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 Oct 19 - Oct 23, 2009
 
Monday, Oct 19 
Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Room: D-122 
Grad. Physics
Particle Physics Seminar 
Elizabeth Hays, Goddard Space Flight Center
"First Year Results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope"
Monday, Oct 19 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: S-141 
Grad. Physics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
Dr. Brett Pearson, Dickinson College
"TBA"
Tuesday, Oct 20 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 
David Mandrus, ORNL
"Breaking the Tyranny of Copper: The Emergence of a New Generation of
High-Tc Superconductors Based on Iron"
 
Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, Oct 21 
Time:  11:45 a.m. 

Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Oct 21 
Time:  2:30 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
YITP Seminar 
Daniel Baumann, Harvard
"The Spectrum of D-brane Inflation"
Wednesday, Oct 21
Time: 2:30 p.m. 
Room: 450
ESS
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
John Bochanski, MIT/Kavli Inst.
"Our 15 Million Nearest Neighbors: M Dwarfs and
the Local Milky Way"
Wednesday, Oct 21 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 

Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, Oct 22 
Time: 1:00 p.m. 

Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, Oct 22
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Room: C.N. Yang Institute
Math Tower 6-125
Joyce Myers, Swansea Univeristy
"On comparing the phase diagram of SU(N) gauge
theories at weak and strong coupling"

Friday, Oct 23 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Solid State Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Oct 23 
Time: 2:20 p.m. 

Advanced Graduate Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled