Particle/Astrophysics Seminars, Spring 2009

Usual Time and Place » Tuesdays 11:30pm-12:30pm / the Miller Room, Rockefeller 221 (except where otherwise noted).

Coordinator: Irit Maor, Pascal Vaudrevange
Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 13 12noon-1pm Tamas Csorgo
KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary
High temperature superfluidity in high energy heavy ion collisions at RHIC and forward physics with TOTEM at LHC Corbin Covault
Jan 20
Jan 27 Amjad Ashoorioon
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Multi-brane Inflation in String Theory Tanmay Vachaspati
Feb 3 Daniel Cumberbatch
CWRU
Can the WMAP Haze really be a signature of annihilating neutralino dark matter? Glenn Starkman
Feb 10
Feb 17 Sourish Dutta
Vanderbilt
Hilltop Quintessence Irit Maor
Feb 24 Amir Hajian
Princeton University
Testing global isotropy and some interesting cosmological models with CMB Tanmay Vachaspati
Mar 3 Claudia de Rham
Perimeter
Cascading Gravity and Degravitation Glenn Starkman
Mar 5 Thursday 4:15pm Andrew Tolley
Perimeter
will be held as Physics Colloquium Glenn Starkman
Mar 10 Spring Break
Mar 17 Katie Freese
Michigan
Dark Stars Pascal Vaudrevange
Mar 24
Mar 27 Friday 12:30 Roman Scoccimarro
NYU
Large-Scale Structure in Modified Gravity Glenn Starkman
Mar 31 Maria Beltran
University of Chicago
The curvaton inflationary model, non-Gaussianity and isocurvature Irit Maor
Apr 7
Apr 14 Johan Alwall
Stanford
Fundamentals of the LHC Tanmay Vachaspati
Apr 21
Apr 24 Friday 12:30 Ted Jacobson
Maryland
String shots from a spinning black hole Irit Maor
Apr 28
May 5 Cathy Bailey
CWRU
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search . Current Results and Future Background Discrimination