Particle Physics Seminars
Particle Physics Seminars usually take place in the West Seminar Room 1 (Room 103), Physics West, on Wednesdays at 1315, unless listed otherwise. Tea, coffee and biscuits are served at 1300.
Contact Steve Hillier or Paul Thompson for further information or to suggest additional speakers.
Autumn Term 2003
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title (Abstract) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct. | No seminar | ||
| 8 Oct. | No seminar | ||
| 15 Oct. | Gilles Mahout | Birmingham | ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger Status |
| 22 Oct. | Chris Hawkes | Birmingham | Observation by BaBar of Two New Narrow Ds States |
| 29 Oct. | Rory Clarke | Birmingham | Strangeness Enhancement in Heavy Ion collisions at the SPS |
| 5 Nov. | Paul Newman | Birmingham | Deep Inelastic Lepton-Nucleon Scattering at HERA |
| 12 Nov. | Jonathan Prance | Birmingham | Animated CMS visualisation: a CERN summer student project |
| 19 Nov. | Keith Mathieson | Glasgow | From particle detectors to retinal studies |
| 26 Nov. | Alan Watson | Birmingham | Towards Alpha and Gamma at the B Factories |
| 3 Dec. | Alfons Weber | RAL | The NuMI Off-Axis Experiment |
| 10 Dec. | Todd Huffman | Oxford | Why B Physics is Interesting |
Spring Term 2004
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title (Abstract) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jan. | No seminar | ||
| 21 Jan. | Ruben Saakyan | UCL | Present status of double beta decay and the NEMO experiment |
| 28 Jan. | Mark Thomson | Cambridge | Neutrino Oscillations and the MINOS Experiment |
| 2 Feb. | C4 project talks, 3 x (20+5min.) | Birmingham | Programme |
| 4 Feb. | No seminar | ||
| 11 Feb. | Carlo Ungarelli | Birmingham | String Theory in a Nutshell: Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics |
| 18 Feb. | Nikos Konstantinidis | UCL | Online Tracking for the Trigger of ATLAS |
| 25 Feb. | No seminar (AUT strike) | ||
| 3 Mar. | Terry Sloan | Lancaster | Can we Listen for High Energy Neutrinos? |
| 10 Mar. | No seminar (but note School Colloquim by David Wark) | ||
| 15 Mar. | C4 project talks, 3 x (30+10min.) | Birmingham | Programme |
| 17 Mar. | Stefan Soldner-Rembold | Manchester | Protons in the Prairie - Status and Perspectives of the D0 Experiment |
| 24 Mar. | Cristina Lazzeroni | Cambridge | Recent results from the NA48 experiment at CERN |
Summer Term 2004
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title (Abstract) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Apr. | No seminar | ||
| 5 May | No seminar | ||
| 12 May | No seminar | ||
| 19 May | Kelly Ford | Birmingham | Charmless Branching Fraction Studies of B0->Ks0pi+pi- at BaBar |
| 26 May | Thomas Teubner | Liverpool | Testing the SM at highest precision: g-2 of the muon and alpha_QED(M_Z) |
| 2 June | No seminar | ||
| 9 June | Roger Jones | Lancaster | Grids and Particle Physics: a UK perspective |
| 16 June | Juergen Thomas | Birmingham | Supersymmetric Higgs-Bosons in hadronic final states at ATLAS |
Last updated, 3 December 2003.