Calendar - Spring 2008Unless noted otherwise, all seminars are on Tuesdays in Room SPL 52 at 4pm.
| Date | Speaker (Affiliation) and Title |
| Feb 5 | Matthew Kleban (NYU) "When Worlds Collide" |
| Feb 12 | seminar cancelled |
| Feb 19 | Richard Brower (Boston U) " AdS Graviton Dominance in High Energy QCD"
The AdS/CFT graviton unifies Regge and hard gluon mechanism for N=4 super Yang-Mills with implication for hadronic diffractive cross sections at high (LHC and beyond) energies. The Graviton/Pomeron
dominance in the 'tHooft's shock wave analysis will be explain for highly peripheral scattering. The impact parameters and virtuality are combined into an AdS3 subspace of AdS5, providing a new tool to understand the saturation of the Froissart bound and a unified framework for diffractive production.
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| Feb 26 | no seminar |
| Mar 4 | Donal O'Connell (IAS Princeton) "The Lee-Wick Standard Model" |
| Mar 11 | Spring recess, no seminar |
| Mar 18 | Spring recess, no seminar |
| Mar 25 | Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech) "Possible Constraints on New Physics from Matter Effects on Neutrino Oscillation" |
| Apr 1 | Harvey Meyer (MIT) TBA |
| Apr 7 | Matt Strassler (Rutgers) (Monday) in Gibbs 502 at 2
pm "The Hidden Valley Scenario: A Panoply of Novel Signals for LHC Searches" |
| Apr 8 | Leonardo Senatore (Harvard U) "The Phase Transition to Eternal Inflation and an LHC Application" |
| Apr 15 | Patrick Fox (Fermilab) "Quark and Lepton Masses from Top Loops" |
| Apr 22 | Patrick Meade (IAS Princeton) "General Gauge Mediation" |
| Apr 29 | Joel Giedt (Rensselaer Polytechnic I)
"Gluinos condensing at the CCNI and walking SU(2) gauge theory from two adjoint fermions"
This talk is a survey of two on-going studies involving
dynamical lattice fermions in the adjoint representation of SU(2),
exploiting the considerable computing infrastructure at Rensselaer.
(1) Gluino condensation and other results using RPI's BlueGene/L cluster,
part of the CCNI supercomputing complex (world's 7th most powerful).
This Domain Wall Fermion computation will give, for the first time,
continuum extrapolations of important quantities such as the condensate
and string tension.
(2) Two flavors of adjoint Wilson fermions, a candidate for walking
technicolor models due to a very small perturbative beta function.
We are testing this idea with an extensive study of the lattice
phase diagram.
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| June 3 | Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State U.) TBA |
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