BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//RLASKEY//CALENDEROUS//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120124T180000Z DTEND:20120124T190000Z UID:event653@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/653 SUMMARY:Effective String Theory Revisited DESCRIPTION:Featuring Sergei Dubovsky\, New York University\n\nPart of the Particle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\n LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120130T173000Z DTEND:20120130T183000Z UID:event864@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/864 SUMMARY:Constraints on New Physics Explanations for the Evidence of CPV in D^0 Decays from LHCb DESCRIPTION:Featuring Felix Yu\, Fermilab\n\nPart of the Particle and Field s Seminar Series.\n\n LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120206T173000Z DTEND:20120206T183000Z UID:event866@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/866 SUMMARY:M-flation and 1/N Resolution eta Problem DESCRIPTION:Featuring Amjad Ashoorian\, Uppsala University\, Sweden\n\nPart of the Particle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\n LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120213T173000Z DTEND:20120213T183000Z UID:event869@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/869 SUMMARY:"The Holographic S-Matrix" DESCRIPTION:Featuring Jared Kaplan\, Stanford University\, SLAC\n\nPart of the Particle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\n LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120216T203000Z DTEND:20120216T213000Z UID:event872@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/872 SUMMARY:Signatures of SuperSymmetry in primordial density perturbations DESCRIPTION:Featuring Xingang Chen\, Cambridge University\n\nPart of the Pa rticle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\n LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120227T173000Z DTEND:20120227T183000Z UID:event876@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/876 SUMMARY:Dark Matter Assimilation into the Baryon Asymmetry DESCRIPTION:Featuring Francesco D'Ermo\, MIT\n\nPart of the Particle and Fi elds Seminar Series.\n\n LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120308T173000Z DTEND:20120308T183000Z UID:event881@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/881 SUMMARY:Carving out the space of CFT's DESCRIPTION:Featuring Alessandro Vichi\, UC Berkeley\n\nPart of the Particl e and Fields Seminar Series.\n\n LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120319T163000Z DTEND:20120319T173000Z UID:event889@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/889 SUMMARY:Observation of Electron Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay DESCRIPTION:Featuring Wei Wang\, William and Mary\n\nPart of the Particle a nd Fields Seminar Series.\n\nThe theory of neutrino oscillation has been wi dely accepted in recent years. In a three-neutrino framework\, there a re three mixing angles in the theory. However\, an accurate measuremen t on one of the three mixing angles\, 13\, stayed elusive. Knowing all three mixing angles is necessary to explore the remaining parameters in neutrino oscillation. To measure this least known mixing angle\, a  few dedicated experiments have been constructed and collecting data. Locate d on a nuclear power plant campus in Southern China which hosts a comp lex of six 2.9 GW reactors\, the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is designed to be the most sensitive one. In the three underground exp erimental halls\, Daya Bay currently has six 20t Gd-doped liquid scint illator antineutrino detectors deployed\, detecting the copious electr on-antineutrinos released by the six reactors. With eight weeks of dat a collected since Dec 24\, 2011\, 10\,416 (80\,376) electron antineutr ino candidates were detected at the far hall (near halls). Using the near&n bsp;hall data to constrain the antineutrino flux\, we find the ratio of the observed to expected number of antineutrinos at the far hall is 0.940 +-0.012. A rate-only analysis finds sin2 2theta13 = 0.092 +- 016(stat)  +- 0.005(syst) in a three-neutrino framework. The significance level of the Daya Bay measurment is at 5.2 standard deviation level. T his is the first over 5-sigma measurement of sin2 2theta13. In this ta lk\, we will report how the Daya Bay experiment was designed\, installed\,& nbsp;commissioned and how we perform the data analysis to extract the value of sin2 2theta13. LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120326T163000Z DTEND:20120326T173000Z UID:event897@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/897 SUMMARY:Squeezing blood from stone: multivariate methods for higgs search i n di-photons at CMS DESCRIPTION:Featuring Yuri Gereshtein\, Rutgers University\n\nPart of the P article and Fields Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract:\nI'll describe the results of a search for the light higgs boson decaying into photon pairs \nusi ng the data CMS experiment collected in 2011 LHC run. Although a search for a narrow\nresonance may seem straightforward\, it turns out that kinematic al and instrumental effects\nintroduce significant complications. To deal w ith them\, CMS collaboration has developed \nseveral novel multi- variate methods that I will discuss in detail. LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120405T193000Z DTEND:20120405T203000Z UID:event898@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/898 SUMMARY:But what if it's not a WIMP? DM direct detection down to the MeV sc ale DESCRIPTION:Featuring Jeremy Mardon\, Stanford University\n\nPart of the Pa rticle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract:\nDirect detection experiment s are straining towards the goal of WIMP-dark-matter discovery\, but appear completely insensitive to dark matter masses below a few GeV. With the wor ld-superpower status of the WIMP paradigm under threat from null results\, the inability to probe lighter dark-matter candidates would be unfortunate. I will re-examine the direct detection of light dark matter\, and discuss how searching for DM--electron scattering allows the entire MeV to GeV rang e to be probed. Using single-electron data published by XENON10\, I will pr esent the first direct-detection limits in the MeV-GeV range\, and dis cuss the prospects for future improvements.\n  LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120419T193000Z DTEND:20120419T203000Z UID:event900@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/900 SUMMARY:Left-right models confronting flavor constraints DESCRIPTION:Featuring Monika Blake\, Cornell University\n\nPart of the Part icle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\n LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120423T163000Z DTEND:20120423T173000Z UID:event901@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/901 SUMMARY:On Loops in Single Clock Inflation and their IR behavior DESCRIPTION:Featuring Leonardo Senatore\, Stanford University\n\nPart of th e Particle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract:\nStudying loop correctio ns to inflationary perturbations\, with particular emphasis on infrared fac tors\, is important to understand the consistency of the inflationary theor y\, its predictivity and to establish the existence of the slow-roll eterna l inflation phenomena and its recently found volume bound. I will discuss h ow large IR effects appear in these calculations\, how some of them disappe ar when we compute fluctuations as a function of physically measurable scal es\, and finally how some of them remain and lead to interesting projection effects. LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120430T163000Z DTEND:20120430T173000Z UID:event921@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/921 SUMMARY:Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Lattice Gauge Theory DESCRIPTION:Featuring Michael Cheng\, Boston University\, Physics\n\nPart o f the Particle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract: Lattice gauge theory (LGT) provides an avenue to study the properties of strongly-coupled gauge theories which may provide the source of electroweak symmetry breaking and describe physics beyond the standard model.  I will discuss the recen t progress in applying LGT techniques to better understand this class of th eories\, generically known as technicolor.  In particular\, I present results on condensate enhancement in the extended technicolor framework\, t he calculation of the Peskin-Takeuchi S parameter\, WW scattering\, and att empts to locate the "conformal window." LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122406Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120507T200000Z DTEND:20120507T210000Z UID:event926@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/926 SUMMARY:B-meson physics with dynamical domain-wall light quarks and nonpert urbatively tuned relativistic b-quarks DESCRIPTION:Featuring Oliver Witzel\, Boston University\, Center for Comput ational Science\n\nPart of the Particle and Fields Seminar Series.\n\nAbstr act: First we introduce our framework to compute heavy-light physics on the lattice using domain-wall light quarks and relativistic heavy quarks on th e 2+1 flavor domain-wall Iwasaki gauge field configurations generated by th e RBC and UKQCD collaborations. The distinct feature is our procedure for t uning nonperturbatively the parameters of the relativistic heavy quark acti on and we demonstrate the quality of our setup by computing bottomonium mas ses and mass splittings. Finally\, we show first results for B-meson decay constants and give an outlook on our current/future projects. LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR