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