Seminar of the Graduate School Particle and Astro-Particle Physics in the Light of the LHC

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The seminars take place on Tuesdays at 16:30 in the Hörsaal Physik 28D001.

Summer term 2015

date	speaker	title	host
07.04.	(Easter)
14.04.	A. Pich (IFIC Valencia)	Flavour & Electroweak Symmetry Breaking	WB
21.04.	T. Flacke (KAIST Daejeon)	Search Strategies for Composite Higgs Models at LHC run II	JS
28.04.	T. Flacke (KAIST Daejeon)	Phenomenology of Extra Dimensions	JS
05.05.	CMS week
12.05.
19.05.	P. Salati (LAPTh Annecy)	The connection between dark matter and cosmic rays	MP
26.05.	Pentacost (excursion week)
02.06.	G. Dissertori (ETH Zürich)	Experiments at the LHC	JS
09.06.	D. Lhuillier (CEA Saclay)	Antineutrino spectra	AS
16.06.
23.06.	J. Goodman (U. of Maryland)	HAWC Experiment	CW
30.06.
07.07.
14.07.	Laura Baudis (Zuerich)	tba	MK

Winter term 2015-2016

date	speaker	title	host
20.10.	CMS week
27.10.
03.11.
10.11.
17.11.	Terascale meeting
24.11.
01.12.
08.12.
15.12.
22.12.
05.01.	Christmas Holidays
12.01.
19.01.
26.01.
02.02.
09.02.

Winter term 2014/15

date	speaker	title	host
14.10.	CMS Week
21.10.
28.10.	Special Seminar Prof. Schulz (Uniklinik RWTH Aachen)	Basic principles of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and recent results of an in-house developed PET-system using digital silicon photomultiplier (SiPMs)	AS
04.11.	Ben Allanach (Cambridge)	Explaining CMS lepton excesses with supersymmetry	JS
11.11.	Alban Kellerbauer (MPI Heidelberg)	Antimatter at the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN	AS
18.11.
25.11.	Teresa Marrodan Undagoitia (MPI Heidelberg)	Status of astrophysical measurements/experiments	JS
02.12.	Helmholtz Alliance Meeting (DESY)
09.12.	Tobias Golling (Univ. of Geneva)	Planning for the next discovery with LHC’s Run II	MP
16.12.	Special seminar Dr. Patrick Gonzalez (NKI Amsterdam)	Principles of EPID Dosimetry	JS
06.01.
13.01.	A. Schukraft (Fermilab)	MicroBooNE experiment	CW
20.01.	H. Weber (Aachen)	First measurements of flavour dependence of the Higgs Boson couplings to Leptons with CMS	SS
27.01.	M.G. Pia (INFN Genoa)	Geant4: an established instrument and a playground for research	CP
03.02.

Summer term 2014

For the following winter term and previous semesters, see below.

date	speaker	title	host
08.04.
15.04.
22.04.	Lily Asquith (CERN)	Jet Substruture, Grooming, Trimming and all that	MK
29.04.	Francesco Sannino (CP3 Origins, Odense)	Composite Dynamics 2014+	JS
06.05.	Katja Krüger (DESY)	Particle Flow Calorimetry	LF
13.05.	Bartosz Kostrzewa (DESY Zeuthen)	Quantum ChromoDynamics on the Lattice	JS
20.05.	Frank Siegert (TU Dresden)	QCD Parton Shower Simulations -- How to raise their predictive power	AM
27.05.	Stefan Fliescher (Minnesota)	BICEP2	ME
03.06.
10.06	Excursion week
17.06.
24.06.	CMS week
01.07.
08.07.	Christian Lippmann (CERN)	Advanced particle ID reconstruction methods	JS
15.07.	Kenneth Wraight (Glasgow)	Understanding underlying events: phenomenology and measurement of minimum bias events at the LHC	JS

Winter term 2013/14

date	speaker	title	host
15.10	Marco Cirelli	Dark Matter	SS
22.10.	Graham Ross	Beyond the Standard Model after the Higgs discovery	MK
29.10.
05.11.	Maria Ubiali	Parton distributions in the LHC era	MK
12.11.
19.11.	Subir Sakar	The PAMELA/AMS anomaly: dark matter or a cosmic pevatron?
26.11.	Karsten Buesser	The international linear collider
03.12.	Joachim Kopp	Dark matter at the LHC	MK
10.12.	CMS week
17.12	Roger Barlow	Systematic errors: facts and fiction	TH
07.01.	Wolfram Zeuner	Upgrading CMS during LHC's first long shutdown	LF
14.01.	Markus Ackermann	Fermi	CW
21.01	Michael Wurm (Tuebingen)	Neutrino and neutrino oscillation experiments - past, present, future	AS
28.01.	Loic Quertenmont (CMS, Louvain)	Search for long-lived particles in CMS
04.02.	reserved Schael

Summer term 2013

date	speaker	title	host
09.04	CMS-Woche
16.04.
23.04.	Markus Schumacher (Freiburg)	Higgs physics with ATLAS	TH
30.04.	Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg	The world according to Planck	AK
07.05.	Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (MPI HD)	The decade of the WIMP	CW
14.05.	Andre Schöning (Heidelberg)	Search for mu -> eee decays	SS
21.05.	Exkursionswoche
28.05.	Axel Lindner (DESY)	Axions and other ultra-light particles beyond the standard model	LF
04.06.	Satyendra Thoudam (Nijmegen)	Revisiting the hardening of cosmic-ray energy spectra	AP
11.06	Silvia Masciocchi (GSI)	ALICE at the LHC: highlights from run 1	KK
18.06.
25.06.	Frank Rathmann (FZ Juelich)	Search for electric dipole moments in storage rings	SS
02.07
09.07.	CMS-Woche
16.07.	Frederic Teubert (CERN)	Bs -> mu mu	SS

Winter term 2012/13

date	title	speaker	host
09.10	Vollversammlung
16.10.
23.10.
30.10.	RPV SUSY	Herbi Dreiner (Bonn)	MW
06.11.	Long baseline neutrino experiments	Alfons Weber (University of Oxford/RAL)	SR
13.11.	BSM searches at the LHC & simplified models	Wolfgang Waltenberger (HEPYI, Wien)	MK
20.11.
27.11.	Physics at the Tevatron	Stefan Söldner-Rembold (Univ. of Manchester)	ME
04.12.	Annual meeting of the Terascale Alliance
11.12.	CMS week
18.12.	H.E.S.S.	Stefan Ohm (University of Leicester)	HG
08.01.
15.01	Higgs physics with ATLAS	Markus Schumacher (Univ. Freiburg)	TH
22.01.	Sterile Neutrinos from low energy to the GUT scale	Werner Rodejohann (MPIK Heidelberg)	CW
29.01.	LHC Upgrade Program	Didier Contardo (Lyon)	LF

Summer term 2012

date	title	speaker	host
03.04.
10.04.
17.04.
24.04.
01.05.	Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt euch!
08.05.	21 cm cosmology	Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial College London)	YW
15.05.
22.05.	reserved		MK
29.05.	Cosmic gamma ray bursts and implications from neutrino observations (tbc)	Nathan Whitehorn (University Madison Wisconsin)	CW
05.06.	Forward physics at the LHC	Kerstin Borras (DESY)	TH
12.06.
19.06	Cosmic ray particles and relativistic shock acceleration in extragalactic jets: Numerical simulations (tbc)	Athina Meli (University of Liege)	TH
03.07.	Boosted tops at the LHC	Michael Spannowsky (Durham)	WB
10.07.

Winter term 2011/12

date	title	speaker	host
25.10.	Hunt for dark matter with cosmic-ray antideuterons	Philip von Doetinchem (UCB)	SS
01.11.	All saints day - no seminar
08.11.
15.11.	A common origin for galactic and ultra high energy cosmic rays	Peter Biermann (MPIfR Bonn)	CW
22.11.
29.11.	CMS week - no seminar
06.12.	The flavour of supersymmetry	Ulrich Nierste (KIT)	MK
13.12.	Search for New Physics in B-decays: Results from the LHCb Experiment	Ulrich Uwer (Heidelberg)	MK
20.12.
10.01.
17.01.	First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation	Hiranya V. Peiris (UCL)	WW
24.01.	Electroweak Symmetry breaking	James Wells (CERN)	WB
31.01.	Experimental Higgs Searches	Alexei Raspereza (DESY)	LF

-- MichaelKraemer - 18 Oct 2011