Physics Division Seminar

Conference Room R-150, Building 203, Argonne National Laboratory

Mondays at 3:30 PM

2011-2012 Program

Please contact the host if you wish to arrange a discussion with the speaker.

5 Sep 2011 Labor Day -- No seminar
12 Sep 2011 Raphael Dupre Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Quark Fragmentation and Hadron formation in Nuclear Matter
Host: Kawtar Hafidi
19 Sep 2011 Aron Bernstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Measurement of the neutral pion lifetime: QCD Axial Anomaly and Chiral Symmetry
Host: John Arrington
26 Sep 2011 Mario Pitschmann University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Lab
Looking for Physics Beyond the SM in the Neutron Alphabet
Host: Craig Roberts
3 Oct 2011 Nadia Fomin Los Alamos National Laboratory
First Results from the NPDGamma Experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source
Host: Zheng-Tian Lu
10 Oct 2011 Huan Z. Huang University of California, Los Angeles
Probes of QCD Matter at RHIC with Strange and Heavy Quarks
Host: Birger Back
17 Oct 2011 C. Eric Dahl University of Chicago
The COUPP Dark Matter Search-Results from the first year of deep underground running
Host: Paul Reimer
24 Oct 2011 Pradeep Aggarwal International Atomic Energy Agency
Isotopes in Hydrology: Building a Scientific Basis for Water Resource Management
Host: Zheng-Tian Lu
31 Oct 2011 Wei Jiang Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
ATTA-3: A Significantly Improved Atom Counter for Radio-Krypton Dating
Host: Zheng-Tian Lu
7 Nov 2011 Ani Aprahamian University of Notre Dame
Sensitivity of the r-process to masses
Host: John Arrington
14 Nov 2011 Jaideep Singh Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Surprises and Puzzles from Probing Atoms Trapped in Noble Gas Ice
Host: Zheng-Tian Lu
21 Nov 2011 Don Geesaman Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
QCD and Nuclei
Host: John Arrington
28 Nov 2011 Alberto Accardi Hampton University and Jefferson Laboratory
Large-x partons from JLab to the LHC
Host: John Arrington
5 Dec 2011 CANCELLED Matthias Grosse Perdekamp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - CANCELLED
Di-Hadron Correlations in d-Au Collisions at RHIC as a Probe of Nuclear Effects in Nucleon Structure
Host: Kawtar Hafidi
12 Dec 2011 Kate Jones University of Tennessee
Transfer reactions in the new old-fashioned way
Host: Birger Back
19 Dec 2011 Robert Michaels Jefferson Lab
The Lead Radius Experiment PREX
Host: John Arrington
26 Dec 2011 Christmas & New Year Holidays -- No seminar
2 Jan 2012 Christmas & New Year Holidays -- No seminar
9 Jan 2012 Bela Erdelyi Argonne Physics Division and Northern Illinois University
Development of Ion Accelerator Complex for Medium Energy Ion-Electron Collider at JLAB
Host: Peter Ostroumov
16 Jan 2012 Giorgio Gratta Stanford University
Two-neutrino double-beta decay in EXO
Host: Zheng-Tian Lu
23 Jan 2012 David Hertzog University of Washington
Muon Lifetime
Host: Zheng-Tian Lu
30 Jan 2012 No Seminar - EBIS Review
6 Feb 2012 Ismael Martel University of Huelva, Spain
Study of low energy heavy-ion reactions with exotic and stable nuclei at University of Huelva
Host: Peter Ostroumov
13 Feb 2012 Josh Rubin Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Neutron Structure Functions at Large x
Host: John Arrington
20 Feb 2012 David Potterveld Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Shedding Light on Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Host: Roy Holt
27 Feb 2012 K. Ernst Rehm Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble - a new detector for nuclear astrophysics
Host: Roy Holt
5 Mar 2012 M. Eric Christy Hampton University
Measuring nucleon properties via neutrino scattering with MINERvA
Host: John Arrington
12 Mar 2012 Brad Filippone Caltech
Ultra-cold Neutrons
Host: John Arrington
19 Mar 2012 Daniel Ngai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Observation of Electron-antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay
Host: Paul Reimer
26 Mar 2012 Canceled
2 Apr 2012 Spring APS Meeting
Atlanta, GA, 31 Mar - 3 Apr
9 Apr 2012 Zheng-Tian Lu Physics Division, Argonne National Lab
An Overview of EDM Searches
16 Apr 2012 Reiner Kruecken TRIUMF
Probing magic numbers in exotic nuclei
Host: Robert Janssens
23 Apr 2012 Augusto Macchiavelli Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
New Aspects of the Structure of Neutron-rich Nuclei
Host: Mike Carpenter
30 Apr 2012 Matthias Grosse Perdekamp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Di-Hadron Correlations in d-Au Collisions at RHIC as a Probe of Nuclear Effects in Nucleon Structure
Host: Kawtar Hafidi
7 May 2012 No seminar this week
17 May 2012
Thursday
Heather Crawford LBNL
Pushing Towards the Neutron Dripline: The Nuclear Structure of 40Mg and 64Cr
Host: Birger Back
21 May 2012 Benjamin Kay University of York
Evolution of single-particle energies - studies with stable and radioactive beams
Host: Birger Back
25 May 2012
Friday
Andrew Rogers Argonne National Laboratory
Exploring the proton drip line: Recent advances near 69Br and future possibilities
Host: Birger Back
28 May 2012 Memorial Day -- No seminar
8 June 2012
Friday
Calem Hoffman Argonne National Laboratory
Characterizing shell evolution in the neutron-rich oxygen isotopes
Host: Birger Back
25 June 2012 Maxime Brodeur Michigan State University
Mass measurements and surfing of the shortest-lived nuclei
Host: Birger Back
2 July 2012
Zeer Vager Weizmann Institute
Selectivity in Electron Transmission Through Self-Assembled Monolayers of Double-Stranded DNA
Host: John Schiffer

John Arrington, Chairman (630-252-3619, [email protected] mail)

Kim Miller, Secretary (630-252-4001, [email protected] mail)

Debbie Morrison, Secretary (630-252-4100, [email protected] mail)

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