Program 2008

Speaker	Topic	Time/Location
J.Reuter Special Seminar	Searching for New Physics in Weak Boson Scattering at the LHC Readings: TBA	8/14, 3:00 pm, 245 Fronczak Hall
E.Laenen Special Seminar	Resummation techniques in QCD Readings: TBA	8/6, 2:00 pm, 245 Fronczak Hall
A.Stump	New (and Old) Perspectives on Higgs Physics Readings: arXiv:0804.4460[hep-ph]	5/29, 2:00 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
K.Tzirakis	Why we should care about non-Gaussian signatures in cosmology and their likely detection in the WMAP 3-year data Readings: astro-ph/0210603,hep-th/0605045, 0712.1148 [astro-ph]	4/24, 2:00 pm, 245 Fronczak Hall
D.Rainwater	Anomaly schmomaly! All spacecraft thumb their nose at Einstein. Readings: Anomalous Orbital-Energy Changes Observed during Spacecraft Flybys of Earth, Phys.Rev.Lett.100:091102,2008	3/27, 2:00 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
D.Berdine	Parallel Universes Readings: astro-ph/0302131	2/14, 2:00 pm, 245 Fronczak Hall
D.Stojkovic	Dark matter and the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution Readings: arXiv:0705.0521	1/17, 11:00 am, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)

Program 2007

Speaker	Topic	Time/Location
E.Greenwood	Black Holes and Domain Wall Collapse Readings: gr-qc/0609024, arXiv:0711.0006	12/13, 2:00 pm, 245 Fronczak Hall
J.Boersma	The Simplest Higgs model Readings: hep-ph/0407143 , hep-ph/0506313	11/15, 2:00 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
D.Kubiznak (Univ. Alberta)	Hidden Symmetries of Higher-Dimensional Rotating Black Holes Readings: see abstract	10/18, 2:00 pm, 341 Fronczak Hall
R.Poltis	Time-like vs Space-like Extra Dimensions Readings: arxiv.org/abs/0707.0714	09/20, 2:00 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
B.Powell	How well constrained is the primordial power spectrum? Readings: arxiv.org/abs/0706.1982	08/16, 11:00 am, 245 Fronczak
D.Rainwater	Limits on a 4th generation Readings: hep-ph/0706.3718	07/12, 11:00 am, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
D.Wackeroth	Highlights from LoopFest VI Readings: see LoopFest VI program	06/07, 11:00 am, 245 Fronczak
K.Park	Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering at NuTeV Readings: see abstract, hep-ph/0509084, G.P. Zeller's webpage	05/03, 11:00 am, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
L.Boyle (CITA, Toronto)	Probing the early universe with inflationary gravitational waves Readings: see abstract	03/22, 11:00 am, 245 Fronczak
M.Weber	Finite widths and the complex mass scheme Readings:	02/22, 2:00 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
I.Iashvili	Evidence for single top production in D0 Readings: hep-ex/0612052	01/18, 12:30 pm, 245 Fronczak

Program 2006

Speaker	Topic	Time/Location
J.Wang	How to Stop (Worrying and Love) the Bubbles Readings: hep-th/0506166,hep-th/0506023,hep-th/0408070	12/14, 11 am, 245 Fronczak
K.Tzirakis	Power spectrum of inflation with rapidly varying eta Readings: see abstract	11/16, 11 am, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
D.Berdine	Violations of the narrow width approximation in SUSY Readings:	10/19, 11 am, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
E.Brewer	Unveiling Chameleons in Tests of Gravitational Inverse-Square Law Readings: hep-ph/0608186	09/21, 11 am, 245 Fronczak
U.Baur	Weak boson emission in hadron collider processes Readings:	08/24, 2 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
D.Rainwater	Gravitino dark matter and cosmological constraints Readings: hep-ph/0605306	07/27, 11:30 am, 245 Fronczak
A.Kharchilava	Recent results on B_s mixing Readings: hep-ex/0603029, hep-ex/0603027	06/27, 2:00 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
L.H.Orr	Improved naturalness with a heavy Higgs Readings: hep-ph/0603188	06/08, 11:00 am, 245 Fronczak
U.Baur	World without weak interactions Readings: hep-ph/0604027	05/09, 11:00 am, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
W.Kinney	What does the CMB really tell us about inflation ? Readings: see abstract	04/06, 10:30 am, 245 Fronczak
J.Boersma	Heavy Gauge Boson Phenomenology in the Littlest Higgs Model Readings: astro-ph/0512128	02/23, 11:00 am, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
B.Powell	The Lyth Bound and the End of Inflation Readings: astro-ph/0601276	01/26, 11:00 am, 245 Fronczak

Program 2005

Speaker	Topic	Time/Location
D.Wackeroth	Large weak corrections in high ET jet production at the Tevatron ? Readings: hep-ph/0503152,hep-ph/0104232	12/15, 2:00 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
R.Gonsalves	Soft-gluon resummation Readings:hep-ph/0507317,hep-ph/0303186, hep-ph/0312336	11/03, 1:30 pm, 245 Fronczak
U.Baur	Multi-Z production at hadron colliders Readings: hep-ph/0008063	10/06, 2 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
D.Berdine	Mixed Top-Bottom squark production at the LHC Readings: hep-ph/0506261	08/30, 2 pm, 245 Fronczak
L.H.Orr	Constraining New Models with Precision Electroweak Data Readings:hep-ph/0504286, hep-ph/9703392	07/26, 2 pm, B&L 108
W.Kinney	Does Primordial Inflation explain why the universe is accelerating today? Readings: astro-ph/0506534, hep-th/0503117, astro-ph/0503582, astro-ph/0504005, astro-ph/0503553, astro-ph/0504421	06/28, 2 pm, 245 Fronczak
C.Macesanu	The Higgs sector on two-sheeted space time Readings: hep-ph/0503147	05/12, 2 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
D.Rainwater	What scale do fermion masses come from? Readings: hep-ph/0502178	03/31, 1:45 pm, 245 Fronczak
E.Brewer	Introduction to Majorana particles Readings: hep-ph/0411116, hep-ph/0202264, hep-ph/0403245(double beta decay and majorana masses)	03/03, 2 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
D.Wackeroth	b quarks and Higgs physics Readings: hep-ph/0405302, hep-ph/0408077 and references therein	01/27, 2 pm, 245 Fronczak

Program 2004

Speaker	Topic	Time/Location
J.Boersma	Effect of a Z' Vector Boson on Soft Gluon Radiation in ttbar production	12/16, 2 pm, B&L 375 (Marshak Room)
B.Powell	Inflation: Scalar Fluctuations and Flow	11/18, 2 pm, B&L 372 (Mandel Room)
W.Kinney	Cosmic Microwave background polarization Readings: Wayne Hu's CMB polarization primer, astro-ph/0409357, astro-ph/0409380	10/21, 1:30 pm, 245 Fronczak
D.Rainwater	Little Higgs, Fat Higgs and Higgsless models Readings: Talk by J.Hewitt	9/30, 1:30 pm, 245 Fronczak
U.Baur	Anomalous top quark couplings	8/17, 2 pm, B&L 372
D.Berdine	Noncommutative Geometry Readings	7/15, 2 pm, 245 Fronczak
U.Baur	Electroweak radiative corrections to W production and W width measurement Probing the Higgs self coupling at Lepton and Hadron Colliders	6/26, 2 pm, Fronczak 245
L.H. Orr	The top mass and how well we need to measure it Readings: hep-ph/0306181	5/6, 2pm, B&L 275
J.Boersma	Loop quantum gravity Readings: gr-qc/9411005 and hep-th/0303185	4/8, 2pm, Fronczak 245
C.Macesanu	Phenomenology of Universal Extra Dimensions Readings: hep-ph/0207269 and hep-ph/0201300	2/12, 2pm, B&L 375
W.Kinney	Leptogenesis Readings: astro-ph/0307213	1/22, 2pm, Fronczak 245