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 Apr 7 - Apr 11, 2008
 
Monday, Apr 7 
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Room: D-122
Grad. Physics
Particle Physics Seminar 
Gregorio Bernardi, LPNHE-Paris VI/VII
Searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Tevatron
Monday, Apr 7 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: S-141
Grad. Physics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
Thomas Pattard,  Physical Review Editorial Office
"Ultracold Neutral Plasmas and Rydberg Gases”
Tuesday, Apr 8 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 
Yuval Grossman
 "CP Violation: A solved problem (?)"
Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, Apr 9 
Time:  11:45 a.m. 
Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Apr 9 
Time:  2:30 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
Joint HET/RIKEN/YITP Seminar
Yuval Grossman, Cornell University
"Two topics talk: 1) DDbar mixning
2) Spin, hadronization and lifetimes"
Wednesday, Apr 9
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: ESS 450
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
Chad Bender, NRL
"Direct Spectroscopy of Non-transiting Extrasolar Planets"
Wednesday, Apr 9 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, Apr 10 
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Room: C.N. Yang Institute
Common Room MT6-125
YITP Seminar
Sergey Bravyi, IBM Watson Research Center
"Simulation of many-body Hamiltonians using perturbation
theory with bounded-strength interactions"
Thursday, Apr 10 
Time: 1:00 p.m. 
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Apr 11
Time: 12:50 p.m.
Room: ESS 450
Astronomy Journal Club
Fred Walter
"TBA"
Friday, Apr 11 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 
Solid State Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Apr 11 
Time: 2:20 p.m. 
Advanced Graduate Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Apr 11
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Room: ESS 001
The World of Physics
Helio Takai, BNL
"The Mariachi Project"