10/13/11: Jay Wacker will lead a discussion on “Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum, b-jets and one lepton with the ATLAS detector”. Forum link

10/27/11: Paddy Fox will lead a discussion will be on the CMS search for new physics in the same sign dilepton + missing energy final state. A link to the CMS note is provided on our forum website under the leptons+X section link.

11/03/11: Seminar on CMS multilepton (>=3) search, led by Can Kilic, with Rutgers CMS collaboration members (Richard Gray, Sunil Somalwar and Scott Thomas) available for questions and answer.
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11/17/11: Arjun Menon (U. Oregon) will be leading the discussion on the h->gamma gamma analysis (CMS-PAS-HIG-11-021).

12/8/11: Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University) will lead the discussion on CP violation in D-meson decays. Forum link

With the combined ATLAS/CMS Higgs search updates set to be announced on 12/13, we would like to have a forum on that on 12/15. Volunteers welcome.

2/2/12: Jose Santiago (CAFPE & Universidad de Granada) will be leading the discussion on the ATLAS search for heavy vector-like quarks (http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5755).

4/12/12: David Krohn (Harvard) will lead the discussion on the ATLAS analysis for jet mass and substructure (http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4606).

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5/2/12: Tracy Slatyer (IAS) will be leading the discussion on C. Weniger’s claim of a line signal in the FERMI data (http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2797).

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5/28/12: Adam Martin (Fermilab) will be leading the discussion on the status of resonance searches in the W+2jets final state in light of both the Tevatron results as well as the more recent LHC searches. Links to the relevant analyses are provided on the forum website link

6/14/12: Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati) will be leading the discussion on the recent Babar result (http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5442) looking for deviations from lepton flavor universality in B-meson decays.

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7/18/12: Brock Tweedie (Boston University) will lead the discussion on the status of boosted top searches. The relevant references can be found on the forum website link

9/27/12: David Curtin (Stony Brook) will be leading the discussion on the results of recent diboson cross section measurements.

You can find links to the analyses that David will be covering on our forum website link

10/18/12: Timothy Cohen (SLAC) will be leading the discussion on the recent ATLAS search for an exotic particle produced in association with a top quark and decaying into a jet and an (anti)-top.

You can find the link to the ATLAS analysis on our forum website at link

11/29/12: Adam Falkowski (LPT Orsay) will give us an overview on the status of Higgs searches after HCP.

Adam’s slides will be posted on the forum website link shortly before the talk.

12/6/12: Brock Tweedie (Boston University) will give us an overview of searches for direct stop production.

A list of analyses that will be included in Brock’s presentation is available on the forum website link

1/31/13: Eder Izaguirre (Perimeter Institute) will give an update on the status of searches for new physics in the jets + missing energy channel.

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2/28/13: Daniele Spier Moreira Alves (Fermilab) will give an overview on the status of multilepton searches.

The analyses that Daniele will include in her presentation are listed on the forum website at link.

4/18/13 Raphael Flauger (IAS) will give an overview of the recent Planck results.

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5/2/13: Matthew Buckley (Fermilab / Rutgers University) will lead the discussion session on the recent results from the CDMS II experiment using their Silicon detectors.

Relevant references for Matthew’s talk can be found at the forum website. The slides will also be posted at this address shortly before the talk.

5/16/13: Nausheen Shah (U. Michigan) will give an overview on the Higgs boson analyses in the diphoton channel.

Relevant references for Nausheen’s talk can be found at the forum website.

6/6/13: Yuval Grossman (Cornell University) will give an overview of recent searches for CP violation. The link to enter the forum is https://meeting.austin.utexas.edu/lhcforum/

Yuval’s slides will be posted on the forum webpage shortly before the talk.

6/20/13: Kara Hoffman (U. Maryland, member of the IceCube experiment) will tell us about the recent observation of high energy neutrinos at the IceCube experiment, as found here.

Her slides can be found at the forum discussion link.

9/20/13: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Fermilab) will give an overview on B -> K* mu mu.

Relevant references for Wolfgang’s talk can be found at the forum webpage.

10/23/13: Nathaniel Craig (IAS/Rutgers) will give an overview on the status of multilepton searches.

Nathaniel’s slides will be posted on the forum webpage.

11/7/13: Louis Strigari (Indiana) will discuss the latest LUX results. For more information, see the forum webpage.

12/4/13: Sean Tulin (Michigan) will talk about the ACME collaboration’s improved bound on the electric dipole moment of the electron. His slides are on the forum webpage.

2/7/14: Jared Evans (Rutgers) will give an overview of searches sensitive to R-parity violating supersymmetric models. For more information follow this link.

2/21/14: Stefania Gori will give an overview of the experimental situation (past, present, and future) for nonstandard Higgs decay. Her slides are at the following link.

3/7/14: Kevork Abazajian (UC Irvine) will talk about the gamma-ray line in XMM data that could be due to sterile neutrino dark matter.

References can be found at link.

3/21/14: Stephen Portillo (Harvard) and Tracy Slatyer (MIT) discuss their recent analysis of Fermi-LAT’s gamma ray data and the interpretation of the continuum gamma ray excess in terms of dark matter. For the slides, see link.

3/28/14: Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab) will discuss the response of noble liquid detectors to dark matter scattering events. Hugh’s slides are available at the following link.

4/4/14: Peter Adshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will give a talk about the recent observation of B-mode polarization by BICEP2 and its implications on inflation. His slides are available here.