Department of Physics & Astronomy 
State University of New York at Stony Brook 
Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800 
Telephone: (631) 632-8100 
FAX (631) 632-8176
 
Physics & Astronomy Weekly Bulletin
Week of Oct 1 - Oct 5, 2007
 
Monday, Oct 1 
Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Room: D-122 
Grad. Physics
Particle Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Monday, Oct 1 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: S-141 
Grad. Physics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Tuesday, Oct 2 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 
Peter Schiffer, Penn State
"Fun in the Sand: Some Experiments in Granular Physics"

 
Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, Oct 3 
Time:  11:45 a.m. 
Room: 450
ESS
Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Oct 3 
Time:  2:30 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
YITP Seminar 
Tatsuya Tokunaga, Kyoto U.
"Towards Berkovits new limit of AdS3 x S3 pure spinor superstring"
Wednesday, Oct 3;
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: 123
ESS
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
Bob Rutledge, McGill Univ.
"Neutron Stars in Low Mass X-ray Binaires as dEOS Laboratories"

Juice and cookies will precede the talk at 3:45 PM in ESS
Wednesday, Oct 3 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: C-133 
Grad. Physics
Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, Oct 4 
Time: 1:00 p.m. 
Room: C-133 
Grad. Physics
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Oct 5 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 
Room: B-131 
Grad. Physics
Solid State Seminar
Peter Khalifah, SBU Chemistry
"What really happens to the geometric (Berry) phase when band degeneracy is lifted by
spin-orbit interaction?"

Friday, Oct 5 
Time: 2:20 p.m. 
Room: P-112 
Grad. Physics
Advanced Graduate Seminar 
Yu-Tin Huang
"Defining observables in a sample topological field theory"
Leo Almeida
"The Cusp Anomalous Dimension and High Spin Operators"