Theoretical physics seminars 2002





Date   Speaker Title (click title to see slides)
January 10 Sven Heinemeyer

BNL
 The Higgs Boson at Present and Future Colliders
January 17 Geraldine Servant

Argonne
 On the Electroweak Phase Transition, Sphalerons, Baryon Asymmetry … and Cosmology
January 24 Hsin-Chia Cheng

U Chicago
 Universal Extra Dimensions
January 31 Tilman Plehn

Madison
 Next-to-leading Order SUSY Searches at the Tevatron
February 7
 NO SEMINAR
February 14 Kirill Melnikov

SLAC
 HQET and New Techniques for Perturbative Calculations
Tuesday,
February 19
Huang Tao

IHEP, Beijing
 Probing the Anomalous Couplings of the Top Quark at Linear Colliders
February 21 Bogdan Dobrescu

Yale
 Six-Dimensional Standard Model and Neutrino Oscillations
Tuesday,
February 26
Gregory Gabadadze

Minnesota
 Infinite Volume Extra Dimensions
February 28 Ren-Jie Zhang

IAS, Princeton
 The Search for Extra Dimensions: Theory, Phenomena and Cosmology
March 7 Thomas Blum

BNL
 Quenched Lattice Calculation of the direct CP violation
parameter epsilon’
March 14
 NO SEMINAR
March 21 Alex Kagan

Cincinnati/Fermilab
 Beyond the Standard Model in B Decays – Recent Developments
March 28
 CANCELLED
April 4
 CANCELLED
April 11

WH3E
Adam Leibovich

Fermilab
 A Tale of Two EFTs: Resumming Logs in Upsilon Decay
Tuesday,
April 16
Paul Langacker

U. Pennsylvania
 Implications of Gauge Unification for Time Variation of the Fine
Structure Constant
April 18 Ulrich Baur

Fermilab/SUNY Buffalo
 Direct Measurement of the Top Quark Charge at Hadron Colliders
April 25 Orlando Peres

UNICAMP (Brazil)
 Ue3 Induced Interference on Atmospheric Neutrinos
Tuesday,
April 30
Rabi Mohapatra

Maryland
 Minimal Seesaw Models for LSND Using Leptonic Symmetries
May 2 Thomas Mehen

Ohio State
 Heavy Quark Recombination and Charm Production Asymmetries
May 9

Joint Sem.
Paul Steinhardt

Princeton
 Cyclic Models of the Universe
May 16 Michael Duff

Michigan U.
 Paradoxes on the Brane
May 23 Graham Kribs

Madison
 Constraints on the SU(3) Electroweak Model
May 30
 NO SEMINAR (MEMORIAL DAY WEEK)
June 6 Michael Klasen

Hamburg University
 J/Psi Production in Gamma-Gamma Collisions
June 13 Antonio Pineda

Barcelona U.
 Effective Field Theories for Heavy Quarkonium
June 20 Mary Hall Reno

Iowa U.
 Tau Neutrino Interactions
June 27 Lisa Randall

Harvard University
 Supersymmetric Myths
Tuesday,
July 2
Sinead Ryan

Trinity College
 The theoretical uncertainty in $B^0$-$\bar{B}^0$ mixing [ -> CANCELLED]
July 4
 NO SEMINAR (HOLIDAY)
July 11 Tony Duncan

Pittsburgh U.
Unquenched QCD with light quarks
July 18 Steffen Weinstock

Heidelberg U.
Derivation of Semiclassical Transport Equations for Electroweak Baryogenesis
July 25 Shoji Hashimoto

KEK
 Unquenched Lattice QCD Simulation with O(a)-improved Wilson Fermions
August 1 Jonathan Rosner

EFI – U.of Chicago
CP Asymmetries in B -> pi pi [-> CANCELLED]
Tuesday,
August 6
Veronica Sanz

U. of Valencia
 Entropy-Area Relations in Field Theory
August 8 Alexander Lenz

Universitaet Regensburg
 Higher Order Corrections to the Lifetime Differences of B Mesons
August 15 Tom Weiler

Vanderbilt U.
Fate of the Sterile Neutrino
August 22 Emilio Torrente-Lujan

U. Autonoma de Madrid
 Supersymmetric Dark Matter
August 29 Giuseppe Marchesini

Milan Bicocca U./INFN Milano
 Away-From-Jet QCD Radiation
September 5 Apostolos Pilaftsis

Manchester U.
 Minimal Nonminimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
September 12 No Seminar ARGONNE THEORY INSTITUTE
Tuesday,
September 17
Laura Covi

DESY
 An SO(10) Six-Dimensional GUT
September 19 No Seminar COSMO 02 CONFERENCE
Tuesday,
September 24

WH3E
Gustavo Burdman

LBNL
 Constraints on the Bulk Standard Model in the Randall-Sundrum Scenario
September 26

WH3E
Witold Skiba

MIT
 Little Higgses from an Antisymmetric Condensate
October 3 Tony Gherghetta

U. of Minnesota
 Brane Worlds and Nonconformal Dual Theories
October 10 Eric Braaten

Ohio State U.
 A Perturbative QCD Explanation for Charm Asymmetries
October 17 No Seminar WORKSHOP ON NEUTRINOS NEWS FROM THE LAB AND COSMOS
October 24 Sandra Padula

Fermilab
 Interferometry at RHIC: Puzzles and Perspectives
October 31 Scott Willenbrock

U. of Illinois (Urbana)
 QCD without Matrices: the Color-flow Decomposition
November 7 Cosmas Zachos

Argonne
 Deformation Quantization, Superintegrability, and Nambu Mechanics
November 14 Jay Wacker

UC Berkeley
 Little Higgs and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
November 21 Peter Lepage

Cornell U.
 Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment
November 28 No Seminar
 Thanksgiving Holiday
December 5 Eduardo Ponton

Fermilab
 Gaugino Mediation in Warped Spaces
December 12 Alexander Belyaev

Florida State U.
 Constraints on Supersymmetric Models
Tuesday,
December 17
Csaba Csaki

Cornell U.
 Standard Model Higgs from Higher Dimensional Gauge Fields
December 19 Zoltan Nagy

Oregon U.
 Three Jet Cross Sections at NLO Level
December 26 No Seminar
 Christmas Holiday