Physics Division Seminar

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

Mondays at 3:30 PM

2018-2019 Program

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

3 Sep 2018 Labor Day -- No seminar
10 Sep 2018 Seamus Riordan, PHY, Argonne National Laboratory
Elastic Nucleon Form Factors at High Momentum Transfer
Host: Jose Repond
17 Sep 2018 Tom Polakovic, MSD/PHY, Argonne National Laboratory
Superconducting Detectors for Nuclear and Particle Physics
Host: Jose Repond
19 Sep 2018
Wednesday
Patrick Regan, University of Surrey
The Application of LaBr3(Ce) Gamma-ray Detectors for Precision Nuclear Spectroscopy, Radiation Standards and Quantitative Imaging
Host: Filip Kondev
25 Sep 2018
Tuesday
Graham Peaslee, University of Notre Dame
Nuclear Physics Applications at the University of Notre Dame
Host: Jason Clark
3 Oct 2018
Wednesday
David DeMille, Yale University
A Quantum-Enabled Probe ofTeVPhysics: Searching for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
Host: Peter Mueller
8 Oct 2018 Walter Reviol, Washington University in St. Louis
Direct-Reaction Studies Above 132Sn Using Heavy-Ion Induced Transfer and Particle-Gamma Correlations
Host: Filip Kondev
15 Oct 2018 Fred Olness, Southern Methodist University
PDF Flavor Determination and the nCTEQ PDFs
Host: Jose Repond
22 Oct 2018 2018 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii Island, 23-27 October
30 Oct 2018
Tuesday
Michael Williams, Massachuetts Institute of Technology
Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHCbExperiment
Host: Jose Repond
12 Nov 2018 Matthew Mumpower, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nuclear Physics and Neutron-Rich Nucleosynthesis
Host: Filip Kondev
19 Nov 2018 Peter Jacobs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Probing the Micro-Structure of Hot QCD Matter
Host: Jose Repond
21 Nov 2018
Wednesday
Dieter Ackermann, GANIL
Nuclear Structure of SHN – State of the Art and Perspectives at S3
Host: Filip Kondev
26 Nov 2018 Snow Day -- No seminar
3 Dec 2018 Gregory Potel, Michigan State University
From Neutron-Nucleus Interactions to (d,p) Cross Sections: Structure andReactions of 11Be
Host: Calem Hoffman
10 Dec 2018 Willem H. Dickhoff, Washington University, St. Louis
The Dispersive Optical Model as a Tool to Provide a Consistent Description of Nuclear Reactions
Host: Ben Kay
17 Dec 2018 Oleg Denisov, University of Torino
A New QCD Facility at the M2 Beamline fo the CERN SPS
Host: Jose Repond
24 Dec 2018 Christmas & New Year Holidays; No seminar
31 Dec 2018 Christmas & New Year Holidays; No seminar
14 Jan 2019 Sylvester Joosten, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Heavy Quarkonium Production: Probing the Gluonic Structure of the Nucleon and the Dynamic Origin of its Mass
Host: Jose Repond
21 Jan 2019 Jacklyn Gates, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Superheavy Element Studies at LBNL
Host: Filip Kondev
28 Jan 2019 Lab closed
4 Feb 2019 Anne Sickles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Probing High Temperature QCD via Jet Measurements in Heavy Ion Collisions: Results from ATLAS and Prospects for sPHENIX
Host: Jose Repond
11 Feb 2019 Dan Melconian, Texas A&M University
Fundamental Symmetry Tests using Trapped Atoms and Ions
Host: Ben Kay
18 Feb 2019 Kyle Leach, Colorado School of Mines
The Current Status of Vud and the Top-Row CKM UnitarityTest:How Did We Get Here?
Host: Ben Kay
25 Feb 2019 Zhihong Ye, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
The Tritium Experiments
Host: Jose Repond
4 Mar 2019 Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Probing the Gluon Distribution at Low x in p-Pb with Forward di-jet Measurements in ATLAS
Host: Jose Repond
11 Mar 2019 Radja Boughezal, High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Probing Polarized Parton Distribution Functions at the EIC
Host: Jose Repond
25 Mar 2019 Steve Dytman, University of Pittsburgh
Event Generators in Neutrino Oscillation and Cross Section Experiments
Host: Alessandro Lovato
1 Apr 2019 Kevin Fossez, Michigan State University and Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Nuclei as Open Quantum Systems
Host: Bob Wiringa
8 Apr 2019 Kristina D. Launey, Louisiana State University
Emergent Phenomena in Nuclei: Collectivity and Clustering fromFirst Principles
Host: Mike Carpenter
15 Apr 2019 American Physical Society April Meeting 2019
Denver, CO 13-16 April
22 Apr 2019 Grayson Rich, University of Chicago
Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Experiments and a New Tool for Nuclear and Particle Physics
Host: Sereres Johnston
29 Apr 2019 Alexander Kiselev, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Challenges in the EIC Detector and Interaction Region Design
Host:Jose Repond
1 May 2019
Wednesday
Remco Zegers, Michigan State University
Spin-Isospin Excitations in Nuclei and Applications in Astrophysics
Host: Mike Carpenter
6 May 2019 Jack Henderson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Nuclear Collectivity and Deformation
Host: Ben Kay
13 May 2019
12:30 pm
Weizhi Xiong, Duke University
The Proton Charge Radius Experiment (PRad) at JLab
Host: Zein-Eddine Meziani
20 May 2019 Partha Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Emerging Scintillators for Fast Neutron Spectroscopy
Host: Filip Kondev
27 May 2019 Memorial Day -- No seminar

Co-chairs:
Jose Repond (630-252-7554, [email protected] mail) and
Filip Kondev (630-252-4484, [email protected] mail)

Janet Bergman, Secretary (630-252-4085, [email protected] mail)

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

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