Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events During the 2015 Fall Semester
August 2015
September 2015
- Tuesday, September 8th
- Pablo Soler Gomis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Natural Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
- Tuesday, September 15th
- Nikolas Kauer, University of London
- High-mass H --> VV signal and Higgs width determination at the LHC
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
- Monday, September 21st
- Rachel Yohay, CERN
- Searches for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetry with Run I Data from CMS
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
- Tuesday, September 29th
- Ben Stefanek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Cosmological Constraints on the Gravitational Interactions of Matter and Dark Matter
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
October 2015
- Tuesday, October 13th
- Josh Berger, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Cosmological Probes of Nearly Decoupled Dark Sectors
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
- Tuesday, October 20th
- Masahide Yamaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Galilean creation of the inflationary universe
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
- Tuesday, October 27th
- Min-Seok Seo, Seoul National University
- Z'-portal for dark mesons in the SIMP scheme
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
November 2015
- Tuesday, November 3rd
- Toshifumi Noumi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Effective field theory for spacetime symmetry breaking
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Gary Shiu
- Tuesday, November 10th
- Tom Rudelius, Harvard University
- The Weak Gravity Conjecture: Variants and Inflationary Implications
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Pablo Soler
- Tuesday, November 17th
- Lasha Berezhiani, Princeton University
- Superfluid Dark Matter
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
December 2015
- Tuesday, December 1st
- Miguel Montero, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Membranes, monodromy, and the weak gravity conjecture
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Pablo Soler
- Tuesday, December 8th
- Evangelos Sfakianakis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Gauge and fermion preheating and the end of axion inflation
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Amol Upadhye
- Tuesday, December 15th
- Bryan Lynn, Visiting Professor
- Raymond Stora's last discovery: Hidden U(1)_Y symmetry and new Ward-Takahashi identities in the Abelian Higgs model
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Amol Upadhye