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Monday, December 15, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Dark Matter Signals in Dilepton Production"

Nirmal Raj, University of Oregon

 

Friday, Dec 5, 3:30 pm-4:30 pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "State-of-the-Art Tests of Lepton Number Violation and Seesaw Mechanisms"

Richard Ruiz, University of Pittsburgh

 

Wednesday, December 10, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "T-reflections and vacuum energie"

David McGady, Princeton

 

Monday, December 8, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "The Higgs as a Probe for New Physics : Higgs Portals, Soft Yukawas and Extended Gauge Mediation"

Arun Thalapillil, Rutgers

 

Friday, December 5, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Strong Cosmic Censorship"

Jim Isenberg, University of Oregon

 

Wednesday, December 3, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Magnetized relativistic plasma as a Weyl metal"

Igor Shovkovy, ASU

 

Tuesday, December 2, 12:30pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "Dark matter direct detection: status and prospects"

Carter Hall, University of Maryland

 

Monday, December 1, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Leptophilic New Physics: Dark Matter and the Muon g-2"

Susanne Westhoff, University of Pittsburgh

 

Monday, November 24, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Experimental Probes of Vacuum Energy"

Jay Hubisz, Syracuse University

 

Wednesday, November 19, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: " Emergent fermionic symmetries in large N gauge theories"

Aleksey Cherman, University of Minnesota

 

Monday, November 17, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Dynamics and Duality of a Stabilized Radion"

Christopher Verhaaren, UMD

 

Monday, November 10, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Hunting Asymmetric Stop Decays at the LHC"

Michael Graesser, Los Alamos National Laboratory

 

Friday, October 31, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Building

MCFP Colloquium: "Cosmological Collider Physics"

Nima Arkani-Hamed,IAS, Princeton

 

Wednesday, November 5, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Massive and massless modes of the triplet phase of neutron matter"

Srimoyee Sen, UMD

 

Monday, November 3, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "LHC phenomenology of exotic fermions"

Tanumoy Mandal, HRI

 

Monday, October 27, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Composite Higgs boson from top dynamics"

Bogdan Dobrescu, Fermilab

 

Wednesday, October 22, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "A scaling relation for proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions"

Gokce Basar, UMD

 

Monday, October 20, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "The Matrix: Reloaded, Reweighted, and Ranked"

Jamie Gainer, University of Florida

 

Monday, October 13, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Dynamical Dark Matter: A New Framework for Dark-Matter Physics"

Keith Dienes, University of Arizona

 

Monday, October 6, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Natural Inflation and Quantum Gravity"

Anton de la Fuente, UMD

 

Wednesday, October 1, 1:10pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Using energy-peaks to measure (new and old) particle masses"

Kaustubh Agashe, UMD

 

Tuesday, September 30, 12:30pm - 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "Neutrinos: Recent Developments and Open Questions"

André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University

 

Monday, September 29, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Emerging Jets"

Daniel Stolarski, CERN

 

Monday, September 22, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Bubble Baryogenesis"

Gilly Elor, MIT

 

Monday, September 15, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Goldstone Gauginos"

Jamison Galloway, NYU

 

Monday, September 8, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Gustavo Tavares, Boston University

 

Thursday, September 4, 4:00pm - 5:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Cosmological Production and Detection of Hidden Sectors"

Peter Graham, Stanford University

 

Previous Sping 2014 Main Events

Friday, May 2, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, Room 2400, Computer and Space Science Building

MCFP Colloquium: "Inflationary Gravitational Waves: Recent Advances and Next Steps"

Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins

 

Monday, April 28, 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Bloomberg Hall, John's Hopkins University

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "Exotic Higgs decays"

David Curtin, Stonybrook

 

March 30-April 2, 2014

Title : "MCFP Mini-Workshop on Lattice Parton Physics Project (LP3)"

Organizers:

Xiangdong Ji (Maryland/Shanghai Jiaotong),
Huey-Wen Lin (Seattle),
Kostas Orginos (William and Mary/JLab),
Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven),
Christian Weiss (JLab),
Feng Yuan (LBNL)

For more details click here.

Thursday, March 27, 4:00pm - 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

MCFP Colloquium: "Recent Progress in Applications of the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence"

Andreas Karch,University of Washington

 

Thursday, March 13, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

MCFP Colloquium: "Compositeness and Physics Beyond the Standard Model"

George Fleming, Yale

 

Monday, March 10, 12:30pm - 2:30pm, Bloomberg Hall, John's Hopkins University

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "Probing the 1000 TeV Energy Scale: Searches for Muon and Electron Number Violation at Unprecedented Sensitivity"

William Molzon,UC Irvine

 

Monday, March 10, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Neutron in a strong magnetic field and effects from finite volume"

Brian Tiburzi, CCNY

 

Wednesday, March 5, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Gravity Theory Seminar: "The Origin of Titan and Hyperion"

Douglas Hamilton, University of Maryland

 

 Monday, March 3, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "Naturalness after the first run of the LHC"

Marco Farina,Cornell

 

 Monday, March 3, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Sign Problems, Fermion Bags and a New Origin for Fermion Mass"

Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Duke University

 

 Wednesday, February 26, 11:30am – 1:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Resummed Jet Bin Predictions"

Liu Xiaohui, Northwestern

 

Wednesday, February 26, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Warped AdS3 black holes: classical stability and quantum field theory"

Hugo Ferreira, Nottingham

 

Monday, February 24, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "OPE Methods for the Holomorphic Higgs Portal"

Piyush Kumar, Yale University

 

Monday, February 24, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Thermonuclear burning in the envelope of accreting neutron stars: uncertainties from nuclear physics"

Laurens Keek, Georgie Tech

 

Monday, February 10, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "How to calculate partonic contribution to the proton spin in lattice QCD"

Yong Zhao, University of Maryland

 

Monday, February 10, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "AMS02 results support the secondary origin of cosmic ray positrons"

Kfir Blum, IAS, Princeton

 

Wednesday, February 12, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Gravity Theory Seminar: "A Galactic Scale Gravitational Wave Observatory"

Maura McLaughlin, WVU

 

Monday, February 3, 2014, 3:00pm- 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "WIMPs and UnNaturalness"

Luca Vecchi, University of Maryland

 

Monday, February 3, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building   

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Hadron structure calculations in lattice QCD: from flavor physics to the proton radius"

Stefan Meinel, MIT

 

Tuesday, February 4, 1:00pm - 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Gravity Theory Seminar: "New Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detector With Superconducting Instrumentation"

Ho Jung Paik, University of Maryland

 

Wednesday, February 5, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Gravitational-wave observations with Advanced LIGO really are just around the corner"

Chad Hanna, Pennsylvania State University

 

Monday, Jan 27, 2014, 3:00pm- 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Jared Evans, Rutgers University

 

Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014, 1:30pm- 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Gravity Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Scott Field, University of Maryland

 

Monday, Feb 03, 2014, 3:00pm- 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Building

Particle Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Luca Vecchi, University of Maryland

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  • Melanie Knouse Wins Staff Excellence Award
  • Kaustubh Agashe elected an APS Fellow in recognition of his pioneering work on the theory of (holographic) Composite Higgs
  • Arushi Bodas awarded the Ruth Davis Fellowship for Mathematics and Physics

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For information about the center, please contact:

Melanie Knouse
MCFP Faculty Assistant

Rm. 3140, Physical Sciences Complex
Phone: 301-405-6016
Fax: 301-314-5649 

To reserve 3150 Conference Room on the 3rd floor of PSC, please contact Melanie Knouse

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