Theoretical physics seminars 2010 Date Speaker Host Title (click title to see slides) January 7 No seminar Happy New Year ! January 14 Brooks Thomas U Arizona Paddy Semper FI? : Supercurrents, R-symmetries, and the status of Fayet-Iliopoulos Terms in Supergravity January 21 Gerben Stavenga Fermilab Vortices in the Jackiw-Pi Model on the Torus January 28 Stephen Martin Northern Illinois University Paddy Extra vector-like matter and the Higgs mass in supersymmetry February 4 Gil Paz University of Chicago Marcela Supersymmetric U(1)’ Models February 11 Elvira Gamiz Fermilab Phenomenology of neutral B-meson mixing and decays constants February 18 Adam Martin Fermilab Boosting BSM Higgs discovery with jet substructure February 25 David Shih IAS Paddy Recent Progress in (General) Gauge Mediation March 4 Matthias Neubert University of Mainz Marcela Effective Field-Theory Tools for the LHC March 11 Nausheen Shah Fermilab Gauge-Higgs Unification Phenomenology in Warped Extra Dimensions March 18 Joachim Kopp Fermilab Mossbauer Neutrinos March 25 Enrico Lunghi IU Bloomington Andreas High Precision Flavor Physics April 1 Julius Kuti UC San Diego Andreas Lattice Studies of the Nearly Conformal Composite Higgs Mechanism April 8 Erich Poppitz University of Toronto Bogdan Monopoles, bions, and other oddballs in confinement and conformality April 15 Frank Petriello UW, Madison Keith Differential distributions in soft-collinear effective theory April 22 Zhenyu Han Harvard Yang Bai Spin Measurements in Events with Missing Energy at the LHC April 29 Monika Blanke Cornell Chris Quigg Testing the SUSY weak scale stabilization at the LHC May 7 Harald Fritzsch Universitaet Muenchen Chris Quigg Flavor Mixing, Neutrino Mixing and Neutrino Masses May 13 George Fleming Yale Estia Three Years of Lattice Strong Dynamics: Have we learned anything yet? May 20 David Reeb University of Oregon Chris Hill Gauge coupling unification in non-supersymmetric GUTs through gravitational effects May 27 Anibal Medina UC Davis Marcela Warped Universal Extra Dimensions June 3 No Seminar Users’ Meeting June 8Tuesday Satya Nandi Oklahoma State University Jan Fermion mass hierarchy and new physics at the TeV scale June 10 Wouter Waalewijn MIT Walter Factorization at the Tevatron and LHC: From PDFs to Initial State Jets June 17 Arvind Rajaraman UC Irvine Paddy Searching for the fourth generation at LEP, Tevatron and the LHC June 24 Jure Zupan University of Ljubljana Roni Implications of like-sign dimuon anomaly July 1 Tania Robens University of Glasgow John Alternative dipole subtraction scheme using Nagy–Soper dipoles July 8 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla Virginia Tech Stephen A new approach to anti-neutrino running in long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments July 15 Sourav K. Mandal IPMU Paddy Quarks and Leptons as Nambu-Goldstone Fermions July 22 Jan Winter Fermilab Keith New algorithms to compute virtual and tree-level amplitudes July 29 Jessie Shelton Yale Adam Excavating a Buried Higgs August 5 Ulrich Nierste Universität Karlsruhe Marcela B_s mixing: gate to new physics? August 12 Mikhail Stephanov UIC Paddy Conformality Lost August 19 Jay Wacker SLAC Bogdan It’s On! Using ATLAS’ First Results on Jets and Missing Energy Searches August 26 Hsin-Chia Cheng UC Davis Bogdan Invisible particle mass determinations at hadron colliders September 2 Simon Badger Desy Zeuthen Keith Analytic techniques for massive one-loop amplitudes September 9 Matthew Buckley Fermilab Jan A New Way to Measure Spin at Hadron Colliders September 16 Pyungwon Ko KIAS Chris Hill CDM and EWSB from strongly interacting hidden sector September 23 Ze’ev Surujon UC San Diego Roni Spontaneous CP Violation from Continuous Symmetry Breaking September 30 Basudeb Dasgupta Ohio State University Joachim Boris Two easy pieces: Self-interacting neutrinos and the MSW resonance for photons October 7 Brian Batell Perimeter Institute Paddy Roni New Stabilization Symmetries for Dark Matter October 12Tuesday Andreas Karch University of Washington Paddy Roni A particle physicist’s perspective on topological insulators October 21 Antonio Delgado Notre Dame Adam The S-MSSM: the singlet saves the day October 28One West Ciaran Williams Fermilab (local) Hadronic production of a Higgs boson with two jets at NLO November 4One West Clifford Cheung UC Berkeley Bogdan Signs of a Hidden Sector from Supersymmetry(s) November 10Wednesday Nima Arkani-Hamed IAS Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes November 11 Takemichi Okui FSU Roni Viable Gravity Mediation November 18 Surjeet Rajendran MIT Roni Luminous Dark Matter November 25 No seminar Happy Thanksgiving ! December 2 Pierre Artoisenet Ohio State John Automation of the matrix element reweighting method December 9 Leandro Almeida CEA-Saclay John Jet hunting with templates December 16 Ayan Paul Notre Dame LHT and c: Gambling in Standard Model’s Backyard December 23 No seminar Happy Holidays !
