Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminar
The IAS partners with the Physics and Astronomy (PandA) Department at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to support a regular weekly videoteleconference (VTC) seminar in Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (NUPAC) every Tuesday at 2 p.m. UNM and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) partner to put together the seminar, which takes place at UNM and is sent by videoconferencing to the Oppenheimer Study Center at LANL. This program began in the spring of 2008 and will continue through the fall in the same locations. Dr. Emil Mottola coordinates the seminars from LANL and Drs. Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Michael Gold, and Dineesh Loomba coordinate from UNM.
A partial list of the NUPAC seminars, dates, speakers, and titles follows:
Jan. 29, 2008 Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND): a phenomenological review Gianfranco Gentile UNM
Feb. 5, 2008 A Pressurized Noble Gas Approach to WIMP Detection James White (Texas A & M Univ.)
Feb. 12, 2008 Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound Daniel Eisenstein, Univ. of Arizona
Feb. 19, 2008 Correlations in Supersymmetric Cascade Decays Michael Graesser (LANL)
Feb. 26, 2008 Diffuse Sources of Gamma Rays in the Milky Way & GLAST Seth Digel, KIPAC, SLAC
Mar. 4, 2008 SO(10) Model, Flavor Violation and Proton Decay Bhaskar Dutta, Texas A & M Univ.
Mar. 11, 2008 Determining the dark matter relic density at the LHC Teruki Kamon (Texas A& M)
Mar. 25, 2008 Nuclear Physics: the Study of Quark Chemistry? Terry Goldman (LANL)
Apr. 1, 2008 Galaxy Evolution in the Cosmic Web: The role of Gas Chris Churchill (NMSU)
Apr. 8, 2008 The Measurement of Quark Content in b-jets in ATLAS Jessica Metcalfe (UNM)
Apr. 15, 2008 When does matter matter for neutrino propagation? Gerry Stephenson (UNM)
Apr. 22, 2008 Very Red Objects in the Deep Lens Survey Paul Thorman (UNM)
Apr. 29, 2008 Intrinsic Shear Correlations in the Millennium Simulations Katie Richardson-McDaniel (UNM)
May 6, 2008 The 5-Year WMAP Observations: Cosmological Interpretation Eiichiro Komatsu (UT Austin)
Sept. 2, 2008 Small Spherical Data Sets Doug Hague (UNM)
Sept. 9, 2008 Dark Matter and the First Stars Paolo Gondolo (Univ. of Utah)
Dr. Mottola also visited the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UC Santa Barbara, gave several lectures there (available online at http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/partcosmo08/) and consulted with the deputy director of KITP, Dr. Martin Einhorn, about the possibility of making KITP workshops, lectures and events available to New Mexico Consortium (NMC) participants in the near future.
He is also working with the chairs of the Physics and Astronomy Departments of all three NMC universities (UNM, New Mexico Tech, and New Mexico State University [NMSU]), to plan for future VTC courses to be shared among two or more of the NMC institutions. The first positive result of this effort has been a VTC course in General Relativity taught in the fall of 2007 from Florida Atlantic University by Dr. Chris Beetle to students at NMSU for graduate credit as ASTR 598. This course would otherwise not have been offered to NMSU students that semester.
Contact: Dr Emil Mottola, emil@lanl.gov
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