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 Nov 2 - Nov 6, 2009
 
Monday, Nov 2 
Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Room: D-122 
Grad. Physics
Particle Physics Seminar 
Ulrich Heintz
"Observation of single top quark production"
Monday, Nov 2 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Room: S-141 
Grad. Physics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
Dr. Francisco Becerra, University of Maryland
"Correlated Pairs of Photons Generated from Four-Wave Mixing in Rb Vapor"
Tuesday, Nov 3 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 
Steve Peggs, BNL
"Thorium Energy Aplifiers and Proton Therapy:
New concepts-fast accelerator physics challenges"
 
Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, Nov 4 
Time:  11:45 a.m. 

Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Nov 4 
Time:  2:30 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
YITP Seminar 
Sean Hartnoll, Harvard
"Quantum oscillations and black hole ringing"
Wednesday, Nov 4
Time: 2:30 p.m. 
 
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, Nov 4 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 

Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, Nov 5 
Time: 1:00 p.m
Room: C-133
Grad Physics
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Thomas Selligman, UNAM/CIC, Cuernavaca, Gongora fellow at Columbia Univ.
""Dirac osciilators: Generalizations and tight-binding models"
Thursday, Nov 5 
Time:  2:30 p.m. 
Room: C.N. Yang Institute 
Math Tower, 6-125
YITP Seminar 
Joe Polchinski, UCSB
"Holography from Conformal Field Theory"
Friday, Nov 6 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Solid State Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Nov 6 
Time: 2:20 p.m. 

Advanced Graduate Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Friday, Nov. 6
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Room: 001
ESS building
Astronomy Open Night
Doug Swesty, SBU
"Evidence for the Big Bang"