Past seminars

Seminars organised by Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

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June 2013

Wednesday 12 June 2013

Speaker: Gabrijela Zaharijas (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
Title: Indirect searches for dark matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Speaker: Marcel Stanitzki (DESY)
Title: SiD - A detector for ILC physics
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 54530kB - link opens in a new window)

May 2013

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Speaker: Dr Samira Hassani (Saclay, France)
Title: Electroweak Measurements with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Speaker: Dave Clarke (RAL/CLF)
Title: Lasers for Life : The Central Laser Facility Programme in the Research Complex at Harwell
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 8 May 2013

Speaker: Giacomo Cacciapaglia (IPNL, Lyon)
Title: Model Independent Search of Vector-like Quarks
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 10950kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Speaker: Thomas Dealtry (Oxford University)
Title: Latest oscillation results from T2K
Abstract (Text file - 3kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 6154kB - link opens in a new window)

April 2013

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Speaker: Fergus Wilson (RAL/PPD)
Title: Report from 2013 Baryon and Lepton Violation Conference, Heidelberg
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 10384kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 17 April 2013

Speaker: Edward Daw (Sheffield University)
Title: The ADMX Axion Search
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 10 April 2013

No Seminar arranged - CMS Week

Wednesday 3 April 2013

Speaker: Alexander Grohsjean (DESY)
Title: ATLAS + Tevatron top physics - Postponed

March 2013

Wednesday 27 March 2013

Speaker: Krishnan Rama (University of Warwick)
Title: Non-Zero Reactor Mixing Angle and its Implications for Neutrino Physics
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window) , Slides (PDF - 4672kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 20 March 2013

No Seminar arranged - NExT Meeting

Wednesday 13 March 2013

Speaker: Giacomo Cacciapaglia (IPNL, Lyon)
Title: Model Independent Search of Vector-like Quarks
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window) Postponed due to be rescheduled

Wednesday 6 March 2013

Speaker: Brian Meadows (University of Cincinatti, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Oxford)
Title: Recent Results and Trends in Charm Physics
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

February 2013

Wednesday 27 February 2013

Speaker: Jan Strube (CERN)
Title: CLIC detector and physics program
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 9033kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 20 February 2013

Speaker: John Matheson (RAL/PPD)
Title: Electron Detectors, Old and New
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 2811kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 13 February 2013

Speaker: Alain Blondel (Geneva University)
Title: Higgs Factories : Future possibilities for precise studies of the H(126) Higgs candidate
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 5402kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 6 February 2013

No Seminar arranged - ATLAS Week

January 2013

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Speaker: Graham Ross (University of Oxford)
Title: Whither SUSY?
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 5402kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Speaker: Stefan Eriksson (University of Swansea)
Title: The Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 9 January 2013

Speaker: Stefania Ricciardi (RAL/PPD)
Title: First measurement of gamma at LHCb: one CP violation phase, many different approaches
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

December 2012

Wednesday 12 December 2012

No Seminar arranged - CMS Week

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Speaker: Tim Durkin (RAL/PPD)
Title: Field programmable gate arrays, a beginners guide
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window)

November 2012

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Speaker: Norman Gee (RAL/PPD)
Title: ATLAS Upgrades for the high-luminosity frontier
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 21 November 2012

No Seminar arranged - UK HEP Forum

Wednesday 14 November 2012

No Seminar arranged - NExT Meeting

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College, London)
Title: A review of Dark Matter from a Particle Physics Perspective
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window)

October 2012

Wednesday 31 October 2012

No Seminar arranged - CMS Week

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Speaker: Francesco Hautmann (Oxford University)
Title: QCD and Jet Physics at TeV Colliders
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski (National Centre for Nuclear Research (Warsaw, Poland) and Sheffield University)
Title: Constrained Supersymmetry - Dead or Alive?
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 10 October 2012 - Pickavance Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Frank Close (Oxford University)
Title: When Maxwell met Goldstone : the route to Higgs' Boson
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 45846kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 3 October 2012

Speaker: Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)
Title: LUX and LZ (LUX-ZEPLIN) : Large Liquid Xe Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

September 2012

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Speaker: John Thomason (RAL/ISIS)
Title: A journey through ISIS
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 19 September 2012

Speaker: Stephen Haywood (RAL/PPD)
Title: Kangaroos, Koalas and the Higgs
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 12 September 2012

Speaker: Kate Ronayne (RAL/STFC Innovations)
Title: From the lab-bench to the market : Introduction to BID, IP and Spin-outs
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window) (PDF - 2876kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 5 September 2012

No Seminar arranged

August 2012

Wednesday 29 August 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 22 August 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 15 August 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 8 August 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 1 August 2012

No Seminar arranged

July 2012

Wednesday 25 July 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 18 July 2012

Speaker: Hong-Mo Chan (RAL/PPD)
Title: Comprehensive Mechanism Reproducing Mass and Mixing Parameters of Quarks and Leptons
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 11 July 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 4 July 2012

No Seminar arranged

June 2012

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Speaker: Bo Jayatilaka (Duke University)
To be rearranged

Wednesday 20 June 2012

Speaker: John Marshall (University of Cambridge)
Title: Particle Flow Calorimetry and the Pandora Algorithm
Abstract (Text file - 4kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 13 June 2012

        Speaker: Kam-Biu Luk (University of California and LBNL)
        Title: Latest results of the Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment
       Abstract

Wednesday 6 June 2012

Speaker: Claire Timlin (University of Oxford)
Title: Curing cancer patients with charged particles
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

May 2012

Wednesday 30 May 2012

Speaker: Uri Langenegger (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Title: Search for Bs -> mu+mu- and B0 -> mu+mu - decays with the CMS experiment
Abstract (Text file - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 9015kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 23 May 2012

Speaker: Sajan Easo (RAL/PPD)
Title: Phenomenology-2012 Conference Summary and recent LHCb results
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 16 May 2012

Speaker: Dave Newbold (University of Bristol)
Title: CMS - Today, Tomorrow and the next Decade
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 9 May 2012

Speaker: Christoph Englert (IPPP Durham)
Title: Evasive Higgs Manoeuvres at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 2 May 2012

No Seminar arranged

April 2012

Wednesday 25 April 2012

Speaker: Alan Barr (University of Oxford)
Title: Hunting the invisible at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides

Wednesday 18 April 2012

No Seminar arranged

Wednesday 11 April 2012

Speaker: Gianluigi Casse (University of Liverpool)
Title: Rad. Hard Silicon Detectors For Future Super-Colliders
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 4 April 2012

No Seminar arranged

March 2012

Wednesday 28 March 2012 - 11am Pickavance Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Marco Dracos (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg)
Title: Observation of Super-Luminal Neutrinos with the OPERA Experiment
Abstract (Text file - 2kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 21 March 2012

Speaker: Johannes Knapp (University of Leeds)
Title: Pierre-Auger ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiment
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 14 March 2012

No Seminar due to Masterclass

Wednesday 7 March 2012

Speaker: Julie Kirk (RAL/PPD)
Title: La Thuile Conference Summary
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 6802kB - link opens in a new window)

February 2012

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Speaker: Chris Thomas (University of Oxford)
Title: CP violation in two-body charm decays at LHCb
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window), Slides (PDF - 3528kB - link opens in a new window)

Wednesday 22 February 2012

Speaker: Andrew Akeroyd (NExT, Southampton University)
Title: Phenomenology of Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons and their ongoing search at the LHC
Abstract (Text file - 1kB - link opens in a new window)

Friday 17 February 2012 - 11 am R18 Exhibition Area

Speaker: Professor Ian Shipsey (Purdue University)
Title: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Abstract (Text file - 3kB - link opens in a new window)

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 - 2kB - 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)