Professional Talks Since 1998
given by
John G. Learned

(Invited talks indicated by *)


1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 -


Talks in 2009

Wichita State Univ., 15 April 2009, "The Age of Neutrino Physics" *
Cornell University, 13 April 2009, Colloquium, "The Age of Neutrino Physics" *
UC Berkeley, KamLAND Collaboration Meeting, 20 March 2009, "Prospects for Liquid Scintillation Detectors Employing GeV Neutrinos: the Fermat Surface"
Neutrino Monitoring Workshop, 16 March 2009, Honolulu, Haawii, Hilton Village, "Liquid Sintillation Detectors for High Energy Neutrinos"
Neutrino Monitoring Workshop, 16 March 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, Hilton Village, "New Ideas in Long Range Reactor Monitoring with Neutrinos"
Science Cafe, Hawaii Acad. of Sciences, 24 February 2009, public lecture, "ET: So where is he?" *
IfA Seminar, 26 January 2009 "A Message from the CEPHEIDS?" Rolf Kudritzki (Dir. IfA) and John Learned *

Talks in 2008

Frontiers of Astronomy Community Event, 3 December 2008, Art Auditorium, UHM, "It's About Time", with Bob Joseph, John Learned, Klaus Keil and Gareth Wynn-Williams.*
LLNL Colloquium, 4 August 2008, Livermore, CA, "Mobile Neutrino Detectors for Mixing, Masses, Geology and Reactor Snooping"*
KITP Program: Boundary Layers in the Earth, 24 July 2008, Santa Barbara, CA, "Geoneutrinos: Hanohano, a New Deep Ocean Project to Measure the Mantle U/Th Content"*
KITP Colloquium, 26 June 2008, Santa Barbara, CA, "Mobile Neutrino Detectors for Mixing, Masses, Geology and Reactor Snooping"*
American Geophysical Union, 25 May 2006, Baltimore, "New Driections in Neutrino Research: Mobile Detectors for Geology, Mixing and Mass Hierarchy, and Anti-Proliferation" *
Particle Astrophysics Seminar, 9 June 2008, U/ Wash., Seattle, "New Directions in Neutrino Research"*
Neutrino 2008, 26 May 2008, Christchurch, New Zealand, "Detection of Geoneutrinos"*
KamLAND Collaboration Meeting, 18 March 2008, CalTech, "Future Detectors"*
AAW, 3 January 2008, U. Maryland, College Park, MD, "Introductory Talk on Neutrino Monitoring"*

Talks in 2007

WAAP07, ICP, 13 December 2007, Paris, France, "Introductory talk: Neutrinos for Pedestrians"*
WAAP07, ICP, 13 December 2007, Paris, France, "Hanohano"*
WAAP07, ICP, 13 December 2007, Paris, France, "Towards Monitoring Nuclear Explosions with Neutrinos"*
15 November 2007, Department Colloquium, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, "Hanohano"*
8 November 2007, ARCS Scientist of the Year Award Lecture, Honolulu. HI, "Seeing Inside the Earth with Neutrinos"*
12 October 2007, University of Rome, Italy, "Hanohano"*
10 October 2007, ICATPP 2007, Como, Italy, "Large Low Energy Neutrino Detectors"*
31 July 2007, NESTOR Laboratory, Pylos, Greece, "Hanohano"*
30 July 2007, Democritus National Laboratory, Athens, Greece, "Hanohano"*
Aspen Center for Physics, 29 May 2007, Aspen, Colorado, "Hanohano"*
DOE, 23 May 2007, Germantown, Maryland, "Hanohano, Physics"
NSF, 21 May 2007, Washington, D.C., "Hanohano, Physics"
VHEPA-6, 16 March 2007, Hilo, HI, "High Energy Neutrino Experiments"*
Neutrino Telescopes, 7 March 2007, Venice, Italy, "Measuring Theta_13 with a Remote Detector of Reactor Anti-Neutrinos"*

Talks in 2006

Neutrino Pre-Town Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico , 18 October 2006, "The Hanohano Project"
LANL, Los ALamos, New Mexico, 17 November 2006, " Hanohano: A Deep Ocean Anti-Neutrino Observatory"*
DPF, APS, Honolulu, HI, 31 October 2006, " ASHRA: Summary of Project and Achievements"
AAPW, LLNL, California, 26 September 2006, " Hanohano: A Deep Ocean Anti-Neutrino Observatory"*
AAPW, LLNL, California, 26 September 2006, " Hanohano: A Deep Ocean Anti-Neutrino Observatory"*
NNN06, Seattle, 22 September 2006, "A Deep Ocean Anti-Neutrino Observatory"*
American Geophysical Union, 25 May 2006, Baltimore, "Probing the Earth's Interior with Neutrinos"*
Briefing at NSF with representatives from Physics, Geology and MRE, 26 May 2006, "Hanohano: A Project to study the interior of the earth with neutrinos, carry out neutrino physics measurments, and study long range monitoring of nuclear events"
Briefing at DTRA, DOD, Ft. Belvoir, 24 May 2006, "Hanohano: A Project to study the interior of the earth with neutrinos, carry out neutrino physics measurments, and study long range monitoring of nuclear events."
Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, 9 May 2006, "All About Neutrinos in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology"*
Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, 10 May 2006, "Probing the Earth's Interior with Neutrinos, and Other Neutrino Applications"
Invited talk, Light06, Eilat, Israel 9-12 January 2006, "Exotic applications of very large-area photon detector surface experiments - performance requirements for present and future experiments."*
Contributed talk, Light06, Eilat, Israel 9-12 January 2006, "Tracking in Large Scintillation Detectors."

Talks in 2005

Neutrino Geosciences, 14 December 2005, "Neutrino Geosciences Conference Introduction"
Punahou School, 14 November 2005, "Neutrino Studies at UH"*
Mercury Club, Honolulu, 24 October 2005, "Is There a Nuclear Reactor at te Center of the Earth?"*
Colloquium, Wuppertal, Germany, 20 May 2005, "Detecting Ultra High Energy Neutrinos"*
ARENA Workshop, DESY-Zeuten, Berlin, 19 May 2005, "Conference Summary Speaker"*
Colloquium, LSU, Baton Rouge, 13 May 2005, "The Search for a Georeactor at the Core of the Earth"*
High Energy Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, 10 May 2005, "The Search for a Georeactor at the Core of the Earth"*
KamLAND Collaboration Meeting, Gatlinburg, Tn, 4 April 2005, "Hanohano: KamLAND in the Ocean Near Hawaii"
KamLAND Collaboration Meeting, Gatlinburg, Tn, 3 April 2005, "An Imaging Scintillation Detector"
11th Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice, 23 February 2005, "New Methods for UHE Neutrino Detection"*
SALSA Meeting, SLAC, 4 February 2005, "Prospects for Acoustic Neutrino Detection in Salt"*


Talks in 2004

XII ISVHECRI, Pylos Greece, 7 Sept. 2004 UHE Neutrinos, ANITA, ASHRA*
2004 Neutrino Workshop, Aspen Center for Physics, 12 July 2004``Neutrinos from a Natural Reactor at the Earth's Core"
Neutrino 2004, Paris, 15 June 2004 , ``Reactor Monitoring Near and Far with Neutrinos''*
AIP Neutrino Study Meeting, CalTech, 16 May 2004 , ``Is there a Nuclear Reactor at the Earth's Core?''*
AIP Neutrino Study Meeting, CalTech, 15 May 2004 , ``Reactor Monitoring with Anti-Neutrinos''*
Public Lecture, Downtown Speakers Club, Honolulu, 13 May 2004 , ``A Neutrino Universe''*
Faculty Seminars, UHM, 21 April 2004 , ``All About Neutrinos''*
Heritage Luncheon, UH Foundation, 12 February 2004 , ``A Neutrino Universe''*
Neutrinos and Arms Control Workshop, East-West Center, UHM, 5 March 2004 , ``Monitoring All Earth's Reactors''


Talks in 2003

Proton Decay Workshop, UCLA, 6 December 2003 , ``A Gigaton Nucleon Decay Detector''*
Physics Colloquium, UHM, 4 December 2003 , ``A Gigaton Detector to Monitor All the World's Reactors''*
Workshop on Acoustic Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Detection, Stanford U., 13 September 2003 , ``Early Work on Acoustic Detection'' and ``The Kamchatka Array''*
Physics Colloquium, Princeton U., 1 May 2003 , ``News on Nus: A Neutrino Universe''*
Seminar, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB, 29 April 2003 , ``Future Studies with Reactor and Solar Neutrinos''*
Physics Colloquium, U.C. Irvine, 17 April 2003 , ``News on Nus: A Neutrino Universe''*
Toward Very High Energy Particle Astronomy - (VHEPA-3), ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, 21 March 2003 ``VHE Neutrino Observation''*
Toward Very High Energy Particle Astronomy - (VHEPA-3), ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, 21 March 2003 ``Underwater Neutrino Astronomy''*
Toward Very High Energy Particle Astronomy - (VHEPA-3), ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, 22 March 2003 ``Closing Remarks''*
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard, Cambridge MA, 20 February 2003 , ``New Develpoments in Neutrino Physics and Astronomy ''*


Talks in 2002

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Physics Colloquium, U. Texas, 13 November 2002 , ``New Develpoments in Neutrino Physics and Astronomy ''*
High Energy Physics Seminar, U. Texas, 11 November 2002 , ``Muon Neutrino Oscillations: Review of Evidence and Alternatives ''*
Fermilab, Heavenly Messengers Lecture Series, 24 October 2002, ``New Developments in Neutrino Physics and Astronomy ''*
Mexican Astrophysics Summer School, Guanajuato, Mexico 1-8 August, 2002, series of seven lectures on Neutrino Astrophysics*
Neutrino 2002, Munich, 25-30 May 2002, ``Alternative Techniques: Neutrino Astronomy with Novel Technology''*
NESTOR National Laboratory, Pylos Greece, Seminar, ``Update on Neutrino Mass and Oscillations''*, 30 April 2002.
Annual Meeting of the Hellenic Society for the Study of High Energy Physics, U. Patras, April 25-27, 2002, "Non-accelerator neutrino physics and astrophysics"*
Ken Young Memorial Symposium, U. Wash., Seattle, 23 April 2002, ``Neutrino Astronomy: Becoming a Reality at Last''.*
Univ. of Washington Institute for Nuclear Theory, Miniworkshop: Neutrino Masses \& Mixing, April 8 - 12, 2002, ``Update on Muon Neutrino Oscillations and Future Prospects''*
Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Telescope Workshop, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Mar 21-23, 2002 , ``Summary of Neutrino Astronomy''*, ``AMANDA Results and IceCube Status''*, ``Radio Detection of High Energy Particles''*


Talks in 2001

Colloquium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, U. Hawaii, Manoa, Sept. 2001, ``What's New in Neutrino Astronomy?''
27th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Hamburg, ``New Developments in Neutrino Astronomy'', plenary talk, Hamburg, 15 August 2001.*
NESTOR National Laboratory ``Update on Neutrino Oscillations Studies'', Pylos, Greece, 2 July 2001.*
Colloquium, Institute de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon, ``New Inititatives in Next Generation Nucleon Decay Experiments'' Lyon, 26 June 2001.*
Colloquium, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, ``Future Nucleon Decay Detectors'', and seminar ``Acoustic Detection of Super-High Energy Neutrinos'' 25 June 2001.*
Les HOUCHES EuroConference on NEUTRINO masses and mixings, ``Neutrino Telescopes'', Les Houches, 18-22 June 2001.*
Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, Research Progress Seminar, ``Next Generation Nucleon Decay Detectors'', LBL, 7 May 2001.*
Physics Department Colloquium, U. Cal. Santa Cruz, ``A Neutrino Universe; Neutrinos Have Mass and Metamorphose Continuously'', UCSC 3 May 2001.*
5th Topical Workshop at the Gran Sasso Laboratory, Solar Neutrinos: Where are the Oscillations?, ``If Not Oscillations, then What?'', Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy, March 12-14, 2001.*


Talks in 2000

9th Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice, ``Nucleon Decay: What Can We Learn From a New Generation of Big Detectors?'', Venice, Italy, 7 March 2001.*
RADHEP-2000, ``Review of acoustic detection of UHE particles'', UCLA, Nov. 16-18, 2000.*
NOW 2000, Europhysics Neutrino Oscillation Workshop, ``The Future of the $\nu_\mu$ Oscillation Studies'', and Plenary talk on ``Atmospheric Neutrinos'' (with P. Lipari), Conca Specchiulla (Otranto, Italy), September 9-16, 2000.*
Neutrinos with Mass, Aspen Center for Physics Summer Workshop, Jun 26-Jul 16, 2000. ``Lectures on Muon Neutrino Disappearance'',
Manoa Forum Members Showcase, ``Neutrinos Have Mass'', Honolulu, 23 June 2000.*
NNN Nucleon Decay Workshop, ``Incorporating Nucleon Decay Detectors into Neutrino Observatories'', February 25-26, 2000 University of California, Irvine*. (http://www.ps.uci.edu/~nnn/agenda-files.html)
WHEPP-6, ''Daedalus: A Solar Neutrino in Highly Elliptical Solar Orbit'', Seminar at WHEPP-6, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, 3-15 January 2000.
WHEPP-6, ''Results from Atmospheric Neutrinos'', Plenary Talk at WHEPP-6, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, 3-15 January 2000.*

Talks in 1999

MuMu99, ``Atmospheric Neutrino Results from Super Kamiokande'', at the 5th International Conference on Physics Potential and Development of $\mu \mu$ Colliders (MuMu99). San Francisco on December 15-17, 1999.*
Manoa Forum VI, ``Collaboration in the High Energy Physics Community and Lessons for UH Manoa'', Honolulu, 15-16 October 1999.*
Colloquium, UH Dept of Physics and Astronomy, ``Update on the Neutrino Oscillations Studies with the Super-Kamiokande Experiment'' 30 September 1999.
NNN99 at SUNY-Stony Brook, ``Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations Results and Implications'', 22 September 1999*
U. Washington, Special Seminar, ``Neutrino Oscillations'', 17 June 1999*
Johns Hopkins, Neutrinos in the Next Millenium, ``A Review of Experimental Evidence on Neutrino Oscillations'', 10 June 1999*
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, General Colloquim, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass'', 21 May 1999*
Academy of Sciences, Irvine, Reines Memorial, ``Neutrino Astronomy'', 13 March 1999*
U. Florence, Physics, Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations'', 2 March 1999*
U. Bologna, INFN Seminar, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations in SuperK'', 1 March 1999*
Venice, Neutrino Telescopes '99, ``The Future of Neutrino Physics In Europe'', 26 February 1999*.
Phi Beta Kappa Society, UHM Chapter, ``What is Neutrino Mass and Why Should you Care?'', 18 February 1999*
CINVESTAV, Mexico, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Mass and Oscillations'', and some informal lectures, 4-12 January 1999*


Talks in 1998

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NESTOR Labortatory, Pylos, Greece, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in Super-Kamiokande'', 23 November 1998*
ETH, Zurich, Physics Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in Super-Kamiokande'', 19 November 1998*
U. Munich, Physics Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in Super-Kamiokande'', 18 November 1998*
Dortmund U., Physics Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in Super-Kamiokande'', 17 November 1998*
Goettingen U., Physics Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in Super-Kamiokande'', 16 November 1998*
Northwestern U., Physics Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations andd Mass in SuperK'', 11 November 1998*
UCSD, HEP Seminar, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in SuperK'', 16 October 1998*
UCLA, Physics Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in SuperK'', 15 October 1998*
UCSB, Physics Colloquium, 'The Discovery of Nuetrino Oscillations and Mass in SuperK'', 13 October 1998*
UH Mathemantics Department Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass'', 18 September 1998*
Fermilab, Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in SuperK'', 15 July 1998
Oxford, SUSY'98, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in SuperK'', 13 July 1998*
DESY-Zeuten, Workshop on High Energy Neutrino Detectors, talks on ``High Energy Neutrino Astronomy'', and ``A Next Generation Low Energy Neutrino Detector'', 6-10 July 1998*
SLAC, Special Seminar, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations in SuperK'', 29 June 1998*
LBL Special Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations in SuperK'', 25 June 1998*
Aspen'98, Neutrino Workshop, seminars on ``Neutrino Oscillations Results from SuperK'' and ``The Neutrino Eye, a Next Generation Neutrino and Nucleon Decay Detector'', 22 June - 3 July 1998
WEIN'98, ``A Review of the Search for Nucleon Decay'', Santa Fe, 18 June 1998*
UH, Institute for Astronomy, Special Colloquium, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in Super-Kamiokande'', 12 June 1998*
Physics at Cosmic Accelerators: First Workshop, Burg Liebenzell, Germany, ``Results on Atmospheric Neutrinos from the Super-Kamiokande Experiment'', 1-5 April 1998.*
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Colloquium,, ``The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass in Super-Kamiokande'', 5 February 1998*