Colloquium – Archive
Fermilab Colloquium Calendar 2013-2014
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 | ||
| 04 Sep 2013 | |||||||
| 11 Sep 2013 | Tom Diehl Fermilab |
The Dark Energy Survey | P. Lebrun | Abstract | Video | ||
| 18 Sep 2013 | Slava G. Turyshev NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Testing Fundamental Gravitation in Space and the Nature of the Pioneer Anomaly | P. Lebrun | Abstract | PPT | Video | |
| 25 Sep 2013 | Colin Williams D-Wave Systems, Inc. |
D-Wave’s Approach to Quantum Computing | V. Scarpine | Abstract | Video | ||
| 2 Oct 2013 | No Colloquium | Special Wine & Cheese Seminar | |||||
| 9 Oct 2013 | Scott Willenbrock University of Illinois, Champaign |
Zero-net-energy houses: something old, something new | P. Fox | Abstract | PPT | Video | |
| 16 Oct 2013 | |||||||
| 23 Oct 2013 | Chris Hill Fermilab |
What is the Higgs telling us? | P. Lebrun | Abstract | PPT | Video | |
| 30 Oct 2013 | Lance Cooley Fermilab |
Superconductivity and the Environment: A Roadmap | G. Ambrosio | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 7 Nov 2013 | Bruce Schneier Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School NOTE: NEW DATE IS THURSDAY |
Surviving in a Feudal Security World | E. Prebys | Abstract | Video | ||
| 13 Nov 2013 | Eszter Hargittai – CANCELED Northwestern University |
Rescheduled for April 2, 2014 | C. Quigg | Abstract | |||
| 20 Nov 2013 | Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University |
Testing the Symmetries and Most Precise Prediction of the Standard Model with a Single Particle or Antiparticle | C. Quigg | PPT | Video | ||
| 27 Nov 2013 | Thanksgiving No Colloquium |
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| 4 Dec 2013 | Charles Ferguson Federation of American Scientists |
The Japan nuclear crisis and implications for the U.S. and the world NEW TIME: 2:00 PM |
P. Bhat | Abstract | |||
| 11 Dec 2013 | |||||||
| 18 Dec 2013 | Hitoshi Murayama University of California, Berkeley |
Toward International Linear Collider | D. Denisov | Abstract | Video | ||
| 25 Dec 2013 | Christmas Holiday | No Colloquium | |||||
| 1 Jan 2014 | New Year’s Holiday | No Colloquium | |||||
| 8 Jan 2014 | |||||||
| 15 Jan 2014 | |||||||
| 22 Jan 2014 | |||||||
| 29 Jan 2014 | Robert Byer Stanford University |
Laser Accelerator on a Chip (>300MeV/m): A path to TeV Energy Scale Physics | T. Sen | Abstract | Video | ||
| 5 Feb 2014 | Robert Kleinberg Schlumberger-Doll Research |
Science & Technology of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Production | P. Lebrun | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 12 Feb 2014 | Sally Dawson Brookhaven National Laboratory |
What is the energy scale beyond 1 TeV? | C. Quigg | Abstract | Video | ||
| 18 Feb 2014 | NEW DATE: SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM – Lucio Rossi CERN |
The High Luminosity LHC Project and Beyond | G. Ambrosio | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 19 Feb 2014 | NO COLLOQUIUM – DOE REVIEW | ||||||
| 26 Feb 2014 | NO COLLOQUIUM | ||||||
| 5 March 2014 | Duncan Brown Syracuse University |
Gravitational-waves: A new frontier in astrophysics | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Video | ||
| 12 Mar 2014 | NO COLLOQUIUM | ||||||
| 19 Mar 2014 | George Zweig MIT |
Concrete quarks – the beginning of the end | C. Quigg | Abstract | Video | ||
| 26 Mar 2014 | NO COLLOQUIUM – DES-LSST Meeting | ||||||
| 2 Apr 2014 | Eszter Hargittai Northwestern University |
Connected, but Confused? How People’s Internet Skills Influence What They Do – and Do Not Do – Online | C. Quigg | Abstract | Video | ||
| 9 Apr 2014 | |||||||
| 16 Apr 2014 | No Colloquium – Edward Tufte Short Course | ||||||
| 23 Apr 2014 | Greg Engel University of Chicago |
Probing Design Principles of Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic and Biomimetic Systems | T. Sen | Abstract | |||
| 30 April 2014 | Wick Haxton UC Berkeley |
The Nuclear Physics of Direct Dark Matter Detection | P. Fox | Abstract | Video | ||
| 7 May 2014 | Calab Scharf Columbia University |
Epic Astrobiology | V. Scarpine | Abstract | Video | ||
| 14 May 2014 | AWLC Conference – NO COLLOQUIUM | ||||||
| 21 May 2014 | Bill Colglazier Science Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 3:00 PM |
Science and Diplomacy | P. Bhat | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 28 May 2014 | J. P. Delahaye CERN |
Concepts for a Staged Muon Accelerator Facility | R. Lipton | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 4 Jun 2014 | |||||||
| 11 Jun 2014 | NO COLLOQUIUM – USER’S MEETING | ||||||
| 18 June 2014 | Edward Moses U. of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
The National Ignition Facility: Pathway to Clean Energy, and Physics of the Cosmos | R. Lipton | Abstract | |||
| 25 June 2014 | |||||||
| 2 Jul 2014 | Independence Day – No Colloquium | ||||||
| 9 Jul 2014 | Nathaniel Fisch Princeton University |
Wave Compression in Plasma | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 16 Jul 2014 | |||||||
| 23 Jul 2014 | James Welsh Northern Illinois University |
The abscopal effect, contagious cancers, transplanted cancers and pregnancy: Clues to a genuine cure for cancer? | P. Lebrun | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 30 Jul 2014 | Meg Urry Yale University |
Women in Physics and Astronomy – Why So Few? And How to Get to Parity | Chris Quigg | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 6 Aug 2014 | Mark Anastasio Washington University, St. Louis |
Recent Advances in Bio-Imaging | T. Sen | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 13 Aug 2014 | Bogdan Dobrescu Fermilab In connection with the CERN/Fermilab Hadron Collider Physics School |
Hidden interactions of quarks | C. Quigg | Abstract | Video | ||
| 20 Aug 2014 | Tim Meyer Fermilab |
World Peace and other Aspects of Particle Physics | C. Quigg | Abstract | PPTX | Video | |
| 27 Aug 2014 | No Colloquium |