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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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Ben Safdi | |||
| May 19 |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
Organizing Committee: Gilly Elor, Yonatan Kahn, Jesse Thaler
This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm.
| Speaker | Title | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | |
Organizing Committee: Gilly Elor, Yonatan Kahn, Jesse Thaler
This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm.
| Speaker | Title | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Organizing Committee: Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler
This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm.
| Speaker | Title | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | |
Organizing Committee: Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler
This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm.
| Speaker | Title | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | |
Organizing Committee: Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler
This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm.
| Speaker | Title | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | | |
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 | |
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| 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 |
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 | | New CP violating observables for the LHC |
| Nov 24, 2011 | |
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| 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?
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 | |
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| 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 | ||
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 | |
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| Nov 18, 2010 | Riccardo Abbate | Direct Detection of Dark Matter, 1011.1910, 1011.1915 |
| Nov 25, 2010 | |
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| Dec 2, 2010 | Mindaugas Lekaveckas | Solitonic SUSY Restoration, 1011.4944 |
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 | |
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| 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 |