Particle Theory Seminars

Fall, 2005



Seminars are held Fridays at 2:00 PM in Bloomberg 447, unless otherwise indicated.

For more information, please contact Roberto Contino

Previous Seminars:

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September 9
Prof. Matthew Strassler (Seattle)
Title: Progress Relating QCD and String Theory
Abstract

September 16   SPECIAL TIME:  1:30PM

Dr. Roberto Contino (JHU)
Title: Electroweak Precision Tests in the Minimal Composite Higgs Model
Abstract

September 21   SPECIAL DATE

Dr. Gero von Gersdorff (JHU)
Title: Kaehler Corrections for the Volume Modulus of Flux Compactifications
Abstract

September 23

No Seminar

September 27    SPECIAL DATE AND TIME:  2:30PM

Prof. Emil Mottola (Los Alamos)
Title: Gravitational Vacuum Condensate Stars
Abstract

September 30

No Seminar

Oct. 7   TALK POSTPONED

Prof. Gia Dvali (NYU)
Title: TBA
Abstract

Oct. 14

Prof. Ted Jacobson (College Park)
Title: General Relativity Without Lorentz Invariance: Theoretical and Observational Constraints
Abstract

Oct. 21

Dr. Jesse Thaler (Harvard)
Title: Supersymmetry and the LHC Inverse Problem
Abstract

Oct. 28

Dr. Spencer Chang (NYU)
Title: MSSM + S: New Higgs Decays, Limits and Tunings
Abstract

Nov. 3    SPECIAL DATE

Dr. David Diego (Barcelona, IFAE)
Title: Supersymmetry and Electroweak Breaking in the Interval

Abstract

Nov. 4

Dr. Kathryn Zurek (Washington U., Seattle)
Title:
Uncovering Light Scalar Fields in Cosmology
Abstract

Nov. 11

Dr. Matt Kleban (IAS)
Title: Flattening the Landscape

Abstract

Nov. 18

Dr. Ryuichiro Kitano (SLAC)
Title: A Natural Supersymmetric Standard Model
Abstract

Nov. 25

Thanksgiving Weekend - No Seminar

Dec. 2

Dr. Alberto Nicolis (Harvard)
Title: Not Everything Goes: New Constraints on Low-Energy Effective Theories
Abstract

Dec. 9

Prof. Michael Peskin (SLAC)
Title:
A Particle Physicist Looks at Dark Matter
Abstract

Dec. 16

Dr. Mohammad Edalati Ahmadsaraei (Univ. of Cincinnati)
Title:
On Singular Effective Superpotentials in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Abstract