Caltech High Energy Physics Monday Seminars 2008-2009

All seminars are held at 4 p.m. in 469 Lauritsen unless otherwise noted.

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October 10, 2008* (Note: special Friday seminar)

Alejandro Jenkins, MIT, Quark Masses: An Environmental Impact Statement

October 13, 2008

Randall Kelley, UCSD, Electroweak Corrections using Effective Field Theory: Applications to the LHC

October 20, 2008

Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers, Seeking the Light of New Physics Abstract

October 27, 2008
Keith Rehermann, Johns Hopkins, Identifying Top Jets at the LHC
November 3, 2008

Michael Salem, Tufts, The scale-factor cutoff measure on the multiverse

November 4, 2008* (Note: special date)
Stephon Alexander, Haverford College, The Cosmological Chiral Condensate and the Cosmological Constant

November 10, 2008
David Hertzog, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Precision Muon Physics: New Results and Future Prospects, Abstract

November 17, 2008

David Poland, Harvard, The Dark Top

November 18, 2008* (Note: special date)
Devin Walker, Berkeley, Spontaneously Broken Hidden Gauge Symmetries, Abstract

November 24, 2008
Jay Wacker, SLAC, New Searches for Subgravitational Forces

Winter Recess

January 12, 2009
Vyacheslav Krutelyov, UCSB, Search for rare decays of B(s) to two muons at the Tevatron and beyond: history and New Physics perspectives Abstract

January 19, 2009
Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday

January 26, 2009
JoAnne Hewett, SLAC, Supersymmetry Without Prejudice
February 2, 2009
Patrick Fox, Fermilab, Leptophilic Dark Matter

February 9, 2009
John Matthews, Univ of New Mexico, Selected Physics Results from the Pierre Auger Southern Observatory Abstract

February 16, 2009
President's Day Holiday
February 23, 2009
John Mason, Harvard, The mu-problem in Non-Minimal Gauge Mediation

March 2, 2009 (speaker change)*
Harald Fritzsch, CERN & Universitaet Muenchen, Flavor Symmetries, Quark Masses, Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Oscillations Abstract

Spring Recess

April 3, 2009*, 2PM (note: special date and time)
           Leonidias Moustakas, JPL, Deconstructing dark matter through strong gravitational lensing observations
April 6, 2009
           Peter Skands, Fermilab, Towards Precision Models of Collider Physics
April 13, 2009
            Monica D'Onofrio, University of Barcelona, Searching for new physics at the Tevatron Abstract
April 20, 2009
            Sunil Golwala, Caltech, WIMP Dark Matter Searches into the Next Decade with SuperCDMS and GEODM Abstract
April 27, 2009
          Sasha Pranko, Fermilab, Searching for New Physics with Light at CDF Abstract

May 4, 2009
Jennifer Kile, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Hidden Fermionic Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors
May 11, 2009

Johan Alwall, SLAC, New Physics, QCD radiation and MadGraph/MadEvent at the LHC Abstract

May 18, 2009

Pavel Fileviez Perez, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Spontaneous R-parity Violation In Supersymmetry
May 25, 2009
Memorial Day Holiday

May 29, 2009* (Note: special date)
Matthias Neubert, Univ of Mainz, IR Divergences of Gauge-Theory Amplitudes and Resummation for LHC

June 15, 2009

Pierluigi Belli, INFN, Roma Tor Vergata, Signals from the Universe: from DAMA/NaI to DAMA/LIBRA Abstract