Autumn 2018
Monday, September 17
"Axion Stars"
Eric Braaten, The Ohio State University
Monday, October 1
"The Past, Present and Future of F-theory Model Building"
Paul Oehlmann, Virginia Tech
Monday, October 15
"Searches for Extra Dimensions with CMS"
Conor Henderson, University of Alabama
Monday, October 22
"The Fate of a Contracting Universe and the Evolution of Stringy Black Holes"
Jerome Quentin, McGill University (Canada)
Monday, October 29 @ TBD - CANCELLED
"Probing New Physics Effects on the Radiation Amplitude Zero at the LHC"
Rodolfo Capdevilla, Notre Dame University
Monday, November 5
"Resolving the Weinberg Paradox with Topology"
John Terning, UC Davis
Spring 2018
Friday, January 19 @ 1:00pm in 4138PRB
"Transverse Momemntum Observables for Drell-Yan Process"
Daekyoung Kang, Fudan University, Shanghai
Friday, March 2 @ 1:30pm in 4138PRB
"Nonthermal Neutrino Background"
Michael Ratz, UC Irvine
Friday, April 13 @ 11:30am in M2035 PRB
"Zero-Range Effective Field Theory for Resonant Wino Dark Matter"
Evan Johnson, The Ohio State University
Autumn 2017
Monday, September 25
"Higgs Boson as a Probe in the Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model"
Suyog Shrestha, The Ohio State University/ATLAS
Monday, October 30 @ 3:30pm
"Was the Universe Radiation Dominated Before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis?"
Tom Giblin, Kenyon College
Monday, November 13 @ 3:30pm in 1080 PRB
"It's 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, but it might just work...Reaching the
Ultra-low Background Regime in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay"
Ben Jones, University of Texas at Arlington
Friday, November 17 @ 4pm
"CP Violaton from a Symmetry Principle"
Andreas Trautner, University of Bonn, Germany
Monday, November 20 @ 3:30pm
"Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Accumulation in Neutron Stars"
Tim Linden, The Ohio State University
Monday, November 27 @ 3:30pm - Cancelled
"Zero-Range Effective Field Theory for Resonant Wino Dark Matter"
Evan Johnson, The Ohio State University
Tuesday, December 12 @ 3:30pm
"Aspects of Calabi-Yau Geometries"
Vishnu Jejjala, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Sourth Africa
Spring 2017
Monday, January 9
"Hydrogen Axion Star"
Yang Bai, University of Wisconsin
Monday, March 27
"Ultralight Repulsive Dark Matter"
Jiji Fan, Brown University
Autumn 2016
Monday, September 26 in 4138 PRB
"Phenomenology of Vectorlike Lepton with Extended Higgs Sector"
Seodong Shin, Indiana University
Monday, October 10 in 4138 PRB
"Current and Future U.S. Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments: NOvA and DUNE"
Luke A. Corwin, South Dakota School of Mines
Monday, October 24 in 4138 PRB
"Searching for Dark Matter at the LHC"
Emma Tolley, Harvard
Monday, November 14 in 4138PRB
"Reheating and Leptogenesis after Pati-Salam F-term Subcritical Hybrid Inflation"
Zijie Poh, OSU
Spring 2016
Monday, February 29
"Renormalization Group Effects in Dark-Matter Direct Detection"
Joachim Brod, TU Dortmund, Germany
Monday, March 7
"Inclusive Higgs Production at Large Transverse Momentum"
Hong Zhang, The Ohio State University
Monday April 18 @ 3pm in 4138 PRB
"Searches for Neutrino-less Double Beta-Decary:a Decade of Discovery Ahead at the
ton-scale?"
David Nygren, UT Arlington
Autumn 2015
Thursday, September 3 - will be held in 2035PRB at 2:30pm
"Conformal Blocks and AdS Gravity"
Per Kraus, UCLA
Monday, October 26 @ 3:00pm in 4138 PRB
"Effective Field Theory of Heavy WIMP Annihilation"
Matthew Baumgart, CMU
Thursday, December 3 @ 3:00pm PTBD
"Quantum Tunneling in Bounded Landscapes"
Ali Masoumi, Tufts University
Thursday, December 10 @ 2:30 4138PRB
"Hot Attractors"
Vishnu Jejjala, University of Witwatersrand
Spring 2015
Monday, January 26
"Long Strings, Little Strings, and Fuzzballs"
Emil Martinec, University of Chicago
Monday, March 9
"Coleman-Weinberg Higgs"
Hyung Do Kim, Princeton University
Monday, April 27
"Multi-loop Corrections to Higgs Boson Production"
Bill Kilgore, Brookhaven National Lab
Monday, May 11
"Searching for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with X-rays"
Kenny Chun Yu Ng, OSU - CCAP
Friday, May 22 - @ 11am in 3041 PRB
"Search for Displaced Decays to Hadronic Jets with the ATLAS Detector"
Preema Pais, CERN
Autumn 2014
Monday, September 8
"Dynamics of 3D SUSY Gauge Theories With Generic Matter Representations"
Yuri Shirman, University of California, Irvine
Monday, September 15
"Making Sense of the XYZ Mesons from QCD"
Eric Braaten, The Ohio State University, Dept of Physics
Monday, September 22
"QCD Factorization for Heavy Quarkonium Production"
Hong Zhang, The Ohio State University, Dept of Physics
Thursday, October 16 - 12:45PM in M2035PRB
"Dark Matter Search at ATLAS"
Ning Zhou, University of California, Irvine
Monday, November 3 - 3:00pm in 1080 PRB - Smith Seminar Room
"Evaluating Thhe Thermal WIMP Miracle In The Light Of Anomalies in 2014"
Kuver Sinha, Syracuse University
Spring 2014
Monday, January 6
"pQCD factorization for heavy quarkonium production and fragmentation functions"
Hong Zhang, Stonybrook University
Monday, January 13
"New Physics at the LHC"
Shreyashi Chakdar, Oklahoma State University
Friday, February 21
"How black holes burn: firewalls, smoke and mirrors"
Ramy Brustein
Monday, February 24
"Black holes and gravity: What makes them attractive?"
Herman Verlinde, Princeton University
Monday, March 10
"New signs of naturalness"
Nathaniel Craig, Rutgers University
Monday, March 17
"Exotic Higgs and Rare Z: Searching for New Physics in Multi-Photon Final States with the ATLAS Detector"
James Beacham, New York University
Monday, April 7
"Isotropization in Heavy-Ion Collisions at High Energy"
Francois Gelis (Saclay)
Joint Nuclear and High Energy seminar, 2:30pm PRB 4138
Monday, April 14
"Minimal Composite Higgs from new SU(3) gauge theory"
Kieran Holland (University of the Pacific)
Thursday, May 8 - 1:30 pm, Smith Seminar Room (1080 PRB)
"T-Quality for Massive States in String Theory"
Jnan Maharana (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
Autumn 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013 - Combined HEPT and Nuclear Seminar
Chiral symmetry breaking on light-like planes
Silas Beane, University of Washington
Monday, October 28
WIMP nucleon scattering with heavy WIMP effective theory
Richard Hill, University of Chicago
Monday, November 4
"The $m_D-b_M$ Problem of Dirac Gauginos and its Solutions"
Jessica Goodman, The Ohio State University
Wednesday, November 13
"Holographic Space-Time, the Super-BMS algebra, Unitarity and Information Loss"
Thomas Banks, Rutgers University and University of California Santa Cruz
Special time and location.
Monday, November 18
"These Mysterious Neutrinos"
Dmitry Zhuridov, Wayne State University
Monday, November 25
"Squark pair production at next-to-leading order"
Ryan Gavin, Paul Scherrer Institute
Monday, December 2
"The dark 3+1+1 model"
Jinrui Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Spring 2013
Monday, January 7
"Boundary unitarity without firewalls"
Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
Monday, January 14
"Y-Unification and the LHC"
Archana Anandakrishnan, The Ohio State University
Monday, January 21
University Closed
Monday, January 28
"B mesons on the lattice: constraining physics beyond the Standard Model"
Chris Bouchard, The Ohio State University
Monday, February 4
"Non-external black hole microstates: Is Alice burning or fuzzing"
Andrea Puhm, CEA Saclay
Monday, March 4
TBA
Jack Laiho, Syracuse University
Monday, March 11
Spring Break
Monday, March 25
RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 8, 2013
Chris Neu, Univeristy of Virginia
Monday, April 8
The Interplay Between the Top Quark and the Higgs Boson:How a discovery from a generation ago can help us understand the latest breakthrough in particle physics
Chris Neu, Univeristy of Virginia
Monday, April 15
"Recent Results from LHCb"
Marina Artuso, Syracuse University
Monday, April 22
TBA
Robert M. Wald, University of Chicago
Monday, September 10
A story of de- and re-coupling: superpotential de-sequestering in string models
Lukas Witkowski, University of Oxford
Monday, September 17
Axion Quality and Large Gauge Group Hidden Sectors
Linda Carpenter, OSU
Monday October 8
Catching Ghost Particles in Iron, Plastic & Oil: MINOS and NOvA Experiments
Luke Corwin, Indiana University
Monday, October 15
DOE Site Visit
Monday October 22
(Location change to M2035)
Supersymmetric QCD: Exact Results and Strong Coupling
Guido Festuccia, The Institute For Advanced Study
Monday, October 29
Global SU(5) F Theory model
Stuart Raby, The Ohio State Univeristy
Monday, November 12
University Closed
Monday, December 3
TBA
Marco Chiodarli, Pennsylvania State University