Physics Division
When: 12:00 noon, first Thursday of each month Where: Conference Rooms A and B, Argonne Cafeteria (Bldg 213) Organizers:
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Here is our schedule:
| 2012 |
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| January 5 | Sergio Almaraz (PHY) | Nucleosynthesis of light proton-rich nuclei in novae and x-ray bursts -- the importance of 18Ne and 30S |
| February 2 | Yoram Lithwick (Northwestern) | Secular Chaos: Formation of Hot Jupiters and the Organization of Planetary Systems |
| March 1 | no astrolunch | no astrolunch |
| April 5 | Dan Hooper (UofC/Fermilab) | Searching for Dark Matter in the Discovery Age |
| May 3 | Suman Bhattacharya (HEP) | Simulating the Universe Beyond ΛCDM |
2011 |
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| January 6 | Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab) | Detecting Dark Matter with Liquid Argon (and Neon) |
| February 3 | Rahul Biswas (HEP) | Voids as a probe of cosmology |
| March 3 | Ami Glasner (Racah Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, U of C Visiting Scholar) |
Burning in Novae - The Hydro View |
| April 7 | No astro lunch | No astro lunch |
| May 5 | Claudio Ugalde (PHY and U of C) | Stellar carbon astration: past, present, and future investigations |
| June 2 | No astro lunch | No astro lunch |
| July 7 | David Chamulak (PHY) | Cosmic Fireworks: An introduction to supernovae |
| August 4 | Amol Upadhye (HEP) | How dark is dark energy? A laboratory search for couplings between photons and chameleon dark energy |
| September 1 | No astro lunch | Labor Day break |
| October 6 | Larry Nittler (Carnegie Institution of Washington) |
Supernova dust in the Solar System | November 3 | Salman Habib (HEP) | A Guided Tour of the LSST Science Book | December 1 | Tom Davison (U of C) | Hypervelocity impacts: their role in the thermal evolution of planetesimals |
2010 |
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| January 7 | No astrolunch | No astrolunch |
| February 4 | Thomas Stephan (U of C and MSD) | Fire and ice - four years after Stardust's return - what have we learned? |
| March 4 | Elizabeth Buckley-Geer (Fermilab) | Strong and Weak Lensing Studies at Fermilab |
| April 1 | Hwajung Kang (Dartmouth College) |
Cosmic Velocity Flows in the Large Scale with Sloan Data Release 7 Early-Type Galaxies |
| May 6 | Chithra Nair (NE) | Nuclear Astrophysics with real photons: Exploring the p-nuclei |
| June 3 | Peter Bertone (PHY) | The astrophysical rate for the 14N(p,γ)15O reaction, its role in stellar evolution, and some recent results |
| July 1 | Ken Nollett (PHY) | Nucleosynthesis, galaxy clusters, the microwave background, and the initial baryon distribution |
| August 5 | Clarence Chang (U of C/KICP) | Astrophysics and Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope |
| September 2 | Bob Wagner (HEP) | Indirect Dark Matter Searches Using Gamma-ray Telescopes |
| October 7 | Ken Nollett (PHY) | Discussion of the Astro2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey |
| November 4 | No astro lunch | APS Division of Nuclear Physics meeting in Santa Fe |
| December 2 | Philipp Heck (Field Museum) | Experimental Interstellar Residence Times of Presolar Dust Grains from Meteorites |
2009 |
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| January 8 | Kathryn Schaffer (U of C/KICP) | Science with the South Pole Telescope |
| February 5 | Mike Savina (MSD) | What stars are made of: Stardust and solar wind research at Argonne |
| March 5 | Eric Silver (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
X-Ray Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions in
Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas |
| April 2 | Ken Nollett (PHY) | Fusion cross sections in the Sun (5th anniversary talk!) |
| May 7 | Jim Truran (U of C and PHY) | CNO breakout and nova nucleosynthesis |
| June 4 | Andy Smith (HEP) | Gamma-ray astronomy and VERITAS |
| July 2 | Francesca Primas (European Southern Observatory) |
Abundances, abundances, and still more abundances...
the chemical evolution of the Galaxy and beyond |
| August 6 | Jason Clark (PHY) | Explaining the abundances of the elements through precise atomic mass measurements |
| September 3 | Yeunjin Kim (U of C) | Nucleosynthesis of Supernova Type Ia |
| October 1 | Eun-Joo Ahn (Fermilab) | Composition of the highest energy cosmic rays |
| November 5 | David Chamulak (PHY) | Isotopic Gradients in Type Ia Supernovae: A Fingerprint of Detonation |
| December 3 | Michael Paul (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
146Sm Geological Chronometer: Progress report on detection, half-life and production |
2008 |
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| January 3 | Joe Bernstein (HEP) | Probing the Depths: Relativistic, Hydrodynamic Simulations and X-ray Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae SPECIAL LOCATION - BUILDING 203, ROOM R-150 |
| February 7 | Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab) | COUPP: Searching for Dark Matter with Bubble Chambers |
| March 6 | Emil Tripa (MSD) | Measurements of Solar Wind Composition in GENESIS Mission Returned Samples |
| April 3 | Casey Meakin (U of C) | Delayed surface detonation models of thermonuclear supernovae: hydrodynamics and nucleosynthesis SPECIAL LOCATION - BUILDING 203, ROOM R-150 |
| May 1 | Steve Kuhlmann (HEP) | Dark Energy Survey |
| June 6 | Catherine Deibel (PHY and Michigan State University) |
Galactic Nucleosynthesis of 26Al |
| July 3 | No astro lunch | Independence Day |
| August 7 | Ivo Seitenzahl (U of C) | Initiation of Detonations and Energetics of Type Ia Supernovae |
| September 4 | Kim Knight (Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry) | Trace element compositions from pre-solar grains: Understanding the record of stellar conditions preserved in SiC grains using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence |
| October 2 | Claudio Ugalde (PHY) | The sites and mechanisms of galactic fluorine synthesis |
| November 6 | Gensheng Wang (MSD) | Absorber Coupled TES Bolometer For Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Anisotropy Measurements |
| December 4 | Jennifer Sobeck (U of C) | Key Issues With Regard to the Derivation of Stellar Photospheric Abundances from Spectra |
2007 |
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| January 4 | Dragan Huterer (U of C, KICP) | Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy in the Universe |
| February 1 | Ken Nollett (PHY) | The cosmological context of nuclear astrophysics |
| March 1 | Dean Townsley (U of C) | Flame Evolution During the Deflagration of a White Dwarf in a Type Ia Supernova |
| April 5 | Steve Kuhlmann (HEP) | Calibration of the Air Fluorescence Measurement of Cosmic Rays |
| May 3 | Darek Seweryniak (PHY) | Studies of explosive stellar environments using GAMMASPHERE |
| June 7 | Deirdre Horan (HEP) | VERITAS -- History, Status and First Results |
| July 5 | Hye Young Lee (PHY) | Recent Experiments on Nuclear Astrophysics at University of Notre Dame: Measurements related to the p-process, the r-process, and more |
| August 2 | Amanda Karakas (Australian National University and PHY) | Nucleosynthesis in low- and intermediate-mass stars |
| September 7 | No Seminar | |
| October 4 | Khalil Farouqi (U of C) | Modern r-process calculations - from the static waiting point approximation to dynamical network calculations |
| November 1 | No astro lunch - special HEP seminar at 11:00 | "Recent Auger Results" - Aaron Chou (NYU) - 362 auditorium |
| December 6 | Carla Fröhlich (U of C) | Nucleosynthesis in the Explosion of Massive Stars SPECIAL LOCATION - BUILDING 203, ROOM R-150 |
2006 |
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| January 5 | Alan Calder (U of C) | Type Ia Supernova Explosions: Deflagration to Detonation |
| February 2 | Nicolas Dauphas (U of C) | Galactic chemical evolution and extinct/extant radiochronometers |
| March 2 | Julia Barzyk (U of C and MSD) | Measurement of the isotopic compositions of six elements in individual presolar SiC grains |
| April 6 | No lunch because of... | 3rd Argonne/MSU/INT/JINA RIA Theory Workshop |
| May 4 | Bob Wagner (HEP) | The Track Imaging Cerenkov Experiment (TrICE) Telescope at Argonne |
| June 1 | Xiaodong Tang (PHY) | A New Measurement of the E1 Component of the 12C(α,γ)16O Reaction |
| July 6 | Fang Peng (U of C) | Sedimentation and Type I X-ray bursts |
| August 3 | Hal Spinka (HEP) | Detection of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Using Radar |
| September 7 | Jonathan Levine (Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry) | Lunar, Planetary, and Solar Science from Glass Impact Spherules |
| October 5 | Tom Dombeck (University of Hawaii) | Pan-STARRS: A Time Survey of the Northern Sky |
| November 2 | No Seminar | |
| December 7 | Mike Savina (MSD) | STARDUST: NASA's comet dust return mission |
2005 |
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| January 6 | Andy Davis (U of C) | Nuclear astrophysics and the Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry |
| February 3 | Irshad Ahmad (PHY) | Precise measurement of long half-lives for astrophysics and geochemistry |
| March 3 | Dean Townsley (U of C) | Characterizing and Understanding Accreting White Dwarf Stars |
| April 7 | Toru Yada (Academica Sinica and MSD) | Silicate Stardust in Antarctic Micrometeorites |
| May 5 | Paolo Privitera (University of Rome) | Fluorescence detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays |
| June 2 | Jason Tumlinson (U of C) | Near-Field Cosmology, or, What The Galaxy Can Teach Us About the First Stars |
| July 7 | Mike Papka (MCS) | Visualization Experiences from the Flash Center |
| August 4 | Andy Davis (U of C) | A Progress Report on the Genesis Mission to Sample the Sun |
| September 1 | Ernst Rehm (PHY) | The origin of carbon and oxygen in the universe (an experimentalist's point of view) |
| October 6 | Prashanth Jaikumar (PHY) | Quark stars: Astrophysics at the highest densities |
| November 3 | Elizabeth Hays (HEP and U of C) | Recent Results in TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy |
| December 1 | Kaori Otsuki (U of C) | Astrophysical site for the r-process |
2004 |
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| April 1 | Organizational meeting | organizers (or proxies) describe their research |
| May 6 | Rich Talaga (HEP) | The Auger Observatory and Argonne |
| June 3 | Ken Nollett (PHY) | Big bang nucleosynthesis, with and (mostly) without weird stuff |
| July 1 | Jason Clark (PHY, Manitoba) | "Stellar" measurements along the astrophysical rp-process path |
| August 5 | Michael Paul (Racah Institute) | Deep sea astronomy? |
| September 2 | Michael Savina (MSD) | Hands-on astrophysics: stardust in the lab |
| October 7 | Jim Truran (PHY and UofC) | Nuclear physics of Type Ia supernovae |
| November 4 | Art Champagne (North Carolina and TUNL) | 14N(p,gamma)15O and the age of the Galaxy |
| December 2 | Karen Byrum (HEP) | Astro-particle physics: new initiatives at Argonne |
The purpose of these talks is get people together from across Argonne who are working in these and related areas, and encourage communication. We learn about relations between our research efforts, educate each other, and keep each other up to date on the latest news.
The format is informal, conducted over lunch, with a half-hour to one-hour presentation each time. Most speakers are from Argonne or the University of Chicago, but we also have talks from visitors to the lab and university. So as not to add much to the seminar load, meetings are held monthly, on the first Thursday of each month.