Harvard Particle Theory Seminars -- Fall 2007


The Particle Theory Seminars are held at 4:15pm on Tuesdays in J453 of the Jefferson Physics Laboratory (See directions).

Organizers: Sergei Dubovsky, Leonardo Senatore and Giovanni Villadoro


Date

Speaker

Istitution

Title

09/19/07 (*)

Saswat Sarangi

Columbia U.

DBI Tunneling and the Landscape

09/25/07

no seminar



10/2/07

Martin Schmaltz

Boston U.

Hidden sector running as a solution to the mu/Bmu problem

10/9/07

Michael Dine

U.C. Santa Cruz

Symmetries in String Theory

10/16/07

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10/23/07

Dan Hooper

Fermilab

Evidence of Weak-Scale Dark Matter Annihilations in the WMAP Sky

10/24/07 (*)

Massimo Porrati

New York U.

Limits on massless high-spin particles, or the Weinberg-Witten theorem reconsidered

10/30/07

Matthew Schwartz

Johns Hopkins U.

The Extraordinary Predictive Power of Holographic QCD

10/31/07 (**)

Francesco Nitti

Ecole Polytechnique

Exploring 5-dimensional holographic duals to large-N QCD

11/06/07

Seung Lee

Stony Brook

Radion Phenomenology in Realistic Warped Spacetime Models

11/13/07 (***)

Tony Gherghetta

Minnesota U.

A Gravity Dual of Single-Sector Supersymmetry Breaking

11/20/07

no seminar


Thanksgiving

11/27/07

Jing Shu

Chicago U.

Top Compositeness at the Tevatron and LHC

12/04/07

Antonio Delgado

Notre Dame

Dynamical mu term in gauge mediation

12/05/07 (*)

Csaba Csaki

Cornell U.

GIM or shining in warped extra dimensions?

12/11/07

Walter Goldberger

Yale U.

Light scalar at the LHC: Higgs or dilaton?

12/12/07 (**)

Enrico Lunghi

Fermilab

Phenomenology of the MSSM at large tan beta: rare decays, dark matter and collider possibilities

(*) - On Wednesday, room J250, at 4:15pm

(**) - On Wednesday, room L330, at 4:15pm

(***) - Shifted at 10:30am