CHEP Seminars 2006-2007

CHEP

McGill Centre for High Energy Physics

Seminars 2006-2007

Joint Seminars (with the Université de Montréal)
Experimental High Energy Physics
Theoretical High Energy Physics ("pizza")
Nuclear Physics
Special High Energy Physics Seminars and Workshops

Montréal Joint HEP Seminars (with Université de Montréal)

25-oct-2006 (at Concordia): Entangled quantum states and non-locality. A branching space-time resolution of the problem; Storrs McCall
6-nov-2006: Results of X-ray and Neutron Micro-Radiography and Micro-Tomography with Pixel Detectors of Medipix2 Type; Jan Jakubek
6-nov-2006: Quantum Structure of Space Near a Black Hole Horizon; Gabor Kunstatter
9-nov-2006 (at Concordia): Why is general relativity a geometric theory?; Harvey R. Brown
22-nov-2006: Mesure de |V_ub| à l'aide des désintégrations B-> pi0 mu nu et de la technique des étiquettes semileptoniques B-> D0* mu nu; Sylvie Brunet
4-dec-2006: Black hole and black brane solutions in R⁴ Sln spaces; L.C.R. Wijewardhana
25-jan-2007: Evidence for single top production at the D0 experiment; Yann Coadou
29-jan-2007: The Top Mass at CDF and the Final Preparation for ATLAS; Jean-François Arguin
31-jan-2007 (at Concordia): The Nature of Spacetime and Free Will; Vesselin Petkov
5-fev-2007 (at McGill): The Latest from MiniBoone; Hirohisa Tanaka
26-fév-2007: The top quark: a "charged" topic; Véronique Boisvert
4-juin-2007: Quantum disordering and the phase diagram of Josephson junction arrays; Said Sakhi

Experimental HEP Graduate Student Seminars

Wednesday, October 18^th, 2006: A Short Introduction to QCD; Jason Schwartz (McGill University)
Wednesday, November 15^th, 2006: HEP Movies: The HERA Experiment; François Corriveau (McGill University)
Wednesday, November 29^th, 2006: ZEUS for Beginners; François Corriveau (McGill University)
Wednesday, December 13^th, 2006: QCD Study Report; Jason Schwartz (McGill University)
Wednesday, January 17^th, 2007: Measurement of the neutrino mass matrix using terrestrial and astro-physical sources; Michael McCutcheon (McGill University)
Wednesday, February 14^th, 2007: Recent Results on Strangeness Production at HERA; Chuanlei Liu (McGill University)
Wednesday, February 21^st, 2007: UHE cosmic rays and the possible existence of a UHE point source; Andrew McCann (McGill University)
Wednesday, March 14^th, 2007: Ground-based observations of TeV cosmic rays using Direct Cerenkov radiation; Luis Valcarcel (McGill University)
Wednesday, March 21^st, 2007: Observation of double neutral kaon resonances with the ZEUS Detector; Changyi Zhou (McGill University)
Wednesday, April 4^th, 2007: A Search for Charged Higgs at the Tevatron; Gustavo Kertzscher (McGill University)
Wednesday, April 11^th, 2007: A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays [B0 to ell tau] at BaBar; Miika Klemetti (McGill University)

High Energy Informal Pizza Seminars

Wednesday, August 22nd 2007, 14:00: Special Pizza Seminar; Emergent Inflation; Stephon Alexander; Penn State University
Thursday, July 19th 2007, 14:00: Special Pizza Seminar; Polygamy of Entanglement of Assistance: Dual Monogamy Inequality for Entanglement; Som Bandyopadhyay; Université de Montréal
Friday, July 13th 2007, 14:00: Special Pizza Seminar; (Non-)Perturbative Aspects of Black Hole Attractors and Moduli Stabilization for Two-Parameter Calabi-Yau's; Aalok Misra; ICTP
Thursday, May 31st 2007, 14:00: Special Pizza Seminar; Brane inflation à la KKLT: a review and WMAP3 outlook; Larissa Lorenz; McGill University
Friday, May 25th 2007, 14:00: Special Pizza Seminar; Some Hidden and Overlooked Structures at Future Null Infinity in Maxwell, GR and Einstein-Maxwell Theory; Ted Newman; University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, May 10th 2007, 14:00: Special Pizza Seminar; Composite dark energy, the coincidence problem and modified gravity; Rolando Cardenas; Universidad Central De Las Villas
Wednesday, May 9th 2007, 13:30: Special Pizza Seminar; String Junctions and 1/4 BPS Black Holes; Sunil Mukhi; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 13:00: Fate of Kaluza-Klein Black Holes: Evaporation or Excision?; Sugumi Kanno; McGill University
Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 13:00: Generalized and gaussian coherent states for quantum systems with degenerate discrete energy spectra; Véronique Hussin; Université de Montréal
Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 13:00: Moduli stabilization and mirror symmetry in non-geometric backgrounds; Katrin Becker; University of Texas A&M
Thursday, April 19th 2007, 14:00: Special Theory Seminar; Mach's Holographic Principle; Maulik Parikh; IUCAA/Columbia
Tuesday, April 17th 2007, 13:00: A rigorous treatment of energy extraction from the Kerr black hole; Niky Kamran; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Tuesday, April 10th 2007, 13:00: Breakdown of linear cosmological perturbation theory near de Sitter spacetime; Bojan Losic; University of Alberta
Tuesday, March 20th 2007, 13:00: A note on the moduli-induced gravitino problem; Natalia Shuhmaher; McGill University
Tuesday, March 13th 2007, 13:00: String Compactification and Brane Inflation; Gary Shiu; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, March 6th 2007, 13:00: Cuscuton Cosmology: Dark Energy meets Modified Gravity; Ghazal Geshnizjani; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, February 13th 2007, 13:00: Recent progress in brane-antibrane inflation and uplifting; Jim Cline; McGill University
Tuesday, February 6th 2007, 13:00: Nonperturbative verification of supersymmetry on the lattice; Joel Giedt; Univeristy of Minnesota
Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 13:00: Resolution of Cosmological Singularities: a Workshop Report; Robert Brandenberger; McGill University
Tuesday, January 23rd 2007, 13:00: Cosmological Consequences of the Formation of Cosmic Strings; Martin Landriau; Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin & Danish National Space Center
Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 13:00: P-adic inflation; Neil Barnaby; McGill Univeristy
Thursday, December 14th 2006, 14:00: Lorentz violation and Generation of Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe; Pavel Bolokhov; University of Victoria & St. Petersburg State University
Tuesday, December 12th 2006, 13:00: Ensemble of Kähler Moduli Inflation; Sergey Prokushkin; University of Toronto
Tuesday, December 5th 2006, 13:00: Final Title not available; Gerasimos Rigopolous; Univeristy of Utrecht
Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 13:00: Solutions to Six-Dimensional Supergravity; Cliff Burgess; Perimeter Institute & McMaster Univeristy
Tuesday, November 21st 2006, 13:00: Nonlinear Structure Formation and “Apparent” Acceleration: an Investigation; Alessio Notari; McGill
Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 13:00: A Hologram of QCD; Takemichi Okui; Johns Hopkins University & University of Maryland
Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 13:00: MSSM flat direction inflation; Rouszbeh Allahverdi; Perimeter Institute
Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 13:00: Baryogenesis below the TeV scale; Federico Urban; Ferrara University & INFN Ferrara
Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 13:00: D5/D7-brane boundstate in a conifold background; Rhiannon Gwyn; McGill University
Wednesday, October 18th 2006, 16:00: Instabilities in Gauss-Bonnet cosmology; Gianluca Calcagni; University of Sussex
Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 13:00: Loop Quantum Gravity effects in the Early Universe; Parampreet Singh; Penn State
Tuesday, October 10th 2006, 13:00: M-theory Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation; Amjad Ashoorioon; University of Waterloo
Wednesday, October 4th 2006, 13:00: Mathematically Speaking, What is Supersymmetry?; James Sylvester Gates, Jr; University of Maryland
Tuesday, September 26th 2006, 13:00: The Cooper Instability and the Cosmological Constant Problem; Stephon Alexander; Penn State University
Tuesday, September 19th 2006, 13:00: The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model from heterotic string theory; Vincent Bouchard; Perimeter Institute
Tuesday, September 12th 2006, 13:00: Comparing QCD and N=4 Super-Yang-Mills: Shear viscosity; Guy Moore; McGill University
Tuesday, September 5th 2006, 13:00: “The axis of Evil”: reporting results on anisotropy and non Gaussianity in the CMB; Joao Magueijo; Perimeter Institute

Seminars in Hadronic Physics

Thursday, August 2nd 2006, 15:30: Mach cone shock waves at RHIC; J. Ruppert; McGill University
Tuesday, July 24th 2007, 15:30: Probing the Quark Gluon Plasma with Jets and Jet Correlations; Abhijit Majumder; Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham
Friday, July 13th 2007, 11:00: Dimuon transverse momentum spectra as a tool to characterize the emission region in heavy-ion collisions; Thorsten Renk; University of Jyväskylä & University of Helsinki
Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 14:00: Is there a “most perfect fluid” consistent with quantum field theory?; Thomas Cohen; University of Maryland
Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 14:00: Thoughts on early thermalization in AA collisions and nuclear matter in supercritical fields; Kirill Tuchin; Iowa State University/Riken-Brookhaven Research Center
Tuesday, December 12th 2006, 14:00: Heavy Quark Bound States Above Deconfinement; Agnes Mocsy; BNL
Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 14:00: How can AdS/CFT be useful for heavy-ion physics?; Pavel Kovtun; KITP, UCSB
Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 14:00: From color glass to glasma and plasma; Tuomas Lappi; Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 14:00: The Quark-Gluon Liquid at RHIC; Gunther Roland; MIT
Tuesday, October 3rd 2006, 14:00: Four-charged-pion decay of ρ⁰(770) and the a₁-ρ-π Lagrangian; Peter Lichard; Silesian University in Opava & Czech Technical University
Tuesday, September 19th 2006, 14:00: What does the rho-meson do? NA60's dimuon experiment and in-medium modifications of vector-mesons; Joerg Ruppert; McGill University

Experimental HEP Seminars

Wednesday, June 13th 2007, 15:30: Measurement of |V_ub| from the decay B₀→π l ν, using a loose neutrino reconstruction technique, at BaBar; David Côté; Université de Montréal
Wednesday, May 9th 2007, 15:30: The first result of the MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiment; Teppei Katori; Indiana University / Fermilab
Wednesday, March 28th 2007, 15:30: Testing the Higgs mechanism; Heather Logan; Carleton University
Wednesday, March 7th 2007, 15:30: A TPC for the T2K ND280 Experiment; Marie Di Marco; DPNC, Université de Genève
Wednesday, February 28th 2007, 15:30: Probing Electroweak Top Quark Couplings at Hadron Colliders; Uli Baur; SUNY Buffalo
Tuesday, February 27th 2007, 11:00: The top quark: a “charged” topic; Veronique Boisvert; University of Rochester
Monday, February 5th 2007, 14:00: The Latest from MiniBooNE; Hirohisa Tanaka; MiniBooNE/Princeton University
Monday, January 29th 2007, 14:30: The Top Mass at CDF and the Final Preparation for ATLAS; Jean-François Arguin; ATLAS/LBNL
Friday, January 26th 2007, 13:30: Evidence for single top production at the D0 experiment; Yann Coadou; Dzero/SFU
Thursday, January 4th 2007, 14:00: Status and Potential of the CMS Experiment; Dominique Fortin; University of California, Riverside
Friday November 3rd 2006, 13:30: Joint Seminar with the School of Computer Science; Entanglement entropy, black holes and holography; Stephen Hsu; University of Oregon