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Winter Quarter 2010

Jan 6 Yuri Oksuzian (University of Florida) SEARCH FOR RESONANT PRODUCTION OF TOP ANTITOP PAIRS DECAYING INTO MULTI-JETS AT THE COLLIDER DETECTOR AT FERMILAB(Wednesday 1:30pm PRB4138)
Jan 11
Jan 25 Yevgeny Kats (Harvard) Bound states at the LHC (Monday 3:30pm PRB4138)
Feb 1 Paul McGuirk (Wisconsin) A Holographic Perspective on Strongly Coupled Messengers (Monday 3:30pm PRB4138)
Feb 8 Richard Hill (Chicago) SU(3)/SU(2): the simplest WZW term. (Monday 3:30pm PRB4138)
Feb 15 Alexei Bazavov (Arizona) Studies of QCD on the lattice with Highly Improved Staggered Quarks (Monday 3:30pm PRB4138)
Feb 22 Christopher Aubin (Wiliam & Mary) TBA
Mar 1 Radovan Dermisek (Indiana) TBA
Mar 8 Sonny Mantry (Wisconsin) Higgs Boson Distributions from Effective Field Theory
Mar 15



Spring Quarter 2010

Mar 29
Apr 5
Apr 12
Apr 19
Apr 26
May 3 Volker Braun (Dublin inst. for advanced studies) TBA
May 10
May 17
May 24
May 31 Memorial Day




Autumn Quarter 2009

Sep 18 Stuart Raby (OSU) SO(10) SUSY Models (Friday 3:30 pm PRB M2015)
Oct 2
Oct 9
Oct 16 Sergei Dubovsky (Stanford) Observing the String Axiverse (Friday 2:30pm PRB 4138)
Oct 23 Frank Tackmann (MIT) Factorization at the LHC: From PDFs to Initial State Jets (Friday 3:30pm PRB 1136)
Oct 30
Nov 6 Jacob Bourjaily (Princeton) Local Phenomenology in M-Theory and F-Theory(Friday 2:30pm PRB 4138)
Nov 13 Lara Anderson (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Stability Walls in Heterotic Theories (Friday 2:30pm PRB 4138)
Nov 20 Joseph Marsano (Univ. of Chicago) F-theory and GUTs (Friday 2:30pm PRB 4138)
Nov 23 Shlomo Razamat (SUNY, Stony Brook) Aspects of symmetric product orbifolds (Monday 2:30pm PRB M2015)
Dec 4 Simon Catterall (Syracuse) Supersymmetry and technicolor on the lattice (Friday 2:30pm PRB 4138)



Spring Quarter 2009

Apr 3
Apr 10 George Fleming (Yale) New Strong Dynamics for the LHC (Friday 3 pm PRB 4138)
Apr 13 Alexander Westphal (Stanford) Monodromy in the CMB: Chaotic Inflation & Gravity Waves in String Theory (Monday 3pm PRB 4138)
Apr 17 Pierre Artoisenet (Universite catholique de Louvain) Automatic event reweighting with matrix elements (Friday 3 pm PRB M2015)
May 1
May 6 Surjeet Rajendran (Stanford) Gravitational Wave Detection with Atom Interferometry (Wedneesday 11am PRB 4138)
May 11 Alexey Drozdetskiy (U of Florida) A Run for the Standard Model Higgs (Monday 4:30pm PRB 4138)
May 22 Konstantin Bobkov (Stanford) Kahler-independent compactifications in M-theory and their phenomenology (Friday 3pm PRB 4138)
May 29 Nathaniel Craig (Stanford) Phenomenology of Strongly-coupled Hidden Sectors (Friday 3pm PRB 4138)
Jun 5



Winter Quarter 2009

Jan 9
Jan 16
Jan 20 Michael Strang (SUNY-Buffalo) Observation of ZZ Production at D0 (Tuesday 3pm PRB 4138)
Jan 21 Jim Hirschauer (Colorado) CP violation in hadronic penguins at BaBar (Wednesday 11am PRB 4138)
Jan 30 Ruth Van de Water (BNL) The B->pi l nu semileptonic form factor and |Vub| from 2+1 flavor lattice QCD (Friday 3pm PRB 4138)
Feb 6 Gabriella Sciolla (MIT) DM-TPC: a novel apparatus for directional Dark Matter detection (Friday 3pm PRB 4138)
Feb 13
Feb 20
Feb 27
Mar 6
Mar 13

Autumn Quarter 2008

Oct 3 Stephen J. Sekula (MIT/BaBar/OSU) The White Elephant: Upsilon Physics at the BaBar B-factory (Firday 3pm PRB 4138)
Oct 7 Kenneth Heller (U of Minnesota) The Next Generation Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments: From MINOS to NOVA (Tuesday 2pm PRB 4138)
Oct 17 Anna Hasenfratz (U of Colorado) Reweighting towards the chiral limit of QCD (Friday 3pm PRBM 2015)
Oct 20 Holgar Nielsen (Neils Bohr Institute) Complex Action, Initial state model, Space time foam, and "Multiple Point Principle"(Monday 3pm Smith seminar room)
Oct 31
Nov 7 Homer Wolfe (ZEUS/Wisconsin) Using W Exchange To Explore The Flavor Content Of The Proton With ZEUS (Friday 3pm PRB 3041)
Nov 14
Nov 21 Thomas Levi (NYU) When Worlds Collide (Friday 11am PRB M2015)
Nov 25 Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute) Beyond $\eta/s = 1/4\pi$ (Tuesday 11am Simith seminar room)
Dec 2 Steve Ahlen (Boston U) New Directions in Particle Tracking (Tuesday 3pm PRB 4138)
Dec 3 Sourabh Dube (CDF/Rutgers) Search for Supersymmetry at CDF using Trileptons (Wednesday 3pm PRB 3041)



Spring Quarter 2008

Mar 26 Michael Peskin (SLAC) A Little More about Graviton Radiation into Large Extra Dimensions (Wednesday 10:30am)
Mar 28 Hye-Sung Lee (UFL) R-parity violating U(1)'-extended MSSM
Apr 04 Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) Little Higgs with T Parity (12:30pm PRB 4138)
Apr 09 Martin Schmaltz (BU) The mu/Bmu problem in gauge mediation and hidden sector running (Wednesday 11:30am Smith Seminar Room) VIDEO LINKS: asf mov
Apr 14 Herman Verlinde (IAS) N-ification of Forces (Monday 4pm PRB 4138)
Apr 25 Gil Paz (IAS) Z'-mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (3:30 pm Smith Seminar Room)
May 02 Hyun Min Lee (CMU) U(1)_R mediation from the flux compactification in six dimensions (3:30 pm Smith Seminar Room)
May 09 Brent Nelson (NEU) Solving the LHC Inverse Problem with Dark Matter Observations (3:30 pm M2015)
May 16 Jesse Thaler (LBL) GenEvA: A New Framework for Event Generation (3:30 pm Smith Seminar Room)
May 21 Lian-Tao Wang (Princeton) Spin measurements at the LHC (3:30 pm M2035)
May 23 Heechang Na (IU) Heavy baryon mass spectrum with realistic staggered quarks in Lattice QCD (3:30 pm Smith Seminar Room) VIDEO LINKS: asf mov
May 30 Jacob Bourjaily (IAS) Local Model Building in M-Theory (3:30 pm Smith Seminar Room)



Winter Quarter 2008

Jan 11 Meng Lu (OSU) Cancelled
Jan 18
Jan 25
Feb 01 Meng Lu (OSU) Line Shapes of Exotic c-cbar Mesons
Feb 08
Feb 11 Al Mueller AdS/CFT in Deep Inelastic Scattering and Heavy Ion Physics (Monday 4:00pm)
Feb 15 Jihn E. Kim (Seoul National U.) String compactification and unification of forces
Feb 22 Hasan Yuksel (OSU) Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
Feb 29 Keith Olive (UMN) Phenomenological Aspects of Supersymmetric Dark Matter
Mar 07 Greg van Anders (UBC) SU(2|4) Symmetric Field Theories and the Lin-Maldacena Geometries
Mar 14 Eduardo Follana (OSU) Charm physics on the lattice with highly improved staggered quarks



Autumn Quarter 2007

Sep 28 Shmuel Nussinov Astroparticle and some LHC aspects of long lived or stable massive colored particles
Oct 05 Akin Wingerter MSSM-Like Models with R-Parity from Strings
Oct 12 Zoltan Ligeti Short distance physics from b -> s l+ l-
Oct 19 Hiro Tajima Development of Hard X-ray/Soft Gamma-ray Imaging Detectors for Space Applications
Oct 26 Volodymyr Miranskyy Phases with Vector Condensates at Finite Density in QCD and Beyond
Nov 02 Anna Stasto Unintegrated parton distribution functions and factorization (Joint HEP/Nuclear Seminar. SPECIAL TIME: 12:30 pm)
Nov 09 Ulysses Grundler Measuring the Top-Pair Production Cross Section Using Soft Muon Tagging at CDF
Nov 16 Jacques Chauveau Measurements of CP violation in B decays and CKM parameters
Nov 30 Anastasios Taliotis Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions from AdS/CFT Correspondence
Dec 07 Ryuichiro Kitano Sweet Spot Supersymmetry



Spring Quarter 2007

30 MAR Gary Horowitz Microstates of a Neutral Black Hole
30 MAR Amir Rahimi Evidence for D0-D0bar mixing at BABAR
04 APR Mark Trodden Gravitational Approaches to Cosmic Acceleration
06 APR Piyush Kumar Explaining the Electroweak Scale and stabilizing moduli in M theory
11 APR Gautam Mandal Quantization of gravity, giants and sound waves
13 APR Hock Seng Goh Folded Supersymmetry
20 APR
25 APR Robert Brandenberger String Gas Cosmology and Structure Formation
27 APR
04 MAY Christoph Luhn Proton hexality and neutrino masses from an anomalous U(1)
11 MAY
18 MAY
25 MAY
01 JUN
08 JUN Tommy Levi tba



Winter Quarter 2007

10 JAN Catalin Ciobanu Searches for single-top-quarks and heavy bosons at CDF
31 JAN Ian-Woo Kim Global symmetries and related phenomenology in Flipped SU(5) model from Z_12 orbifold
02 FEB Hyun-Min Lee Gauge Coupling Unification from SO(10) GUT in Six Dimensions
02 FEB Josh Moss Measurement of the Branching Fraction of KL->Pi+ Pi- e+ e- in the High Invariant Mass Region
09 FEB Elvira Gamiz |V_us| and m_s from tau decays
16 FEB
23 FEB Tuhin Roy Messages from the Hidden Sector and Super-particle Masses
23 FEB Karina F. Loureiro LHC: Extra Dimensions and Black Holes
02 MAR Jay Hubisz Radion Phenomenology in Warped Models of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
09 MAR Scott Watson Early Universe Dynamics and Inflation in String Theory
16 MAR