High Energy Theory Seminar – Spring 2017

Semester Topic: Synergy – different views on the same topic

In selected weeks, we will have formal seminar talks by external speakers. All other talks in the HEP seminar are held by students for students. Clearly, faculty members will also participate. The format is informal. The talks are 45 minutes long, plus a generous amount of discussion time.

Location: 338 Gallalee Hall
Time: 3:00 p.m.

Schedule

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 20 Casey Cartwright (UA) Symmetry Breaking – Fiber bundles and Higgs physics
Jan 27 Digesh Raut (UA) Symmetry Breaking – Inflection-point Higgs Inflation
Feb 3 Andrea Chaney (UA) Symmetry Breaking – The Noncommutative Standard Model of Connes
Feb 10 Desmond Villalba (UA) Symmetry Breaking – Condensed Matter Physics
Feb 17 Prof. Dr. Sanjoy Sarker (UA) Symmetry Breaking – Broken symmetries and condensed matter – part 1
Feb 24 Prof. Dr. Sanjoy Sarker (UA) Symmetry Breaking – Broken symmetries and condensed matter – part 2
Mar 3 Prof. Dr. Nobuchika Okada (UA) Symmetry Breaking – Higgs from extra-dimensions – part 1
Mar 10 Prof. Dr. Nobuchika Okada (UA) Symmetry Breaking – Higgs from extra-dimensions – part 2
Mar 17     –   Spring Break
Mar 24 Roshan Koirala (UA) Renormalization and the critical phenomena
Mar 31 Markus Garbiso (UA) Holographic Wilson Loops
Apr 7    –  Honors Day
Apr 14 Prof. Dr. Allen Stern (UA) Non-linear models, topology and hairy black holes
Apr 21 Prof. Dr. Shinsuke Kawai (Sungkyunkwan U.) Gravitational wave leptogenesis (abstract)