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The Physics Seminar usually takes place in HSCI-103 (map), 12-1pm unless specified otherwise. Please bring your own lunch and drinks to the seminar!


THESIS DEFENSE

Modified Gravity with Scale Invariance and Implications

Nejdeh Nersessian

Department of Physics & Astronomy, CSU Long Beach

Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 4pm, in FO3-200A

 

Modified gravity that emerges from an explicitly broken scale invariant extension of the Weinberg Salam model is studied in the light of present ideas on inflation and empirical evidence on dark matter and dark energy. Inflation requires the presence of scalar fields interacting with gravitational interactions; dark matter requires the existence of matter that is non baryonic and weakly interacting, while dark energy requires the presence of either the cosmological term or vacuum energy.  All these ingredients are naturally present in the scale invariant standard model.

 


 

For information and suggestions about the Physics Seminars please contact the coordinator:
Name: Prof. Prashanth Jaikumar
Phone: (562) 985-5592
Email: pjaikuma@csulb.edu


For the colloquium please visit the colloquium page.

Physics Seminars

are "brown bag seminars" where we discuss in an informal setting new developments in the research groups at the department, in the physics community, or concepts to which a usual lecture cannot devote enough time.

Theses defenses

Each Master's student should present in about 30min his/her thesis. Announcements are made on this page.

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Seminar Schedule

Academic Year 2010-2011

Date Title Speaker and Affiliation
Fall 2011
December 7, 2011, 4pm, FO3-200A Modified Gravity with Scale Invariance and Implications N. Nersessian, CSULB (Thesis)
October 6, 2011, 12pm, HSCI-103 Magnetism of Granular Systems M. Salazar, Pitt College, NC, and Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
September 30, 12pm, HSCI-103 Metallo-Organic Thin Films: Photocurrents and Magnetism J. Guerra, T. Gredig, CSULB
Spring 2011
August 29, 11am, PH2-110 Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy with Optical Antennas T. Taubner, RWTH Aachen, Germany
August 16, 10:30am, PH2-110 Life Beyond Diffraction: Nano Imaging Spectroscopy with Optical Antennas J. Schuck, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
August 1, 2pm, PH2-110 Visible and Infrared Optical Studies of Nanoparticles
Using Aperturless Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
Z. Nuño, CSULB (Thesis)
June 24, 2pm, PH2-110

Near-Field Investigation of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance iin Gold Nanospheres and Plasmonic Nanoantennas

B. Heidberg, CSULB (Thesis)
June 24, 11am, PH2-110

Generalizations in the Theory of the Non-Equilibrium Grain Size Distribution during the crystallization of a solid

K.S. Lokovic, CSULB (Thesis)
June 22, 2pm, PH1-223 Trap State Dependence on Morphology of Zinc Phthalocyanine Thin Films E. Karadayi, CSULB (Thesis)
April 18, 2pm, FO3-200
Unusual Properties of the Superconducting Ferromagnet UCoGe D. Krstovska, Fullbright Scholar, National High Magnetic Field lab (NHFML), Tallahassee & Ss. Cyril and Methodius Univ. Skopje, Macedonia (Special lecture)
February 18, 11:30am, PH1-220
Modern Particle Physics: LHC Era and its Consequences S. Abachi & students (Brown Bag Seminar)
February 11, 12pm, PH1-219
Faddeev Approach to Heavy Baryons Joseph Day (Brown Bag Seminar), University of Graz, Austria.
Fall 2010
December 15, 3pm, PH1-219
Exploration of Superconducting Spin Valve Effect in Various Permalloy/Niobium Structures Michael Hetman (Thesis)
November 19, 12pm, PH1-219
Magnetic Properties of Permalloy-Niobium Hybrid Systems J. Gu & Jill Pestana (Brown Bag Seminar)
November 3, 4pm, PH1-223
Broadband Infrared Near-Field Nanoscopy F. Keilmann, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany
October 15, 12pm, PH1-219
Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Gravitational Waves P. Jaikumar, S. Sandalski, and S. Koshi (Brown Bag Seminar)
October 8, 2pm, PH2-110
Creating a Lesson that Addresses Gender Differences in Learning Physics James Lincoln (Thesis)
Summer 2010
August 26, 11am, PH2-110 Electronic Properties of Graphene Multilayers and Graphite Thin Films Julius de Rojas (Thesis)
July 6, 11am, PH2-110 Fluorescence Lifetime of Uranyl Glass Measured with Ligh-Emmitting Diodes Roberta Johnson (Thesis)
June 29, 11am, PH2-110 Numerical Modeling of the Singlet Proximity Effect in a Superconductor-Ferromagnet Trilayer Adam Richie-Halford (Thesis)
June 28,2pm, PH2-110 Understanding Gold Nano-Islands Formation Using Transport Measurements Toyanath Joshi (Thesis)
May 21,11am, PH2-110 Mophological Characteristics of Iron Phthalocyanine Thin Films and Magnetic Properties of Quasi One-Dimensional Iron Chains Evan Silverstein (Thesis)

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Last update: 12/5/11

Thesis Presentation

Electronic Properties of Graphene Multilayers and Graphite Thin Films

Julius de Rojas, CSU Long Beach

Thursday, August 26, 2010, 11am PH2-110

Colloquium

Meet & Mix!

Information session for undergraduate & graduate students of the department

Monday Sept. 13, 2010, 11am PH2-110

CSULB Pyramid with mountains in background

 

The Physics Department wishes everyone a good and productive summer!