Unless noted otherwise, all seminars are on Tuesdays in Room SPL 52 at 3:30pm.
Clicking on “more info” leads to the physics department calendar entry and includes an abstract when one has been provided.
| Date | Speaker (Affiliation) and Title |
|---|---|
| Feb 21 |
Chris Murphy (BNL), B-decay Anomalies in a Composite Leptoquark Model (more info) |
| Feb 28 |
Raju Venugopalan (BNL), “The chiral anomaly, Berry’s phase and chiral kinetic theory from world-lines in quantum field theory” (more info) |
| Mar 7 | John Donoghue (Amherst) |
| Mar 14 | (Spring break) |
| Mar 21 | (More spring break…how posh) |
| Mar 28 |
Jiang-Hau Yu (Amherst) “Nature of Higgs Boson: Little Hierarchy, Vacuum Stability and Electroweak Phase Transition” (more info) |
| Apr 4 |
Mikhail Isachenkov (Weizmann) (more info) |
| Apr 6 |
Clay Cordova (IAS) (more info) |
| Apr 11 |
Ben Safdi (MIT) “New directions in the search for ultra-heavy and ultra-light dark matter” (more info) |
| Apr 17 |
Aneesh Manohar (UCSD) “How Bright is the Proton? A Precise Determination of the Photon PDF.” (more info) |
| Apr 18 |
Zuhair Khandker (UIUC) “RG Flow from phi^4 Theory to the 2D Ising Model” (more info) |
| Apr 25 |
Hong Liu (MIT) “The second law of thermodynamics from unitarity and symmetry” (more info) |
| Mar 2 |
Kurt Hinterbichler (Case Western) “Massive and Partially Massless Gravity” (more info) |
| Mar 4 |
Lasha Berezhiani (Princeton) “Superfluid Dark Matter” (more info) |