Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

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Theoretical Physics

May 2,2008

SLAC Theory Group
 

Previous Theory Seminars

2002       2003      2004      2005       2006     2007

Theory Seminars Location: Green Room (except where noted)

2008 Return to Top                                                            Theoretical Physics Group 
No seminar No seminar Wed, January 2, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No seminar Fri, January 4, 2008
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
No seminar No seminar Wed, January 9, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No seminar Fri, January 11, 2008
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
No seminar WEST COAST LHC MEETINGWed, January 16, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Fernando Febres Cordero
UCLA
"Weak Boson Production Associated to Heavy Quark Jet Pairs at Hadron Colliders"Fri,January 18, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
David Tong
University of Cambridge
"Berry's Phase, Supersymmetry and D-Branes"Wed, January 23, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Johan Alwall
SLAC
"Seeing quasi-degenerate gluinos and binos at the Tevatron"Fri, January 25, 2008
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Stephano Profumo
UC Santa Cruz
"Electro-weak Baryogenesis: a Multi-Faceted Approach" Wed,January 30, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
   



   
My Phuong Le
SLAC
"Graviton + (n-jet) Emission into Extra Dimensions" Fri, February 1,2008
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Randall Kelley
UC San Diego
"Electroweak Sudakov corrections using effective field theory" Wed,February 6, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Navin Sivanandam
Stanford
"Volume-Weighted Measures of Eternal Inflation in the Bousso-Polchinski Landscape" Fri, February 8,2008
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Thomas Becher
Fermilab
"Precision Determination of alpha_s from Thrust Distributions at LEP" Wed,February 13, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Daniel Freedman
MIT
"Fun with tree amplitudes: N=4 and N=8" Fri, February 15,2008
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Jesse Thaler
UC Berkeley
"GenEvA -- A new framework for event generation"Wed,February 20, 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Alexander Westphal
Stanford
"Accidental Inflation in String Theory"Fri,February 22, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
Allan Adams
MIT
"Branes, Fluxes and the Heterotic Landscape" Wed, February 27,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Sho Yaida
Stanford
"The Viscosity Bound and Causality Violation"Fri,February 29, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
   



   
No seminar No seminar Wed, March 5,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
CIfAR/SITP/KIPAC March 08 Conference "CIfAR/SITP/KIPAC" - Kavli AuditoriumFri, March 7,  2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
No seminar No seminar Wed, March 12,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Surjeet Rajendran
SLAC/Stanford
Joint Theory Colloquium: "Gravitational Wave Detection with Atom Interferometry"Fri, March 14, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
James Sully
McGill University
"D-terms on the Resolved Conifold" Wed, March 19,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Terry Tomboulis
UCLA
"From short to long scales and confinement in 4-dim. non-abelian gauge theory"Fri, March 21, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
Marc Kamionkowski
Caltech
"Gravity in the Galaxy and the Universe" Wed, March 26,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
John March-Russell
Oxford University
"Heavy Dark Matter Through the Higgs Portal"Fri, March 28, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
   



   
Carola Berger
MIT
"The number density of a charged relic" Wed, April 2,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Masahiro Ibe
SLAC
"Sweet Spot Supersymmetry"Fri, April 4, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
Christopher Beem
UC Berkeley
"New Applications for Geometric Transitions" Wed, April 9,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Nathaniel Craig
USLAC/Stanford
"ISS-flation"Fri, April 11, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
Adam Brown
Columbia University
"Quantum and thermal tunneling in de Sitter space" Wed, April 16,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Chen-Pin Yeh
Stanford
"CFT description of eternal inflation"Fri, April 18, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
Lisa Randall
Harvard University
"Flavor in Warped Extra Dimensions" Wed, April 23,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No seminar Fri, April 25, 2008
12:30 p.m. -2 p.m
David Poland
UC Berkeley 
"More Visible Effects of the Hidden Sector" Wed, April 30,2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
   



   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2007 Return to Top                                                            Theoretical Physics Group 
Johan Alwall
SLAC
MadGraph/MadEvent v.4 Friday, January 12, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
David Rainwater
Rochester University
Breakdown of the narrow width approximationWed, January 17, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Nathaniel Craig
SLAC/Stanford University
Reheating Metastable O'Raifeartaigh Models.Friday, January 19, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Jose Santiago Perez
Fermilab
New ideas in Randall-Sundrum phenomenologyWed, January 24, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Alessandro Tomasielo
Stanford University
What internal spaces give supersymmetric flux vacua in string theory?Friday, January 26, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Maurizio Piai
Washington University
Precision Electro-Weak Parameters from AdS-CFTWed, January 31, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
   



     
Joshua Erlich
William & Mary College
Holographic Bosonic TechnicolorFriday, February 2, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Ofer Aharony
Weizmann Institute of Science
A holographic model of deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration Wed, February 7,2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Guy de Teramond
University of Costa Rica
AdS/CFT Integrability in a semiclassical approximation to QCD Friday, February 9, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Pavel Kovtun
KITP, Santa Barbara
Quantum critical transport, duality, and M-theory Wed, February 14,2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Lance Dixon
SLAC
Is N=8 Supergravity Finite? Friday, February 16,2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
David Starr
SLAC/Stanford U
New Dimensions for Wound Strings Wed, February 21,2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Albert De Roeck
CERN
The CMS experiment at the LHC: the first few years. Friday, February 23,2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Matt Strassler
University of Washington, Seattle
On the Collider Phenomenology of a Hidden Valley Wed, February 28,2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
   



   
Andrei Belitsky
Arizona State University
Integrability and multiloop Baxter equation in Super-Yang-Mills theories Friday, March 2, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Veronica Sanz
Boston University
Holography: a tool for the LHC Wed, March 7, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Richard Hill
Fermilab
Topological physics of little higgs bosons Friday, March 9, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Kaustubh Agashe
Syracuse University
Signals for Composite Higgs Models in Top and W/Z Physics Wed, March 14, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Mathew Headrick
Stanford University
The uses of Ricci flow Friday, March 16, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Chung Kao
Oklahoma University
QCD Corrections to Higgs Pair Production in Bottom Quark Fusion Wed, March 21, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Anthony Aguirre
SCIPP, Santa Cruz
Learning how to count in eternal inflation Friday, March 23, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Christopher Lee
University of Washington, Seattle
Universal Nonperturbative Effects in Two-Jet Event Shapes Wed, March 28, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Tom Able
SLAC (KIPAC) Stanford University
Birth, Life and Death of the First Massive Stars Friday, March 30, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
   



     
Herbert Newberger
Rutgers University
Progress on QCD at an infinite number of colors Wed, April 4, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
John Cornwall
UCLA
Center Vortices and the Functional Schrodinger Equation Friday, April 6, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Sonny Mantry
Caltech
Top Mass from Jets. Wed, April 11, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No seminar Friday, April 13, 2007
 
Thomas Gregoire
Boston University
Composite gluinos at the LHC Wed, April 18, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Frank Tackmann
Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Squeezing b -> s l^+ l^- for New Physics with Limited Data Friday, April 20, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Leonardo Senatore
Harvard
An Effective Field Theory for Inflation Wed, April 25, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Allan Adams
MIT
No Calabi-Yau Is An Island (or, The Anomalous LG-CY Correspondence Friday, April 27, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
   



     
Peter Skands
Fermilab
Parton Showers and NLO matrix elements Wed, May 2, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Sean Hartnoll
KITP, UC Santa Barbara
Topology Change and New Phases of Thermal N=4 sym Theory Thursday, May 3, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Urs M. Heller
APS and BNL
Some results from full 2+1 flavor simulations of QCD Wed, May 9, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Neal Weiner
NYU
Positrons in the Halo from Exciting Dark Matter Fri, May 11, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Lawrence G. Yaffe
Washington, Seattle
Heavy quark energy loss in strongly coupled plasmas Wed, May 16, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Zohar Komargodski
Weizmann
Phases of string theory on AdS3 and tachyon condensation Fri, May 18, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Mariangela Lisanti
SLAC/Stanford
Unification and Dark Matter in a Minimal Scalar Extension of the Standard Model. Wed, May 23, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Michael Peskin
SLAC
New parton shower algorithms based on twistors Fri, May 25, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Volodya Smirnov
Moscow State University
Evaluating Feynman Integrals by Mellin-Barnes Representation Wed, May 30, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
     



     
Roni Harnik
SLAC/Stanford
Folded Supersymmetry and Uncolored Squarks at LHC Fri, June 1, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
James Gainer
SLAC/Stanford 
Can the ILC Solve the LHC inverse problem? Wed, June 6, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Johan Alwall
SLAC
Matching of Parton Showers and QCD Matrix Elements with MADEVENT and PYTHIA Fri, June 8, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m

No seminar
DoE Review Wed, June 6, 2007
 
Raj Ghandi
Harish Chandra Research Institute
Physics Possibilities with the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) Fri, June 15, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Christoph Luhn
Florida University 
Proton hexality and neutrino masses from an anomalous U(1) Wed, June 20, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No seminar Fri, June 22, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Alakabha Datta
University of Mississippi
Is there New Physics in B Decays? Wed, June 27, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Stan Brodsky
SLAC/Stanford
The Renormalization Scale Problem Fri, June 29, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
   



   
No seminar No seminar Wed, July 4,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Jay Wacker
SLAC/Stanford 
New Searches for Sub-Gravitational Forces Fri, July 6, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
No seminar No seminar Wed, July 11, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Thomas Dumitrescu
Columbia University
The Static Approximation to B Meson Mixing using Light Domain Wall Fermions Fri, July 13, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Reinhold Ruckl
University of Wuerzburg
LFV, Leptogenesis and Collider Searches Wed, July 18, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Marek Karliner
Tel-Aviv University 
Predictions of Bottom Baryon Masses Fri, July 20, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Susan Gardner
University of Kentucky
Probing the Electromagnetic Properties of Dark Matter Wed, July 25, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No seminar Fri, July 27, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
    



     
No seminar SLAC Summer Institute Wed, August 1,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar SLAC Summer Institute Fri, August 3, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
No seminar SLAC Summer Institute Wed, August 8,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar SLAC Summer Institute Fri, August 10, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Mihoko Nojiri
KEK
BSM and dark matter at LHC Mon, August 13, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Shin 'ichi Nojiri
Nagoya University
Gauss-Bonnet gravity as a dark energy model Wed, August 15, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Alfred Goldhaber
Stony Brook University
One Billion Magnetic Monopoles Fri, August 17, 2007
12
:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Ana Alboteanu
University of Wuerzburg
The Noncommutative Standard Model Beyond Leading Order in Theta and Collider Phenomenology Mon, August 20, 2007
1
:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Jean-Philippe Lansberg
Ecole Polytechnique-CPHT
Hard-exclusive processes and Transition Distribution Amplitudes Wed, August 22, 2007
1
:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No Seminar Fri, August 24,  2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Yorgos Sofianatos
SLAC/Stanford
Higgs + multiparton amplitudes at 1-loop Wed, August 29, 2007
1
:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No Seminar Fri, August 31,  2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
    



   
ZhenyuHan                     UC Davis"Mass determination in SUSY-like events with missing energy"Wed, September 5,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Mattew Johnson Caltech"Towards observable signatures of other bubble universe" Fri, September 7, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
No seminar No SeminarWed, September 12,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Sally Dawson BrookhavenNationalLab"B quarks and the Higgs" Fri, September 14, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Graham Kribs   University of Oregon "Fun with Fourth Generations" Fri, September 19, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Timothy R. Dulaney    CalTech "Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in the Lee-Wick Standard Model"Wed, September 21,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
John Mason          UC Santa Cruz"Radiative Corrections to Supersymmetric Relations: The Charginos and Neutralinos" Fri, September 26, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Serguey Petcov SISSA"Neutrino Mixing, Majorana and Dirac CP-Violation in the Lepton Sector and Leptogenesis"Wed, September 28,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
    



   
Michel Herquet Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL. "Twisting Higgs Phenomenology at Hadron Colliders"Wed, October 3,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Pierre Ramond University of Florida"Finite Flavor Symmetries"Fri, October 5, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Daniel Baumann Princeton University "Primordial Gravitational Waves from String Theory?"Wed, October 10,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Mithat Unsal  SLAC "Confinement, duality and magnetic bions in QCD(adj)"Fri, October 12, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Jason Kumar      UC Irvine "Probing String Models at the LHC Via Extra Gauge"Wed, October 17,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Timo Weigand CalTech"Stringy Instanton effects in Type II orientifolds"Thurs, October 18, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m Stanford
No seminar No SeminarFri, October 19, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Matt Buckley      UC Berkeley "Discriminating spin through quantum interference"Wed, October 24,  2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Daniel Green  SLAC/Stanford"On the Critical Behaviour of Boundaries"Fri, October 26, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Tim Tait            Argonne National Laboratory"Top Compositeness at the LHC"Wed, October 31, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
    



   
Jogesh Pati SLAC/U Maryland"PROTON DECAY: THE MISSING LINK - Correlating D=5 and D = 6 decays in SO(10) with stabilized doublet- triplet splitting" Fri, November 2, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Thomas Grimm University of Wisconsin"Axion Inflation in Type II String Theory"Wed, November 7, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Fumihiro Takayama     Cornell University "Long-Lived Massive Particles as A Probe for New physics"Fri, November 9, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Mark Strikman Penn State University"Three dimensional structure of fast proton and pp collisions at LHC" Wed, November 14, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Amit Sever Brandies University"Quark scattering amplitudes at strong coupling"Fri, November 16, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Tanju Gleisberg SLAC"Towards the automation of NLO (QCD) calculations"Wed, November 21, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar HolidayFri, November 23, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Ari Pakman    Stony Brook "Progress on AdS3/CFT2"Wed, November 28, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
GregoryGabadadze University of New York "Charged Condensation"Fri, November 30, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
   



   
Mark Jackson Fermilab"Detecting Cosmic Superstrings"Wed, December 5, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Rouven Essig Rutgers University "Meta-stable Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking near Points of Enhanced Symmetry". Fri, December 7 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Ilarion Melnikov University of Chicago"A Massive Perspective on the A-Model"Wed, December 12, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Tommer Wizansky SLAC/Stanford"Antenna Signals from the Hidden Valley"Fri, December 14, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
No seminar No SeminarWed, December 19, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No SeminarFri, December 21, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
No seminar HolidayWed, December 26, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar HolidayFri, December 28, 2007
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
   



   
   
2006 Return to Top                                                            Theoretical Physics Group 
John F. Gunion
University of California, Davis
Motivation and Evidence for the h ->aa NMSSM Higgs Scenario Wed, January 11, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Guido Marandella
University of California, Davis
The Super-Little Higgs Friday, January 13, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Wu-yen Chuang
SLAC/Stanford University
Complex/Symplectic Mirrors Friday, January 13, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Roni Harnik
SLAC/Stanford University
The Twin HiggsFriday, January 20, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Gouranga Nayak
Stony Brook
Fragmentation and Factorization in Heavy Quarkonium ProductionWed, January 25, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Krishna Rajagopal
MIT
Cold, Dense (but not asymptotically dense) Quark Matter Friday, January 27, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
   



   
Guy de Teramond
Costa Rica University
Strongly coupled conformal gauge dynamics and AdS/QCDWed, February 1, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Yuval Grossman
Technion
Neutrinos and Lorentz ViolationWed, February 8, 2006
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Bogdan Florea
SLAC/Stanford University
Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking in String CompactificationsFriday, February 10, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Frank Petriello
University of Wisconsin
Numerical methods for perturbative calculationsWed., February 15, 2006
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Andrea Piccione
Torino University/INFN
The neural network approach to parton fitting Thursday, February 16, 2006
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Jay Wacker
Stanford University
Long Lived Gluinos in Split Supersymmetry Friday, February 17, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m
Radovan Dermisek
IAS
Natural Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Higgs at 100 GeV Friday, February 24, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
   



   
Michael Graesser
Caltech
Towards a High Energy Theory for Ghost Condensation Wed, March 1, 2006
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
James Wells
University of Michigan
Charging the supersymmetric mu-termFriday, March 3, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Ryuichiro Kitano
SLAC/Stanford University
A Natural Supersymmetric Standard Model Wed, March 8, 2006
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Babis Anastasiou
ETH Zurich
Challenges for perturbative calculations at the Large Hadron ColliderFriday, March 10, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Michele Papucci
LBNL
Next to Minimal Flavor ViolationWed, March 15, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Ikaros Bigi
Notre Dame University
What used to be vices have become virtues - recent successes of the HQETFriday, March 17, 2006. 
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Csaba Csaki
Cornell
The Super-little HiggsFriday, March 24, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Graham Kribs
University of Oregon
A Peaceful UniverseWed, March 29, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Tadas Krupovnickas
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Experimental Implications of Supersymmetric Models with Non-Universal Gaugino MassesFriday, March 31, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
   



   
Andy Haas
Columbia University
Results of the Search for Stopped Gluinos using the DO DetectorWed, April 5, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
No seminar No seminar Friday, April 7, 2006.
Changrim Ahn
Ewha University/SLAC
Integrable Models for AdS/CFTWed, April 12, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Santosh Kumar Rai
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Associated photons and new physics at linear collidersFriday, April 14, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Lawrence Hall
LBNL
A More Natural Higgs Sector at the LHC

Slides:http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/th/talks/hall-slac.pdf

Wed, April 19, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
John Terning
UC Davis
Field Theory on Multi-throat Backgrounds Friday, April 21, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Martin Schmaltz
Boston University
Hidden sector susy breaking and conformal sequestering Wed, April 26, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Katie Freese
University of Michigan
Natural Inflation after WMAP Friday, April 28, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
   



   
Navin Sivanandam
Stanford University
The Non-BPS Black Hole Attractor Equation Wed, May 3, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
 No seminar Friday, May 5, 2006.
Krishna Rajagopal
MIT and LBNL
Probing the Properties of Big Bang Quark Matter (Including anWed, May 10, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Christian Bauer
LBNL
Improving jet distributions with effective field theory Friday, May 12, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Itay Yavin
Harvard University
Spin Determination at the LHCWed, May 17, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Darren Forde
Saclay, SPhT
1-loop QCD with as many partons as you wishThursday, May 18, 2006
2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Hock Seng Goh
University of Arizona
Twin Higgs from Left-Right SymmetryFriday, May 19, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Mina Arvanitaki
Stanford University
An axial symmetry for the mu problem Wed, May 24, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Taizan Watari
LBNL/Berkeley
Dim. 4 proton decay and the underlying gauge symmetry Friday, May 26, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Takuya Okuda
Santa Barbara
Ghost D-branesWed, May 31, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
   



   
Ben Lillie
Chicago/Argonne
Off-the-Wall Higgs and Gravitational EWSB in the Randall-Sundrum ModelThursday, June 8, 2006
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Ben Gripaios
Oxford
Improved Naturalness With or Without SupersymmetryFriday, June 9, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Lance Dixon
SLAC
Loop  Fest V.  SLAC. Radiative Corrections for the International Linear Collider: Multi-Loops and Multi-Legs.

 http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/loopfestv/ 

June 19-21, 2006.
   



   
Richard Lebed
Arizona
Baryons and Large N_c in Happy ResonanceFriday, July 7, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Michael Gronau
Technion
Precision tests of flavor and CP violation in B decays Tuesday, July 11, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Hsin-Chia Cheng
UC, Davis
Little Higgs M-theoryWed, July 12, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
   



   
Roberto Casadio
Università di Bologna
The method of comparison equation for cosmological and black hole Wednesday, August 2, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
H. Fritzsch
MPI, Munich
Fundamental Constants and their Time Dependence Friday, August 4, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Diana Vaman
U. Michigan
On-shell recurrence relations and the largest time equation Wednesday, August 9, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Susan Gardner
University of Kentucky
The Nucleon Electric Dipole Moment in Light-Front QCD Friday,August 11, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
David Kosower
CEA,Saclay
New Results in N=4 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory Wed, August 16, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
   



   
Gerald A. Miller
U. Washington
QCD in Nuclear Theory Wed, September 6, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Oscar Cata
U. Washington, Seattle
Euclidean vs Minkowki: from the OPE to the spectrum of QCD? Friday,September 8, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Yutaka Ookouchi
Caltech
Landscape of Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua in Geometrically Realized Gauge TheoriesWed, September 13, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Chung Kao
Oklahoma U.
B_s to mu mu versus direct Higgs searches at Hadron Colliders Wed,September 20, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Peter Svrcek
SLAC/Stanford University
Axions In String Theory Friday,September 22, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Jay Hubisz
Fermilab
Radion Phenomenology in Warped Models of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Wed,September 27, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Devin Walker
Wisconsin U., Madison
Top Quarks at High Invariant Mass: A Model Independent Discriminator of New Physics at the LHC Friday,September 29, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
   



Natalia Shuhmaher
McGill
Bulk dynamics in the early stages of the Universe Wed,October 4, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Wu-Yen Chuang
SLAC
Topological Twisted Sigma Models with H-flux Friday,October 6, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Matthew Reece
Cornell University
Braneless AdS/QCD and Regge Physics Wed,October 11, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Hitoshi Murayama
UC Berkeley
How can we test seesaw experimentally? Friday,October 13, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Mikhail Rogal
DESY, Zeuthen
Charged current deep inelastic scattering at three loops Wed,October 18,  2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
John Conley
SLAC/Stanford
Microscopic Primordial Black Holes and Extra Dimensions Friday, October 20, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Takemichi Okui
Johns Hopkins U.
A Hologram of the 't Hooft Model Wed,October 25,  2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Jesse Thaler
UC Berkeley
Disentangling Dimension Six Operators through Di-Higgs Boson Production Friday, October 27, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
   



   
Erich Poppitz
U. Toronto
Old and new in the lattice definition of chiral gauge theories Friday, November 3, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Raghvendra Srikanth
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Bilarge neutrino mixing and lepton number violation in supersymmetric models Wed,November 8,  2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Iain Stewart
MIT
Singularities and Mode Factorization in Field Theory Friday, November 10, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Mithat Unsal
SLAC
Phases of large N gauge theories and orbifold equivalences Wed, November 15,  2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Assaf Shomer
UC Santa Cruz
A bound on gauge couplings from gravity Friday, November 17, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Tuhin Roy
Boston University
Can we see unification at the LHC Wed, November 29,  2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
   



   
Stephen Shenker
Stanford U.
A Single Observer Measure in Old Eternal Inflation Friday, December 1, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Masahiro Ibe
SLAC
Implications of Inflation on the MSSM Wed, December 6,  2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
  No Seminar (LHC west coast meeting) Friday, December 8, 2006
Linda Carpenter
UC Santa Cruz
R parity Violation and Light Higgs Scenarios Wed, December 13,  2006
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m
Peter Graham
Stanford U.
Colloquium:"Testing Gravity with Atom Interferometry Friday,December 15, 2006
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
No Seminar Christmas Break 12/20/06-1/3/07.
   



     
2005 Return to Top                                                            Theoretical Physics Group  
Dam Son
Washington
Viscosity of thermal gauge theories from black hole physics Wed. 1/5/2005
1:30
Howard Haber
UCSC
A New Look at the Two Higgs Doublet Model Fri. 1/7/2005
12:30
Rikard Enberg
LBL
High energy scattering and diffraction in QCD Wed. 1/12/2005
1:30



Raphael Bousso
Berkeley
Cosmology, Event Horizons, and the S-Matrix Fri. 1/14/2005
12:30
**Joint Seminar at UCSC**
Raphael Bousso
Wed. 1/19/2005
Tobias Hurth
CERN
New Physics Search -- Opportunities in Flavour Physics Fri 1/21/2005
12:30



Levon Pogosian
Tufts
String Renaissance? Wed. 1/26/2005
1:30
Gautam Mandal
Tata Institute
Matrices from Supergravity Fri. 1/28/2005
12:30
Gary Horowitz
UCSB
Towards a Dual Description of a Cosmological Singularity Wed. 2/2/2005
1:30



Peter Graham
Stanford
Dark Matter in Split Supersymmetry Fri. 2/4/2005
12:30
Oleg Lunin
IAS
AdS/CFT Correspondence for Half-BPS States Wed. 2/9/2005
1:30
**Special Seimnar**
Nathan Seiberg
IAS
Minimal Flux Vacua Wed. 2/9/2005
4:00, Green Room



Alexander Giryavets
Stanford
Enumerating Flux Vacua Fri. 2/11/2005
12:30
**Joint Seminar at UCSC**
Petr Horava
Wed. 2/16/2005
Yasuhiro Sekino
Stanford
String duals of super Yang-Mills theories with 16 supercharges Fri. 2/18/2005
12:30



Davide Gaiotto
Harvard
Black hole attractors and superconformal quantum mechanics Wed. 2/23/2005
1:30
Larus Thorlacius
Stanford & Iceland
Semi-classical geometry of charged black holes Fri. 2/25/2005
12:30
Petr Vogel
Caltech
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Lepton Flavor Violation Wed. 3/2/2005
1:30



Lukasz Fidkowski
Stanford
Superpotentials for D-branes on del Pezzo singularities Fri. 3/4/2005
12:30
**Joint Seminar at UCSC**
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Predictive Landscapes and New Physics at a TeV Wed. 3/9/2005
Martijn Wijnholt
Princeton
Topological String Theory on H_3 x S^3 Fri. 3/11/2005
12:30



**Special Seminar**
Laurent Lellouch
CERN
Recent developments in the study of non-leptonic kaon decays and neutral kaon mixing on the lattice Fri. 3/11/2005
3:00
Aryes Freitas
Fermilab
Indirect determination of the Higgs mass through electroweak radiative corrections Wed. 3/16/2005
1:30
James Vary
Iowa State
Non-perturbative many-body methods and their applications to light-front field theory Fri. 3/18/2005
12:30



Marvin Weinstein
SLAC
Informal Seminar Wed. 3/23/2005
2:30 ***Note Special Time***
Siannah Penaranda
CERN
Electroweak Precision Observables in the MSSM with Non-Minimal Flavor Violation Fri. 3/25/2005
12:30
Hooman Davoudiasl
U. Wisconsin
Neutrino Masses without High Scales Wed. 3/30/2005
1:30



Adam Lewandowski
SLAC
Corrections to large N Scaling in Randall-Sundrum Theories Fri. 4/1/2005
12:30
Eric Sharpe
Utah
Gauging noneffective group actions and mirror symmetry Wed. 4/6/2005
1:30
Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech
Topological Strings, Black Holes and the Wavefunction of the Universe Fri. 4/8/2005
12:30



**Joint Seminar at UCSC**
Hitoshi Murayama
Wed. 4/13/2005
Takemichi Okui
BU
Limit on Gravitino Mass from Soft Graviton Effective Theory Fri. 4/15/2005
12:30
Douglas Spolyar
UCSC
Chain Inflation Wed. 4/20/2005
1:30



Johan Alwall
Uppsala
Quark asymmetries in the proton from a model for parton densities Fri. 4/22/2005
12:30
Alex Maloney
SLAC
AdS/CFT and Cosmology Wed. 4/27/2005
1:30
Peter Zerwas
DESY
ILC/LHC: SUSY Reconstruction Fri. 4/29/2005
12:30



James Lindesay
SLAC
Quantum Coherence Arguments for Cosmological Scale Wed. 5/4/2005
1:30
Gary Felder
Smith
Waves and Bubbles: The Detailed Structure of Preheating Fri. 5/6/2005
12:30
Lisa Randall
Harvard
Relaxing to Three Dimensions Wed. 5/11/2005



Katie Freese
Michigan
Cardassian Expansion: Dark Energy due to Modified Friedmann Equations Fri. 5/13/2005
12:30
Jeppe Andersen
Cambridge
Probing the High Energy Limit of QCD Wed. 5/18/2005
1:30
Indrajit Mitra
LBL
Soap Bubbles and Black Branes Fri. 5/20/2005
12:30



Andy Cohen
BU
TBA Wed. 5/25/2005
1:30
Jim Cline
McGill
Aspects of Inflation from String Theory Fri. 5/27/2005
12:30
**Joint Seminar at UCSC**
Jonathan Feng
UC Irvine
Long Live SUSY! Wed. 6/1/2005



**Thesis Defense**
Ben Lillie
SLAC
Collider phenomenology of Randall-Sundrum models Wed. 6/1/2005
1:30, Green Room
Michael Ramsey-Musolf
Caltech
Resonant Relaxation in Electroweak Baryogenesis Fri. 6/3/2005
12:30
Avaroth Harindranath
SINP, Calcutta
Topological sector of two dimensional phi^4 theory in Discrete Light Cone Quantization Wed. 6/8/2005
1:30



Michael Binger
SLAC
A Multi-scale Physical Renormalization of QCD Applied to Heavy Quark Production Fri. 6/10/2005
12:30
Raj Gandhi
Harish-Chandra
Matter Effects in the Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Survival Probability as a probe of the Mass Hierarchy in Future Detectors Thur. 6/16/2005 *Note: special date and time***
2:00
Ryuichiro Kitano
IAS
Scenarios for Supersymmetry Cosmology and Phenomenology Fri. 6/17/2005
12:30



Alexander Mitov
Hawaii
B->s+gamma: the Photon Spectrum at NNLO Wed. 6/22/2005
1:30
Soren Wiesenfeldt
UIUC
SO(10) Grand Unification in Six Dimensions Fri. 6/24/2005
12:30
Maria Herrero
UA Madrid
Flavor Changing Higgs Boson Decays Induced from Supersymmetry Wed. 6/29/2005
1:30



Bob McElrath
UC Davis
Discovering Light Dark Matter at B-Factories Fri. 7/8/2005
Special time: 1:30
Changrim Ahn
Ewha Women's U., Seoul
D-Branes of Super-Liouville Theories Wed. 7/13/2005
1:30
George W.S. Hou
Natl. Taiwan U.
Difference in B+ and B0 Direct CP Asymmetries as Arising from a Fourth Generation Fri. 7/22/2005
12:30



Paul Hoyer
Helsinki
Soft Rescattering in Hard Collisions Wed. 8/10/2005
1:30
Jan Kalinowski
Warsaw U.
CP Violation in B->tau+tau- Decay Thu. 8/11/2005 **Note: special date and time***
2:00
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Quaid-e-Azam U.
Generalized Parton Distributions - Recent Progress Wed. 8/17/2005
1:30



Sukanta Dutta
Delhi U.
Anomalous Gauge-Higgs Boson Couplings Fri. 9/16/2005
12:30
Oliver Rosten
Southampton U.
A Generalised, Manifestly Gauge Invariant ERG for SU(N) Yang-Mills Fri. 9/23/2005
12:30
Kaustubh Agashe
Johns Hopkins U.
Warped Compactifications: Flavor, Unification and Dark Matter Fri. 9/30/2005
12:30



Maria Krawczyk
Warsaw U.
Higgs and other New Physics at a Photon-Photon Collider Wed. 10/5/2005
1:30
Gil Paz
Cornell U.
An Inclusive Look at Charmless Inclusive B Decays Fri. 10/7/2005
12:30
Ofer Aharony
Weizmann Inst.
Plasma-Balls and Localized Black Holes in Large N Gauge Theories Wed. 10/12/2005
1:30



Rakhi Mahbubani
Harvard U.
The Minimal Model for Dark Matter and Unification Fri. 10/14/2005
12:30
Ryuichiro Kitano
SLAC
A Natural Supersymmetric Standard Model Wed. 10/19/2005
1:30
Spencer Chang
NYU
MSSM + S: New Higgs Decays, Limits and Tunings Fri. 10/21/2005
12:30



Ingo Kirsch
Harvard U.
Holography of Flavor Beyond the Quenched Approximation Wed. 10/26/2005
1:30
Gilad Perez
LBL
Observing Dark Energy via Neutrino Detectors Fri. 10/28/2005
12:30
Xi Yin
Harvard U.
Fun with Black Holes and Quivers Wed. 11/2/2005
1:30



Peter Shepard
UC Berkeley
Black Hole Statistics from Holography Fri. 11/4/2005
12:30
Andrew Blechman
Johns Hopkins U.
Phenomenology of Flavor Violation in RS Models Wed. 11/09/2005
1:30
Kathryn Zurek
Washington U.
Unmasking Light Scalars in Cosmology Fri. 11/11/2005
12:30



Pavel Nadolsky
Argonne
Precise p_T Resummation for Hadron Colliders Wed. 11/16/2005
1:30
Peter Svrcek
SLAC
Axions in String Theory Fri. 11/18/2005
12:30
Kasper Risager
Bohr Inst. & SLAC
Twistor-Inspired and Recursive Methods in Field Theory Calculations Wed. 11/30/2005
1:30



Hsin-Chia Cheng
UC Davis
A Higgs Phase of Gravity Fri. 12/02/2005
12:30
Yosef Nir
Weizmann Inst.
Why is the Neutrino Flavor Special? Wed. 12/07/2005
1:30
N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr
Swansea U.
Twistor Space, Amplitudes and Unitarity Methods Thu. 12/08/2005
2:30
Note special date and time!



Jogesh C. Pati
Maryland U. & SLAC
Fun Still with Grand Unification:
Linking Neutrinos, CP and Our Origin
Fri. 12/09/2005
12:30
Kyoungchul Kong
U. of Florida
SUSY or Extra Dimensions: That is the Question Wed. 12/14/2005
1:30



     
2004 Return to Top                                                            Theoretical Physics Group
No Speaker
American Linear Collider Winter Meeting at SLAC Fri. 01/09/2004
12:30
Soo-Jong Rey
IAS
Reconstructing a Black Hole from a Weakly Interacting Yang-Mills Gas Wed. 01/14/2004
1:30
Andrei Frolov
KIPAC/ITP, Stanford
Braneworld Cosmology Fri. 01/16/2004
12:30



Yasunori Nomura
UC-Berkeley/LBNL
POSTPONED due to Speaker Cancellation. Wed. 01/21/2004
1:30
Yasaman Farzan
SLAC
The effects of right-handed neutrino supermultiplets on electric dipole moments Fri. 01/23/2004
12:30
Walter Goldberger
UC-Berkeley
Effective Field Theory for Radiation Gravitons Wed. 01/28/2004
1:30



Yuval Grossman
SLAC
Sleptogenesis Fri. 01/30/2004
12:30
Nathan Seiberg
IAS
joint SLAC/USCS seminar at Santa Cruz Wed. 02/04/2004
1:30
Marvin Weinstein
SLAC
Quantum Cosmology Fri. 02/06/2004
12:30



Richard Woodard
University of Florida
Post Inflationary Dynamics Wed. 02/11/2004
1:30
Daniel Larson
UC-Berkeley
Introducing the Fat Higgs Fri. 02/13/2004
12:30
Rob Myers
Perimeter Institute
Cosmic Superstring II Wed. 02/18/2004
1:30



Harry Lipkin
Weizmann
"What can we learn from QCD about Pentaquarks and vice versa." Fri. 02/20/2004
12:30 GREEN ROOM (NOTE LOCATION!!)
Vittorio del Duca
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Higgs production in association with jets at LHC Wed. 02/25/2004
1:30
Lloyd Knox
UC Davis
Constraints on Dark Energy and Neutrino Masses from Future Weak Lensing and CMB Observations Fri. 02/27/2004
12:30



Shiraz Minwalla
Harvard
joint SLAC/UCSC seminar at Santa Cruz Wed. 03/03/2004
1:30
Carlo Oleari
Durham
NLO QCD Corrections to Higgs Boson Production via Weak-Boson Fusion Wed. 03/03/2004
1:30
Stephon Alexander
SLAC
Leptogenesis from Inflationary Gravity Waves Fri. 03/05/2004
12:30



Bernd Kniehl
Hamburg
Heavy open-flavor and quarkonium production at colliders. Wed. 03/10/2004
1:30
Thomas Becher
SLAC
Factorization in Effective Field Theory Fri. 03/12/2004
12:30
Gudrun Heinrich
University of Durham
Pushing the limits of precision in particle physics Wed. 03/17/2004
1:30



Anthony Aguirre
UC-Santa Cruz
Eternal inflation, multiple universes, and other dark matters Fri. 03/19/2004
12:30
Wolfgang Kilian
DESY
Little Higgs at Colliders Wed. 03/24/2004
1:30
Savely Karshenboim
Munich, Max Planck Inst. Quantenopt. & Mendeleev Inst. Metrology
Hyperfine structure in light atoms: precision tests of QED Fri. 03/26/2004
12:30



Andy Strominger
Harvard
Black Holes and the Topological String Wed. 03/31/2004
1:30
Takemichi Okui
Boston University
Using the CMB to probe the neutrino mass spectrum, type and compositeness. Fri. 04/02/2004
12:30
Marcus Spradlin
UCSB
Yang-Mills Amplitudes from String Theory Wed. 04/07/2004
1:30



Albion Lawrence
Brandeis
N=2 to N=1 to N=0 SUSY in string models Fri. 04/09/2004
12:30
Christopher Herzog
UCSB
Chaos and KS Wed. 04/14/2004
1:30
Babis Anastasiou
SLAC
A complete framework for perturbative calculations in QFT Fri. 04/16/2004
12:30



Dan Marolf
UCSB
A World Without Entropy Bounds? Wed. 04/21/2004
1:30
Jorg Raufeisen
SLAC
Heavy Quark Production at RHIC and LHC Fri. 04/23/2004
12:30
Matthias Neubert
Cornell
Factorization in inclusive B decays and the challenge to calculate the B to X_s gamma rate Wed. 04/28/2004
1:30



David Kosower
SACLAY
Merging Parton Showers with Fixed Order Thurs. 04/29/2004
2:00 Green Room, NOTE DATE AND TIME!
Darius Sadri
Stanford University
Giant Hedge-Hogs, Spikes on Giant Gravitons Fri. 04/30/2004
12:30  GREEN ROOM: NOTE LOCATION!
Joe Polchinski
ITP, Santa Barbara
SLAC/UCSC Joint Seminar at Santa Cruz Wed. 05/05/2004
1:30



Alex Friedland
Los Alamos
Studying neutrino-matter interactions with neutrinos from the sky Fri. 05/07/2004
12:30
Radovan Dermisek
UC-Davis
Fermion Masses in Maximally Mixing World Wed. 05/12/2004
1:30
Manuel Masip
Granada
Cosmogenic Neutrinos and New Physics at the TeV Scale Fri. 05/14/2004
12:30



Marcela Carena
Fermilab
Dark Matter and Electroweak Baryogenesis Wed. 05/19/2004
12:30 (NOTE TIME CHANGE!)
Alex Filippenko
UC-Berkeley
Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for a Decelerating, then Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy Fri. 05/21/2004
12:30
Allan Adams
Harvard
Lisa in the Sky with Dark matter Wed. 05/26/2004
1:30



Adam Lewandowski
SLAC
A Running Radius in RS Fri. 05/28/2004
12:30
Ann Nelson
University of Washington
Joint UCSC-SLAC Seminar at Santa Cruz Wed. 06/02/2004
1:30
Michael Binger
SLAC/Stanford
Precision Constraints on Unified Models Using Physical Renormalization Schemes Fri. 06/04/2004
12:30



Guy de Teramond
Costa Rica U.
Confinement and Hadron-States in QCD From Non-Conformal Gauge/String Duality Wed. 06/09/2004
1:30
Michael Peskin
SLAC
SUSY Dark Matter and Precision SUSY Measurements Fri. 06/11/2004
12:30
Lubomir Martinovic Spontaneous symmetry breaking and kinks in DLCQ Wed. 06/23/2004
1:30



TBA
Wed. 06/30/2004
1:30
No Theory Seminar--See E158 Experimental Seminar Fri. 07/02/2004
12:30
TBA
Wed. 07/07/2004
1:30



Susan Gardner
Kentucky
Radiative Tritium Beta-decay and the Neutrino Mass Fri. 07/09/2004
12:30
Chung Kao
The Search of Neutralino Dark Matter with High Energy Neutrinos Wed. 07/14/2004
1:30
Ami Katz
SLAC/Washington
Holographic QCD Fri. 07/16/2004
12:30



Jorg Raufeisen
SLAC
Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics on the Light-Front Wed. 07/21/2004
1:30
Peter Nilles
Bonn
Heterotic Brane World Fri. 07/23/2004
12:30
Gilad Perez
UC-Berkeley
Flavor Physics in RS1 Wed. 07/28/2004
1:30



V.A. Khoze
Durham
Diffractive Higgs and SUSY Production at the LHC Wed. 08/04/2004
1:00 NOTE SPECIAL TIME!
TBA TBA Fri. 08/06/2004
12:30
Dominik Stockinger
Durham
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and supersymmetry Wed. 08/18/2004
1:30



Mohammad Sheikh-Jabbari
Stanford
Tiny Graviton Matrix Theory: DLCQ of Strings on AdS_5xS^5 Fri. 08/27/2004
12:30
Gudrun Hiller
Munich
Double Radiative b-decays Wed. 09/08/2004
1:30
Je-An Gu
Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA), National Taiwan > University
Casimir Effect in a Supersymmetry-Breaking Brane-World as Dark Energy Fri. 09/10/2004
12:30



Taizan Watari
LBL
Product Group Unified Theory in Type IIB String Wed. 09/15/2004
1:30
Liam McAllister
Stanford
Open String Corrections to D-brane Dynamics Fri. 09/17/2004
12:30
Jerry Miller
Washington
Nucleon electromagnetic form factors and the shape and spin of the proton Wed. 09/22/2004
1:30



Xiao Liu
Stanford
Dynamical Dimension Change in Supercritical String Theory Fri. 09/24/2004
1:30 Green Room **Note Special Time and Place**
Bjoern Garbrecht
Heidelberg
Energy Density as Seen by Unruh's Detector Wed. 09/29/2004
1:30
No Seminar
Note Experimental Seminar at 12:30 in Orange Room Fri. 10/1/2004
12:30



Keh-Fei Liu
Kentucky
Chiral Symmetry, Topology, and Lattice QCD Wed. 10/06/2004
1:30
Ben Freivogel
Stanford/SLAC
A Framework for the Landscape Fri. 10/08/2004
12:30
Stefan Kretzer
Brookhaven
QCD Aspects of the NuTeV Anomaly Wed. 10/13/2004
1:30



Carola Berger
SLAC
e+ e- Dijet Event Shapes -- Resummation and Power Corrections Fri. 10/15/2004
12:30 in Green Room ***Note special location***
Klaus Behrndt
Albert Einstein Institue
Fixing of moduli by fluxes in type IIA string theory Wed. 10/20/2004
1:30
Thomas Gregoire
CERN
Gravity mediated supersymmetry breaking in warped brane worlds Fri. 10/22/2004
12:30



Bogdan Florea
Rutgers
Unoriented Instantons and N=1 Orientifolds Wed. 10/27/2004
11:00 AM ***Note Special Time***
Einan Gardi
Cambridge
Inclusive B-decay spectra and infrared renormalons Fri. 10/29/2004
1:30 in Green Room *Note Special Time and Place*
Thomas Levi
U. Penn
Holography and the Horizon Wed. 11/03/2004
1:30



Paul Aspinwall
Duke
Superpotentials for D-Branes and A-infinity Algebras Fri. 11/05/2004
12:30
Jay Hubisz
Cornell
Phenomenology of a little Higgs with T-parity Wed. 11/10/2004
1:30
Peter Svrcek
Princeton
MHV vertices and Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory Fri. 11/12/2004
12:30



Sash Sarangi
Cornell
The Wavefunction of the Universe in the Cosmic Landscape Wed. 11/17/2004
1:30
Alex Saltman
Stanford/SLAC
A New Handle on String Compactifications Fri. 11/19/2004
12:30
Richard Hill
SLAC
Conformal Evanescence in SCET Wed. 11/24/2004
1:30



Henriette Elvang
UCSB
Supersymmetric and Non-Supersymmetric Black Rings Wed. 12/1/2004
1:30
John McGreevy
Stanford
The Matrix Harmonic Oscillator as a String Theory Fri. 12/3/2004
12:30
Ilarion Melnikov
Duke
The Coulomb Branch of the Gauged Linear Sigma Model Wed. 12/8/2004
1:30



Nikolai Uraltsev
Milan
B decays and a `BPS' expansion for B and D mesons Fri. 12/10/2004
12:00  *** Note Special Time
Lance Dixon
SLAC
Twistor space and multi-leg loop amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory Wed. 12/15/2004
1:30
     



   
2003 Return to Top                                                            Theoretical Physics Group  
Oliver