Prof. Freedman led the Spring 2003 Physics 290E (particle physics) seminar. The topic was "Particle Physics Without Getting High": low energy approaches to fundamental particle physics. In addition to outside speakers, some seminar participants gave presentations. The abstracts and most of the talks are archived here in electronic form - we are grateful to the speakers for making these available.
See the course announcement in pdf, postscript, or MS-Word formats.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 February | Paul Vetter (UCB/LBNL) | Fundamental Symmetry Tests with Positronium | talk(pdf) |
| 12 February | Leslie Rosenberg (LLNL) | Geometry, Particles, and Discrete Symmetries | abstract, talk(pdf, ps) |
| 19 February | Wes Winter | Determination of the Boron-8 Neutrino Spectrum | abstract |
| 26 February | Tom Banks | The MuCap Experiment: A High-Precision Measurement of Muon Capture on the Proton | abstract, talk(pdf) |
| 5 March | Johannes Muelmenstaedt | Rare Decays of the B Mesons | abstract, talk(pdf) |
| 12 March | Steve Elliott (LANL) | Double Beta Decay | talk(pdf) |
| 19 March | Jean Cleymans (UCT) | Introduction to Statistical Models | talk(pdf, ps) |
| 2 April | Dan Dwyer | First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance | abstract, talk(pdf) |
| 9 April | Yury Kolomensky (UCB/SLAC) | Parity Violation in Electron Scattering: Testing the Standard Model Through Eight Orders of Magnitude | abstract |
| 16 April | Gennadiy Kukartsev | Parity Nonconservation in Atomic Transitions | abstract, talk(pdf, ps) |
| 23 April | Daniel Larson | Particle Physics Gets Dense: Color Superconductivity | abstract, talk(pdf) |
| 30 April | Steve Lamoreaux (LANL) | The Casimir Force and its Experimental Verification | abstract |
| 7 May | Class Canceled due to Physics Department Town Meeting |
Please contact Prof. Freedman with questions about the course.
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