University of Michigan, Physics Department

High Energy Physics / Astrophysics Seminar Schedule

Winter 2009
(for the past semesters, see Fall 2008, Winter 2008, Fall 2007 )

Time: Mondays at 4:00 pm

Place: 335 West Hall

Organizers: D. Huterer, M. Tecchio


Date
Speaker  
January 2009
1/12/09
No Seminar
1/19/09
No Seminar - MLK Day
1/26/09
Craig Group, Fermilab Searching for Higgs One Single Top at a Time   (Abstract)

February 2009
2/2/09
Nikhil Padmanabhan, Lawrence Berkeley Lab A Cosmic Yardstick : Measuring Dark Energy with Baryon Oscillations   (Abstract)
2/9/09
David Bacon, University of Washington The Race to Build a Quantum Computer   (Abstract)
2/16/09
Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford Topological Effects in Time Reversal Invariant Insulators   (Abstract)
2/23/09
No Seminar - Spring break

March 2009
3/2/09
Sarah Demers, SLAC Taus as Probes for New Physics
3/9/09
Zhe Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory New Measurement of the K+ --> pi+ nu nubar Branching Ratio
3/16/09
Roman Scoccimarro, New York University Structure Formation in Modified Gravity   (Abstract)
3/23/09
Kevin McFarland, Rochester University Make no little plans: Neutrinos at the Intensity Frontier   (Abstract)
3/30/09
Ken Herner, University of Michigan Searches for neutral Higgs bosons at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV   (Abstract)

April 2009
4/6/09
Lam Hui, Columbia University Equivalence Principle and Cosmic Acceleration   (Abstract)
4/13/09
Carlos Cunha, University of Michigan Constraining Dark Energy with Clusters of Galaxies   (Abstract)
4/20/09
Karsten Eggert, Penn State and CERN TOTEM, a forward physics experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider   (Abstract)
4/27/09
Ian Shipsey, Purdue University