more options

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) or Paul McGuirk (mcguirk@cornell.edu).

Spring 2012

Date Speaker Institution Title
Wed Jan 25 Jacob Bourjaily Harvard University Quantum field theory and the analytic S-matrix, redux (pdf)
Fri Jan 27 Ben Heidenreich Cornell University MFV SUSY: A natural alternative to R-parity (pdf)
Wed Feb 1 Yevgeny Kats Rutgers University Studying hadronically decaying particles using photons and leptons
Fri Feb 3 David Marsh Cornell University The wasteland of random supergravities (pdf)
Wed Feb 8 Yang Bai SLAC Implications of existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson (pdf)
Fri Feb 10 Javi Serra Cornell University Compositeness at the electroweak scale (pdf)
Wed Feb 15 Pavel Fileviez Perez CCPP The theory of R-parity and supersymmetry at the LHC (pdf)
Fri Feb 17 Monika Blanke Cornell University Flavor constraints on left-right models (pdf)
Wed Feb 22 Diego Hofman Harvard University Solipsism in the dS static patch (pdf)
Fri Feb 24      
Wed Feb 29 Dean Robinson Cornell University Composite Dirac neutrinos (pdf)
Fri Mar 2 Jim Halverson University of Pennsylvania Beauty is attractive: Non-perturbative superpotentials and enhanced symmetry points (pdf)
Wed Mar 7 Stefano Massai CEA Saclay Supersymmetry breaking from anti-branes in flux compactifications (pdf)
Fri Mar 9      
Wed Mar 14 Tuhin S. Roy University of Washington QJets (pdf)
Fri Mar 16 Alex Kagan Cincinnati University CP violation in D decays (pdf)
Wed Mar 21 Marco Farina CERN Testing a custodial breaking Higgs coupling at colliders (pdf)
Wed Mar 28 Jeremy Mardon Stanford University But what if it's not a WIMP? DM direct detection down to the MeV Scale(pdf)
Fri Mar 30 Mario Martone Cornell University Kinematic Edges with Flavor Oscillation and non-zero Width(pdf)
Wed Apr 4 Anatoly Dymarsky Institute for Advanced Study Supersymmetry Breaking in holography: Non-supersymmetric conifold (pdf)
Fri Apr 6 Gerben Stavenga Fermilab Non-Perturbative Proton Stability(pdf)
Wed Apr 11 Tony Gherghetta Melbourne University Natural SUSY, Split Families and Unification(pdf)
Fri Apr 13 Matthias Neubert Mainz University Higgs Production in a Warped Extra Dimension(pdf)
Wed Apr 18 --- --- CMB talk (experimentalist)
Fri Apr 20      
Tue Apr 24 1:30 pm (438 PSB) Daniel Green Institute for Advanced Study A Field Range Bound for General Single-Field Inflation(pdf)
Wed Apr 25 Justin Khoury University of Pennsylvania The Pseudo-Conformal Universe: Scale Invariance from Conformal Invariance(pdf)
Fri Apr 27 Emmanuel Stamou TU Munich Phenomenology of Gauged Flavour Symmetries (pdf)
Wed May 2 2pm Lisa Randall Harvard University Light Stops and Compositeness(pdf)
Fri May 4 Zohar Komargodski Institute for Advanced Study A Non-Perturbative Approach to SUSY Gauge Theories (pdf)
Wed May 9 --- --- Pheno 2012 Symposium
Fri May 11 Shamayita Ray Cornell tba
Wed May 16 Bibhushan Shakya Cornell Return of the Warped Penguins: b to s gamma in RS (pdf)
Fri May 18 Michael Saelim Cornell University Boosted Tops from Gluino Decays (pdf)

Fall 2011

Date Speaker Institution Title
Wed Aug 24      
Fri Aug 26      
Wed Aug 31 Pablo Camara CERN RR photons (pdf)
Fri Sep 2 Sebastian Halter MPI Munich Towards Matter Inflation in Heterotic Compactifications (pdf)
Wed Sep 7 Yossi Nir Weizmann Inst. Flavorful Hadron Colliders (pdf)
Fri Sep 9 Sohang Gandhi Cornell Perturbing Flux Compactifications (pdf)
Wed Sep 14 James Gray LMU Munich Gauge fields and phenomenology in heterotic compactifications
Fri Sep 16      
Wed Sep 21 Roni Harnik Fermilab CMB Signals from our Parent Vacuum
Fri Sep 23      
Wed Sep 28      
Fri Sep 30 Flip Tanedo Cornell Goldstone Fermion Dark Matter (pdf)
Wed Oct 5 Bart Horn Stanford Uplifting AdS/CFT to Cosmology (pdf)
Fri Oct 7 Mariangela Lisanti Princeton U A flow of Dark Matter Debris (pdf)
Wed Oct 12 Bartek Czech University of British Columbia Three perspectives on eternal inflation (pdf)
Fri Oct 14 Susanne Westhoff U Mainz Massive Gluons in Top-Quark Pair Production (pdf)
Wed Oct 19 Yuhsin Tsai Cornell Current collider bounds on dark matter (pdf)
Fri Oct 21 Mustafa Amin MIT Lumps and bumps in the early universe
Wed Oct 26 Kfir Blum IAS Princeton Searching for New Physics in Galactic Cosmic Rays (pdf)
Fri Oct 28 Jinrui Huang UC Irvine Search for new non-standard decays of the SM-like higgs at the LHC (pdf)
Wed Nov 2 Roberto Franceschini U Maryland The effective W approximation for WW scattering and new physics (pdf)
Fri Nov 4 Bibhushan Shakya Cornell Direct Dark Matter Searches and Fine-Tuning in Supersymmetry (pdf)
Wed Nov 9 Jure Drobnak Stefan Inst., Ljubljana Anomalous tWb couplings: Interplay of top and bottom physics (pdf)
Fri Nov 11 Michael Trott CERN Flavour Symmetric sectors and Collider Physics
Wed Nov 16 Stefania Gori U Chicago Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM at the LHC (pdf)
Fri Nov 18 John Terning UC Davis A Light Composite Stop (pdf)
Wed Nov 30 Matthew McCullough MIT R-symmetry at the TeV Scale?
Fri Dec 2 Brian Shuve Harvard A WIMPy Baryogenesis Miracle
Wed Dec 7 Allan Adams MIT tba
Fri Dec 9      
Wed Dec 14 Michael B Schulz Bryn Mawr College T-folds, doubled geometry, and the SU(2) WZW model
Fri Dec 16 Mark Jackson Leiden University tba

List of previous seminars: [ 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 ]