Theoretical physics seminars 2015

Date	Speaker	Host	Title (click title to see slides)
January 1	No seminar		Happy New Year!
January 8	No seminar
January 15 3NE	Jared Evans U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Raoul	The Higgs, Flavor, and Large A-terms in Extended Gauge Mediation
January 22	Luis Alvarez-Ruso University of Valencia	Daniel	Progress and open questions in the physics of neutrino interactions with nucleons and nuclei
January 29	Michael Döring George Washington University	Daniel	Baryon Spectroscopy: New Results and Perspectives
February 5	Michael Perez University of Florida	Chris Hill	Hunting for Hierarchies in PSL2(7)
February 16 Monday, 2pm	Pilar Coloma Fermilab	(local)	Neutrino oscillation phenomenology at long baseline experiments
February 19	Christoph Lehner BNL	Daniel	Hadronic contributions to (g-2)mu from lattice QCD
February 26	Jordi Salvad&oacute Serra Madison	Raoul	Cosmological Constraints on Newton’s Gravitational Constant for Matter and Dark Matter
March 5	Bibhushan Shakya U. of Michigan	Raoul	Neutrino Masses and Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter from the PeV Scale
March 12	Peisi Huang Argonne	Raoul	Higgs Trilinear Coupling as a Probe of Electroweak Phase Transition
March 19	Norman Christ Columbia University	Daniel	Calculation of the long-distance contributions to neutral kaon mixing
March 26 3NE	Kazunori Kohri KEK	Paddy	Coleman-Weinberg Inflation
April 2	Ann Nelson U. of Washington	Paddy	New Supersoft Operators in Supersymmetry breaking and Naturalness
April 8 Wednesday	Susanne Westhoff Pittsburgh	Raoul	Testing the Muon g-2 Anomaly at the LHC
April 14	Mariangela Lisanti Princeton	Paddy	Examining Hints for Dark Matter in the Milky Way’s Galactic Center
April 16 3NE	Kiel Howe Stanford University	Roni	Natural Scherk-Schwarz Supersymmetry Breaking
April 23	Natascia Vignaroli Michigan State U.	Paddy	Distinguishing dijet resonances at the LHC
April 30	Tom Melia LBNL	Raoul	Counting surprises in a 1-D effective field theory
May 5 Curia II, 2:30pm	Andrea Tesi U. of Chicago	Raoul	The Twin Higgs mechanism and Composite Higgs
May 7	Jack Kearney Fermilab	(local)	The SM Higgs Vacuum Instability, Inflation and the Fate of Our Universe
May 14	Flip Tanedo UC Irvine	Raoul	On Shell Mediators
May 21	Lisa Randall Harvard	Paddy	Double Disk Dark Matter
May 28	Stefan Schacht University of Karlsruhe	Daniel	Charm CP Asymmetry Sum Rules from SU(3)-Flavor
June 4	No seminar
June 11	Prerit Jaiswal Syracuse U.	Raoul	Jet-Veto Resummations: A case study for WW production
June 18	David Pinner Princeton	Paddy	Folded SUSY with a twist
June 25	Andreas von Manteuffel Mainz	Elisabetta	Diboson production at NNLO
July 2	No seminar
July 9	Huey-Wen Lin University of California, Berkeley	Daniel	Probing New Physics with Lattice Nucleon Matrix Elements
July 14 Tuesday 2:30pm, Hornet’s Nest	Robert Shrock Stonybrook	Chris Quigg	Some Recent Results on Renormalization-Group Flows of Quantum Field Theories
July 16	Robert Szafron Alberta U.	Raoul	Radiative corrections to muon decay in orbit spectrum
July 23 WH One West	Enrique Fernández Martínez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Stephen	The search for leptonic CP violation
July 30	Fred Olness Southern Methodist U.	Paddy	Precision QCD for LHC New Physics Searches: Working with heavy quarks at High Scales & High Orders
July 31 Friday 11am, WH3NE	Sasa Prelovsek Jožef Stefan Institute	Daniel	Charmonium-like and other near-threshold mesons on the lattice
August 4 Tuesday 2:30pm, Hornet’s Nest	David Kaplan Johns Hopkins	Paddy	Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale
August 13	Andrew Kobach UC San Diego	Raoul	Global Constraints on an Invisible Heavy Neutrino
August 20	Myeonghun Park Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics	Raoul	Capturing soft particles at the LHC for studies of degenerated SUSY spectra
August 27	Gopolang Mohlabeng Kansas U.	Raoul	Boosted Dark Matter Enhanced with Self-Interactions
September 3 WH3NE	Filippo Sala IPhT Saclay	Paddy	Where to look for New Physics? Indications from WIMP Dark Matter and extra Higgs bosons
September 10	Anthony DiFranzo Fermilab/UC Irvine	(local)	Vector Dark Matter through the Higgs Portal
September 17	José Francisco Zurita University of Mainz	Paddy	Simplified Models of Coannihilating Dark Matter and their LHC phenomenology
September 24	Marcin Badziak Warsaw U.	Paddy	Gauge Mediation in NMSSM: Light Sparticles from a Light Singlet
October 1	Patrick Stengel University of Hawaii	Paddy	Variations on a WIMP
October 8	Chris Monahan Rutgers	Andreas	A new approach to the operator product expansion on the lattice
October 15	Mauricio Bustamante Ohio State U.	Pilar	Theoretically tasting the flavor composition of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos
October 20 Tuesday 2:30pm, Curia II	Ivan Davidovich Centro Atomico Bariloche	Marcela	Beautiful mirrors for a pNGB Higgs
October 22	Akshay Ghalsasi University of Washington	Roni	Baryogenesis via Mesino Oscillations
October 29	Kaustubh Agashe University of Maryland	Bogdan	Composite Higgs and partially composite (rest of the) Standard Model (with a broad brush)
November 5	No seminar		HEFT Workshop
November 12	Csaba Csaki Cornell	HEFT Workshop	Displaced physics at the LHC: R-parity violation and displaced Higgs decays
November 19	Ulrich Schubert Max-Planck Institute, Munich	John	New Developments for Scattering Amplitudes
November 26	No seminar		Happy Thanksgiving!
December 3	Andreas Crivellin CERN	Chris Quigg	Explaining the LHC flavour anomalies
December 10	Dorota Grabowska University of Washington	Seyda	A Nonperturbative Regulator for Chiral Gauge Theories and Fluffy Mirror Fermions
December 16 Wednesday 2:30pm, Curia II	Benjamin Fuks University of Paris VI	Bogdan	Next-to-leading order predictions matched to parton showers in the new physics context
December 24	No seminar		Happy Holidays!
December 31	No seminar		Happy New Year!