Cornell Particle Theory: BSM Journal Club

BSM Journal Club

The particle theory graduate student journal club meets once a week to discuss topics of interest in beyond the Standard Model phenomenology and model building. Topics roughly alternate between review articles and new papers.


Image from CMS via B. Dorney

See also the 2012 Winter camp.

Mondays, 1:30pm -- 3:00pm
Physical Sciences Building, Room 470
Contact:

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Spring 2012 Schedule

Topics marked (R) are review talks where some previous reading is recommended but not necessary. Otherwise topics are "current papers" and everyone is expected to have read the main paper in advance.

DATES SPEAKER TOPIC REFERENCES
30 Jan 12 Yuhsin Tsai Light Dark Matter notes
6 Feb 12 Mario Martone Dynamical SUSY breaking
13 Feb 12 Nic Rey-Le Lorier Running Off a Cliff: Bounds on radiative EWSB 1112.3022
review
20 Feb 12 Josh Berger Jet substructure and boosted object tagging Software
FastJet
0806.0848
1011.2268
notes
27 Feb 12 Bibhushan Shakya Out of this world SUSY breaking hep-th/9810155
5 Mar 12 Flip Tanedo 5D Locality in 4 Dimensions 1202.5491
notes
12 Mar 12 Dean Robinson Flavor Oscillation from the Two-Point Function 1103.3486
19 Mar 12 No Talk Spring Break Gong Show? notes
26 Mar 12 Mathieu Cliche Branes, 5D gravity, and long distances arXiv:hep-th/0002072
arXiv:hep-th/0005016
arXiv:hep-th/0003076
2 Apr 12 Jack Collins Split Families Unified 1103.3708
1203.0572
9 Apr 12 Mike Saelim Personal (Jet) Grooming 0802.2470
0912.0033
0912.1342
16 Apr 12 David Marsh Supergravity for Phenomenologists Flip's notes
23 Apr 12 Javi Serra NGB Higgs Physics Flip's notes
30 Apr 12 Monika Blanke New Physics in Kaons Notes
7 May 12 PHENO 2012 No talks notes

Spring 2010 Abstracts

2012 Winter Workshop: January 2012

This will be a week-long, in-depth student workshop (Winter Camp) focusing on Collider Monte Carlo, from 17-22 January 2012. Meetings will be roughly 10 - 5pm every day with all participants in the same room. Each day will have a convener and a closing summary talk with ample time for discussion. The workshop website is here.

Resources

Unsure about places to start looking for talk ideas? Here are a few suggestions, geared towards the pedagogical side.

Scanning: it is often helpful to share your notes with the journal club, especially for review talks. Hand written notes may be scanned easily using the LASSP document scanner on the 5th floor of Clark or Mann library (photocopiers with free scanning option). These have automatic document feeders and can e-mail you a pdf of your notes.

Guidelines

History

The current BSM journal club was started in 2007 by Flip Tanedo, David Curtin, Itay Nachshon, Josh Berger, and Yuhsin Tsai. Previous manifestations include a collider journal club organized by Matt Reece and Patrick Meade. In the distant past Michael Peskin explains that the students had a "Gradshteyn" seminar since it was meant to integrate the collective knowledge of the graduate students.