Particle Theory Seminars
Seminars are normally held on Wednesdays at 2 pm (new!) and also on Fridays if there is no joint LHC meeting on Thursday. Thursday and Friday seminars are at 12:30 pm (pizza at noon) in Newman Lab 311.
If there is no external speaker, the Friday seminar is used for the particle theory journal club with mostly local speakers. Click here for information to help speakers planning their trip to Ithaca. For more information and if you want to be included in the pizza lunch mailing list, please contact Brando Bellazzini (bb424 at cornell.edu) or Enrico Pajer (ep295 at cornell.edu).Spring 2009
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Jan 14 | Mike Mulligan | Stanford U. & SLAC | Holography and Dynamical Critical Phenomena |
| Wed Jan 21 | Shamayita Ray | Tata Inst. | RG evolution of neutrino masses and mixing in Type-III seesaw |
| Wed Jan 28 | Peter Skands | Fermilab | A Complete Idiot's Guide to Hadron Collisions |
| Fri Jan 30 | Itay Nachshon | Cornell | Hadronization, spin, and lifetimes |
| Wed Feb. 04 | Raphael Flauger | U. Texas, Austin | On Slow-Roll Moduli Inflation in Massive IIA Supergravity with Metric Fluxes |
| Fri Feb 6 | Philip Tanedo | Cornell | The Birds and the Bs: A case study of Bs to mu mu in the MSSM (pdf) |
| Wed Feb. 11 | Gary Shiu | U. Wisconsin, Madison | Towards dS String vacua: Warped, Twisted, and Minimal (pdf) |
| Fri Feb 13 | Joshua Berger | Cornell | Parameter counting in models with global symmetries (pdf) |
| Wed Feb. 18 | Ben Freivogel | Berkeley & LBL | Eternal Inflation, Bubble Collisions, and the Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (pdf) |
| Fri Feb 20 | Itzhak Roditi | Rio de Janeiro CBPF | A dual path integral representation for finite temperature QFT (pdf) |
| Wed Feb. 25 | Andrey Katz | U. of Maryland | Breaking the Dark Force (pdf) |
| Fri Feb 27 | Yuhsin Tsai | Cornell | Leptogenesis with Composite Neutrinos (pdf) |
| Wed Mar. 04 | Puneet Batra | Columbia U. | The Supersymmetric limit of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (pdf) |
| Wed Mar. 11 | David Morrissey | Harvard | Surprises in Dark Matter (pdf) |
| Wed Mar. 18 | Spring break | ||
| Wed Mar. 25 | Andrzej J. Buras | TU Munich | Searching for New Physics with Rare Decays and CP Violation (pdf) |
| Fri Mar. 27 | Bjoern Duling | TU Munich | Rare Decays in a Warped Extra Dimension with Custodial Protection (pdf) |
| Wed Apr. 01 | Adam Falkowski | Rutgers | Unhiggs |
| Fri Apr. 3 | Jiajun Xu | Cornell | Multifield inflation with a random potential (pdf) |
| Wed Apr. 08 | |||
| Fri Apr. 10 | David Curtin | Cornell | A flavor protection for warped Higgsless models (pdf) |
| Wed Apr. 15 | Zackaria Chacko | U. of Maryland | Supersymmetry in Slow Motion |
| Wed Apr. 22 | Matthew Baumgart | Harvard | Non-Abelian Dark Sectors. |
| Fri Apr 24 | Matt Kleban | New York U. | A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal Inflation |
| Wed Apr. 29 | Patrick Fox | Fermilab | Leptophilic Dark Matter |
| Fri May 1 | David Andriot | LPTHE Paris | Twist duality for flux backgrounds of type II and heterotic String Theory from Generalized Complex Geometry (pdf) |
| Wed May 06 | Itay Yavin | Princeton U. | Capture of Inelastic Dark Matter in the Sun |
Fall 2009
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Aug 21 | |||
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| Fri Aug 28 | |||
| Wed Sep 02 | Zohar Komargodski | IAS | Aspects of SUSY Breaking (pdf) |
| Fri Sep 04 | |||
| Wed Sep 09 | Peter Graham | Stanford | A Domino Theory of Flavor (pdf) |
| Fri Sep 11 | |||
| Tue Sep 15 at 4:30 | Matthias Neubert | Mainz U. | Singularities of scattering amplitudes in nonabelian gauge theories |
| Wed Sep 16 | Patrick Meade | IAS | PAMELA after FERMI |
| Fri Sep 18 | Daniel Wohns | Cornell | Resonant tunneling in QFT (pdf) |
| Wed Sep 23 | John Terning | UC Davis | Unparticles (pdf) |
| Fri Sep 25 | Tao Han | Wisconsin U. | Missing Energy at the LHC: The Dark Matter Connection (pdf) |
| Wed Sep 30 | Can Kilic | Rutgers U. | Vectorlike Confinement and its Signatures at the LHC (ppt) |
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| Wed Oct 14 | --- | ||
| Fri Oct 16 | Brian Wecht | IAS | New Tools for New SCFTs |
| Wed Oct 21 | John Mason | Harvard | The Higgs in Non-Minimal Gauge Mediation (pdf) |
| Fri Oct 23 | Massimo Porrati | NYU | Strong Coupling and Causality in High-Spin Massive Particles: the Charged Spin 3/2 Example |
| Wed Oct 28 | David Shih | IAS | Applications of Pseudomoduli |
| Fri Oct 30 | Bret Underwood | McGill? | The Attractiveness of Higher Dimensional Operators for Inflation |
| Wed Nov 04 | Christopher Herzog | Princeton | How to get a superconductor out of a black hole (pdf) |
| Fri Nov 06 | |||
| Wed Nov 11 | |||
| Fri Nov 13 | Arjun Bagchi | Harish-Chandra Research Institute | The non-relativistic limit of AdS?/CFT |
| Wed Nov 18 | Gonzalo Torroba | Rutgers | Dynamical supersymmetry breaking, with flavor |
| Fri Nov 20 | Eugene Lim | Columbia | TBA |
| Wed Dec 02 | Aaron Pierce | Michigan U. | TBA |
| Thu Dec 03 at 4:30 | Heng-Yu Chen | Madison | TBA |
| Wed Dec 09 | Dusan Simic | Stanford | TBA |
| Fri Dec 11 |
List of previous seminars: [ Fall 2008 ], [ Spring 2008 ], [ Fall 2007 ], [ Spring 2007 ] , [ Fall 2006 ] , [ Spring 2006 ] , [ Fall 2005 ] , [ Spring 2005 ] , [ Fall 2004 ] , [ Spring 2004 ] , [ Fall 2003 ] , [ Spring 2003 ] , [ Fall 2002 ] , [ Spring 2002 ] , [ Spring 2001 ] The old schedule for the Friday journal club seminars is here.
Supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy
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