High Energy Physics/Relativity/Cosmology Seminars
Fall 2004
The Physics Department's High Energy Physics/Relativity/Cosmology Seminar
is normally held at 2:30pm on Monday and
at 2:30pm on Friday in Rm 204.
Monday
August 9		 Ray Volkas (University of Melbourne)
Title: Trying to understand Netrino Mixing Matrix using Flavor Symmetries (abstract)
Host: Wali
Friday
August 13		 Relativity/HET
Monday
August 16		 Aharon Davidson (Ben-Gurion University)
Title: Dark Energy/Matter Unification? (abstract)
Host: Wali
Friday
August 20		 Relativity/HET
Monday
August 23		 Relativity/HET

Friday

August 27

 Relativity/HET

Monday

August 30

 Wan-il Park (KAIST)
Title: A Breakthrough of Moduli Problem and Baryogenesis in a Minimal Model. (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
September 3		 Moshe Rozali (University of British Columbia)
Title: Cosmological Production of Winding Strings (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
September 6		 Relativity/HET
Friday
September 10		 Seckin Kurkcuoglu (Syracuse University)
Title: TBA (abstract)
(Thesis Defense)
Monday
September 13		 Relativity/HET
Wednesday
September 22		 Shinji Mukohyama(Harvard University)
Title: Ghost Condensation (abstract)
Host: Armendariz-Picon
Monday
September 20

Nikolay Achasov (Sobolev Institute for Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia )
Title: TBA (abstract)
Host: Schechter

Friday
September 24		 Relativity/HET
Monday
September 27		 Relativity/HET
Friday
October 1		 Relativity/HET
Monday
October 4		 Qaisar Shafi (U. of Delaware)
Title: Inflation, Leptogenesis and Neutrino Oscillations (abstract)
Host: Wali
Friday
October 8		 Relativity/HET
Monday
October 11		 Glenn Starkman (CWRU)
Title: Learning about the large scale universe from the CMB (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
October 15		 Lynne Orr (University of Rochester)
Title: Higgs Production in Association with Heavy Quarks (abstract)
Host: Balachandran
Monday
October 18		 Joel Giedt (University of Toronto)
Title: Lattice Supersymmetry, Superfields and Renormalization (abstract)
Host: Catterall

Friday
October 22

 Raul Jimenez (U. of Pennsylvania)
Title: Model-independent Constraints of Dark Energy (abstract)
Host: Trodden

Monday
October 25

 Justin Khoury (MIT)
Title: Chameleon Fields and Awaiting Surprises for Tests of Gravity (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
October 29
 Parameswaran Nair (City College )
Title: Multigluon scattering and twistors (abstract)
Host: Balachandran

Monday
November 1

 Will Kinney (SUNY Buffalo)
Title:Confronting Inflation with Observation (abstract)
Host: Trodden
 

TUESDAY
November 2

at 1:00 pm

 Robert Brandenberger (McGill U. and Brown U.)
Title:Back Reaction of Cosmological Perturbations and Implications for Lambda and Dark Energy
Host: Trodden
Friday
November 12		 Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State)
Title: The Structure of Electroweak Corrections in Higgsless Models (abstract)
Host: Balachandran
Monday
November 15		 Relativity/HET
Friday
November 19		 Matthew Nobes (Cornell)
Title: Perturbation theory and high precision lattice QCD (abstract)
Host: Catterall
Monday
November 22		 Simon Caterall (Syracuse U.)
Title: Twisting, Kahler-Dirac fermions and Lattice SUSY (abstract)
Winter/Spring 2003 Seminars; Fall 2003 Seminars; Spring 2004 Seminars
Contact Damien Easson to schedule a new seminar.

Last modified: Oct 27, 2004