Mathematical Sciences at Liverpool University

2014/15 Theoretical Physics Seminars and Colloquia

Wednesday Liverpool High Energy Theory Divisional Seminars

Seminars take place at 1pm on Wednesdays in the Chris Michael Seminar Room 117, 1st Floor TP wing, Mathematical Sciences building unless indicated. We usually go to lunch with the speaker to Vine Court before the seminar at noon.

First Term:

15th October: Tomas Gonzalo Velasco (UCL): 'Model Building in Grand Unified Theories'
22nd October: David Berenstein (Santa Barbara/California): 'How Matrix Models Thermalize and What They Tell Us About Black Holes'
29th October: Sven Krippendorf (Oxford): 'De Sitter Vacua in Global String Models'
5th November: NO SEMINAR
12th November: Ahmet Kokulu (Liverpool): 'Charged Higgs effects in Tauonic B decays and 2HDMs phenomenology'
19th November: Markus Rummel (Oxford): 'A 3.5 keV Photon Line from a 3.5 keV ALP Line'
25th November Tuesday 12:45pm: Peter Millington (Technische Universitat Munchen/Munich): 'Questions of Causality in Quantum Field Theory'
3rd December: NO SEMINAR
10th December: Carole Mundell (John Moores): 'Gamma Ray Bursts and their use as Physics Laboratories'

Second Term:

18th February 12:15pm: Ian Jack (Liverpool): 'An a-theorem in three dimensions'
25th February: Alvaro Veliz Osorio (Witwatersrand University/Johannesburg): 'Explorations in entanglement entropy and black objects'
4th March 12:30pm: Sven Moch (Universitat Hamburg): 'Precision determination of the top-quark mass'
11th March: Marco Guzzi (Manchester): 'Top-quark pair production at hadron colliders: differential cross section and phenomenological applications with DiffTop'
18th March: Paul Rakow (Liverpool): 'Flavour Blindness in QCD: Sigma - Lambda mixing'
25th March: Jose Miguel No (Sussex): 'Extra Higgses: the LHC road to electroweak baryogenesis'

Third Term:

6th May: Steven Abel (Durham): 'Towards a non-supersymmetric string phenomenology'
13th May: NO SEMINAR
20th May: PhD Annual Student Presentations I (Schedule)

David Errington

'Nernst Branes'

Johar Ashfaque

'The Hunt for the QCD Axion'

'Aspects of four and two dimensional field theories'

Rebecca Simms

'Banks-Zaks Fixed Points and Critical Exponents in Momentum Subtraction Schemes'

'Quasi-Realistic Left Right Symmetric Heterotic String Vacua'

'Calculating the Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation Contribution to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon'

27th May: PhD Annual Student Presentations II (Schedule)

Colin Poole

'The a-theorem in various dimensions'

Maria Cerda Sevilla

'Climbing NNLO of Weak decays'

'NNLO QCD corrections to Neutral Kaon Mixing Amplitude'

Panos Athanasopoulos

'The correspondence between free fermionic models and orbifolds'

'Charged-Current Deep Inelastic Scattering at a_s^3'

Click on the speakers name for a list of publications or their titles to see their abstracts.
Seminar Organisers: Hasan Sonmez, Ahmet Kokulu and Thomas Teubner.

Tuesday String Seminars

The weekly String Phenomenology Group seminars take place on Tuesdays at noon, in the Chris Michael Seminar Room 117, 1st Floor TP Wing, Mathematical Sciences building.

String Phenomenology Group Seminar Page

Seminars in Physics

The Liverpool HEP group seminars are also held on Wednesday afternoons at 14:30 in the Barkla Lecture Theatre in the Chadwick Building.

Experimental High Energy Physics Groups Seminar Page

Wednesday Liverpool High Energy Theory Divisional Seminars

Tuesday String Seminars

Seminars in Physics

Past Seminars

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