Winter 2006 - High Energy Seminars

Date:	Tuesday, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Mark Wise
Institution:	Caltech
Topic:	Towards a High Energy Completion for the Higgs Phase of Gravity
Contact:	Aneesh Manohar
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Date:	Tuesday, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Krishna Rajagopal
Institution:	MIT
Topic:	Cold, Dense (but not asymptotically dense) Quark Matter
Contact:	Aneesh Manohar
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Date:	Tuesday, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
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Date:	Tuesday, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Jason Nielsen
Institution:	?
Topic:	Higgs Searches
Contact:	Frank Wuerthwein
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Date:	Tuesday, Feb 7, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Bruce Mellado
Institution:	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Topic:	Higgs Physics at ATLAS
Contact:	fkw
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Date:	Tuesday, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
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Special Seminar

Date:	Special Informal Seminar Wednesday, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Jason Kumar
Institution:	Texas A & M
Topic:	The Phenomenology of Pi-stability and an Infinite Number of Vacua
Contact:	Benjamin Grinstein
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Basically, it is some work in progress where we seem to find a potentially infinite class of flux vacua of string theory which can realize the Standard Model. But we have various reasons for thinking that this class is actually finite, though quite large.

Special Seminar

Date:	Thursday, Feb 16, 2006 at 13:00, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Colin Morningstar
Institution:	Carnegie Mellon University
Topic:	Lattice Baryon Spectroscopy
Contact:	Julius Kuti
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Date:	Tuesday, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Florencia Canelli
Institution:	UCLA
Topic:	TBA
Contact:	Frank Wuerthwein
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Date:	Tuesday, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Gustaaf Broijmans
Institution:	Columbia University
Topic:	Exotics with D0
Contact:	Frank Wuerthwein
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After a short review of some of the most interesting open questions in the Standard Model, possible signals for new physics will be discussed, highlighting recent results and prospects for discovery at current and future hadron colliders. Models that will be considered include Higgs bosons, supersymmetric particles, large extra dimensions, new gauge bosons, and dynamical symmetry breaking.

Date:	Tuesday, Mar 7, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Jonathan Link
Institution:	Columbia University
Topic:	Using Reactor Neutrinos to Study Neutrino Oscillations
Contact:	Vivek Sharma
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The physics of neutrino oscillations will be discussed in the context of the last unmeasured mixing angle, theta_13. There are two main approaches to measuring theta_13: nu_e appearance in an accelerator induced nu_mu beam, and nu_e disappearance in a reactor induced electron antineutrino beam. The primary focus of the talk will be on the reactor approach. The need for precision (down to sin2 2\theta_{13} less than 0.01), the challenges to achieving that precision, and the solutions proposed to meet those challenges will be discussed. Finally, the synergies in combining the results from the appearance and disappearance measurements will be shown.

Date:	Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Beate Heinemann
Institution:	University of Liverpool
Topic:	Exotic searches with CDF detector
Contact:	Frank Wuerthwein
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Special Seminar

Date:	Wednesday, Mar 15, 2006 at 1:00, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Peter Petreczky
Institution:	BNL
Topic:	TBA
Contact:	Julius Kuti
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Finals Week

Date:	Tuesday, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	Ariel Schwartzmann
Institution:	Princeton University
Topic:	An improved measurement of the Top quark mass from D0
Contact:	Vivek Sharma
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Date:	Tuesday, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:45, Mayer Hall 5301
Speaker:	?
Institution:	?
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