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. For spring 2011 our theme is geometry and particle physics. See also the 2011 Winter camp.


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Mondays, 1:30pm -- 3:15pm
Physical Sciences Building, Room 470
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Spring 2010 Schedule

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

DATES SPEAKER TOPIC REFERENCES
24 Jan 11 Flip Tanedo Fiber bundles for pheno bumblers (R,G) notes
31 Jan 11 Bibhushan Shakya Pushforward, pullback, and all that stuff Nakahara, Ch. 5
7 Feb 11 Mario Martone A connection between bundles and physics (R,G) notes
14 Feb 11 Josh Berger Anomaly Wars: Return of the Quanta Phys.Rev.D36:581 (87)
Phys.Rev.D37:1020 (88)
Uses of Instantons
Phys.Rev.D30:2212 (84)
notes
21 Feb 11 David Curtin (R,G) Ecce (co)Homo(logy)*
*--title modified by Flip
Nash & Sen Ch 3-6
Nakahara Ch 4,6
notes
28 Feb 11 Mike Saelim Non-relativistic EFT of DM direct detection 1008.1591
7 Mar 11 Dean Robinson A prelude to index theorems (R,G) notes
14 Mar 11 Mario Martone Forward, backward, and tops 1101.0034
21 Mar 11 Itay Nachshon (Spring Break) Refs
28 Mar 11 Yang Zhang Holomorphic bundles, characteristic classes (R,G) Notes
4 April 11 Yang Zhang Applications of Characteristic classes Notes
11 April 11 Flip Tanedo Anomaly Geometry (R,G) Notes
18 April 11 David Curtin Constraints on SUSY breaking Nucl.Phys. B202 253
notes
25 April 11 Josh Berger SUSY Breaking in Gauge Theories Nucl.Phys. B202 253
notes
2 May 11 Mario Martone A geometry crescendo (R,G) Nucl.Phys. B243 449
Annals of Phys. 161 423
9 May 11 n/a Pheno 2011 n/a
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Suggested/requested theme topics

This semester our journal club will have a theme, "geometry and particle physics." Speakers are free to follow this theme or not according to their own inclinations. The following is a list of proposed topics for themed talks:

Spring 2010 Abstracts

2011 Winter Workshop: 17-21 January 2011

This will be a week-long, in-depth student workshop (Winter Camp) focusing on monopoles, from 17-21 January 2011. 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. The primary resource will be Preskill's 1984 review.

We hope that this will be an effective launching point for next semester's journal club, which will be loosely themed around extended field configurations and geometry.

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 document scanner in Clark 614 or Mann library (photocopiers with free scanning option). These have automatic document feeders and can e-mail you a pdf of your notes.

Guidelines