Open House Schedule -- February 15-16 2007

Activities for students arriving before the start of the Open House Program:
              Statistical Mechanics 8:30am-9:45 am Room 150;
               
Start of Formal Open House Program:
Thursday 15 February 1:00pm  --  Faculty Presentations -- Room 154

Time
 Speaker
 Group



1:00pm
 Gauthier
 Welcome from Chair
1:10pm
 Springer/Ruger
 Welcome from DGS; Instructions
1:15pm
 Finkelstein
 Quantum CM
1:30pm
 Howell
 Nuclear Experiment
1:45pm
 Behringer
 CM/Nonlinear



2:00pm
 break
 break



2:15pm
 Walter
 High Energy Experiment
2:30pm
 Thomas
 Ultracold Fermi Gases and Quantum Optics
2:45pm
 Plesser
 Particle Theory; Community Outreach

Poster Session: Thursday 15 February 3:00--5:00pm -- Room 154

Presenter
 Topic


Ye/Zhu/Zheng
 Neutron EDM experiment
Lu/Zong
 Physics program with A high pressure polarized 3He target @ HIGS
Qian
 Neutron transversity experiment at JLab
Chen
 Photopion production from JLab
Blackston/Henshaw/Perdue/Stave
 Research opportunities at the upgraded HIGS facility
Clancy/Joseph/Luo
 Optically Trapped Fermi Gas
Sun
 Gamma-ray Beam Imaging System
Dawes
 Ultra-Low-Light-Level All-Optical Switching
Makarovski
 Electronic properties of Carbon nanotubes
Behringer nonlinear group
 Granular Materials and Thin Films, Experiment and Theory
Wendell
 Atmospheric Neutrinos at Super-K
Tanimoto
 Measuring Neutrino Oscillations with T2K
Albert
 Neutrino Magnetic Moments
Esterline
 Neutron Time of Flight Physics Group
Kiser
 Nuclear Physics Techniques for Plant Research
Hutcheson
 Neutron Induced Partial Gamma Ray Cross Section Measurements on Uranium
Greenberg
 Theoretical Optimization of a DAVLL System in Rubidium
Baranger/Chandrasekharan
 Coherence and Correlations in Electronic Nanostructures
Kidd
 Double Beta Decay of Mo-100 to Excited Final States

5:00pm-5:30pm: Fill in Friday Group Visit Sheets and give them to Springer.

6:30pm -- Reception at Chair Dan Gauthier's house.

Friday 16 February 2007 -- Group Visits -- use this schedule to fill in signup sheets.
Time
 Topic
 Location
8:45-9:30am
 Duke Physics Program Overview -- Director of Graduate Studies Springer
 Room 298
9:30am-10:15am
 Bio project -- Gauthier
 187
9:30am-11:30am
 Experimental Nanophysics -- Finkelstein (plus nanophysics students available all day)
 0055
9:30am-11:45am
 Relativistic Heavy Ion Theory -- Bass
 261D
9:30am-12pm Climate Change Studies on Plants/Few-Nucleon Physics -- Howell
 TUNL 414
9:30am-12pm Medium Energy Physics Group--Chen/Gao/Lu/Ye/Zong/Zhu
 TUNL 426
9:30am-12pm
 Weller Nuclear Exp. Group -- Stave
 TUNL 406
9:30am-4pm
 Neutrino Physics, Few-Body Physics at TUNL and HIGS, and Homeland Security Studies -- Tornow
 TUNL 408
9:30am-4pm
 Exp. Granular Physics/Thin Films --Mukhopadhyay/Yu (Behringer also available except 10:20-11:30am and 1-2pm)
 073/076/080/081
9:30am-5:30pm
 Atom Cooling and Trapping -- Clancy/Joseph/Luo (9am-noon visits are preferred)
 157 and 151
10:15am-11am
 Chaos project -- Gauthier
 187
11am-12:00pm
 High Energy Physics Experimental Group
278
12pm - 1pm
 Graduate Student Seminar -- Lunch provided
 Room 150
1pm-4pm
 Neutrino Physics -- Scholberg/Walter
 271/273
1-2pm
 Nonlinear/quantum optics -- Gauthier
 187
1-2pm
 TUNL tour -- Howell/Kiser
 meet in TUNL lobby
2-3pm
 Duke Campus Tour -- Greenberg/Norrell
 meet in Physics foyer
3-4pm
 FEL tour and research discussions -- Wu
 meet host in Physics foyer
4-5pm
 Nonlinear/CM/Complex Systems theory -- Socolar
 096
4-5pm
 Neutrino Group Meeting
 278
4-5pm
 Nuclear and Particle Theory -- Springer
 252
5:30pm
 Closeout Meeting -- Associate Chair Haiyan Gao
 room 154
6:00pm
 Weather permitting, Ronen Plesser takes visitors viewing with telescopes in Duke Forest
Meet in Physics foyer
TBA
 Dinner with Graduate Students
 Meet at Brookwood Inn or TBA