Particle Theory Seminars
Fall 2008

Seminars are held Tuesdays at 2 PM in Bloomberg 447, unless otherwise indicated.

For more information, please contact Brock Tweedie

Previous Seminars:

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Tuesday , September 9

Speaker:  Brock Tweedie  (Johns Hopkins)
Title:       Tagging Hadronic Tops at Hight Pt
Abstract


Tuesday , September 16

Speaker:  Michael Gutperle  (UCLA)
Title:       Half BPS solutions in IIB string theory and M-theory
Abstract


Tuesday, September 23

Speaker:  Kenji Kadota  (U of Michigan)
Title:       Cosmology in Warped Extra Dimensions
Abstract


Tuesday, September 30

Speaker:  Andrew Blechman (U of Toronto)
Title:       R-Symmetric Gauge Mediation
Abstract
        

Tuesday, October 7

NO SEMINAR  (Note: Joint Seminar Wednesday)


Wednesday, October 8
JOINT JHU/UMD SEMINAR
Lunch:  475 @ 12:30,  Talk: 462 @ 2:00
 Speaker:  Francisco Yumiceva (Fermilab)
Title:       Boosted Top Quarks in CMS
Abstract

Tuesday, October 14

Speaker:  Philip Schuster  (SLAC)
Title:       Simplified Models and Obtaining a Robust Interpretation of Early Discoveries at the LHC
Abstract


Tuesday, October 21

Speaker:  David Morrissey  (Harvard/TRIUMF)
Title:       Changing Dark Matter
Abstract


Tuesday, October 28

Speaker:  Ira Rothstein  (Carnegie Mellon)
Title:       New Results from Classical Effective Field Theory



Tuesday , November 4

Speaker:  Jay Hubisz (Syracuse)
Title:       An "Axino" in Universal Extra Dimensions


Tuesday, November 11

Speaker:  Natalia Toro  (Stanford)
Title:       Constructing Tree-Level S-Matrices
Abstract

 

Tuesday, November 18

Speaker:  Ian-Woo Kim  (U of Wisconsin)
Title:       Deflected Mirage Mediation
Abstract



Tuesday, November 25

Speaker:  Seth Quackenbush (U of Wisconsin)
Title:       Z' Bosons On Peak, Off Peak, and Way Off Peak
Abstract


Tuesday, December 2

Speaker:  Iain Stewart  (MIT)
Title:       Thrust at N^3LL with Power Corrections and a Precision Determination of alphas(mZ)


Wednesday, December 3

JOINT JHU/UMD SEMINAR
Lunch:  475 @ 12:30,  Talk: 462 @ 2:00
Speaker:  Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
Title:       Searching for new physics: strategies, tools, and techniques
Abstract