Nuclear & Particle Theory
Monday 2 pm
Center for Theoretical Physics, building 6
3rd floor seminar room
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served
Organizers
F. Wilczek,R. Jackiw, T. Friedmann, K. Orginos and Dan Pirjol
Spring 2005 schedule of talks
January 24
Lattice chiral gauge theories
Yigal Shamir
University of Tel Aviv
January 31
High precision QCD at hadron colliders: new techniques and results for
perturbative calculations
Frank Petriello
Johns Hopkins University
February 7
Fermion Masses, Neutrino Oscillations and SUSY Grand Unification
Mu-Chun Chen
Brookhaven National Laboratory
February 14
Nucleons on the Lattice
Kostas Orginos
MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics
February 21 Holiday
no seminar
February 22- Tuesday: special day
Resonant Relaxation in Electroweak Baryogenesis
Vincenzo Cirigliano
California Institute of Technology
February 28
A non perturbative formulation of the Witten-Veneziano mechanism: solution
to the U_A (1) problem in QCD
Leonardo Giusti
CERN and Marseilles
March 7
The Cosmology of Split Supersymmetry
Aaron Pierce
SLAC
March 14
Spin-orbit interactions, Chern-Simons forms and quantum criticality
George Chapline
LLNL
March 21
Semester Break- no seminar
March 28
An obstacle to describing a universe in the laboratory
Raphael Bousso
UC-Berkeley
April 4
SU_3 x SU_2 x U_1 and SU_5 from first principles
Victor Kac
MIT, Math Department
April 11
Wave equations for non-relativistic anyons
Peter Horvathy
University of Tours
April 18 Holiday no seminar
April 25
Determining V(ub) with exclusive B decays
Ben Grinstein
UC-San Diego
May 2
Nuclear interactions from the renormalization group
Achim Schwenk
Indiana University
May 9
Heavy Quark Physics in 2+1 Flavor Lattice QCD
Andreas Kronfeld
Fermilab