CSSM SEMINARS

2018 seminars

Date Speaker Title

12/12/18 Dr Catalina Curceanu (INFN) Strangeness in the Universe? Experiments with low-energy kaons at the DAFNE Collider in Italy.

3/12/18 Robert Perry Hadron Electromagnetic Form Factors.

28/11/18 Dr Wei Su (CSSM) New physics implication of Higgs and Z precision measurement.

7/11/18 Paweł Bączyk (University of Warsaw) Isospin symmetry breaking in atomic nuclei.

31/10/18 James Biddle (CSSM) Visualisations of Centre Vortex Structure in Lattice Simulations.

24/10/18 Dr Ankit Beniwal (Stockholm University) A global study of the extended scalar singlet model.

10/10/18 Dr Sofija Antic (CSSM) Dense nuclear matter properties for energy-dependent nucleon-nucleon interaction.

24/8/18 Dr Hrayr Matevosyan (CSSM) Quark polarization in DIS.

15/8/18 Assoc. Prof Paul Jackson (CoEPP) Recent results on searches for Strong and Electroweak SUSY with the ATLAS experiment.

8/8/18 Assoc. Prof Ross Young (CSSM) Synergy of Lattice and the Electron–Ion Collider.

1/8/18 Prof Gerald Dunne (UConn) Resurgence and Phase Transitions.

18/7/18 Sophie Hollitt (CSSM) Lattice QCD, rare decays, flavour puzzles, and Belle II.

13/7/18 Jiajun Wu (University of Bonn) Preliminary Study of Three Bosons System in the Finite Volume.

11/7/18 Jacob Bickerton (CoEPP)

6/7/18 Kim Sofleth (CoEPP) Hadron Structure Using Lattice QCD.

4/7/18 Filip Rajec (CoEPP) Why the Higgs may have multiple partners: Reviewing the General Two Higgs Doublet Model.

27/6/18 Harry Poulter (CoEPP) Making light work of black holes: New CMB constraints on evaporating primordial black holes.

20/6/18 Jason Oliver (CoEPP) H-to-WW Analysis at the ATLAS Experiment.

6/6/18 Andre Scaffidi (CSSM) On the sensitivity of direct detection experiments to multi-component dark matter.

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30/5/18 Prof Peter D. Drummond (Swinburne University of Technology) Simulations of exponentially complex many-body systems.

29/5/18 Dr Alex Kalloniatis (DSTG) Synching Up with Synchronisation.

23/5/18 Zachary Matthews (CSSM) The Basics of Neutrino Oscillations and LBL Experiments.

16/5/18 Taylor Haar (CSSM) A primer on Lattice QCD configuration generation.

9/5/18 James Biddle (CSSM)

2/5/18 Ryan Bignell (CSSM) Background Field Method in Lattice Hadron Spectroscopy.

4/4/18 Finn Stokes (CSSM) From centre clusters to form factors: The structure of nucleon excitations on the lattice.

21/3/18 Prof Stephen Godfrey (Carleton University, Canda) Topics in Bottomonium Physics.

14/3/18 Prof Tony Thomas (CSSM) Quarks, finite nuclei, neutron stars and dark matter.

31/1/18 Prof Gerald Miller (University of Washington, Seattle)

Confinement and the Factorization of Elastic Nuclear Electromagnetic Form Factors.

2017 seminars

Date Speaker Title

29/11/17 Dr Deog-Ki Hong (Pusan National University, South Korea) Very light dilaton and naturally light Higgs boson

22/11/17 Prof Victor Flambaum (UNSW) 1. Photon mass instead of dark matter? 2. Enhanced effects of dark matter: apparent violation of the fundamental symmetries and variations of fundamental constants.

27/7/17 Dr Wally Melnitchouk (JLab) Towards a universal QCD analysis of parton distribution and fragmentation functions

26/7/17 Dr Fernanda Steffens (DESY) PDFs from quasi-PDFs

7/7/17 Ali Alkathiri and Stephen Tronchin (CSSM)

5/7/17 Alex Westin and Kim Somfleth (CSSM)

30/6/17 Ryan Bignell and Kay Martinez (CSSM)

28/6/17 Sophie Hollitt and Finn Stokes (CSSM)

21/6/17 Dr Lydia Roos (LPNHE/IN2P3/CNRS Paris) Higgs studies and related searches in ATLAS

16/6/17 Taylor Haar and Alexander Chambers (CSSM)

14/6/17 Joshua Charvetto and Jacob Bickerton (CSSM)

31/5/17 Robert Perry and Zachary Koumi (CSSM)

12/5/17 Associate Professor Bruce Yabsley (The University of Sydney)

2016 seminars

Date Speaker Title

16/11/16 Dr Jirina Rikovska-Stone (U. Tennessee) Low-energy nuclear structure, compact objects and all that…

9/11/16 Dr Marek Lewicki (CoEPP Adelaide) Electroweak baryogenesis aided by non-standard cosmology

2/11/16 Dr Juan Herrero-Garcia (CoEPP Adelaide)

Higgs lepton flavour violation: UV completions and connection to neutrino masses

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26/10/16 Jack Dragos (CSSM) Improved Hadronic Matrix Element Determination Using the Variational Method

25/10/16 Dr Marcin Chrząszcz (University of Zurich) New Physics signatures in Rare Decays from LHCb

19/10/16 A. Prof Paul Jackson (CoEPP Adelaide) Circular Electron Positron Collider: A Higgs Factory in China

24/8/16 Dr Giorgio Busoni (CoEPP Melbourne) Is there Dark Matter in the Sun?

20/7/16 Dr Chris Rogan (Harvard) Exploring Collider Phase-space with Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction

13/7/16 Dr T.J. Khoo (Uni. Geneva) Missing Transverse Momentum reconstruction in ATLAS — performance and challenges

7/7/16 Ali Alkathiri, Stephen Tronchin (CSSM)

6/7/16 Tarquin Ralph (ANU) The Trick to Money is Having Some – why a Physics degree is useful in business

5/7/16 Alex Westin, Kim Sofleth (CSSM)

1/7/16 Dr Sasha Glazov (DESY) Precision tests of the Standard Model at the LHC

30/6/16 Ryan Bignell, Kay Martinez (CSSM)

28/6/16 Sophie Hollitt, Finn Stokes (CSSM)

22/6/16 Prof Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut) Decoding the Path Integral

16/6/16 Taylor Haar, Alexander Chambers (CSSM)

14/6/16 Joshua Charvetto, Jacob Bickerton (CSSM)

31/5/16 Robert Perry, Zachary Koumi (CSSM)

13/5/16 Dr Archil Kobakhidze (University of Sydney)

Anomalous Higgs couplings, electroweak phase transition and its cosmological implications

13/4/16 Dr Lewis Tunstall (University of Bern) Lepton flavour (universality) violation in rare kaon decays

6/4/16 Prof Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig Maximilian University) Composite Weak Bosons

10/2/16 Dr Don Sinclair (Argonne National Laboratory Complex Langevin Simulations of Finite-Density QCD

20/1/16 Dr Pat Scott (Imperial College, London) Ultra-compact mini-halos as probes of small-scale cosmology

2015 Seminars

Date Speaker Title

25/11/15 Prof Joannis Vergados (Univesity of Ioannina, Greece) Dark Matter in the Cosmos - The hunt to find it in the laboratory

11/11/15 Dr Ross Young (CSSM/CoEPP) QCD+QED II: Hadron spectrum in lattice simulations

4/11/15 Dr Ross Young (CSSM/CoEPP) QCD+QED I: Quark masses and phenomenology

28/10/15 Prof Brian Robson (ANU) Dark energy, dark matter and gravity

16/9/15 Dr Francesca Ungaro (CoEPP Melbourne)

Search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark with the ATLAS detector

9/9/15 Dr Andreas Petridis (CoEPP) Searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector

5/8/15 Dr Bernhard Muller (Monash) Supernova explosions- laboratories for matter under extreme conditions

30/7/15 Dr David Richards (JLab) Horses for courses- lattice calculations for structure and spectroscopy

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29/7/15 Dr Vladimir Paskalutsa (Uni. of Mainz) Hadronic structure at the precision frontier

8/7/15 Jack Dragos (CSSM) Improving Hadron Matrix Element Determination using the Variational Method

24/6/15 Prof Kim Maltman (York University, Canada)

Resolving the puzzle of the inclusive tau decay determination of V_us?

6/5/15 Prof Michael Tobar (UWA) Solving Quantum Gravity and the Nature of Dark Matter Through Low-Energy Precision Measurement

15/4/15 Dr Wally Melnitchouk (JLab) How much intrinsic charm is there in the nucleon?

8/4/15 Dr Julian Beringut (UNSW)

18/3/15 Prof Matthias Burkardt (New Mexico State University) Quark Orbital Angular Momentum

4/2/15 Dr Ross Young (CSSM/CoEPP) Quantum electrodynamics in lattice hadron spectroscopy

2014 Seminars

Date Speaker Title

26/11/14 Prof Anthony Thomas (CSSM/CoEPP) Summary of 36th International School of Nuclear Physics in Erice, Italy.

19/11/14 Dr Soumya Rao (CSSM/CoEPP) Non-universal gaugino mass models vis-a-vis Dark Matter and LHC

5/11/14 Dr Jiajun Wu (CSSM) Pion Production in Neutrino- Deuteron Reactions

29/10/14 Dr Shivani Gupta (CoEPP) Status of tri-bimaximal and $\mu$-$\tau$ symmetries after non-zero reactor mixing angle

22/10/14 Dr Jirina Rikovska-Stone (Tennessee) The high-density matter problem: Can it be solved?

15/10/15 Dr Jinmian Li (CoEPP) NMSSM Explanations of the Galactic Gamma-Ray Excess and Promising LHC Searches

8/10/14 Dr Pankaj Sharma (CoEPP) Exploring new physics using top polarization at the Large Hadron Collider

28/8/14 Dr Chris Rogan (Harvard University) Kinematic Variables for Weakly Interacting Particles at the LHC

20/8/14 Prof Gerrit Schierholz (DESY) Electromagnetic Mass Splittings from Dynamical Lattice QCD+QED

13/8/14 Dr Lawrence Lee (CoEPP, Adelaide) A Search for B-violating Supersymmetry in Multijet Signatures at the ATLAS Experiment

23/7/14 Prof Peter Tandy (Kent State U.) Inside Mesons: Insights for Hadron Physics & QCD

25/6/14 Dr Ayse Kizilersu (CSSM) Where is the mass in Q(E-C)D?

18/6/14 James Barnard (Uni. of Melbourne) Compositeness vs supersymmetry

28/5/14 Christopher Savage (University of Utah) Direct detection of dark matter: status and issues

7/5/14 Dr Lewis Tunstall (Bern University) Chiral-scale perturbation theory for baryons and non-analytic corrections to octet masses

30/4/14 Samuel Thomas and Finn Stokes (CSSM) "The confining structure of QCD at finite temperature" & "Instantons and the Hadron Mass Spectrum in Lattice QCD"

16/4/14 Prof Timothy Londergan (University of Indiana) Intrinsic Strange and Charm Quark Distributions

2/4/14 Jonivar Skullerud (NUI Maynooth) Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology from anisotropic lattice QCD

26/3/14 Dr Christoph Weniger Indirect dark matter searches with gamma-rays and positrons

12/3/14 Dr Paul Jackson (CoEPP)

5/3/14 Dr Wally Melnitchouk (JLab) Nucleon structure from global QCD analysis of parton distributions

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25/2/14 Prof Matthias Burkardt (New Mexico State Uni.) Quark Orbital Angular Momentum

5/2/14 Dr Jiajun Wu (Argonne) Finite-volume Hamiltonian for coupled channel interactions in lattice QCD

23/1/14 Prof Alex Brown (Michigan State Uni.) Constraints on the Skyrme Equations of State from Properties of Doubly-Magic Nuclei and from Ab-Initio Calculations of Low-Density Neutron Matter

22/1/14 Christian Schultz (Old Dominion University & JLab) Radiative Physics on the Lattice

2013 Seminars

Date Speaker Title

11/12/13 Dr Lei Chang (CSSM) Pion Structure and $Q^2$ Evolution of Form Factor

4/12/13 Dr Roman Nevzorov (CoEPP) Phenomenological aspects of the Higgs boson physics in SUSY models

27/11/13 Dr Zhan-Wei Liu (CSSM) Hadron Interactions at Low Energy with Chiral Perturbation Theory

13/11/13 Prof Csaba Balazs (CoEPP Monash) Axino dark matter in Peccei-Quinn extended minimal supergravity

6/11/13 Dr Xuan-Gong Wang (CSSM) Effective Field Theory and its applications to meson resonances

9/10/13 Manuel Carrillo (CSSM) Masses and axial charges of the Baryon Octet in the NJL Model

11/9/13 Prof Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut) Resurgence': from rainbows to QCD

5/9/13 Dylan Harries & Filip Rajec (CoEPP)

4/9/13 Dr Cédric Simenel (ANU) Quantum description of transfer reactions in collisions of composite systems

14/8/13 Prof Elisabetta Barberio (CoEPP Melbourne) Is the Higgs Boson , a Higgs boson?

24/7/13 Ben Menadue (CSSM) Electromagnetic Structure of the Λ(1405) from Lattice QCD

26/6/13 Phiala Shanahan (CoEPP) Charge symmetry violation in baryon masses and quark distribution moments

12/6/13 Dr Ross Young (CoEPP)

15/5/13 Prof Daniel Phillips (Ohio University) Recent results in chiral EFT for the two-nucleon system

8/5/13 Dr Ross Young (CoEPP)

1/5/13 Benjamin Owen (CSSM) "Accessing matrix elements through variational methods in Lattice QCD

27/3/13 Prof Kevin Varvell (Sydney) Testing the Standard Model using leptonic and semileptonic B-meson decays

20/3/13 Prof Jirina Rikovska-Stone (Tennessee) High-Density Matter

14/3/13 Nathan Hall (CSSM) Interference Radiative Corrections to the Proton’s Weak Charge

6/3/13 Prof Nicholas Stone Pathological Physics is alive and well

26/2/13 Pierre Guichon (CEA-Saclay) Continuum limit of lattice QCD and non perturbative renormalization

20/2/13 Sara Diglio (CoEPP Melbourne) Heavy Higgs: Standard Model and Beyond

23/1/13 Dr Wally Melnitchouk (JLab) Pion loops in equal-time and light-front dynamics: pseudovector vs. pseudoscalar theories

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2012 Seminars

Date Speaker Title

4/12/12 Prof Raymond Volkas, University of Melbourne

Constructing radiative neutrino mass models that can be probed at the LHC

17/10/12 Jonathan Carroll (Adelaide) Non-perturbative QED spectrum of muonic hydrogen

10/10/12 James Barnard (Melbourne) Natural gauge mediation at the LHC

3/10/12 Tony Gherghetta (Melbourne) Natural SUSY, split families and unification

20/9/12 Ishwaree Neupane (Canterbury, NZ) Strings, Extra Dimensional Cosmology and New Physics

12/9/12 Dr Guilherme Nunes Hanninger (CoEPP Melbourne) Higgs Boson Search with ATLAS

5/9/12 Fred Myhrer (University of South Carolina)

Core-collapse Supernovae Neutrino Emissions beyond the Urca Processes

29/8/12 Steven Kerr (University of Nottingham) A one-dimensional fermonic TQFT

27/8/12 Steven Kerr (University of Nottingham) Introduction to sum-over-histories quantisation of gravity

22/8/12 Cael Hasse (Adelaide) Particle Indistinguishability, Entanglement and Non-Locality

17/8/12 Irina Sagert (Michigan State University) Strange matter in core collapse supernovae

15/8/12 Jonathan Hall (CSSM) An improved chiral expansion using a pion-mass dispersion relation

8/8/12 Doyoun Kim (Monash) Light Higgs and light stop searches at the early stage of LHC

25/7/12 Eoin Kerrane (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) Constraining Models of EWSB using Lattice Computations

19/7/12 Will Detmold (College of William and Mary, and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

From QCD to nuclei

18/7/12 Christopher Rogan (Caltech) Razor Searches at the LHC

13/7/12 Prof Kevin Varvell (Sydney) Measurement of Collins asymmetries in inclusive production of pion pairs in electron-positron collisions at BABAR

20/6/12 Anthony van Eysden (Uni Melbourne) Probing bulk nuclear matter using pulsar glitch recovery

15/6/12 Dr Selim Mahbub and Ben Menadue (CSSM) Lattice 2012 Practice Talks

13/6/12 Ben Owen and Thomas Primer (CSSM) Practice talks for Lattice 2012

30/5/12 Dr Jonathan Hall and Phiala Shanahan (CSSM)

"Baryon resonances in a finite volume: improved phase shift extraction" & "Sigma terms from and SU(3) chiral extrapolation"

23/5/12 Dr Nitesh Soni (CoEPP) Progress towards the discovery physics at ATLAS

16/5/12 Dr Martin White (CoEPP Melbourne) Should we continue to believe in supersymmetry, and how can we tell?

9/5/12 Dr Kazuo Tsushima (CSSM) J/Psi mass shift and J/Psi-nuclear bound states

2/5/12 Dr James Zanotti (CSSM) Probing Baryon Structure with Lattice QCD

29/3/12 Prof Jirina Stone (Oxford) Neutron stars and their importance in the general scheme of physics: Lecture 3

22/3/12 Prof Jirina Stone (Oxford) Neutron stars and their importance in the general scheme of physics: Lecture 2

15/3/12 Prof Jirina Stone (Oxford) Neutron stars and their importance in the general scheme of physics: Lecture 1

14/3/12 Prof Masud Chaichian (U. Helsinki) CPT and Lorenz invariance: their relation and violation

7/3/12 Lewis Tunstall (CSSM) Origin of ΔI = 1/2 Rule for Kaon Decays: QCD Infrared Fixed Point

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29/2/12 Parada Hutauruk (CSSM) Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Interaction with Dense Matter

15/2/12 Prof Radhey Shyam (CSSM) Study of Strangeness -1 and -2 hypernuclei

8/2/12 Prof Bruce McKellar (U. Melbourne) What can we learn about non-standard model CP violation from Hadrons?

2011 Seminars

Date Speaker Title

14/12/11 Dr Paul Jackson (CoEPP) ATLAS/LHC 2011 highlights

7/12/11 Sophie Underwood (CSSM) Dark matter and neutralino-hadron cross sections in the NMSSM

2/12/11 Daniel Whittenbury (CSSM) S-wave bosons and the baryon octet in the Hartree-Fock Approximation of the QMC Model

30/11/11 Galib Souadi (CSSM) β-function, fixed points and energy scales

22/11/11 Manuel Carrillo Variations in Binding Energies with Respect to Changes in Fundamental Constants

18/11/11 Dr Wally Melnitchouk (Jefferson Lab) New parton distributions from large-x data: implications for JLab to the LHC

16/11/11 Ben Owen (CSSM) An Introduction to Form Factors on the Lattice

11/11/11 Ben Menadue (CSSM) The Λ(1405) in (2+1)-flavour Lattice QCD

9/11/11 Dr Hrayr Matevosyan (CSSM) Applications of GPU Computing in Hadronic Physics

2/11/11 Dr Jong Soo Kim (CoEPP) Light Stop Searches at the LHC in Events with two b-Jets and Missing Energy

28/10/11 Dr Gilberto Ramalho (CFTP, Lisbon) Electromagnetic structure of nucleon resonances

26/10/11 Dr Jong Soo Kim (CoEPP) Light Stop Searches at the LHC with Monojets Events

19/10/2011 12/10/2011 Dr Peter Athron (CoEPP) Supersymmetry and exceptional new physics

28/9/11 Chi-Pin Hsu (CSSM) Resonances in a Finite Volume

14/9/11 Andrew Casey (CSSM) Investigating Dihadron Fragmentation Functions in the NJL-jet model

7/9/11 Dale Roberts (CSSM) Wave functions of the proton from Lattice QCD

31/8/11 Nicolas Ivancevic (CSSM) Fermion Fields with Gauge Symmetries in the Presence of Gravity

10/8/11 Prof Derek Leinweber (CSSM) Impact of center vortex removal on chiral symmetry breaking in SU(3) gauge field theory

3/8/11 Nathan Hall (CSSM) Finite Volume Corrections to the Nucleon Axial Charge

27/7/11 Lewis Tunstall (CSSM) The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Chiral Dilaton

2/6/11 Jonathan Hall (CSSM) Chiral Effective Field Theory Beyond the Power-Counting Regime

6/4/11 Dr Kim Maltman (York University) Duality Violations and the Hadronic Tau Decay Determination of alpha_s

16/2/11 Dr Sundance Bilson-Thompson (CSSM) Which Road to Quantum Gravity?

16/2/11 Prof Gerald Miller (University of Washington) Transverse Charge Densities

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