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 Sep 7 - Sep 11, 2009
 
Monday, Sep 7 
Time: 11:30 a.m. 

Particle Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Tuesday, Sep 8 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Chair's Colloquium 
Prof. Laszlo Mihaly, Chair
 
Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, Sep 9 
Time:  11:45 a.m. 
Room: ESS 450
Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Monday, Sep9
Time: 2:00 p.m. 
Room:  S-141
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
MelissaFriedman, Oxford University
"Broadband Photoassociation of Ultracold RB_2 Molecules"
Wednesday, Sep 9 
Time:  2:30 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
YITP Seminar 
Nikita Nekrasov, IHES
"Quantization of integrable systems and gauge theories"
Wednesday, Sep 9
Time: 2:30 p.m. 
Room: ESS 450

Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
Eric Mamajek, Rochester
"What can nearby young stars tell us about star and planet formation?"
Wednesday, Sep 9 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 

Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, Sep 10 
Time: 1:00 p.m. 

Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Sep 11 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 
Room: B-131 
Grad. Physics
Solid State Seminar 
Wendy Mao, Stanford University
"Hydrogen storage in molecular compounds"
Friday, Sep 11 
Time: 2:00 p.m. 
Room: P-112 
Grad. Physics
Advanced Graduate Seminar 
First organizational meeting
Friday, Sep 11
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Room: ESS 001
The Worlds of Physics
Prof. Maria Fernandez -Serra USB
"Physics of Water at the Atomic Scale: Unraveling the Origin of
Water's Unusual and Exotic Properties"