Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2003
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 31 Mar | Daniel Phillips | Electroweak Unification: Theoretical Background and
Experimental Evidence You should have recieved the reading handout from Perkins in your mailbox. |
| 7 Apr | Yannis Parpottas | The Z 0
Resonance Measurements of cross sections and forward-backward asymmetries at the Z resonance and determination of electroweak parameters , The L3 Collaboration , Eur. Phys. J. C 16, 1-40 |
| 14 Apr | Deepshikha Choudhury | Physics Beyond the Standard Model Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering , G.P. Zeller et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett 88, 091802 (2002). A Departure from Prediction: Electroweak Physics at NuTeV K.S. McFarland et al. |
| 21 Apr | Group Discussion | Debate: Are Physicists Arrogant? Arrogance - A Dangerous Weapon of the Physics Trade? , J. Murray Gibson |
| 28 Apr | George Caia | The case for the relativistic hot Big Bang cosmology P.J.E. Peebles, D.N.Schramm, E.L.Turner, and R.G. Kron, Nature 352, 769 (1991). You should have recieved this handout in your mailbox. |
| 5 May | Yuri Pidopryhora | Inflation and the New Era of High-Precision
Cosmology Alan H. Guth. You should have recieved this handout in your mailbox. |
| 12 May | Catalin Matei | Cosmology / Cosmic Microwaves First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Preliminary Maps and Basic Results , C.L. Bennett et al. |
| 19 May | Ishaq Hleiqawi | University of Washington Gravity Experiments Submillimeter Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law: A Search for "Large" Extra Dimensions , C. D. Hoyle, U. Schmidt, B. R. Heckel, E. G. Adelberger, J. H. Gundlach, D. J. Kapner, and H. E. Swanson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1418 (2001). |
| 26 May | no meeting | Memorial Day |
Background Information
Faculty coordinators for Spring 2003 were Brune, Elster, and Opper. Carman and Phillips served on a part-time basis.
Last updated 12 August 2003 by Carl Brune.