Free Meson Seminars
Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR
India's longest continuously running seminar series. Held on Thursdays, at 2:30 PM in the Lecture Room AG 69, unless stated otherwise.
| 2009 | |||
| Friday, Jan. 2, at 4 p.m. | Debottam Das | IACS, Kolkata | Signatures of supersymmetry breaking through colliders, precision data and cosmological bounds |
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| Friday, Jan. 2, at 2:30 p.m. | Anurag Tripathi | HRI, Allahabad | Di-photon production at the LHC at next-to-leading order in large extra-dimension models and unparticle scenario. |
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| 2008 | |||
| Tuesday, Dec. 23, at 2:30 p.m. | Dipangkar Dutta | Mississippi State University, USA |
The Q-Weak Experiment: A TeV scale Precision Test of the Standard Model
with Parity Violating Electron Scattering or Who Needs the Large Hadron Collider. |
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| Dec. 11 | Pomita Ghoshal | TIFR | Aspects of mass hierarchy determination with atmospheric neutrinos |
| Dec. 4 | Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay | HRI, Allahabad | Aspects of Higgs searches in CP-violating & CP-conserving SUSY scenarios at the Large Hadron Collider |
| Nov. 25, tuesday, at 2:30 p.m. | Biplob Bhattacherjee | University of Calcutta | Collider Phenomenology of a Universal Extra Dimension Model |
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| Nov. 20 | Suchita Kulkarni | Bonn University, Germany | Investigating abundances of semirelativistic particles |
| Nov. 11, tuesday, 2:30 p.m. | Sandeep Chatterjee | CHEP, IISc, Bangalore | Investigating the thermodynamics of the hadron resonance gas |
| Note unusual day | Oct. 22, Wednesday, 5:15 p.m. | Santosh Kumar Rai | Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland | Left-Right SUSY and its Exotics in Colliders |
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| Sept. 4 | Guy Moore | McGill University, Montreal, Canada | Bulk viscosity and its Spectral function in QCD |
| Aug 28 | R. Srikanth | University of Hawaii | Issues in supersymmetry and dark matter |
| Aug 14 | Rajeeb Bhalerao | TIFR | Stress Tensor and Bulk Viscosity in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions |
| Aug 11, Monday, 4p.m. at A-304 | Jyotirmoy Maiti | SINP, Kolkata | Scale Determination in Lattice QCD with Dynamical Fermions |
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| Jun 5 | Pushan Majumdar | IACS, Kolkata | Parallelizing Molecular Dynamics Programs |
| May 22 | Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya | HRI, Allahabad | Supersymmetry Search Strategies at the LHC: The Importance of Right ν's |
| May 8 | Kosuke Odagiri | Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Gribov light-quark confinement scenario |
| April 17 | Ashutosh Kumar Alok | TIFR | Tension between scalar/pseudoscalar new physics contribution to Bs -> μ+ μ- and B -> K μ+ μ- |
| April 3 | Sayantan Sharma | TIFR | Thermodynamics of Fermions with Exact Chiral Symmetry on Lattice |
| March 13 | Basudeb Dasgupta | TIFR | Collective Flavor Oscillations of Dense Neutrinos in Supernovae |
| March 6 (Joint Free Meson-DAA Seminar) | Partha Mitra | SINP, Kolkata | Black holes, white holes and tunnelling |
| Feb.28 | Probir Roy | SINP, Kolkata | Maximal Neutrino Yukawa Texture Zeroes & Oscillation Data |
| Feb. 21 | Sourendu Gupta | TIFR | How far are we from doing nuclear astrophysics on the lattice? |
| Jan. 31 | Larry McLerran | Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, USA | QCD at Finite T and Baryon Density in Large Nc |
| 2007 | |||
| Dec. 13 | Sudhir Gupta | HRI, Allahabad | Supersymmetric Signals with Long Lived Charged Tracks |
| Dec. 6 | M. Schwartz | Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA | Jets, Effective Field Theory, and the LHC |
| Nov. 29 | Gautam Bhattacharyya | Saha Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata | SUSY Higgs in Extra Dimension |
| Nov. 22 | Jean-Paul Blaizot | ECT-Trento, Italy | The transition temperature of the weakly interacting Bose gas |
| Nov. 15 | Edmund Iancu | CEA-Saclay, France | Parton picture at strong coupling from the AdS/CFT correspondence |
| Nov. 8 | Alessandro Mirizzi | Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich | Recent advances in Supernova neutrino oscillations |
| Oct. 25 | Sourendu Gupta | TIFR | The complete phase diagram of QCD |
| Oct. 11 | Soumitra Nandi | University of Calcutta | Possible signature of new physics in B meson decays |
| Oct. 4 | Raghunath Sahoo | IOP, Bhubaneswar | Saturation of ET/Nch and Freeze-Out Criteria in Heavy-Ion Collisions |
| Sept. 27 | Shamayita Ray | TIFR | Signatures of heavy sterile neutrinos at long baseline experiments |
| Sept. 13 | Narendra Sahu | PRL, Ahmedabad | Inflation in left-right symmetric model and consequence for neutrino masses and mixing |
| Aug 30 | Akhilesh Ranjan | IIT Kanpur | Response functions of quark-gluon plasma |
| July 26 | Francois Gelis | CEA-Saclay | Semi-classical methods in high energy hadronic scatterings |
| July 16, Monday | Tarun Kumar Jha | IIT, Kharagpur | Relativistic Nuclear Equation of State in an Effective Model |
| June 14 | Gobinda Majumder | TIFR | Charmonia and charmonium-like mesons at B-factories |
| May 4, Friday | Pomita Ghoshal | HRI, Allahabad | Matter effects and mass hierarchy determination with atmospheric neutrinos |
| May 3 | Rajarshi Ray | SINP, Kolkata | Model Estimate for Susceptibilities and Speed of Sound in Quark Gluon Plasma |
| Apr 26 | Abhijit Bhattacharyya | University of Calcutta | Two Step Conversion of Neutron Star to Strange Star |
| Apr 19 | Nick Harries | Oxford University | Turbulent Supernova Shock Waves and the Sterile Neutrino Signature in Megaton Water Detectors |
| April 5 | Sourendu Gupta | TIFR | Repairing Navier-Stokes |
| Mar 29 | Ashutosh Kumar Alok | IIT Mumbai | New physics upper bound on the branching ratio of BS → l+ l- |
| Mar 1 | Pushan Majumdar | Institut fur Theoretische Physik Westfatr Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, Germany | QCD with two flavours of dynamical chirally improved quarks : First results |
| Feb 8 | Bengt Petersson | Universitat Bielefeld | Understanding SU(3) gauge theories at finite temperature: 2+1 vs 3+1 dimensions |
| Jan 25 | Asmita Mukherjee | IIT Mumbai | Diffraction Patterns in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering |
| Jan 22 | Kathrin A. Hochmuth | Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany | Taking a picture of the earth's interior with geoneutrinos |
| 2006 | |||
| Dec 28 | Xerxes Tata | Univ. of Hawaii | Phenomenology of Mixed Modulus-Anomaly Mediated SUSY Breaking Models |
| Sep 14 | Michael E. Peskin | SLAC, USA | Generic Signals of New Physics at the LHC |
| Aug 10 | Sonali Tamhankar | Hamline Univ., USA | Charmonium Hyperfine Splitting Using Overlap Fermions |
| Jul 20 | Sudhir Vempati | Ecole Polytechnique -CPHT, France | General soft terms from SUGRA |
| May 15 | Narendra Sahu | PRL, Ahmedabad | Leptogenesis: The origin of matter |
| May 11 | Probir Roy | TIFR | Quark-lepton complementarity with quasi-degenerate Majorana neutrinos |
| Apr 6 | R. Gandhi | HRI, Allahabad | Probing Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Muons in INO |
| 2005 | |||
| Nov 24 | Rishikesh Vaidya | TIFR | Radiative decay of B meson in supersymmetry without R-parity |
| Nov 10 | J.P. Singh | M.S. University, Baroda | Correlators of axial currents and topological charge densities |
| Oct 27 | Manu Mathur | S.N. Bose National Centre, Kolkata | Loop States in Lattice Gauge Theories |
| Sep 15 | Nilmani Mathur | Jefferson Lab, USA | Multi-quark states from Lattice QCD |
| Sep 1 | D.P. Roy | TIFR | Looking for a Heavy Higgsino LSP in Collider and Dark Matter Experiments |
| Aug 25 | Sourendu Gupta | TIFR | Dissipation, Hydrodynamics and the Fireball |
| Aug 18 | Subrata Pal | TIFR | Hadron production from resonance decay in relativistic collisions |
| May 12 | Biswanath Layek | IoP, Bhubaneswar | Strings with a Confining Core in a Quark-Gluon Plasma |
| Apr 26 | Vikram Soni | NPL, New Delhi | Neutron Stars (perhaps magnetars) from a single field theory |
| Apr 19 | Raghavendra Srikanth | HRI, Allahabad | Neutrino masses in the Littlest Higgs scenario |
| Mar 31 | Eung Jin Chun | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | R-parity violation -- viability and testability as the origin of neutrino masses and mixing |
| Feb 10 | Nayantara Gupta | IMSc, Chennai | Gamma Ray Bursts and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic rays |
| Jan 27 | Uma Sankar | IIT Bombay | Large matter effects in nu_mu --> nu_tau oscillations |
| Jan 13 | D.P. Roy | TIFR | Using Tau Polarization to Discriminate between SUSY Models and Determine SUSY Parameters at ILC |
| 2004 | |||
| Sep 28 | Saumen Datta | Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany | Decay constants of heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons from lattice |
| Aug 12 | Prashanth Jaikumar | McGill University, Canada | Can we really detect bare quark stars? |
| Mar 25 | Sudhir Vempati | Univ. of Padua, Italy | Lepton flavour violation from SUSY GUTs and its consequences |
| Mar 18 | Jayaram Chengalur | NCRA/TIFR (Pune) | Constraining the variation of fundamental constants using 18cm OH lines |
| Mar 9, 11 and 12 | Sreeup Raychaudhuri | IIT, Kanpur | The Phenomenology of Braneworlds |
| Jan 29 | G. Rajasekaran | IMSc, Chennai | Neutrino mixing and its unification with quark mixing |
| Jan 22 | Kaustubh Agashe | Johns Hopkins University | Warped Compactifications: Flavor, Precision Tests and Grand Unification |
| 2003 | |||
| Dec 4 | D.P. Roy | TIFR | History of Exotic Meson (4-quark) and Baryon (5-quark) States |
| Nov 27 | Amol S. Dighe | TIFR | Supernova neutrino oscillations |
| Nov 6 | Srubabati Goswami | HRI, Allahabad | Precision Measurement of Solar Neutrino Oscillation Parameters |
| Oct 30 | Probir Roy | TIFR | Testing the maximality of muon neutrino mixing |
| Jul 10 | Steffen A. Bass | Duke University, USA | Transport Theory for RHIC: status and challenges |
| Feb 13 | Dipankar Chakrabarti | SINP, Kolkata | Formulating fermions on a light-front transverse lattice |
| Feb 10 | Swagato Mukherjee | TIFR | Chemical Potential on the Lattice |
| Feb 10 | Swagato Mukherjee | TIFR | Chemical Potential on the lattice |
| Jan 23 | Pushan Majumdar | Max-Planck-Institute fuer Physik, Munich, Germany | Low lying spectrum of the hadronic string |
| 2002 | |||
| Dec 26 | D. P. Roy | TIFR | Solar Neutrino Oscillations |
| Dec 23 | Prashanth Jaikumar | McGill University, Montreal, Canada | Color superconductivity in high density QCD and neutron stars |
| Dec 12 | Probir Roy | TIFR | Neutrino Mixing from Higher Dimensions: a Progress Report |
| Jul 18 | B. Brahmachari | SINP, Kolkata | Journal Club on the paper ``Deconstructing Dimensions'' by Arkani-Hamed, Cohen and Georgi |
| Mar 21 | D.P. Roy | TIFR | Using Tau Polarization to Sharpen up the SUGRA Signal at Tevatron |
| Mar 14 | Amol Dighe | Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik | CKM angles and lifetime differences |
| Feb 7 | David Bailin | University of Sussex | Standard Model on D-branes |
| Jan 24 | Kaustubh Agashe | Johns Hopkins University | SM in extra dimensions: (g-2) of muon and b -> s gamma |
| 2001 | |||
| Dec 13 | Sudhir Vempati | TIFR | Constraints on Radiative Neutrino Mass Models from Oscillation Data |
| Dec 6 | S.M. Chitre | TIFR | Helioseismolgy & Solar Neutrinos |
| Nov 22 | Kenji Morita | Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan | Hydrodynamical analysis of hadronic one- and two-particle spectra in relativistic heavy ion collisions |
| Nov 8 | S. Uma Sankar | IIT, Powai | CP Violation in B Mesons: Review of recent results |
| Nov 1 | Urjit Yajnik | IIT, Powai | Baryogenesis beyond the Standard Model |
| Sep 13 | Sourov Roy | TIFR | Vacuum stability bounds in Anomaly and Gaugino Mediated SUSY breaking models |
| Aug 23 | Mohan Narayan | IIT, Powai | Determining the sign of Delta-31 at long baseline neutrino experiments |
| Aug 9 | Sudhir Vempati | TIFR | U(1) Symmetry, R-violation and Neutrino Anomalies |
| Jun 28 | Kaustubh Agashe | University of Oregon | GUT and SUSY breaking by the same field |