Carnegie Mellon University
University of Pittsburgh
High Energy Physics Seminar
Fall 2008

The High Energy Physics Seminar at CMU is nominally on Wednesday afternoon at 4.30 pm in Wean 7316.
Tea and cookies at 4 pm in the faculty lounge.
Seminars hosted by Pitt are in Allen Hall.


Our two universities also host Medium Energy Physics seminars, typically on Thursdays, and listed here


Visotor Information (under construction)
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Note that there are TWO seminars Sep. 10th
Wednesday, September 10, 2008:
One-loop Amplitudes from Unitarity
12:00 PM in Allen 319 (at Pitt)
Daniel Maitre -- SLAC
(Host: Freitas)

Wednesday, September 10, 2008:
Electroweak Radiative Corrections at LHC Energies
4:30 PM in Wean 7316
Aneesh Manohar -- UC San Diego
(Host: Rothstein)

Note Tuesday date
Tuesday, October 7, 2008:
Top quark signals of New Physics at the LHC
1:30 PM in Allen 319 (at Pitt)
Lian-Tao Wang -- Princeton University
(Host: Freitas)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008:
Non-abelian Vortices in N=1 SQCD
4:30 PM in Wean 7316
Pasha Bolokhov -- Univ. of Pittsburgh
(Host: Rothstein)

Note Thursday date and different location
Thursday, October 16, 2008:
Factorization And Resummation For Color Octet Production In Effective Theory
4:30 PM in Doherty A310
Ahmed Idilbi -- Duke University
(Host: Rothstein)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008:
The Planck Scale from Top Condensation
4:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Yang Bai -- Fermilab
(Host: Freitas)

*** Note Tuesday date and alternate location ***
Tuesday, November 4, 2008:
What is the Simplest Quantum Field Theory?
4:30 PM in Doherty A200
Jared Kaplan -- Harvard University
(Host: Rothstein)

*** Note Friday date and Special (recently changed!) Time/Location ***
Friday, November 7, 2008:
Minimal Lepton Flavor Violation
4:30 PM, Wean 7423
Ben Grinstein -- UC San Diego
(Host: Rothstein)

Wednesday, November 12, 2008:
Indirect Dark Matter Searches with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory: Currnet Results and Future Directions
4:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Darren Grant -- Penn State University
(Host: Freitas)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008:
Title TBA
4:30 PM in Wean 7316
Chris Savage -- Univ. of Minnesota
(Host: Rothstein)

Wednesday, December 10, 2008:
Towards precision models of collider physics
4:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Peter Skands -- Fermilab
(Host: Freitas)



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