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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"The new charmonium states discovered at the $B$-factories"
Marina Nielsen, University of Sao Paulo
Hosted by Michael Creutz
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Early physics with W/Z at ATLAS"
Takanori Kono, CERN
Hosted by Hong Ma
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Atmospheric Sciences Division Seminar
"Atmospheric Aging and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions of Strongly-Light Absorbing Carbon (LAC) Particles: Measurements With the Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2)"
R. Subramanian, Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO
Hosted by Arthur Sedlacek
11:00 AM, Bldg 815E
http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/ASD_seminar_series.html

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar
"Mechanism of the Electrophoretic Assembly of CdSe Nanocrystal Films and Their Mechanical Properties"
Shengguo Jia, Columbia University
Hosted by Oleg Gang
11:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B

Friday, January 16, 2009
National Synchrotron Light Source Lunch Time Seminar
"Diamond Amplifier to Detector: A Trip around the Ring"
John Smedley, Instrumentation Division, BNL
Hosted by Christie Nelson
12:00 PM, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725

Friday, January 16, 2009
National Synchrotron Light Source Lunch Time Seminar
"Amyloid Plaques in PSAPP Mice Bind Less Metal than Plaques in Human Alzheimer's Disease"
Andreana Leskovjan, Stony Brook University and NSLS, BNL
Hosted by Christie Nelson
12:00 PM, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725

Friday, January 16, 2009
HET Lunch Seminar
Jennifer Kile, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Amarjit Soni
12:00 PM, Room 2-95, Bldg. 510

Friday, January 16, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"A theory of jet shapes and cross sections: from hadrons to nuclei"
Ivan Vitev, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, January 16, 2009
English Class
12:00 PM, CAD, Building 911
http://www.bnl.gov/esol/

Friday, January 16, 2009
Biology Department Seminar
"The Role of the Diffusible Signal Factor DSF in Intra- and Inter-species Signaling by the Highly Adaptable Bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia"
J. Max Dow, BIOMERIT Research Centre, Department of Microbiology, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
Hosted by Niels van der Lelie
11:00 AM, Biology Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
NSLS-II Seminar
"A Tool to Study Energy Conversion in Molecular System - Building a Laser Initiated Time Resolved User Program at the APS"
Klaus Attenkofer, ANL
Hosted by Qun Shen
11:00 AM, NSLS-II Seminar Room, Bldg. 817

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Don't Want to Gain? - Use Your Brain!
Marie Kerr,
Hosted by Michael Thorn
12:00 PM, Berkner Hall, Room B
http://www.bnl.gov/hr/OCCMED/HPP/

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Atmospheric Sciences Division Seminar
"Aerosol Particles as Viewed by Transmission Electron Microscopy"
Peter Buseck, Arizona State University
Hosted by Steve Schwartz
11:00 AM, Bldg 815E
http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/ASD_seminar_series.html

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar
"Nano-mechanics of Nano-carbon"
James Hone, Columbia University
Hosted by Chuck Black
11:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Seminar Rm, 2nd floor

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"Multijet Resonances at the Tevatron and the LHC"
Can Kilic, John Hopkins University
Hosted by Christian Sturm
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Brookhaven Lecture
"Do Gluons Carry Proton Spin? - Toward resolving the Spin Crisis"
Alexander Bazilevsky, Physics Department
Hosted by Brant Johnson & Stephen Musolino
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/lectures/default.asp

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Instrumentation Division Seminar
"Muon Collider studies and rf Magnetic Insulation"
Robert Palmer, Physics Department, BNL
2:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 535

Friday, January 23, 2009
HET Lunch Seminar
Michael Creutz, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Amarjit Soni
12:00 PM, Room 2-95, Bldg. 510

Monday, January 26, 2009
Defensive Driving, Part 1
Edward Sierra, BNL
6:00 PM, Brookhaven Center
http://www.bnl.gov/esh/shsd/Article_Defensive_Driving.asp

Monday, January 26, 2009
English Class
12:15 PM, Building 400 Conf Room 1
http://www.bnl.gov/esol/

Monday, January 26, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Experimental Standard Model Tests with Top Quarks"
Marc-Andre Pleier, University of Bonn
Hosted by Hong Ma
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
BES Distinguished Lecture
"Crystal Growth at the Nanoscale"
Jerry Tersoff, IBM
Hosted by Ben Ocko
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Instrumentation Division Seminar
"Novel Gamma-ray Detector Approaches for PET"
Paul Vaska, Medical Department, BNL
2:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 535

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"A journey to beyond the SM physics at the Tevatron and the LHC"
Monica D'Onofrio, FNAL/IFAE, Italy
Hosted by Hong Ma
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Ruth Britto, Saclay, SPhT & Fermilab
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"BaBar results on e+ e- --> pi+ pi- and the muon g-2 prediction"
Michel Davier, LAL-Orsay, France
Hosted by Abid Patwa and Yannis Semertzidis
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar
"X-ray diffuse scattering studies of the local structural inhomogeneities in high temperature superconductors"
Xuerong Liu, University of California, San Diego
Hosted by John P. Hill
1:30 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, January 30, 2009
Biology Department Seminar
"Underground Communication Between Roots and Soil Organisms"
Jorge Vivanco, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Hosted by Niels van der Lelie
11:00 AM, Biology Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

Friday, January 30, 2009
HET Lunch Seminar
Kristian McDonald, TRIUMF
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
12:00 PM, Room 2-95, Bldg. 510

Saturday, January 31, 2009
High School Science Bowl
Hosted by Catherine Osiecki
9:00 AM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/education/contests

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Fast and Fabulous Meals
Amy Shapiro,
Hosted by Michael Thorn
12:00 PM, Berkner Hall, Room B
http://www.bnl.gov/hr/OCCMED/HPP/

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Anna Hasenfratz, University of Colorado
Hosted by Taku Izubuchi
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
BES Distinguished Lecture
"Electrostatic Modification of Novel Materials"
Alan Goldman, University of Minnesota
Hosted by Ivan Bozovic
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Friday, February 6, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Ralf Friedrich Rapp, Texas A&M University
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 6, 2009
HET Lunch Seminar
Bill Marciano, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Amarjit Soni
12:00 PM, Room 2-95, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 6, 2009
Nuclear Physics Seminar
Jean-Philippe Lansberg, SLAC
Hosted by Paul Sorensen
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Nuclear Physics Seminar
"Photoproduction at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider"
Yury Gorbunov, Creighton University
Hosted by Jeffery Mitchell
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Study of Multi-muon events at CDF"
Mark Kruse, Duke University
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 13, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"TBD"
Gavin Salam, University of Paris VI, France
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 13, 2009
HET Lunch Seminar
Oliver Witzel, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Amarjit Soni
12:00 PM, Room 2-95, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 13, 2009
AAAS Conference 2009
"Basic Research for Global Energy: A Call to Action, The Quest for teh Perfect Liquid: Connecting Heavy Ions, String Theory, and Cold Atoms, Casting New Light on Ancient Secrets"
8:30 AM, Chicago Illinois

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Exercise Anywhere, Any Time
Amy Shapiro,
Hosted by Michael Thorn
12:00 PM, Berkner Hall, Room B
http://www.bnl.gov/hr/OCCMED/HPP/

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"The CMS Detector and LHC Physics: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Nick Hadley, University of Maryland
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
NSLS Town Meeting
1:00 PM, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725
http://www.nslsuec.org/events/townmeeting/

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Brookhaven Lecture
"Beyond Protein Crystallography: Seeking Alternatives to Study Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins"
Lin Yang, National Synchrotron Light Source Department
Hosted by Brant Johnson & Stephen Musolino
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/lectures/default.asp

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Early Results from the Fermi Large Area Telescope"
Eduardo do Couto e Silva, KIPAC/SLAC National Laboratory
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Nuclear Physics Seminar
"Medium-modified jets and their role for heavy-ion physics"
Thorsten Renk, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Jean-Yves Ollitrault, Saclay
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Chemistry Colloquium
"TBA"
Paul Barbara, University of Texas at Austin
Hosted by John Miller
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Medical Department Seminar
"Neural Correlates of Cognitive Control: Implications for Cocaine and Alcohol Dependence"
Chiang-shan Ray Li, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale University, Dept. of Psychiatry, CT Mental Health Center
Hosted by Gene-Jack Wang, MD, Chair
1:30 PM, Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490

Friday, February 27, 2009
HET Lunch Seminar
Frank Paige, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Amarjit Soni
12:00 PM, Room 2-95, Bldg. 510

Friday, February 27, 2009
Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
"The Response of a Thermal QGP to Radiating Hard Partons"
Bryon Neufeld, Duke University
Hosted by Gregory Soyez
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Ab Initio calculations in Lattice QCD"
Zoltan Fodor, Wuppertal University
Hosted by Peter Petreczky
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Chemistry Colloquium
"TBA"
Professor John Stickney, University of Georgia, Dept. of Chemistry
Hosted by Miomir Vukmirovic
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Friday, March 6, 2009
HET Lunch Seminar
Yasumichi Aoki, RBRC
Hosted by Amarjit Soni
12:00 PM, Room 2-95, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Superstrings and RHIC (TBD)"
Steven Gubser, Princeton University
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Chemistry Department Seminar
"Nano-Scale Environmental Effects on the Reactivity of Platinum Clusters"
Ye Xu, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Hosted by Alex Harris
11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Brookhaven Lecture
"447th Brookhaven Lecture"
Masahiro Okamura, Ph.D., Collider-Accelerator Department
Hosted by Brant Johnson & Stephen Musolino
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/lectures/default.asp

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar
Doreen Wackeroth, SUNY at Buffalo
Hosted by Christian Sturm
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Daniel Sperling, University of California at Davis
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Dark Matter (TBD)"
Daniel Boyanovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Stefano Profumo, SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Particle Physics Seminar
"Cosmic rays precision studies with the satellite-borne apparatus PAMELA"
Andrea Vacchi, INFN Trieste
Hosted by Mary Bishai
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Michel Tytgat, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Brookhaven Lecture
"448th Brookhaven Lecture"
Hosted by Brant Johnson & Stephen Musolino
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/lectures/default.asp

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Brookhaven Lecture
"449th Brookhaven Lecture: Earth Day Lecture"
Alistar Rogers, Environmental Sciences Department
Hosted by Brant Johnson & Stephen Musolino
12:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/lectures/default.asp

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
2:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"On the Antikythera Mechanism (TBD)"
Dr. Alexander Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Chemistry Colloquium
"TBA"
Professor Gilbert Nathanson, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Chemistry
Hosted by Gregory Hall
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"TBD"
Tom Russell, University of Massachusetts
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Scott Willenbrock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hosted by Hooman Davoudiasl
2:30 PM, YITP, SUNY Stony Brook (Room Math 6-125)

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Physics Colloquium
Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana
Hosted by Robert Pisarski
3:30 PM, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Brookhaven Lecture
"450th Brookhaven Lecture"
Yin-Nan Lee, Ph.D., Environmental Sciences Department
Hosted by Brant Johnson & Stephen Musolino
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/lectures/default.asp

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Chemistry Colloquium
"TBA"
Professor Andrei Tokmakoff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry
Hosted by Robert Crowell
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Brookhaven Lecture
"451st Brookhaven Lecture"
Hosted by Brant Johnson & Stephen Musolino
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/lectures/default.asp

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Chemistry Colloquium
"TBA"
Scott Anderson,
Hosted by Alex Harris
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Brookhaven Lecture
"452nd Brookhaven Lecture"
Hosted by Brant Johnson & Stephen Musolino
4:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/lectures/default.asp

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
BES Distinguished Lecture
"TBD"
Wilson Ho, University of California
Hosted by Alex Harris
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Chemistry Colloquium
"TBA"
Dr. Horia Metiu, University of California, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Hosted by Ping Liu
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

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