Weekly Seminars

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Monday, February 8

Particle Theory Group Seminar
1:30 PM, RI 180
No Seminar

Statistics Department Seminar
4:00 PM, Eckhart 133
No Seminar

High Energy Physics
4:15 PM, RI 480
Sasha Pranko, FNAL
"On the Road to Higgs"


Tuesday, February 9

James Franck Institute Colloquium
4:00 PM, GCIS W301/303
Jerome Dubail, CEA-Saclay Paris
"Boundary Conformal Field Theory"


Wednesday, February 10

Computations in Science Seminar
12:30 PM, KPTC 106
Steve Berry, U of C
Exploring Landscapes in Many Dimensions: How We and Many-Atom Systems Do It"

Particle Theory Group Seminar
1:30 PM, RI 180
Maxim Pospelov
"Probing Vector and Higgs Portals at Low and Medium Energies"

Astronomy Colloquium
3:30 PM, RI 480
No Seminar

KICP
3:30 PM, RI 480
Maryam Modjaz, UC Berkeley
"Understanding the Diverse Explosions of Massive Stars: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Host Galaxies"


Thursday, February 11

KICP
2:30 PM, LASR Conference Room 152
Kendrick Smith, Princeton University
"Recent Results from the WMAP7 Data Release"

Physics Colloquium
4:15 PM, KPTC 106
Jim Pilcher, U of C
"Opening a New Window - The Start of the LHC Physics Program"


Friday, February 12

KICP Lunch Seminar
12:00 (Noon), LASR 152
Dan Marrone, U of C
"Peering at the Horizon: A Close Look at Sagittarius A* and Other Black Holes"

Particle Theory Group Seminar
1:30 PM, RI 180
Antonio Delgado, Notre Dame
"Unitarity applied to Hidden Sector Processes"

Geophysical Sciences Seminars
1:30 - 2:30 PM, HGS 101
Leslie Hayden, Case Western Reserve University
"Trace Element Partitioning in the Fe-S-C System: Implications for the Evolution of Planetary Cores"


3:00 - 4:00 PM, HGS 176

Physics Friday Lecture
4:00 PM, KPTC 206
Tom Witten, U of C
"Thin is Different: Buckling of Surfactant Monolayers"