Theoretical physics seminars 2013

Date	Speaker	Host	Title (click title to see slides)
January 3	No seminar		Happy New Year!
January 10	Claudia Frugiuele Fermilab	(local)	R symmetry as the lepton number
January 17	Raoul Röntsch Fermilab	(local)	QCD corrections to WW production in association with jets
January 24	Daniel Mohler Fermilab	(local)	Excited states and hadron resonances from Lattice QCD
January 31	Lance Dixon SLAC	John	Scattering in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory and the multi-Regge Limit
February 7	Prateek Agrawal Fermilab	(local)	The cosmological constant problem in scalar gravity
February 14, 15 One West	Lectures all day long	Andreas	Winter Workshop on Electric Dipole Moments
February 21	Brian Batell U. of Chicago	Felix	Higgs couplings and precision electroweak data
February 28	Dean J. Robinson Cornell	Roni	SU(3) Sum Rules in Charm Decay
March 7	Martin Bauer Fermilab	(local)	The Flavor Problem in Strongly Coupled Theories
March 14	Francesco D’Eramo UC Berkeley/LBNL	Claudia	Semi-annihilation of Dark Matter, in the Early Universe and Today
March 21 3NW	Ryan Gavin PSI	Felix	Squark pair production at next-to-leading order
March 28 1:30 PM	Aaron Pierce U. of Michigan	Felix	Top Partners as a window to Extended Scalar Sectors
April 4	Wouter Waalewijn UC San Diego	Felix	Combining Helicity Amplitudes with Resummation Using SCET
April 11	Stephen Martin Northern Illinois U.	Roni	LHC Higgs diphoton signal interference with background
April 18	Thomas Gregoire Carleton U.	Paddy	Electroweak symmetry breaking in supersymmetric models with a U(1)_R lepton number
April 24 Wednesday, 3NE	Yuval Grossman Cornell	Roni	Few remarks about the Higgs
May 2	Valentina Verduci U. of Graz	Daniel	Pion-Nucleon Phase Shifts in Lattice QCD
May 9	Sonny Mantry Northwestern U. and Argonne	Ciaran	Event Shapes for Exclusive Jet Processes: From the LHC to the EIC
May 14 Tuesday, 2:30 PM, 3NE	Eduardo Pontón ICTP-SAIFR and IFT-UNESP	Felix	Vector-like Fermions and the Electroweak Phase Transition
May 16	Florian Goertz ETH Zurich	Martin	Higgs Boson Self-Coupling Measurements Using Ratios of Cross Sections
May 23	Natalia Toro Perimeter	Roni	(Why) Is Helicity Lorentz-Invariant?
May 30 3NE	Patrick Draper UC Santa Cruz	Felix	Two Vacuum Vignettes
June 6	Juan Herrero-Garcia U. of Valencia	Felix	On the dark matter annual modulation signal
June 13	Cédric Weiland LPT Orsay	Felix	Impact of fermionic singlets on lepton universality tests
June 19 Wednesday, 2:30 PM, 3NE	Kunal Kumar Carleton U.	Roberto	Learning what the Higgs is mixed with
June 27	Georgia Karagiorgi Columbia U.	Boris	Sterile neutrinos for believers and non-believers
July 4	No seminar
July 11	Carlos Alberto Gomez Tarazona Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Felix	Contribution to the neutrino form factors coming from the charged Higgs of a two Higgs doublet model Type I, II
July 18	Jack Kearney U. of Michigan	Felix	Electroweak Dark Matter – where do we stand?
July 23 Tuesday, 2:30 PM, 3NE	Kyoungchul Kong Kansas U.	Felix	Next-to-Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions
August 1 3NE	Arsham Farzinnia Tsinghua U.	Prateek	Hadron Collider Production of Massive Color-Octet Vector Bosons at Next-to-Leading Order
August 8	Spencer Chang U. of Oregon	Felix	Effective WIMPs
August 13 Tuesday, 2:30 PM, 3NE	Diptimoy Ghosh INFN, Rome	Felix	Shining the torch on stops and sbottoms
August 15	Chia-Cheng Chang UIUC and Fermilab	(local)	Local D^0 Hadronic Matrix Elements from 2+1 Lattice QCD
August 20 Tuesday, 2:30 PM, 3NE	Tong Li Monash U., Melbourne	Felix	Prove or Disprove Light MSSM Higgs at LHC
August 22	Roberto Vega-Morales Northwestern U. and Fermilab	(local)	Golden Obsessions: Identifying the Higgs Through the Golden Channel
August 29	Maxwell T. Hansen U. of Washington and Fermilab	(local)	Three particles in a box: Mapping finite-volume spectrum to S-matrix
September 5	Andrea Peterson U. of Wisconsin, Madison and Fermilab	(local)	W’ decays to heavy Higgs particles
September 12	Roberto Franceschini U. of Maryland	Roni	post-LHC R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry
September 17 Tuesday	Leo Stodolsky MPI Munich	Boris	Realistic Possibility of Observing Cascade Mixing
September 18 Wednesday, 2:30 PM, 3NE	Jeremy Mardon Stanford U.	Roni	Signals of Dark Matter from the First Stars
September 25 Wednesday, 2:30 PM, 3NE	Mikhail Solon U. of Chicago	Felix	WIMP-nucleon scattering with heavy WIMP effective theory
October 3	Ian Lewis Brookhaven	Felix	Soft Gluon Effects in W+W- and Higgs Associated Production
October 10	Jamie Gainer U. of Florida	Felix	The Higgs Boson in the Golden Channel
October 14 Monday, 1:00 PM, 3NE	Eray Sabancilar Arizona State	Felix	Cosmic Magnetic Fields from Level Crossing Fermions and Sphalerons
October 17	Sam McDermott U. of Michigan and Fermilab	(local)	Constraining Light Dark Matter with Diffuse X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Observations
October 29 Tuesday, 2:30 PM, Curia II	Vikram Rentala Michigan State U.	Prateek	Discriminating Higgs production mechanisms using jet energy profiles
October 31	Sonia El Hedri SLAC	Paddy	Bottom-up naturalness
November 7	Christopher Brust U. of Maryland and Johns Hopkins U.	Felix	New Light Species and the CMB
November 13 Wednesday, 1:30 PM, 3NE	Yang Zhang Niels Bohr Institute	Felix	Multi-loop unitarity via computational algebraic geometry
November 14	Tilman Plehn U. of Heidelberg	Paddy	Some Thoughts about Higgs Measurements
November 21	Sean Tulin U. of Michigan	Prateek	Beyond collisionless dark matter
November 28	No seminar		Happy Thanksgiving!
December 5 3NE	Marco Farina Cornell	Claudia	Naturalness after the first run of the LHC
December 12 3NE	David A. Eby Vanderbilt U.	Felix	Neutrino Advances and Developments in Finite Group Models
December 17 Tuesday, 3NE	Terrance Figy University of Manchester	Paddy	Electroweak Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets (A.K.A. VBF + 1 Jet) at NLO QCD
December 26	No seminar		Happy Holidays!