Particle Physics Seminars

Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 15:30 in room T125 unless indicated otherwise.
Full list of recent and upcoming seminars is below.
Past seminars: (2007/2008) (2006/2007) (2005/2006) (2004/2005) (2003/2004) (2002/2003) (2000/2001)

2008 Autumn Term

• Wednesday 24 September - ATLAS Summer Student Talk - Tony Poll (Southampton)
  Modelling Extra Dimensions with CalcHEP
  

• Wednesday 1 October - Dr Simon Jolly (Imperial)
  High Power Proton Accelerator Development at the Front End Test Stand
  [ppt] [abstract]
  

• Wednesday 22 October - Professor Ken Peach
  (Director, John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London)
  A new accelerator for advanced research and cancer therapy
  [ppt] [abstract]
  

• Wednesday 29 October - Professor Terry Sloan (Lancaster)
  Cosmic Rays and Global Warming
  [ppt] [abstract]
  

• Wednesday 12 November - Dr Jim Hinton (Leeds)
  HESS, GLAST and CTA: new windows on the extreme universe
  [ppt] [abstract]
  

• Friday 14 November - Dr Antonella De-Santo (RHUL)
  The 'Big Bang Experiment'
  Note: Special day and time. The seminar will be held in WIN0-03 at 2pm
  [abstract]
  

• Wednesday 19 November - Dr Cigdem Issever (Oxford)
  Black Holes
  [pdf] [abstract]
  

• Thursday 20 November - Dr Kerim Suruliz (Universita dei Studi di Udine)
  Top quark pair cross-section measurement at ATLAS
  Note: Special Day and Time: Thu, 11am
  [pdf] [abstract]

• Wednesday 26 November - Dr Adrian Bevan (QMUL)
  'Experimental verification of Kobayashi and Maskawa three generation quark mixing model' **in light of the recent *Nobel Prize* being awarded to Kobayashi and Maskawa for their part of the CKM matrix
  [abstract]
  

2009 Spring Term

• Wednesday 14 January - Professor Biagio Lucini (Swansea)
  Beyond the Standard Model calculations using lattice technique
  [abstract] [pdf]
  

• Friday 16 January : 14:30**- Dr Ricardo Goncalo (RHUL)
  ATLAS Trigger
  [abstract] [pdf] [ppt] [pptx]
  

• Wednesday 28 January - Dr Gary Barker (Warwick)
  T2K
  [abstract]

• Thursday 12 February - Dr Jonas Rademacker (Bristol)
  New Physics through precision measurements at LHCb, and how CLEO helps
  

• Thursday 5 March - Dr Alex Tapper (Imperial)
  CMS Trigger
  

• Wednesday 11 March - Prof B.S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff)
  LIGO
  

• Wednesday 18 March - Dr Todd Huffman (Oxford)
  SuperLHC
  

• Wednesday 25 March - Professor Themis Bowcock (Liverpool)
  LHCb - VELO detector