Department of Physics
Professor Calvin W. Johnson
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Talks
TALKS
Invited Talks at National and International Meeting
1. ``Monte Carlo Path Integrals for the Nuclear Shell Model, '' Computational Physics `91 Conference, San Jose CA, April 1991.
2. ``The Fate of &Be in the Sun,'' Workshop on the Atomic/Nuclear Frontier (sponsored by DAMOP) Reno, Nevada, May 16, 1993.
3. ``Finite boson mappings of fermion systems,'' International Conference on Perspectives for the Interacting Boson Model, Padua, Italy, June 1994.
4. ``Orderly spectra from random interactions,'' XXII Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Oaxtepec, Mexico, January 1999.
5. ``Random matrices in nuclear stucture,'' International Workshop on Advances in the Nuclear Shell Model, Trento, Italy, June 1999.
6. ``Order from Chaos in the Shell Model,'' Tenth International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topic, Santa Fe, September 1999.
7. ``Random matrix calculations of level densities and strength functions,'' International Workshop on Nuclear Level Densities, Livemore, October 1999.
8. ``Pairing from random interactions,'' Shell Model 2000, RIKEN, Japan, March 2000.
9. ``Order from Chaos in the Nuclear Shell Model,'' APS Spring Meeting, Long Beach CA, April 2000.
10. "Collectivity, Chaos, and Computing," Computational and Group Theoretical Methods in Nuclear Physics, Playa del Carmen, Mexico Feburary 2003.
11. “Order from randomness in quantum many-body systems,” 2nd Meeting of the University of Alberta Theoretical Physics Institute, Banff, Canada, August 2003.
12. “Shorcuts to Nuclear Structures: Lessons and Applications of Hartree-Fock and RPA,” Blueprints for the Nucleus Conference, Feza Gürsey Institute, İstanbul, Turkey.
Departmental Colloquia
1. “Adventures in the Many-body problem,''New Mexico State University, Jan 1993.
2. “Adventures in the Many-body problem,'' University of Arizona, September 1993.
3. “Adventures in the Many-body problem,'' Notre Dame, February 1994.
4. “Neutrinos in the Universe,'' Louisiana State University, March 1995.
5. “Order Out of Chaos in Atomic Nuclei,'' San Diego State University, Feb, 2001.
6. “Boing! Boing! The bouncing nucleus,” CSU Los Angeles, April 2004.
Other Talks
1. ``Supernova contributions to the Mo-Tc experiment,'' Caltech, August 1988.
2. ``Supernova contributions to the Mo-Tc experiment," Los Alamos, October 1988.
3. "Geochemical integration of the galactic neutrino flux from stellar collapses,'' APS DNP meeting Santa Fe, October 1988.
4. "A Full 4hw Calculation of 16O and Gamow-Teller strengths'' UCLA, Feb 1990.
5. "Mining for Supernova Neutrinos, '' University of Wisconsin, October 1990.
6. "Weak interaction rates in 16O '' APS DNP meeting Urbana-Champaign, Oct 1990.
7. "A Full 4hw Calculation of 16O ,'' MIT, Feburary 1991.
8. "Electro-integration of the deuteron,'' MIT-Bates Lab, February 1991.
9. "Electro-integration of the deuteron,'' APS DNP meeting East Lansing, Oct 1991.
10. "Fate of 7Be in the Sun,'' Michigan State University, January 1992.
11. "Monte Carlo Path Integrals for the Nuclear Shell Model,'' University of Frankfurt, June 1992.
12. ``Monte Carlo Path Integrals for the Nuclear Shell Model,'' Niels Bohr Institute, June 1992.
13. ``Monte Carlo Path Integrals for the Nuclear Shell Model,''University of Munster, June 1992.
14. ``Fate of 7Be in the Sun,'' International Conference on Nuclei in the Cosmos, Karlsruhe Germany, July 1992.
15. ``Monte Carlo Path Integrals for the Nuclear Shell Model,'' University of Washington, September 1992.
16. ``Monte Carlo Path Integrals for the Nuclear Shell Model,'' CEBAF, Dec 1992.
17. ``Optimal Paths for Response Functions,'' APS Washington Meeting, April 1993.
18. ``Exact Fermion-pair-to-boson mapping,'' Caltech, June 1993.
19. ``Monte Carlo methods for the many-body problem,'' Florida State University, August 1993.
20. ``Mean fields for fermion pairs,'' Workshop on High Spins and Novel Deformations, Trento, Italy, December 1993.
21. ``Exact fermion-pair to boson mapping,'' Michigan State University, February 1994.
22. ``Spin-offs (boson mappings) from the AFMC project,'' Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods for the Nuclear Shell Model, Trento, Italy March 1994.
23. ``Frontiers in nuclear many-body physics,'' Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, May 1994.
24. ``Boson mappings and related topics,'' Michigan State University, August 1994.
25. ``Neutrinos in the Universe,'' TRIUMF, October 1995.
26. "Random matrix theory of effective interactions,'' International Conference on Microscopic Many-body Methods, European Centre for Theoretical Studies, Trento, Italy, May 1997.
27. "Random matrix theory of effective interactions,'' Los Alamos National Lab, July 1997.
28. "Random matrix theory of effective interactions,'' APS DNP Fall meeting, Whistler BC, October 1997.
29. "Order out of chaos in the shell model,'' Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, Washington, December 1997.
30. "Orderly spectra from random interactions,''APS DNP meeting, Santa Fe, Oct1998.
31. ``Orderly spectra from random interaction,'' APS Centenial Meeting, Atlanta, March 1999.
32. ``Orderly spectra from random interaction,'' Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Many-body systems, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, March 1999.
33. ``Random matrix calculations of strength functions,'' Workshop on Low-energy Neutrino Physics, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, July 1999.
34. ``Orderly spectra from random interaction,'' Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, September 1999.
35. ``Order from chaos in nuclei: recent developments,'' T-16, Los Alamos National Lab, February 2001.
36. ``Order out of Chaos in the Nuclear Shell Model,'' Triangle Universities Nuclear Physics Seminar, November 2001.
37. ``Statistical models of nuclear level densities,'' APS DNP Meeting, East Lansing, October 2002.
38. ``How to weigh a neutrino,'' Astronomy/Physics seminar, San Diego State, Nov 2002.
39. ''New and improved nuclear physics for nuclear astrophysics,'' Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, UCSD, April 2003.
40. “Order from random interactions: review and prospects,” International Workshop on Recent Advances in the Nuclear Shell Model, ECT*, Trento, Italy, June 2003.
41. “Boing! Boing! The bouncing nucleus,” Physics colloquium, San Diego State, Oct 2003.
42. “Microscopic modeling of nuclear level densities using spectral distribution theory,” 2004 SSSA Program Symposium, Albuquerque, March 2004.
42. “Microscopic modeling of nuclear level densities using spectral distribution theory,” T-16 seminar, Los Alamos National Lab, March 2004.
43. “Microscopic modeling of nuclear level densities using spectral distribution theory,” Nuclear Theory and Modeling seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, June 2004.
44. “Gamow-Teller transitions and deformation in RPA,” APS DNP meeting, Chicago, October 2004.
45. “Nuclear level densities from spectral distribution theory,” APS DNP meeting, Chicago, October 2004.
46. “RPA and the shell model,” Institute for Nuclear Theory, U. Washington, November 2004.
47. “Recent developments in shell model-based calculations of nuclear level densities,” Lawrence Livermore National Lab, June, 2005.