• Colloquium Friday Mar 2, 2018 at 2 pm: Uncertainty Quantification in the supercomputing era, Dr. Rodrigo Navarro Perez, Ohio University

    Colloquium Friday Mar 2, 2018 at 2 pm: Uncertainty Quantification in the supercomputing era, Dr. Rodrigo Navarro Perez, Ohio University

    Colloquium Friday Mar 2, 2018 at 2 pm: Uncertainty Quantification in the supercomputing era, Dr. Rodrigo Navarro Perez, Ohio University Room P-148, Physics building.  Refreshments served at 1:45 pm. ABSTRACT: Uncertainty quantification has seen a strong renewed interest in recent years within the theoretical nuclear physics community and its importance can hardly be overstated. As…

  • Colloquium Friday Feb 23, 2018, 2 pm: “Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Lattice QCD,” Dr. Evan Berkowitz, Forschungszentrum Jülich

    Colloquium Friday Feb 23, 2018, 2 pm: “Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Lattice QCD,” Dr. Evan Berkowitz, Forschungszentrum Jülich

    Colloquium Friday Feb 23, 2018, 2 pm: “Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics,” Dr. Evan Berkowitz, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institut für Kernphysik  ABSTRACT: Experiments both planned and under way hunt for an exotic nuclear decay where two protons decay into two neutrons, two electrons, and no neutrinos.  Such a spectacular decay would ensure neutrinos…

  • Colloquium Friday Nov 3 at 2 pm: “It’s Maps All the Way Up (and Down)”

    Colloquium Friday Nov 3 at 2 pm: “It’s Maps All the Way Up (and Down)”

    Colloquium: It’s Maps All the Way Up (and Down) Speaker: Prof. Martin Sereno, SDSU MRI Imaging Center Time: 2:00 p.m., Friday, November 3 (refreshments served at 1:45 p.m.) Place: P-148 Abstract: Topological maps of receptor sheets have long been known to characterize early stages of sensory processing in the brain. But two-dimensional topological maps have…

  • Colloquium Friday Sept 15, 2017: Prof. Ken Nollett “Nuclear collisions from the ground up“

    Colloquium Friday Sept 15, 2017: Prof. Ken Nollett “Nuclear collisions from the ground up“

    Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Nollett, Physics Department, SDSU   Topic: “Nuclear collisions from the ground up“   Time: 2:00 p.m., Friday, September 15th (refreshments served at 1:45 p.m.)   Place: P-148   Abstract:  Nucleons — neutrons and protons — have strong and complicated interactions with each other, and their fermionic nature adds to the difficulty of modeling a…

  • Tenure track faculty position in theoretical nuclear physics

    Tenure track faculty position in theoretical nuclear physics

    The Department of Physics at San Diego State University is searching for a tenure-track faculty member in theoretical nuclear physics/nuclear astrophysics, starting fall of 2018 at the level of assistant professor. The Department has strong groups in experimental optics, theoretical/ computational physics (nuclear physics, astrophysics, general relativity, and soft matter), medical physics, and experimental condensed…