Physics Division Seminar

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

Mondays at 3:30 PM

2012-2013 Program

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

3 Sep 2012 Labor Day -- No seminar
10 Sep 2012 John Arrington, Argonne Physics Division
Short-Range Correlations and Connections to the EMC effect
Host: John Schiffer
17 Sep 2012 Roy J. Holt, Argonne Physics Division
Medium Energy Physics (Presentation to the Tribble Committee)
Host: John Schiffer
24 Sep 2012 Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Measuring Gluon and Quark Helicity Distributions in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at RHIC
Host: Roy Holt
1 Oct 2012
8 Oct 2012 Birger Back, Argonne Physics Division
Recent Experiments on Fusion Reactions
Host: John Schiffer
15 Oct 2012 Liang Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Results and Prospects of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search with EXO
Host: John Schiffer
22 Oct 2012 Henry Weller, Duke University
Unambiguous evidence for the second 2+ state in 12C obtained using the 12C + γ → 3 α reaction at the HIγS facility
Host: Ernst Rehm
29 Oct 2012 Fall DNP Meeting
Newport Beach, CA, 24--27 Oct. 2012
5 Nov 2012 Gordon D. Cates, University of Virginia
A New Window into Nucleon Structure: Flavor-Decomposed Form Factors
Host: Roy Holt
12 Nov 2012 Henning Esbensen, Argonne Physics Division
Fusion Reactions
Host: John Schiffer
19 Nov 2012 Anatoli Afanasjev, Mississippi State University
Covariant density functional theory: addressing the challenges
Host: Robert Janssens
26 Nov 2012 Craig Roberts, Argonne Physics Division
A New Decade of Hadron Physics
Host: John Schiffer
3 Dec 2012 Ingo Wiedenhöver, Florida State University
Rare Ion Beam Experiments with ANASEN at the RESOLUT Facility
Host: John Schiffer
10 Dec 2012 Witold Nazarewicz, University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Atomic Nuclei: Many-Body Open Quantum Systems
Host: Robert Janssens
17 Dec 2012 Bernd Surrow, Temple University
Recent results on the gluon polarization and W production program in polarized p + p collisions at RHIC
Host: Roy Holt
24 Dec 2012 Christmas & New Year Holidays -- No seminar
31 Dec 2012 Christmas & New Year Holidays -- No seminar
7 Jan 2013 Bernhard Adams & Kwang-Je Kim, Argonne Advanced Photon Source
Sub-Ångström Cavity stabilization of an x-ray free-electron laser oscillator and metrology with nuclear resonance
Host: John Schiffer
14 Jan 2013 Matt Dietrich, Argonne Physics Division
Progress on the Radium EDM Experiment
Host: John Schiffer
21 Jan 2013 Carlos Wagner, Argonne High Energy Physics Division
Higgs Discovery -- Implications for Particle Physics
Host: John Schiffer
28 Jan 2013
4 Feb 2013
11 Feb 2013
18 Feb 2013 Matthew Sternberg, University of Chicago & Argonne Physics Division
Recent Results on the Limit of Weak Tensor Currents from 8Li Beta-decay
Host: John Schiffer
25 Feb 2013 Steven C. Pieper, Argonne Physics Division
GFMC calculations for Carbon
Host: John Schiffer
4 Mar 2013 Laurens Keek, Michigan State University
Rare X-ray bursts and superbursts from neutron stars
Host: Ernst Rehm
11 Mar 2013 Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Precision Study of the Standard Model at Low Energies
Host: Roy Holt
18 Mar 2013 Karsten Heeger, University of Wisconsin
Probing the Nature of Neutrinos
Host: John Schiffer
25 Mar 2013 B. Lee Roberts, Boston University
Muon (g-2); Beyond or within the Standard Model?
Host: John Schiffer
1 Apr 2013 Peter Ostrumov, Argonne Physics Division
Physics of high intensity beams in proton and ion accelerators
Host: John Schiffer
8 Apr 2013 Darek Seweryniak, Argonne Physics Division
Studies of Nucleosynthesis with Gammasphere and the Fragment Mass Analyzer
Host: John Schiffer
15 Apr 2013 Peter Mueller, Argonne Physics Division
Precision Measurements with Trapped 6He
Host: John Schiffer
22 Apr 2013 Thomas Papenbrock, University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Structure of neutron-rich isotopes of oxygen and calcium from chiral interactions
Host: Lucas Platter
29 Apr 2013 C.R. Hoffman, Z.-T. Lu, D.F. Geesaman, (etc.), Argonne Physics Division
What Was Interesting at the Denver APS Meeting
Host: John Schiffer
6 May 2013
13 May 2013 Karen Byrum, Argonne High Energy Physics Division
Recent Results from VERITAS
Host: John Schiffer
20 May 2013
28 May 2013
3 Jun 2013 Marius Stan, Argonne Nuclear Engineering Division
Multi-Scale Computational Microscopy
Host: Bob Wiringa
5 Jun 2013 Wednesday
Morten Hjorth-Jensen, University of Oslo & Michigan State University
Living on the edge of stability, the limits of the nuclear landscape
Host: Lucas Platter
26 Aug 2013 Simon Jerome, National Physical Laboratory, UK
To be announced
Host: Zhengtian Lu
9 Sep 2013 Vladimir Savinov , University of Pittsburgh
Implications for QCD of measurements of the γ γ* -> π0 transition form factor
Host: Craig Roberts

John Schiffer, Chairman (630-252-4006, [email protected] mail)

Jeannie Glover, Secretary (630-252-4020, [email protected] mail)

Robert Wiringa, Web Guy (630-252-6134, [email protected] mail)

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