High Energy Physics Group

Medium & High Energy Seminar Archive


Spring 2017


January 30: Lindley Winslow (MIT)
Bigger or Colder: Majorana Neutrinos & the Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

February 6: Jen-Chieh Peng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Interpretation of Lepton Angular Distributions in Z-boson Production at LHC

February 13: James Beacham (Ohio State University)
Avant-garde LHC: Inspiring the ATLAS Detector to Find Physics it Wasn't Designed to Find

February 14: Peter Posfay (Wigner RCP of the H.A.S., Eötvös University, Budapest Hungary)
Exact Calculations of Superdense Nuclear Matter Equation of State in Compact Stars by FRG Method!

February 20: Anne Sickles (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Probing QCD Matter at Extremely High Temperatures in ATLAS: Jet Measurements in p+p, p+Pb and Pb+Pb Collisions at 5 TeV

February 27: John Wilkerson (University of North Carolina)
Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Neutrinos & Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

March 6: Clair Sullivan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Radioactive Source Localization in Urban Environments with Sensor Networks

March 13: Dmitri Denisov (Fermi National Laboratory)
Particles Colliders: Past, Present and Future

April 10: William Wester (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
ADMX: Search for Axion Dark Matter

April 17: Amy Nicholson (University of California, Berkeley)
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay from Lattice QCD

April 24: Kurt Jung (Purdue University)
Hard Probes of Little Bangs: Jet Physics in Heavy-Ion Collisions

May 11: Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka University, Japan)
Search for Muon to Electron Conversion at J-PARC: The COMET Experiment