Seminars

Venue	Physics Seminar Room 121, Physics Building, University of Adelaide
Time	3 p.m. on Wednesdays unless indicated otherwise
Participants	Please feel free to attend - everyone is welcome!
Would you like to present a seminar?	If so, please contact the current seminar organiser, Sofija Antic: Seminar Enquiries

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Date	Speaker	Title
12/12/2018	Dr. Catalina Curceanu (INFN)	Strangeness in the Universe? Experiments with low-energy kaons at the DAFNE Collider in Italy.
3/12/2018	Robert Perry	Hadron Electromagnetic Form Factors.
28/11/2018	Dr. Wei Su (CSSM)	New physics implication of Higgs and Z precision measurement.
7/11/2018	Paweł Bączyk (University of Warsaw)	Isospin symmetry breaking in atomic nuclei.
31/10/2018	James Biddle (CSSM)	Visualisations of Centre Vortex Structure in Lattice Simulations.
24/10/2018	Dr. Ankit Beniwal (Stockholm University)	A global study of the extended scalar singlet model.
10/10/2018	Dr. Sofija Antic (CSSM)	Dense nuclear matter properties for energy-dependent nucleon-nucleon interaction.
24/8/2018	Dr. Hrayr Matevosyan (CSSM)	Quark polarization in DIS.
15/8/2018	Assoc. Prof. Paul Jackson (CoEPP)	Recent results on searches for Strong and Electroweak SUSY with the ATLAS experiment.
8/8/2018	Assoc. Prof. Ross Young (CSSM)	Synergy of Lattice and the Electron–Ion Collider.
1/8/2018	Prof. Gerald Dunne (UConn)	Resurgence and Phase Transitions.
18/7/2018	Sophie Hollitt (CSSM)	Lattice QCD, rare decays, flavour puzzles, and Belle II.
13/7/2018	Jiajun Wu (University of Bonn)	Preliminary Study of Three Bosons System in the Finite Volume.
11/7/2018	Jacob Bickerton (CoEPP)
6/7/2018	Kim Sofleth (CoEPP)	Hadron Structure Using Lattice QCD.
4/7/2018	Filip Rajec (CoEPP)	Why the Higgs may have multiple partners: Reviewing the General Two Higgs Doublet Model.
27/6/2018	Harry Poulter (CoEPP)	Making light work of black holes: New CMB constraints on evaporating primordial black holes.
20/6/2018	Jason Oliver (CoEPP)	H-to-WW Analysis at the ATLAS Experiment.
30/5/2018	Prof. Peter D. Drummond (Swinburne University of Technology)	Simulations of exponentially complex many-body systems.
29/5/2018 11:10 a.m.	Dr. Alex Kalloniatis (DSTG)	Synching Up with Synchronisation.
23/5/2018	Zachary Matthews (CSSM)	The Basics of Neutrino Oscillations and LBL Experiments.
16/5/2018	Taylor Haar (CSSM)	A primer on Lattice QCD configuration generation.
9/5/2018	James Biddle (CSSM)	TBA.
2/5/2018	Ryan Bignell (CSSM)	Background Field Method in Lattice Hadron Spectroscopy.
4/4/2018	Finn Stokes (CSSM)	From centre clusters to form factors: The structure of nucleon excitations on the lattice.
21/3/2018	Prof. Stephen Godfrey (Carleton University, Canda)	Topics in Bottomonium Physics.
14/3/2018	Prof. Tony Thomas (CSSM)	Quarks, finite nuclei, neutron stars and dark matter.
31/1/2018	Prof. Gerald Miller (University of Washington, Seattle)	Confinement and the Factorization of Elastic Nuclear Electromagnetic Form Factors.

Date	Speaker	Title
29/11/2017	Dr. Deog-Ki Hong (Pusan National University, South Korea)	Very light dilaton and naturally light Higgs boson
22/11/2017	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.
27/7/2017	Dr. Wally Melnitchouk (JLab)	Towards a universal QCD analysis of parton distribution and fragmentation functions
26/7/2017	Dr. Fernanda Steffens (DESY)	PDFs from quasi-PDFs
7/7/2017	Ali Alkathiri and Stephen Tronchin (CSSM)
5/7/2017	Alex Westin and Kim Somfleth (CSSM)
30/6/2017	Ryan Bignell and Kay Martinez (CSSM)
28/6/2017	Sophie Hollitt and Finn Stokes (CSSM)
21/6/2017	Dr. Lydia Roos (LPNHE/IN2P3/CNRS Paris)	Higgs studies and related searches in ATLAS
16/6/2017	Taylor Haar and Alexander Chambers (CSSM)
14/6/2017	Joshua Charvetto and Jacob Bickerton (CSSM)
31/5/2017	Robert Perry and Zachary Koumi (CSSM)
12/5/2017	Associate Professor Bruce Yabsley (The University of Sydney)

Date	Speaker	Title
16/11/2016	Dr. Jirina Rikovska-Stone (U. Tennessee)	Low-energy nuclear structure, compact objects and all that…
9/11/2016	Dr. Marek Lewicki (CoEPP Adelaide)	Electroweak baryogenesis aided by non-standard cosmology
2/11/2016	Dr. Juan Herrero-Garcia (CoEPP Adelaide)	Higgs lepton flavour violation: UV completions and connection to neutrino masses
26/10/2016	Jack Dragos (CSSM)	Improved Hadronic Matrix Element Determination Using the Variational Method
25/10/2016	Dr. Marcin Chrząszcz (University of Zurich)	New Physics signatures in Rare Decays from LHCb
19/10/2016	A. Prof. Paul Jackson (CoEPP Adelaide)	Circular Electron Positron Collider: A Higgs Factory in China
24/8/2016	Dr. Giorgio Busoni (CoEPP Melbourne)	Is there Dark Matter in the Sun?
20/7/2016	Dr. Chris Rogan (Harvard)	Exploring Collider Phase-space with Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction
13/7/2016	Dr. T.J. Khoo (Uni Geneva)	Missing Transverse Momentum reconstruction in ATLAS — performance and challenges
7/7/2016	Ali Alkathiri, Stephen Tronchin (CSSM)
6/7/2016	Tarquin Ralph (ANU)	The Trick to Money is Having Some – why a Physics degree is useful in business
5/7/2016	Alex Westin, Kim Sofleth (CSSM)
1/7/2016	Dr. Sasha Glazov (DESY)	Precision tests of the Standard Model at the LHC
30/6/2016	Ryan Bignell, Kay Martinez (CSSM)
28/6/2016	Sophie Hollitt, Finn Stokes (CSSM)
22/6/2016	Prof. Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut)	Decoding the Path Integral
16/6/2016	Taylor Haar, Alexander Chambers (CSSM)
14/6/2016	Joshua Charvetto, Jacob Bickerton (CSSM)
31/5/2016	Robert Perry, Zachary Koumi (CSSM)
13/5/2016	Dr. Archil Kobakhidze (University of Sydney)	Anomalous Higgs couplings, electroweak phase transition and its cosmological implications
13/4/2016	Dr. Lewis Tunstall (University of Bern)	Lepton flavour (universality) violation in rare kaon decays
6/4/2016	Prof. Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig Maximilian University)	Composite Weak Bosons
10/2/2016	Dr. Don Sinclair (Argonne National Laboratory	Complex Langevin Simulations of Finite-Density QCD
20/1/2016	Dr. Pat Scott (Imperial College, London)	Ultra-compact mini-halos as probes of small-scale cosmology

Date	Speaker	Title
25/11/2015	Prof. Joannis Vergados (Univesity of Ioannina, Greece)	Dark Matter in the Cosmos - The hunt to find it in the laboratory
11/11/2015	Dr. Ross Young (CSSM/CoEPP)	QCD+QED II: Hadron spectrum in lattice simulations
4/11/2015	Dr. Ross Young (CSSM/CoEPP)	QCD+QED I: Quark masses and phenomenology
28/10/2015	Prof. Brian Robson (ANU)	Dark energy, dark matter and gravity
16/9/2015	Dr. Francesca Ungaro (CoEPP Melbourne)	Search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark with the ATLAS detector
9/9/2015	Dr. Andreas Petridis (CoEPP)	Searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector
5/8/2015	Dr. Bernhard Muller (Monash)	Supernova explosions- laboratories for matter under extreme conditions
30/7/2015	Dr. David Richards (JLab)	Horses for courses- lattice calculations for structure and spectroscopy
29/7/2015	Dr. Vladimir Paskalutsa (Uni. of Mainz)	Hadronic structure at the precision frontier
8/7/2015	Jack Dragos (CSSM)	Improving Hadron Matrix Element Determination using the Variational Method
24/6/2015	Prof. Kim Maltman (York University, Canada)	Resolving the puzzle of the inclusive tau decay determination of V_us?
6/5/2015	Prof. Michael Tobar (UWA)	Solving Quantum Gravity and the Nature of Dark Matter Through Low-Energy Precision Measurement
15/4/2015	Dr. Wally Melnitchouk (JLab)	How much intrinsic charm is there in the nucleon?
8/4/2015	Dr. Julian Beringut (UNSW)
18/3/2015	Prof. Matthias Burkardt (New Mexico State University)	Quark Orbital Angular Momentum
4/2/2015	Dr. Ross Young (CSSM/CoEPP)	Quantum electrodynamics in lattice hadron spectroscopy

Date	Speaker	Title
26/11/2014	Prof. Anthony Thomas (CSSM/CoEPP)	Summary of 36th International School of Nuclear Physics in Erice, Italy.
19/11/2014	Dr. Soumya Rao (CSSM/CoEPP)	Non-universal gaugino mass models vis-a-vis Dark Matter and LHC
5/11/2014	Dr. Jiajun Wu (CSSM)	Pion Production in Neutrino- Deuteron Reactions
29/10/2014	Dr. Shivani Gupta (CoEPP)	Status of tri-bimaximal and $\mu$-$\tau$ symmetries after non-zero reactor mixing angle
22/10/2014	Dr. Jirina Rikovska-Stone (Tennessee)	The high-density matter problem: Can it be solved?
15/10/2014	Dr. Jinmian Li (CoEPP)	NMSSM Explanations of the Galactic Gamma-Ray Excess and Promising LHC Searches
8/10/2014	Dr. Pankaj Sharma (CoEPP)	Exploring new physics using top polarization at the Large Hadron Collider
28/8/2014	Dr. Chris Rogan (Harvard University)	Kinematic Variables for Weakly Interacting Particles at the LHC
20/8/2014	Prof. Gerrit Schierholz (DESY)	Electromagnetic Mass Splittings from Dynamical Lattice QCD+QED
13/8/2014	Dr. Lawrence Lee (CoEPP, Adelaide)	A Search for B-violating Supersymmetry in Multijet Signatures at the ATLAS Experiment
23/7/2014	Prof. Peter Tandy (Kent State U.)	Inside Mesons: Insights for Hadron Physics & QCD
25/6/2014	Dr. Ayse Kizilersu (CSSM)	Where is the mass in Q(E-C)D?
18/6/2014	James Barnard (Uni. of Melbourne)	Compositeness vs supersymmetry
28/5/2014	Christopher Savage (University of Utah)	Direct detection of dark matter: status and issues
7/5/2014	Dr. Lewis Tunstall (Bern University)	Chiral-scale perturbation theory for baryons and non-analytic corrections to octet masses
30/4/2014	Samuel Thomas and Finn Stokes (CSSM)	"The confining structure of QCD at finite temperature" & "Instantons and the Hadron Mass Spectrum in Lattice QCD"
16/4/2014	Prof. Timothy Londergan (University of Indiana)	Intrinsic Strange and Charm Quark Distributions
2/4/2014	Jonivar Skullerud (NUI Maynooth)	Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology from anisotropic lattice QCD
26/3/2014	Dr. Christoph Weniger	Indirect dark matter searches with gamma-rays and positrons
12/3/2014	Dr. Paul Jackson (CoEPP)
5/3/2014	Dr. Wally Melnitchouk (JLab)	Nucleon structure from global QCD analysis of parton distributions
25/2/2014	Prof. Matthias Burkardt (New Mexico State Uni.)	Quark Orbital Angular Momentum
5/2/2014	Dr. Jiajun Wu (Argonne)	Finite-volume Hamiltonian for coupled channel interactions in lattice QCD
23/1/2014	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
22/1/2014	Christian Schultz (Old Dominion University & JLab)	Radiative Physics on the Lattice

Date	Speaker	Title
11/12/2013	Dr. Lei Chang (CSSM)	Pion Structure and $Q^2$ Evolution of Form Factor
4/12/2013	Dr. Roman Nevzorov (CoEPP)	Phenomenological aspects of the Higgs boson physics in SUSY models
27/11/2013	Dr. Zhan-Wei Liu (CSSM)	Hadron Interactions at Low Energy with Chiral Perturbation Theory
13/11/2013	Prof. Csaba Balazs (CoEPP Monash)	Axino dark matter in Peccei-Quinn extended minimal supergravity
6/11/2013	Dr. Xuan-Gong Wang (CSSM)	Effective Field Theory and its applications to meson resonances
9/10/2013	Manuel Carrillo (CSSM)	Masses and axial charges of the Baryon Octet in the NJL Model
11/9/2013	Prof. Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut)	Resurgence': from rainbows to QCD
5/9/2013	Dylan Harries & Filip Rajec (CoEPP)
4/9/2013	Dr. Cédric Simenel (ANU)	Quantum description of transfer reactions in collisions of composite systems
14/8/2013	Prof. Elisabetta Barberio (CoEPP Melbourne)	Is the Higgs Boson , a Higgs boson?
24/7/2013	Ben Menadue (CSSM)	Electromagnetic Structure of the Λ(1405) from Lattice QCD
26/6/2013	Phiala Shanahan (CoEPP)	Charge symmetry violation in baryon masses and quark distribution moments
12/6/2013	Dr. Ross Young (CoEPP)
15/5/2013	Prof. Daniel Phillips (Ohio University)	Recent results in chiral EFT for the two-nucleon system
8/5/2013	Dr. Ross Young (CoEPP)
1/5/2013	Benjamin Owen (CSSM)	"Accessing matrix elements through variational methods in Lattice QCD
27/3/2013	Prof. Kevin Varvell (Sydney)	Testing the Standard Model using leptonic and semileptonic B-meson decays
20/3/2013	Prof. Jirina Rikovska-Stone (Tennessee)	High-Density Matter
14/3/2013	Nathan Hall (CSSM)	Interference Radiative Corrections to the Proton’s Weak Charge
6/3/2013	Prof. Nicholas Stone	Pathological Physics is alive and well
26/2/2013	Pierre Guichon (CEA-Saclay)	Continuum limit of lattice QCD and non perturbative renormalization
20/2/2013	Sara Diglio (CoEPP Melbourne)	Heavy Higgs: Standard Model and Beyond
23/1/2013	Dr. Wally Melnitchouk (JLab)	Pion loops in equal-time and light-front dynamics: pseudovector vs. pseudoscalar theories

Date	Speaker	Title
4/12/2012	Prof. Raymond Volkas, University of Melbourne	Constructing radiative neutrino mass models that can be probed at the LHC
17/10/2012	Jonathan Carroll (Adelaide)	Non-perturbative QED spectrum of muonic hydrogen
10/10/2012	James Barnard (Melbourne)	Natural gauge mediation at the LHC
3/10/2012	Tony Gherghetta (Melbourne)	Natural SUSY, split families and unification
20/9/2012	Ishwaree Neupane (Canterbury, NZ)	Strings, Extra Dimensional Cosmology and New Physics
12/9/2012	Dr. Guilherme Nunes Hanninger (CoEPP Melbourne)	Higgs Boson Search with ATLAS
5/9/2012	Fred Myhrer (University of South Carolina)	Core-collapse Supernovae Neutrino Emissions beyond the Urca Processes
29/8/2012	Steven Kerr (University of Nottingham)	A one-dimensional fermonic TQFT
27/8/2012	Steven Kerr (University of Nottingham)	Introduction to sum-over-histories quantisation of gravity
22/8/2012	Cael Hasse (Adelaide)	Particle Indistinguishability, Entanglement and Non-Locality
17/8/2012	Irina Sagert (Michigan State University)	Strange matter in core collapse supernovae
15/8/2012	Jonathan Hall (CSSM)	An improved chiral expansion using a pion-mass dispersion relation
8/8/2012	Doyoun Kim (Monash)	Light Higgs and light stop searches at the early stage of LHC
25/7/2012	Eoin Kerrane (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)	Constraining Models of EWSB using Lattice Computations
19/7/2012	Will Detmold (College of William and Mary, and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)	From QCD to nuclei
18/7/2012	Christopher Rogan (Caltech)	Razor Searches at the LHC
13/7/2012	Prof. Kevin Varvell (Sydney)	Measurement of Collins asymmetries in inclusive production of pion pairs in electron-positron collisions at BABAR
20/6/2012	Anthony van Eysden (Uni Melbourne)	Probing bulk nuclear matter using pulsar glitch recovery
15/6/2012	Dr. Selim Mahbub and Ben Menadue (CSSM)	Lattice 2012 Practice Talks
13/6/2012	Ben Owen and Thomas Primer (CSSM)	Practice talks for Lattice 2012
30/5/2012	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"
23/5/2012	Dr. Nitesh Soni (CoEPP)	Progress towards the discovery physics at ATLAS
16/5/2012	Dr. Martin White (CoEPP Melbourne)	Should we continue to believe in supersymmetry, and how can we tell?
9/5/2012	Dr. Kazuo Tsushima (CSSM)	J/Psi mass shift and J/Psi-nuclear bound states
2/5/2012	Dr. James Zanotti (CSSM)	Probing Baryon Structure with Lattice QCD
29/3/2012	Prof. Jirina Stone (Oxford)	Neutron stars and their importance in the general scheme of physics: Lecture 3
22/3/2012	Prof. Jirina Stone (Oxford)	Neutron stars and their importance in the general scheme of physics: Lecture 2
15/3/2012	Prof. Jirina Stone (Oxford)	Neutron stars and their importance in the general scheme of physics: Lecture 1
14/3/2012	Prof. Masud Chaichian (U. Helsinki)	CPT and Lorenz invariance: their relation and violation
7/3/2012	Lewis Tunstall (CSSM)	Origin of ΔI = 1/2 Rule for Kaon Decays: QCD Infrared Fixed Point
29/2/2012	Parada Hutauruk (CSSM)	Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Interaction with Dense Matter
15/2/2012	Prof. Radhey Shyam (CSSM)	Study of Strangeness -1 and -2 hypernuclei
8/2/2012	Prof. Bruce McKellar (U. Melbourne)	What can we learn about non-standard model CP violation from Hadrons?

Date	Speaker	Title
14/12/2011	Dr. Paul Jackson (CoEPP)	ATLAS/LHC 2011 highlights
7/12/2011	Sophie Underwood (CSSM)	Dark matter and neutralino-hadron cross sections in the NMSSM
2/12/2011	Daniel Whittenbury (CSSM)	S-wave bosons and the baryon octet in the Hartree-Fock Approximation of the QMC Model
30/11/2011	Galib Souadi (CSSM)	β-function, fixed points and energy scales
22/11/2011	Manuel Carrillo	Variations in Binding Energies with Respect to Changes in Fundamental Constants
18/11/2011	Dr. Wally Melnitchouk (Jefferson Lab)	New parton distributions from large-x data: implications for JLab to the LHC
16/11/2011	Ben Owen (CSSM)	An Introduction to Form Factors on the Lattice
11/11/2011	Ben Menadue (CSSM)	The Λ(1405) in (2+1)-flavour Lattice QCD
9/11/2011	Dr. Hrayr Matevosyan (CSSM)	Applications of GPU Computing in Hadronic Physics
2/11/2011	Dr. Jong Soo Kim (CoEPP)	Light Stop Searches at the LHC in Events with two b-Jets and Missing Energy
28/10/2011	Dr. Gilberto Ramalho (CFTP, Lisbon)	Electromagnetic structure of nucleon resonances
26/10/2011	Dr. Jong Soo Kim (CoEPP)	Light Stop Searches at the LHC with Monojets Events
19/10/2011 and 12/10/2011	Dr. Peter Athron (CoEPP)	Supersymmetry and exceptional new physics
28/9/2011	Chi-Pin Hsu (CSSM)	Resonances in a Finite Volume
14/9/2011	Andrew Casey (CSSM)	Investigating Dihadron Fragmentation Functions in the NJL-jet model
7/9/2011	Dale Roberts (CSSM)	Wave functions of the proton from Lattice QCD
31/8/2011	Nicolas Ivancevic (CSSM)	Fermion Fields with Gauge Symmetries in the Presence of Gravity
10/8/2011	Prof. Derek Leinweber (CSSM)	Impact of center vortex removal on chiral symmetry breaking in SU(3) gauge field theory
3/8/2011	Nathan Hall (CSSM)	Finite Volume Corrections to the Nucleon Axial Charge
27/7/2011	Lewis Tunstall (CSSM)	The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Chiral Dilaton
2/6/2011	Jonathan Hall (CSSM)	Chiral Effective Field Theory Beyond the Power-Counting Regime
6/4/2011	Dr. Kim Maltman (York University)	Duality Violations and the Hadronic Tau Decay Determination of alpha_s
16/2/2011 (?)	Dr. Sundance Bilson-Thompson (CSSM)	Which Road to Quantum Gravity?
16/2/2011 (?)	Prof. Gerald Miller (University of Washington)	Transverse Charge Densities

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