Colloquium – Archive
Fermilab Colloquium Calendar 2012-2013
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 | |
| 05 Sep 2012 | Artemis Spyrou Michigan State University |
MoNa-LISA and the dinueutron system | T. Sen | Abstract | ||
| 12 Sep 2012 | Jason Steffen Fermilab |
Exoplanet Science from NASA’s Kepler Mission |
W. Merritt | Abstract | Video | |
| 19 Sep 2012 | Dave Nygren LBL |
Time Projection Chambers in Particle Physics | A. Para | Video | ||
| 26 Sep 2012 | ||||||
| 3 Oct 2012 | Sankar Das Sarma University of Maryland |
Computing with quantum knots: Majorana modes, non-Abelian anyons, and topological quantum computation | P. Lebrun | Video | ||
| 10 Oct 2012 | Ian Fisk Fermilab |
LHC Computing: The First Run and Beyond | M. Kirby | Video | ||
| 17 Oct 2012 | Andreas Suter Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland Fermilab |
Muon Spin rotation Spectroscopy – Utilizing Muons in Solid State Physics | D. Glenzinski | Video | ||
| 24 Oct 2012 | J.J. Gomez Cadenas University of Valencia |
Ettore Majorana through the Looking-glass | A. Para | Video | ||
| 31 Oct 2012 | Lauren Hsu Fermilab |
Dark Matter: the next great discovery of particle physics? | A. Para | Video | ||
| 7 Nov 2012 | Subir Sachdev Harvard University |
Entanglement, Holography, and the Quantum Phases of Matter | C. Quigg and J. Lykken | Video | ||
| 14 Nov 2012 | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM | ||||
| 21 Nov 2012 | Thanksgiving No Colloquium |
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| 28 November 2012 | Thomas Handler University of Tennessee |
Science and Public Policies | P. Lebrun | Video | ||
| 5 Dec 2012 | David Keith Harvard University |
Geo-engineering | T. Sen | Video | ||
| 12 Dec 2012 | Silvan Schweber Brandeis University |
Hans Bethe and Physics in/of the 20th Century | C. Quigg | PPT | Video | |
| 19 Dec 2011 | ||||||
| 26 Dec 2012 | Christmas Holiday | No Colloquium | ||||
| 2 Jan 2013 | New Year’s Holiday | No Colloquium | ||||
| 9 Jan 2013 | Rob Schoelkopf Yale University |
Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: From Single Photons to Schrodinger Cats | L. Cooley | PPTX | Video | |
| 16 Jan 2013 | ||||||
| 23 Jan 2013 | Catherine Pfister University of Chicago |
Climate change in the sea: the implications of increasing the carbon dioxide inputs to the surface ocean | P. Lebrun | PPTX | Video | |
| 30 Jan 2013 | Ruben Juanes MIT |
The lifetime of carbon capture and storage as a climate-change mitigation technology | P. Lebrun | Video | ||
| 6 Feb 2013 | Bradford Benson University of Chicago |
Going to the End of the Earth to Learn About the Beginning of the Universe | C. Stoughton | Video | ||
| 13 Feb 2013 | Klaus Kirch Paul Scherrer Institute |
The search for permanent electric dipole moments | D. Glenzinski | Video | ||
| 20 Feb 2013 | ||||||
| 27 Feb 2013 | Alan Bross Fermilab |
Neutrinos from STORed Muons – nuSTORM> | D. Glenzinski | PPTX | Video | |
| 6 March 2013 | Marcello Manelli CERN |
Technologies for the LHC Experiments | P. Bhat | PPTX | Video | |
| 13 Mar 2013 | ||||||
| 20 Mar 2013 | ||||||
| 27 Mar 2013 | Jonathan Wurtele Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Trapping and Probing Antihydrogen | P. Lebrun | Video | ||
| 3 Apr 2013 | Mark BeemanNorthwestern University | Insight in the Brain: The Cognitive and Neural Bases of Eureka Moments | T. Sen | PPTX | Video | |
| 10 Apr 2013 | Thomas Knight Gingko Bioworks, Inc. |
Life with Four Billion Atoms | P. Lebrun | PPT | Video | |
| 17 Apr 2013 | Mark Peters Argonne National Laboratory |
Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Nuclear Energy Future | P. Bhat | PPTX | Video | |
| 24 Apr 2013 | Pieter Faber University of Chicago |
Next Generation Sequencing at the University of Chicago Genomics Core | M. Votava | Video | ||
| 1 May 2013 | Douglas MacAyeal University of Chicago |
Energy Sources for Yotta-TeV Iceberg Showers | C. Stoughton | Video | ||
| 8 May 2013 | Mariette DiChristina Scientific American |
I Am Science – and So Can You! | C. Quigg | Video | ||
| 15 May 2013 | Roger Blandford Stanford University |
The Accelerating Universe | P. Lebrun | PPTX | Video | |
| 22 May 2013 | Naomi Makins UIUC |
CANCELED | ||||
| 29 May 2013 | Dan McKinsey Yale University |
Light Collection in Liquid Noble Gases | C. Quigg | Video | ||
| 5 Jun 2013 | ||||||
| 12 Jun 2013 | ||||||
| 19 June 2013 | Eszter Hargittai Northwestern University |
CANCELED | ||||
| 26 June 2013 | ||||||
| 3 Jul 2013 | Independence Day – No Colloquium | |||||
| 10 Jul 2013 | No Colloquium | |||||
| 17 Jul 2013 | Krishna S. Kumar University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Low Energy Measurements of the Weak Mixing Angle | D. Glenzinski | Video | ||
| 24 Jul 2013 | John Huth Harvard University |
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way | C. Quigg | Video | ||
| 31 Jul 2013 | ||||||
| 7 Aug 2013 | ||||||
| 14 Aug 2013 | Graham Ross University of Oxford |
Whither SUSY? | C. Quigg | Video | ||
| 21 Aug 2013 | ||||||
| 28 Aug 2013 | Rene Brun CERN |
My Journey through Scientific Computing | P. Bhat | PPTX | Video |