2012 US/Central Global warming in the dark sector: it is also bad there
20121129 Nov. 29, 2012 US/Central Global warming in the dark sector: it is also bad there
20121206 Dec. 6, 2012 US/Central DAMIC calibration: nuclear recoils in silicon down to 1 keV
20121206 Dec. 6, 2012 US/Central DAMIC calibration: nuclear recoils in silicon down to 1 keV