Particle Theory Seminars
  Spring 2009

Seminars are held Tuesdays at 2:30 PM in Bloomberg 447, unless otherwise indicated.

For more information, please contact Brock Tweedie

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*Wednesday*, January 28

SPECIAL DAY/TIME:  WEDNESDAY, 3:00 PM
Speaker:   Hirotaka Sugawara  (KEK)
Title:        Photon-photon collider Higgs factory as precursor to ILC
Abstract



Tuesday, February 3
JOINT JHU/UMD SEMINAR
*AT UMD*
 Speaker:  Nick Hadley  (UMD)
Title:       LHC Reach at Different CMS Energies
Abstract


Tuesday,  February 10
 
Speaker:    Linda Carpenter  (UCSC)
Title:         Models and Phenomenology in Multi-Parameter Gauge Mediation
Abstract



*Wednesday*, February 18
SPECIAL DAY:  WEDNESDAY, 2:30 PM
Speaker:   Sandip Trivedi  (Tata Institute)
Title:        Cosmological Singularities and Their CFT Duals
Abstract


Tuesday, February 24
Speaker:    Lian-Tao Wang  (Princeton)
Title:         Models of GeV Dark Sectors and their Collider Signatures
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Tuesday, March 3
Speaker:   Brian Feldstein  (Boston U)
Title:        Black Hole Thermodynamics in the Ghost Condensate
Abstract


Tuesday, March 10
Speaker:   David B Kaplan  (Washington)
Title:        Inflationary Axion Cosmology Beyond our Horizon
Abstract


Tuesday, March 17
SPRING BREAK


Tuesday, March 24
Speaker:   Hsin-Chia Cheng  (UC Davis)
Title:        Determining invisible particle masses at the LHC
Abstract


Tuesday, March 31
JOINT JHU/UMD SEMINAR
*AT UMD*
Speaker:   Konstantin Matchev  (Florida)
Title:       
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Tuesday, April 7
Speaker:   Jonathan Bagger (JHU)
Title:         Effective Theory of M2 Branes
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Tuesday, April 14
Speaker:   Walter Goldberger  (Yale)
Title:         Gravitational description of non-relativistic conformal field theories
Abstract


Tuesday, April 21
Speaker:   Yuval Grossman  (Cornell)
Title:         Spin, hadronization and lifetimes
Abstract


Tuesday, April 28
* NO SEMINAR *


Tuesday, May 5
Speaker:  Zacharia Chacko (UMD)
Title:       Probing Resonant Leptogenesis at the LHC
Abstract


Tuesday, May 12
Speaker:   Jesse Thaler  (UC Berkeley)
Title:      
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Tuesday, May 19
Speaker:   Harald Fritzsch (Munich & IAS)
Title:        Flavor Mixing, Neutrino Masses, and Neutrino Oscillations
Abstract