Particle Theory Seminars
  Fall 2009

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

For more information, please contact Markus Schulze



Tuesday, September 8

Speaker:  Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins University)
Title:        Generalized Unitarity and Top Quark Physics


Tuesday,  September 15
 
Speaker:    Ayres Freitas  (University of Pittsburgh)
Title:          Discovery and identification of universal extra dimensions at colliders


Tuesday,  September 22
 
Speaker:    Jon Walsh  (University of Washington)
Title:         Understanding and Using Jet Substructure at the LHC


Tuesday,  September 29
 
Speaker:    Hooman Davoudiasl  (BNL)
Title:         Little Kaluza-Klein Modes at the LHC



Wednesday,  September 30
          JOINT SEMINAR JHU/UMD  at  UMD in  College Park
Speaker:    Tao Han  (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Title:         Missing Energy at the LHC: The Dark Matter Connection
                   Abstract

Lunch: 12:30pm in room 1204
Talk:     1:45pm in room 1201
Notes


Tuesday,  October  6
 
Speaker:    Andreas Scharf  (University of Buffalo)
Title:         Electroweak corrections to heavy quark and di-jet production


Tuesday,  October  13
 
Speaker:    Alexander Mitov  (Stony Brook University)
Title:         New developments in the structure of massive gauge amplitudes and their application to precision top physics at the LHC


Tuesday,  October  20
 
Speaker:    no seminar
Title:         


Tuesday,  October  27
 
Speaker:    Richard Hill (University of Chicago)
Title:         Parity violation and neutrino-photon interactions at finite baryon density


Tuesday,  November  3  at  4:00 pm  (note time change!)
 
Speaker:    Andrey Katz (University of Maryland)
Title:         Breaking the Dark Force


Tuesday,  November  10
 
Speaker:    Christian Bauer (LBNL)
Title:         TBA 


MONDAY,  November  16
 
Speaker:    Tuhin Roy (University of Oregon)
Title:          Boosting Higgs discovery at LHC 


Tuesday,  November  17

 Speaker:    Dmitry Belyaev (University of Florida)
Title:          Maximal Supersymmetry in Light-Cone Superspace


Tuesday,  November  24
 
 Speaker:     Christopher Wells (Johns Hopkins University)
Title:          TBA 


Tuesday,  December 1
 
 Speaker:    no seminar
Title:          


Wednesday,  December 2
          JOINT SEMINAR JHU/UMD  at  UMD in  College Park
Speaker:     Ashutosh Kotwal
Title:          TBA

Lunch: 12:30pm in room 1204
Talk:     1:45pm in room 1201


Tuesday,  December 8
 
 Speaker:    Massimo Siani
Title:         Infrared stability of ABJ-like theories


Tuesday   December 15
 
 Speaker:    Matthew Baumgart (Johns Hopkins University)
Title:         TBA 



Mid-year Vacation: 12/20/2009
First day of classes: 01/26/2010



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