High Energy Physics/Relativity/Cosmology Seminars
Spring 2005
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
January 17		 Relativity/HET
Wednesday
January 19

Hooman Davoudiasl (U. Wisconsin)
Title: Neutrino Masses from Sub-GeV Dynamics in Low-Cutoff-Scale Models (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
January 24

Oriol Pujolas (Kyoto University)
Title: TBA (abstract)
Host: Armendariz-Picon

 

Yuri Shirman (LANL)
Title: Uses of extra dimensions (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
January 28		 Sergey Frolov (SUNY Institute of Technology)
Title: Bethe Ansatz for Quantum Strings (abstract)
Host: Balachandran
Monday
January 31

Tilman Plehn (CERN)
Title: TBA (abstract)
Host: Trodden

Rachel Bean (Princeton University)
Title: Challenging The Alternative Perspectives in Dark Energy (abstract)
Host: Trodden

 

Friday

February 4

 Relativity/HET

Monday

February 7

 Relativity/HET
Friday
February 11		 Kaustubh Agashe (Johns Hopkins U.)
Title: Warped Compactifications: Flavor, Unification and Dark Matter (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
February 14		 Relativity/HET
Friday
February 18		 Luis Anchordoqui (Northeastern Univeristy)
Title: Black hole production in particle collisions (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
February 21		 Hsin-Chia Cheng (Harvard Univeristy)
Title: Goldstone dynamics of spontaneous Lorentz violation (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
February 25		 Relativity/HET
Monday
February 28

Relativity/HET

Friday
March 4		 Relativity/HET
Monday
March 7		 Patrick Fox (U. C. Santa Cruz)
Title: Probing a QCD string axion with precision cosmological measurements (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
March 11		 Relativity/HET
Monday
March 14		 Relativity/HET
Friday
March 18		 Relativity/HET
Monday
March 21		 Carl Bender (Washington University)
Title:Ghost Busting: Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians (abstract)
Host: Wali
Friday
March 25		 Relativity/HET
Monday
March 28		 Motomichi Harada (Ohio State University)
Title: N=1 super Yang-Mills on a (3+1) dimensional transverse
lattice with one exact supersymmetry (abstract)
Host: Catterall

Wednesday
March 30

(SPECIAL DAY)

 Brandon Carter (Meudon)
Title: TBA (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
April 4		 Gerald Dunne (U. of Connecticut)
Title:Mass Dependence of the Fermion Determinant in an Instanton Background (abstract)
Host: Wali
Friday
April 22		 Frederic Schuller (Perimeter Institute)
Title:TBA (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
April 25		 Paul Smyth (Imperial)
Title:The Stability of Horava-Witten Spacetimes (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
April 29		 Paul Federbush (U. of Michigan)
Title:Struggles with the Heisenberg Lattice Spin Model (abstract)
Host: Wali
Monday
May 2		 Alan Kostelecky (Indiana U.)
Title:Some aspects of Lorentz violation (abstract)
Host: Wali
Monday
May 9		 Francesco Sannino (Niels Bohr Institute)
Title:Advances in Supersymmetry (abstract)
Host: Schechter
   
Winter/Spring 2003 Seminars; Fall 2003 Seminars; Spring 2004 Seminars
Contact Damien Easson to schedule a new seminar.

Last modified: Mar, 29, 2005