University of Michigan
HEP/Astrophysics Seminars
4pm Mondays, 335 West Hall (close to no. 9 in the map)

Organizers:
Michael Schubnell (schubnel@umich.edu) 367A West Hall, (734) 763-9696
Monica Tecchio (tecchio@umich.edu) 378 West Hall, (734) 763-2323

Driving directions from Metro Detroit Airport
Driving directions from Chicago
Driving directions from Lansing

Fall 2006 Series

Winter 2007 Series

Fall 2005 - Winter 2006 seminar.

Fall 2004 - Winter 2005 seminar.

Fall 2003 - Winter 2004 seminar.


Fall 2006 Series

Sept. 11
no seminar

Sept. 18 
Jon Miller (Atronomy Department, UofM)
"The Magnetic Nature of Disk Accretion onto Black Holes"

Sept. 25
Katherine Copic, Jim Degenhart (UofM)
""High Precision and Low Statistics Electroweak Physics from the Tevatron": abstract,  Kathy's pdf , Jim's pdf

Oct. 2
Jim Russ (Carnegie Mellon)
"Studying the Cosmic Neutrino Spectrum Above 0.1 Eev with Tau Neutrinos": abstract, talk (ppt)

Oct. 9
Chang Kee Jung (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
"The Henderson DUSEL: Unearthing the secrets of the Universe, Underground": abstract , talk (pdf)

Oct. 16
No seminar (Fall Break)


Oct. 23
Sergei Voloshin (Wayne State)
"Recent Results from STAR at RHIC":abstract, talk (ppt)

Oct. 31 
Catalin Ciobanu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
"Single Top Results frfom CDF": talk (ppt)


Nov. 6
Katie Freese (University of Michigan)
"Inflation afterWMAP"


Nov. 13
Brian Gerke (Berkeley)
"Galaxy groups in DEEP2 : Implications for cosmic evolution": abstract ,


Nov. 20
Mark Messier (Indiana University)  
"Neutrinos at Fermilab: MINOS and NOvA": talk(pdf)


Nov. 27
Klaus Honscheid (OSU),  
"Compton SPECT and Compton PET - Applied High Energy Physics"


Dec 4
no seminar

Dec. 11
Tom Wright, UofM
"Higgs Searches at CDF": abstract, talk (ppt)

Winter 2007 Series


Jan. 8
Rick Tesarek, FNAL
"SciBoone a Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab", abstract, talk


Jan. 15
Robert Quimby, University of Texas
"The Texas SuperNova Search", abstract, talk


Jan. 22
 (faculty search candidate)
Hiranya Peiris, KAVLI Institue for Cosmological Physics
"Understanding Cosmic Acceleration: Connecting Theory and Observation", abstract,


Jan. 29
(faculty search candidate)
Vuc Mandic,  Caltech
"Searching for Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background with LIGO: Results and Implications": abstract,


Feb. 5
(faculty search candidate)
Niayesh Afshordi, Harvard College Observatory
"Lessons for the Journey into the Dark": abstract


Feb. 12
(faculty search candidate)
Dragan Huterer, KAVLI Institue for Cosmological Physics
"Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy": abstract


Feb. 19
(faculty search candidate)
Patrick McDonald,  Canadian Institute for Theoretical AstroPhysics
"Probing inflation, dark matter, dark energy, etc. using the Lyman-alpha forest": abstract


Feb. 26
no seminar (Spring Break)


 Mar. 5
No seminar


Mar. 12
Stephan Coutu, Penn State University
"The Nature and Origin of Cosmic Rays": abstract,  talk (pdf)


 Mar. 19
Eli RyKoff, UofM
"The Biggest Bangs since the Big One: New Perspective on Gamma-Ray Bursts": abstract,  talk (pdf)


Mar. 26
Dennis Sivers
"Chiral Symmetry meets Confinement: Implications of Orbital Dynamics in QCD"


Apr. 2
Jack van der Velde, UofM
"Supernova 1987a, History of the IMB Discovery": abstract, talk (ppt)


Apr. 9
Mike Longo, UofM
"Does the Universe have a Handedness?": abstract , talk (pdf)

Apr. 12
Special Seminar, WH 335   4 pm
Byron Roe, UofM
"Results from MiniBooNe": talk (pdf)


Apr. 16
Megan Donahue, Michigan State
"Formation of the Biggest Galaxies in the Universe: Winds and Shocks from Black Holes in the Centers of Clusters of Galaxies.":  abstract,


Apr. 23
Yukio Tomozawa, UofM
"The cosmic microwave background dipole, Hubble flow and the circular galaxy distribution": abstract