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Physics Division Colloquium
Auditorium, Building 203, Argonne National Laboratory
Fridays at 11:00 AM
2010-2011 Program
Please contact the host if you wish to arrange a discussion with the speaker.
| 10 Sep 2010 | Kevin Pitts, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Three Decades of the CDF Experiment, Many Decades of Sensitivity Host: Jim Proudfoot |
| 17 Sep 2010 | Amanda K. Petford-Long,CNM, Argonne
The role of interfaces in the behavior of magnetic tunnel junction structures Host: Suzanne te Velthuis |
| 24 Sep 2010 | Linda Young, XSD, Argonne
Highlights and Future Directions in Hard X-Ray Sciences Host: Ken Nollett |
| 1 Oct 2010 | Klaus Blaum, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
Precision Penning Trap Experiments with Stored and Cooled Exotic Ions Host: Peter Mueller |
| 8 Oct 2010 | David J. Dean, DOE Office of the Under Secretary for Science
Advancing Simulations for Science and Innovation Host: Steven Pieper |
| 15 Oct 2010 | I-Yang Lee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
GRETINA: A gamma-ray energy tracking array Host: Mike Carpenter |
| 22 Oct 2010 | ATLAS 25th Anniversary Celebration, no colloquium |
| 29 Oct 2010 | Aldo Antognini, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Laboratory for Particle Physics, Paul Scherrer Institute. The proton radius puzzle Host: Peter Mueller |
| 5 Nov 2010 | Fall DNP Meeting
Santa Fe, 2--6 Nov |
| 12 Nov 2010 | Kathryn Levin, U. Chicago
What do high Tc superconductors teach us about ultracold Fermi gases and vice versa? Host: Ken Nollett |
| 19 Nov 2010 | Fall 2010 Meeting of the Prairie Section of the APS
Illinois Institute of Technology, 18--20 Nov |
| 26 Nov 2010 | Thanksgiving - No colloquium |
| 3 Dec 2010 | Michael J. North, Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne
Introduction to Agent-based Modeling and Simulation Host: Ken Nollett |
| 10 Dec 2010 | Christopher J. Keane, LLNL
Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Science Experiments at the National Ignition Facility Host: Brad Micklich |
| 17 Dec 2010 | Craig D. Roberts, Physics Division, Argonne
The Paradox of Emptiness: Much Ado about Nothing Host: Roy Holt |
| 24 Dec 2010 | Christmas - No colloquium |
| 31 Dec 2010 | New Year's - No colloquium |
| 7 Jan 2011 | James Kakalios, U. of Minnesota
The Uncanny Physics of Superhero Comic Books Host: Suzanne te Velthuis |
| 14 Jan 2011 | Donald Hillebrand, Center for Transportation Research, Argonne
Electric Vehicles and Advanced Transportation Vehicles Host: James Proudfoot |
| 21 Jan 2011 | Jens Dilling, TRIUMF and University of British Columbia
TITAN and the nuclear physics program at ISAC Host: Mike Carpenter |
| 28 Jan 2011 | Michael Carpenter, Physics Division, Argonne
"Investigating" Changing Shell Structure in Neutron Rich Nuclei Host: Birger Back |
| 4 Feb 2011 | David Schuster, U. Chicago
Quantum Optics with Circuits Host: Ken Nollett |
| 11 Feb 2011 | Yousry Gohar, Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne
Disposal of US Spent Nuclear Fuel Inventory Using Accelerator Driven Subcritical Systems Host: Jerry Nolen |
| 18 Feb 2011 | Scott Ransom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Basic Physics with Millisecond Pulsars Host: Ken Nollett |
| 25 Feb 2011 | No colloquium - Stuart Freedman will be giving a director's colloquium |
| 4 Mar 2011 | Andrew Sonnenschein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Dark Matter Detection with Bubble Chambers Host: Ernst Rehm |
| 11 Mar 2011 | Thomas Levenson, MIT
Isaac Newton and the Counterfeiter: Greed, Crime and the Birth of the Modern Idea of Money Host: Ken Nollett |
| 18 Mar 2011 | Kawtar Hafidi, Physics Division, Argonne
Invisible Particles Host: Roy Holt |
| 25 Mar 2011 | Michelle Povinelli, U. Southern California
Applications of Nanophotonics: Absorption Engineering and Optomechanical Circuits Host: Ken Nollett |
| 1 Apr 2011 | Sergei Chekanov, HEP Division, Argonne
Tests of the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider Host: Jimmy Proudfoot |
| 8 Apr 2011 | John Harris, Yale University
Recreating the Primordial Quark-Gluon Soup Host: Roy Holt |
| 15 Apr 2011 | Berta Rubio, U. Valencia, Spain
Total Absorption Spectroscopy, a remedy against "Pandemonium" Host: Kim Lister |
| 22 Apr 2011 | Eugene Chiang, U. of California, Berkeley
Relics of Planet Formation, Here and Abroad Host: Ken Nollett |
| 29 Apr 2011 | April APS Meeting
Anaheim, Ca, 30 Apr - 3 May |
| 6 May 2011 | No Colloquium |
| 13 May 2011 | Carlos Wagner, HEP Division, Argonne
Searching for New Physics at the Tevatron and the LHC Host: Ken Nollett |
| 20 May 2011 | Axel Hoffmann, Materials Science Division, Argonne
Pure Spin Currents: Discharging Spintronics (IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture) Host: Suzanne te Velthuis |
| 27 May 2011 | Adam Bernstein, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Dual-Use Dual-Phase Noble Liquid Detectors Host: Brad Micklich |
| 3 Jun 2011 | Mitchell Farmer, Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne
Light Water Reactor Severe Accident Analysis and Experimentation at Argonne Related to the Nuclear Incident in Japan Host: Ken Nollett |
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2010-2011 Committee
Michael Carpenter ( [email protected] mail)Calem Hoffman ( [email protected] mail)
Roy J. Holt ( [email protected] mail)
Jerry A. Nolen ( [email protected] mail)
Ken Nollett (Chair) ( [email protected] mail)
Brad Micklich ( [email protected] mail)
James Proudfoot ( [email protected] mail)
Jim Truran ( [email protected] mail)
Suzanne te Velthuis ( [email protected] mail)
Secretary Janet Bergman (630-252-4085, [email protected] mail)
Secretary Colleen Tobolic (630-252-3663, [email protected] mail)
Web Guy Steven Pieper (630-252-4232, [email protected] mail)