What is the Friday Afternoon Seminar?

The Friday Afternon Seminars are expected to bring first and second year students in contact with the different research and researchers in the Physics Department. The whole point is that the talks given will be an overview (and no hard core lectures are expected).

It is organized by first year students. We shall do the shopping so that you can just come, have a beer, a slice of pizza and listen to an interesting talk.

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Last (but not least): May 1st - Steve Vigdor - Where’s the Antimatter Gone, Long Time Passing?  (Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments at BNL) 
I will describe the goals of three quite different nuclear and particle physics experiments that Brookhaven physicists are leading, with a common fundamental theme of illuminating possible sources of the matter-antimatter asymmetry that arose in the early universe.  One of the necessary conditions for the asymmetry is CP-violation:  a difference in the way left-handed (spin opposite momentum) particles and the corresponding right-handed antiparticles behave in Nature.  Two of the experiments are in the planning stages:  a Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment with sensitivity to CP-violation among neutrinos, as well as to the possible decay of the proton; and a novel experiment searching for a CP-violating electric dipole moment of the proton. The third experiment is in progress at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, trying to expose CP-violation in strongly interacting matter that can arise from so-called QCD vacuum fluctuations at high temperature.  These experiments build upon a storied past of Nobel Prizes in Physics at both BNL and Stony Brook.