Theoretical physics seminars 2012 Date Speaker Host Title (click title to see slides) January 5 No seminar Happy New Year ! January 12 3NE Alexander Knochel U Heidelberg Joachim Neutrino superluminality – Models and Constraints January 19 Felix Yu Fermilab (local) Constraints on New Physics Explanations for the Evidence of CPV in D0 Decays from LHCb January 26 Brian Shuve Harvard Felix A WIMPy Baryogenesis Miracle February 2 Joachim Kopp Fermilab Stephen Phenomenology with Sterile Neutrinos February 9 Toshihiko Ota MPI Munich Stephen Effective operators in neutrino physics — A bottom-up approach to new physics February 16 Pedro Schwaller U Chicago Joachim Flavored Leptogenesis February 23 Gerben Stavenga Fermilab (local) Proton decay and non-perturbative proton stability March 1 Jeff Fortin UC San Diego Paddy Scale without conformal invariance March 8 Alex Kagan U. of Cincinnati Roni Direct CP Violation in D decays March 15 Tim Cohen SLAC Roni Electroweak Baryogenesis and Higgs Signatures March 22 Heechang Na Argonne ALCF Andreas Precise calculations on heavy flavor physics from lattice QCD March 29 Jure Zupan U. of Cincinnatti Roni Bounds on dark matter annual modulation signals April 5 Chuan-Ren Chen Argonne Roni Top quark forward-backward asymmetry and new physics April 12 Pilar Coloma Virginia Tech Joachim Neutrino oscillations for large theta-13 April 19 Can Kilic University of Texas Paddy Topics in Dark Matter: Flavored Dark Matter and Limits on Gamma-Ray Lines from Unitarity April 26 Michele Papucci LBL Roni Higgs and naturalness May 3 Norman Christ Columbia U Andreas Computing K → ππ decay using lattice QCD May 10 Walter Winter U Würzburg Joachim Neutrinos from cosmic accelerators, and the multi-messenger connection May 17 Martin Jankowiak SLAC Joachim Jet substructure via angular correlations May 24 Lian-Tao Wang U Chicago Joachim (Over)Interpreting the Higgs “signal” May 31 Robert Feger Vanderbilt U Carl An Explicit SU(12) Family and Flavor Unification Model with Natural Fermion Masses and Mixings June 7 Daping Du UIUC Andreas B(s)->D(s) semileptonic form factors from lattice QCD and their applications June 14 No seminar Project X Physics Study June 21 No seminar Project X Physics Study June 28 Takemichi Okui Florida State U Roni Gyroscopic Inflation July 5 No seminar July 12 Simone Alioli Berkeley Ciaran Next-to-leading order calculations merged with parton showers July 19 Jamison Galloway U. of Rome, La Sapienza Felix Getting to Know the Higgs July 26 Ethan Neil Fermilab (local) Mass-deformed Conformal Field Theories on the Lattice August 2 Jan Winter CERN Felix Top quark FB asymmetry in shower Monte Carlos August 9 Reinard Primulando College of William and Mary & Fermilab (local) Electroweak multiplets for dark matter and the Higgs August 16 Luca Vecchi LANL Adam On Partial Compositeness and the CP asymmetry in charm decays August 23 David Tran U Minnesota Joachim Unstable Dark Matter: Indirect Detection and Constraints August 30 Marco Zaro Univ. Cathol. de Louvain John NLO phenomenology with Madgraph September 6 3NE Heribertus (Bayu) Hartanto Florida State Univ. & Fermilab (local) NLO predictions for a Z boson + photons final states at the LHC September 13 Randy Cotta UC Irvine Felix Bounding Dark Matter Interactions with Electroweak Gauge Bosons September 20 Johannes Heinonen U Chicago Paddy Lorentz invariance in heavy particle effective theories September 27 Chiu-Tien Yu U. of Wisconsin, Madison & Fermilab (local) The Shape of Light Stops October 4 Shoji Hashimoto KEK Paul π0 → γγ on the lattice October 10 Wednesday John Terning UC Davis Paddy A Light Composite Stop October 18 Ahmed Ismail SLAC Felix A Higgs but no sparticles yet: what it means for the (p)MSSM October 25 1:15 pm, 3NW Jessie Shelton Harvard Ethan Asymmetric (S)tops November 1 Marat Freytsis Harvard Paddy Seeing Half the Story: Tagging Partially Reconstructed Jet Substructure November 8 Christina Ignarra MIT Stephen Recent MiniBooNE results and the status of sterile neutrinos November 15 Graham Kribs U. of Oregon Roni Supersafe Supersymmetry at LHC November 22 No seminar Happy Thanksgiving! November 29 Prashant Saraswat Stanford Roni Displaced Supersymmetry December 6 Myeonghun Park CERN Joe Collider bounds on dark matter models for Fermi gamma-ray line December 13 3NE Walter Freeman George Washington Andreas The Intrinsic Strangeness and Charm of the Nucleon December 20 No seminar Happy Holidays!
