Birmingham Particle Physics SeminarsSeminar Programme 2009–2010 |
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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).
Tea, coffee and biscuits are served at 1:15pm.
Directions: Poynting Building is marked R13 on the
campus map.
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 Juraj Braciník or
Evgueni Goudzovski.
Autumn Term 2009
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct | John Wilson | Birmingham | Review of the Lepton-Photon 2009 Conference | [abs] [pdf] |
| 21 Oct | No seminar (late cancellation) | |||
| 28 Oct | Chris Damerell | RAL | Physics and Technology of Silicon Detectors | [abs] [pdf] |
| 4 Nov | Chris Curtis | Birmingham | Single Top Production at Hadron Colliders | [abs] [pdf] |
| 11 Nov | Adrian Bevan | Queen Mary | Super Flavour Factories: SuperB | [abs] [pdf] |
| 18 Nov (at 1:00pm) |
Nigel Watson | Birmingham | Calorimeter R&D for future e+e– Colliders | [abs] |
| 25 Nov | Gudrun Heinrich | Durham | Towards Automated NLO Tools | [abs] [pdf] |
| 2 Dec (at 1:10pm) |
James Storey | TRIUMF, Canada | Towards Antihydrogen Confinement with the ALPHA Anithydrogen Trap | [abs] |
Spring Term 2010
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | Information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan | Eram Rizvi | Queen Mary | Black Holes, Extra Dimensions and the LHC | [abs] [pdf] | |
| 27 Jan | Malcolm Fairbairn | King's College London | Dark Matter in the Galaxy and at the LHC – Making the Connection | [abs] | |
| 3 Feb | No seminar (late cancellation) | ||||
| 10 Feb | Ryan Nichol | University College London | ANITA: Hunting for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos in Antarctica | [abs] [pdf] | |
| 17 Feb | No seminar | ||||
| 24 Feb | Melissa George | Queen Mary | The Electromagnetic Calorimeter of T2K | [abs] [pdf] | |
| 3 Mar | Liliana Teodorescu | Brunel | Evolutionary Computation Methods in Particle Physics | [abs] [pdf] | |
| 10 Mar | Neil Collins | Birmingham | Top cross section (Current status and early LHC prospects) | [abs] [pdf] | |
| 17 Mar | Roman Lietava | Birmingham | Recent results from ALICE | [abs] [pdf] | |
Summer Term 2010
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 May | Evgueni Goudzovski | Birmingham | Precision Test of Lepton Universality at the CERN NA62 Experiment | [abs] [pdf] |
| 19 May | Laura Kormos | Lancaster | Life on the Nu Frontier | [abs] [pdf] |
| 26 May | No seminar | |||
| 2 Jun | Anju Bhasin | Jammu, India | Physics of High Baryon Densities – the CBM Experiment at FAIR | [abs] |
| 9 Jun | Simon Head | Birmingham | Spin correlation in the dileptonic decay of top quark pairs at ATLAS | [abs] [pdf] |
| 7 Jul | Matthew Lamont | Brookhaven, USA |
Searching for the glue which binds us all –
the case for an electron-ion collider Joint PP & NP seminar. Location: Physics West Lecture Theatre 117. |
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