Nevis Seminar
The Nevis Seminar is designed to bring the different research groups at Nevis together to present their work on a monthly basis. Lunch will be provided 1/2 hour before the talks begin.- Where: Nevis Laboratories (directions: http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/directions.html
), Mansion House Conference Room. Lunch will be in the dinning room in the mansion.
- When: Usually the 4th Thursday of the month during Fall and Winter semesters.
- Schedule:
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Description | Notes | Slides |
| Sept. 26th | 1pm | Laboratories tour | Lunch at 12:30 pm | |||
| Oct. 24th | 1pm | Ester Aliu | Astrophysics at the TeV scale | How experiments like VERITAS detect particles at this extreme energy and which scientific questions we try to address.The contribution of the Barnard and Columbia VERITAS groups will be described | Lunch at 12:30 pm | |
| Nov. 21st | 1pm | Joy Didier | EBEX: The E and B EXperiment. | Measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides us with a wealth of information on the origin, composition and dynamics of the universe. EBEX is a balloone-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the CMB. I will give an overview of the instrument and of the recent science flight in Antarctica. | Lunch at 12:30 pm | |
| Dec. 19th | 1pm | Lunch at 12:30 pm |
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Description | Notes | Slides |
| Jan. 24th | 2pm | Leslie Camilleri | The Nevis Neutrino Program | The experiments that the Nevis Neutrino group is involved in will be described, together with their relevance to the current state of Neutrino research | Lunch at 1:30 pm | NevisSemJan24.pdf |
| Feb. 28th | 1pm | Guillaume Plante | Xenon : Searching for Dark Matter with Liquid Xenon Detectors | Why is dark matter needed, how can we detect it (hopefully!), the XENON project and the contributions of the Nevis XENON group. | Lunch at 12:30 pm | |
| Mar. 28th | 1pm | Andrew D. Harken | An overview of RARAF | From broad beams to microbeams, single proteins to small animals. Where we have been to where we are going. | Lunch at 12:30 pm | |
| Tues Apr. 16th |
2:30 pm | Jose Alonso | Pushing the envelope of Cyclotron Technology: From Medical Applications to Neutrino Sources. | Tuesday. Wine and cheese after the seminar |
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| May 9th | 1:30 pm |
Ken Miller | Laboratory Astrochemistry | From the early universe to the interstellar medium | Lunch at 1 pm |
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