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.


2009 - 2010


2010 Spring seminars

When & Where

Speaker

Title (link to abstract)

Slides and notes

Monday January 4, 2:30 pm, 1 West

Jaiyul Yoo

Harvard

A New Perspective on Galaxy Clustering as a Cosmological Probe: General Relativistic Effects

 

Monday January 11, 2:30 pm, 1 West

Hugh Lippincott

Yale University

DEAP/CLEAN: Detecting dark matter with liquid argon (and neon)

Slides

Wednesday January 13, 2:30 pm, Curia II

Felipe Marin

University of Chicago

High-order correlation functions: predictions and results

 

Tuesday January 19, 2:30 pm, 1 West

Marcelle Santos

University of Sao Paulo

Galaxy cluster analysis of the SDSS Coadd data

 

Monday January 25, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Tuesday  January 26, 2:30 pm, 1 West

Amanda Weltman

University of CapeTown

Dark Energy - and where to find it

* Note date

Monday February 1, 2:30 pm, 1 West

Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins

Ohio State

Using anisotropies to identify dark matter and astrophysical gamma-ray sources with Fermi

Slides

Monday February 8, 2:30 am, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday February 15, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Friday February 19, 2:00 pm, 1 West

Mark Devlin

University of Pennsylvania

Where Did Half the Starlight in the Universe Go? *Note time and date

Monday February 22, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday March 1, 2:30 pm, 1 West

Sam Waldman

MIT

 

 

Monday March 8, 2:30 pm, 1 West

Rodger Thompson

Unviersity of Arizona

 

 

Monday March 15, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday March 22, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday March 29, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday April 5, 11:00 am, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday April 12, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday April 19, 11:00 am, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday April 26, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday May 3, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday May 10, 10:30 am, 1 West

Christiano Galbiati

 

 

Monday May 17, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday May 24, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday June 7, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday June 14, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday June 21, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

Monday June 28, 2:30 pm, 1 West

 

 

 

 

 

2009 Fall seminars

When & Where

Speaker Title (link to abstract) Slides and notes

Thursday August 6,

11:00 am, 1 North

Pierre Sikivie

University of Florida

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions Slides

Monday August 24,

2:30 pm, Curia II

Tonia Venters

University of Chicago

Contribution to the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background from the Cascades of Very-high Energy Gamma Rays from Blazars  

Monday September 14,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Josh Frieman

Fermilab and U. Chicago

Constraining Dark Energy: First Results from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey Slides

Monday September 28,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Adam Ritz

University of Victoria

Probing dark matter through dark forces Slides

Monday October 5,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Shirley Ho

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

The signature of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Primordial Non-gaussianities on Lyman-alpha forest

Slides

Monday October 12,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Brian Yanny

FNAL

The SEGUE survey:  Constraints on Dark Matter from the kinematics of a quarter million stars

                               
Slides

Monday October 19,

2:30 pm, The DarkSide

Ali Vanderverld

Caltech/JPL

Testing General Relativity on Cosmological Scales with Weak Gravitational Lensing

Slides

Monday October 26,

2:30 pm, 1 West

     

Thursday October 29,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Andrew Wetzel

Berkeley

Satellite galaxy merging and disruption

 

Monday November 2,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Tyce DeYoung

Penn State

Particle Physics and Astrophysics with IceCube

Slides

Thursday November 5,

1:30 pm, 1 West

Daniel Grin

Caltech

Cosmological hydrogen recombination: the effect of high-n states and forbidden transitions  

Wednesday November 11,

10:00 am, Curia II

Christiano Galbiati

Princeton

Results from the Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment  

Monday November 23,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Eric Adelberger

University of Washington

A low-energy frontier of particle physics Slides

Monday November 30,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Brian Humensky

University of Chicago

The Galaxy in Gamma Rays:  Results from VERITAS

Slides

Tuesday December 8,

2:30 pm, 1 West

Lee Smolin

Perimeter Institute/University of Waterloo

Progress report on quantum gravity Slides

Thursday December 10, 10:30 am, 1 West

 

Aaron Manalaysay

Physik Institut Universität Zürich

"The physics of liquid xenon dark matter detectors" Slides
Wednesday December 16, 2:00 pm 1 West

Pierre Fayet

École Normale

More on U(1) symmetries, new gage boson and light dark matter particles