High Energy Theory

Fridays 2:30 pm, 335 West Hall


Organizers: Aaron Pierce and Jim Liu


January 4

Liantao Wang (Princeton)
"Discovering and Understanding New Physics at the LHC"



January 11

LHC Workshop


January 18

Michele Papucci (IAS)
"Flavorful New Physics at the LHC"

January 25
Michael Ramsey-Musolf (Wisconsin)
"Baryogenesis, EDMs and Higgs Phenomenology"



February 1

Seminar Cancelled--rescheduled for special time next week



February 8
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 2:00-3:00 335 WH
Alex Buchel (Western Ontario,Perimeter) "Boost invariant plasma in AdS/CFT"

February 8
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE: 3:30--4:30 FRIDAY 340 WH
Kathryn Zurek (Wisconsin-Madison)
"Peaks and Valleys: searching for low mass hidden sectors at the LHC and in Cosmology"

February 15

David Shih (IAS) "Phenomenology of (Extra)Ordinary Gauge Mediation"

February 22

TBA

February 29

No Talk, Spring Break

March 7

Hong Liu (MIT) "A prediction from string theory, with strings attached."

March 14

Mirjam Cvetic (Penn) "TBA"

March 21

Joan Simon (Edinburgh)"Coarse-graining and typicality in the Ads/CFT correspondence"

March 28

David Berenstein (UC Santa Barbara) "A strong coupling expansion for N=4 SYM and other SCFT's"

April 4

TBA

April 11

Alberto Nicholis (Columbia) "The sudden transition to eternal inflation"