Elementary Particle Physics Seminars
(Seminars usually held on Thursdays at 16:00 in room 523)
2012 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19th January | Sebastian Jaeger (Sussex) | What can we learn from B physics? |
| 16th February |
Serguei Ganjour (CEA/Saclay) |
Search for the Higgs Boson with the CMS experiment at the LHC |
| 17th February | David Waters (UCL) |
No-Neutrino Physics : The Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay |
| 1st March | Mark Hadley (Warwick) |
Explaining CP violation using General Relativity |
| 22nd March | Frank Kraus (Durham) |
Event generation for the LHC |
| TBD | Sinead Farrignton (Warwick) |
TBA |
2011 Seminars
2011 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd February | Michal Kreps (Warwick) | Measurement of CP violation in Bs → J/ψϕ at CDF |
| 17th February | Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway) | Recent progress on statistical methods for LHC physics |
| 24th February | Mark Thomson (Cambridge) | Particle Flow Algorithms |
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3rd March |
Mike Charlton (Swansea) | Trapped antihydrogen |
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17th March |
Cristine Davies (Glasgow) | Lattice QCD meets experiment |
| 19th May | Paul Newman (Birmingham) | The Large Hadron Electron Project (LHeC) |
| 9th June | Michal Kreps (Warwick) | Neurobayes HOWTO |
| 17th November | Neil Spooner (Sheffield) |
Galactic Signatures for WIMP Dark Matter |
| 15th December | Peter Krizan (Ljublana) |
2010 Seminars
2010 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4th Feb. | Steve King (Southampton) | Neutrinos and the flavour problem | |
| 11th Feb. | Evgueni Goudsovski (Birmingham) | Precision Test of Lepton Universality at the CERN NA62 Experiment | |
| 18th Feb. | Paula Chadwick (Durham) | Recent results from HESS | |
| 11th March | Steve Chun-Hay Kom(Cambridge) | Probing mechanisms of neutrinoless double beta decay at the LHC | |
| 29th April | Steve Biller(Oxford) | Status of the SNO+ Project | |
| 11th August | Michal Kreps (Karlsruhe) | Neural networks in data analysis | |
| 26th August | EPP Summer Students | LHCb VELO Material, Reconstruction in Liquid Argon TPCs, Ultra Sensitive Charge Spectroscopy (video) | |
| 28th October | Geunnadi Borisov (Lancaster) | Possible Anomalous CP-Violation from Neutral B-Meson Mixing | |
| 4th November | Ryan Nichol (UCL) | Latest Results from the MINOS Experiment | |
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25th November - postponed (due to illness) |
Paul Newman (Birmingham) | The Large Hadron Electron Project (LHeC) | |
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9th December |
Aidan Robson (Glasgow) | Higgs Physics at the Tevatron |
2009 Seminars
2009 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | ||||
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| 29th Jan. | Themis Bowcock (Liverpool) | Searching for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider | ||||
| 5th March | Cristina Lazzeroni (Birmingham) | News from NA62 | ||||
| 12th March | Chris Orme(IPPP Durham) | The Phenomenology of Beta Beams | ||||
| 2nd April | Marcel Stanitski (RAL) | Pixel Detector Development for the ILC | ||||
| 23rd April | Bill Scott (RAL) | Flavour Physics | ||||
| 21th May | Goran Skoro (Sheffield) | Status of High Power Target R&D | ||||
| 16th July | Chris Parkes (Glasgow) | Status of the LHCb Vertex Locator | ||||
| 24th Sept | Marni Sheppeard (Oxford) | Categorical Combinatorics for Scattering Amplitudes | ||||
| 12th Nov | Henrique Araujo (Imperial) | Dark matter searched with Zeplin III | ||||
| 19th Nov | Yoshi Uchida (Imperial) | Charged lepton flavour violation | ||||
| 26th Nov | Andrew Pilkington (Manchester) | Diffractive physics at the LHC | ||||
| 10th Dec | Joerg Jaeckel (Durham) | New physics at low energies | ||||
2008 Seminars
2008 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th Feb. | Andrew Kirk ( UKAEA, Culham) | Nuclear Fusion: On Earth as it is in Heaven? | ||||
| 21st Feb | Chris Densham (Computer Aided Engineering, RAL) | Developments in High Power Targetry for Neutrino Beams | ||||
| 6th March | Stuart Green (University Hospital, Birmingham) | Developments in Radiotherapy Using Particle Beams | ||||
| 13th March | Matthew Barrett (Brunel University) | Investigating B->tau nu at BaBar with New Statistical Techniques | ||||
| 23th April | Phillip Litchfield (Warwick) | First results from analysis of MINOS Neutral Current events | ||||
| 24th April | Tom Latham (Warwick) | Evidence for Direct CP-Violation From a Dalitz Analysis of B -> K pi pi | ||||
| 1st May | Chris Hill (Bristol) | Green HEP: Doing Particle Physics with Beam Switched OFF | ||||
| 15th May | Geunnadi Borisov(Lancaster) | New CP-Violation Results from D0 | ||||
| 22nd May | Alan Watson (Leeds) | Is the Search for the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Over? | ||||
| 4th Sept | Antony Carver, Martin Haigh | 2nd year graduate student seminar | ||||
| 2nd October | Louis Lyons (Oxford) | Do's and Dont's with Likelihood Functions | ||||
| 16th October | Philip Harris (Sussex) | Testing Time Reversal -- the Search for the Neutron EDM | ||||
| 30th October | Graham Ross (Oxford) | Theoretical models of neutrino parameters | ||||
| 13th November | Hans Kraus (Oxford) | Experimental status of dark matter searches | ||||
2007 Seminars
2007 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | |||
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| 1st Feb | Paul D. Jackson(Roma) | Leptonic decays of the B: a rare window to New Physics | |||
| 1st March | John Back(Warwick) | Neutrino Factory R&D Status | |||
| 10th May | Morgan Wascko(Imperial) | Latest Results from MiniBooNE | |||
| 7th June | Sophy Palmer(IPPP Durham) | Weak Boson Fusion in the MSSM | |||
| 14th June | Tim Gershon(Warwick) | Super Flavour Factory | |||
| 21st June | Anne Green(Nottingham) | Inflation: A Status Report | |||
| 11th Oct | Roger Barlow(Manchester) | Results From Small Numbers | |||
| 18th Oct | Ryan Nichol(UCL) | Neutrino Astronomy | |||
| 25th Oct | Gagan Mohanty(Warwick) | Charmless Hadronic B decays at BaBar | |||
| 15th Nov | Jelena Ilic and Dan Roythorne | 2nd year graduate student status reports | |||
| 29th Nov | Jim Libby(Oxford) | UT gamma measurements: LHCb prospects with the help of CLEOc' | |||
| 6th Dec | John Thornby(Warwick) | AMBER:A novel approach to direct neutrino mass measurement | |||
2006 Seminars
2006 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
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| 2nd March | Cristina Lazzeroni (Cambridge) | Recent results from NA48 on kaon and hyperon physics | |
| 23rd March | Peter Norreys (RAL) | Laser Accelerators | |
| 4th May | David Bugg(RAL/QMUL) | Non-standard 0+ mesons | |
| 11th May | Byran Webber (Cambridge) | Black Holes at Accelerators | |
| 18h May | Mike Kordosky (UCL) | Preliminary Results Of An Accelerator Based Search For Muon-Neutrino Disappearance By The MINOS Experiment | |
| 25th May | Ed Hinds (Imperial) | Status of Electric Dipole Moment Experiments | |
| 29th June | Danielle Stewart, John Thornby | Reserved for 2nd-year postgraduate research seminars | |
| 12th Oct. | Tim Gershon(Warwick) | Review of the Beauty 2006 Conference, Oxford | |
| 16th Nov. | Claire Gwenlan(Oxford) Cancelled due to ill health | Proton Structure | |
| 30th Nov. | Sinead Farrington(Liverpool) | The Measurement of Bs Mixing with CDF (N.B. start at 15:00) | |
| 7th Dec. | Sheila Rowan (Glasgow) | Status of Gravitational Wave Searches | |
| TBA | Chris Densham (RAL) | Targets for High Power Proton Beams | |
| TBA | Yoshi Uchida (Imperial) | Measuring Neutrino Mixing Parameters |
2005 Seminars
2005 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 20th January | Lee Thompson (Sheffield) | Listening for Neutrinos: The ACORNE Project |
| 17th February | Guy Wilkinson (Oxford) | LHCb Physics Prospects and Detector Status |
| 21st April | Bill Murray (RAL) | Neutrino Factories and Ionisation Cooling |
| 9th June | Sandip Pakvasa (Hawaii) | On LSND and Shortcuts in Extra Dimensions |
| 20th June | Tom Weiler (Vanderbilt) | The Use of Neutrino Flavor in Astrophysics |
| 7th July | Steve McMahon (RAL) | ATLAS Physics Prospects and Detector Status |
| 5th August | Tim Gershon (KEK) | Latest results on CP violation from Belle |
| 6th Oct. | Ben Morgan (Warwick) | WIMP detection with directional detectors |
| 27th Oct. | Paul Harrison (Warwick) | Leptonic Mixings from a Variational Principle |
| Nov. 3rd | Mike Pennington (IPPP Durham) | What heavy flavour decays can teach us about light meson physics and what you need to know about light quark dynamics to extract useful information from heavy flavour decays |
| 17th Nov. | Patrick Huber (Wisconsin) | The future of neutrino physics - The race for theta_13 |
| 24th Nov. | David Evans (Birmingham) | Status of the ALICE experiment at the LHC |
| 1st Dec. | Nigel Smith (RAL) | Searching for WIMPs in the UK |
| 8th Dec. | Silvia Pascoli (IPPP Durham) | Determining the neutrino mass hierachy |
2004 Seminars
2004 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 26th October | Phil Burrows (Queen Mary) | The Linear Collider: Microscope on TeV-Scale Physics |
Colloquia
| 10th November, 2004 | Gary Barker, Paul Harrison, Yorck Ramachers | Neutrino Physics at Warwick (Barker, Harrison, Ramachers) |
| 30th November, 2005 | Kevin McFarland (Rochester) | Neutrinos: worth the wait |
| 2006 | Brian Foster (Oxford) | The Linear Collider |
| 11th Feb., 2009 | Ken Long (Imperial College) | The Neutrino Factory and MICE |
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