Colloquium – Archive
Fermilab Colloquium Calendar 2015-2016
Lectures begin at 4:00 p.m. in 1 West
Appropriate for physicists Appropriate for all lab staff and members of the public
| Date | Speaker/Institute | Title | Host | Abstract | Video | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Sep 2015 | David Nygren University of Texas at Arlington |
Searches for Neutrino-less Double Beta-Decay: a Decade of Discovery Ahead at the ton-scale? | A. Para | Abstract | Video | ||
| 09 Sep 2015 | Scott Dodelson Fermilab/UChicago |
Cosmic Neutrinos | A. Para | Abstract | Video | ||
| 16 Sep 2015 | Humphrey Maris Brown University |
Electron Bubbles in Liquid Helium and Quantum Mechanics | M. Albrow | Abstract | |||
| 23 Sep 2015 | Vadim Banine ASML |
EUV lithography: now and in the future | A. Grassellino | Abstract | Video | ||
| 30 Sep 2015 | Ryan Campbell Fermilab |
The Betz Prairie Turns 40 | K. Yurkewicz | Abstract | Video | ||
| 07 Oct 2015 | John Grunsfeld NASA |
NASA Missions in the 21st Century | P. Bhat | Video | |||
| 14 Oct 2015 | Michael Levin University of Chicago |
The Puzzling Boundaries of Topological Quantum Matter | D. Hooper | Abstract | Video | ||
| 21 Oct 2015 | James Hartle University of California, Santa Barbara |
Einstein’s Vision and the Quantum Universe | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 28 Oct 2015 | TBD | ||||||
| 4 Nov 2015 | Wendy Freedman University of Chicago |
The Unexpected Universe: Measurements of Cosmological Parameters | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Video | ||
| 11 Nov 2015 | Kathryn Zurek LBL Berkeley |
New theories for dark matter: hunting beyond the WIMP | D. Hooper | Abstract | Video | ||
| 18 Nov 2015 | Professor R. Rajaraman Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
The Rocky Road to Nuclear Zero | M. Albrow/P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 25 Nov 2015 | No collquium | ||||||
| 02 Dec 2015 | |||||||
| 09 Dec 2015 | Stephen Parke Fermilab |
“The 2015 Neutrino Nobel Prize – a theoretical perspective” | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 16 Dec 2015 | B. Flaugher, J. Fireman, M. Soares-Santos, J. Peoples | The Dark Energy Survey: the Movie | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Video | ||
| 23 Dec 2015 | No colloquium | ||||||
| 30 Dec 2015 | No colloquium | ||||||
| 06 Jan 2016 | Emilio Alessandro Nanni SLAC |
Accelerators Powered with Optically-Generated THz Pulses | L. Cooley | Abstract | Video | ||
| 13 Jan 2016 | No colloquium | ||||||
| 20 Jan 2016 | Erk Jensen CERN |
Radio Frequency systems at CERN – for the LHC and beyond | A. Grassellino | Abstract | Video | ||
| 27 Jan 2016 | Brian Fields University of Illinois |
When Stars Attack? In Search of Near-Earth Supernova Explosions | D. Hooper | Abstract | Video | ||
| 03 Feb 2016 | Dr. Bobby Kasthuri Argonne National Lab |
Towards fine resolution maps of entire brains using synchrontron source x-ray microscopy and automated serial electron microscopy. | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 10 Feb 2016 | Louise Prockter Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
The Science and Exploration of Europa | M. Albrow | Abstract | Video | ||
| 17 Feb 2016 | Robert Rosner University of Chicago |
Entering the Cauldron of Climate Change: Science and Policy | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 24 Feb 2016 | Michael Barnett Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
The Particle Data Group: From Wallet Cards to Smartphone Apps | D. Denisov | Abstract | Video | ||
| 02 Mar 2016 | Cancelled | ||||||
| 09 Mar 2016 | Swapan Chattopadhyay Fermilab |
AWAKE–A Proton-driven Plasma Wakefield Experiment at CERN | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 16 Mar 2016 | Nima Arkani Hamed Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
From the Parke-Taylor Amplitude to Deeper Origins for Space-time and Quantum Mechanics | S. Parke/P. Fox | Abstract | Video | ||
| 23 Mar 2016 | Vicky Kalogera Northwestern University |
The Dawn of a new Era: Gravitational-Wave Astronomy | P. Fox | Abstract | Video | ||
| 30 Mar 2016 | Clifford Will University of Florida |
Was Einstein Right: A Centennial Assesment | P. Bhat/C. Quigg | Abstract | Video | ||
| 06 Apr 2016 | No colloquium | ||||||
| 11 Apr 2016 | Dr. Kimberly Ennico NASA |
Evolving views of the outer solar system: new insights from NASA’s New Horizons mission’s historic first Pluto fly-by – Special time – 2:00pm | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Video | ||
| 13 Apr 2016 | Mary K Gaillard LBL |
A Singularly Unfeminine Profession | P. Fox | Abstract | Video | ||
| 20 Apr 2016 | Douglas Sisterson Argonne |
How to Change Minds about our Changing Climate | E. Korzeniowski/P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 27 Apr 2016 | Andre de Gouvea Northwestern |
The Brave Nu World | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 04 May 2016 | Dr. Martin Nowak Harvard University |
Cooperation: The Third Pillar of Evolution | G. Ambrosio | Abstract | Video | ||
| 11 May 2016 | Stephen Kent Fermilab |
A Case Study In Public Data Release:Flight Path of Malaysia Airlines MH370 | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Video | ||
| 18 May 2016 | Peter Graham Stanford |
Precision measurement for particle physics | M. Albrow | Abstract | Video | ||
| 23 May 2016 | Charles Day Physics Today |
Science News in the 21st Century | A. Salles/P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 25 May 2016 | Nigel Goldenfeld University of Illinois |
Universal Biology, the Genetic Code and the First Billion Years of Life on Earth | V. Scarpine | Abstract | Video | ||
| 01 Jun 2016 | Adrienne Kolb | Tunnel Visions: Rise and Fall of the SSC | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 08 Jun 2016 | Cancelled | ||||||
| 15 Jun 2016 | No colloquium/Annual Users’ Meeting | ||||||
| 22 Jun 2016 | Carlo Rovelli Aix-Marseille University |
A possible quantum gravity observation: cosmic rays from Planck stars, or black-to-white hole decay | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Video | ||
| 29 Jun 2016 | |||||||
| 06 Jul 2016 | |||||||
| 13 Jul 2016 | Dr. Seth Darling Argonne |
The (Solar) Energy Challenge | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 20 Jul 2016 | NOvA – JETP Seminar | ||||||
| 27 Jul 2016 | Amber L. Stuver LIGO Livingston Observatory |
LIGO and the Detection of Gravitation Waves | D. Lincoln | Abstract | Video | ||
| 03 Aug 2016 | Start of ICHEP, NO colloquium | ||||||
| 12 Aug 2016 | Prof Takaaki Kajita University of Tokyo |
Discovery of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 17 Aug 2016 | Young-Kee Kim University of Chicago |
News from ICHEP2016 | P. Fox | N/A | |||
| 24 Aug 2016 | Anna Frebel MIT |
A rare and prolific r-process event in the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Reticulum II | D. Hooper | Abstract | Video | ||
| 31 Aug 2016 | Marcel Demarteau Fermilab |
The Tools and Techniques of Particle Physics and Their Impact on Society | A. Para | Abstract | Video | ||
| 07 Sep 2016 | Prof. Paul Steinhardt Princeton |
Simply Wrong vs. Simple | P. Fox/C. Hill | Abstract | Video | ||
| 14 Sep 2016 | Timothy Beers University of Notre Dame |
Carbon in the Early Universe and Observational Constraints on First-Star Nucleosynthesis | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Video | ||
| 21 Sep 2016 | Virginia Wright Idaho National Laboratory |
Cyber-informed Engineering | J. Anderson/P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | ||
| 28 Sep 2016 | Christoph Lehner BNL |
Theory status for the muon g-2 experiment | D. Hooper | Abstract | Video |