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Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar

semester, 2007

Monday, January 22nd 2007
Speaker: Liliya Williams
Subject: Detecting Dark Matter Caustics
Monday, January 29th 2007
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Uzan, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Subject: Gravity and the nature of dark energy
Monday, February 5th 2007
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Michael Dragowsky, Case Western Reserve University. Candidate for the Astrophysics & Cosmology Faculty Position
Subject: Dark Matter and Particle Astrophysics
Thursday, February 8th 2007
2:00 pm:
Speaker: James Aguirre, a candidate for the Astrophysics & Cosmology faculty position
Subject: Studying the Evolution of the Universe with Submillimeter Astronomy
Monday, February 12th 2007
Speaker: Marco Peloso
Subject: The fate of SUSY flat directions, and their role at reheating
Monday, February 19th 2007
Speaker: Chris Savage, University of Minnesota
Subject: The annual modulation of dark matter in the presence of streams
Monday, February 26th 2007
Speaker: Larry Rudnick
Subject: The Role of Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Formation
Monday, March 5th 2007
Speaker: Johannes Hubmayr
Subject: The Non-Gaussian Cold Spot in the 3-year WMAP Data
Monday, March 12th 2007
Spring Break - No ACLS Seminar this week
Monday, March 19th 2007
Speaker: Emir Gumrukcuoglu
Subject: Relic Anisotropy as a Source for CMB Anomalies
Monday, March 26th 2007
Speaker: Crystal Austin
Monday, April 2nd 2007
Speaker: Michael DuVernois
Subject: ANITA and high-energy radio neutrino detection
Monday, April 9th 2007
Speaker: Clay Hogen-Chin
Subject: Cosmic Ray Composition at High Energies: The TRACER Project
Monday, April 16th 2007
No seminar this week.
Monday, April 23rd 2007
Speaker: Taylor Childers
Subject: Preliminary data from the 1st and 2nd CREAM flights: Reaching the knee of the cosmic ray energy spectrum with a balloon experiment
Monday, April 30th 2007
No Seminar this week.
Monday, May 7th 2007
No seminar this week.
Monday, September 10th 2007
Speaker: Pearl Sandick
Subject: Neutralino Dark Matter from GUT-less SUSY
Monday, September 17th 2007
Speaker: Matthew Sexton, University of Minnesota
Subject: "Nonperturbative Decay of Supersymmetric Flat Directions During Preheating with "realistic" Gauged Lagrangians"
Monday, September 24th 2007
Speaker: Yong-Zhong Qian
Subject: "Chemical Evolution of Heavy Elements: Implications for Stellar Sources"
Monday, October 1st 2007
Speaker: Shaul Hanany, University of Minnesota
Subject: "Science and Politics of a CMB polarization satellite"
Monday, October 8th 2007
Speaker: Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
Monday, October 15th 2007
Speaker: Larry Rudnick
Subject: The Square Kilometer Array and the Early Universe
Monday, October 22nd 2007
Speaker: Shea Brown, University of Minnesota
Subject: "A 280 Mpc Void and the WMAP Cold Spot"
Monday, October 29th 2007
Speaker: Vuk Mandic
Subject: LIGO: Status and Plans
Monday, November 5th 2007
Speaker: Terry Jay Jones, University of Minnesota
Subject: Fundamental constants, not so variable after all
Monday, November 12th 2007
Speaker: Liliya Williams
Subject: Cosmology WITHOUT Supernova and CMB
Monday, November 19th 2007
Speaker: Barun Kumar Dhar
Subject: "Reconstructing Dark Matter halos in Clusters of galaxies: A new approach"
Monday, November 26th 2007
Speaker: Marco Peloso, University of Minnesota
Subject: Nonperturbative reheating after inflation: is it testable?
Monday, December 10th 2007
Speaker: Michael Milligan
Subject: "Stars Powered by Dark Matter"

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