Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar

Mondays, 2pm

MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6C-442

Refreshments will be served

Organizers: R. Jackiw, I. Stewart and Alejandro Jenkins

Schedule (Fall 2007)

• Monday, 9/10, 2pm
  Was Einstein Wrong? Astrophysical tests of effective quantum gravity
  Nico Yunes (Penn State University)
  
• Monday, 9/17, 2pm
  Phase Transitions and the Perfectness of Fluids
  Jiunn-Wei Chen (MIT-CTP)
  
• Monday, 9/24, 2pm
  Towards the baryon spectrum using lattice QCD
  Colin Morningstar (Carnegie Mellon University)
  
• Monday, 10/1, 2pm
  Unparticle Physics
  Howard Georgi (Harvard)
  
• Monday, 10/8
  Columbus Day – no seminar
  
• Monday, 10/15, 2pm
  Light Scalar at the LHC: the Higgs or the Dilaton?
  Witold Skiba (Yale University)
  
• Monday, 10/22, 2pm
  Is N=8 supergravity finite?
  Lance Dixon (Stanford)
  
• Monday, 10/29, 2pm
  LHC^{-1} = ILC? (Can the ILC solve the LHC inverse problem?)
  Carola Berger (MIT-CTP)
  
• Monday, 11/5, 2pm
  Nuclear forces on the Lattice and orbifold boundary conditions
  Paulo Bedaque (University of Maryland)
  
• Monday, 11/12
  Veterans' Day – no seminar
  
• Tuesday, 11/13, 9:30am (note special day & time)
  Fermions at unitarity as a nonrelativistic conformal field theory
  Yusuke Nishida (University of Washington)
  
• Monday, 11/19, 2pm
  Lee-Wick Standard Model
  Donal O'Connell (IAS)
  
• Monday, 11/26, 2pm (NOTE: talk in Ayasli Conference Room 6-310 this week)
  Asymptotic safety
  Roberto Percacci (SISSA/INFN)
  
• Monday, 12/3, 2pm
  Heavy Quark Physics in AdS_5
  Derek Teaney (SUNY, Stony BRook)
  
• Monday, 12/10, 2pm
  Ultrocold Fermionic Atoms in One Dimension
  Wilhelm Zwerger, TU-Munich/MIT
  

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