Michigan State University
Department of Physics & Astronomy

Spring 2009 High Energy Physics Seminar Schedule

High Energy Physics Seminars are presented at 1:45 pm on Tuesdays (in red)
in 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building
or
Journal Club at 12:30 pm on Thursdays (in green) in 3239 BPS
Refreshments are served at 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday's only in the Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg. Atrium

Date 
(2009)

Speaker

Speaker's 
Institution

Title

Local 
Host

15 Jan

1:45 start

Sarah Demers 

Stanford University

Taus as Probes for New Physics 

Tollefson

20 Jan

1:45 start

Andrew Askew 


FNAL 

Electroweak Physics at DO:  Stories the W can tell 

Linnemann

22 Jan

4:00 start

Chunhui Chen 

Stanford University

The Measurement of CP Violation Parameter Beta and Search for the New Physics from Babar Experiment 


 Brock

27 Jan

1:45 start

Junjie Zhu 

FNAL

High precision electroweak measurements at D0

Brock

03 Feb

1:45 start

Craig Group

FNAL

Searching for the Higgs one single top at a time 

Brock

05 Feb

1:45 start

Kenichi Hatakeyama

Rockefeller University

Jets as probes of QCD and new Physics 

Huston

10 Feb

1:45 start

Wade Fisher 

FNAL

The Tevatron’s road to the Higgs:  First evidence for semileptonic WW/WZ decays
 

Chivukula

17 Feb

Soo-hyeon Nam 

KIAS
 

B Phenomenology in General Left-Right Models

Yuan

19 Feb

 


 


 


 

24 Feb

 


 


 


 

26 Feb

 


 


 


 

03 Mar

 


 


 


 

05 Mar

 


 


 


 

10 Mar / 12 Mar

Spring Break

17 Mar

Tobias Haas 

Hamburg University
 

Electron-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 320 GeV-building the legacy of HERA

Huston

19 Mar

 


 


 


 

24 Mar

Thomas Flacke 

University of Michigan

New dark matter candidates from Non-minimal Universal Extra Dimensions 

Hsieh

26 Mar

Arjun Menon 

University of Michigan

Higgs signatures of MSSM Electroweak Baryogenesis

Christensen

31 Mar

Claude Duhr 

Univ. Catholique de Louvain

Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories:  Towards an exact Solution 

Christensen

02 Apr

 


 


 


 

07 Apr

Flera Rizatdinova 

Oklahoma State

Top Physics Plans at ATLAS

Linnemann

09 Apr

 


 


 


 

14 Apr

  Thomas Schwarz

UC Davis

Measurement of the Forward Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Production 

Huston

16 Apr

 


 


 


 

21 Apr

  Tom Shutt

Case Western


LUX and the race to detect WIMP dark matter 

Linnemann

23 Apr

Susan Gardner 

Univ. of Kentucky

Shedding Light on Dark Matter
 

Chivukula 

28 Apr

Greg Tarle 

University of Michigan


 

Linnemann

30 Apr

 


 


 


 

05 May

 


 


 


 

07 May

 


 


 


 

 


-Map to the MSU Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building.

-Building accessibility information.


Contact Brenda Wenzlick at wenzlick@pa.msu.edu  for more information or if special accommodations are necessary.

Organized by:  Sekhar Chivukula and James T. Linnemann

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