Particle Physics Seminars/Journal Club

Particle physics seminars are normally held 12-1pm Thursdays in Small Hall room 123.

Fall, 2007
Thurs, Dec 6 Gouranga Nayak, SUNY Stonybrook
"Path Integration in QCD in the Presence of Arbitrary Space-Dependent Static Color Potential and Shift Theorem"
Thurs, Nov 29 Nico Yunes, Penn State
"Was Einstein Wrong? Astrophysical Tests of Effective Quantum Gravity"
Thurs, Nov 1 Brian Glover, W & M
"The Cosmic Microwave Background"
Friday, Oct 26 Martin Schmaltz, Boston University
"Colloquium: New Physics at the LHC?"
Thurs, Oct 25 Hovhannes Grigoryan, JLab/Louisiana State University
"Pion Structure from the AdS/QCD Model"

Spring, 2007
Tue, Jan 23 Donal O'Connell, Caltech
"Positivity Constraints in Effective Field Theories"
Tue, Feb 13
2pm, Small 109
Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Duke University
"Anomalous KT behavior in 2 dimensional magnetic superfluids"
Tue, Feb 13
4pm, Small 109
Colloquium
Patricia Vahle, University College London
"Observation of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Neutrino Beam"
Fri, Feb 16
4pm, Small 109
Colloquium
Mike Kordosky, University College London
"Understanding Nature's Shyest Particle"
Mon, Feb 19
4pm, Small 109
Colloquium
Ignacio Taboada, UC Berkeley
"High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics: IceCube"

Fall, 2006
Wed, Sept 6 Erin De Pree, William and Mary
SUSY Journal Club
Thurs, Sept 14, 2:30pm
Note special time
Jong Anly Tan, William and Mary
"RG Flows and Fixed Points in Deconstructed Extra Dimensions"
Wed, Sept 20 Qinghai Wang, University of Connecticut
"Worldline Instantons and Pair Production"
Thurs, Sept 28 Josh Erlich, William and Mary
SUSY Journal Club
Thurs, Oct 5 Josh Erlich, William and Mary
SUSY Journal Club
Thurs, Oct 12 Savely Karshenboim, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Mendeleev Institute for Metrology
"Precision physics of simple atoms: tests of bound state QED, nuclear effects, etc."
Wed, Oct 18, 4pm
Note special day
Tatsu Takeuchi, Virginia Tech
"Possible Constraints on New Physics from Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations"
Thurs, Nov 2, 4pm Chris Carone, William and Mary
SUSY Journal Club
Thurs, Nov 9 SESAPS Meeting in Williamsburg
Thurs, Nov 16, 4pm Marc Sher, William and Mary
SUSY Journal Club
Mon, Nov 27, 4pm
Note special day
Devin Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Top Quark Pairs at High Invariant Mass: A Model Independent Discriminator of New Physics at the LHC"
Tue, Dec 5, 4pm
Note special day
Michael Endres, University of Washington
"A method for simulating SO(N) scalar theories at finite density"
Thurs, Dec 14, 4pm Petar Maksimovic, Johns Hopkins University
"Discovery of Sigma_b"

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