Colloquium – Archive
Fermilab Colloquium Calendar 2008-2009
Lectures begin at 4:00 p.m. in 1 West
Orange titles are more technical; Green titles are less technical.
| Date | Speaker/Institute | Title | Host | Abstract | Video | |
| 3 Sep 2008 | Lee Roberts Boston University |
Muon (g-2): A Probe of the Standard Model and Beyond |
E. Prebys | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 10 Sep 2008 | No Colloquium | |||||
| 17 Sep 2008 | No Colloquium | |||||
| 24 Sep 2008 | Andrey Lomako DALSA Corporation |
In conjunction with the Pixel 2008 Workshop Solid State Imagers in Space and Scientific Applications – DALSA Technology |
R. Lipton | Abstract | ||
| 1 Oct 2008 | Paolo Brenni CNR – FST – IMSS, Florence, Italy |
The Telephone: An Invention with Many Fathers |
E. Barzi | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 8 Oct 2008 | George H. Atkinson, former Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretaries of State Powell and Rice Institute of Science for Global Policy |
Science and Technology in Global 21st Century Societies |
E. Barzi | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 15 Oct 2008 | Robert Garisto Physical Review Letters |
Half a Century of Physical Review Letters |
C. Newman-Holmes | Abstract | Video | |
| 22 Oct 2008 | ||||||
| 29 Oct 2008 | Thomas K. Gaisser University of Delaware |
IceCube–A New Detector for Neutrino Astronomy and Particle Astrophysics |
P. Lebrun | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 5 Nov 2008 | John Rogers U of I, Urbana/Champaign RESCHEDULED |
Rescheduled to February 4, 2009 | ||||
| 12 Nov 2008 | Michael Lemonick Princeton University and Time Magazine |
William Herschel, the First Observational Cosmologist |
E. Prebys | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 19 Nov 2008 | David Hitlin Caltech |
Searching for New Physics at SuperB – The Super Flavor Factory |
W. Wester | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 26 Nov 2008 | Thanksgiving | No Colloquium | ||||
| 3 Dec 2008 | Bruce Winstein University of Chicago |
CMB Polarization, the QUIET Experiment, and an Inside View of Gravity Wave Searches in the CMB |
W. Wester | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 10 Dec 2008 | ||||||
| 17 Dec 2008 | Chris Holland UC San Diego |
Simulation of Fusion Plasmas | P. Lebrun | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 24 Dec 2008 | Christmas Holiday | No Colloquium | ||||
| 31 Dec 2008 | New Year’s Holiday | No Colloquium | ||||
| 7 Jan 2009 | John Sarrao LANL |
Achieving Transformational Materials Performance in a New Era of Science |
L. Cooley | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 14 Jan 2009 | Gordon Kane Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics Note new location: Auditorium |
LHC – a “Why” Facility | M. Albrow | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 21 Jan 2009 | Apostolos Georgopoulos Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Minnesota |
Brain Mechanisms of Cognitive Processing |
E. Prebys | Abstract | ||
| 28 Jan 2009 | Nina Singhal Hinrichs University of Chicago |
Modeling Molecular Dynamics from Simulations |
C. Newman-Holmes | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 4 Feb 2009 | John A. Rogers University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
Materials for Stretchable Electronics – Electronic Eyeballs, Brain Monitors and Other Applications |
R. Lipton | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 11 Feb 2009 | Sean Carroll Caltech |
The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time |
R. Lipton | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 18 Feb 2009 | Christina Frederick-Recascino Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Doug Sweigard Lockheed Martin Corporation |
The Integrated Airport: Building a Successful NextGen Testbed |
D. Hooper | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 25 Feb 2009 | David Larbalestier National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Florida State University |
The Superconductors That Magnets Really Want: What Stands in the Way? |
L. Cooley | Abstract | Video | |
| 4 Mar 2009 | Simon Swordy Heinrich Jaeger University of Chicago |
Current Research at the University of Chicago Enrico Fermi Institute and James Franck Institute |
C. Newman-Holmes | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 11 Mar 2009 | Sekhar Chivukula Michigan State University |
The Symmetries of QCD | B. Dobrescu | Abstract | Video | |
| 18 Mar 2009 | Rajendran Raja Fermilab |
Accelerator Driven Nuclear Energy – The Thorium Option |
E. Prebys | Abstract | Video | |
| 25 Mar 2009 | Brian Uzzi Northwestern University |
Network Complexity and Human Creativity: The Case of High Impact Science |
T. Schwarz | Abstract | ||
| 1 Apr 2009 | Isabelle Grenier CEA/Univ. Paris VII, France |
The Animated Gamma-ray Sky Revealed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope |
M. Albrow | Abstract | Video | |
| 8 Apr 2009 | Michael Albrow Fermilab |
Exciting the Vacuum: From Glueballs to Higgs |
W. Wester | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 15 Apr 2009 | ||||||
| 22 Apr 2009 | Dan Hooper Fermilab |
Charged Cosmic Rays and Particle Dark Matter |
R. Lipton | |||
| 29 Apr 2009 | Lefteri Tsoukalas Purdue University |
Inventing an Energy Internet: Concepts, Architectures and Protocols for Smart Energy Utilization |
P. Lebrun | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 6 May 2009 | Paul Ginsparg Cornell University |
Open Access: From Myth to Paradox |
C. Newman-Holmes | Abstract | Video | |
| 13 May 2009 | David G. Stork Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University |
Did Early Renaissance Masters ‘Cheat’ Using Optics? Computer Science, Physics, and Art History Address a Bold Theory |
A. Para | Abstract | ||
| 20 May 2009 | Ken Marken Superconductivity Technology Center, Los Alamos |
From Ions to Wires to the Grid: The Transformational Science of LANL Research in High-Tc Superconducting Tapes and Electric Power Applications |
L. Cooley | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 27 May 2009 | Tim Meyer TRIUMF |
Being Relevant in Tough Times: TRIUMF’s Five-Year Plan |
C. Newman-Holmes | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 5 Jun 2009 | Special Outreach Colloquium in the Auditorium, 12 Noon: Michael Turner University of Chicago (Note new date, location and time) |
Communicating the Excitement of Science |
P. Lebrun | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 10 Jun 2009 | In conjunction with Muon Collider Week: Andrea Latina Fermilab |
CLIC Project Overview | T. Schwartz | Abstract | Video | |
| 17 Jun 2009 | Note new location: Auditorium Arthur T. Benjamin Harvey Mudd College |
Mathemagics! (or “Secrets of Mental Math”) |
C. Newman-Holmes | Abstract | ||
| 24 Jun 2009 | Kwang-Je Kim Argonne National Laboratory |
Progress and Prospects for X-ray Free Electron Lasers |
R. Lipton | Abstract | PPT | Video |
| 1 Jul 2009 | ||||||
| 8 Jul 2009 | Joseph Dwyer Florida Institute of Technology |
X-ray Emission from Thunderstorms and Lightning |
E. Prebys | Abstract | Video | |
| 15 Jul 2009 | In Conjunction with the Neutrino Summer School: Yossi Nir Weizmann Institute of Science |
Flavour Physics in the LHC Era | B. Dobrescu | Abstract | ||
| 22 Jul 2009 | Craig Hogan Fermilab |
Holographic Noise in Michelson Interferometers: A Direct Experimental Probe of Unification at the Planck Scale |
R. Lipton | Abstract | Video | |
| 29 Jul 2009 | Yagmur Tourun | Muon Colliders: The Next Frontier |
A. Para | Abstract | Video | |
| 5 Aug 2009 | David Kaplan Johns Hopkins University |
Exciting (the) Vacuum: Possible Manifestations of the Higgs particle at the LHC |
C. Newman-Holmes | Abstract | Video | |
| 12 Aug 2009 | ||||||
| 19 Aug 2009 | ||||||
| 26 Aug 2009 | Hendrik Schatz Michigan State University |
Rare Isotopes in Cosmic Explosions and Accelerators on Earth |
P. Lebrun | Abstract | Video |