Past seminars

Seminars organised by Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

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February 2012

Wednesday 8 February 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Speaker: Dr Anatael Cabrera (National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (in2p3))
Title: Double Chooz. Our First Word on Theta13
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

January 2012

Wednesday 25 January 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Speaker: Pawel Majewski (RAL/PPD)
Title: Results from the ZEPLIN-III Second Science Run
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Speaker: Professor Subir Sarkar (Oxford University)
Title: Does dark energy exist?
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 4 January 2012 - No Seminar due to the Christmas period

December 2011

Wednesday 28 December 2011 - No Seminar due to the Christmas period

Wednesday 21 December 2011 - No Seminar due to the Christmas period

Wednesday 14 December 2011 - No Seminar due to the Christmas period

Wednesday 7 December 2011 - Pickavance Lecture Theatre

Speaker: James Holloway (University College, London)
Title: Charged Particle Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

November 2011

Wednesday 30 November 2011

Speakers: Peter Phillips and Tim Durkin (PPP/RAL)
Title: TWEPP 2011 Conference Report
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Phillips) (PDF - 3537kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Durkin) (PDF - 1543kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Speaker: Pat Ward (Cambridge University)
Title: Standard Model Electroweak Physics at ATLAS
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Speaker: Manny Olaiya (RAL/PPD)
Title: Search for High Mass Resonances with Dilepton Final States using the CMS detector at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 9 November 2011 - No seminar due to NEXT meeting

Wednesday 2 November 2011 - CR12, R68

Speaker: Daniel Marlow (Princeton University USA)
Title: Luminosity Measurement at CMS
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

October 2011

Wednesday 26 October 2011 - CR12, R68

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Durham University)
Title: Sherpa 4 LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 12 October 2011

Speaker: Ted Wilson (CERN and the John Adams Institute, Oxford)
Title: Accelerators for the future
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 3234kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 5 October 2011

Speaker: Dmitry Emeliyanov and Abdeslem Djaoui (RAL)
Title: Reports from the Future Computing Workshop (15-17 June, Edinburgh) and the Workshop for Future Challenges in Tracking and Trigger Concepts (7-8 July, CERN)
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Emeliyanov), Slides (Djaoui) (PDF - 585kB - link opens in a new window)

September 2011

Wednesday 28 September 2011

Speaker: Sasha Belyaev (Southampton/RAL)
Title: Dark Matter Motivated SUSY collider signatures
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 21 September 2011

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 14 September 2011

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 7 September 2011

No Seminar arranged due to UK HEP Forum

August 2011

Wednesday 31 August 2011

Speaker: David Wark and Alfons Weber (RAL/PPD)
Title: Summary of the EPS HEP conference in Grenoble
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 24 August 2011

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 17 August

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 10 August

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 3 August

No Seminar arranged

July 2011

Wednesday 27 July

Speaker: Chris Damerell (RAL/PPD)
Title: Report back from Vertex 2011 Workshop
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 20 July

Speaker: Fred Wickens and Antonis Papanestis (RAL/PPD)
Title: Highlights from the conference Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 2011
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 13 July

Speaker: Justin Greenhalgh (Head of Micro and Nanotechnology Centre)
Title: Capabilities and current work of STFC's Micro & Nanotechnology Centre
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2480kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 6 July

Speaker: Jocelyn Monroe (Royal Holloway, London University)
Title: Searching for the Dark Matter Wind : Recent Progress from the DMTPC Experiment
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 23928kB - link opens in a new window)

June 2011

Wednesday 29 June

Speaker: Alfons Weber PPD RAL
Title: First nu_e appearance results from the T2K experiment
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 15776kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 22 June

Speaker: Richard Wigmans (Texas Tech University & INFN Pisa)
Title: DREAM - towards high-resolution jet spectroscopy
Abstract (Text file - 3kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 41880kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 15 June

Speaker: Sam Henry (Oxford University)
Title: Latest results from the Edelweiss dark matter search
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 8 June

Speaker: Mitesh Patel (Imperial College)
Title: The LHCb Experiment at LHC: First Results and Prospects
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 5750kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 1 June

No Seminar arranged

May 2011

Wednesday 25 May

Speaker: Costas Andreopoulos (RAL/PPD)
Title: First Neutrino Oscillation Results from T2K
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 7276kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 18 May

Speaker: Nikos Konstantinidis (University College, London)
Title: A hardware track trigger for ATLAS at HL-LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 7298kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 4 May

No Seminar due to NExT Meeting

April 2011

Wednesday 27 April

Speaker: Trevor Vickey (University of Witwatersrand)
Title: Recent Results from the ATLAS Experiment in Searches with Tau Lepton Final States
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 20 April

Cancelled
Speaker: Mark Tucker (RAL/PPD)
Title: The Neutron EDM Experiment at ILL
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 13 April

Speaker: Lucio Cerrito (Queen Mary, University of London)
Title: Recent Results on top quark physics
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 16553kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 6 April

Speaker: Michele Pioppi (Imperial College)
Title: Search for Susy at LHC with the CMS detector
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 4867kB - link opens in a new window)

March 2011

Wednesday 23 March

Speaker: Giulio Villani (RAL/PPD)
Title: New Initiatives in PPD : Implantable In Vivo Dosimetry
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 1690kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 2 March

Speaker: Benjamin Radburn-Smith (RAL/PPD)
Title: Multivariate Data Visualisation and Lepton Jets
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

February 2011

Wednesday 23 February

Speaker: Dieter Zeppendfeld (Karlsruhe University)
Title: Higgs physics at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 16 February

Speaker: Michael Doser (CERN)
Title: AEGIS : A new experiment to measure the gravitational interaction of antihydrogen
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 10940kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 2 February

Speaker: Edward Freeman (RAL/EID)
Title: Introduction to Programmable Logic Devices and FPGAs
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 2334kB - link opens in a new window)

January 2011

Wednesday 19 January

Speaker: Professor Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers University)
Title: Direct measurement of the W boson production charge asymmetry at CDF
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 12 January

Speaker: Fergus Wilson (RAL/PPD)
Title: B Factories - Past and Future
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

December 2010

Wednesday 1 December

Speaker: Nick Evans (Southampton)
Title: String Theory
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 934kB - link opens in a new window)

November 2010

Wednesday 24 November

Speaker: Terry Sloan (Lancaster)
Title: Cosmic Rays and Global Warming
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2051kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 10 November

Speaker: Chris Damerell (RAL)
Title: The silicon pixel tracker ï¿½ beginning of a revolution?
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides

Wednesday 3 November

Speaker: Andrew Akeroyd (Southampton)
Title: Phenomenology of doubly charged Higgs bosons at hadron colliders
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 908kB - link opens in a new window)

October 2010

Wednesday 27 October

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (UCL)
Title: Subjet Structure as a new search channel at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 5120kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 20 October

Speaker: Nikolas Kauer (Royal Hollaway)
Title: Theory of W and Z production at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 1295kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 13 October

Speaker: Peter Litchfield (RAL)
Title: Are anti-neutrino oscillations different from neutrino oscillations?
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 6 October

Speaker: Prof. Clive Speake (University of Birmingham)
Title: Laboratory tests of gravitation
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

September 2010

Wednesday 29 September

Speaker: Antonella De Santo (University of Sussex)
Title: The SEPnet Radiation Instrumentation & Detection Research Theme
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 8 September

Speaker: Antonis Papanestis (PPD, RAL)
Title: A summary of the RICH 2010 conference
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides

Wednesday 1 September

Speaker: Abdeslem Djaoui (PPD, RAL)
Title: Summary of CERN Workshop on Adapting LHC Applications and IT Computing Services for Multi-core capabilities
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

August 2010

Wednesday 18 August

Speaker: Stephen Haywood & Steve Worm (PPD, RAL)
Title:
What the French president said to me the other day
Out and about in Paris
Feedback from ICHEP 2010 (Paris)
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides

July 2010

Friday 30 July

Speaker: Nigel Smith (Director of SNOLAB)
Title: SNO
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 7297kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 28 July

Speaker: Peter Allan (Space Science, RAL)
Title: Looking up and looking down - Space Science and the Technology that enables it
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides

Wednesday 21 July (3pm)

Speaker: Professor Young-Kee Kim (deputy director of FNAL)
Title: Accelerator Activities at FNAL
Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 24290kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 21 July (11am)

Speaker: Dr. Jan Strube (RAL/PPD)
Title: Early ATLAS performance & physics results
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides(.pdf) (PDF - 50500kB - link opens in a new window), Slides(.odp)

Wednesday 14 July

Speaker: Dr. Shaaban Khalil (British University in Egypt)
Title: Three examples for possible new physics at LHC: Supersymmetry, Tev Scale B-L, Extra dimensions
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 1309kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 7 July

Speaker: Gary Zhang (PPD, RAL)
Title: Recent developments in Pixel sensors - a summary of the VIPS 2010 workshop
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Thursday 1 July

Speaker: Valery Pugatch (Head of the HEP Department, Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research)
Title: Metal Foil Detectors: Physics, Techniques & Applications
(This seminar was organised through the STFC Detector Network)
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

June 2010

Wednesday 16 June

Speaker: Prof. Gianpaolo Bellini (Physics Department, Milan University)
Title: Study of the neutrino interactions at a few MeV of energy, with Borexino
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 31001kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 9 June

Speaker: Tamara Davies (Queensland/Copenhagen)
Title: Cosmological Confusion... revealing common misconceptions about the big bang, the expansion of the universe and cosmic horizons.
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 9935kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 2 June

Speaker: Dr. Jonas Radermacker (Bristol Univ.)
Title: Cross-generation flavour physics
The measurement of gamma and how CLEO-c helps
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

May 2010

Wednesday 26 May

Speaker: Dr. Morgan Wascko (Imperial College)
Title: Measurements of Neutral Current Neutral Pion Production with SciBooNE
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 15202kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 19 May

Speaker: Barbara Camanzi (PPD, RAL)
Title: Toward a multi-modality approach to radiotherapy for cancer treatment in UK
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 21560kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 5 May

Speaker: Hong-Mo (RAL/PPD)
Title: Double Feature: "A Tale of Two CPs" and "The Mystery of the Charmless Higgs"
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 18909kB - link opens in a new window)

April 2010

Wednesday 28 April

Speaker: Dr. Jelena Ilic (RAL/PPD)
Title: New Results on theta_13 from MINOS
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 8185kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 14 April

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Teubner (Liverpool Univ.)
Title: g-2 of the muon: touchstone of the Standard Model, keyhole to New Physics?
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 1483kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 7 April

Speaker: Prof. Louis Lyons (University of Oxford / Imperial College)
Title: Statistical issues relevant to search experiments in High Energy Physics
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2413kB - link opens in a new window)

March 2010

Wednesday 24 March

Speaker: Prof. Geoff Hall (Imperial College)
Title: Construction and Performance of the CMS Tracker
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 26778kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 10 March

Speaker: George Lafferty (Manchester University)
Title: Tau physics: status and prospects
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 4600kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 3 March

Speaker: David Evans (Univ. of Birmingham)
Title: Physics Performance and First Results from the ALICE Experiment at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

February 2010

Wednesday 10 February

Speaker: Marcus French (EID, RAL)
Title: The STFC Detector Systems Gateway Centre
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides

Wednesday 3 February

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Whiteson (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Title: CDF in its prime: searches for b', nu', Z' and friends
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2838kB - link opens in a new window)

January 2010

Wednesday 27 January

Speaker: Marcel Stanitzki (PPD, RAL)
Title: Review of International Linear Collider Detector R&D
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 37975kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 20 January

Speaker: Joe Boudreau (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: CP Violation in B^0_s mesons at the Tevatron Experiments
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 8176kB - link opens in a new window)

December 2009

Wednesday 9 December

Speaker: Antonis Papanestis (PPD, RAL)
Title: Summary of 'Conference on Accelerator & Large Experimental Physics Control Systems'
Abstract (Word document - 198kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 26932kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 2 December

Speaker: Flavio Cavanna (Physics Dep.t -University of l'Aquila)
Title: ArgoNeuT: Liquid Argon TPC response to a Neutrino Beam
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 11292kB - link opens in a new window)

November 2009

Wednesday 25 November

Speaker: Elisa Resconi (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
Title: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory: Opportunities for Astroparticle Physics
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 18254kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 18 November

Speaker: Steven Biller (Oxford)
Title: No Nu's is Good Nu's. Prospects for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides

Wednesday 11 November CR12 R68

Speaker: Prof. Steve Cowley (Director of UKAEA Culham)
Title: Fusion Power - Physics & Engineering Challenges
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 4 November

Speaker: Yochi Uchida (Imperial College)
Title: Muon-to-Electron Conversion with COMET/PRISM
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 13179kB - link opens in a new window)

October 2009

Wednesday 14 October

Speaker: Sean Paling (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield University)
Title: Deep Underground Science at Boulby Mine: Dark Matter and Beyond
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 7 October

Speaker: John Baines (PPD, RAL)
Title: Commissioning of the ATLAS High Level Trigger
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 8418kB - link opens in a new window)

September 2009

Wednesday 16 September

Speaker: Chris Damerell (PPD, RAL)
Title: Physics and technology of silicon detectors
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 4172kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 9 September

Speaker: Simon Hooker (Oxford)
Title: Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerators
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2319kB - link opens in a new window)

August 2009

No seminars - Summer vacation period

July 2009

Wednesday 22 July

Speaker: Jeff Hartnell (Sussex)
Title: MINOS: Latest Results and Future Plans
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 6762kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 15 July

Speaker: Bob Cywinski (School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield)
Title: Can Thorium Save the Planet?
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 17872kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 8 July

Speaker: Sergey Balashov (PPD, RAL)
Title: Conference summary: Ultra-cold neutrons

June 2009

Wednesday 24 June

Speaker: Marcel Trimpl (Fermilab)
Title: Serial Powering for Front End Electronics
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 17 June

Speaker: Bill Murray & Steve Worm (PPD, RAL)
Title: Conference summary: SUSY 09
Slides (PDF - 3460kB - link opens in a new window)

May 2009

Wednesday 27 May

Speaker: Steven Abel (IPPP Durham)
Title: Overview of string theory and its phenomenology
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 16563kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 20 May

Speaker: Elena Aprile (U Columbia)
Title: The Search for Dark Matter with the XENON Experiment
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

April 2009

Wednesday 29 April

Speaker: Piergiorgio Picozza (INFN and University of Rome ï¿½Tor Vergataï¿½)
Title: Searching for Dark Matter with Cosmic Antiparticles: the PAMELA Experiment
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 22591kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 22 April

Speaker: Charles Wang (U Aberdeen)
Title: Scalar Gravitational Waves, High Energy Cosmic Rays and Quantum Decoherence
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 15 April

Speaker: Alain Blondel (U Geneva)
Title: The MICE experiment
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 1 April

Speaker: Rob Edgecock (PPD, RAL)
Title: FFAG Activities in the UK: EMMA, PAMELA and all that
Abstract (Word document - 198kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 29610kB - link opens in a new window)

March 2009

Wednesday 25 March

Speaker: Bill Murray (PPD, RAL)
Title: That Olde Boson
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 5018kB - link opens in a new window), Slides

Wednesday 18 March

Speaker: Paul Seller (TD, RAL)
Title: CdZnTe Imaging Detectors and their applications
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 5164kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 11 March

Speaker: Stuart Green (University Hospitals Birmingham)
Title: Physics based techniques for the treatment of cancer
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 18118kB - link opens in a new window), AVI, AVI

Wednesday 4 March

Speaker: Stephen West (Oxford)
Title: Dark matter models
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 4883kB - link opens in a new window)

February 2009

Wednesday 18 February

Speaker: Marc Weber (PPD, RAL)
Title: Silicon detectors for the Super-LHC - at the technology frontier
Slides (PDF - 7268kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 4 February

Speaker: Cigdem Issever (Oxford)
Title: Black holes at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 1963kB - link opens in a new window)

January 2009

Wednesday 28 January

Speaker: Bill Scott (PPD, RAL)
Title: Conference Report from Miami-2008
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 4854kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 21 January

Speaker: Tom Latham (Warwick)
Title: Constraints on the CKM Unitarity Triangle from Charmless Threebody Decays at BaBar
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2033kB - link opens in a new window)

December 2008

Wednesday 10 December

Speaker: Jim Hinton (U Leeds)
Title: Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and the CTA project
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 39927kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 3 December

Speaker: Emily Longhi (Diamond)
Title: Diamond Light Source -- Challenges of a 3rd Generation Synchrotron
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 25017kB - link opens in a new window), Animation: path, Animation: insertion device

November 2008

Wednesday 26 November

Speaker: Helen Caines (Yale)
Title: Deep-Inelastic Scattering
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 7244kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 19 November

Speaker: Maurits van der Grinten (RAL, PPD)
Title: CryoEDM, a cryogenic experiment to search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 12 November

Speaker: Professor Daniel Kaplan (IIT)
Title: New Experiments with Antiprotons
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 5 November

Speaker: Stefania Riccardi (RAL, PPD)
Title: Summary of CKM 2008
Slides (PDF - 10058kB - link opens in a new window)

October 2008

Wednesday 29 October

Speaker: Andreas Korn (LBNL)
Title: The ATLAS Pixel Detector: Overview and Commissioning
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 14007kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 25690kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 25690kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 8 October

Speaker: Sheila Rowan (U Glasgow)
Title: The search for gravitational waves: status and plans
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 4403kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 1 October

Speaker: Sinjini Sengupta (U Minnesota)
Title: Results of the W and Z Boson Asymmetries at the Tevatron
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2791kB - link opens in a new window)

September 2008

Wednesday 24 September

Speaker: Stephen Haywood (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: The ATLAS SCT Endcap
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 17096kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 17 September

Speaker: David Neely (RAL, Laser Department)
Title: High power lasers - a bright future
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 10 September

Speaker: Chris Damerell (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Detector R&D for the Linear Collider
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 3870kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 3 September

Speaker: Pawel Majewski (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Nuclear Recoil Measurements in Dark Matter Research
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 19101kB - link opens in a new window)

August 2008

No seminars - Summer vacation period

July 2008

Wednesday 23 July

Speaker: Hong-Mo Chan (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Particle Physics Department)
Title: A Model Behind the Standard Model
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 2175kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 16 July

Speaker: Lina Galtieri (LBNL)
Title: Top properties and Higgs search at CDF
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 5380kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 9 July

Speaker: David Bugg (Queen Mary)
Title: Why some resonances synchronise on thresholds; implications for Confinement
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 489kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 2 July

Speaker: Tim Gershon (U Warrick)
Title: SuperB - A High Luminosity Asymmetric e+e- Super Flavour Factory
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 6419kB - link opens in a new window)

June 2008

Wednesday 25 June

No seminar due to IOP 1/2 day meeting:"Celebration of HERA and the UK role (link opens in a new window)"

Wednesday 11 June

Speaker: Antonis Papanestis (RAL, PPD)
Title: The LHCb RICH detectors
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 4 June

Speaker: Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)
Title: Commissioning the LHC Accelerator and its Physics Programme
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 21246kB - link opens in a new window)(21Mb)

May 2008

Wednesday 28 May

Speaker: Frank Krauss (IPP)
Title: New development in Monte Carlos for the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2323kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 21 May

Speaker: Robert McGreevy (RAL, ISIS)
Title: ISIS: past, present and future
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 40742kB - link opens in a new window)(41Mb) Amination1, Animation2

Wednesday 14 May

Speaker: Jan Strube (University of Oregon)
Title: Radiative Penguins at BaBar
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 6563kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 7 May

Speaker: J. Thomas with contributions by Bode Franek, Barbara Camanzi, Tim Durkin and Giulio Villani (RAL)
Title: UCL/PPD KE and all that
Slides: J Thomas (Powerpoint presentation - 86kB - link opens in a new window), B Camanzi (Powerpoint presentation - 416kB - link opens in a new window), B Franek (Powerpoint presentation - 87kB - link opens in a new window), G Villani (Powerpoint presentation - 480kB - link opens in a new window), T Durkin (Powerpoint presentation - 209kB - link opens in a new window)

April 2008

Wednesday 30 April

Speaker: Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway)
Title: The "truth" about the "top" quark from CDF
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 18028kB - link opens in a new window)(18Mb)

Wednesday 23 April

Speaker: Joe Incandela (UCSB)
Title: CMS experiment status and preparations for early physics
Slides (PDF - 14448kB - link opens in a new window)(15Mb)

Wednesday 16 April

Speaker: Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)
Title: The SiD detector concept
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 16288kB - link opens in a new window)(17Mb)

March 2008

Wednesday 19 March

Speaker: Alan Watson (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds)
Title: Is the search for the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays over?
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 11891kB - link opens in a new window)(12Mb)

Wednesday 5 March

Speaker: Amy Connolly (UCL)
Title: Closing in on Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos with the Radio Detection Technique
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 29031kB - link opens in a new window)(29Mb)

February 2008

Wednesday 20 February

Speaker: G. Villani (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Notes on Quantum Computing
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 1658kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 12 February

Speaker: Tom Roberts (Muons Inc. and Illinois Inst. of Tech.)
Title: Prospects for an Energy-Frontier Muon Collider
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 6388kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 6 February

Speaker: Professor William Trischuk (University Toronto and Institute of Particle Physics)
Title: Canadian perspective on particle physics in the 21st Century
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 16511kB - link opens in a new window)(17Mb)

January 2008

Wednesday 16 January

Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)
Title: Proton decay and beyond
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 42310kB - link opens in a new window)(43Mb)

Wednesday 30 January

Speaker: Rajendran Raja (Fermilab)
Title: The MIPP Experiment- Status and Upgrade plans
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 7203kB - link opens in a new window)

December 2007

Wednesday 26 December

Speaker: F. Christmas (University of Tromso, Norway)
Title: Renormalisation of the N0-Brain Tree-Function
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 19 December

Speaker: Jim Libby (Oxford)
Title: Precise determination of the unitarity triangle
LHCb and the essential role of CLEOc
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 7363kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 17 December 14:00 in CR8, R27

Speaker: Div. computing experts (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Computing Christmas Lecture
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 12 December

Speaker: Gagan Mohanty (Warwick)
Title: Charm of the Charmless
Results of hadronic B decays from BaBar
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 6290kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 5 December

Speaker: Marcel Stantizki, Giulio Villani (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Summary of IEEE conference NSS-MIS 2007
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 3998kB - link opens in a new window)(4Mb) Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 10820kB - link opens in a new window)(11Mb)

November 2007

Wednesday 28 November

Speaker: Sajan Easo, Stefania Ricciardi, Antonis Papanestis (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Summary of RICH07
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 8191kB - link opens in a new window)(8Mb) Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 10720kB - link opens in a new window)(11Mb) Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 10178kB - link opens in a new window)(11Mb)

Wednesday 21 November

Speaker: Lothar Oberauer (TU Munich)
Title: Borexino: First Direct Observation of Solar Be7 Neutrinos and Prospects for low Energy Neutrino Astronomy
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 8945kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 14 November

Speaker: Halina Abramowicz (Tel Aviv)
Title: The HERA Challenge for the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 7 November

Speaker: Dmitry Emeliyanov, Raja Nandakumar (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Summary of the CHEP 200707 Conference
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 6302kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 1649kB - link opens in a new window)

October 2007

Wednesday 31 October

Speaker: Gregory Hallewell (CPP Marseille)
Title: KM3NeT, A Cubic Kilometre-scale Deep-sea Telescope for Neutrino Astronomy
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (Powerpoint presentation - 46584kB - link opens in a new window)(47Mb)

Tuesday 30 October at 15:00 in Conference Room 4 R1

Speaker: Tobias Flick (University Wuppertal)
Title: Multi-Chip Modules using Deposited Interconnect Layers for Pixel Detectors
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 24 October

Speaker: Tobias Raufer (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: New Results from the MINOS Experiment
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 17 October

Speaker: Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)
Title: Noble Travails: Noble Liquid Detectors
Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 10 October

Speaker: Erik Johnson, Steve Worm (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Title: ILC Workshop Summary
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 3 October

Speaker: Bob Brown, Ian Tomalin, Wilson (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: EPS HEP07 Summary
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 1 October at 15:00 in R22

Speaker: Prof. Young-Kee Kim (FermiLab)
Title: RAL Lecture - Project X
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

September 2007

Wednesday 26 September

Speaker: Sam Harper (RAL)
Title: Search for New Physics in Electron-Positron Events at CDF
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 19 September

Speaker: Alfons Weber (RAL, Particle Physics Department)
Title: Summary from the Golden 07 Workshop
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window), Slides(36Mb)

Friday 14 September at 11:00 in CR12 in R68

Speaker: Maury Goodman (Argonne National Lab)
Title: New and Exciting Cosmic Ray Results from MINOS
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

August 2007

Wednesday 8 August

Speaker: Costas Andreaopoulos
Title: Conference Reports from: NuINT2007, INPC2007, DBD2007
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 1 August at 13:30 in CR12 R68

Speaker: Jo Cole
Title: HCP2007 Summary
Abstract (Text file - 0kB - link opens in a new window)

July 2007

Thursday 26 July at 14:00

Speaker: Rainer Wallny
Title: Beam Condition Monitoring at CDF
CVD Diamond Detectors
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Other seminar & lecture notes

31 Oct 2007

Speaker: P. Loch (University of Arizona)
Title: Jet Reconstruction in ATLAS
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 9997kB - link opens in a new window)

Aug 2007

Speaker: Giacomo Polesello
Title: SuSy and Extra Dimensions (lectures 1 to 4)
PDF (PDF - 1492kB - link opens in a new window), PDF (PDF - 2308kB - link opens in a new window), PDF (PDF - 870kB - link opens in a new window), PDF (PDF - 1340kB - link opens in a new window)

26 June 2007

Speaker: Rainer Wallny
Title: Beam Condition Monitoring at CDF (CVF Diamond Detectors
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 16262kB - link opens in a new window)(17Mb)

9 May 2007

Speaker: Raimund Stroehmer
Title: New Particle Searches at the LHC
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 13606kB - link opens in a new window)(14Mb)

11 Apr 2007

Speaker: Ivo de Medeiros-Varzielas
Title: Fermion Masses and Mixings from Flavour Symmetries
PDF (PDF - 616kB - link opens in a new window)

07 Mar 2007

Speaker: Bill Murray
Title: Report on WIN07 ElectroWeak Symmery Breaking
PDF (PDF - 6672kB - link opens in a new window)

29 Nov 2006

Speaker: Nigel Glover
Title: Twistor Inspired Developments in Perturbative QCD
PDF (PDF - 507kB - link opens in a new window)

08 Jun 2005

Speaker: Florenca Canelli
Title: Top Quark Mass
PDF (PDF - 6288kB - link opens in a new window)

01 Jun 2005

Speaker: Tobias Hurth
Title: The Importance of Flavour Factories in the LHC Era
PDF (PDF - 1528kB - link opens in a new window)

20 Nov 2003

Speaker: Keith Mathieson
Title: From Particle Detectors to Retinal Studies
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 18774kB - link opens in a new window)(19Mb)

2 Nov 2003

Speaker: Salvatore Mele
Title: Experimental Constraints on Extra Dimensions
PDF (PDF - 6745kB - link opens in a new window)

20 Oct 2003

Speaker: Tara Shears
Title: CDF Status and Prospects
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 2783kB - link opens in a new window)

12 Sep 2003

Speaker: Gerhard Lutz
Title: Development of Novel Silicon Detectors
PDF (PDF - 16607kB - link opens in a new window)(17Mb)

27 Aug 2003

Speaker: Jamie Mulholland
Title: The Boulby Underground Facility not available

28 May 2003

Speaker: Nigel Watson
Title: QCD and FSI at LEP
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 17818kB - link opens in a new window)(18Mb)

19 May 2003

Speaker: Matthew Pearson
Title: FSI in WW Production at ALEPH
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 2121kB - link opens in a new window)

11 Apr 2003

Speaker: Hiro Sagawa
Title: CP Violation in B-decays at BELLE not available

7 Jan 2003

Speaker: Alfons Weber
Title: Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments (RAL-Soton Meeting)
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 8374kB - link opens in a new window)

29 Jan 2003

Speaker: Phil Rubin
Title: Recent Results from NA48
PDF (PDF - 2416kB - link opens in a new window)

18 Dec 2002

Speaker: Chris Damerell
Title: Report from Vertex 2002 not available

22 Nov 2002

Speaker: Steven Fraser
Title: Perspectives on eXtreme Programming
PDF (PDF - 242kB - link opens in a new window)

20 Nov 2002

Speaker: Guilio Villani
Title: 8th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 13206kB - link opens in a new window)(14Mb)

18 Nov 2002

Speaker: Mike Shaevitz
Title: Electroweak Measurements at NuTeV
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 3094kB - link opens in a new window)

23 Oct 2002

Speaker: Alan Letchford
Title: EPAC 2002
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 6338kB - link opens in a new window)

23 Oct 2002

Speaker: Peter Norton
Title: EPAC 2002
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 300kB - link opens in a new window)

21 Oct 2002

Speaker: GIan Gopal
Title: Tau02 and Search for electron-electron -> mu-tau in BaBar
PS, PS

Summer 2002

Speaker: Ken Long, Dave Wark
Title: ICHEP Plenary talks
conference web site (link opens in a new window)

22 Jul 2002

Speaker: Nigel Smith
Title: Status of Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 9800kB - link opens in a new window)

28 May 2002

Speaker: Lucio Cerrito
Title: Measurement of the Polarisation of W-bosons at CDF
GZ

22 May 2002

Speaker: Achille Stocchi
Title: Summary of the CERN Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle
PPT (Powerpoint presentation - 1700kB - link opens in a new window)