| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| September 5 | Linda Hlophe | Observation
of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay,
F. P. An et al.,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171803 (2012). Faculty adviser: Julie Roche |
| September 12 | Harsha Attanayake | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| September 19 | Arbin Thapaliya | Observation of a new boson
at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC,
The CMS Collaboration, arXiv:1207.7235v1. Faculty adviser: Ken Hicks |
| September 26 | Dilu Divaratne | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 3 | Brian Muccioli | Dark Matter Results
from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data,
The XENON100 Collaboration, arXiv:1104.2549. Faculty adviser: Prakash |
| October 10 | Bijaya Acharya | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 17 | Sushil Dhakal | Search
for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in 136Xe with EXO-200,
M. Auger Synopsis: Looking for No Neutrinos. Faculty adviser: Paul King |
| October 24 | Cody Parker | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 31 | Alina Karki | At the Frontiers of Fundamental Science
Research,
Rose Hansen, Science and Technology Review Jan/Feb 2012
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory article about NIF). Faculty adviser: Carl Brune |
| November 7 | Azmat Orazbayev | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| November 14 | Andrea Richard | The 2012
Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Serge Haroche and
David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable
measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
Popular and
advanced information is available from the Nobel Prize website. Faculty adviser: Charlotte Elster |
| November 28 | Youngshin Byun | Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, M. Ackermann et al. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett 107, 241302 (2012). Faculty advser: Daniel Phillips |
| December 5 | Anthony Ramirez | Discussion of questions from previous week. |