Topic of the Week

2012 Speakers


Day Speaker Topic Where
Wednesday, Feb 22nd at 2pm Michael Peskin (SLAC) Light Composite Higgs: The Third Way to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking - Part 1 WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Thursday, Feb 23rd at 3:30pm Michael Peskin (SLAC) Light Composite Higgs: The Third Way to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking - Part 2 WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Thursday, Mar 22nd at 2:30pm Ricardo Vasquez Sierra (UC Davis) 4th Generation Quark Searches in CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Friday, Mar 23rd at 1:30pm Ricardo Vasquez Sierra (UC Davis) CMS Pixel Detector - Current status and upgrade WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Mar 27th at 3pm Liantao Wang (UChicago) Searching for light dark matter at colliders WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Mar 28th at 2pm Liantao Wang (UChicago) Higgs signal and new physics implications WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Apr 18th at 2pm Can Kilic (UTexas) The Collider Phenomenology of Vectorlike Confinement WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Apr 20th at 1pm Can Kilic (UTexas) Two topics that connect Dark Matter and the LHC: Flavored Dark Matter and the Consequences of Grand Unification WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Apr 25th at 2pm Michele Papucci (LBNL) Natural and flavored SUSY at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 8 at 3pm Antonio Boveia (UChicago) The Higgs Search at ATLAS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 11 at 2pm Antonio Boveia (UChicago) New Ways of Searching for New Physics at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 14 at 3pm Sanjay Padhi (UCSD) Probing new physics using Same sign dileptons WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 30th Claudio Campagnari(UCSB) TBD WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 31st Claudio Campagnari(UCSB) TBD WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 12th at 2pm Daniel Elvira (Fermilab) Motivation, Physics Objects, Pileup WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 16th at 2pm Daniel Elvira (Fermilab) Elements of a Data Analysis and their Integration in a Search Result WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 19th at 3pm Daniel Elvira (Fermilab) Recent CMS Results and Future Directions WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Jun 11th Zack Sullivan (IIT) TBD WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Jun 25th at 2pm Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Institute of Technology) GEM Detectors for a CMS Muon Endcap Upgrade & Other Uses WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Jun 26th at 2pm Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Institute of Technology) GEM Detectors for a CMS Muon Endcap Upgrade & Other Uses WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 1st at 2pm Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College of London) Supersymmetry: post discovery of a new (Higgs?) boson. WH10 NW (West Wing)
August 23rd at 2pm Roger Wolf Search for a neutral Higgs Boson in the SM and MSSM WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Sep 10th Tim Tait (UC Irvine) TBD WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Oct 4th at 2pm Anton Poluektov(Warwick) Latest results on CP violation and rare decay measurements at LHCb WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Oct 23rd at 3pm Ted Liu(Fermilab) Overview of Trigger in HEP: the view from physics WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Oct 24th at 2pm Ted Liu(Fermilab) Trigger Challenges at high luminosity LHC: the view from technology WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Nov 5th at 2pm Raman Sumdrum(University of Maryland) CMS Workshop on Naturalness WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Nov 7th at 2pm Sanjay Padhi(UCSD) CMS Workshop on Naturalness WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Nov 14th at 3pm Steven Lowette (UCSB) Stop searching in CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Nov 15th at 2pm Evan Friis (Wisconsin) Tau reconstruction and identification at CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Nov 16th at 2pm Evan Friis (Wisconsin) Searches for Higgs bosons using taus at CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Nov 27th at 2pm Sara Bolognesi(JHU) Characterization of the newly discovered boson: is it the long-awaited SM Higgs? WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Nov 28th at 2pm Si Xie (CalTech) The Present and Future of the Higgs Sector WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Nov 30th at 2pm Artur Apresyan (CalTech) Searches for physics beyond the standard model in the third generation WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Dec 4th at 3pm Alexander Paramonov (Argonne) Study of jets produced in association with a vector boson WH11 NE (Sunrise)

Link to the talks given prior to 2012