Theoretical physics seminars 2008 Date Speaker Title (click title to see slides) January 3 No seminar Happy New Year! January 10 No seminar Happy New Year! January 17 Jing Shu University of Chicago Top Compositeness at the Tevatron and LHC January 24 Kiwoon Choi KAIST Moduli Stabilization and the Pattern of Sparticle Masses January 31 WH3NW Jon Bailey Fermilab Light-quark Baryon Spectroscopy with Staggered Fermions February 7 Thomas Becher Fermilab Precision Determination of αs from Thrust Distributions at LEP February 14 Jan Winter Fermilab The Sherpa Approach to Calculating Multijet Backgrounds February 21 Carlo Oleari Universitá di Milano-Bicocca Matching NLO Calculations with Parton Showers: the POsitive-Weight Hardest Emission Generator (POWHEG) February 28 Yang Bai Fermilab Minimal Little Higgs Model and Dark Matter 2:30–4:30 p.m.March 6One West Joint Theory-CMS Seminar Meenakshi Narain Brown University Jack Gunion UC Davis Jointly hosted by the Theoretical Physics Department and the LHC Physics Center Top and SUSY Mass Determination in Dilepton Events (abstract) Accurate Mass Determinations in Decay Chains with Missing Energy (abstract) March 13 Tom Appelquist Yale University Lattice Study of the Conformal Window in QCD-like Theories March 20 WH3NW Anupama Atre Fermilab Heavy Quarks Above the “top” at Hadron Colliders March 27 No seminar Public sessions of the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee 11:00 AM April 3 Eduardo Follana The Ohio State University Charm Physics on the Lattice with Highly Improved Staggered Quarks April 10 Kai Wang University of Wisconsin Testing the Origin of Neutrino Mass at the LHC April 17 Spencer Chang New York University When Worlds Collide: The Cosmological Observables of Pre-Inflationary Bubble Collisions April 24 WH3NW Adam Martin Yale University Probing Technivector Scenarios at the LHC May 1 Sebastian Grab Universität Bonn Sneutrino or Stau as the Lightest Supersymmetric Particle in mSUGRA with R-Parity Violation May 8 Terrance Figy University of Durham QCD Corrections to Vector-Boson-Fusion Higgs Production Channels May 15 Tomasz Taylor Northeastern Universtiy Jet Signals for Low Mass Strings at the LHC 11:00 AM Monday,May 19 One West Massimiliano Grazzini INFN Firenze Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders: Selected Results May 29 Hye-Sung Lee University of Florida Proton and Dark Matter without R Parity June 5 No seminar Fermilab Users’ Meeting June 12 WH3NW José Zurita Universidad de Buenos Aires Soft-gluon Resummation for Pseudoscalar Higgs Boson Production at Hadron Colliders June 19 WH3NW Satyanarayan Nandi Oklahoma State University A New Two Higgs Doublet Model 11:00 AM Friday,June 27 WH3NW Silvia Pascoli Durham University Detecting Dark Matter with Neutrino Detectors July 3 No seminar Happy Independence Day July 10 Daniele Bettinelli Universita Milano Electroweak Model Based on the Nonlinearly-realized Gauge Group SU(2)×U(1) July 17 Gregory Mahlon Penn State University at Mont Alto Relations Among Spin Amplitudes for 2→2 Scattering July 24 No seminar July 31 No seminar August 7 No seminar August 14 Holger Nielsen Niels Bohr Institute New Bound States Containing Several Top Quarks Bound by Higgs Exchange August 21 Shrihari Gopalakrishna BNL Heavy Electroweak Gauge Bosons at the LHC August 28 Topological Interactions at the LHC and a Generalized Landau-Yang Theorem September 4 No Seminar Happy Labor Day September 11 Ian Low Northwestern University &Argonne Nat’l Lab Kaluza-Klein Parity in Warped Extra Dimensions (pdf) (ppt) September 15–19 Workshop Beyond the Standard Model from the Tevatron to the LHC 11:00 AMSeptember 25 Antonio Delgado University of Notre Dame Higgs-Unparticle Interplay October 2 Jnan Maharana Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar Axion-Dilaton String Cosmology October 9 Ruth Britto Fermilab Unitarity for Loop Amplitudes October 16 Keith Ellis Fermilab Assault on one-loop QCD October 23 Enno E. Scholz Fermilab Physical Results from 2+1 Flavor Lattice Domain Wall QCD October 30 Lisa Randall Harvard University Flavor Physics from Warped Geometry November 6 Gabe Shaughnessy Argonne Nat’l Lab The Search for Dark Matter November 13 Chris Sachrajda University of Southampton Kaon Physics with Chiral Quarks November 20 Elvira Gamiz University of Illinois Lattice determination of B0-B0 mixing parameters in the Standard Model and beyond November 27 No seminar Happy Thanksgiving December 4 Henrik Johansson UCLA Superfiniteness of N=8 supergravity at three loops and beyond December 11 Puneet Batra Columbia University Supersymmetric Electroweak Symmetry Breaking December 18 Neil Christensen Michigan State University FeynRules December 25 No seminar Happy Holidays
