Imperial College London

Past HEP Seminars

Department of Physics

Autumn Term 2011
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Oct 5
Jordan Nash
(Imperial College London)
State of the Nation []
Oct 12 Ben Allanach
(Cambridge)
SUSY Theory []
Oct 19 Antonella De Santo
(Sussex)
SUSY Searches at ATLAS []
Oct 26 Physics Department Colloquium
Physics Department Colloquium []
Nov 2 Jocelyn Monroe
(Royal Holloway University of London)
DEAP/CLEAN-ing Dark Matter: the Search for Direct Detection with Liquid Argon []
Nov 9 Steve Dytman
(University of Pittsburgh)
Leverhulme Lecture:
Monte Carlo Event Generators in Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
[PDF]
Nov 16 Matthew Wingate
(Cambridge)
Lattice QCD calculations of b decays and the search for BSM physics []
Nov 23 Cancelled
[]
Nov 30 Ed Hinds
(Imperial College London)
eEDM []
Dec 7 Thomas Blake
(CERN)
TBC []
Dec 14 Physics Department Colloquium
Physics Department Colloquium []
Summer Term 2011
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
May 4
Leszek Roszkowski
(University of Sheffield)
Cancelled []
May 11 A.N.Other
Physics Department Colloquium []
May 18 Emily Nurse
(UCL)
Soft QCD at ATLAS []
May 25 Melissa George
(University of Sussex)
Cancelled []
Jun 1 Morgan Wasko
(ICL)
Search for Sterile Neutrinos at Delta-m^2 ~ 1eV^2 with SciBooNE and MiniBooNE []
Jun 8 A.N.Other
Physics Department Colloquium []
Jun 15 Matthew Malek
(ICL)
A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Away: Searches for Supernova Relic Neutrinos []
Jun 22 Giulia Manca
(The University of Cagliari)
Quarkonium results at LHCb []
Jun 29 Ben Allanach
(The University of Cambridge)
Cancelled! []
Jul 13 Yoshi Uchida
(Imperial College London)
First Nue Appearance Result from T2K []
Spring Term 2011
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Jan 12
N.B. Room 741 !
Anne Green
(University of Nottingham)
Astrophysical uncertainties on dark matter direct detection []
Jan 19
No Seminar, HEP open day []
Jan 26 A.N.Other
(Director, Grantham Institute)
Physics Department Colloquium []
Feb 2 No seminar
No seminar []
Feb 9 Chris Damerell
(RAL)
The silicon pixel tracker; beginning of a revolution? []
Feb 16 Jon Hays
(Imperial)
Recent Results in SUSY Higgs Searches at DZero []
Feb 23 A.N.Other
(Director, Cockcroft Institute)
Physics Department Colloquium []
Mar 2 1st year postgraduate students First year talks []
Mar 9 1st year postgraduate students First year talks []
Mar 16 Valery Khoze
(IPPP, Durham)
Precision targets for luminometry at the LHC from theoretical perspective []
Mar 23 A.N.Other
(Director, Institute for Security Science and Technology)
Physics Department Colloquium []
Mar 30 3rd year postgraduate students IOP Practise Talks []
Autumn Term 2010
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Oct 4
N.B.: Special Day!
Prof Guy F. de Téramond Peralta
(University of Costa Rica and SLAC)
Hadron Spectroscopy and Form Factors in AdS-QCD for Experimentalists [PDF]
Oct 6
N.B.: 16:30
Prof Jordan Nash
(Imperial)
State of the Nation
Followed by HEP Group Welcome Party.
[]
Oct 13 No Seminar scheduled (Departmental PG Welcome)
Oct 20 No seminar scheduled (Commemoration Day)
Oct 27 Ruth Toner
(Cambridge)
New Results from the MINOS Experiment []
Nov 3 Jad Marrouche
(Imperial)
W-Polarisation Studies at the LHC with CMS []
Nov 10 Prof. Andrei Seryi
(Director, John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science)
Physics Department Colloquium []
Nov 17 Steve Biller
(Oxford)
The SNO+ Project []
Nov 24 Michal Kreps
(Warwick)
Measurement of CP Violation in Bs -> J/psi+phi Decays at CDF []
Dec 1 Guennadi Borissov
(Lancaster)
Evidence for an Anomalous Like-Sign Dimuon Charge Asymmetry []
Dec 8 Sebastian Jager
(Sussex)
New Physics at LHCb []
Summer Term 2010
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
June 2
N.B.: Room 630 at 16:15
Prof Glennys Farrar
(NYU)
Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays: experimental progress and the puzzles the data present []
June 9 Dr Morgan Wascko
(Imperial)
Measurements of Neutral Current Neutral Pion Produciton by Neutrinos with SciBooNE [PDF]
Spring Term 2009
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Feb 3 Mark Tibbets
(Imperial College)
Study of |Vtd/Vts| Using a Sum of Exclusive B->X gamma Final States Reconstructed with the BaBar Detector []
Feb 10 Dr Yoshi Uchida
(Imperial College)
Muon Physics with COMET []
Feb 17
Departmental Colloquium []
Feb. 24 Dr Adrian Bevan
(Queen Mary)
Super Flavour Factories: SuperB []
Mar. 2 and 4
(Lunchtime)
First Year Students
(Imperial College)
First Year Seminars []
Mar. 17 Prof Gustaaf Brooijmans
(Columbia University)
After the Standard Model []
Mar. 24 IOP Half Day Meeting []
Mar. 25
(12-2 in 539; 2-4 in 1004)
3rd Year Students
(Imperial College)
IOP Practice Talks []
Mar. 30 Many
(Imperial College)
2010 HEP Masterclass
Autumn Term 2009
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Sep 15th
(3pm)
Martin Hewitson
Albert Einstein Institut, Hannover
Building a Gravitational Wave Observatory: The story of GEO600 []
Oct 14th Jordan Nash
State Of the Nation
Oct 21st
Commemoration Day []
Oct 28th Tim Andeen
(CERN)
Measurement of the W mass at D-Zero []
Nov 4th
Departmental Colloquium []
Nov 11th
12:30, Room 1004
Mark Dorman
(UCL)
Preliminary CCQE Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Results from MINOS [PPT]
Nov 18th
[]
Nov 25th Evgueni Goudzovski
Birmingham
A Precision Test of Lepton Universality at the NA62 Experiment at CERN []
Dec 2nd Mayda Velasco
(Northwestern)
Performance and Readiness of the CMS Hadronic Calorimeter for the Beginning of the LHC Era []
Dec 9th Anne Dabrowski
CERN (Accelerator and Beams Dept.)
Recent results from CLIC studies []

Spring Term 2009
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Jan 14 Dr Ricardo Goncalo
(Royal Holloway)
The ATLAS Trigger []
Jan 21 Dr Mike Williams
(Imperial College London)
Partial Wave Analysis Results for omega Photoproduction and the Search for Missing Resonances []
Jan 28 David Lee
(Imperial College)
Laser based Beam Diagnostics for the RAL Front End Test Stand []
Feb 4 Prof. Sathyaprakash
(University of Cardiff)
Gravitational Waves []
Feb 12 at 3 pm
N.B. Special Day and Time!
Prof Jordan Goodman
(University of Maryland)
TeV Cosmic Gamma Ray Physics with Milagro and HAWC []
Feb 24 & 26
N.B. Special Days!
Many
(Imperial HEP)
First Year PG Seminars
Mar 4 Dr Alex Tapper
(Imperial College London)
The CMS Trigger []
Mar 18 Jaroslaw Pasternak
(Imperial College)
Fast circular accelerators for future muon and proton beams [PPT]
Mar 24
N.B.: Special Day
Dr Michael Albrow
(Fermilab)
Central Exclusive Production: from the ISR to the LHC [PPT]
Apr 1 Ken Peach
(John Adams Institute/Oxford)
Charged Particle Therapy: Physicists meet Physicians [PPT]

Autumn Term 2008
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Sept 16th Stan Brodsky
(SLAC and IPPP)
Novel Phenomena in QCD [PDF]
Oct 7 Ben Allanach
(Cambridge)
LHC Weather Forecasts and Dark Matter
Joint HEP/Theory Seminar - Huxley 503, 2pm
[]
Oct 15 No seminar (Departmental PG Welcome)
Oct 22 No Seminar (Commemoration Day)
Oct 24 Jordan Nash State of the Nation and Group Welcome Party
Blackett 539, 3pm
Oct 29 Antonin Vacheret
(Imperial College London)
Reinventing the Photomultiplier []
Nov 5 Pierluigi Belli
(University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Signals From the Universe: From DAMA/NaI to DAMA/LIBRA
Joint HEP/Theory seminar - Blackett 539, 4pm
[]
Nov 12 Matthew Ryan
(Imperial College London)
The CMS ECAL []
Nov 19 Rob Bainbridge
(Imperial College)
The CMS Tracker [PDF], [PPT]
Nov 24 Daniel Kaplan
(Illinois Institute of Technology
New Experiments with Anti-Protons [PDF]
Dec 3 Tim Scanlon
(Imperial College London)
Higgs Results from the Tevatron []
Dec 10 Chris Hays
(University of Oxford)
Search for High-Mass Resonances in CDF Dimuon Data [PPT]
Tue Dec 16
Special time/place
Lectrure Theater 2 at 14:30
Prof Bikash Sinha
(Saha Institute &
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)
Nuclear and Solar Power for Sustainable Energy Resources
A New Paradigm for Conserving the Ecological Balance

(Seminar notice)
[]

Summer Term 2008
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
May 9
NB: Special Day!
Karen Gibson
(Pittsburgh)
CP Violation in Bs -> J/Psi phi: Evidence for New Physics? [PPT]
May 14 To Be Decided
()
Special Dark Matter Seminar []
May 28 Antonin Vacheret
(Imperial)
Re-inventing the photo-multiplier
Postponed
[]
June 4 Andrey Golutvin
(Imperial)
LHCb Physics []
June 11 Lee Thompson
(Sheffield)
The ACORNE Project: Listening for Neutrinos [PPT]
June 18 Rob Bainbridge
(Imperial)
POSTPONED []
June 25 Tim Scanlon
(Imperial)
Higgs Searches with b-tagging at DZero
Postponed
[]


Spring Term 2008
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Jan 16
Yuri Shitov
(Imperial College)
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay in NEMO/SuperNEMO [PDF]
Jan 23 Simon Jolly
(Imperial College)
Daddy, where do beams come from? Accelerator R&D at the Front End Test Stand
(N.B., special time = 2:30 pm)
[DIR]
Jan 30 Rajendran Raja
(Fermilab)
The MIPP Experiment: Status and Upgrade Plans [PDF] [PPT]
Feb 6 Elliot Leader
(Imperial College)
The Curse of Spin: Lurching From One Crisis to the Next [PDF]
Feb 13 Alan Watson
(University of Leeds)
Is the Search for the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Over? [PDF]
Feb 20 Louis Lyons
(Imperial)
Bayes versus Frequentism: the return of an old controversy [PPT]
Feb 27
No seminar this week
Mar 4 and 6 Many
(Imperial College)
First Year PG Seminars
(Click for schedule)
[]
Mar 11 Harald Fox
(Lancaster)
Standard Model Higgs Searches at the Tevatron
(NB Tuesday seminar)
[PDF]
Mar 19 Hide-Kazu Tanaka
(Columbia University)
First Look at Physics from SciBooNE [PPT]
Mar 26-27 Third Year PGs
(Imperial College)
IOP Practice Talks []


Autumn Term 2007
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Sep 20 Zelimir Djurcic
(Columbia University)
Search for an Excess of Low Energy nue-like Events from NuMI Beam at MiniBooNE
(In Rm 741)
[]
Oct 1 Young-Kee Kim
(University of Chicago/Fermilab)
Project-X
(Rm 539 10:30)
[PPT]
Oct 4 Michel Sorel
(University of Valencia)
Final Neutrino Oscillation Results from K2K: Physics Implications and Lessons Learned
(Thursday 2:30pm)
[PDF]
Oct 10 Jordan Nash
(Imperial College)
The State of the Union
(Wednesday 3pm)
[]
Oct 18 Richard Gaitskell
(Brown University)
Noble Travails: Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter
(Thursday 2:30pm)
[]
Oct 24 Tim Sumner
(Imperial College)
Gravitational Waves: The LISA Project
(Wednesday 4pm)
[]
Nov 1 Ryan Nichols
(UCL)
Ultra-Hign Energy Neutrino Astronomy in Antarctica
(Thursday 2:30pm)
[PDF]
Nov 8 Jocelyn Monroe
(MIT)
Searching for the Dark Matter Wind: A Novel Approach to Dark Matter Detection
(Thursday 2:30pm)
[PDF]
Nov 15 Michael L Miller
(MIT)
Closing In On The Spinning Glue
(Thursday 2:30 pm)
[PDF]
Nov 22 Themis Bowcock
(Liverpool)
Building the LHCb Vertex Detector
(Thursday 2:30pm)
[]
Nov 29 Camillo Mariani
(Univeristy of Rome, La Sapienza)
Measurement of NuMu CCpi0 Cross-Sections at K2K
(Thursday 2:30pm)
[PPT]
Dec 7 Lucio Cerrito
(QMUL)
From Superjets to PDFs: The Hunt for Anomalies in Heavy Flavour Semileptonic Decays at CDF
(Friday 4pm)
[]
Dec 12 Christian Schwanenberger
(Manchester)
Top Quark Highlights from the D-Zero Experiment at the Tevatron
(Wednesday 4pm)
[]

Summer Term 2007
Date
Speaker
Title
(Click for Abstract)
Slides
Friday 13 July, 14:30 Emily Nurse (UCL) W Mass and Width at CDF [PowerPoint]
May 24 Tim Gershon
(Warwick Universty)
Super Flavour factory ?
May 17 George Hou
(National Taiwan University)
Visions of New Physics on Rare B decays and CP Violation PowerPoint
May 10 Mark Thomson
(Cambridge University)
International Linear Collider ?
May 3 Steven Biller
(Oxford University)
Double CHOOZ ?
April 19 Gregorio Bernardi
(LPNHE)
Higgs Searches at the Tevatron ?
April 12 Morgan Wascko
(Imperial College)
First Oscillation Result from MiniBooNE [PDF]