News & Events
Archive of HEPL/KIPAC Experimental Physics/Astrophysics Research Seminars
(2004 -2017)
Time & Location (Unless otherwise noted):
Refreshments: 4:00 - 4:15pm; Seminar: 4:15 - 5:30pm
Physics/Astrophysics Building, Kistler Conference Rooms 103 & 103 (Map)
Past Seminars:
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 20042017
Tao Wang
Dima Budker Research Group, University of California, Berkeley
Application of Ultra-senstitive Magnetometry to the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 • 4:00-5:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Giovanni Bennato
GERDA Collaboration—Department of Physics University of California, Berkeley
Discovery Probability of Next-generation Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay Experiments
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 • 4:00-5:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Akio Kawasaki
Postdoctoral Scholar, Giorgio Gratta Research Group, Stanford University
Towards Spin Squeezed Yb Atomic Clock beyond the Standard Quantum Limit
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 • 4:00-5:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Shuay-Pwu “Patty” Ho
Princeton University
Large Millimeter Bolometric Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
Wednesday,October 18, 2017 • 4:00-5:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Tetsuya Ido
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Strontium Optical Lattice Clock and Realization of an Optical Time Scale
Friday, February 3, 2017 • 2:45-4:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Akio Kawasaki
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spin Squeezed 171Yb Atomic Clock Beyond the Standard Quantum Limit
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 • 4:00-5:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Cristián H. Peña
Caltech
Searches for New Physics at CMS and Precision Timing Detectors
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 • 4:15 - 5:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
2016
Ho Jung Paik
University of Maryland, College Park
Superconducting Tensor Gravitational Wave Detector and Newtonian Noise Mitigation
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 • 4:15 - 5:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
M. Cristina Rabello Soares
University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Analysis of Acoustic Waves Near and Around Solar Active Regions
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 • 1:30 - 2:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
S.P. Rajaguru
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Large- and small-scale flows on the Sun: helioseismic and surface measurements, and implications for dynamo mechanisms
Thursday, September 1, 2016 • 1:30 - 2:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Rachel Howe
University of Birmingham (UK)
Helioseismic Frequency Shifts and Solar Activity
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 • 1:30 - 2:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Fernando Monteiro
University of Geneva
Quantum Information Using a Single Excitation
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 • 4:15 - 5:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Kevin O'Sullivan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The LUX and LZ Dark Matter Experiments
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 • 4:15 - 5:15pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Walter Pettus
Yale University
The DM-Ice Dark Matter Experiment
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 • 4:15 - 5:15pm • Varian Physics Bldg • Conference Room #355
Andreas Hierlemann
ETH Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
Highly Integrated CMOS Microsystems to Interface With Neurons at Subcellular Resolution
Friday, February 5, 2016 • 11:45am - 1:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Pete Worden Chairman,
Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Life in the Universe and the Breakthrough Initiatives
Monday, January 11, 2016 • 11:45am - 1:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms
2015Top of List
Rana Adhikari
Caltech
Quantum "limits" for Interferometric Detection of Dark Matter
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 • 3:45pm - 5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Sami G. Tantawi, Billy Loo, Siegfried Glenzerand Cecile Limborg
SLAC and Stanford University School of Medicine
Advanced RF Acceleration And Its Applications To Medical Therapy Machines
Monday, October 26, 2015 • 11:45am - 1:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Sasha Buchman
W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Lab, Stanford University
LISA-2020: An Intermediate Scale Space Gravitational Wave Observatory for the 2020s
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 • 3:45pm - 5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Marco Pavone
Stanford University
Spacecraft/Rover Hybrids for the Exploration of Small Solar System Bodies
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 • 3:45pm - 5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Tim Wiser
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
Testing Long-distance Modifications of Gravity to 100 AU
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 • 3:45pm - 5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Remo Ruffini
Director of International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network ICRAN
The Cosmic Matrix of GRBs
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 • 3:45pm - 5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
William Terrano
University of Washington, Physics Department
Exploring New Physics with Torsion Pendula
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 • 3:45pm - 5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg • Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Michael Hohensee
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Experimental Tests of Lorentz Invariance and the Einstein Equivalence Principle
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 • 4:00pm - 5:15pm • Varian Physics Building, Conference Room #355
Tom Langenstein
Stanford University: Stanford — HEPL-Academic Program Professional Manager
Gravity, Relativity, GP-B & GPS: “One Thing Leads to Another”
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 • 3:30pm - 4:30pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Zeev Zalevsky
Faculty of Engineering, Bar-IlanUniversity, Ramat-Gan52900, Israel
Cortical Adaptation and Visual Enhancement via Depth of Focus Extension and Tactile Stimulation of the Cornea
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 • 11:00am - 12:15pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
2014Top of List
Benjamin Schmitt
University of Pennsylvania Design
integration, and first-season operation of ACTPol: A millimeter-wavelength, polarization-sensitive receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Thursday, December 4, 2014 • 4:00-5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Graham Giovanetti
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The MAJORANA Low-Background Broad Energy Germanium Detector
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 • 4:00-5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Lazar Supic
UC Berkeley Nuclear Research Center
Enhancing Gamma-ray Detection and Imaging Characteristics in HPGe Double-sides Strip Detectors Employing Signal Decomposition Algorithms
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 • 4:00-5:00pm • Varian Physics Lab, Room #355
Marco Pavone
Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, Stanford University
Real-Time and Dependable Spacecraft Motion Planning: Theory and Algorithms
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 • 4:00-5:00pm • Varian Physics Lab, Room #355
Georgios Laskaris
Duke University
Photodisintegration of polarized 3He using a circularly polarized photon beam
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 • 4:00-5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Jacob Feintzeig
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Searches for Point Sources of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 • 4:00-5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Jeremy Mock
UC Davis
Search for Dark Matter with the Large Underground Xenon Detector
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 • 4:00-5:00pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Pieter de Visser
TU Delft
Quasiparticle Dynamics in Aluminum Superconducting Microwave Resonators
Monday, September 8, 2014 • 4:00-5:15pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Andrzej Drukier
Biotraces, Inc. Fairfax, VA
Dark Matter Detectors using Nanoscale Explosives
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 • 4:00-5:15pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Natalia Bruno
Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Displacement of Entanglement Back and Forth between the Micro and Macro Domains
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 • 4:00-5:15pm • Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rms #102/103
Tenzing Joshi
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A G/NARRLI Effort: Measuring the Ionization Yield of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon
Monday, May 19, 2014, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kiestler Conference Rooms #102/103
Jesus Feles Mindan
Technical University of Madrid – UPM
The Use of Simulation to Improve the Economic Viability of New Railway Projects
Thursday, May 15, 2014, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #232
Frank Calaprice
Professor of Physics, Princeton University
Solar Neutrinos with BorexinoBased on GPU Technologies
Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kiestler Conference Rooms #102/103
Akitaka Ariga
University of Bern
Development of Novel Emulsion Detectors for the AEgIS Experiment and Fast Ttrack Reconstruction Based on GPU Technologies
Friday, March 28, 2014, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #102/103
Ian MacLaren
Glasgow University
Determining the Atomic Scale Structure and Chemistry of Nanostructured Materials
Thursday, February 27, 2014, 4:00 - 5:00pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #102/103
Jason Hogan
Stanford University
Fundamental Physics on the Precision Measurement Frontier
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 1:30 - 2:30pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #102/103
Keith Mathieson
Institute of Photonics University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Micron-scale LED Probes for In Vivo Spatiotemporal Optogenetic Activation of Neural Circuits
February 7, 2014, 3:00-3:45pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #102/103
Philip L. Marston
Physics and Astronomy Dept., Washington State University
Acoustical and Optical Radiation Force and Scattering Anomalies
February 5, 2014, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #102/103
Hansjoerg Dittus
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Spacecraft as Tools for Modern Experimental Physics
January 16, 2014, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #232
Danielle Wuchenich
Centre for Gravitational Physics at Australian National University
Laser interferometry for GRACE Follow-On and next generation satellites
January 15, 2014, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Physics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #232
2013Top of List
Paolo Bosetti
Department of Industrial Engineering Uinversity of Trento, Trento Italy
Design, Manufacturing, and Performance Verification of a Roberts linkage for Inertial Isolation
November 14, 2013, 4:00 - 5:15pm, PHysics/Astrophysics Bldg, Conference Room #232
Daniel Palanker
Associate Professor Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, and HEPL Stanford University
Cataract Surgery with 3-D Image-Guided Femtosecond Laser
October 30, 2013, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Pnysics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Pete Klupar
Low Cost Program Director
UCSC supporting NASA Ames Research Center
Low Cost Space Program
October 2, 2013, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Pnysics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Ethan Brown
Institut fur Kernphysik
University of Munster
Searching for Dark Matter with XENON100 and XENON1T
Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 4:15 - 5:15pm, Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 102 (Map)
Massimo Tinto
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technologs
Searching for Gravitational Waves with a Geostationary Interferometer
July 2, 2013, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Pnysics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Robert D. Reasenberg
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle on a Sounding Rocket
April 24, 2013, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Pnysics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
E.J. Chichilnisky
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
From Physics to Retinal Circuits: A Journey of Technology and Science
April 18, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30am,
Pnysics/Astrophysics Bldg, Kistler Conference Rooms 102/103
Marco Pavone
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and
Director, Autonomous Systems Laboratory Stanford University
Spacecraft/Rover Hybrids for the Exploration of Small Solar System Bodies
April 3, 2013, 4:00 - 5:15pm, Pnysics/Astrophysics Conference Rooms 102/103
Abigail Vieregg
Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics
Exploring the Ultra-High Energy Universe
Using Radio Detection Techniques
February 25, 2013, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, Physics/Astrophysics Rms. 102/103
Gray Rybka
Physics Department, University of Washington
Fundamental Physics at Cellphone Frequencies
February 22, 2013, 2:45 - 3:45 pm, Varian #355
Phil Barbeau
Physics Post Doctoral Scholar,
Stanford University
Neutrino & Dark Matter Coherent Interactions: New Avenues for Precision Measurements
February 19, 2013
Andrey Elagin
LAPPD Collaboration, University of Chicago
The Development of Large-Area MCP-based Picosecond Photo-Detectors
January 30, 2013
2012Top of List
Todd May
Space Launch System (SLS) Program Manager, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA's Space Launch System: Powering the Future of Exploration
November 19, 2012
Paul Berceau
High Magnetic Fields National Laboratory, Toulouse, France
Quantum Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence
November 15, 2012
Alexis Schubert
Physics Department, University of Washington
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: Searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay of germanium-76 in the presence of backgrounds
November 7, 2012
Michael Savina
Group Leader, Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Stardust Memories: Hands-on Nuclear Astrophysics via Isotopic Studies of Stardust Grains
Monday, July 30, 2012
Emil Mottola
Theoretical Div.
New Horizons in Gravity: Dark Energy and Condensate Stars
Friday, July 20, 2012
Matteo Benedetti
Assistant Professor of Machine Design, University of Trento
Vibration mitigation challenges in modern Extreme Ultraviolet tools for semiconductor Applications
Monday, June 11, 2012
Patrick Naulleau, PhD, Senajith (Seno) Rekawa, Arnaud Allezy, PhD
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Center for X-ray Optics (CXRO)
Vibration mitigation challenges in modern Extreme Ultraviolet tools for semiconductor Applications
Wednesday, May 1, 2012
David Moore
PhD Student, California Institute of Technology
Constraints on low-mass dark matter from CDMS-II and the development of highly-multiplexed next-generation detectors
Monday, March 21, 2012
Armen Gulian
Senior Research Scientist, Chapman University
Superconducting Antenna Concept for Gravitational Wave Radiation
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Robert M. Glaeser
Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Electron Microscopy of Unstained, Hydrated Biological Macromolecules
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
2011Top of List
Nicholas Lockerbie
Gravitational Physics, SUPA (Scottish Universities Physics Alliance) Department of Physics,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland UK
High-precision displacement sensing (foreshadowing the future?
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
gor Ostrovskiy
PhD Candidate, Universitiy of Alabama
Status of the Double Chooz experiment and its calibration program
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Laurent Piau
Postdoctoral Fellow, LATMOS
3D simulations of solar surface : from limb to secular models
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Ward (Chip) B. Manchester
Research Associate Professor
University of Michigan, Dept of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science
The Coupled Evolution of Electrons and Ions in CME Driven Shocks
Monday, June 27, 2011
Fang Fang
Doctoral Candidate
University of Michigan
Simulation of Flux Emergence and Active Region Formation
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thomas Brunner
Postdoctoral Fellow
TRIUMF—
Canada's National Laboratory for Particle & Nuclear Physics
High precision nuclear physics measurements with trapped ions at TITAN
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Markus J. Aschwanden
Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL)
Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics
Wednesday, JUne 1, 2011
Nergis Mavalvala
Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Opportunities in Gravitational Wave Detector
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Rick Fleeter
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA &
La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
"Microspace: Crossing the Chasm?"
Thursday, April 14, 2011
James Chen
Plasma Physics Division
Naval Research Laboratory
"Physical Relationship Between CME Acceleration
and Flare Energy Release"
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Jan Stenflo
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
and University of Zurich
"Collapsed, uncollapsed, and hidden magnetic flux on the quiet Sun"
March 24, 2011
Brent Ware
California Institute of Technology / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"LISA (as seen from the JPL Interferometry Testbed)"
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Remo Ruffini
Professor of Theoretical Physics
University of Rome, Italy
Where are the Short GRBs?
Monday, January 31, 201
Sylvie Vauclair
Professor of Astrophysics, Universite de Toulouse and
Senior Member, Institut Universitaire de France
"Asteroseismology of Exoplanets-host-Stars"
Friday, January 21, 2011
2010Top of List
Jennifer Heldmann
Research Scientist
Division of Space Sciences and Astrobiology,
NASA Ames Research Center
" Latest Science Results from NASA's LCROSS
(Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) Mission"
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Robert Braun
NASA Chief Technologist
"Investments in our Future: Exploring Space
through Innovation and Technology"
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Remo Ruffini
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
"Black holes in Gamma-Ray Bursts, Binary X-ray sources and Active Galactic Nuclei"
Thursday, August 12, 2010
William C. Danchi
Program Scientist, Astrophysics Division
NASA Headquarters, Washngton DC
"Infrared Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanets: Can we detect Earth-twins on a budget?"
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Peter Sturrock
Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics,
Stanford
"OK Science and Not-OK Science: What is the Difference?"
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Seth Putterman
Professor of Physics,
UCLA
"Evidence for Phase Transition in a Sonoluminescing Bubble"
Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010
Hilton Lewis
Deputy Director, Keck Observatory,
Mauna Kea, Hawaii
"The Keck Observatory: Leveraging Technology for Discovery"
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2010
Saidur Rahaman
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM
"Applications of ion traps to high precision experiments"
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2010
Sigrid Close
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stanford
"From Dust to Asteroids: Impacts on Earth"
Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010
Guillaume Pignol
Technische Universität
München, Germany
"Gravitational quantum states of neutrons and search for short range forces"
Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010
Sean Grullon
University of Wisconsin
"Searching for High Energy Diffuse Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with IceCube"
Wednesda, Mar 10, 2010
Kenneth Jensen
Control Systems Engineer
Makani Power, Inc.
"High-altitude Wind Power"
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
Fabio Scardigli
Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics,
(LeCosPA) National Taiwan University, Tapei
"Uncertainty Relation and Micro Black Holes in a Planck Scale Lattice Universe"
Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010
Deborah K. Scherrer
Solar Center, Solar Observatories Group,
HEPL
"From Casablanca to Juvenile Hall"
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
2009Top of List
Peter Schury
Lecturer, Tsukuba University,
Ibaraki, Japan
"Precision Mass Measurements of Radioactive Isotopes"
Friday, December 11, 2009
Lee Lindblom
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech
"Calculating Accurate Waveforms for LIGO and LISA Data Analysis"
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Remo Ruffini
Professor of Theoretical Physics
University of Rome, Italy,
"Fundamental Physics from Black Holes,
Neutron Stars and Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Michael Heifetz
Senior Research Scientist, Gravity Probe B, Stanford
Gravity Probe B
Stanford
"The Gravity Probe B Experiment: Data Analysis Journey"
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
View Seminar Presentation Slides
Daniel Brandt
Research Associate in Cryogenics and Space Instrumentation
Space Research Centre,
University of Leicester, UK
"Heavy photons, gravitons and superconductivity"
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Alex Silbergleit
Senior Research Scientist, Gravity Probe B, Stanford
Gravity Probe B
Stanford
"Polhode Motion, Trapped Flux, and the GP-B Science Data Analysis"
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
View Seminar Presentation Slides
Mac Keiser
Co-Investigator & Chief Scientist
Gravity Probe B
Stanford
"Resonance and Misalignment Torques and Their Treatment in the GP-B Data Analysis"
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
View Seminar Presentation Slides
Sasha Buchman
Co-Investigator
Gravity Probe B
Stanford
"
Effects of Patch Potentials on the GP-B Performance: Results and Lessons Learned"
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
View Seminar Presentation Slides
Barry Muhlfelder
Co-Investigator & Program Manager
Gravity Probe B
Stanford University
"Gravity Probe B Data Analysis Seminar Series Overview"
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
View Seminar Presentation Slides
Damir Buskulic
Université de Savoie
Member of the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP)
"Status of the LIGO-Virgo experiments and data analysis techniques for interferometric gravitational wave detectors"
Thursday, March 19 , 2009
Ke-Xun Sun
Senior Research Scientist
Stanford
"Modular Gravitational Reference Sensor (MGRS): Conception and Technologies"
Wednesday, March 11 , 2009
Andrew Kalman
Director of the Space & Sytems Development Lab
Stanford Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
"CubeSats -- Research's Low-Cost Access to Space "
Wednesday, February 18 , 2009
Seiji Kawamura
DECIGO and TAMA Projects
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
"The Japanese Gravitational Wave Antenna: DECIGO"
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Rick Fleeter
Professor at Brown University
Founder of AeroAstro, Inc.
"The Search for Extraterrestrial Reliability,
Or,
Is Reliability Engineering Engineering?"
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
2008Top of List
A. M. Cruise
Professor of Astrophysics and Space Research
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham
"The Prospects for Very High Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection"
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Ivanka Pelivan
ZARM
"High Performance Simulation of Satellite Dynamics - Application and
Verification with Gravity Probe B"
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Ho Jung Paik
Department of Physics, University of Maryland
"Probing Extra Dimensions and the Axion with a Superconducting Accelerometer"
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Robert L. Byer
Department of Applied Physics
"The Science and Technology of Gravitational Wave Detection in Space"
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
David F. Bartlett
Department of Physics, University of Colorado
“Contour Map for the Gravitational Potential of the Milky Way”
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Francis Everitt
W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
"The Gravity Probe B Test of Einstein: The Engineering of a Physics Experiment in Space & the Role of Students in it"
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
John Anderson, PhD
Professional astronomer and NASA Co-Investigator
"Anomalistic Solar-System Dynamics"
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Daniel Hagedorn and Frank Löffler
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany
“Manufacturing Test Masses for the Evaluation of the Equivalence Principle”
Monday, 5 May 2008
Bob Kline-Schoder, Ph.D.
Principal Engineer and Vice President from Creare Inc., Hanover, NH
“Resuscitating the Hubble Space Telescope With a Cryogenic Refrigerator”
Odile Clavier, Ph.D.
Engineer from Creare Inc., Hanover, NH
“Hearing Assessment System for Space Station Astronauts and Other Research in Human Hearing”
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Martin Tajmar, MSS
Head of Space Propulsion & Advanced Concepts
Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC
“LISA Thrusters and the Search for Frame Dragging at Low Temperatures at ARC”
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Stefan Funk
Assistant Professor, Physics, Stanford University and SLAC
“Gamma-ray astronomy: Status and Future Directions”
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Joerg Wagner
University of Stuttgart
“The Origin of the Modern Gyroscope: Bohnenberger's Machine and the Scientific Work of its Inventor”
January 16, 2008
2007Top of List
Bob Bingham
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
“Probing Quantum Gravity Using Matter”
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Richard N. Boyd
Science Director, National Ignition Facility
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“Creating a Star in the Laboratory: the National Ignition Facility”
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Domenico Gerardi
Visiting researcher, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
PhD candidate, University of Stuttgart and Science Missions & Systems EADS Astrium
“Achieving disturbance reduction for future drag-free missions. ”
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Fabio Scardigli
Department of Physics, University of Milano, Italy
"The Equivalence Principle, the Uncertainty Principle and Some Fundamental Physics Questions"
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Daniel Lebach
Astrophysicist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
“Seeing spots: a report on optical and very-long-baseline radio interferometry
observations of IM Pegasi, the guide star for the Gravity Probe B mission. ”
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Gregory P. Crawford, Dean of Engineering and Professor of Engineering & Physics
Brown University, Division of Engineering
“In Vivo Spectroscopy for Blood Analyte Monitoring”
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Francis Everitt
W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
“Maxwell at 175 ”
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Paul Brink
Department of Physics, Stanford University speaking for the (Super)CDMS collaboration
“Present status and future plans of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS)”
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Alfred Vogel
Institute of Biomedical Optics University of Lübeck, Germany
“New findings on plasma and cavity generation in aqueous media with fs and ns laser pulses, and their applications in cell surgery"
Thursday, January 25, 2007
2006Top of List
Dan McCleese
Chief Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
“Recent Results and Future Direction of the Exploration of Mars"
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Ned Wright
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
What's New in Cosmology?
Thursday 9 March 2006
Peter Michelson
Stanford University
GLAST: The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope Mission
Seminar and Tour
Thursday 16 Feb 2006
Robert L. Byer
Stanford University
"Acceleration of Electrons with Visible Light"
Wednesday 1 Feb 2006
2005Top of List
Nicholas White
Chief,
Laboratory for High Astrophysics NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
“The NASA Beyond Einstein Program”
Wed 5 Oct 2005
Ulrich Schreiber, Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodäsie, TU-München
“High Precision Sagnac Interferometry for Applications in Geoscience ”
Thursday, September 8, 2005
Christopher D. Bass,
Indiana University / IUCF, “Measurement of the Parity-Odd Neutron Spin Rotation in Liquid-4He”
Monday, August 22, 2005
Anne Kinney, Director, Universe Division in the Science Mission Directorate, NASA, "Blue Planets, Black Holes"
Wednesday, 20 July 2005
William Tobin, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, "Foucault's Gyroscope of 1852"
Friday, 8 April 2005
Rex Geveden, NASA Chief Engineer, Independent Technical Authority
7 April 2005
Shooting the Moon: Probing Fundamental Gravity in the Solar System
Tom Murphy,
UC San Diego 3 March 2005
The GRACE Mission: Status and Science Results John Ries, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin, 14 February 2005.
Hubble Robotic Servicing - Recent Engineering Development, Bill Reeve
Civil Space Director of Advanced Science Programs,
Lockheed Martin, 26 January 2005.
2004Top of List
Interferometry for LISA, Daniel Shaddock, PhD, Interferometry Metrology and Optics Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 17 November 2004.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), Steve Kahn, Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 27 October 2004.
HEPL-KIPAC Showcase. 29 September 2004. Agenda
