CHEP

McGill Centre for High Energy Physics

Seminars 2005-2006

List of High Energy Physics Experimental Joint Seminars (with the Université de Montréal) for 2005-2006

  1. The ATLAS experiment: construction and supervision, Helfried J. Burckhart, CERN, August 4th, 2005.

  2. Search for Technicolor Particle at D0, Lorenzo Feligioni, Boston University, August 23rd, 2005.

  3. A Search for the Rare Decay B->tau+tau- at the BaBar Experiment, Chris Potter, University of Oregon, August 24th, 2005.

  4. Calibration of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter. Reconstruction of events with non-pointing photons from GMSB SUSY models, Damien Prieur, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules, August 26th, 2005.

  5. Probing the Weak Interaction Spacetime Structure with Muon Decay, Art Olin, TRIUMF, October 4th, 2005.

  6. CASTing for Solar Axions at CERN, Michael Hasinoff, Univ. of British Columbia, December 2nd, 2005.

  7. The ATLAS strategy for Higgs detection, Cibr�n Santamarina Rios, CERN, December 1st, 2005.

  8. Charm School for Physicists: On the Impact of CLEO-c Results, David Asner, Carleton University, November 30th, 2005.

  9. Search for gaugino production in R-parity violating supersymmetry at HERA, Chi-Nhan Nguyen, Hamburg Universit�t, December 14th, 2005.

  10. Light Scalar Top Quarks and Dark Matter at the Linear Collider, Caroline Milstene, Fermilab, December 15th, 2005.

  11. B -> phi K* Decays: short story about CP Violation, Strong Interactions and New Physics, Alejandro Szynkman, U. Montreal, January 18th, 2006.

  12. Searching for Dark Matter with DEAP at SNOLAB, Marc Boulay, Queen's University, February 8th 2006.

  13. New Research Opportunities at the Future FAIR facility in Darmstadt (Germany), Marielle Chartier, Univ. of Liverpool, February 9th, 2006.

  14. Neutrinos and Higgs bosons in the left-right model, Ken Kiers, U. Montreal, February 10th, 2006.

  15. Measurements of charmed hadrons production in deep inelastic scattering with ZEUS, Roberval Walsh, McGill University, February 15th, 2006.

  16. More on the Adiabatic Approximation in Quantum Mechanics, Richard Mackenzie, U. Montreal, February 22nd, 2006.

  17. Supersymmetric dark matter: astroparticle and collider physics, Genevi�ve B�langer, LAPPTH, Annecy-le-Vieux, March 1st, 2006.

  18. Flavor Physics: A window of Opportunities, Balaji Katlai, McGill, March 9th, 2006.

  19. Neutralino annihilation beyond leading order, Heather Logan, Carleton University, Ottawa, March 29th, 2006.

  20. New B Physics Results from DZero, Wendy Taylor, York University, April 6th, 2006.

  21. Dust during Reionization, Erik Elfgren, Lule�, Su�de, April 13th, 2006.

  22. Probing the Opposite Ends of Time with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Matt Dobbs, McGill University, April 27th, 2006.

  23. Transverse Polarization of Muons in K-> pi^0 mu nu Decay as a test of Time Reversal Invariance, Chary Rangacharyulu, Univ. Saskatchewan, May 23rd, 2006.

List of High Energy Physics Experimental Graduate Student Seminars for 2005-2006

  1. Monte Carlo Production at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (pdf), Phillipe Roy, McGill University, September 7th, 2005.

  2. HEP Home Movies, Francois Corriveau, McGill University, September 21st, 2005.

  3. Primary Vertex Study for the lepton+jets top Signature at CDF ( ppt), Adrian Buzatu, McGill University, September 28th, 2005.

  4. A discussion of the HESS detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an X-ray binary, Thomas Lindner, McGill University, October 5th, 2005.

  5. Overview of single top searches at D0, Camille Belanger-Champagne, McGill University, October 12th, 2005.

  6. Some things they don't tell you about least squares fitting, Luis Valcarcel, McGill University, October 19th, 2005.

  7. Using Neural Networks in Experimental High Energy Physics, Chris Potter, McGill University, November 2nd, 2005.

  8. Selected topics in Rare B Physics, Joachim Harnois-Deraps, McGill University, November 16th, 2005.

  9. HEP Seminar: CLEO Charm School, David Asner (Carleton), McGill University, November 30th, 2005.

  10. The GlueX Experiment, Greg Williams, McGill University, January 18th, 2006.

  11. The HESS array of ACT's, Carsten Mueller, McGill University, February 1st, 2006.

  12. Primary vertex studies for top event candidates at CDF, Adrian Buzatu, McGill University, March 1st, 2006.

  13. X-ray polarimetry, Michael McCutcheon, McGill University, March 8th, 2006.

  14. Recent results on new meson states from BABAR, Ben Campbell, McGill University, March 22nd, 2006.

  15. Lattice QCD and meson decay constants, Guy Moore, McGill University, April 5th, 2006.

  16. Detector systems for CMB, Matt Dobbs, McGill University, April 19th, 2006.

  17. ILC Calorimetry, Francois Corriveau, McGill University, April 26th, 2006.

  18. The AGILE gamma-ray telescope, John Kildea, McGill University, May 10th, 2006.

  19. BABAR measurement of B->lnu with hadronic tag B reconstruction, Miika Klemetti, McGill University, May 31st, 2006.

List of High Energy Physics Theory "Pizza" Seminars for 2005-2006

  1. Progress in the Gauge Theory/Gravity Correspondence, Jeff Murugan, Brown University and University of Cape Town, June 7th, 2005.

  2. Mass-radius relations for solitonic stars, Prashanth Jaikumar, Argonne National Lab, July 5th, 2005.

  3. Non-Perturbative Instabilities as a Solution of the Cosmological Moduli Problem, Natalia Shuhmaher, McGill University, September 13th, 2005.

  4. Thermalization after inflation in SUSY, Rouzbeh Allahverdi, TRIUMF, Vancouver, September 23th, 2005.

  5. Gravity and Gauge Theory, Keshav Dasgupta, McGill University, September 27th, 2005.

  6. Inflation with the QCD axion, Thorsten Battefeld, Brown University, October 4th, 2005.

  7. Multibrane Inflation, Jim Cline, McGill University, October 11th, 2005.

  8. Leaving the Swampland: The Relevance of String Dynamics, Sera Cremonini, Brown University, October 18th, 2005.

  9. The role of plasma instabilities in quark-gluon plasma equilibration, Peter Arnold, University of Virginia, October 25th, 2005.

  10. Inflation with w=+1, Subodh Patil, McGill University, October 25th, 2005.

  11. Self-T-Dual Brane Cosmology and The Cosmological Constant, Olindo Corradini, Universita' di Bologna, November 8th, 2005.

  12. Flavor backreacted supergravity backgrounds and meson Regge trajectories, Diana Vaman, University of Michigan, November 22nd, 2005.

  13. Cosmological Aspects of Loop Quantum Gravity, Johannes Brunnemann, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik Potsdam (Germany), November 24nd, 2005.

  14. Non-equilibrium Physics of the Very Early Universe, Dmitry Podolsky, CITA, Toronto, November 29th, 2005.

  15. Gauge Theories from String Theory: Geometric Transitions, Anke Knauf, Maryland University & Hamburg U, Inst. Theor. Phys. II, December 2nd, 2005.

  16. Present and Future Constraints on the Total Lifetime of the Universe, Jan Michael Kratochvil, Stanford University, December 6th, 2005.

  17. Supersymmetric Dirac Leptogenesis and Neutrino Phenomenology, Manuel Toharia, University of Michigan, January 5th, 2006.

  18. Gravitational Waves in a Codimension Two Braneworld, Claudia de Rham, McGill University, January 10th, 2006.

  19. A graceful exit for Old Inflation and a solution to the Hierarchy Problem, Alessio Notari, McGill University, January 17th, 2006.

  20. Producing a scale-invariant spectrum of perturbations in a hagedorn phase of string cosmology, Ali Nayeri, Harvard University, Phys. Dept, January 13th, 2006.

  21. Supersymmetry on the Lattice, Joshua Elliott, McGill University, January 24th, 2006.

  22. String Theory and Cosmology, Horace Stoica, McGill University, January 31th, 2006.

  23. Illuminate the dark energy and see the backreaction! Take the universe as it is: structured FRW, Reza Mansouri, McGill University, January 31th, 2006.

  24. Confining the electroweak model to a brane, Gonzalo Palma, Cambridge University, February 8th, 2006.

  25. Nongaussianity and Spectral Distorsion from Tachuonic Preheating, Neil Barnaby, McGill, February 14th, 2005.

  26. Towards an Alternative to Inflationary Cosmology, Robert Brandenberger, McGill University, February 28th, 2006.

  27. Early stages of the universe: brane gas-driven bulk dynamics, Natalia Shuhmaher, McGill University, March 14th, 2006.

  28. Possible Origin of Dark Matter as a Fluctuating Remnant of Inflation, Robert Brout, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), March 21th, 2005.

  29. A road towards reheating MS(SM) degrees of freedom, Anupam Mazumdar, Nordita, Denmark, March 23rd, 2006.

  30. Inflationary spectral indices and potential reconstruction, Loison Hoi, McGill University, April 11th, 2005.

  31. The Boundary as Distant Stars: Mach's Principle in General Relativity, Justin Khoury, Perimeter Institute, April 18th, 2005.

  32. Accelerated expansion from structure formation, Syksy Rasanen, University, April 25th, 2005.

  33. Dynamics of the string theory landscape, Senarath de Alwis, Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & Colorado University, April 25th, 2005.

  34. Black hole singularities in Yang-Mills theories, Guido Festuccia, MIT, May 2nd, 2005.

  35. D-strings, Supergravity Cosmic Strings and Fermion Zero Modes, Anne-Christine Davis, (Cambridge University, DAMTP), May 4th, 2006.

  36. Orientifolds and Bubbling Geometries in String Theory, Sunil Mukhi, Tata Institute, May 9th, 2006.

  37. Decoherence and Primordial Fluctuations, Patrick Martineau, (McGill University), May 16th, 2006.

  38. Particle physics catalysis of thermal Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Maxim Pospelov, University of Victoria/Perimeter Institute, May 19th, 2006.

  39. Mimicking Lambda with a spin-two ghost condensate, Claudia de Rham, McGill University, May 26th, 2006.

  40. Nonlinearity inthe gravitational lensing and its applications to cosmology, Marina Shmakova, University, May 30th, 2006.

List of Nuclear Physics Theory Seminars for 2005-2006

  1. Heavy Ion Collisions, Diffusion, AdS/CFT, and the Euclidean Lattice, Derek Teaney, Stony Brook University, October 20th, 2005.

  2. Penetrating Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma in Nuclear Collisions at RHIC and the LHC, Brian Cole, Columbia University, November 4th, 2005.

  3. Nuclear modification of jet multiplicities, Igor Dremin, Lebedev Institute, November 15th, 2005.

  4. Plasma Instabilities in the Melting Color Glass Condensate, Paul Romatschke, Bielefeld University, November 16th, 2005.

  5. Quark Recombination, Rainer Fries, University of Minnesota, November 18th, 2005.

  6. Thermodynamics of large N_f at finite chemical potential for weak and strong couplings, Andreas Ipp, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Trento, November 25th, 2005.

  7. Parton Recombination: A comprehensive model for bulk hadronization at RHIC?, Stephan Bass, Duke University, December 2nd, 2005.

  8. Parton propagation in dense nuclear matter, Ivan Vitev, Los Alamos National Laboratory, February 2nd, 2006.

  9. Particle production in a field theory coupled to a strong external source, Fran�ois Gelis, SPhT, Saclay, February 13th, 2006.

  10. Anisotropy of flow and the order of phase transition in relativistic heavy ion collisions, Pasi Huovinen, University of Virginia, February 14th, 2006.

  11. Space-time evolution of bulk QCD matter at RHIC: 3-D hydro + UniversityQMD model, Chiho Nonaka, University of Minnesota, February 16th, 2006.

  12. Parton propagation in dense nuclear matter, Ivan Vitev, Los Alamos National Laboratory, March 7th, 2006.

  13. Critical point of strongly interacting matter: would it be observed?, Rashid Mehdiyev, Universit� de Montr�al, April 5th, 2006.

  14. Particle production in field theories coupled to strong external sources, Raju Vanugopalan, Brookhaven National Laboratory, April 12th, 2006.

  15. D-meson in a cold nuclear matter: a self-consistent coupled channels approach, Tetsuro Mizutani, Virginia Tech, May 17th, 2006.

List of Particle Astrophysics Seminars for 2005-2006

  1. The Nature and Origin of Cosmic Rays or Tickling the Knee with CREAM, St�phane Coutu, Penn State University, November 8th 2005.

  2. TRACER (Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation), Patrick (Jojo) Boyle, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, November 23rd 2005.

  3. Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole, Andreas Gross, University of Dortmund, November 29th 2005.

  4. Out of Africa: The latest results from the H.E.S.S. telescopes array, Anthony M. Brown, Durham University, December 9th 2005.

List of special High Energy Physics Workshops at McGill University for 2005-2006

  1. Mini-Workshop on New Ideas in String Theory and Cosmology,
    Outstanding problems at the interface of string theory and cosmology, and possible new directions,
    Keshav Dasgupta and Robert Brandenberger, January 27th and 28th, 2006.

  2. Experimental HEP Workshop, Pierre Petroff, Laboratoire de l'Acc�l�rateur Lineaire, Universit� de Paris-Sud,
    A - Basic Principles, March 27th, 2006.
    B - Signal processing (emphasis on the ATLAS and DZero calorimeters), March 27th, 2006.
    C - ATLAS and DZero calorimeters performance, March 28th, 2006.

  3. CALICE Collaboration Meeting, organized by F. Corriveau, McGill University, May 10th to 12th, 2006.
    see     Web Page.

  4. Colloque de physique subatomique dans le cadre du Congrès de l'Acfas 2006: Unissons nos forces! organized by F. Corriveau, McGill University, May 15th, 2006.
    see Web Page.