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 Feb 16 - Feb 20, 2009
 
Monday, Feb 16 
Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Room: D-122 
Grad. Physics
Particle Physics Seminar 
Paul Sommers, Peen State University
"The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory: High Energy
frontier of astroparticle physics"
Monday, Feb 16 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Tuesday, Feb 17 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 
Yimei Zhu, BNL
"Exploring the Origin of Materials' Functionality at the
Nanoscale Using Advanced Electron Microscopy"
 
Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, Feb 18 
Time:  11:45 a.m. 

Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Feb 18
Time: 12:00 noon
Room: B-131
Grad. Physics
Special Solid State Seminar
Dr. Xu Du, Rutgers University
"Approaching Intrinsic Dirac Fermion Physics
in Graphene"
Wednesday, Feb 18
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Room: YITP
MT6-125

YITP Seminar
Pietro Antonio Grassi, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
"Lower Dimensional Pure Spinors, Non-Critical Strings and
Low Supersymmetry"
Wednesday, Feb 18
Time: 4:00 p.m. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Feb 18 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 

Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, Feb 19 
Time: 1:00 p.m. 
Room: C-133 
Grad. Physics
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Eugene Levin, Tel Aviv
"Glauber - Gribov approach for DIS on nuclei in N=4 SYM"
Thursday, Feb 19
Time:  1:00 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
YITP Seminar 
Fedor Smirnov, Paris VI
"Hidden fermionic structure of integrable models"
Friday, Feb 20 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Solid State Seminar 
nothing scheduled
Friday, Feb 20 
Time: 2:20 p.m. 

Advanced Graduate Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Feb 20
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Room: 001 ESS

The Worlds of Physics
Robert de Zafra, Physics SUNYSB
"Can Geo-engineering Save us from Global Warming?"