Carnegie Mellon University
University of Pittsburgh
High Energy Physics Seminar
Spring 2009

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


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Wednesday, Jaunuary 21, 2008:
The EFT Approach to Classical GR
4:30 PM in Wean 7316
Misha Smolkin -- Hebrew University
(Host: Rothstein)

Wednesday, February 11, 2008:
Unhiggs
4:30 PM in Wean 7316
Adam Falkowski -- Rutgers University
(Host: Rothstein)

*** Note Thursday date ***
Thursday, February 19, 2008:
Warped Dark Matter
4:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Eduardo Ponton -- Columbia Univ.
(Host: Freitas)

*** Note Tuesday date and special time ***
Tuesday, February 24, 2008:
Model-independent limits and excesses at the LHC
1:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Johan Alwall -- SLAC
(Host: Freitas)

*** Note Tuesday date and special time***
Tuesday, March 3, 2008:
Few-Nucleon Effective Field Theory with Perturbative Pions
2:00 PM in Wean 7423 (Fac. Lounge)
Silas Beane -- Univ of New Hampshire
(Host: Rothstein)

Wednesday, March 4, 2008:
QCD and Holography
4:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Mikhail Stephanov -- Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
(Host: Freitas)

Wednesday, April 1, 2008:
Dark Strings
4:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Tanmay Vachaspati -- Case Western University
(Host: Bolokhov)

Wednesday, April 8, 2008:
Fundamental Physics from the Sky
abstract
4:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Stefano Profumo -- UC Santa Cruz
(Host: Freitas)

Wednesday, April 22, 2008:
Particle masses, spins and couplings at hadron colliders
abstract
4:30 PM in Allen 216 (at Pitt)
Kyoungchul Kong -- Fermilab
(Host: Freitas)

*** Note recent time and room change ***
Thursday, April 23, 2008:
B_s and Y(5S) decays at Belle and Super Belle
**2:30 PM** in Allen **319** (at Pitt)
Alexey Drutskoy -- University of Cincinnati
(Host: Freitas)

Wednesday, April 29, 2008:
Electroweak Corrections Using Effective Theory: Factorization and Application to LHC
4:30 PM in Wean 7316
Jui-Yu Chiu -- U.C. San Diego
(Host: Rothstein)

*** Note Thursday date ***
Thursday, May 14, 2008:
R-evolution of QCD matrix elements
4:30 PM in Wean 7316
Ambar Jain -- MIT
(Host: Rothstein)

Wednesday, May 27, 2008:
New charmonium states, especially the Z(4430)
4:30 PM, 318 Allen Hall
Arafat Gabareen Mokhtar -- SLAC
(Host: Swanson)



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