btsm : spring 2004

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Previous Talks : Spring 2004

Friday, February 20, 2:30 pm
Jesse
Spontaneous Time Diffeomorphism Breaking

Notes and References in PDF format.
Friday, February 27, 2:30 pm
Itay
False Vacuum Decay
Friday, March 5, 2:30 pm
Jesse
Ether Cherenkov Radiation

Notes and References in PDF format.
Friday, March 12, 2:30 pm
Spencer
Naturalness, SUSY, and Little Higgs
Friday, March 19, 2:30 pm
Devin
Neutrino Oscillations
Friday, March 26, 2:30 pm
Jason
Brane Inflation and GR's Blind Alleys
Friday, April 2
Spring Break, No Talk
Friday, April 9, 2:30 pm
Can
Adventures in Theory Space
Friday, April 16, 2:30 pm
No Talk
Friday, April 23, 2:30 pm
Gordon
Inflation
Previous Talks : Summer 2003

Thursday, May 29, 2:30 pm
Nima
Introduction to Cosmology
Monday, June 2, 1 pm
Nima
Introduction to Supersymmetry
Wednesday, June 4, 10 am
Itay
Introduction to Extra Dimensions

V. A. Rubakov, "Large and infinite extra dimensions," hep-ph/0104152.
Tuesday, June 10, 10 am
Devin
Cosmological Inflation
Thursday, June 12, 1 pm
Dan
CMB

Ma & Bertschinger, astro-ph/9506072.
Hu & Dodelson, astro-ph/0110414.
Tuesday, June 17, 1 pm
Jesse
Basics of Supersymmetry

Notes and References in PDF format.
Thursday, June 19, 1 pm
Jason
The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Wednesday, June 25, 1 pm
Rakhi
Warped Extra Dimensions
Friday, June 27, 1 pm
Devin
Renormalization in SUSY

Arkani-Hamed & Murayama, hep-th/9705189.
Arkani-Hamed & Murayama, hep-th/9707133.
Tuesday, July 1, 1 pm
Nima
Non-perturbative Results from SUSY

Link to Seibergology page.
Thursday, July 3, 1 pm
Nima
Non-perturbative Results from SUSY
Tuesday, July 8, 12 pm
Shiyamala
Mechanisms for SUSY Breaking

Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, hep-ph/9709356.
Thursday, July 10, 1 pm
Jesse
Mooses, Anomalies, and Deconstruction

Notes and References in PDF format.
Tuesday, July 15, 1 pm
Itay
Grand Unified Theories

Notes and References in PDF format.
Thursday, July 17, 1 pm
Leonardo
Quintessence and k-essence

Steinhardt, http://feynman.princeton.edu/~steinh/prit4.pdf.
Steinhardt, et al, astro-ph/9812313.
Mukhanov, Steinhardt, et al, astro-ph/0004134, astro-ph/0006373.
Tuesday, July 22, 2:30 pm
Jason
Introduction to Inflation
Wednesday, July 22, 2:30 pm
Jason
Introduction to Inflation continued
Tuesday, July 29, 2:30 pm
Lisa
Non-perturbative SUSY Results
Thursday, July 31, 2:30 pm
Jesse
Gravity and Unitarity

Notes and References in PDF format.
Tuesday, August 5, 2:30 pm
Can
Gravitational Deconstruction
Thursday, August 7, 2:30 pm
Nima
New Results in Gravitation
Tuesday, August 12, 2:30 pm
Nima
A Consistent IR Modification of Gravity
Thursday, August 14, 2:30 pm
Lisa
Seiberg Duality
Tuesday, August 19, 2:30 pm
Itay
Topological Defects in Field Theory
Thursday, August 21, 2:30 pm
Dan
Inflationary Models from SUSY

Lyth & Riotto, hep-ph/9807454.
Randall, hep-ph/9711471.
Tuesday, August 26, 2:30 pm
Joe
Seiberg-Witten Solution of N=2 SYM
Tuesday, September 2, 2:30 pm
Wei
Supergravity
Thursday, September 4, 2:30 pm
Lisa
Duality Cascades
Tuesday, September 9, 2:30 pm
Nima
AdS/CFT

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