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Particle Theory Seminars

Seminars are normally held in the Physical Sciences Building room 401 on Wednesdays at 2 pm and on Fridays at 12:30 pm (pizza at noon).

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 please contact Javi Serra (js993@cornell.edu), Paul McGuirk (mcguirk@cornell.edu), or Elizabeth Gustafson (eag88@cornell.edu).

Spring 2013

Date Speaker Institution Title
Wed Jan 23 Daniel Green Stanford Loops in inflation (slides)
Fri Jan 25      
Wed Jan 30 Henriette Elvang University of Michigan The a-theorem and the dilaton (poster)
Fri Feb 1 Diego Hofman SLAC/Stanford Holography: Fundamentals and applications to condensed matter and black hole physics (poster)
Wed Feb 6      
Fri Feb 8 Vasily Pestun IAS Non-perturbative problems in gauge theories: N=2 quiver QCD (slides)
Wed Feb 13 Sebastian Franco Durham A new class of QFTs: From D-branes to scattering amplitudes (slides - PowerPoint)
Fri Feb 15 Ben Heidenreich Cornell U A Complete Model for R-parity Violation (poster)
Wed Feb 20 John Joseph Carrasco Stanford Decoding the DNA of gravity, from the smallest to largest scales in nature (slides -PDF slides - Keynote)
Fri Feb 22 Raphael Flauger IAS and NYU From effective strings to critical strings and back (slides)
Wed Feb 27 Thomas Hartman IAS Three questions for quantum gravity (slides)
Fri Mar 1 Gonzalo Torroba Stanford/SLAC Towards a holographic formulation of cosmology (slides)
Wed Mar 6 Enrico Pajer Princeton Cosmology: A pre-Planck status report (poster)
Fri Mar 8 No speaker   Visit weekend
Wed Mar 13 Luca Vecchi U Maryland The Composite Higgs in the year 2013 (Slides)
Fri Mar 15      
Wed Mar 20     Spring break
Fri Mar 22     Spring break
Wed Mar 27 John Terning UC Davis Dilations and Fine Tuning (poster)
Fri Mar 29      
Wed Apr 3 Gary Shiu UW-Madison On quantum corrected F-theory
Fri Apr 5      
Wed Apr 10 Shamit Kachru Stanford/SLAC Some simple extensions of Mathieu Moonshine (poster)
Fri Apr 12      
Wed Apr 17      
Fri Apr 19      
Wed Apr 24 Stefano Profumo UC Santa Cruz Fundamental Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter (poster)
Fri Apr 26 Brando Bellazzini U Padova The Conformal Higgs (poster)
Wed May 1 Mathieu Cliche Cornell U Sommerfeld Enhancement of Self-Interacting Dark Matter (poster)
Fri May 3      
Wed May 8      
Fri May 10      
Wed May 15      
Fri May 17 Francesco D'Eramo UC Berkeley TBA

Fall 2012

Date Speaker Institution Title
Tue Aug 13 2pm 438 PSB Jacob Sonnenschein Tel-Aviv University Baryonic popcorn, on holographic nuclear interaction, nuclear matter and crystals of ADHM multi-instanton configurations (pdf)
Wed Aug 15 Andreas Nyffeler Harish-Chandra Research Institute Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g-2 (pdf)
Fri Aug 17      
Wed Aug 22      
Fri Aug 24 Yael Shadmi Technion Flavored Gauge Mediation, a Heavy Higgs, and Supersymmetric Alignment (pdf)
Wed Aug 29      
Fri Aug 31      
Wed Sep 5 Piyush Kumar Yale "L = R" - Lepton number as an R-symmetry (pdf)
Fri Sep 7      
Wed Sep 12 Lukas Witkowski Oxford A story of de- and re-coupling: superpotential de-sequestering in string models (pdf)
Fri Sep 14 Gil Paz Wayne State U. How well can we hope to know B -> Xs gamma? (pdf)
Wed Sep 19 Yasunori Nomura Berkeley Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes, and the Multiverse pdf)
Fri Sep 21 Gregory Gabadadze CCPP Massive Gravity: Cosmology and Black Holes
Mon Sep 24 1:30pm PSB Markus A. Luty UC Davis Asymptotics of 4D Quantum Field Theory (pdf)
Wed Sep 26      
Fri Sep 28      
Wed Oct 3 Bibhushan Shakya Cornell U. Neutralino Dark Matter: Naturalness, XENON100, and a 130GeV Signal (pdf)
Fri Oct 5 Avihay Kadosh Groningen U. RS, A_4, theta_13 and cLFV (pdf)
Wed Oct 10      
Fri Oct 12 Raffaele Savelli Max Planck Institute F-theory vs Type IIB Orientifolds: Some global aspects (pdf)
Wed Oct 17 Jure Zupan Cincinnati U. Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection (pdf)
Fri Oct 19      
Wed Oct 24 Joshua Lapan McGill Black hole monodromies and thermodynamics (pdf)
Fri Oct 26 Hagen Triendl Saclay Gauged N=4 supergravity from Calabi-Yau threefolds (pdf)
Wed Oct 31 Yang Zhang Niels Bohr Institute A new method for high-loop scattering amplitudes via computational algebraic geometry (pdf)
Fri Nov 2      
Wed Nov 7 Alejandra Castro Harvard The wave function of quantum de Sitter (pdf)
Fri Nov 9 Tessa Baker Oxford Parameterized approaches to modified gravity (pdf)
Wed Nov 14 Yuri Shirman UC, Irvine Fermion-Monopole Scattering and Rubakov-Callan Effect (pdf)
Fri Nov 16      
Wed Nov 21 No speaker   Thanksgiving break
Fri Nov 23 No speaker   Thanksgiving break
Wed Nov 28 Gordan Krnjaic Perimeter Institute Gauging the way to MFV
Fri Nov 30 Joshua T. Ruderman UC Berkeley  
Wed Dec 5 Alexey A. Petrov Wayne State U. Lepton-flavor violating muon conversion in effective field theory (pdf)
Fri Dec 7      
Wed Dec 12      
Fri Dec 14      

List of previous seminars: [ Spring 2012 ], [ Fall 2011 ], [ Spring 2011 ],[ Fall 2010 ],[ Spring 2010 ],[ Fall 2009 ], [ Spring 2009 ], [ 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 ]

List of previous Friday journal club seminars: [ Fall 2007, Spring 2007 ]