Particle Physics Seminar Programme

2016–2017

Welcome to the University of Birmingham Particle Physics group seminars page.
Particle Physics Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 1:30pm in the Poynting Small Lecture Theatre (room S06).
The Poynting Building is at R13 on the campus map. Tea, coffee and biscuits are served at 1:15pm.

The agenda is also available at Talks@bham (but this page is updated first).

Speaker suggestions, offers of talks or enquires are very welcome! Please contact Tonino Sergi or Ian Kenyon.

Autumn Term 2016

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title	Information
28th September	Tony Price	Birmingham University	Applications of Particle Physics to Medicine in UK	[abs] [pdf]
5th October	Jennifer Thomas	University College	MINOS+, NOVA and CHIPS	[abs] [pdf]
12th October	Miriam Watson	Birmingham University	ICHEP Review	[abs] [pdf]
19th October	Dinesh Srivastava	VECC Kolkata	Discovery of the Quark-Gluon Plasma	[abs]
26th October	Vitaly Kudryavtsev	Sheffield University	Dark Matter Searches with LUX-ZEPLIN	[abs] [pdf]
2nd November	Evgueni Goudzovski	Birmingham University	Kaon Experiments at CERN: Recent Results and Prospects	[abs] [pdf]
9th November	Jaap Velthuis	Bristol University	Volcanoes and other things that go boom... applications of muon tomography	[abs] [ppt]
16th November	Marco Gersabeck	CERN	Recent Highlights and Prospects for Quark Flavour Physics at LHCb	[abs] [pdf]
23rd November	Vasiliki Kouskoura	BNL	Search for Scalar Partner of Top in Jets+ET_miss Final State with ATLAS	[abs] [pdf]
30th November	Dan Saunders	Bristol University	SoLid: Search for neutrino oscillations using a Lithium-6 Detector at a nuclear reactor	[abs] [pdf]
7th December	Giulio D'Agostini	Cambridge and Rome Universities	Claims of Discoveries based on Sigmas	[abs] [pdf]

Spring Term 2017

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title	Information
11th January 1300 start	Rhys Owen	Birmingham University	Searches at ATLAS for Rare Higgs' Decays	[abs] [pdf]
18th January	Jens Dopke	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory	High Luminosity ATLAS and CMOS Sensors	[abs] [pdf]
25th January Physics West 117	Sneha Malde	Oxford University	Precision Measurements of the CKM Angle γ	[abs] [pdf]
8th February Physics West 117	Randolph Pohl	Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics	Shrinking the Proton	[abs] [pdf]
15th February	Tim Burns	Swansea University	Nuclear Physics with Heavy Hadrons	[abs] [pdf]
22nd February	David Berman	Queen Mary, London	String Theory: Ideology or Toolbox?	[abs] [ppt]
1st March	Neil Spooner	Sheffield University	Galactic Signatures and Directional Detection of Particle Dark Matter: the CYGNUS Project and Probing below the Neutrino Floor	[abs] [pdf]
8th March	Tony Weidberg	Oxford University	The ATLAS Tracker Upgrade	[abs] [pdf]
15th March			Reserved for C4 Talks
moved to May 3rd	Nansi Andari	Birmingham University	Determination of W mass

Summer Term 2017

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title	Information
26th April	Nicolas Lurkin	Birmingham University	π⁰ Dalitz Transition Form factor and other news from NA62	[abs] [pdf]
3rd May	Nansi Andari	Birmingham University	Determination of W-Boson Mass with the ATLAS Detector	[abs] [pdf]
10th May	Andrzej Szelc	Manchester University	Shining Light on Neutrino Interactions	[abs] [pdf]
17th May	Steve Watts	Manchester University	Information Theoretic Multivariate Analysis	[abs]
24th May	Jon Butterworth	University College, London	Making Measurements and Constraining New Physics at the LHC	[abs] [pdf]
7th June In Physics West 117	Jorge Casalderrey-Solana	Oxford University	A Strongly Coupled View of the Quark-Gluon Plasma	[abs] [pdf]
14th June	Steve Worm	Birmingham University	Dark Matter at the LHC	[abs] [pdf]

Seminars from previous years:

2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2007-8 2006-7 2005-6

2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 2000-1 1999-2000

2015-16	2014-15	2013-14	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11	2009-10	2008-9	2007-8	2006-7	2005-6
2004-5	2003-4	2002-3	2001-2	2000-1	1999-2000