Theoretical physics seminars 2014

Date	Speaker	Host	Title (click title to see slides)
January 2	No seminar		Happy New Year!
January 9	No seminar
January 16	Ryuichiro Kitano KEK, Tsukuba and Sokendai, Tsukuba	Paddy	Emergent Higgs
January 23 3NE	Joseph Bramante Notre Dame	Felix	Exploring Dark Interactions by Destroying Neutron Stars with Dark Black Holes
January 31 Friday, 3NE	Nima Arkani-Hamed IAS	Paddy	The Amplituhedron
February 6	Ran Zhou Fermilab	(local)	Lattice QCD calculation of the B to Kll decay form factors
February 13	David Sanford Caltech	Felix	Simplified Models of Mixed Dark Matter
February 20	Emanuele Re U. of Oxford	Raoul	Towards event generation at NNLO
February 27	Elisabetta Furlan Fermilab	(local)	Higgs rates and new quarks
March 6	Fabrizio Caola Johns Hopkins U.	Raoul	Precision predictions for single-top production at the LHC
March 13	Matthew McCullough MIT	Paddy	Search for BSM Higgs Signals at NLO
March 20	André Walker-Loud William and Mary	Daniel	M_n – M_p
March 27	Clifford Cheung Caltech	Prateek	Naturalness and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
April 3	Yanou Cui U. of Maryland	Raoul	Baryogenesis from WIMPs
April 10	Tim Tait UC Irvine	Roni	Self-Interacting Dark Matter from a Non-Abelian Hidden Sector
April 15 Tuesday, 1:30 pm, Curia II	David McKeen U. of Washington	Felix	Particle Physics Implications of 30 GeV Dark Matter Annihilating to b Quarks
April 24	James Unwin Notre Dame	Raoul	High Scale Supersymmetry and F-theory GUTs
May 1	No seminar		New Perspectives on Dark Matter workshop
May 8	Alejandro de la Puente TRIUMF	Felix	Probing Radiative Neutrino Mass Generation through Monotop Production
May 9 Friday, 1:30 pm, 3NE	Eleni Vryonidou Universite Catholique de Louvain	John	Higgs pair production at the LHC
May 12 Monday, 3:30 pm, 3NE	Alex Wijangco UC Irvine	Felix	Hidden On-Shell Mediators for the Galactic Center Excess
May 15	Daniel Hernandez Northwestern U.	Paddy	Recent ideas on the Flavor Puzzle
May 22	No seminar
May 29	Katrin Gemmler Fermilab	(local)	Flavoured Dark Matter beyond the Minimal Flavour Violation Hypothesis
June 5	No seminar
June 12	Falko Dulat ETH Zurich	Elisabetta	Higgs boson production at N3LO
June 19	Liam Keegan CERN	Claudia	Large N twisted volume reduction of QCD on the lattice
June 25	Satoshi Iso KEK	Bogdan	Implication of 126 GeV Higgs boson for Planck scale physics
June 26	Franz Herzog CERN	Elisabetta	Reducing Higgs Theory Uncertainties by Threshold Expansion
July 2 Wednesday, 2:30 pm, 3NE	Marina Billoni Mainz	John	EW corrections to W-pair production at the LHC
July 10	No seminar
July 17 3NE	David J.E. Marsh Perimeter Institute	Prateek	Cosmological Constraints on Ultra-light Axions: Planck, the high-z universe, and BICEP2
July 24	Matthew Reece Harvard	Felix	In Wino Veritas
July 31	Chris Verhaaren U. of Maryland	Prateek	Dynamics of a Stabilized Radion and Duality
August 7	No seminar
August 14	Hojin Yoo Fermilab/U. of Wisconsin, Madison	(local)	Nanoshots from the Crab pulsar and Schwinger Sparks
August 21	No seminar		Nature Guiding Theory workshop
August 26 Tuesday, 2:30 pm, 3NW	Jia Zhou Fermilab/SUNY Buffalo	(local)	Electroweak Radiative Corrections at High Energies
August 28	Duccio Pappadopulo UC Berkeley/LBNL	Claudia	The low f multiverse axion
September 2 Tuesday, 2:30 pm, 3NW	Adrian Carmona ETH Zurich	Raoul	Lifting Top Partners at the LHC
September 11	Fady Bishara Fermilab/Cincinnati U.	(local)	Continuous flavor symmetries and the stability of asymmetric dark matter
September 18	Ryosuke Sato KEK	Raoul	PeV neutrinos from right-handed neutrino dark matter
September 25	Eder Izaguirre Perimeter Institute	Paddy	A New Observable for Identifying Dijet Resonances
October 2	Daniel Stolarski CERN	Raoul	Emerging Jets
October 9	Yue Zhang Caltech	Raoul	From the Higgs boson to the origin of matter in the universe
October 16	Seyda Ipek U. of Washington	Claudia	CP Violation in Pseudo-Dirac Fermion Oscillations
October 21 Tuesday, 3:30 pm, 3NE	Junko Shigemitsu Ohio State University	Daniel	Precision Flavor Physics and Lattice QCD
October 23	Joshua Berger SLAC	Prateek	Detecting Boosted Dark Matter with Large Volume Neutrino Detectors
October 30	Seminar canceled		&nbsp
November 6 1:30 pm, 3NE	James Barnard Melbourne	Raoul	Composite Higgs models with “the works”
November 13	Matthew Baumgart Carnegie Mellon U.	Paddy	On the Annihilation of WIMPs
November 20	Travis Martin TRIUMF	Raoul	Electroweakino Constraints from LHC8
November 27	No seminar		Happy Thanksgiving!
December 4	Bridget Bertoni U. of Washington	Raoul	Dark Matter – Neutrino Interactions: Implications of Solving Small Scale Structure Problems
December 11 3NE	Bryan Ostdiek Notre Dame	Raoul	New search strategies for well tempered neutralino dark matter at the LHC and beyond
December 18 3NE	Ye Li SLAC	Elisabetta	Merging NNLO with Parton Shower
December 25	No seminar		Happy Holidays!