Theoretical physics seminars 1999





Date   Speaker Title (click title to see slides)
Feb. 4 Anton
Kapustin
,

Institute for Advanced Study
Aspects of Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Abelian Gauge Theories
Feb. 11 Yuval
Grossman
,

SLAC
 Neutrino and Sneutrino Oscillations in Supersymmetric Models
Feb. 18 Keith
Dienes
,

CERN
 New Directions for New Dimensions:

 An Overview of Recent Developments
Feb. 25

1:30 PM
NirPolonsky,

Rutgers
 The Many Flavors of Supersymmetry
Mar. 4    Run II QCD and Weak Boson Physics Workshop 
Wed.,

Mar. 10

11 AM
Matt
Strassler
,

Institute for Advanced Study
On Supersymmetric Model Building with Strong Dynamics
Mar. 11 Steve
Mrenna
,

UC, Davis
 Corrections to Parton Showering from Resummation Calculations
Tuesday,

Mar. 16
Gustavo
Burdman
,

University of Wisconsin
 Family, Flavor and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Mar. 18 Amanda
Peet
,

ITP, UC Santa Barbara
IR/UV Relations in the AdS/CFT Correspondence
Mar. 25

1:30 PM
Carl
Albright
,

Northern Illinois U./Fermilab
Predicting Quark and Lepton Masses and Mixings
April 1 Ulrich
Nierste
,

Fermilab
Inclusive Charmless B Decays and the B_s -B_s-bar Width Difference
April 8

1:30 PM
Peter
Landshoff
,

DAMTP
Problems with Structure Functions at Small x
April 15 Stuart
Raby
,

Ohio State/ Fermilab
Neutrino Oscillations in a Predictive SUSY GUT
April 22 Konstantin
Matchev
,

Fermilab
SUSY Reach of the Tevatron in Channels with Leptons and Tau Jets
April 29 No seminar  
May 6

1:30 PM
Zack
Sullivan
,

Argonne
R-parity Violation and Single Top Squarks at the Tevatron
May 13,

1:30 PM
Tom
Blum
,

Brookhaven
Kaon Weak Matrix Elements with Domain Wall Quarks
May 20

Canceled
Michael
Peskin
,

SLAC
Probes of New Large Space Dimensions
May 27

1:30 PM
Ben
Grinstein
,

UCSD
Operator Product Expansion for Exclusive Decays: B+ –> D_(s)+ e+ e- 
and B+ –> D_(s)*+ e+ e-
June 3   QCD and Weak Boson Physics, no seminar
Tuesday,

June 8
Nikolaos
Kidonakis
,

FSU
Threshold Resummation for Top Quark and Direct Photon Production
June 10   John Peoples Celebration
June 17   SUSY 99, no seminar,
June 24 Toru
Goto
,

KEK
New Constraint on the Minimal SU(5) SUSY-GUT Model from Proton Decay
July 1   no seminar
Tuesday,

July 6

WH3E
Gudrun
Hiller
,

L.N. Frascati – INFN
B –> K,K* l^+ l^- Decays in the Standard Model and in Supersymmetry
July 8   Fermilab Users’ Meeting, no seminar
July 15

1 West
Satyanarayan
Nandi


Oklahoma State Univ.
Natural Fermion Mass Hierarchy and New Signals for the Higgs Boson
Tuesday,

July 20
Athar
Husain
,

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.
High Energy Cosmic Tau Neutrinos
July 22 Masako
Bando


Aichi University, Japan
Neutrino masses in E6 unification
Tuesday,

July 27
Darwin
Chang


National Tsing Hua Univ, Taiwan
Recent developments on soft CP violation in supersymmetric models
July 29 David
Atwood


Iowa State Univ.
Probing large extra dimensions with hadronic colliders
Aug 5 Victor
Kim


St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
Small-x QCD (BFKL) effects at high energies
Aug 12 David
Miller


Rutherford Appleton Lab.
The Triple Higgs Coupling at a Linear Collider
Aug. 19 Keiji
Igi


Kanagawa University
Pion-pion Scattering as a Theoretical Laboratory for a Strongly Interacting
Higgs Sector
Aug. 26 Alexey
Petrov


Johns Hopkins University
Phenomenology of V_ub from ratios of inclusive B decay rates
Sept. 2 Tom
Mehen


Caltech
Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics and Wigner Symmetry
Sept. 9 No regular seminar “Circle Line Tours” series on the physics potential of future accelerators
Sept. 16 Dave
Rainwater


Fermilab
Weak Boson Fusion Higgses at the LHC
Sept. 23 No seminar Run II B  Physics Workshop
Tuesday,

Sept. 28
Jing
Wang


Fermilab
Physics Implications of Perturbative String Models
Oct. 7 Graham
Kribs


CMU
Contrasting Anomaly-Mediation with Gauge-Mediation in Supersymmetry
Tuesday,

Oct 12
Raman
Sundrum


Stanford University
Localized Gravity in Extra Dimensions
Oct. 14 Andre
Hoang


CERN
Top Mass Determination at the Linear Collider and an Update on the
Bottom Quark Mass
Oct.  21 

1:30pm
Amarjit
Soni


Brookhaven
First Lattice Results on epsilon’/epsilon with Domain Wall Fermions
Oct. 28 

1:30pm
Martin
Schmaltz


SLAC
Split Fermions in Extra Dimensions and Exponentially Small Cross-Sections
at Future Colliders
Nov. 4 No seminar Run II QCD and Weak Boson Physics workshop
Tuesday,

Nov. 9
Zvi
Bern


UCLA
Perturbative Gravity and Gauge Theory
Nov. 11 

1:30pm
Dan
Pirjol


UC San Diego
Determining V_{ub} with radiative leptonic B decays
Nov. 18 Einan
Gardi


Ecole Polytechnique
Power Corrections in the Single Dressed Gluon Approximation – the Average
Thrust as a Case Study
Tuesday,

Nov. 23
Stephen
Martin


Northern Illinois Univ.
Hard supersymmetry breaking couplings and the origin of intermediate
mass scales
Nov. 25   Happy Thanksgiving
Dec. 2 

1:30 pm
Adam
Leibovich


CMU 
 Measuring Vub from Inclusive Decays
Tuesday

Dec. 7
Simeon
Hellerman


UCSB 
“Do We Live at the Hub of the Universe?” 
Dec. 9 Joel
Rozowsky


Florida
QCD Fishnets Revisited
Tuesday

Dec. 14
Heather
Logan


Fermilab
Radiative Corrections to the $Z b \bar{b}$ Vertex and Constraints on
Extended  Higgs Sectors
Dec. 16 Kaoru
Hagiwara


KEK
Supersymmetry versus Precision Experiments
Dec. 23   Merry Christmas