Chronological listing - Physics Division Monday Seminars

Physics Division Monday Seminars

Argonne National Laboratory

1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008



30 Aug 1999 Eugene Tkalya, Moscow State U., The 3.5eV Level in 229Th: Latest Experimental and Theoretical Results
13 Sep 1999 Peter Ostroumov, ANL Physics, Multi-Charged Beam Acceleration in Superconducting Linacs
20 Sep 1999 James Kolata, U. of Notre Dame, Reactions of Halo Nuclei Near the Coulomb Barrier: New Experimental Results
27 Sep 1999 Dariusz Seweryniak, ANL Physics, Response of the Deformed Proton Emitters 131Eu and 141Ho to the Stress of Rotation
4 Oct 1999 Klaus Wendt, U. of Mainz, Germany, Selective Ultra-trace Determination by Laser-mass Spectrometry
11 Oct 1999 Mark Pfuetzner, Warsaw U., Exotic nuclei at the GSI Fragment Separator
18 Oct 1999 Stefan Frauendorf, U. of Notre Dame, Symmetries of the Proton - Neutron Pairfield and Consequences for Rotational Spectra
25 Oct 1999 Dave Hofman, ANL Physics, Collisions of Relativistic Gold Nuclei at the AGS
1 Nov 1999 Scott Pratt, Michigan State U., Statistical Nuclear Physics - Reborn
8 Nov 1999 Costas Papanicolas, U. of Athens, Investigating Nucleon Structure Using Out-Of-Plane Spectrometry
15 Nov 1999 Paul Reimer, ANL Physics, Nuclear Dependence of Muon-pair Production: Parton Energy Loss and J/psi Suppresion
22 Nov 1999 Misha Stephanov, U. of Illinois, Chicago, The Phase Diagram of QCD
29 Nov 1999 Cary Davids, ANL Physics, Decay Rates of Spherical and Deformed Proton Emitters
13 Dec 1999 Charles Horowitz, Indiana U., Parity Violating Measurements of Neutron Densities
24 Jan 2000 Dmitiri Toporkov, Novoskbirsk, Recent Results of the Polarized Deuterium Target Experiment at VEPP-3
31 Jan 2000 Ingo Wiedenhoever, ANL Physics, Spin Determination in 24Mg and the Beauty of Spherical Harmonics
7 Feb 2000 Gene Sprouse, SUNY at Stony Brook, Laser Trapping of Francium, Recent Results and Prospects for RIA
14 Feb 2000 Sewart Freeman, Standford U. School of Medicine, Ultrasensitive Detection of 41Ca Tracer and Opportunities for Combating Osteoporosis
21 Feb 2000 Richard Kroeger, Navel Research Lab., To be announced


11 Sep 2000 Hiro Ejiri, Osaka university, Neutrino masses and solar neutrinos by double- and inverse-beta decays of 100Mo
18 Sep 2000 Susan Fischer, DePaul university, Delayed Alignment in N=Z Nuclei: An Experimental Fact, But What Does it Mean?
25 Sep 2000 Zheng-tian Lu, ANL Physics, Progress report on laser-trapping experiments at ANL
2 Oct 2000 William Walters, Maryland, Possible effects on the structure of very neutron-rich nuclides and on r-process nucleosynthesis arising from a diffuse nuclear surface
16 Oct 2000 Aracelli Lopez-Martens, CSNSM, Orsay, Decay from superdeformed states: review and perspectives
30 Oct 2000 John Schiffer, ANL Physics, Temperature and Order in Trapped Ions
6 Nov 2000 Walter Kutschera, university Of Vienna, New 14C-Dating Results from the Discovery Site of the Iceman Oetzi
13 Nov 2000 Mike Pellin, ANL Chemistry, Isotopic Anaysis of Star Dust as a Probe of Stellar Nucleosynthesis
20 Nov 2000 R. Wiringa, ANL Physics, Astrophysics Applications of Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Nuclei
27 Nov 2000 Kawtar Hafidi, ANL Physics, Highlights from HERMES
4 Dec 2000 Jerry Nolen, ANL Physics, Overview of RIA and Other Proposed Exotic Beam Facilities
11 Dec 2000 Gerry Garvey, LANL, Some results from p-A Drell-Yan Experiments at FNAL
18 Dec 2000 Yuri Oganessian, JINR, Dubna, The synthesis and properties of superheavy nuclei in the reactions with 48Ca ions
8 Jan 2001 I. Ahmad, ANL Physics, Characterization of Levels in Heaviest Known Nuclei
15 Jan 2001 Steven C. Pieper, ANL Physics, Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei
22 Jan 2001 A. Afanasjevs, Notre Dame, Cranked Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov Theory: rotating nuclei in the paired regime
29 Jan 2001 David Gaskell, ANL Physics, Charged Pion Electroproduction from H, 2H, and 3He
12 Feb 2001 Peter Ostroumov, ANL Physics, Design of a Post Accelerator Linac for RIA
19 Feb 2001 Bertold Kraessig, ANL Chemistry, Photoionization of He: Intricacies of a Perfectly Simple Process
5 Mar 2001 Krishni Wijesooriya, ANL Physics, Polarization in High-Energy Photodisintegration of the Deuteron
6 Mar 2001 V. M. Loboshev, INR Russian Ac. Sc., Search for kinematic mass of the neutrino: Present status of nu-tau, nu-mu and nu-e Experiments. Search for m-nu,e in the tritium beta decay
8 Mar 2001 V. M. Loboshev, INR Russian Ac. Sc., Anomalous Structures in the Tritium Beta Decay Spectrum and Future Proposed Experiments
12 Mar 2001 Stuart Freedman, UC Berkeley & LBNL, Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem in the Laboratory at KamLAND
15 Mar 2001 Ivan Mukha, GSI, Two-roton radioactivity as a genuine three-particle decay
19 Mar 2001 Kai Vetter, LBNL, Efforts Towards a Gamma-Ray Tracking Array
26 Mar 2001 Stefan Frauendorf, Notre Dame, New discrete symmetries of the rotating nucleus
2 Apr 2001 Michael Carpenter, ANL Physics, Spectroscopy at the Proton Drip Line
9 Apr 2001 Stephen Pate, New Mexico State, Physics with the PHENIX Muon Detector at RHIC
11 Apr 2001 Jeff Hangst, university of Aarhus, The ATHENA Experiment at CERN - Antihydrogen Production and Spectroscopy
16 Apr 2001 Birger Back, ANL Physics, New Results from PHOBOS
23 Apr 2001 Michael Romalis, university of Washington, New constraints on CP violation from the search for the electric dipole moment of 199Hg
27 Apr 2001 Albert Young, North Carolina State, Measuring the Beta-Asymmetry in Neutron Beta-Decay using Ultra-Cold Neutrons
7 May 2001 Carlos Bertulani, BNL, Coherent E/M fields in collisions with relativistic heavy ions
14 May 2001 Reinhard Schumacher, Carnegie and Mellon, Hyperon photo- and electro- production at CLAS
21 May 2001 Aron Bernstein, MIT, Electromagnetic Pion Production Experiments and Chiral Symmetry
4 Jun 2001 Torben Lauritsen, ANL Physics, Decay of the first SuperDeformed band in 152Dy


10 Sep 2001 Dave Vieira, LANL, Neutral Atom Traps for Ultrasensitive Detection and Parity Violation Measurements
17 Sep 2001 Cary Davids, ANL Physics, Recent Results in Proton Radioactivity: Experimental and Theoretical
24 Sep 2001 Zhen Zhou, U. of Giessen, Time of Flight Mass Measurements of Ions from an Atmospheric Pressure Ion Source
1 Oct 2001 Louis Bruch, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, Dimer and Trimer Formation in 4He Jets
8 Oct 2001 Paul Kienle, Technical U. of Munich, Pions in Nuclei, Probes of Chiral Symmetry Restoration
15 Oct 2001 Ingo Sick, U. of Basel, Quasielastic Electron-Nucleus Scattering -- Puzzles and Solutions
29 Oct 2001 Joe Carlson, LANL, Electroweak Processes in Light Nuclei
5 Nov 2001 Elaine Schulte, U. of Illinois, Measurements of the High-Energy Deuteron Photodisintegration Differential Cross Section
14 Nov 2001 Hans-Joerg Maier, Munich, Target Development for the Munich Fission Fragment Accelerator MAFF
19 Nov 2001 David Jenkins, U. of Liverpool, Heavy Ion Radiative Capture: A study of the 12C(12C,gamma) reaction using Gammasphere
26 Nov 2001 Alejandro Garcia, U. of Notre Dame, The e-nu Correlation as a Tool to Search for New Physics
3 Dec 2001 Carl Brune, Ohio U., The 12C(alpha,gamma)16O Reactionn Rate: Recent Results and Future Prospects
10 Dec 2001 James Sowinski, Indiana U. Cyclotron Facility, Investigations of 2- and 3-Nucleon Forces
18 Dec 2001 Frank Dohrmann, ANL Physics, Hyperon-Nucleon Boundstates and Quasifree Distributions in Electroproduction of Strangeness on Light Nuclei
14 Jan 2002 Scott Pratt, Michigan State U., Balance functions, a signal of delayed hadronization at RHIC
21 Jan 2002 Henning Esbensen, ANL Physics, Higher-order Effects in Two-body Breakup Reactions
28 Jan 2002 David Radford, ORNL, Nuclear Structure Studies with Neutron-Rich Radioactive Ion Beams
4 Feb 2002 Guy Savard, ANL Physics, Progress in the ion trapping program at ATLAS
11 Feb 2002 Morten Hjorth-Jensen, U. of Oslo, Pairing correlations in nuclear systems, from neutron stars to finite nuclei
18 Feb 2002 John Arrington, ANL Physics, Scaling in Inclusive e-A Scattering: Broken Promises and Untapped Potential
25 Feb 2002 Ken Nollett, CalTech, Mixing in giant stars and its signatures in stellar spectra and presolar grains
4 Mar 2002 Tom Dombeck, Fermilab, Planning the Next Linear Collider
4 Mar 2002 Bogdan Mihaila, ANL Physics, Coupled-Cluster Calculations for p-shell Nuclei
11 Mar 2002 Noemie Koller, Rutgers U., Zooming in on the competition between single particle and collective excitations via magnetic moment measurements
18 Mar 2002 Teng Lek Khoo, ANL Physics, Excited Bands within a Superdeformed Secondary Minimum
25 Mar 2002 Mark Caprio, Yale U., Experiments on critical point nuclei
1 Apr 2002 Stefan Schramm, ANL Physics, Nuclei in a Hadronic Model
2 Apr 2002 Stuart Freedman, LBNL, KamLAND: A Now-running Long-baseline Neutrino-oscillation Experiment
8 Apr 2002 Fridolin Weber, U. of Notre Dame, Nuclear Physics at Extreme Conditions
11 Apr 2002 Dale Knutson, Pacific Northwest National Lab., Opportunities - Beyond the Science in Major Facility Design and Construction
15 Apr 2002 B. Alex Brown, Michigan State U., Open Problems in Nuclear Structure
17 Apr 2002 Erich Ormand, LLNL, Nuclear Structure from Scratch
29 Apr 2002 John Millener, BNL, Hypernuclear structure from gamma-ray spectroscopy
1 May 2002 Anatoli Afanasjev, ANL Physics, Covariant Density Functional Theory and Applications to Nuclei at Extremes
6 May 2002 Jen-Chieh Peng, U. of Illinois, Plan for a New Neutron EDM Measurement
9 May 2002 Takahashi Nakatsukasa, Tohoku U., Absorbing-Boundary-Condition Method for Drip-Line Nuclei
10 May 2002 Franco Iachello, Yale U., Quantum Phase Transitions in Nuclei
13 May 2002 Carlos A. Bertulani, Michigan State U., Reactions with Unstable Nuclear Beams
20 May 2002 Dave Mack, Jefferson Lab, The Charged Pion Form Factor Program at JLab
31 May 2002 Paul-Henri Heenen, Free U. of Brussels, Skyrme Mean-Field Approach to Nuclear Structure: Recent Developments and Applications
10 Jun 2002 Angela Olinto, U. of Chicago, Recent Strange Matter News
17 Jul 2002 Larry Ahle & Lee Bernstein, LLNL, Using RIA to Perform Experiments Relevant to Science Based Stockpile Stewardship (SBSS)


9 Sep 2002 Bertram Blank, CEN, and ANL Physics, First Observation of Two-Proton Radioactivity from 45Fe
16 Sep 2002 Paul Reimer, ANL Physics, Exploring the Structure of the Pion
23 Sep 2002 Yasuyuki Suzuki, Niigata U., s-shell Lambda-hypernuclei with Lambda N - Sigma N Interactions
30 Sep 2002 Don Gemmell, ANL Physics, Controlled Energy Release from Nuclear Isomers? The Situation in 178Hf
14 Oct 2002 Hans Geissel, GSI, Darmstadt, Experiments with Exotic Atoms and Exotic Nuclei at the FRS
21 Oct 2002 Paul Debevec, university of Illinois, Urbana, Below a Part Per Million: Current Status of the Muon g-2 Experiment and Theory
28 Oct 2002 Haiyan Gao, MIT and Duke U., Charged Pion Photoproduction at Jefferson Lab
11 Nov 2002 Dieter Ackermann, university of Mainz, Synthesis of Super Heavy Elements -- Status and Developments
18 Nov 2002 Umesh Garg, university of Notre Dame, Compressional-mode Giant Resonances and the Nuclear Incompressibility
25 Nov 2002 Jerry Miller, university of Washington, Relativity, Chiral Symmetry and Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors
2 Dec 2002 Andrew Stuchbery, NSCL, MSU, g Factor Measurements with Fast Fragments
3 Dec 2002 Peter von Brentano, IKP university zu Koln, Crossing and Anti-crossing of Energies and Widths of Interacting Unbound States
9 Dec 2002 Stefan Frauendorf, university of Notre Dame, The Nature of Proton-Neutron Pair Correlations
16 Dec 2002 Sean Freeman, ANL Physics, Deformation Effects and Nuclear Structure in Neutron-deficient Nuclei above Z=82
6 Jan 2003 Steven Pieper, ANL Physics, Recent Progress in Calculations of Light Nuclei and Neutron Clusters
13 Jan 2003 Petr Vogel, TRIUMF, Double b-Decay
20 Jan 2003 Zheng-tian Lu, ANL Physics, Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Egypt
27 Jan 2003 Alan Wuosmaa, Western Michigan university, Systematics of 12C + 12C Inelastic Scattering from Angular Correlation Measurements
3 Feb 2003 Nicholas Scielzo, LBNL, Measuring the Beta-Neutrino Correlation in Laser Trapped 21Na
10 Feb 2003 Alexander Heger, university of Chicago, Evolution and Nucleosynthesis of Massive Stars
17 Feb 2003 John Schiffer, ANL Physics, Plasma Clouds, Distant Classical Cousins of Nuclei
24 Feb 2003 Robert Dunford, ANL Chemistry, Two Photon Transitions in Atomic Inner Shells
3 Mar 2003 Alexander Volya, ANL Physics, Shell Model in the Continuum: Toward Nuclei Far from Stability
10 Mar 2003 Kawtar Hafidi, ANL Physics, News from HERMES
17 Mar 2003 Karl-Ludwig Kratz, university of Mainz, The Astrophysical r-Process: A Multi-faceted Approach
31 Mar 2003 Edward Stephenson, IUCF, Bloomington, IN, Observation of the Isospin-Forbidden d + d to 4He + pi0 Reaction near Threshold
15 Apr 2003 Klaus Wendt, university of Mainz, Resonance Ionization of Rare Isotopes
21 Apr 2003 Teng Lek Khoo, ANL Physics,
12 May 2003 Boris Keyser, Fermilab,
19 May 2003 Jose Repond, ANL HEP, Jet Production at HERA
2 Jun 2003 Synte Peacock, U. of Chicago,
12 Aug 2003 Bivash Ranjan Behera, INFN, Padova, Italy (Special), The Role of Entrance Channel Properties in Fission Fragment Angular Distribution Studies


25 Aug 2003 Kenneth Hicks, Ohio U., Evidence for an Exotic Baryon: The S=+1 Pentaquark
27 Aug 2003 Masayuki Matsuo, Niigata U. (Special), Warm Rotating Nuclei: From Rotational Damping to Ergodic Bands
28 Aug 2003 Cynthia Keppel, Hampton U. (Special, 10:00 am), An Effective Free Neutron Target for Nucleon Structure Measurements: The Upcoming BONUS Experiment at Jefferson Lab
2 Sep 2003 Paul Reimer, ANL Physics, Future Directions in Medium Energy Physics at Fermilab and Jefferson Lab
8 Sep 2003 Edward Brown, U. of Chicago, Nuclear Burning on Accreting Neutron Stars
15 Sep 2003 Reinhard Alkofer, Tuebingen U., Aspects of Confinement: QCD Green's Functions and Their Application to Hadron Physics
29 Sep 2003 Akram Mukhamedzhanov, Texas A&M U., Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients in Nuclear Astrophysics
13 Oct 2003 Alexandra Gade, Michigan State U., Coulomb Excitation with Fast Exotic Beams
20 Oct 2003 David Reyna, ANL HEP, Neutrinos at 1%: A Reactor Based Measurement of q13
27 Oct 2003 Robert L. Jaffe, MIT, Exotic Diquark Spectroscopy
3 Nov 2003 Harold Metcalf, SUNY, Stony Brook, Optical Forces in Non-Monochromatic Light
4 Nov 2003 Mark Huyse, Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium, Disentangling the 70Ni-70Cu-70Zn Decay Chain by Using Resonant Laser Ionization and Selective Detection Techniques
10 Nov 2003 Rolf Scharenberg, Purdue U., Evidence for Hadronic Deconfinement in pbar - p Collisions at 1.8 TeV
17 Nov 2003 Xiangdong Ji, U. of Maryland, Quantum Phase-Space "Tomography" of the Quarks in the Proton
24 Nov 2003 Dariusz Seweryniak, ANL Physics, Rotating Proton Emitters
1 Dec 2003 Michael Carpenter, ANL Physics, Shape Coexistence in the Pb-Region
15 Dec 2003 Jeff Blackmon, ORNL, Nucleosynthesis in Novae and Supernovae
5 Jan 2004 Harold Jackson, ANL Physics, What Can HERMES Say About the Pentaquark?
12 Jan 2004 Ernst Rehm, ANL Physics, Nuclear Reactions in Supermassive Stars
19 Jan 2004 Jason Clark, ANL Physics, Precise Mass Measurements Along the rp-Process
26 Jan 2004 Victor Flambaum, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Parity and Time Reversal Violation in Atoms and Nuclei and Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
2 Feb 2004 John Arrington, ANL Physics, The Proton Electromagnetic Form Factors...50 Years Later
9 Feb 2004 Partha Chowdhury, ANL Physics, Add Neutrons and Stir: Heavy Hafnia at High Spins
16 Feb 2004 Michael Kelly, ANL Physics, Cavity Development for RIA
23 Feb 2004 Allena Opper, Ohio U., Charge Symmetry Breaking--From Nuclei to Quarks
27 Feb 2004 John W. Harris, Yale U., New Haven, CT (Special), Ideas for a Comprehensive New Detector for In-Depth Study of the QGP, Initial Conditions and Spin Physics at RHIC II
1 Mar 2004 Brian DeMarco, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Progress Toward Scalable Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
5 Mar 2004 Achim Richter, Technical U. Darmstadt, Germany (Special), Fine Structure of Giant Resonances - A Quest for Experiments at Highest Resolution
8 Mar 2004 Peter Parker, Yale U., New Haven, CT, Laboratory Measurements of Explosive Nucleosynthesis Rates
15 Mar 2004 Richard Chasman, ANL Physics, Neutron-Proton Pairing in Nuclei
22 Mar 2004 Thomas Duguet, ANL Physics, Nuclear Density-Functional: From Normal to Soft Systems
29 Mar 2004 John Schiffer, ANL Physics, Is the Spin-Orbit Interaction Changing with Neutron Excess?
5 Apr 2004 Guy Savard, ANL Physics, The ATLAS Cf-Source Upgrade and Other Applications of Large Gas Catchers
12 Apr 2004 Linda Young, ANL Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics with Ultrafast, Ultra-intense X-rays
19 Apr 2004 Michael R. Savina, ANL Materials, Starry Messengers: Stardust Grains and the Synthesis of Heavy Elements in Stars
26 Apr 2004 Craig Roberts, ANL Physics, Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking: Current-quarks, Constituent-quarks, and Pseudoscalar Mesons
10 May 2004 Kim Lister, ANL Physics, Neutron-Proton Pairing Correlations in N=Z Nuclei: Experimental Facts and Some Semantics of Interpretation
17 May 2004 Kenneth Nollett, ANL Physics, Astrophysical Reaction Rates from Realistic Nuclear Forces and Currents
24 May 2004 Zeev Vager, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Bosons as the Origin for Giant Magnetic Properties of Organic Monolayers
12 Jul 2004 Peter Mueller, ANL Physics, Laser Spectroscopic Determination of the 6He Nuclear Charge Radius


30 Aug 2004 Jia-Er Chen, Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, Peking U., R&D Activities on Accelerator Physics & Technology at IHIP, Peking University
20 Sep 2004 Robert Janssens, ANL Physicis, New Shell Structure in Neutron-Rich Nuclei Above Doubly-Magic 48Ca
27 Sep 2004 Harvey Gould, LBNL, Electron Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) Search and Polarizability Measurement using a Laser-Cooled Cesium-Atom Fountain
4 Oct 2004 Ralf F. Rapp, Texas A & M, Light and Heavy Hadronic Modes Below and Above Tc
11 Oct 2004 James Friar, LANL, The Nuclear Physics of Precise Atomic Spectroscopy
18 Oct 2004 Rainer Fries, U. Minnesota, Energy loss in Nuclear Matter
25 Oct 2004 Michael Bender, ANL Physics, Ground-state Correlations and Spectroscopy from Configuration Mixing of Symmetry-restored Self-consistent Mean-field States
1 Nov 2004 Petr Navratil, LLNL, Nuclear Structure from First Principles: Ab Initio No-core Shell Model
8 Nov 2004 Andreas Krassnigg, ANL Physics, Exciting Physics with Dyson-Schwinger Equations
15 Nov 2004 Issam Qattan, Northwestern U. and ANL Physics, Precision Rosenbluth Measurements and Their Constraints on Two-photon Exchange Effects
22 Nov 2004 Norbert Pietralla, SUNY, Stony Brook, Evolution of Nuclear Structure beyond the Critical Point of the Vibrator-to-Rigid Rotor Shape Phase Transition
29 Nov 2004 Greg Hackman, TRIUMF, 8pi at ISAC
6 Dec 2004 Wei-ping Liu, China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE), Beijing, Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments at CIAE
13 Dec 2004 Peter Ostroumov, ANL Physics, RIA R&D and its impact on new accelerator projects
10 Jan 2005 Elaine C. Schulte, ANL Physics, Time-Reversal Invariance and Radium-225
17 Jan 2005 Sanjay Reddy, LANL, Neutron Stars, Supernova and Phases of Dense Quark Matter
24 Jan 2005 Remco Zegers, NCSL, Michigan State U., Charge-exchange reactions: a tool for measuring nuclear properties and astrophysical reaction rates.
31 Jan 2005 Steven Gottlieb, Indiana U., Lattice QCD Comes of Age
7 Feb 2005 Robert B. Wiringa, ANL Physics, What's New in Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo
14 Feb 2005 Augusto O. Macchiavelli, LBNL, Status of neutron-proton pairing: A personal perspective
21 Feb 2005 Filomena Nunes, NSCL, MSU, Can spectroscopic factors be extracted from transfer reactions?
28 Feb 2005 Eliane S. Lessner, ANL Physics, Availability Studies in the RIA Linac Driver
7 Mar 2005 Daniel Baye, Bruxelles, Dynamical studies of the breakup of halo nuclei
14 Mar 2005 Ian J. Thompson, Surrey U., Treatment of Coulomb Breakup
21 Mar 2005 Bradley Filippone, Caltech, The neutron electric dipole moment
28 Mar 2005 Anatoli Afanasjev, Notre Dame, Rotating structures along the N~Z line: what do we really learn from them?
4 Apr 2005 Bela Erdelyi, ANL Physics, Differential Algebra and Its Applications to Beam Optics.
11 Apr 2005 Robert McKeown, Caltech, Studying Neutrinos with Nuclear Reactors: KamLAND and Beyond
12 Apr 2005 Robert McKeown, Caltech, High-energy Particle Astrophysics Research in K-12 Schools
18 Apr 2005 Alan H. Wuosmaa, Western Michigan U., The (d,p) reaction in light nuclei: past, present, and future
25 Apr 2005 Alan M. Nathan, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Real Compton Scattering from the Proton at Large Momentum Transfer
2 May 2005 Yasuhiro Masuda, KEK, A New Generation Ultracold Neutron Source
16 May 2005 Steven W. Yates, U. of Kentucky, Probing vibrational structures with fast neutrons
23 May 2005 Harry Lee, ANL Physics, Quark-Hadron Duality in Electroweak Reactions
6 Jun 2005 Dick Furnstahl, Ohio State U., Density Functional Theory from Effective Field Theory
9 Jun 2005 Frank Rathmann, Juelich, The PAX Experiment
20 Jun 2005 Emmanuel Pollacco, DSM/DAPNIA, Direct reaction experiments with SPIRAL beams and future experiments with a large solid angle DSSD array
25 Jul 2005 Antonio Villari, GANIL and ANL Physics, Production of Radioactive Beams
9 Aug 2005 Takahura Otsuka, U. of Tokyo, The Evolution of Nuclear Shell Structure and the Tensor Force


6 Sep 2005 Xiaodong Tang, ANL Physics, Helium burning and 16N beta-delayed alpha decay
14 Sep 2005 Isao Tanihata, ANL Physics, Magnetic moments of isospin 3/2 mirror nuclei and a halo configuration mixing
15 Sep 2005 Dmitry Budker, LBNL, Atomic magnetometers four decades later: some new techniques and applications
26 Sep 2005 Antonio C. Fonseca, U. of Lisbon, Fully converged treatment of Coulomb interaction in three-nucleon reactions with two protons
3 Oct 2005 Various, ANL Physics, Four Talks from Hawaii'05
10 Oct 2005 Mike Kelly, ANL Physics, Cavity Processing for RIA and the International Linear Collider
17 Oct 2005 Cary Davids, ANL Physics, New results in proton radioactivity: observation of the deformed proton emitter 121Pr
24 Oct 2005 Paul Mantica, NSCL, MSU, Nuclear Moment Measurements with Fast Fragmentation Beams
31 Oct 2005 Teng Lek Khoo, ANL Physics, Limits of stability and structure of superheavy nuclei
7 Nov 2005 Douglas Beck, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Contributions of Strange Quarks to Hadron Structure
14 Nov 2005 Daniel Bazin, NSCL, MSU, Absolute Spectroscopic Factors from Nucleon Knockout with Radioactive Projectiles
21 Nov 2005 Nick Scielzo, ANL Physics, Weak Intereaction Studies with Trapped Ions
28 Nov 2005 Andrei Afanasev, Jefferson Lab, Radiative Corrections for Precision Electroweak Probes of Hadronic Structure
5 Dec 2005 Harry Lipkin, Weizmann, Quantum mechanics and coherence in neutrino oscillations and mesoscopic two-slit experiments
12 Dec 2005 Reinhard Schumacher, Carnegie Mellon U., The Rise and Fall of the Pentaquark
19 Dec 2005 Paul Reimer and Nicholas Scielzo, ANL Physics, An Unpanicked Report of PANIC-05
9 Jan 2006 John Behr, TRIUMF, Wrong-handed interactions via spin-polarized atom traps
16 Jan 2006 Jeff Guest, ANL Physics, Laser-trapped radium atoms and the path to a next generation electric dipole moment search
23 Jan 2006 Linda Young, ANL Chemistry, Probing strong-field ionization dynamics with x-rays
3 Feb 2006 Sean J. Freeman, U. Manchester, Neutron-rich nuclei with fusion reactions
6 Feb 2006 Serban Misicu, ANL Physics and NIPNE and HH, Bucharest, Toroidal Electromagnetic Multipoles and Giant Dipole Resonances
13 Feb 2006 Jim Truran, U. of Chicago and ANL Physics, 56Ni, Explosive Nucleosynthesis, and Supernovae
20 Feb 2006 Ian S. Towner, Queen's U., Ontario, Universality of weak interactions
27 Feb 2006 Brahmin Mustapha, ANL Physics, Beam dynamics studies of the RIA and FNAL proton driver superconducting linacs
6 Mar 2006 Steven C. Pieper, ANL Physics, Recent results from quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei
13 Mar 2006 Ed Blucher, U. Chicago, The Braidwood Neutrino Experiment
3 Apr 2006 Jon Engel, U. North Carolina, Nuclear Time-Reversal Violation and Atomic Electric-Dipole Moments
10 Apr 2006 Rick Casten, Yale, Equilibrium Phase Transitions and Critical Point Phenomena in Nuclei
17 Apr 2006 (John Schiffer), ANL Physics, Historical Tidbits from the Origins of Argonne
1 May 2006 Prashanth Jaikumar, ANL Physics, Strange goings-on in quark matter at high density
8 May 2006 Alexandra Gade, NSCL, MSU, Nuclear structure studies with fast exotic beams
15 May 2006 Krzysztof Starosta, NSCL, MSU, Nuclear lifetime measurements with relativistic beams of heavy ions
23 May 2006 Cheng Chin, U. of Chicago, Evidence for Efimov States in an Ultracold Gas of Atoms
12 Jun 2006 Ken Shepard, ANL Physics, A Decade of Superconducting RF at Argonne: Are We Going Anywhere?


11 Sep 2006 Kevin Lesko, LBNL, The Homestake Underground Laboratory - Opportunities for Physics Research
18 Sep 2006 Rituparna Kanungo, TRIUMF, Spectroscopic studies of unstable nuclei and modification of shell structure
25 Sep 2006 Torben Lauritsen, ANL Physics, Rotational Damping, Ridges, and the Quasi-continuum of γ Rays in 152Dy
2 Oct 2006 Thomas Stoehlker, GSI, Challenges for Atomic Physics at the Future FAIR Facility
9 Oct 2006 Kei Minamisono, MSU, Measurement of Nuclear Static Moments at the NSCL
18 Oct 2006 Hanan Amro, Notre Dame, The (7Be,3He) Reaction: A New Tool for Alpha-Transfer Studies
23 Oct 2006 Irshad Ahmad, ANL Physics, Detailed Spectroscopy of the Transcurium Nuclei
30 Oct 2006 Andrei Andreyev, TRIUMF, Towards the New Island of Strong Deformation Above the Shell Closure at Z = 82 and in the Vicinity of the Neutron Mid-Shell at N = 104
6 Nov 2006 Peter Mueller, ANL Physics, Laser Spectroscopy for Nuclear Structure
13 Nov 2006 Alan Chen, McMaster U., Probing galactic gamma emitters with ion beams at TRIUMF
14 Nov 2006 A. Mengoni, IAEA Vienna/CERN Geneva, Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics at the CERN neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF
20 Nov 2006 Jason Clark, Yale U., Nuclear physics measurements for models of novae and x-ray bursts
27 Nov 2006 Bradley Plaster, Caltech, Ultra-Cold Neutrons: From nano-eV to TeV
4 Dec 2006 Susan Fischer, Depaul U. and ANL Physics, Shape changes, np-pairing and isospin symmetry: Adventures in the mass-80 region
11 Dec 2006 Karsten Heeger, LBNL and U. Wisconsin, Understanding Neutrino Mass and Mixing: Prospects for Precision Neutrino Physics at Low Energies
18 Dec 2006 Andreas Schiller, MSU, Results from neutron-fragment coincidence measurements at the NSCL/MSU
8 Jan 2007 Michael Hass, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Low-Energy Nuclear Astrophysics - the Fascinating Region of A=7
15 Jan 2007 Elliot Kanter, ANL Chemistry, Dynamics of Transient Laser-Produced Plasmas
22 Jan 2007 John Schiffer, ANL Physics, Nuclear Structure Measurements Relevant to (0 ν 2 β) decay
29 Jan 2007 Henning Esbensen, ANL Physics, The Influence of Multiphonon Excitations and Nuclear Incompressibility on Heavy-ion Fusion Reactions
5 Feb 2007 Kawtar Hafidi, ANL Physics, Partonic propagation through strongly interacting systems
12 Feb 2007 Darek Seweryniak, ANL Physics, Studies of 101Sn and light nuclei along the rp-process path using Gammasphere and FMA
19 Feb 2007 Paul Benioff, ANL Physics, Fields of reference frames based on spaces of quantum representations of numbers
20 Feb 2007 Michael V. Berry, Bristol U., Optical vorticulture
26 Feb 2007 Michael Carpenter, ANL Physics, Approaching 78Ni along the N=50 line
5 Mar 2007 V. Zacek, Univ. of Montreal, Search for Dark Matter with PICASSO
12 Mar 2007 John Arrington, ANL Physics, New measurements of the EMC effect in few-body nuclei
19 Mar 2007 Alexander Volya, Florida State U, New perspectives on nuclear pairing
26 Mar 2007 Mark Stoyer, LLNL, Nuclear Alchemy -- the Sorcery of Synthesizing New Chemical Elements
2 Apr 2007 Roy Holt, ANL Physics, The Quest for Structure Functions at High Bjorken x
9 Apr 2007 Jochen Wambach, GSI and TU Darmstadt, The phase diagram of strongly interacting matter
23 Apr 2007 David Reyna, ANL HEP, Results from the First Year of MINOS
30 Apr 2007 Walter Kutschera, U. of Vienna, The ugly and the beautiful: how we can use the 14C bomb peak for dating DNA of human cells
7 May 2007 David Jenkins, U. of York, UK, New Techniques for Probing Nuclear Shapes Around A~70
14 May 2007 Richard Pardo, ANL Physics, Caribu and SuperCaribu
21 May 2007 Willem H. Dickhoff, Washington U., St. Louis, Asymmetry dependence of nucleon correlations
11 Jun 2007 Zachary Conway, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Properties of Superconducting Triple-Spoke-Loaded Accelerator Cavities
13 Aug 2007 Victor Flambaum, Univ. of New South Wales, Sidney and ANL Physics, Variation of Fundamental Constants from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks


10 Sep 2007 Robert Charity, Washington Univ., St. Louis, Resonance decay spectroscopy with 12Be and 10C beams: two-proton decay, molecular resonances and other curiosities
17 Sep 2007 Bent Herskind, Niels Bohr Inst., Copenhagen, Population and Decay of Hyperdeformed Rotational Structures in Nuclei around A=125
24 Sep 2007 Anatoli Afanasjev, Mississippi State U., Band termination revisited
1 Oct 2007 David Hofman, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, Creating the Quark Gluon Plasma with Heavy Ion Collisions
8 Oct 2007 Michael A. Famiano, Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, Current results and plans for isotopic observables of the asymmetry term of the nuclear EOS
15 Oct 2007 Howard Fenker, TJNAF, BoNuS: A GEM-Based Radial TPC for Tagging Target Fragments
22 Oct 2007 Paul Reimer, ANL Physics, Angular Distributions of Drell-Yan Scattering
29 Oct 2007 Robin Santra, ANL Chemical Sciences & Engineering, Strong-field control of x-ray absorption
5 Nov 2007 Sanjay Reddy, LANL Nat. Lab., From Nuclei to Neutron Stars
12 Nov 2007 Charlotte Elster, The Ohio U., Poincaré Invariant Three-body Scattering
19 Nov 2007 Cheng-Lie Jiang, ANL Physics, Recent progress in heavy-ion fusion hindrance at extreme sub-barrier energies
26 Nov 2007 Craig Roberts, ANL Physics, The Perfect Postdoc Package
3 Dec 2007 Mark A. Caprio, U. of Notre Dame, Excited state quantum phase transitions
10 Dec 2007 Gerald A. Miller, U. of Washington, A new look at the nucleon
17 Dec 2007 Harry Lipkin, Weizmann Institute, Dicke superradiance - from nanovolts to gigavolts; Including Weber's wrong neutrino detector, right Mössbauer experiments and more.
7 Jan 2008 Peter Ostroumov, ANL Physics, Technology Development for Future Ion RF Linear Accelerators
14 Jan 2008 Irina Stefanescu, ANL Physics, Nuclear structure investigations toward 78Ni with Miniball and REX-ISOLDE
21 Jan 2008 Teng Lek Khoo, ANL Physics, Ergodic bands and motional narrowing in excited superdeformed states
28 Jan 2008 Jorge A. López, U. of Texas at El Paso, Origin and Evolution of Isoscaling
4 Feb 2008 Nir Barnea, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, The Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) method and its application to inelastic reactions on light nuclei
11 Feb 2008 Peter Möller, Theoretical Div., LANL, Properties of Neutron-rich Fission Products
18 Feb 2008 Robert B. Wiringa, ANL Physics, QMC vs. Expt.
21 Feb 2008 David J. Dean, ORNL, Progress and challenges in the theory of nuclei
25 Feb 2008 Joseph Kapusta, Univ. of Minnesota, Physics at RHIC
3 Mar 2008 Bryon Anderson, Kent State U., Ohio, The Electric Form Factor of the Neutron: Past, Present, and Future
10 Mar 2008 Ingo Wiedenhoever, Florida State U., First Experiments with RESOLUT: Nucleosynthesis paths to 26Al
17 Mar 2008 Dean Townsley, U. of Chicago, Making the Standard Candle
24 Mar 2008 Kenneth Nollett, ANL Physics, Some Puzzles in the Origins of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen
31 Mar 2008 Daniel Bardayan, ORNL, Studies of (d,p) reactions on radioactive beams at HRIBF
7 Apr 2008 M. Eric Christy, Hampton U., New Experimental studies of high-x nucleon structure functions at low Q2 and beyond
21 Apr 2008 Georg Bollen, Michigan State Univ., Penning trap mass measurements of rare isotope beams from projectile fragmentation.
28 Apr 2008 William J. Marciano, BNL, Muon-Electron Conversion in the Field of a Nucleus
5 May 2008 Gopal K. Shenoy, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, Future Radiation Sources: Challenges and Opportunities in Nuclear Resonance Spectroscopy
12 May 2008 James Kolata, U. of Notre Dame, Transfer, breakup, and fusion reactions of exotic light nuclei
13 May 2008 Hiro Ejiri, RCNP, Osaka U., Japan, Neutrino studies by double beta decay, the MOON experiment, and neutrino induced nuclear responses
19 May 2008 Harold Jackson, ANL Physics, Strange quarks in the proton
30 May 2008 George Dracoulis, Australian National U., Canberra, Triple Core-Excitations and High-Spin Isomers in 212Rn
2 Jun 2008 Prashanth Jaikumar, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India and ANL Physics, Neutron stars: Astrophysical test-beds for nuclear and sub-nuclear physics
9 Jun 2008 Rocco Schiavilla, Jefferson Lab. and Old Dominion U., Parity-violating effects in few-nucleon systems

 

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