Maxim Perelstein Associate Professor Theoretical Physics Group 436 Physical Sciences Building Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: +1 607 255 4118 mp325 (at) cornell.edu

Research Interests

• Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics
  • Models of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, including supersymmetry, extra dimensions, and extended gauge/global symmetries at the TeV scale.
  • Collider Phenomenology: searches for new physics at the Tevatron, LHC, and beyond.
• Cosmological Applications of Particle Physics: dark matter, dark energy, inflation.

Publications etc.

• My CV (including publications list): ps / pdf
• My papers from the INSPIRE database.

Recent Research Talks

• "EW Naturalness in Light of the LHC Data" -- "Higgs Quo Vadis" Workshop, Aspen, March 2013.
• "Dark Matter: Colliders and Direct Detection" -- LCWS-12 Conference, Arlington TX, October 2012.
• "(No) SUSY with 5 fb-1 at the LHC" -- Opening talk at the BNL Workshop, May 2012.
• "New Physics Searches with Boosted Tops" -- NPKI Launching Workshop, Seoul, February 2012.
• "Dark Matter Searches and Fine-Tuning in Supersymmetry" -- Berkeley and Niels Bohr Institute seminars, PACIFIC-2011 symposium, September 2011.
• "LHC Implications for SUSY: Light Stops?" -- Linear Collider Workshop, Granada, Spain, September 2011.

Recent Pedagogical Talks/Lectures

• "Collider Physics" lectures at Cargese, September 2012: lecture notes and MadGraph tutorial
• "Top Signatures of New Physics" -- LEPP Journal Club, Cornell, February 2012.
• "Basics of Collider Physics" -- School on Strongly Coupled Physics Beyond the SM, ICTP, Trieste, January 2012.
• "Physics Beyond the SM and LHC Searches" -- Particle Phenomenology Ph.D. School, NBI, Copenhagen, October 2011.
• "Introduction to Collider Physics" -- TASI-09 lectures, Boulder CO, June 2009 (video and notes available)

Recent Public Talks

• "The Higgs Boson: Why We Needed It, and How We Found It" -- Cornell Institute for Physics Teachers (CIPT) Workshop, October 2012 (for high-school science teachers)
• "Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Questions for the LHC" -- Cornell Physics Colloqiuim, September 2008 (for non-particle physicists)
• "The Standard Model and Beyond" -- NYSS APS/AAPT Conference, Cornell, April 2008 (for high-school science teachers)

MC4BSM (Monte Carlo Tools for Beyond the Standard Model Physics) Workshops

• MC4BSM-2013 - DESY, Hamburg, April 18-20, 2013.
• MC4BSM-2012 - Cornell, March 22-24, 2012.
• MC4BSM-2010 - Discovery Center/NBI, Copenhagen, April 14-16, 2010.
• MC4BSM-4 - UC Davis, April 3-4, 2009
• MC4BSM-3 - CERN, March 10-11, 2008
• MC4BSM-2 - Princeton, March 23-24, 2007
• MC4BSM - Fermilab, March 20-21, 2006

Other Workshops

• Snowmass-2013, Top Quark Working Group, "New Particles Decaying to Tops" subgroup

Teaching

• Spring 2013 -- Phys 7652 (Relativistic Quantum Field Theory II) [also Sp11, Sp12]
• Fall 2012 -- Phys 3327 (Advanced E&M).
• Fall 2010 -- Phys 7651 (Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I) [also F04, F05, F06]
• Spring 2010 -- Phys 4443 (Intermediate Quantum Mechanics) [also Sp2009]
• Fall 2009 -- Phys 7661 (Collider Physics)
• Fall 2008 -- Phys 2213 (Electricity, Magnetism and Thermal Physics) [also F2007, Sp2007]
• Spring 2006 -- Phys 116 (Mechanics and Special Relativity) [see also Sp2005, Sp2004].

Local Links

• Cornell Theoretical Particle Physics Group
• Seminar Schedule -- Wednesdays 2:00 pm and Fridays 12:30 pm

Other Useful Links

• SPIRES database at SLAC.
• E-print Archives at Cornell.
• Particle Data Group