Theoretical physics seminars 2006 Date Speaker Title (click title to see slides) January 5 No seminar Happy New Year! January 12 WH3E Adam Martin Boston University Accidental Goldstone Bosons January 19 WH3E Roshan Foadi Michigan State University An Effective Higgsless Model January 26 Enrico Lunghi Fermilab Analysis of Large tan β Effects in the MSSM from the GUT Scale Tuesday,January 31 Gilad Perez LBNL Next-to-Minimal Flavor Violation February 2 Patrick Fox LBNL Naturalness and Higgs Decays in the MSSM with a Singlet: Searching for a Stealthy Higgs February 9 Lisa Everett University of Florida Viewing Lepton Mixing through the Cabibbo Haze (A), Viewing Lepton Mixing through the Cabibbo Haze (B) February 16 WH3E Richard Hill Fermilab Flavor Physics as a Probe of QCD 1:30,February 23 Antonio Delgado CERN Can the Higgs Be Supersymmetric and Composite? Tuesday,February 28 Lian-Tao Wang Harvard University New Physics and the LHC Inverse Problem March 2 Charalampos Anastasiou ETH Zürich LHC Physics and Challenges for Perturbative Methods March 9 Michael Graesser CalTech Towards a High Energy Theory for the Ghost Condensate March 16 Margarete Mühlleitner CERN & LAPTH Annecy Higgs Boson Production in Gluon-Gluon and Gamma-Gamma Collisions March 23 Elizabeth Simmons Michigan State University The Meaning of Higgs March 30 WH3E André de Gouvêa Northwestern University The Neutrino Mass Hierarchy April 6 WH3E Pavel Nadolsky Argonne National Laboratory Transverse Momentum Resummation for Higgs Boson Searches April 13 Ruth Van de Water Fermilab An Improved Method for Calculating the Kaon B-Parameter Using Lattice QCD Wednesday,April 19 Chris Hill Fermilab Physics of the d = 5 Chern-Simons Term April 27 Jure Zupan Carnegie Mellon U & Stefan Institute Ljubljana Charmless Two-body B Decays in SCET Tuesday,May 2 WH3E Nora Brambilla Milano Systems of Two Heavy Quarks with Effective Field Theories May 4 Christian Bauer LBNL Improving Jet Distributions with Effective Field Theory May 11 Frank Petriello Fermilab & U Wisconsin Getting Ready for the LHC: QCD at Next-to-leading Order and Beyond May 18 Misha Stephanov University of Illinois Chicago AdS/QCD May 25 Stuart Raby Ohio State University Constructing 5D Orbifold GUTs from Heterotic Strings June 1 No Seminar Fermilab Users’ Meeting June 8 WH3E Lance Dixon SLAC Bootstrapping One-Loop QCD Scattering Amplitudes June 15 Christopher Aubin Columbia University Muon g – 2: Reclaiming the Theoretical Calculation of the Leading QCD Contribution June 22 Satya Nandi Oklahoma State University Unification of Gauge and Higgs Couplings in Extra Dimensions June 29 Alexander Mitov DESY Heavy Quark Fragmentation at NNLO: from LEP to the Tevatron and LHC July 6 No Seminar Happy Independence Day July 13 Heike Boos Universität Siegen Inclusive Semileptonic B Decays in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory July 20 Yigal Shamir Tel Aviv University Renormalization-group Analysis of the Validity of Staggered-fermion QCD with the Fourth-root Recipe July 27 WH3E Renata Zukanovich Funchal Universidade de São Paulo Direct Mixing Effects versus Induced Mass Matrix of Active Neutrinos August 3 Elena Couce Universidad de Valencia Neutrino Oscillation Physics with a Beta Beam August 10 Pilar Hernandez Universidad de Valencia Exploring the Origin of the ΔI = ½ Rule in Lattice QCD August 17 Ulrich Baur SUNY Buffalo Weak Boson Emission in Hadron Collider Processes August 24 Achilleas Lazopoulos University of Nijmegen BCFW Recursion Relations for Gluon Amplitudes and the Link to Feynman Graphs August 31 WH3W Gabriela Barenboim Universidad de Valencia The Dark Side of Inflation (pdf) (ps.gz) September 7 WH3W Thomas Becher Fermilab Threshold Resummation in Momentum Space from Effective Field Theory September 14 Maurizio Piai University of Washington Precision Electroweak Parameters from AdS-CFT September 21 Jeffrey Harvey University of Chicago NJL and QCD from String Theory September 28 Keith Ellis Fermilab Seminumerical Methods for NLO Monte Carlo at Tevatron and LHC October 5 Chung Kao University of Oklahoma Bs → μμ vs. Direct Higgs Searches at Hadron Colliders October 12 Mikhail Rogal DESY Zeuthen Charged Current Deep Inelastic Scattering at Three Loops October 19 WH3NW Erich Poppitz University of Toronto Old and New in the Lattice Definition of Chiral Gauge Theories October 26 Benjamin Lillie Argonne National Laboratory Extra Dimensions and High pT Tops at the LHC November 2 2:00 pm Kyoungchul Kong Fermilab Measuring Masses and Spins of New Particles at Colliders November 9 Devin Walker University of Wisconsin Top Quark Pairs at High Invariant Mass: A Model Independent Discriminator of New Physics at the LHC November 16 Seminar canceled November 23 No seminar Thanksgiving Day November 30 Zoltan Ligeti LBNL Squeezing Blood from a Stone: Shapes of b → sl+l– December 7 Carola Berger SLAC Bootstrapping One-Loop Amplitudes (Needles in Large HaystaCks) December 14 Gennady Kozlov JINR Dubna Lepton-flavor Violation, Extra Gauge Bosons, and New Physics Scale December 21 No seminar Happy Holidays December 28 No seminar Happy Holidays
