Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar Archive 2014

Date Speaker Title
Jan. 3     No seminar.  Happy New Year!
Jan. 10  Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University

 Order of Magnitude Smaller Limit on the EDM of the Electron
Jan. 17  Ben Freemire
IIT (MuCool)
 High Pressure Gas Filled RF Cavities for use in Muon Accelerators
Jan. 24  Tae Min Hong
U. Penn (ATLAS)
 VBF Higgs at ATLAS
Jan.
29

Wed,
1:30 pm
 Tord Ekelof
Uppsala U.
 ESSνSB – a very high intensity neutrino beam experiment 

measuring neutrino CP violation at the second oscillation maximum

Jan. 31  Nima Arkani-Hamed
IAS
 Towards the Next Big Circular Colliders
Feb.
6
Thu, 4 pm

 Andreas Jung
Fermilab (D0)
 Top Quark Differential Cross Sections at D0
Feb. 7  Brandon Eberly
U. of Pittsburgh
 Probing Nuclear Physics with Neutrino Pion Production
at MINERvA
Feb. 14  Oliver Gutsche
 Fermilab (CMS)
 Recent Top Pair Asymmetry Measurements at CMS
Feb. 21  Matteo Cremonesi
University of Oxford (
CDF)
-and-
 Reinhard Schwienhorst
MSU (D0)

 Observation of s-channel single-top-quark production
at the Tevatron

Feb. 28  Francis Halzen
 U. of Wisconsin (IceCube)
 Icecube and the Discovery of High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrino
Mar. 7  Hitoshi Yamamoto
Tohoku University
 The ILC – status and prospects
Mar. 14
 Lauren Hsu
Fermilab 
(CDMS)
 Search for Low Mass WIMPs with SuperCDMS
Mar. 21  Felix Sefkow
DESY (CALICE)
 
 Imaging Calorimeters: The New Look of Hadrons
Mar. 28  Yuri Gershtein 
Rutgers U.
(CMS)
 Winter 2014 Physics Results from CMS
Apr. 4  Oleg Brandt
U. of Heidelberg (D0)
 Top
quark mass measurements at DZero: how precise does it get?

Apr.
8
Tue, 4pm

 Jonathan Paley
Argonne (MIPP)
 Measurement of Charged Pion Production Yields off the
NuMI Target in  the MIPP Experiment
Apr. 11  Abby Vieregg
U. of Chicago (BICEP2)
 Detection of B-mode Polarization on Degree Angular Scales with the
BICEP2  Experiment at the South Pole
Apr. 18  Tracy Slatyer
MIT
 Characterizing a Potential Dark Matter Signal in γ-Rays from
the Central Milky Way

Apr. 25  Nhan Tran
Fermilab
(CMS)
 The
Evolution of Jets at the LHC: Jets, Subjets and Particles


May 2  Maxim Pospelov
Perimeter & U. of Victoria
 Broadening the Search for New Physics at Intensity Frontier
Experiments

May
8
Thu, 4PM
3NE WH
 Steve Olsen
Seoul National U. (Belle)
 A New Hadron Spectroscopy
May 9  Tammy Walton
Hampton U. & Fermilab
 
 Exclusive Muon and Proton Quasielastic-like Scattering at MINERvA
May
15
Thu, 4PM
 Regina Demina
 Rochester (D0)
 Top Forward Backward Asymmetry at D0
May 16  Akira Yamamoto
KEK
 Progress Towards ILC in Japan
May 23  Junjie Zhu 
U. of Michigan (ATLAS)
 First evidence of same-sign WW production in
vector boson scattering  process at ATLAS
May 30  Mark Messier
Indiana University (NOvA)
 NOvA Status and Prospects
June 6  Salvatore Rappoccio
(CMS)
 Recent Searches for New Physics With Top Quarks at CMS
June 13  Dmitry Bandurin
U. of Virginia

 Probing the nucleon structure with multiple patron interactions at D0
June 20  Silvia Pascoli
Durham U.
 Neutrinos: Towards an Understanding of the Origin of
Neutrino Masses  and Mixing Beyond the Standard Model

June 27  Jahred Adelman
Yale (ATLAS)
 Searches for New Physics at ATLAS Using Pair Production of Higgs
Bosons

July 4    No seminar
July 11  Tulika Bose
 Boston U.
 Summer 2014 Results from CMS
July 18  Sabine Lammers
Indiana U. (ATLAS)
 
 Vector Boson Fusion Production at ATLAS
July 25  Soo-Bong Kim
Seoul National U. (RENO)
 Recent Results from RENO
Aug. 1  Aaron Higuera
Rochester & Guanajuato
 Coherent Charged Pion Production at MINERvA
Aug. 8
 No seminar.
Aug. 15  Tom LeCompte
Argonne
 The Higgs: Past, Present and Future
Aug. 22  Raman Sundrum
U. of Maryland
 Super-Natural vs. Other-Worldly in Fundamental Physics
Aug. 29  Sanjay Padhi
UC San Diego
 Next steps in the Energy Frontier – Hadron Colliders
Sep. 5
 Cancellation
– no seminar.
Sep. 12
 Chris Neu
U. of Virginia
(CMS)
 Latest Results on the Higgs Boson from CMS
Sep.
19
1 PM
 Fabrizio Palla
 INFN Pisa & CERN (CMS)

 The Rare Decay Bs to mu mu at CMS
Sep. 26  Alberto Marchionni
Fermilab

 50 Years of Accelerator-Based Neutrino Beams, and More to
Come

Oct. 3  Ornella Palamara
Fermilab
 
 Detection of Short Range Correlated nucleon pairs in charged-current
neutrino interactions at ArgoNeuT

Oct. 10  Gray Rybka
U. of Washington

 Toward
a Measurment of Neutrino Masses with Cyclotron Radiation
Emission Spectroscopy: First results from Project 8
Oct. 17  Lisa
Whitehead
U. of Huston
 Hitting
from the baseline: Long-baseline neutrino studies

Oct. 24  Graham
Farmelo
Cambridge & Northeastern
 Paul
Dirac: The Theorist’s Theorist   —   (joint with
the Colloquium)
Oct. 31  Wei Li
Rice U.(CMS)
 Recent
Results from Heavy Ion Collisions at CMS
Nov. 7  Morgan
Wascko
Imperial College (T2K)
 
 New
Measurements of Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering from T2K

Nov. 14  Breese
Quinn
U. of Mississippi
 The
Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society:
D0 Precision Measurements of EW Bosons from Birth to
Death
Nov.
21
 Simona
Murgia

UC Irvine (Fermi LAT)
 
Nov. 28 Day after
Thanksgiving
 No
seminar
Dec. 5  Martijn
Mulders
(CMS)
 Recent
Results on Top Quark Physics from CMS
Dec. 12  Alex
Himmel
Duke U. (T2K)
 Measuring
Neutrino Oscillations with the T2K Experiment

Dec. 19  Dave
Toback
Texas A&M

 Recent
Results from CDF
Dec. 26  Winter
break
 No
seminar. Happy Holidays!