Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar Archive 2015

Date Speaker Title
Jan. 2
   No
seminar. 
Happy New Year!
Jan. 9
 Trung Le
Rutgers

 Antineutrino Production of Neutral Pions in MINERvA
Jan. 16  John Paul Chou
Rutgers

 New Physics from CMS: Hints from Run 1 and Prospects for Run 2
Jan. 23  Eun-Joo Ahn
Fermilab 
 Surprising Results on the Composition of the Highest Energy Cosmic
Rays

Jan. 30  Hugh Lippincott
Fermilab
 Recent Results from PICO – Searching for Dark Matter with Bubble Chambers
Feb. 6
 Andrei Gaponenko
Fermilab
 Never throw away old data: using TWIST muons for Mu2e
Feb. 13  Peter Svoisky
U. of Oklahoma
 New QCD measurements with charm, beauty, and weak bosons at D0
Feb. 20  Stephen Parke
Fermilab
 What We Really know about the Neutrino Mixing matrix
Feb. 27  Alex Drlica-Wagner
Fermilab 
 Gamma-ray searches for Galactic dark matter substructure
Mar. 20  Hongxuan Liu
Baylor

 Recent SUSY Results from CMS and Future Prospects
Mar. 27  Robert Lanza
U. of Chicago 
 Limits on Gravitational Waves with the Holometer
Apr. 3
 LDRD-fest!

short talks
by Fermilab speakers

 Henryk Piekarz:  Development of HTS Based Rapid-Cycling Accelerator Magnets
Phil DeMar:  Application-Oriented Network Traffic Analysis based on
GPUs
Hogan Nguyen:  CMB Detector Development at Fermilab
Juan Estrada:     Prototype CCD Array at a Reactor Site for Detection of Coherent  Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction

Apr. 10  John Campbell
Fermilab
 
 Top at Twenty
Apr. 17  Luca Malgeri       CERN
Jim Olsen
Princeton

 Status of CMS on the Eve of Run 2
Apr. 24  Brian Yanny   – and –
Alex Drilca-Wagner
Fermilab
 Ultra-faint  Dwarf Galaxies, Dark Matter, and
Other Early Results from the Dark Energy Survey

May 1
 Daniel Whiteson
 
UC Irvine
 Observing
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones

May 8
 Joel Mousseau
U. of Florida

 First Search for EMC Effect and Shadowing in Neutrino Scattering at MINERvA
May 15  Si Xie
 
Cal Tech
 Higgs Boson Physics at CMS: Run 1 Legacy and Run 2 Projections
May 22  Kenneth Long
Imperial
College London

 MICE and the Next Generation of Muon Beams for Particle Physics
May 29
 Scott Dodelson

Fermilab

 Myth-Busters: Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope
June 5
 Kevin Black
Boston U. 
 A Search for Vector-Like Quarks with the ATLAS Detector
June 12   
 User’s meeting week. No seminar.
June 26  Carrie McGivern
 U. of Pittsburgh
 Charged Current Pion Production as Seen by Muons at MINERvA
July 3
 
 No
seminar. Happy Holiday.
July 10  Vivek Jain
SUNY Albany
 Search for Higgs Bosons produced in association with top quarks with ATLAS
July 24  Kendall Mahn
Michigan State U.

 New antineutrino oscillation results from the T2K experiment
July. 31
 Joel Butler
Fermilab 


 A Measurement of Bs→μ⁺μ⁻ at the LHC
Aug.
6
Thu, 2:00pm
Auditorium
Ryan Patterson
Caltech
 First Oscillation Results from NOvA    (video)
Aug. 7
 Ryuichiro Kitano

KEK
 Strong CP Problem and Axion on the Lattice
Aug. 14  Gilad Perez
Weizmann Institute

 Is the Higgs Mechanism of (light) Fermion Mass Generation a Fact?
From Theory to Experiment

Aug. 21  Keith Ellis
 Fermilab
 QCD in the 21st Century
Aug. 28  Artur Apresyan

Caltech
 First Results and Prospects from CMS at 13 TeV
Sep. 4
 Josh Frieman
Fermilab & U. Chicago
 Early Results from the Dark Energy Survey
Sep. 18  Jeremy Wolcott
 U. of Rochester
 Electron Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering and Observation  of Neutral-Current  Diffractive-like Process at MINERvA  (video)
Sep. 25  Boris Tuchming
 
CEA-Saclay
 Recent Top-Quark Results from D0
Oct. 2
 Paris Sphicas
Athens and CERN
 Summary of LHC results from LHCP2015 and outlook
Oct. 9
 Arie Bodek
Rochester
 

 Precise measurement of the weak mixing angle  and indirect determination of the W boson mass at CDF
Oct. 16  Mike Hance
UC, Santa Cruz

 Searches for Exotic Diboson Resonances at ATLAS
Oct. 23  Ben Loer
Fermilab

 SuperCDMS Now and Tomorrow (ppt)
Oct. 30  Hans Danielsson
CERN

 The NA62 Experiment
Nov. 6
 Antonio Boveia

CERN

 Searches for Dark Matter at ATLAS
Nov. 13
 US LHC Users Meeting (see agenda).
No Seminar.

Nov. 20  Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez

U. of Nebraska
 Recent Results from CMS on Top and Higgs
Nov. 27
 No seminar. Happy Holiday!
Dec. 4
 Lee McCuller
U. of Chicago

 Results from the Holometer
Dec. 11  Phil Rodrigues
U. of Rochester

 Identification of multinucleon effects in neutrino-carbon interactions at MINERvA
Dec.
18
1 PM

 Leo Aliaga
William and Mary
 Flux Results from MINERvA
Dec. 25
 No seminar. Happy Holidays!