Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Seminars


"Curia II" is on the 2nd floor of Wilson Hall, in the South-West corner.
"3 East - Theory Conference Room" is on the 3rd floor of Wilson Hall, in the North-East corner.



FALL 2002


Monday 12 August, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Pasquale Di Bari (DESY) - Leptogenesis and the absolute scale of neutrino mass
dibari@mail.desy.de


Monday 2 September, 2:30 pm, Curia II
No Seminar - Labor Day


Lunch Seminar
Wednesday 4 September, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Christoph Schmid (Zurich,ETH) - Cosmological Vorticity Perturbations and Mach's Principle
chschmid@itp.phys.ethz.ch


Monday 9 September, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Robert Wald (Chicago) - Remarks on Inflation
rmwa@midway.uchicago.edu


Monday 16 September, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Georg Raffelt (Max Planck Institut fuer Physik, Munich) - Synchronized Neutrino Oscillations: Theory and Applications
raffelt@mppmu.mpg.de


18-21 September, Chicago.
COSMO-02
International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 23 September, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Kenji Kadota (Berkeley) - Correlations and Conversions of Adiabatic/Isocurvature Perturbations
kadota@socrates.Berkeley.EDU


Note special time and location
Monday 30 September, 3:00 pm, 12NW Conference Room
Mikhail Voloshin (Minnesota) - Black Holes from High Energy Particle Collisions?
voloshin@umn.edu


Monday 7 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Bhuvnesh Jain (PENN) - The Uses and Abuses of Nonlinear Clustering
bjain@physics.upenn.edu


Monday 14 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
No Seminar


17-19 October, Fermilab.
Workshop on Neutrino News from the Lab and the Cosmos


Monday 21 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Jordi Miralda-Escudé (Ohio State) - Evolution of the ionizing emissivity required by the hydrogen reionization
jordi@astronomy.ohio-state.edu


Monday 28 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Bob Rutledge (Caltech) - Precision Measurement of Neutron Star Radii
rutledge@tapir.caltech.edu


Lunch Seminar **Note special day**
Friday 1 November, 1:00 pm, Curia II
Wim de Boer (Karlsruhe) - Positron fraction from Dark Matter Annihilation in the CMSSM
deboer@ekp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de


Monday 4 November, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Pierre Sokolsky (Utah) - Current Results on Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from HiRes
ps@physics.utah.edu


Monday 11 November, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Erin Sheldon (Chicago) - Constraints on Bias from Weak Lensing in the SDSS
esheldon@umich.edu


Monday 18 November, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Alexander Kusenko (UCLA) - Baryogenesis and dark matter


Monday 25 November, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Nick Gnedin (Colorado) - What your walkman knows about reionization
Nickolay.Gnedin@Colorado.edu


Lunch Seminar
Monday 2 December, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (Valencia)- Atmospheric Neutrino Neutral-Current Flux Measurement
Sergio.Palomares@uv.es

Lunch Seminar **Note special day**
Wednesday 4 December, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Patricia Guiod de Castro (Oxford) - The impact of reionization on the statistics of the CMB
pcastro@astro.ox.ac.uk


Monday 9 December, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Anthony Aguirre (IAS) - Intergalactic Metals in Cosmology
aguirre@ias.edu


Monday 16 December, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Csaba Csaki (Cornell) - Dimming supernovae and ultra-high energy cosmic rays from photon-axion oscillations.
csaki@mail.lns.cornell.edu



SPRING 2003

Monday 6 January, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Andrei Frolov (CITA) - Brane World Cosmology
frolov@cita.utoronto.ca

Informal Lunch Seminar
Wednesday 8 January, 12:30pm The Comitium WH-2SE (Just across from Curia II)
Andrei Frolov (CITA)- Inflation and de Sitter Thermodynamics


Monday 13 January, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Michael Santos (Caltech) - Galaxy Formation: The Reionization Years
mrs@tapir.caltech.edu


Monday 20 January, 2:30 pm, Curia II
No Seminar - MLK Jr. Birthday


Monday 27 January, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Horace Stoica (Cornell) - Brane Inflation: From Superstrings to Cosmic Strings
fstoica@physics.cornell.edu


Monday 3 February, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Tim Tait (Fermilab) - Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter
tait@fnal.gov


Monday 10 February, 2:30 pm, Curia II
No Seminar Today


Rescheduled to April 7
Monday 17 February, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Richard Holman (Carnegie Mellon) - How Sensitive is Inflation to High Energy Physics?
holman@cmuhep2.phys.cmu.edu


*** Special, Joint Astro/Particle Physics Seminar ***
Monday 24 February, 2:30 pm, 1 West (Note special location!)
Steve Meyer (U. Chicago) - Results From the First Year Observations of the MAP Satellite


Monday 3 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Alan Peel (UC Davis) - Cosmology from Galaxy Cluster Peculiar Velocities
apeel@bubba.ucdavis.edu


Monday 10 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Anupam Mazumdar (McGill University) - MSSM Flat Directions
anupamm@hep.physics.mcgill.ca


*** Special, Joint Astro/Particle Physics Seminar ***
Monday 17 March, 2:30 pm, 1 West (Note special location!)
Eric Linder (LBL) - Dark Energy, Expansion History of the Universe, and SNAP
evlinder@lbl.gov

Here are the overheads from Eric's talk (in pdf format): Part I Part II


Monday 24 March
No seminar this week -


Monday 31 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Laura Mersini (Syracuse University) - Dark Energy - The Search For New Physics
mersini@sns.it


Monday 7 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Richard Holman (Carnegie Mellon) - How Sensitive is Inflation to High Energy Physics?
holman@cmuhep2.phys.cmu.edu


Monday 14 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Graciela Gelmini (UCLA) - Dark Matter Searches: looking for the cake or its frosting?
gelmini@physics.ucla.edu


*** Special, Joint Astro/Particle Physics Seminar ***
Monday 21 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis) - Inflation and Leaky Cans
kaloper@stanford.edu


No seminar this week
Monday 28 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
*** Bill Unruh's talk rescheduled to May 6th ***


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 5 May, 12 pm, 3 East
Jim Annis (FNAL) - SDSS Clusters and Risa's Virgo Sim

Monday 5 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Tzu-Ching Chang (Columbia) - Measuring Cosmic Shear with the FIRST Radio Survey
tchang@astro.columbia.edu

Tuesday May 6, 2:30 pm, Curia II ( Note special date! )
Bill Unruh (UBC) Dumb Holes: A Theoretical and Experimental (?) Model for Black Holes
unruh@physics.ubc.ca


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 12 May, 12 pm, 3 East
Steve Kent (FNAL) - The optical counterpart to GRB 030329

Monday 12 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Siang-Peng Oh (Caltech) - Towards an Explanation for L_*: Aspects of Gas Cooling in Galaxy Formation


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 19 May, 12:00 pm, 3 East
Monica Valluri (Chicago) - Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei

Monday 19 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Robert Brandenberger (Brown) - Stabilization of Embedded Defects, Primordial Magnetic Fields, and a New Model of Brane Inflation
rhb@het.brown.edu


Monday 26 May
No Seminar - Memorial Day

Tuesday 27 May, 2:30 pm, location: TBA ( Note special date! )
Katherine Benson (Emory University and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)
- A Closer Look at Hierarchy in Extradimensional Defect Universes


Monday 2 June, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Ray Sawyer (UC- Santa Barbara) - Speedup through Entanglement: Many-Body Effects in Neutrino Processes
sawyer@vulcan2.physics.ucsb.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar
Wednesday 25 June, 12:30 pm, 3 East
Sandhya Choubey (SISSA, Trieste) - Precision Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters
sandhya@he.sissa.it


Informal Lunch Seminar
Thursday 26 June, 12:00 pm, 3 East
Dan Hooper (University of Wisconsin) - Direct and Indirect Detection of SUSY Dark Matter
hooper@pheno.physics.wisc.edu


Seminar schedules from previous years:

Academic year 2001-2002

Academic year 2000-2001

Fall 1999 and Spring 2000

Fall 1998 and Spring 1999

Spring 1998