2011 - 2012 HEP Seminar Schedule

DateEvent TypeSpeakerTitle
09/09/2011HEP SeminarBen GrinsteinScale without Conformal Invariance in Relativistic QFT [ + Description ]
09/14/2011HEP SeminarRobert Wimmer(1,0) superconformal models in six dimensions [ + Description ]
09/21/2011HEP SeminarDavid VeghHolographic fermions [ + Description ]
09/28/2011HEP SeminarDavid KaganTitle: Warping and the Landscape of Flux Vacua [ + Description ]
10/05/2011HEP SeminarJared KaplanA Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators and the Holographic S-Matrix [ + Description ]
10/12/2011HEP SeminarGaston GiribetOn the global symmetries of N=2 super-Yang Mills with flavors [ + Description ]
10/19/2011HEP SeminarPeter GrahamA Simple Harmonic Universe [ + Description ]
10/26/2011HEP SeminarChris HullDouble Field Theory and Duality [ + Description ]
11/02/2011HEP SeminarDavid MarshUltralight Axions: Degeneracies with massive Neutrinos and Forecasts for Future Cosmological Observations [ + Description ]
11/09/2011HEP SeminarAndrey KatzSUSY, the Third Generation and the LHC [ + Description ]
11/16/2011HEP SeminarDaniel StolarskiNew Measurements with Late Decays at the LHC [ + Description ]
11/30/2011HEP SeminarJasper HasenkampReconciling leptogenesis and supersymmetry by the strong CP problem and observations [ + Description ]
12/07/2011HEP SeminarIgor KlebanovCounting Degrees of Freedom in 3-d Conformal Field Theory [ + Description ]
12/09/2011HEP SeminarLeonardo SenatoreOn IR effects in Single Field Inflation [ + Description ]
12/14/2011HEP SeminarNemanja KaloperOn black holes in RS2 [ + Description ]
12/15/2011HEP SeminarAntonino MarcianoVector Inflation and Baryogenesis [ + Description ]
01/23/2012HEP SeminarFelipe Llanes EstradaThree heterodox thoughts on the structure of matter at neutron stars [ + Description ]
01/25/2012HEP SeminarSogee SpinnerThe Theory for R-parity [ + Description ]
02/01/2012HEP SeminarJesse ThalerThe Two Faces of Anomaly Mediation [ -- Description ]

Description: Anomaly mediation is a ubiquitous source of supersymmetry breaking which appears in almost every theory of supergravity. Despite its ubiquity, anomaly mediation has been the source of much theoretical confusion, and the goal of this talk is to demystify the underlying mechanism. I will show that anomaly mediation really consists of two physically distinct phenomena, which can be disentangled by measuring associated couplings to the goldstino. The most minimal version of anomaly mediation yields supersymmetry breaking soft masses without corresponding goldstino couplings, a result which naively violates the goldstino equivalence theorem. The absence of goldstino couplings is in fact necessary for supercurrent conservation, and we can use this to give an unambiguous definition of sequestering. (2:00 PM, Meyer 5th Fl. CCPP Lounge)
02/08/2012HEP SeminarXi DongFRW holography from uplifted AdS/CFT [ + Description ]
02/15/2012HEP SeminarIvo SachsBlack Hole Formation in Topologically Massive Gravity [ + Description ]
02/22/2012HEP SeminarMatthew BaumgartHunting De Sitter Holography from the Bottom Up [ + Description ]
02/29/2012HEP SeminarDan HooperThe Empirical Case for 10 GeV Dark Matter [ + Description ]
03/07/2012HEP SeminarMark B. WiseExtensions of the Standard Model that Gauge B and L [ + Description ]
03/20/2012HEP SeminarManfred LindnerSterile neutrinos as warm dark matter [ + Description ]
03/21/2012HEP SeminarMisao SasakiTesting the string theory landscape in cosmology [ + Description ]
03/28/2012HEP SeminarGiovanni VilladoroA Non Standard Model Higgs at the LHC as a Sign of Naturalness [ + Description ]
04/04/2012HEP SeminarLorenzo SorboOdd tensor modes from particle production during inflation [ + Description ]
04/11/2012HEP SeminarYuval GrossmanCP violation in D decays [ + Description ]
04/18/2012HEP SeminarDavid KutasovHolographic walking technicolor [ + Description ]
04/25/2012HEP SeminarEduardo PontonLepto-quarks as echoes of an R-symmetry [ + Description ]
05/02/2012HEP SeminarJosh RudermanYukawa Unification in Unnatural SUSY [ + Description ]
05/09/2012HEP SeminarZohar KomargodskiA nonperturbative approach to SUSY quantum field theories [ + Description ]
05/30/2012HEP SeminarAmjad AshoorioonM-flation and 1/N Resolution to the eta Problem [ + Description ]
05/31/2012HEP SeminarJames GatesGates HEP Seminar POSTPONED! [ + Description ]