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 May 4 - May 8, 2009
 
Monday, May 4 
Time: 11:30 a.m. 

Particle Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Monday, May 4 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: S-141 
Grad. Physics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
Amanda Ross, U. Lyon and Houssam Salami, SBU
"A Bouquet of Spin-Orbit Effects in Alkali Dimer Molecules"
Tuesday, May 5
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Room: Chemistry 412
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
Prof. Yiqin Gao, Texas A & M University

Tuesday, May 5 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Department Awards Colloquium  
Prof. Laszlo Mihaly, Graduate Program Director

Jonathan Rameau, Soroff Prize Winner
Claire Allred, Wilcox Prize Winner
 
Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, May 6 
Time:  11:45 a.m. 

Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, May 6 
Time:  2:30 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
YITP Seminar 
HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Ian Low, Northwestern University and Argonne Nat'l. Lab.
"Implications of the Higgs Discovery in MSSM"
Thursday, May 7
Time: 2:30 p.m. 
Room: ESS 437A
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
Peter van Dokkum, Yale University
"Implications of the Higgs Discovery in MSSM"
Wednesday, May 6 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 

Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, May 7 
Time: 1:00 p.m. 

Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, May 8
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Room: ESS 450
Special Astronomy Seminar
Bernard Schutz, Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
"Measuring Dark Energy with LISA"
Friday, May 8 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Solid State Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, May 8 
Time: 2:20 p.m. 

Advanced Graduate Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, May 8
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Room: ESS 001
The Worlds of Physics
Prof. Chris Jacobsen, SBU
"Nuclear Weapons: forgotten, but not gone"
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