Fermilab Theory Seminars

Theory Seminars—2008

Regular seminars of the Fermilab Theoretical Physics Department are scheduled for
Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Curia II.

Special dates or rooms are announced below.
The speaker's name links to a listing of recent preprints; the title to slides of talks.

We often go to Chez Leon for dinner.

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Date	Speaker	Title (click title to see slides)
January 3	No seminar	Happy New Year!
January 10	No seminar	Happy New Year!
January 17	Jing Shu University of Chicago	Top Compositeness at the Tevatron and LHC
January 24	Kiwoon Choi KAIST	Moduli Stabilization and the Pattern of Sparticle Masses
January 31 WH3NW	Jon Bailey Fermilab	Light-quark Baryon Spectroscopy with Staggered Fermions
February 7	Thomas Becher Fermilab	Precision Determination of α_s from Thrust Distributions at LEP
February 14	Jan Winter Fermilab	The Sherpa Approach to Calculating Multijet Backgrounds
February 21	Carlo Oleari Universitá di Milano-Bicocca	Matching NLO Calculations with Parton Showers: the POsitive-Weight Hardest Emission Generator (POWHEG)
February 28	Yang Bai Fermilab	Minimal Little Higgs Model and Dark Matter
2:30–4:30 p.m. March 6 One West	Joint Theory-CMS Seminar Meenakshi Narain Brown University Jack Gunion UC Davis	Jointly hosted by the Theoretical Physics Department and the LHC Physics Center Top and SUSY Mass Determination in Dilepton Events (abstract) Accurate Mass Determinations in Decay Chains with Missing Energy (abstract)
March 13	Tom Appelquist Yale University	Lattice Study of the Conformal Window in QCD-like Theories
March 20 WH3NW	Anupama Atre Fermilab	Heavy Quarks Above the "top" at Hadron Colliders
March 27	No seminar	Public sessions of the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee
11:00 AM April 3	Eduardo Follana The Ohio State University	Charm Physics on the Lattice with Highly Improved Staggered Quarks
April 10	Kai Wang University of Wisconsin	Testing the Origin of Neutrino Mass at the LHC
April 17	Spencer Chang New York University	When Worlds Collide: The Cosmological Observables of Pre-Inflationary Bubble Collisions
April 24 WH3NW	Adam Martin Yale University	Probing Technivector Scenarios at the LHC
May 1	Sebastian Grab Universität Bonn	Sneutrino or Stau as the Lightest Supersymmetric Particle in mSUGRA with R-Parity Violation
May 8	Terrance Figy University of Durham	QCD Corrections to Vector-Boson-Fusion Higgs Production Channels
May 15	Tomasz Taylor Northeastern Universtiy	Jet Signals for Low Mass Strings at the LHC
11:00 AM Monday, May 19 One West	Massimiliano Grazzini INFN Firenze	Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders: Selected Results
May 29	Hye-Sung Lee University of Florida	Proton and Dark Matter without R Parity
June 5	No seminar	Fermilab Users' Meeting
June 12 WH3NW	José Zurita Universidad de Buenos Aires	Soft-gluon Resummation for Pseudoscalar Higgs Boson Production at Hadron Colliders
June 19 WH3NW	Satyanarayan Nandi Oklahoma State University	A New Two Higgs Doublet Model
11:00 AM Friday, June 27 WH3NW	Silvia Pascoli Durham University	Detecting Dark Matter with Neutrino Detectors
July 3	No seminar	Happy Independence Day
July 10	Daniele Bettinelli Universita Milano	Electroweak Model Based on the Nonlinearly-realized Gauge Group SU(2)×U(1)
July 17	Gregory Mahlon Penn State University at Mont Alto	Relations Among Spin Amplitudes for 2→2 Scattering
July 24	No seminar
July 31	No seminar
August 7	No seminar
August 14	Holger Nielsen Niels Bohr Institute	New Bound States Containing Several Top Quarks Bound by Higgs Exchange
August 21	Shrihari Gopalakrishna BNL	Heavy Electroweak Gauge Bosons at the LHC
August 28	Jing Shu University of Chicago	Topological Interactions at the LHC and a Generalized Landau-Yang Theorem
September 4	No Seminar	Happy Labor Day
September 11	Ian Low Northwestern University & Argonne Nat'l Lab	Kaluza-Klein Parity in Warped Extra Dimensions
September 15–19	Workshop	Beyond the Standard Model from the Tevatron to the LHC
11:00 AM September 25	Antonio Delgado University of Notre Dame	Higgs-Unparticle Interplay
October 2	Jnan Maharana Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Axion-Dilaton String Cosmology
October 9	Ruth Britto Fermilab	TBA
October 16		TBA
October 23	Enno Scholz Fermilab	TBA
October 30	Lisa Randall (to be confirmed) Harvard University	TBA
November 6		TBA
November 13		TBA
November 20		TBA
November 27	No seminar	Happy Thanksgiving
December 4		TBA
December 11		TBA
December 18		TBA
December 25	No seminar	Happy Holidays

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