Talks are on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm in the WNSL seminar room, unless otherwise noted.
To arrange speakers, contact Rick Casten (rick@riviera.physics.yale.edu) or Andreas Heinz (andreas.heinz@yale.edu).
Spring 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Feb. 12 James Dunlop Brookhaven National Laboratory "Probing the dense medium at RHIC"

Feb. 17 Bonnie Fleming Fermi Lab "The nu Landscape of Particle Physics"

Feb 19 Peter Steinberg Brookhaven National Laboratory "The Landscape of Particle Production in Strong Interactions: Results from the PHOBOS Experiment at RHIC"

Feb 24 David Hardtke University of California, Berkeley "The Emerging Quark-Gluon Plasma"

Feb. 27 Jason Goon University of Tennessee "Complex Structures of AU and Pt Nuclei Studied with the RDT Methods"

Mar. 2 Helen Caines Yale University "The Strange Physics Occuring at RHIC"

Mar. 2 Chavdar Stoyanov Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria "Quasiparticle-Phonon Approach to Nuclear Structure"

Mar. 4 David Campbell Florida State University "Rotation Induced Shape Changes in Light Rare Earth Transitional Nuclei"

Mar. 4 Joseph Formaggio University of Washington "The Year of the Neutrino"

Fall 2003

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Sept. 2 Prof. Volker Werner University of Koln, Germany "Mixed-Symmetry States in the Limits"

Sept. 8 Prof. Richard Hasty University of Illinois "Measurements of the strange Magnetic and Axial Form Factors of the Nucleon

Sept. 12 Isaac Chuang MIT "Quantum Computation with NMR: Factoring 15 and Beyond"

Sept. 19 Richard Easther Columbia University "Cosmology after WMAP"

Sept. 26 Charles M. Marcus Harvard University "Quantum Dots - Science and Perhaps Technology"

Sept. 30 Lee Bernstein LLNL and Yale University "STARS: High Resolution Particle Plus Gamma Spectroscopy"

Oct. 3 Prof. Boris Altshuler Princeton University and NEC "Disorder and Interactions in Electronic Systems"

Oct. 6 Marie DiMarco University of Montreal, PICASSO Project "Search for Dark Matter with the PICASSO Project in SNOLAB"

Oct. 7 Ashok Chaubey A.M.U. Aligarh, India "Pre-equilibrium Decay and Complete & Incomplete Fusion in Alpha Particles and Heavy Ions Induced Reactions"

Oct. 10 Prof. Jacobus Verbaarschot Stony Brook University "Random Matrix Theory: Parameterizing the Unkown"

Oct. 14 Gerhard Graw Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munchen "Transfer Reachtions and Nuclear Structure"

Oct. 17 Paul Mantsch Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory "The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Messengers from the Extreme Universe"

Oct. 21 John Silverman Harvard CfA "The Nature and Evolution of Quasars and AGN: An X-ray Perspective through the Eyes of Chandra"

Oct. 25 Cornelius Beausang Yale University "Recent Highlights in Nuclear Stucture Physics: An Irish Perspective"

Oct. 28 Mark Huyse Instituut voor Kern-en Stralingsfysica, Leuven Belgium "Disentangling the 70Ni-70Cu-70Zn Decay Cahin by using Resonant Laser Ionisation and Selective Detection Techniques"

Oct. 30 Zack Sulllivan Fermilab "Seeking the Truth and Beauty of Single-Top-Quark Production"

Oct. 31 Henry M. van Driel University of Toronto "Spin-Free of Charge"

Nov. 4 Julien Faivre IRes, Strasbourg "How to Separate Signal from Background: The Case of Linear Discriminat Analysis"

Nov. 4 Ron Johnson Surrey University, UK "Scattering of Frozen Halo-Nuclei"

Nov. 21 Philip Phillips Univesity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Elusive Bose Metal"

Dec. 9 Ondrej Chvala Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics and NA49 "The Importance of Isospin Effects for the Interpretation of Nuclear Collsions"

Dec. 12 Roger Rusack University of Minnesota "Physics and the CMS Detector at the CERN Large Hardon Collider"

Dec. 17 Daniel Galaviz Redondo Technische Universitat Darmstadt "Direct and Indirect Experimental Efforts in the Astrophysical P-Process"

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Spring 2003

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Jan 24 Prof. John Harris Yale University "Recreating the Primordial Quark-Gluon Soup"

Jan 31 Dr. Ian Johnson Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory "Photon and nuetral pion production and detection in heavy ion colllisions (RHIC)"

Jan 31 Prof. Paul Steinhardt Princeton University "The Return of the Cyclic Universe"

Feb 5 Prof. Wolfgang Bauer Michigan State University "Thermodynamic Phase Transitions in Nuclei and Molecules - Problems and Opportunities"

Feb 7 Prof. Gregory Dash University of Washington "History of the search for a theory of melting: Insight, Interfaces and Dimensionality"

Feb 11 Dr. Carol Scarlett Brookhaven National Laboratory "Photon-Gluon Fusion as a way of accessing the Gluons' contribution to nucleon spin"

Feb 14 Prof. Tilo Wettig Yale University "Quantum Chromodynamics on a lattice: supercomputers and a new mathematical trick"

Feb 21 Dr. Jana Slivova Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Heidelberg "Semi-hard scattering unravelled from collective dynamics by two-pion correlations in 158A GeV/c Pb+Au collisions"

Feb 21 Dr. Donald Eigler IBM Almaden Research Center "Molecule Cascades: Nanometer-Scale Architectures that Compute"

Feb 25 Dr. Vesselin G. Gueorguiev Louisiana State University "Mixed-Symmetry Approach to the Nuclear Shell Model"

Mar 3 Dale Visser Yale University "Particle Decay Branching Ratios for States of Astrophysical Interst in 19Ne"

Mar 4 Dr. Claudia Hoehne Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany "System size dependence of strangeness production at 158 AGeV"

Mar 5 Ramon Wyss KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockhom, Sweden "Rotations in Isospace - a probe to neutron proton pairing correlations"

Mar 7 Prof. Gregory Tucker Brown University "First Year Results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe (WMAP)"

Apr 1 Ionel Stetcu Louisiana State University "How Reliable is the Random Phase Approximation?"

April 4 Prof. Stanislas Leibler Rockefeller University "Genetic and Biochemical Networks: a Physicist's Perspective"

Apr 8 Dr. Benjamin Norman Kent State University "Topological Identification of Charged Kaons in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au-Au Collisions at RHIC."

May 2 Charles Stevens Salk Institute for Biological Studies "What the Visual Cortex Computes"

May 9 Steven Manly University of Rochester "Nuggets from the Long Island Gold Rush"

May 29 Jaroslav Bielcik GSI - Darmstadt "Dilepton Spectroscopy in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions with HADES"

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Fall 2002

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Sep 13 Dr. Assa Auerbach Technion, Israel "A Real Space View of the High Temperature Sueprconductivity Problem"

Sep 20 Jo Ressler Yale University "RP-Process Nucleothesis in the Mass 80 Region"

Sep 20 James Esenstein Caltech "Quantum Hall Effect Meets Bose Condensation: Long Sought Superfluid Found?"

Sep 27 Hideo Mabuchi Caltech "Physics with Photons, from Quantum to Bio"

Oct 4 Daniel McKinsey Princeton University "CLEAN: Cryogenic Low Energy Astrophysics with Neon"

Oct 11 Herbert Neuberger Rutgers University "Nonperturbative Chiral Symmetries in Gauge Field Theory"

Oct 18 Daniel Ralph Cornell University and Yale University "Quantum States in Metal Nanoparticles and Single Molecules"

Nov 1 Prof. Cornelius Beausang Yale University "How to Make Nuclei Rotate Really Fast"

Nov 1 Sidney Nagel University of Chicago "Physics at the Breakfast Table"

Nov 12 Dr. Bertram Blank Argonne National Laboratory, CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan "Two Proton Emission from Proton Drip-Line Nuclei"

Nov 15 Dr. Volker Koch Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory "Fluctuations and Thermalization in Heavy Ion Collisions"

Nov 19 Prof. Andrew Stuchbery Australian National Laboratory, NSCL, Michigan State University "Excited-state Moments in Radioactive Nuclei: Recent Progress and Future Directions"

Nov 22 Andrew Jackson Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen "Bohr and Heisenberg: The Unsent Letters"

Dec 5 Prof. Victor Flambaum University of New South Wales "Nuclear Electromagnetic Moments Violating Fundamentals Symmeries (parity and time reversal)
and test of Grand Unification Thoeries in Atomic Experiments"

Dec 6 Dr. Angelika Drees Brookhaven National Laboratory "RHIC the Machine"

Dec 6 Prof. Victor Flambaum University of New South Wales "Do fundamental constants of nature vary with time and distance?"

Dec 17 Dr. Cornel Hategan Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest "On Hadronic Exploration of Nuclear Structure"

Dec 18 Dr. Cornel Hategan Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest "On Hadronic Exploration of Nuclear Structure"

Dec 19 Prof. Yuri Oganessian Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions,
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia "The Limits of Masses of Atomic Nuclei. Superheavy Elements"

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Spring & Summer 2002

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Jan 15 Antonio Garcia Garcia SUNY at Stony Brook "Chiral Disorder Beyond the Thouless Energy. A Random Matrix Approach"

Jan 18 Richard Casten Yale University "Critical Point Description of Nuclei"

Jan 21 Peter von Brentano University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany "Energy and Width Crossing and Anticrossing in the Two Unbound Level System"

Feb 19 Joachim Enders National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab "Probing the Single-Particle Structure of Exotic Nuclei with Knockout Reactions"

Feb 26 Thomas Guhr Lund University "Statistical Analysis of Nuclear Spectra-Some New Results"

Mar 26 Apolodor Raduta Bucharest University "Parity Doublets in Excited Bands"

Apr 2 Ulrich Heinz Ohio State University "Two RHIC Puzzles: Early Thermalization and HBT and the HBT Problem"

Apr 9 Stuart Pittel Bartol Research Institute "New Insights into Pairing in Nuclei"

Apr 17 Ivan Vitev Columbia University "Moderate and High p_T QCD Phenomenology at RHIC"

May 16 Andreas Goergen LBNL "Rotational Excitations in Nuclei: From Nuclear Shears to Hyper Intruders"

May 17 Kris Starosta Stony Brook "Triaxiality, Chirality, and Particle-Rotor Coupling"

May 28 Andreas Heinz Argonne National Laboratory "Fusion, Fission, Fragmentation and the Search for the End of the Periodic Table"

Jun 17 Jo Ressler Yale University "SASSYER: An Old Instrument for New Physics at Yale"

Jun 18 Zsolt Podolyak University of Surrey, UK "Heavy Exotic Nuclei"

Jun 20 Phil Walker University of Surrey, UK "Isomers at the Limits"

Jul 25 Michael Hass The Weizmann Institute "The Fate of ⁷Be in the Sun"

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Fall 2001

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Sep 11 Mahir Hussein Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil "Double Giant Resonance Excitation in Nuclei and Atomic Clusters"

Sep 25 John D'Auria Simon Fraser/Triumf/Yale "The Triumf of Dragons at ISAC and Nuclear Astrophysics"

Nov 20 Sampa Bhadra York University, Toronto, Canada "Looking Deep Inside the Proton or Why We Worry About the Small Stuff"

Dec 11 Krzysztof Starosta SUNY at Stony Brook "Collectivity in Neutron Deficient Nuclei Near Z=50"

Dec 18 Boris Schlittgen Yale University "The Quantum Link Model: QCD in Terms of Discrete Variables"

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Spring 2001

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Jan 23 Christopher J. Chiara SUNY, at Stony Brook "Shears band in the A~110 Region: Lifetime Measurements in 108, 100 In"

Jan 30 A. Dewald University of Cologne, Germany "Lifetime Measurements in 135Nd and 188Pb"

Feb 6 James Osborn Duke University "Critical Phenomena with Meron-Cluster Algorithms"

Feb 13 Thorston Kroell INFN, laboratori Nationali di Legnaro "Mars-Towards a gamma-ray tracking array in Europe"

Feb 20 Philip Page Los Alamos National Laboratory "Relativistic Symmetry Suppresses Quark Spin-Orbit Splitting"

Feb 22 Jennifer Jo Ressler University of Maryland/Argonne National Laboratory "The Joy of Y: Nuclear Structure of odd-odd Y-80"

Mar 6 Scott Pratt NSCL Michigan State University "New Techniques for Statistical Nuclear Physics"

Apr 3 Sefa Erturk Nigde Unviersity, Turkey "Superdeformed Bands in 150, 151Gd Nuclei"

Apr 10 M. Nizamettin Erduran University of Istanbul "Analysis of LEPS data from ¹⁴N+^235,238U reaction at 140 MeV"

Apr 24 William Bradfield-Smith Yale "The Structure of 22Mg and explosive nucleosythesis"

May 8 Thomas Glasmacher National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University "What is Different about Light Exotic Nuclei"

May 10 Martin Smith Rutgers University "Limits of the Energy-spin Phase Space Beyond the Proton Drip Line"

May 15 Franco Iachello Yale "Shape Phase Transitios in Nuclei and Other Quantum Systems"

May 16 John Simpson Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom "European Gamma-ray Detector Arrays: Present and Future"

May 22 Peter Mohr Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany "A Supernova at an Accelerator Lab"

May 29 Timo Hartman Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany "Collective Electric Dipole Strengths Below Neutron Threshold"

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Fall 2000

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Oct 2 Thomas Ullrich Yale First Results from the STAR Experiment at RHIC

Oct 10 Rick Casten Yale "b Softness in Nuclei"

Oct 31 Cary Davids Argonne National Laboratory "Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Proton Radioactivity"

Nov 6 T. Rauscher University of Basel, Switzerland "Quiescent and Explosive Stallar Burning - New Results in Nuclear Physics Essentials"

Nov 7 Christina Markert GSI, Darmstadt, Germany "Lambda (1520) Production in p+p and Centrl Pb+Pb Collisions at 158 Gev/Nucleon"

Nov 16 Calin Ur INFN Padova "Cross-conjugate Symmetry in N~Z 1f7/2 Shell Nuclei"

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Spring & Summer 2000

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Feb 1 Peter Parker Yale University Explosive Nucleosynthesis: Gamma-Ray Astronomy and Nuclear Physics

Feb 8 Reiner Kruëcken Yale University Decay Out of Superdeformed Bands

Feb 22 Dr. Pavel Cejnar Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Transitions between Dynamical Symmetries in the Interacting Boson Model: Critically, Chaos...

Feb 24 Jac Caggiano Argonne National Laboratory Stable Beam Experiments Aren't Dead Yet

Mar 14 Stuart Pittel Bartol Research Institute, Newark DE A New Single-Particle Basis for Nuclear Structure Studeis far from Stability

Mar 21 Hans Börner Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France Fundmental Physics with Neutrons at the Institute Laue Langevin

Apr 4 Paddy Regan University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Neutron Rich Isomer Spectroscopy

Apr 6 Eddie Paul Liverpool University, Liverpool UK Recent High-Spin Results from Low-Energy Ni+Ni Fusion

Apr 6 Andy Boston Liverpool University, Liverpool UK Exogam - Detector Status

Apr 13 N. Sandulescu Institute for Nuclear Physics, Bucharest, Romania Pairing Correlations and Resonant States in Drip Line Nuclei

May 8 Kai Schweda Institute for Nuclear Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany "Giant Resonance Strength in the Reactions 48Ca(p, p'n) and 40Ca(p, 'x, x=p, alpha)"

May 23 Victor Zamfir Yale University Octupole Collectivity in the Light Actinides and the spdf-IBA Model

Jun 28 N. Pietralla Yale University Using YRASTBALL as an In-Beam Compton-Polarimeter

Jul 12 Alex Wolf Yale University Angular Correlation Experiments with Clover Detectors

Aug 22 Nicole Seward University of Surrey and Lawrence, Berkeley National Laboratory Progress on Rutherford and CdZnTe Detectors for the Berkeley Gas Separator

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Fall 1999

Date Speaker Affiliation Title, abstract, other info

Sep 7 Norbert Pietralla Stony BrookInstitute fur Kernphysik, University of Koln Germany Large M 1 Transitions in Nuclei: A Research Project at Yale

Sep 10 Jan Jolie University of Fribourg, Switzerland "Some Basic Questions about Nuclear Structure"

Sep 21 Daeg Brenner Clark University "Mass Measurements Near the N=Z Line"

Sep 28 Lissa Zyromski Yale "Fusion Enhancement with Neutron Rich Radioactive Beams"

Oct 7

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Monday, January 22 1:30 pm	J. Truran	University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory	"Type Ia Supernovae: Energetics, Explosions, and Nucleosynthesis"
Wednesday, February 7, 11:00 am	Pavel Cejnar	Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic	"Order and Chaos in Nuclear Collective Motions"
Tuesday, March 27, 11:00 am	Peter Skands	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	"Towards Improved Event Generators"
Wednesday, April 11, 1:30 pm	Marco van Leeuwen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	"Hard probes of strongly interacting matter at RHIC and LHC"

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Wednesday, September 27, 2:00 pm	Elizabeth McCutchan	Yale University	"Ode to Geometrical Models"
Wednesday, October 11, 2:00 pm	Elizabeth Williams	Yale University	"The evolution of shape phase transitions with increasing spin and boson number in the Interacting Boson Model-1"
Thursday, October 19, 2:00 pm	Lijuan Ruan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	"Do Quarks and Gluons have Different Energy Loss at RHIC?"
Tuesday, November 28, 2:00 pm	Michael Kosta Mitrovski	Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt	"Strangeness production at SPS energies from NA49"
Tuesday, December 5, 2006	Christopher J. Lister	Argonne National Laboratory	"Physics along the N=Z line: Lessons learned, Future Challenges"

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Thursday, July 13, 10:30 am	Rod Clark	Lawrence Berkeley National Lab	"Investigations of Nuclear Pairing"
Friday, July 21, 11:00 am	Nadya A. Smirnova	University of Ghent, Belgium	"Shell-Model Description of the Nuclear Mean-Field Variations "

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Thursday, Feb. 2, 10:30 am	Santosh Kumar Gupta	Nuclear Physics Division Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India	"An Analytical Formula for Fission Barriers"
Monday, Feb. 6, 2:30 pm	Charles Baltay	Yale University	"Radiation Testing for Imaging Devices for the SNAP Dark Energy Space Project"
Thursday, Feb. 8, 11:00 am	Gerfried Kumbartzki	Rutgers University	"Why magnetic moments?"
Thursday, Feb. 17, 11:00 am	Volker Werner	Yale University	"Structural evolution of low-lying states"
Feb. 21, 2:30 pm	Daeg Brenner	Clark University, Worcester, MA	"Valence proton-neutron interactions throughout the mass surface"
March 21, 1:00 pm	Professor Brian Cole	Columbia University	"The ATLAS Heavy Ion Physics Program at the LHC"
Thursday, March 23, 10:30 am	Prof. Bolek Wyslouch	MIT	"The CMS Heavy Ion Program at the LHC"
Wednesday, March 29, 11:00 am	Prof. Brad Sherrill	National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Michigan State University	"Fast Beam Experiments with Exotic Beams at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory"

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