High Energy Physics/Relativity/Cosmology Seminars
Spring 2006

The Physics Department's High Energy Physics/Relativity/Cosmology Seminars
  are generally held at 2:30pm on Monday and
at 2:30pm on Friday in Rm 204.
Friday
January 13


Monday
January 16
Martin Luther King Day
NO CLASSES
Friday
January 20


Monday
January 23


Wednesday
January 25
special date
Rana Adhikari (LIGO, Caltech)
Title: The Path to Gravitational Wave Astronomy (abstract)
Host: Saulson
Friday
January 27


Monday
January 30


Friday
February 3
10 AM, room 316
special time and room
Laura Cadonati (MIT)
Title: Gravitational Wave Burst Search in LIGO: Methods and Results (abstract)
Host: Saulson
Monday
February 6
Karel van Acoleyen (Durham University)
Title: Long distance modifications of gravity in four dimensions (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
February 10


Monday
February 13
Fritz Rohrlich (Syracuse University)
Title: Fixing the foundations of classical electrodyanamics (abstract)
Friday
February 17
Xavier Siemens (University of Wisconsin)
Title: Gravitational wave bursts from cosmic strings: Quantitative analysis and constraints (abstract)
Host: Saulson
Monday
February 20
Ian Low (IAS, Princeton)
Title: Grand Unification, Dark Matter, Baryon Asymmetry, and the Small Scale Structure of the Universe (abstract)
Host: Agashe
Wednesday
February 22
special date
Vuk Mandic (Caltech)
Title: Cryogenic Dark Matter Search: Status and Results (abstract)
Host: Saulson
Friday
February 24


Monday
February 27
Jose Santiago (Fermilab)
Title: Constraining Generalized Modified Gravity with Supernovae (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Friday
March 3
10 AM, special time
Two seminars this day!
Peter Shawhan (California Institute of Technology)
Title: The Ins and Outs of Inspiral Searches (abstract)
Host: Saulson
Friday
March 3
Guy Moore (McGill)
Title: Putting Susy-QCD on the lattice in 3D (abstract)
Host: Catteral
Monday
March 6


Friday
March 10
Patrick Meade (Cornell)
Title: Model Dependent and Independent Approaches to LHC Phenomenology (abstract)
Host: Agashe
Monday
March 13
SPRING BREAK
Friday
March 17
SPRING BREAK
Monday
March 20
Pran Nath (Northeastern U)
Title: Testing the Stueckelberg Extension of the Standard Model with CDF and D0 Data (abstract)
Host: Wali
Friday
March 24
Sergey Solodukhin (IUB, Bremen)
Title: Probing extra dimensions with gravitational waves (abstract)
Host: Armendariz-Picon
Monday
March 27
Eugene Lim (Yale University)
Title: Stochastic Gravity Waves from the End of Inflation (abstract)
Host: Armendariz-Picon
Friday
March 31


Monday
April 3


Friday
April 7
Franz Halzen (Wisconsin)
Title: TBA (abstract) CANCELLED
Host: Wali
Monday
April 10
Seth Major (Hamilton College)
Title: Quantum Geometry Phenomenology: A Discrete Machian Model (abstract)
Host: Sorkin
Wednesday
April 12
special day!
Chris Hill (Fermilab)
Title: Physics of the D=5 Chern-Simons Term (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
April 17
Moshe Rozali (British Columbia)
Title: TBA (abstract)
Host: Catteral
Friday
April 21
Andrew Blechman (Johns Hopkins)
Title: Phenomenology of Flavor Violation in RS Models (abstract)
Host: Agashe
Monday
April 24
Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab)
Title: Standard Model in Six Dimensions (abstract)
Host: Agashe
Friday
April 28
Minxin Huang (University of Wisconsin)
Title: Observable Signatures and Non-Gaussianities of General Single Field Inflation (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
May 1
Antony Valentini (Perimeter)
Title: Inflationary Cosmology as a Probe of Primordial Quantum Mechanics (abstract)
Host: Balachandran
Friday
May 5
Merab Gogberashvili (Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Georgia)
Title: Dark Matter and Dark Energy in Spherical Brane-Universe Model (abstract)
Host: Wali
Monday
May 8
Philip Mannheim (University of Connecticut)
Title: Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Fact or Fiction? (abstract)
Host: Wali
Friday
May 12
David Craig (Le Moyne College)
Title: Branch wave functions for homogeneous universes (abstract)
Host: Sorkin
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Contact Aleksandr Pinzul to schedule a new seminar.