• 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)

1. 17-oct-2007
   La détection directe de la matière sombre avec le détecteur à gouttelettes surchauffées dans le cadre du projet PICASSO
   Razvan Gornea

2. 7-déc-2007
   Physique des oscilloscopes, Physique et oscilloscopes
   François Lamarche

3. 17-19 déc 2007
   ATLAS-Canada Workshop
   ATLAS/Canada Groups

4. 7 mai 2008
   Quark mass matrices in the RS model and rare t decay into c (u) and Z
   John Ng

5. 20 mai 2008
   Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS
   Sujeewa Kumaratunga

6. 17 juillet 2008
   Recherche de la Matiere Sombre avec l'experience EDELWEISS-2
   Jules Gascon

Experimental HEP Graduate Student Seminars

1. Wednesday, August 29^th, 2007
   Welcome to our first Meeting
   François Corriveau et all (McGill)

2. Wednesday, September 5^th, 2007
   Charged Higgs Boson Searches with the ATLAS Detector
   Juan Martinez (McGill)

3. Wednesday, September 12^th, 2007
   ATLAS trigger response to top quarks
   Arnaud Lepage-Jutier (McGill)

4. Wednesday, February 6^th, 2008
   Muon Physics, part I: Observations
   François Corriveau (McGill)

5. Wednesday, March 5^th, 2008
   Muon Physics, part II: Measurements
   François Corriveau (McGill)

High Energy Informal Pizza Seminars

1. Thursday, July 10th 2008, 14:00
   Deconfinement transition in N=4 SYM with fundamental matter
   Pallab Basu
   UBC

2. Wednesday, July 9th 2008, 13:00
   Recent developments in M2-brane theory
   Chong-Sun Chu
   Durham University

3. Tuesday, Tuesday July 8th 2008, 13:00
   Time dependent AdS/CFT and null singularity
   Chong-Sun Chu
   Durham University

4. Thursday, June 19th 2008, 13:30
   f(R) Gravity: Successes and Challenges
   Valerio Faraoni
   Bishop's University

5. Friday, June 13th 2008, 13:00
   An alternative mechanism to produce scale-invariant fluctuations
   Joao Magueijo
   Imperial College

6. Thursday, June 12th 2008, 13:00
   Nonlocal Inflation
   Neil Barnaby
   CITA

7. Tuesday, June 3rd 2008, 13:00
   Non-Gaussianity in models with mixed inflaton and curvaton
   Tomo Takahashi
   Saga University & Stanford

8. Tuesday, May 27th 2008, 13:00
   Susy breaking and Susy/Non-susy duality in extended moduli space
   Jihye Seo
   Harvard

9. Friday, May 2nd 2008, 13:00
   Mechanics of (super) conducting cosmic strings and vortons
   Brandon Carter
   Observatoir de Paris-Meudon

10. Thursday, May 1st 2008, 13:00
    Gravity on the Largest Scales and Cosmic Acceleration
    Justin Khoury
    Perimeter Institute

11. Thursday, April 24th 2008, 13:00
    One-loop Partition Functions of 3D Gravity
    Simone Giombi
    Harvard University

12. Tuesday, April 22nd 2008, 13:00
    A Holographic Superconductor
    Chris Herzog
    Princeton University

13. Thursday, April 17th 2008, 13:00
    Cosmic Strings and Small-Angle CMB Temperature Anisotropies
    Aurelian Fraisse
    Princeton University

14. Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 13:00
    Observing multi-throat brane inflation
    Xingang Chen
    MIT

15. Thursday, March 27th 2008, 13:00
    Final Title not available
    Albion Lawrence
    Brandeis University

16. Tuesday, March 25th 2008, 13:00
    Torsion and Supersymmetry Breaking
    Brian Wecht
    Institute for Advanced Study

17. Thursday, March 20th 2008, 13:00
    The Casimir force in theories with extra dimensions
    Mariana Frank
    Concordia University

18. Tuesday, March 18th 2008, 13:00
    Final Title not available
    Subodh Patil
    Humboldt Universitat

19. Thursday, March 13th 2008, 13:00
    Tachyons that don't bite & gluinos condensing at the CCNI
    Joel Giedt
    RPI

20. Tuesday, March 11th 2008, 13:00
    3D N=1 SYM Chern-Simons theory on the Lattice
    Joshua Elliot
    McGill

21. Tuesday, March 4th 2008, 13:00
    Quantum Resolution of Cosmological Singularities using AdS/CFT
    Ben Craps
    Vrije University & Solvay Institute

22. Thursday, February 21st 2008, 13:00
    Testing the k³ Component in the Primordial Perturbation Power Spectrum
    Loison Hoi
    McGill

23. Tuesday, February 19th 2008, 13:00
    The c.c. problem and codimension-2 branes
    Claudia de Rham
    Perimeter Institute

24. Thursday, February 14th 2008, 13:00
    Sequestered Dark Matter
    Benedict von Harling
    University of Heidelberg

25. Thursday, February 7th 2008, 13:00
    Cosmic inflation through time
    Ghazal Geshnizjani
    Perimeter Institute

26. Tuesday, February 5th 2008, 13:00
    Physics Beyond the Horizon
    Niayesh Afshordi
    Perimeter Institute

27. Thursday, January 31st 2008, 13:00
    Black holes as mirrors
    Patrick Hayden
    McGill

28. Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 13:00
    Entropy Modes at the End of Brane Inflation
    Andrew Frey
    McGill

29. Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 13:00
    Magnetogenesis from Cosmic String Loops
    Mark Wyman
    Perimeter Institute

30. Thursday, January 10th 2008, 13:00
    Final Title not available
    Tomislav Prokopec
    Utrect University

31. Tuesday, December 11th 2007, 13:00
    Warped String Phenomenology: Cosmology and Particle Physics
    Bret Underwood
    University of Wisconsin

32. Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 13:00
    Deformed Chiral Rings of Toric Varieties
    Josh Guffin
    UIUC

33. Tuesday, November 27th 2007, 13:00
    Manifestly Gauge-Invariant General Relativistic Perturbation Theory
    Kristina Giesel
    Max Planck Institute

34. Monday, November 19th 2007, 13:00
    Topology from Cosmology
    Vijay Balasubramanian
    University of Pennsylvania

35. Tuesday, November 13th 2007, 13:00
    Reheating in Brane Inflation
    Aaron Berndsen
    McGill

36. Tuesday, November 6th 2007, 13:00
    Partition Functions of 3D Pure Gravity
    Xi Yin
    Harvard

37. Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 13:00
    Comments on Twistor strings: Old and New
    Parameswaran Nair
    City College of New York

38. Thursday, October 25th 2007, 13:00
    Some aspects of cosmic superstrings in brane inflation
    Hassan Firouzjahi
    McGill

39. Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 13:00
    Heavy quark diffusion in perturbative QCD at next-to-leading order
    Simon Caron Huot
    McGill

40. Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 13:00
    Moduli Stabilization and String Geometry
    Katrin Becker
    Texas A&M

41. Tuesday, October 2nd 2007, 13:00
    Puff Field Theory
    Ori Ganor
    UC Berkeley

42. Friday, September 28th 2007, 13:00
    Metastable kinks in the orbifold
    Manuel Toharia
    University of Maryland & Syracuse University

43. Tuesday, September 25th 2007, 13:00
    Kaluza-Klein braneworld cosmology with static internal dimensions
    Sugumi Kanno
    McGill

44. Tuesday, September 18th 2007, 13:00
    Final Title not available
    Horace Stoica
    Imperial College

45. Tuesday, September 11th 2007, 13:00
    Conformal invariance on orbifolds and excitations of singularity
    Zheng Yin
    University of Science and Technology of China

Seminars in Hadronic Physics

1. Thursday, June 26th 2008, 15:00
   Stellar Matter in supernova Explosions and Nuclear Multifragmentation
   Alexandre Botvina
   Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences

2. Tuesday, March 18th 2008, 14:00
   Parton distribution functions in soft-collinear effective theory
   Junegone Chay
   Korea University

3. Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 14:00
   Single photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions
   Dinesh Srivastava
   Variable Energy Cyclotron Center

4. Tuesday, November 20th 2007, 14:30
   Open charm meson in finite temperature nuclear matter
   T. Mizutani
   Department of Physics, Virginia Tech

5. Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 14:30
   The QCD critical point in heavy ion collisions
   Chiho Nonaka
   University of Nagoya

6. Monday, September 10th 2007, 14:30
   Collisional Energy Loss - A welcoming component for jet quenching phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions
   Munshi Golam Mustafa
   Theory Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

Experimental HEP Seminars

1. Wednesday, May 7th 2008, 15:30
   ROOT Tutorial
   Malachi Schram
   McGill

2. Wednesday, April 9th 2008, 16:00
   TeV Gamma Rays with the Milagro and HAWC experiments
   Jim Linnemann
   Michigan State University

3. Wednesday, March 26th 2008, 16:00
   Life after HEP
   Pat Saull
   NRC

4. Wednesday, March 5th 2008, 16:00
   Muon Physics of the 70's-80's: Decay Measurements
   François Corriveau
   McGill University

5. Wednesday, December 12th 2007, 16:00
   Recent Results from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF)
   Andreas Warburton
   McGill University

6. Wednesday, November 21st 2007, 16:00
   The XENON Dark Matter Search
   Elena Aprile
   Columbia University

7. Wednesday, November 14th 2007, 16:00
   Cosmic Rays, Star Spots and Aliens: Some Alternative Applications of Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
   Jamie Holder
   University of Delaware

8. Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 16:00
   Emergency Radiation Mapping
   Laurel Sinclair
   Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada

9. Wednesday, September 26th 2007, 16:00
   Measurement of pionium (π⁺π^- hydrogen-like state) lifetime to test low energy QCD predictons
   Cibrán Santamarina Ríos
   McGill University

10. Wednesday, September 19th 2007, 15:30
    Something Old, Something New
    Juan Collar
    University of Chicago