Particle theory at the University of Oregon

Faculty

• Nilendra Deshpande. Physics beyond the standard model; Neutrino physics.
• Stephen Hsu. Physics beyond the standard model; Quantum chromodynamics; Cosmology and particle astrophysics; Gravitational theories.
• Graham Kribs. Physics beyond the standard model; Cosmology and particle astrophysics.
• Davison Soper. Quantum chromodynamics; Calculational tools for particle physics.
• Spencer Chang. Beynd the Standard Model physics models and their collider signatures; dark matter candidates; cosmological probes of high energy physics.

Postdocs

• Yu Gao. Physics beyond the standard model and Higgs boson physics; dark matter.
• Arjun Menon. Physics beyond the standard model and Higgs boson physics; production of W bosons with jets.

Affiliations

• Physics Department.
• Center for High Energy Physics.
• Institute of Theoretical Science.

Journal Club

Northwest Terascale Workshops

• Interpreting emerging Higgs data (UO, 4-6 April 2012)
• New physics from heavy quarks in hadron colliders (UW, 6-12 February 2012).
• Higgs @ Tevatron and LHC (UW, 26 - 30 April 2011)
• Emerging opportunities for the International Linear Collider (UO, 16 - 19 March 2011)
• Modeling the underlying event and minimum bias events (UO, 1 - 11 March 2011)
• Using jet substructure to find new physics at the LHC (UO, 31 January - 4 February 2011)
• The terascale at LHC 0.5 and Tevatron (UW, 7-11 June 2010)
• Jets and jet substructure at the LHC (UW, 11-15 January 2010)
• W + b quark physics at the LHC (UO, 14 - 16 September 2009)
• Unusual dark matter: theory, experiment, and the LHC (UO, 6 - 10 July 2009)
• Signatures of long-lived exotic particles at the LHC (UW, 4 - 8 May 2009)
• Parton showers and event structure (UO, 23 - 27 February 2009)
• Determining the properties of the Higgs at the LHC (UW, 12 - 16 January, 2009)

Postdoctoral position open

Last updated 9 January 2012