Particle Theory Seminars 
   
   
  Seminars are normally held Wednesdays at 1:30 pm in Newman Lab 311. 
   For more information, please contact Giacomo Cacciapaglia (
cacciapa@mail.lns.cornell.edu). 
   
   
   
 September, 1   
 
 Ari Pakman (Hebrew U., Jerusalem), 
      Superstrings in curved noncompact backgrounds 
 September, 8   
 
 Steven J. Oliver (Berkeley), 
      Late Time Neutrino masses, the CMB and LSND 
 September, 15   
 
 Damien Easson  (Syracuse U.), 
      General modifications of gravity and cosmic acceleration
September, 17, Friday
   
   Note time: 12:30!   
 
 Shyamoli Chaudhuri  (), 
      Holography and String Thermodynamics
 September, 22   
 
 Seong Chan Park (KIAS, Seoul), 
      Black holes/rings at colliders 
 September, 29   
 
 Tim Tait (Fermilab), 
      Running into New Territory of SUSY Parameter Space
October, 1, Friday
   
   Note time: 12:30!   
 
 Moshe Rozali  (British Columbia U.), 
      Cosmological Production of Winding Strings
 October, 6   
  Note special time: 3pm!
 
 Frank Petriello  (Johns Hopkins), 
      High Precision QCD at Hadron Colliders
October, 8, Friday
   
   Note time: 12:30!   
Massimo 
 Porrati (New York U), 
      Effective Field Theory Approach to Cosmological Initial Conditions
   
 October, 13  POSTPONED to Oct. 22 
 - NO seminar
 October, 20   
 
 Guido Marandella (LANL), 
      Predictive models of supersymmetry and electroweak symmetry breaking by a compact extra dimension
October, 22, Friday
   
   Note time: 12:30!   
Liam
McAllister  (Stanford U), 
      Open String Corrections to D-brane Dynamics 
 October, 27   
 
 Gilad Perez  (UC Berkeley), 
      Twisted Split Fermions: on Flavour Physics and a Tiny Strong CP Phase
 November, 3   
 
 Robert Brandenberger (McGill & Brown U.), 
      Challenges for String Gas Cosmology
 November, 10   
 
 Indrajit Mitra  (Berkeley), 
      String Creation in Cosmologies with a varying dilaton
 November, 17   
 
 Keith Dienes (Arizona U.), 
      A String Theorist Tampers with the Laws of Thermodynamics
 November, 24   
 
    No seminar, 
      Thanksgiving break
 December, 1   
 
 Ben Lillie (Stanford), 
      Higgs phenomenology in Left-Right symmetric Randall-Sundrum Models
 December, 8   
 
 S. G. Rajeev (U. of Rochester), 
      Yangian Symmetries in Yang-Mills Theories