Fall 2009

Month Day Note Presenter Title Host


August
31 Mon Daniel Goldin
(SMU/Texas A&M)		 My work at SMU: monopoles at ATLAS and other projects [ppt]


September
28 Mon Marco Guzzi
SMU		 Axions at the LHC [pdf]
30 Wed
9am		 Rm 202 Azeddine Kasmi
SMU		 Searches for continuum and resonant production of Z boson pairs using the ATLAS Detector [pdf]


October
5 Mon Fred Olness
SMU		 QCD puzzles, predictions, and prognosis
12 Mon Fall break
19 Mon Bob McElrath
CERN		 Polynomial systems for determination of masses in LHC events with missing energy [abstract][pdf] Cooley
26 Mon Lisa Kaufman
Jefferson Laboratory		 A miner challenge: searching for double beta decay in xenon 2150 ft underground in New Mexico [abstract][pdf] Cooley


November
9 Mon Tom Coan
SMU		 NOvA Neutrino Experiment [pdf]
16 Mon Eugene Galyaev
UT Dallas		 Commissioning and Status of the ATLAS pixel detector at the LHC [abstract] Cooley
23 Mon Jaehoon Yu
UT Arlington		 Development of GEM Digital HCAL for the ILC and the Use of GEM Technology Beyond HEP [abstract][Dr. Yu's brief CV] Kehoe
30 Mon Rm 202
Via VRVS		 Alexander Pronko
Fermilab		 Diboson production at CDF Nadolsky


December
7 Mon Arjun Menon
Illinois Institute of Technology		 Electroweak baryogenesis according to minimal supersymmetry Nadolsky
10 Thur
4pm		 Rm 202
(tbc)		 Arjun Menon
Illinois Institute of Technology		 B-physics, Higgs physics, and dark matter constraints on supersymmetry Nadolsky
14 Mon
21 Mon


January 2010
19 Tue Jodi Cooley
SMU		 New results from cold dark matter searches
25 Mon Multiple speakers Research at SMU Deparatment of Physics


February
1 Mon Ana Firan
SMU		 Magnetic monopoles at ATLAS
8 Fri Joint colloquium
with SMU Dept.
of Geology		 William McDonough
University of Maryland		 Neutrinos from geological sources Coan