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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 Enabling Forbidden Dark Matter
Apr 14 Yuhsin Tsai Probing Dark Showers at The LHCb Detector Jesse
Apr 21 Yuichiro Nakai Electric Dipole Moments in Natural Supersymmetry Yotam
Apr 28 Moritz Preisser
May 5 Mark Hertzberg Special Relativity from Soft Gravitons
May 12 Ben Safdi
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 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 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Monopole Condensation
April 1, 2010 Josephine Suh Unified Approach to Cosmic Acceleration
April 8, 2010 :!: No Meeting
April 15, 2010 Andrea De Simone Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter
April 22, 2010 Riccardo Abbate Bigger, Better, Faster, More at the LHC
April 29, 2010 Teppo Jouttenus Highlights from SCET 2010
May 6, 2010 Surjeet Rajendran Exothermic Dark Matter
May 13, 2010 Shufang Su Visiting from Arizona
May 20, 2010 Minde Lekaveckas Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry
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