Physics

High Energy Theory Seminar

December 05, 2011 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm
The partition function on the three-sphere of many supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories reduces, by localization, to a matrix model. In this talk I will describe a new method to study these models in the M-theory limit, but at all orders in...

High Energy Theory Seminar

December 02, 2011 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Localized gravity is the idea of obtaining an effective 4D gravitational theory from higher-dimensions without compactification. This is done by localizing a set of gravitational degrees of freedom along a 4D submanifold (brane-world), while the...

Physics Group Meeting

November 30, 2011 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm
I'll evaluate the possibility of searching for the Higgs boson in channels with multiple non-resonant leptons in light of recent advances in multi-lepton search techniques at the LHC. The total multi-lepton Higgs signal exceeds the four lepton gold...

High Energy Theory Seminar

November 21, 2011 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Sound waves with long-distance propagation are both a consequence of hydrodynamics, and a danger to hydrodynamics' very existence, as they violate the assumption of local equilibration. In the talk, I will discuss what the thermally excited sound...