Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
semester, 2009
Tuesday, February 10th 2009
Speaker: Niki Saoulidou , Fermi National Lab
Subject: Fermilab long baseline n oscillation experiments: From MINOS to NOvA and Beyond
Dr. Saoulidou is an experimental particle physics faculty candidate
Tuesday, February 17th 2009
Speaker: Dr. Ricardo Eusebi, Fermilab
Subject: Searching for experimental evidence on the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking
Speaker: Dr. Mithat Unsal, Stanford University
Subject: On dualities and (de)confinement in gauge theories and spin systems.
Tuesday, February 24th 2009
Speaker: Dr. Toyoko Orimoto, Caltech
Subject: Photon Physics with the CMS Detector
Dr. Toyoko Orimoto is a particle experiment faculty candidate.
Tuesday, March 3rd 2009
Speaker: Dr. Chunhui Chen, SLAC
Subject: The Measurement of CP Violation Parameter Beta and Search for the New Physics from Babar Experiment
Dr. Chunhui Chen is an experimental particle faculty candidate.
Tuesday, May 12th 2009
No seminar this week. Finals week.
Tuesday, September 8th 2009
Speaker: Jaroslaw Nowak, Louisiana State University
Subject: Pion production in the neutrino induced interactions
Dr. Nowak is a candidate for a postdoc position with HEP group.
Tuesday, September 15th 2009
Tuesday, September 22nd 2009
Speaker: Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
Subject: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Tuesday, September 29th 2009
Speaker: Dan Cronin-Hennessy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Status of the BESIII Experiment
Tuesday, October 6th 2009
Speaker: Pete Zweber, University of Minnesota
Subject: D and Ds Semileptonic Decays at CLEO-c
Tuesday, October 13th 2009
Speaker: Bryan Dahmes, University of Minnesota
Subject: Prospects for Selected New Phenomena Searches with Early LHC Data
Tuesday, October 20th 2009
There will be no seminar this week.
Tuesday, October 27th 2009
There will be no seminar this week.
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009
Speaker: Jason Haupt, University of Minnesota
Subject: A differential cross-section measurement of the Z boson decay into two electrons as a function of Z rapidity
Tuesday, November 10th 2009
There will be no seminar this week.
Tuesday, November 17th 2009
Speaker: Zeb Krahn, University of Minnesota
Subject: "The NOvA Project: Experimental Status"
Tuesday, November 24th 2009
There will be no seminar this week.
Tuesday, December 1st 2009
Speaker: Michael Ehrlichman, Cornell University
Subject: A New Platform for Accelerator-Based X-Ray Science
Tuesday, December 8th 2009
The seminar will be held on Friday, this week only.
Friday, December 11th 2009
Speaker: John Kwong, Princeton University
Subject: Scintillation Pulse Shape Discrimination in a Two-Phase Xenon Time Projection Chamber
Mr. Kwong is a candidate for the experimental neutrino physics post-doc position.
Tuesday, December 15th 2009
The seminar has been canceled. Prof. Rusack will give a special School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium on Wednesday.
Friday, December 18th 2009
Speaker: Oleg Kamaev, University of Minnesota
Subject: New results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment
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