Wednesday Seminars Liverpool High Energy Theory Group

First Term:

• 7th October: Divisional meeting
• 14th October: no seminar
• 21st October: Simone Marzani (Manchester Univ.): `Finite top-mass effects in Higgs production'
• 28th October: no seminar (Chris Michael `Do')
• 4th November: Daniel Maitre (IPPP Durham): `NLO corrections to W+3jet'
• 11th November: Andrea Almasy (Univ. of Liverpool): `Renormalization of fermion-flavour mixing'
• 18th November: Nikos Irges (Wuppertal Univ., Germany): `A new model for confinement'
• 25th November: Rhys Davies (Oxford Univ.): `Quotients of the conifold in compact Calabi-Yau threefolds'
• 2nd December: Chris Michael (Univ. of Liverpool): `Lattice QCD: where are the gluons in hadrons?'
• 9th December: Simon Ross (Durham Univ.): `Non-relativistic holography'
• 16th December: Christmas Group Lunch

Second Term:

• 13th January 2010: no seminar
• 20th January: Anders Basboll (Sussex Univ.): `SUSY Flat Directions - to get a VEV or not?'
• 27th January: no seminar (Curriculum Review Roadshow)
• 3rd February: Mike Peardon (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): `New methods for meson spectroscopy from lattice QCD'
• 10th February: Fabio Riccioni (King's College London): `Local E(11) and gauged maximal supergravities'
• 17th February: Aoife Bharucha (IPPP Durham): `Finding New Physics with B decays: prospects for B to K* mu+mu-'
• 24th February: Paolo Benincasa (Durham Univ.): `Taming Scattering Amplitudes at Tree Level'
• Friday, 26th February: 5th Barkla Colloquium (at 16:00 in the Chadwick Lecture Theatre)
  Michael Green (Univ. of Cambridge): `String theory and the unification of particles, forces and space-time'
• 3rd March: Paul Rakow (Univ. of Liverpool): `Very high order perturbation theory: Lattice Wilson loops'
• 10th March: Philipp Maierhoefer (Univ. of Edinburgh): `Current correlators at four loops and heavy quark mass determinations'
• 17th March: no seminar
• 24th March: Evgeny Buchbinder (Imperial College London): `Relativistic Conformal Magneto-Hydrodynamics from Holography'

• 21st April: no seminar
• 28th April: Dhagash Mehta (Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth): `Algebraic Geometry and Lattice Landau Gauge Fixing'
• 5th May: David Miller (Univ. of Glasgow): `The E6SSM'
• 12th May: Carole Mundell (JMU Liverpool): `Big Bangs and Black Holes: Connecting Fundamental Physics and Observational Astrophysics'
• 19th May: Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY, Buffalo, U.S.): `Electroweak precision physics with W and Z boson at hadron colliders'
• 26th May, 1 pm: PG presentations (I):
    Robert Purdy: `Renormalisation of N=1/2 Supersymmetry'
    Adriano LoPresti: `Threshold improved predictions for charm production in DIS'
    Gary Soar: `Higher-order predictions for large-x splitting functions and coefficient functions'
    Ruofan Liao: `Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon'
  
• 1st June, 12:30 pm: PG presentations (II):
    Chan-Chi Chiou: `Introduction to F Theory'
    Owen Vaughan: `Black Holes and Harmonic Functions'
    William Walters: `Type II Superstrings and D-Branes'
    Viraf Mehta: `Proton stability and light Z' inspired in string derived models'
  
• 2nd June, 1 pm: PG presentations (III):
    Kyriakos Christodoulides: `Classification of Pati-Salam Heterotic String Vacua'
    Warren Lockhart: `The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon from Lattice QCD'
    David Thelan: `Loop calculations of operator correlation functions in QCD'
    Chris Lockhurst: `Supersymmetry and Soft SUSY Breaking'