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====== Beyond the Standard Model Journal Club ======

===== Spring 2017 =====

Organizing Committee: Lina Necib, Nick Rodd

This semester we are meeting on Friday at 4:15 pm, unless otherwise stated. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. 

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Feb 17 | **Nick Rodd** | Gamma-ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube   |              |     |
^  Feb 24 | ** Yong Zhao**  | Matching the Quasi Parton Distribution in a Momentum Subtraction Scheme  |              |     |
^  Mar 1 (Wednesday) | **Oscar Macias**  | Is the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess due to Dark Matter?  | **Nick Rodd**             |     |
^  Mar 10 | **Gherardo Vita ** | Subleading Factorization in SCET: Hard Scattering Operators and Radiative Functions  |              |     |
^  Mar 17 | **Ken Lane** | The 30 GeV dimuon excess at ALEPH  |  **Lina Necib **            |     |
^  Mar 24 | **Frank Tackmann** | Simplified Template cross sections for the next Higgs measurements  |              |     |
^  Mar 31^  ** Spring Break **   ^     ^              ^     ^
^  Apr 7 | **Hongwan Liu ** |   |              |     |
^  Apr 14 | **Yuhsin Tsai  ** |   |  **Jesse **            |     |
^  Apr 21 | **Yuichiro Nakai** |   | **Yotam** |     |
^  Apr 28 | ** Moritz Preisser ** |   |              |     |
^  May 5 | **Mark Hertzberg **  |   |  |     |
^  May 12 |  |   |              |     |
^  May 19 |  |   |              |     |

===== Fall 2016 =====

Organizing Committee: Lina Necib, Nick Rodd

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. 

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Sept 7, 2016|  ** Lina Necib **   |  Spherical Cows of Dark Matter Indirect Detection   |              |     |
^  Sept 14, 2016^  ** No Talk **   ^     ^              ^     ^
^  Sept 21, 2016|  ** Ben Elder **   |  Generalized Fragmentation Functions for Fractal Observables   |              |     |
^  Sept 28, 2016|  ** Gherardo Vita **  |  First steps into subleading factorization for collider physics observables   |              |     |
^  Oct 5, 2016|  ** Chih-Liang Wu **  |  General constraints on Dark Matter Decay from Cosmic Microwave Background  |   |  |
^  Oct 12, 2016|  **Aditya Pathak**   |  Precision Top Quark Mass Extraction at the LHC using SoftDrop   |              |   |
^  Oct 19, 2016|         **Oren Slone**          |  New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter - from sub-GeV Direct Detection to AGNs  |               |       |
^  Oct 26, 2016|          **William Shepherd**         | SM EFT Contributions to Z Decay at One Loop    |              |      |
^  Nov 2, 2016|    ** Felix Yu**  |  Phenomenology of Enhanced Light Quark Yukawa Couplings and the Wh Charge Asymmetry   |   |   |
^  Nov 9, 2016|  **Siddharth Mishra-Sharma **  |  Dark matter searches outside our galaxy  |              | |
^  Nov 16, 2016|        **Patrick Fitzpatrick**          |  Capture and Decay of Electroweak WIMPonium  |              |      |
^  Nov 23, 2016^          ** Thanksgiving **         ^ ^ ^ ^
^  Nov 30, 2016|         ** Hua-Xing Zhu**         |  Power Corrections from Effective Field Theory  |              |     |
^  Dec 7, 2016|         **Frédéric Dreyer **         |  Small-radius jets at the LHC  |           |     |
^  Dec 14, 2016|         ** **         |  :?:  |           |     |


===== Spring 2016 =====

Organizing Committee: Lina Necib, Nick Rodd

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. 

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Feb 3, 2016|  **Duff Neill**   |  The Soft Substructure of Jets.  |              |     |
^  Feb 10, 2016|  **Wei Xue**  |  dark sector search from galaxy and collider  |              |     |
^  Feb 17, 2016|  **Vicent Mateu**  |  :?:  | Iain Stewart | :?: |
^  Feb 24, 2016|  **Hongwan Lui**   |  Did dark matter end the cosmic dark ages?  |              |   |
^  Mar 2, 2016|         ** Kenneth Lane **          |  A Light Composite Higgs and its Heavy Vector Partners  |   Lina Necib           |  lane at bu dot edu    |
^  Mar 9, 2016|          **Aditya Pathak**         |  Small x Resummation from Effective Field Theory  |              |      |
^  Mar 16, 2016| **Kai Yan and Chris Frye**  |  Groomed jet observable and clustering effects/ Jet Substructure at NNLL+NNLO  | Lina Necib |   |
^  Mar 23, 2016|  ** Spring Break**  |    |              | |
^  Mar 30, 2016|        **Gherardo and Chih-Liang**          |  Do we need N3LO PDFs?, and Detection of neutrino magnetic moment  and dark matter.  |              |      |
^  Apr 6, 2016|          **HuaXing Zhu**         |  Towards Ultimate Precision for Transverse-Momentum Spectra of Electroweak Bosons with Effective Field Theory  |              |      |
^  Apr 13, 2016|         **Yotam Soreq**         |  Inclusive dark photon search at LHCb  |              |     |
^  Apr 20, 2016|         **Tracy Slatyer**         |  Why Resonant Sommerfeld Enhancement Doesn't Violate Unitarity  |           |     |
^  Apr 27, 2016|         :?:         |  :?:  |              |     |
^  May 4, 2016|           ** Lina Necib **        |  Asymmetry Sharing/ Boosted Dark Matter  |           |     |
^  May 11, 2016|          **Ian Moult**        |  Progress in Subleading Power Factorization and Applications  |              |     |
===== Fall 2015 =====

Organizing Committee: Lina Necib, Nick Rodd

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. 

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Sept 16, 2015| **Yotam Soreq** | Higgs Couplings to Light Quarks | Lina Necib | soreqy at mit dot edu |
^  Sept 23, 2015| **Daniel Kolodrubetz** | How strong is strong? A precision determination of alpha_s from the C parameter.| :?: | :?: |
^  Sept 30, 2015| **Aaron Vincent** | The effect of dark matter on the sun| :?: | :?: |
^    Oct 7, 2015| **Lina Necib** | GC excess in relations with Nbody simulations (1509.02164 and 1509.02166) | :?: | :?: |
^   Oct 14, 2015| **Ben Elder** | Fuzzy jets (1509.02216)  | :?: | :?: |
^   Oct 21, 2015| **Alejandro Jenkins** | Analyticity and renormalization in nucleon scattering, or Misusing effective field theory techniques in nuclear physics | :?: | :?: |
^   Oct 28, 2015| **Jesse Thaler** | Minimal Supersymmetric Slow-roll Inflation | :?: | :?: |
^    Nov 4, 2015| **Hamish Silverwood** | Dark Matter Local Density | Tracy Slatyer | :?: |
^   Nov 11, 2015| **Ian Moult** | Analytic Boosted Boson Discrimination with D_2  | :?: | :?: |
^   Nov 18, 2015| **Enrique Kajomivitz** |  ATLAS hadronic diboson search | :?: | :?: |
^   Nov 25, 2015^ **NO TALK - THANKSGIVING** ||||
^    Dec 2, 2015| **Nick Rodd** | The High Energy Tail of the Galactic Centre Excess/ Finding The Point Sources that make Up the Galactic Centre Excess (maybe with jets) | :?: | :?: |
^    Dec 9, 2015| **Iain Stewart** | An EFT for Forward Scattering and Factorization Violation | :?: | :?: |


===== Spring 2015 =====

Organizing Committee:  Gilly Elor, Yonatan Kahn, Jesse Thaler

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. 

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Feb 25, 2015| **Dan Kolodrubetz** | Running EW couplings as a probe of naturalness (1410.6810) | :?: | :?: |
^  Mar 4, 2015| **Andrew Larkoski** | Further evidence that Lagrangians are overrated (1502.05057) | :?: | :?: |
^  Mar 11, 2015| **Adi Pathak** | On jet substructure methods for signal jets (1503.01088) | :?: | :?: |
^  Mar 18, 2015| **Thomas Becher** | NNLL Resummation for Transverse Thrust | Duff | :?: |
^  Apr 1, 2015| **Matt Baumgart** | de Sitter wavefunctionals and the resummation of time | Duff | :?: |
^  Apr 8, 2015| **Jakub Scholtz** | Dissipative dark matter (1412.1839) | :?: | :?: |
^  Apr 15, 2015| **Sabrina Pasterski** | Asymptotic Virasoro symmetries and gravitational memory | Andrew | :?: |
^  Apr 22, 2015| **Bhupal Dev** | Natural Standard Model Alignment in the Two Higgs Doublet Model | Jesse | :?: |
^  Apr 29, 2015| **Sonia El Hedri** | Perturbative Unitarity Constraints on Dark Sectors | Andrew| :?: |
^  May 6, 2015| **Diego Guadagnoli** | On recent anomalies in B decays at LHCb | Jesse | :?: |
^  May 13, 2015| **Anson Hook** | Strong CP motivations for TeV scale colored physics | Jesse | :?: |
===== Fall 2014 =====

Organizing Committee:  Gilly Elor, Yonatan Kahn, Jesse Thaler

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm.

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Sept 17, 2014| **Jesse** | Quarks, Gluons, and Information Theory (1408.3122) | :?: | :?: |
^  Sept 24, 2014| **Lina Necib** | Boosted dark matter (1405.7370) | :?: | :?: |
^  Oct 1, 2014| **Sam McDermott**| Wavelets and the GeV excess | Tracy | :?: |
^  Oct 8, 2014| **Tracy Slatyer** | Planck CMB results | :?: | :?: |
^  Oct 15, 2014| **Ian Moult** | Power Counting Jet Substructure | :?: | :?: |
^  Oct 22, 2014| **Wei Xue** | Dark Photon Search and Dark Matter Indirect Detection | :?: |  |
^  Oct 29, 2014| **Seyda Ipek** | CP violation and pseudo-Dirac gluinos | Yoni | ipek AT uw DOT edu |
^  Nov 5, 2014| **Yoni Kahn** | Halo-independent methods | :?: | :?: |
^  Nov 12, 2014| **Gilly Elor** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Nov 19, 2014| **Yue Zhao** | :?: | Jesse | zhaoyue AT stanford.edu |
^  Nov 26, 2014| **NO TALK - THANKSGIVING** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Dec 3, 2014| **Ben Safdi** | Cosmic neutrinos | :?: | :?: |
^  Dec 10, 2014| **Simone Marzani** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
===== Spring 2014 =====

Organizing Committee:  Gilly Elor, Yonatan Kahn, Jesse Thaler

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm.

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Feb 5, 2014| **CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW** | :?: | :?: |:?: |
^  Feb 12, 2014| **Stefan Meinel** | Proton charge radius puzzle | :?: | smeinel AT mit DOT edu |
^  Feb 19, 2014| **Gustavo Tavares** | Scale invariance and naturalness | :?: | gusmt AT bu DOT edu |
^  Feb 26, 2014| **CANCELLED DUE TO LNS SPECIAL SEMINAR**| :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Mar 5, 2014| **Daniele Bertolini** | 1402.2285 | :?: | danbert AT mit DOT edu |
^  Mar 12, 2014| **Nayara Fonseca** | 1402.2287 | :?: | nayara AT mit DOT edu |
^  Mar 19, 2014| **Ian Moult and Aditya Pathak** | Practice talks for SCET conference | :?: |  |
^  Apr 2, 2014| **Peter Stoffer** | HLbL and muon g-2 (1402.7081) | Will Detmold | stoffer AT itp DOT unibe DOT ch |
^  Apr 9, 2014| **Nick Rodd** | Recent paper with Tracy (1402.6703) | :?: | nrodd AT mit DOT edu |
^  Apr 16, 2014| **Julien Billard** | Recent CDMS low-threshold results | :?: | billard AT mit DOT edu |
^  Apr 23, 2014| **Ilya Feige** | Many roads to factorization | :?: | feige AT physics DOT harvard DOT edu |
^  Apr 30, 2014| **Andrew Larkoski** | :?: | :?: | larkoski AT mit DOT edu |
^  May 7, 2014| **Iain Stewart** | New operator-based formalism for forward scattering and factorization violation | :?: | iains AT mit DOT edu |
^  May 14, 2014| **Gilly Elor** | :?: | :?: | gelor84 AT gmail DOT com |




===== Fall 2013 =====

Organizing Committee:  Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm.

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Sep 25, 2013| **Stefan Meinel** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Oct 2, 2013| **Matthew McCullough** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Oct 9, 2013| **Daekyoung Kang** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Oct 16, 2013| **Andrew Larkoski** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Oct 23, 2013| **Lina Necib** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Oct 30, 2013| **Iftah Galon** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Nov 6, 2013| **no seminar** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Nov 13, 2013| **Tom Melia** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Nov 20, 2013| **Duff Neill** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Nov 27, 2013| **Ian Moult** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Dec 4, 2013| **Marat Freytsis** | :?: | :?: | :?: |
^  Dec 11, 2013| **Yonatan Kahn** | :?: | :?: | :?: |

===== Spring 2013 =====

Organizing Committee:  Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm.

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Feb  13, 2013 | **Yoni Kahn** (MIT) | :?: | Matthew | ykahn at MIT.EDU  |
^  Feb  20, 2013 | **Matthew McCullough** (MIT) | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  Feb  27, 2013 | **Jesse Thaler** | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  Mar  6, 2013 | **Dan Kolodrubetz** | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  Mar  13, 2013 | **Zachary Thomas** | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  Mar  20, 2013 | **No Journal Club** | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  Mar  27, 2013 ^ Spring Break ||||
^  Apr  3, 2013 | **Daniele Bertolini** | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  Apr  10, 2013 | **Nima Overflow Slot** | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  Apr  17, 2013 | **Sean Weinberg** | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  Apr  24, 2013 | **Adam Anderson** (MIT/CDMS) | :?: | :?: | adama at mit.edu  |
^  May  1, 2013 | **Simone Marzani** (Durham)  | :?: | :?: | simone.marzani at durham.ac.uk  |
^  May  8, 2013 | :?: | :?: | :?: | :?:  |
^  May  15, 2013 | **Andrew Larkoski** | :?: | :?: | :?:  |

==== Possible People to Speak ====

  * Andrew
  * Jesse
  * Yasunori
  * Meng?
  * Lina?
  * CDMS person
  * Iain's students


===== Fall 2012 =====

Organizing Committee:  Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler

This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm.

|               ^ Speaker              ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^
^  Sept  7, 2012 (FRI)| **Pier Francesco Monni** (Zurich) | :?: | Jesse | pfmonni at physik.uzh.ch  |
^  Sept  12, 2012| Zachary Thomas  | :?:  | :?: |  :?:   |
^  Sept  19, 2012| Daniele Bertolini  | Summer 2012 Higgs Implications | :?: |  :?:   |
^  Sept  26, 2012| :?: | :?: | :?: |  :?:   |
^  Oct  3, 2012| Yoni Kahn  | :?: | :?: |  :?:   |
^  Oct  10, 2012| Jaime Varela  | :?: | Matthew |  jaimevrl at berkeley.edu   |
^  Oct  17, 2012| :?:  | :?: | :?: |  :?:   |
^  Oct  24, 2012| Andrew Ian Chen  | AMS02 | Matthew |  achen7 at MIT.EDU   |
^  Oct  31, 2012| Sean Downes  | :?: | Daniele |  sddownes at physics.tamu.edu   |
^  Nov  7, 2012| Matthew McCullough  | :?: | :?: |  mccull at mit.edu   |
^  Nov  14, 2012| Grant Larsen  | :?: | :?: |  larsen.ge at gmail.com   |
^  Nov  21, 2012| Moved  | :?: | :?: |  :?:   |
^  Nov  28, 2012| :?:  | :?: | :?: |  :?:   |
^  Dec  5, 2012| :?:  | :?: | :?: |  :?:   |

==== Additional Topics ====

  * 1208.0601:  (Johannes Heinonen, Richard J. Hill, Mikhail P. Solon)
  * Update on 130 GeV Line?
  * Status of Natural SUSY?
  * N=2 papers?
  * Yoni:  something SUSY
  * Zach:  not SUSY
  * Andrew:  Jets?
  * Duff:  Update on Jet Broadening?
  * Yasunori Students!  (Talk about their own papers.)
  * Save December for CMS Higgs Update  (Diphoton?  Tau?)
  * Planck?  (January?)
  * No need to do XENON?
  * For spring:  LHC shutdown anticipation.  Mini MadGraph Project?

===== Spring 2012 =====

Organizers:  Matthew McCullough, Keith Rehermann

|       ^ Speaker      ^ Comments |
^ March 1, 2012| Matthew | Seiberg duality versus hidden local symmetry |
^ March 8, 2012| Duncan Ralph | Something from from CMS |
^ March 15, 2012| Kevin Sung | Something from from CMS |
^  March 22, 2012| Cancelled | ? |
^  March 29, 2012^ :!: Spring vacation  ||
^   April 5, 2012| Daniele | Higgs and Dark Matter |
^  April 12, 2012| Cancelled | ? |
^  April 19, 2012| Zachary | R-symmetry and lepton number |
^  April 26, 2012| Jesse (tentative) | Dark anomalies |
^   May 3, 2012| Yoni | Conformal symmetry and scale invariance results |
^   May 10, 2012| Keith  | ? |
^   May 24, 2012| Raffaele D'Agnolo  | 2 Higgs or not 2 Higgs |
^   May 31, 2012| Siavosh Behbahani  | ? |
^   July 3, 2012| Ennio Salvoni  | Special journal club |

====== Past Semesters ======

===== Fall 2011 =====

Organizers:  Matthew McCullough, Keith Rehermann

|       ^ Speaker      ^ Comments |
^ Sept 15, 2011| Matthew | The CRESST Experiment |
^ Sept 22, 2011| Teppo | Recent LHC SUSY searches |
^ Sept 29, 2011| Daniele | Superluminal neutrinos at OPERA |
^   Oct 6, 2011|  |  |
^  Oct 13, 2011| Zach | Predictions of the Higgs Boson Mass from A Finely-Tuned Weak Scale |
^  Oct 20, 2011| Yoni | Limits on a fourth generation |
^  Oct 27, 2011|  |  |
^   Nov 2, 2011| Keith | Multi-leptons at CMS |
^  Nov 10, 2011| Jesse | Collider limits on natural SUSY |
^  Nov 17, 2011| :?: Joshua Berger (Cornell) | New CP violating observables for the LHC |
^  Nov 24, 2011^ :!: Thanksgiving  ||
^   Dec 1, 2011| Daekyoung Kang  | LHCb signals of CP violation in D mesons |
^   Dec 8, 2011| Francesco? |  |
^  Dec 15, 2011|  |  |

Keep in mind:  Daekyoung on cold atom?


===== Spring 2011 =====

Organizers: Keith Rehermann

|       ^ Speaker      ^ Comments |
^ Mar 3, 2011| **Keith Rehermann** | ATLAS SUSY Searches |
^ Mar 10, 2011| **Daniele Bertolini** | CMS Lepton Searches |
^ Mar 17, 2011| **Teppo Jouttenus** | CMS Higgs Searches |
^ Mar 24, 2011^ :!: Spring Break ||
^ Mar 31, 2011| Cancelled | |
^ Apr 7, 2011| **Yoni Kahn** | |
^ Apr 14, 2011| **Pavel Fileviez Perez** (UW-Madison) | The Theory of R-parity at the LHC |
^ Apr 21, 2011| **Saba Zuberi** (UC Berkeley) | |
^ Apr 28, 2011| | |
^ May 5, 2011| | |
^ May 12, 2011| | |

===== Fall 2010 =====

Organizers: Jesse Thaler, Francesco D'Eramo

|       ^ Speaker      ^ Comments |
^ Sept 9, 2010| Jesse Thaler | Highlights from [[http://www-ctp.mit.edu/lhc/|Implications of First LHC Data]] |
^ Sept 16, 2010| Chris Lee | Jet Shapes in Effective Field Theory |
^ Sept 23, 2010| Chris Vermillion | The CMS Ridge |
^ Sept 30, 2010| Keith Rehermann | Highlights of Topolgies2010 |
^ Oct 7, 2010| Fu-Sin Ling (Brussels) | The flavor puzzle : Why neutrinos are different ? |
^ Oct 14, 2010| Yoni Kahn | Origins of Hidden Sector Dark Matter |
^ Oct 21, 2010| Lorenzo Ubaldi (Santa Cruz) | Probing Dark Matter with AGN Jets |
^ Oct 28, 2010| Daniele Bertolini | Stimulated Supersymmetry Breaking |
^ Nov 4, 2010| Cancelled |  |
^ Nov 11, 2010^ :!: Veteran's Day ||
^ Nov 18, 2010| Riccardo Abbate | Direct Detection of Dark Matter, 1011.1910, 1011.1915 |
^ Nov 25, 2010^ :!: Thanksgiving ||
^ Dec 2, 2010| Mindaugas Lekaveckas | Solitonic SUSY Restoration, 1011.4944 |


===== Spring 2010 =====

De Facto Organizers:  Teppo Jouttenus, Francesco D'Eramo, Jesse Thaler

|                 ^ Speaker               ^ Title |
^  March 11, 2010 | Francesco D'Eramo     | Cogent Results, 1002.4703, 1003.0014, 1003.0682|
^  March 18, 2010 | Daniele Bertolini     | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1718|Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Monopole Condensation]] |
^  April  1, 2010 | Josephine Suh         | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1722|Unified Approach to Cosmic Acceleration]] | 
^  April  8, 2010 ^ :!: //No Meeting//    || 
^  April 15, 2010 | Andrea De Simone      | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1567|Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter]] | 
^  April 22, 2010 | Riccardo Abbate       | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3886|Bigger, Better, Faster, More at the LHC]] | 
^  April 29, 2010 | Teppo Jouttenus       | Highlights from SCET 2010 | 
^    May  6, 2010 | Surjeet Rajendran     | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0937|Exothermic Dark Matter]] | 
^    May 13, 2010 | Shufang Su            | Visiting from Arizona |
^    May 20, 2010 | Minde Lekaveckas      | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2757|Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry]] |