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 Dec 3 - Dec 7, 2007
 
Monday, Dec 3 
Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Room: D-122 
Grad. Physics
Particle Physics Seminar 
Prof. Michael Cooke, Rice University
"WW Cross Section and Triple Gauge Couplings"
Monday, Dec 3 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: S-141 
Grad. Physics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
Prof. Ana Maria Rey, Harvard University
"Quantum magnetism in optical superlattices"
Monday, Dec 3
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Room: B-131
Grad. Physics
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
Prof. Steve S. Plotkin, University of British Columbia
"Protein folding as a system for biologically-inspired physics"
Tuesday, Dec 4 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 
Prof. Paul Chaikin, NYU
"Experimental Geometry Experiments with candies and colloids"

Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, Dec 5 
Time:  11:45 a.m. 
Room: ESS 450
Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Dec 5 
Time:  2:30 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Prof. Matt Strassler, Rutgers University
"The Hidden Valley Scenario: A Panoply of Novel Signals for LHC Searches"
Wednesday, Dec 5
Time: 3:00 p.m. 
Room: ESS 437A
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Dec 5 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: C-133 
Grad. Physics
Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Prof. Kent Paschke, University of Virginia
"Parity-Violating Electron Scattering"
Thursday, Dec 6
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Room: C.N. Yang Institute
Math Tower, 6-125
YITP Seminar
Prof. Sergey Bravyi, Landau Institute
"Efficient algorithms for simulation of quantum spin Hamiltonians"
Thursday, Dec 6 
Time: 1:00 p.m. 
Room: C-133 
Grad. Physics
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Dec 7 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 
Room: B-131 
Grad. Physics
Solid State Seminar 
Fabio Franchini , ICTP, Trieste
"Quantum Entropy for the 1-D XY model"
Friday, Dec 7 
Time: 2:20 p.m. 
Room: P-112 
Grad. Physics
Advanced Graduate Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Dec 7 
Time: 12:50 p.m. 
Room: ESS 450 
Astronomy Journal Club
Anand Sivaramakrishnan
"Born-Again Protoplanetary Disk around Mira B"
Friday, Dec 7 
Time: 2:45 p.m. 
Room: S-141 
Grad. Physics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar
Prof. Anatoly Kuklov, CUNY Staten Island
"Strongly interacting quantum phases of ultracold atomic mixtures in optical lattices"
Friday, Dec 7
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Room: ESS 001
Astronomy Open Night
Douglas Swesty, SUNY
"Merging White Dwarf Stars"