Theoretical physics seminars 2007 Date Speaker Title (click title to see slides) January 4 No seminar Happy New Year! January 11 No seminar Happy New Year! January 18 Rakhi Mahbubani Fermilab Probing New Physics in Final States with Top Pairs and Missing Energy January 25 Patrick Fox LBNL Reheating Metastable O’Raifeartaigh Models February 1 Ruth Britto University of Amsterdam Constructing One-Loop Amplitudes February 8 Ian Low UC Irvine Probing New Physics with the Higgs Boson at the LHC (pdf) (ppt) February 15 WH3NE Ryuichiro Kitano SLAC A New Model of the Higgs Boson February 22 Richard Hill Fermilab Topological Interactions of Higgs Bosons March 1 Xavier Garcia i Tormo ANL What Can We Learn from Semi-inclusive Radiative Decays of Heavy Quarkonium? March 8 Harald Fritzsch LMU Munich Fundamental Constants in Physics and their Time Dependence March 15 Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard University Quantum Black Holes and the Standard Model’s Landscape March 22 Kathryn Zurek University of Wisconsin Constraining Neutrino Properties with the Cosmic Microwave Background March 29 No Seminar Fermilab PAC Meeting April 5 No Seminar Theory-LPC meeting postponed until May 31 April 12 No Seminar The LHC Early Phase for the ILC Meeting April 19 Bob Holdom University of Toronto A Simple-minded Guess for the LHC: a Fourth Family April 26 Arne Weber MPI Munich Dusting for SUSY’s Fingerprints in Precision Data May 3 Maxim Pospelov University of Victoria / Perimeter Institute Particle Physics Catalysis of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis May 10 WH3NW Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya Harish-Chandra Institute Dogs That Do Not Bark: Right-handed Neutrinos in a Supersymmetric World May 17 Rikard Enberg University of Arizona LHC and Dark Matter Signatures of Improved Naturalness May 24 WH3NW David R. Tucker-Smith Williams College Mixed-sneutrino Dark Matter at the LHC 3:00 p.m.May 31 Joint Theory-CMS Seminar Kevin Burkett Fermilab Peter Skands Fermilab Jointly hosted by the Theoretical Physics Department and the LHC Physics Center Preparations for Early LHC Physics: CMS Preparations for Early LHC Physics: Theory June 7 No Seminar Fermilab Users’ Meeting June 14 WH3NW Neil Christensen Michigan State University Unitarity and Bounds on the Scale of Fermion Mass Generation June 21 Olga Mena Universitá di Roma I Landscape and Strings in Vacqua June 28 Elvira Gamiz University of Illinois B0–B0 Mixing Parameters in Lattice QCD with Nf = 2+1 Sea Quarks July 5 No Seminar Happy Independence Day July 12 Scott Willenbrock University of Illinois Choosing the Factorization Scale in Perturbative QCD 11:00 AM Tuesday,July 17 WH3NE Patrick Huber University of Wisconsin Future Long-baseline Neutrino Experiments July 19 Jian-Wei Qiu Iowa State University QCD Factorization for Heavy Quarkonium Production at Collider Energies July 26 Pham Q. Hung University of Virginia Electroweak-scale Right-handed Neutrinos August 2 Hiroshi Nunokawa Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Probing Non-standard Neutrino Properties by Future Long-baseline Oscillation Experiments August 9 Jure Zupan Institut Jožef Stefan Probing Minimal Flavor Violation at the LHC August 16 Manuel Masip Universidad de Granada New Physics at the LHC August 23 Mithat Ünsal SLAC Confinement and Duality in QCD August 30 Stephen Martin Northern Illinois University Implications of Compressed Supersymmetry with Natural Dark Matter from Annihilation to Top Quarks September 6 Marcus Weber SUNY Buffalo Precise Predictions for H → WW/ZZ → 4 Fermion Decays with PROPHECY4f Wednesday,September 12 Ulrich Nierste Universität Karlsruhe Bs–Bs Mixing and Supersymmetry September 13 Giovanni Villadoro Harvard University A Measure of de Sitter Entropy and Eternal Inflation September 20 Reinhold Rückl Universität Würzburg SUSY Lepton Flavor Violation: Radiative Decays and Collider Searches September 27 Michel Herquet Université Catholique de Louvain Twisted Higgs Phenomenology at Hadron Colliders October 4 Wai-Yee Keung UIC Collider Phenomenology of Unparticles October 11 Matthew Schwartz Johns Hopkins University The Extraordinary Predictive Power of Holographic QCD (pdf) (ppt) October 18 Darren Forde SLAC & UCLA On-shell Methods for One-loop Amplitude Calculations (pdf) (ppt) October 25 No Seminar Joint Meeting of the American Linear Collider Physics Group & ILC Global Design Effort November 1 No Seminar Public sessions of the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee November 8 Frank Tackmann LBNL GenEvA: A New Framework For Event Generation November 15 Alexey Petrov Wayne State University Charm Mixing in the Standard Model and Beyond November 22 No seminar Thanksgiving Day November 29 Brian Batell University of Minnesota Warped Extra Dimensions and Partial Compositeness 11:00 amDecember 6 Mariano Quirós IFAE Barcelona Hidden Sector Effects on Electroweak Symmetry Breaking December 13 Jay Wacker SLAC Using Atom Interferometry to Search for Short-ranged Forces December 20 No seminar Happy Holidays December 27 No seminar Happy Holidays
