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String Theory Meets Field Theory in Heavy Ion Collisions

Who:  Will Horowitz - (OSU)
Where:  4138 Physics Research Building
When:  Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 11:00
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

Description: The basic theoretical and experimental tools of heavy ion phenomenology are reviewed, including the recent application of the AdS/CFT correspondence... [More]


Spin-dependent Hall effects in strongly spin-orbit coupled systems

Who:  Jairo Sinova - (Texas A&M)
Where:  Smith Seminar Room (1080 PRB)
When:  Monday, October 5, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

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High-efficiency thermoelectric materials: new design strategies, new applications

Who:  Joseph P. Heremans - (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Physics, OSU)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 04:00
Type:  Colloquium

Description: Thermoelectric energy converters are solid state devices that convert thermal to electrical energy, and are used in heat pumps and... [More]


Pairing of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers

Who:  Simone Callegari - (University of Zurich)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 12:30
Type:  CCAPP Seminar

Description: Theoretical and observational efforts have been devoted in recent years to trace the coevolution of the populations of galaxies and... [More]


Research area: Molecular Beam Epitaxy Research

Who:  Anand Bhattacharya - (Argonne National)
Where:  PRB 1080: Robert Smith Seminar room
When:  Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Seminar

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Development of students' physics knowledge in high school

Who:  Knut Neumann - (University of Kiel, Leibniz Institute of Science Teaching (Germany))
Where:  1080 Physics Research Building
When:  Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Physics Education Seminar

Description: German National Standards for High School Physics Education suggest that the physics knowledge, which students are supposed to possess at... [More]


Efimov Physics in Ultracold Bosonic and Fermionic Systems

Who:  Daekyoung Kang - (OSU)
Where:  4138 Physics Research Building
When:  Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

Description: Efimov physics refers to universal properties displayed by 3-body systems with a large scattering length. These properties are characterized by... [More]


Ice Fishing for Neutrinos

Who:  Dr. Francis Halzen - (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Where:  Scott Labs, Room 0001
When:  Monday, October 12, 2009 at 07:30
Type:  Public Lecture

Description: We have melted half of the eighty holes over two km deep in the Antarctic icecap to be used as... [More]


Protein-protein Interactions: What is the Preferred way for Proteins to interact?

Who:  Ruth Nussinov - (Medical School, Tel Aviv University and NCI-Frederick)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 03:30
Type:  Biophysics Seminar

Description: Proteins are the working horse of the cellular machinery. They are responsible for diverse functions ranging from molecular motors to... [More]


Discovering New Physics at the Tevatron and LHC

Who:  Pierre Artoisenet - (OSU)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

Description: The high-energy community has devoted a significant effort over the past several years to devise more efficient strategies for discovering... [More]


Large Scale Microscopic Image Analysis in Systems Biology

Who:  Kun Huang - (Department of Biomedical Informatics and OSUCCC)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Biophysics Seminar

Description: Microscopic imaging is essential for understanding the organization of the intricate structures of biological samples. However, the large size of... [More]


Observing the String Axiverse

Who:  Sergei Dubovsky - (Stanford)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Friday, October 16, 2009 at 02:30
Type:  HEP/Astro Seminar

Description: I will argue that the strong CP problem and the properties of axions in string theory gives rise to the... [More]


Nuclear Physics and the New Standard Model

Who:  Michael Ramsey-Musolf - (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 04:00
Type:  Colloquium

Description: The quest to explain nature's fundamental interactions and how they shaped the evolution of the universe is one of the... [More]


Toward Unveiling the Sources of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

Who:  Hajime Takami - (IPMU, Univ. of Tokyo)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 12:30
Type:  CCAPP Seminar

Description: The origin of the highest energy cosmic rays (HECRs) is one of the biggest mysteries in modern astrophysics. A main... [More]


"Observation of Fractional Fluxoid States in Mesoscopic Rings of Sr2RuO4 by Ultrasensitive Cantilever Magnetometry"

Who:  Raffi Budakian - (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Where:  PRB 1080: Robert Smith Seminar room
When:  Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Seminar

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A pQCD based approach to Jet modification in dense matter.

Who:  Abhijit Majumder - (OSU)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

Description: Hard processes such as DIS, electron-positron annihilation, Drell-Yan pair production as well as jets in p-p collisions are well described... [More]


Factorization at the LHC: From PDFs to Initial State Jets

Who:  Frank Tackmann - (MIT)
Where:  PRB 1136
When:  Friday, October 23, 2009 at 03:30
Type:  HEP/Astro Seminar

Description: Proton-(anti)proton collisions at the LHC or Tevatron typically involve experimental restrictions on the hadronic final state and generic parton momentum... [More]


Close Encounters with the Quantum Berry Phase

Who:  Hari Manoharan - (Stanford University)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 04:00
Type:  Colloquium

Description: If we deform a material and restore it precisely back to its starting point, our everyday intuition tells us that... [More]


Title TBA

Who:  Ross Nehm - (Ohio State University, School of Teaching and Learning)
Where:  4138 PRB
When:  Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Physics Education Seminar

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Nearly Perfect Fluidity: From cold gases to hot plasmas

Who:  Thomas Schaefer - (NCSU)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

Description: A dimensionless measure of fluidity is the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density. Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion... [More]





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