Theoretical physics seminars 2009 Date Speaker Title (click title to see slides) January 1 No seminar Happy New Year! January 8 No seminar Happy New Year! January 15 No Seminar US CMS “JTerm” III January 22 Alexander Mitov YITP Stony Brook Top-pair production at hadron colliders January 29 No seminar February 5 Christian Sturm BNL Heavy quark current correlators for precise quark masses and strong coupling constant February 12 Graham Kribs University of Oregon Dirac Dark Matter February 19 Darren Forde UCLA/SLAC Automating One-loop Amplitudes For the LHC February 26 Johan Alwall SLAC QCD radiation and New Physics production at the LHC 11:00amMarch 5One West Spencer Chang UC Davis Discovering Nonstandard Dark Matter March 12 Roni Harnik Stanford University Astrophysical Probes of Unification March 19 Frank Petriello UW-Madison Electroweak effects in Higgs physics March 26 David Morrissey Harvard Candidates for (Inelastic) Dark Matter April 2 Witold Skiba Yale Supersymmetry with lots of leptons April 9 Zackaria Chacko University of Maryland A Composite Little Higgs April 16 Tuhin Roy University of Oregon Surprises in low energy supersymmetry April 23 Gustavo Burdman Univ. of Sao Paulo/Fermilab Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and a Strongly Coupled Fourth Generation April 30 William Detmold College of William & Mary Many-body lattice QCD May 5Tuesday Sven-Olaf Moch DESY Zeuthen Top quark production at Tevatron and LHC May 7 Fernando Febres Cordero UCLA W+3 Jet Production at Hadron Colliders: NLO QCD corrections with BlackHat+SHERPA TuesdayMay 12One West Simon Catterall Syracuse University Exact lattice supersymmetry May 14 date moved to May 12 USQCD Allhands meeting May 19Tuesday Taku Izubuchi BNL Isospin Symmetry Breaking Effects in Hadron Masses May 21 No Seminardate moved to May 19 May 28 Susan Gardner University of Kentucky Dark Matter and the Transient Sky 11:00amJune 5Friday Octavian Micu TU Dortmund Explaining LSND and MiniBooNE using Altered Neutrino Dispersion Relations June 11 Yeong Gyun Kim KAIST Mass and Spin Measurements with m_T2 at the LHC June 18 Sebastian Klein DESY Zeuthen Moments of the 3-loop corrections to the heavy flavor contributions to F_2 for Q^2 >> m^2 WH 3EJune 25 Thomas Becher Fermilab Infrared singularities of gauge theory amplitudes July 2 Kirill Melnikov Johns Hopkins University Generalized unitarity and W+3 jet production at the Tevatron July 9 Satya Nandi Oklahoma State University New Mechanism for Neutrino Mass Generation and Triply Charged Higgs Boson at the LHC July 16 Raj Gandhi Harish-Chandra Res. Inst. Diffuse UHE neutrino fluxes and Physics beyond the Standard Model July 23 Silvia Pascoli Durham Sterile neutrinos in cosmology and laboratories July 30 Enrique Fernandez-Martinez MPI Munich Non-unitary and non-standard neutrino interactions August 6 Gabriela Barenboim Valencia Univ. & IFIC A tale of two right handed neutrinos August 13 3:00pm John Laiho Washington Univ. St. Louis The neutral kaon mixing parameter from lattice QCD August 20 Myeonghun Park University of Florida The latest and the greatest tricks for studying missing energy events (PART III) August 27 Matthew Herndon University of Wisconsin An Inclusive Search for H->WW at CDF (ppt) September 3 Peter Skands Fermilab Towards a Phenomenology of Everything (ppt) September 10 Markus Schulze Johns Hopkins University Generalized Unitarity and Top Quark Physics September 17 Jennifer Kile BNL Hidden Light Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors September 24 Mariangela Lisanti SLAC & Stanford University Disentangling Dark Matter Dynamics October 1 Christopher Jackson ANL Higgs in Space! WH 3EOctober 8 Jesse Thaler Berkeley Cosmic Signals from the Hidden Sector (blackboard talk) October 15 Tanju Gleisberg SLAC Multiparton production @ NLO with BlackHat and Sherpa October 22 Uli Baur University of Buffalo Measuring the Higgs boson self-coupling at high energy e+e- colliders October 29 LHC-TI Fellows meeting More information November 5 Peter Graham Stanford A Domino Theory of Flavor November 12 PAC meeting November 19 Rouven Essig SLAC Probing Dark Forces with Low-Energy e+e- Colliders, New Fixed-Target Experiments, and Dwarf Galaxies November 26 No seminar Happy Thanksgiving December 3 Andrey Katz University of Maryland Signals of sneutrino NLSP at the LHC December 10 Tao Liu University of Chicago Prospects for MSSM Higgs Searches at the Tevatron and LHC December 17 Richard Hill University of Chicago SU(3)/SU(2): the simplest WZW term December 24 No seminar Happy Holidays December 31 No seminar Happy Holidays
