Cornell Particle Theory: BSM Journal Club

BSM Journal Club

The particle theory graduate student journal club meets once a week to discuss topics of interest in beyond the Standard Model phenomenology and model building. Topics roughly alternate between review articles and new papers.


Image from Carmi et al. 1202.3144

See also the 2013 Winter camp on AdS/CFT (tentative).

Mondays, 1:30pm -- 3:00pm
Physical Sciences Building, Room 470
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Fall 2012 Schedule

Topics marked (R) are review talks where some previous reading is recommended but not necessary. Otherwise topics are "current papers" and everyone is expected to have read the main paper in advance.

DATES SPEAKER TOPIC REFERENCES
27 Aug 12 Flip Tanedo A stop light for light stops? Notes
TBA Mathieu Cliche Composite Scalar Dark Matter Cancelled! 1204.2808
3 Sep 12 None Labor Day: Gong Show
10 Sep 12 Dean Robinson Scattering Amplitudes hep-ph/9601359
Flip's notes
17 Sep 12 Mario Martone Gauge Mediation and a 125 GeV Higgs 1112.3068
24 Sep 12 No Talk Marcus Luty special seminar
1 Oct 12 Nic Rey-Le Lorier Savouring a Super Special Spin 1 Stop Smodel 0806.0386
8 Oct 12 Bibhushan Shakya How I learned to worry about stops and love naturalness 1206.6540
15 Oct 12 Mike Saelim Practical statistics for practical phenomenologists physics/9711021
hep-ex/9902006
1108.2288
22 Oct 12 Riccardo Pavesi ISS: Metastable SUSY Breaking hep-th/0602239
29 Oct 12 Mathieu Cliche Composite Dark Matter 1204.2808
5 Nov 12 Guest: Marco Farina Electroweak Precision CERN-TH-6659-92
1204.2808
Flip's notes
12 Nov 12 Nic Rey-Le Lorier Dynkin Diagrams notes
19 Nov 12 Guest: Marco Farina HCP
26 Nov 12 Guest: Paul McGuirk An introduction to Klebanov-Strassler, Part I notes
hep-th/9711200
hep-th/9802150
hep-th/9802109
3 Dec 12 Guest: Paul McGuirk An introduction to Klebanov-Strassler, Part II notes
hep-th/9807080
hep-th/0007191
10 Dec 12 Guest: Paul McGuirk An introduction to Klebanov-Strassler, Part III hep-th/0205236
hep-th/0311084
hep-th/0112197
0903.0619

Fall 2012 Abstracts

2013 Workshop: January 2013

This will be a week-long, in-depth student workshop ("Winter Camp") focusing on AdS/CFT (to be confirmed), from 14 - 18 January 2012. Meetings will be roughly 10 - 5pm every day with all participants in the same room. Each day will have a convener and a closing summary talk with ample time for discussion.

Resources

Unsure about places to start looking for talk ideas? Here are a few suggestions, geared towards the pedagogical side.

Scanning: it is often helpful to share your notes with the journal club, especially for review talks. Hand written notes may be scanned easily using the LASSP document scanner on the 5th floor of Clark or Mann library (photocopiers with free scanning option). These have automatic document feeders and can e-mail you a pdf of your notes.

Guidelines

History

The current BSM journal club was started in 2009 by Flip Tanedo, David Curtin, Itay Nachshon, Josh Berger, and Yuhsin Tsai. Previous manifestations include a collider journal club organized by Matt Reece and Patrick Meade. In the distant past Michael Peskin explains that the students had a "Gradshteyn" seminar since it was meant to integrate the collective knowledge of the graduate students.