2004-2005
Monday, December 5th, 3:30 pm
Kyoungchul Kong (University of Florida)
 SUSY or Extra Dimensions: that is the question
It is known that models of low energy supersymmetry and models with universal extra dimensions (UED) have similar signatures at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.  I will discuss methods for the experimental discrimination between these two possibilities at colliders.  Time permitting, I will also talk about the properties of dark matter in UED models and the prospects for its direct detection.
June 7, 2005, 12:15 pm
Scott Thomas
Stanford
 A Prediction for the Higgs Mass
June 1, 2005
Jonathan Feng
UC Irvine
Long Live "SUSY!"
April 13
Hitoshi Murayama
Berkeley 

March 9, 2005
Nima Arkani Hamed
Harvard 
Predictive Landscapes and New Physics at a TeV

February 22, 12:15 pm
Ulrich Ellwanger
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Orsay
Brane Universes and the Cosmological Constant
February 16
Petr Horava
UC Berkeley
Astrophysics of Compact Objects in String Theory
February 7
David Kutasov
University of Chicago
Title: Fun With Tachyons
January 31, 2:00 p.m.
Ian Swanson
Caltech
Aspects of AdS/CFT Near the BMN/pp-wave Limits
January 19, 2005  
Raphael Bousso
UC Berkeley
Cosmology, Event Horizons, and the S-matrix
Wednesday, June 2
Ann Nelson
University of Washington
Natural Models for Mass Varying Neutrinos
Monday, May 24, 2:00pm (ISB, room 455)
Mat Strassler
University of Washington
Some Novel Phenomena in AdS/CFT
Monday, May 17 (ISB, room 455)
David Morrison
Duke University
Matrix models and N=1 fixed points
Wednesday, May 5
Joe Polchinski
ITP, Santa Barbara
Cosmic F and D Strings

Monday, April 26
Raphael Bousso
UC Berkeley
Harmonic resolution as a holographic quantum number

Monday, March 29
John Terning
LANL
Life without a Higgs

I will review the breaking of gauge symmetries by boundary conditions in extra dimensions and show how WW scattering can be unitarized in Higgsless models. I will also examine how quark and lepton masses can be generated and precision electroweak measurements be satisfied in a toy Higgsless Electroweak model.
Wednesday, March 3
Shiraz Minwalla
Harvard
A Hagedorn-Deconfinement Transition in Weakly Coupled Yang Mills Theory
Monday, February 23
Willy Fischler
University of Texas
Holographic Cosmology
Wednesday, February 4
Nathan Seiberg
Institute for Advanced Study
Minimal String Theory
Wednesday, January 7
Jonathan Feng
UC Irvine
Wimp and SuperWimp Dark Matter
(Due to the Linear Collider Workshop, this seminar will be held at SLAC)