This page is currently under construction.
In the meantime you can check out our group’s most recent talks here.
All Physics Talks:
All Outreach and Public Talks:
All Teaching and Teaching Research Talks:
Physics Talks
- The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2023 “One man’s thoughts a year after the CDF W Mass Announcement(.pdf),” May 2023
- The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2022 “High-Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass with the CDF II Detector(.pdf),” May 2022
- Fermilab Joint Experimental – Theoretical Seminar: “Introductory Remarks: High precision measurement of the W-boson mass with the CDF II detector (GoogleDoc),” April 2022 (.pdf)
- Text of remarks
- Full version of the talk by Ashutosh
- Video recording
- University of South Dakota Physics Seminar: “Simulation of Dark Matter and Standard Model Interactions in the SuperCDMS Soudan Experiment(GoogleDoc),” November 2019 (.pdf)
- University of South Dakota Symposium on Data Harnessing: “Big Computing in High Energy Physics(.pptx),” November 2019 (.pdf)
- Second Annual Texas A&M Research Computing Symposium: “Big Computing in High Energy Physics(.pptx),” June 2018 (.pdf)
- Texas A&M, College of Science Big Data Workshop: “Big Computing in High Energy Physics(.pptx),” April 2018 (.pdf)
- Invited Talk: Rencontres de Moriond (Moriond QCD 2016): “Top Production at the Fermilab Tevatron: Spin Correlations, Polarization and Forward-Backward Asymmetries(.pptx),” March 2016 (.pdf)
- High Energy Seminar (INFN-Pisa): “Measurment of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry of ttbar at the Fermilab Tevatron(.pptx),” March 2016 (.pdf)
- Texas A&M, College of Science Big Data Workshop: “Big Computing in High Energy Physics(.pptx),” January 2016 (.pdf)
- High Energy Seminar (Univ. of Chicago): “Measurment of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry of ttbar at the Fermilab Tevatron (.pptx),” November 2015 (.pdf)
- Department Colloquium (Texas Tech University): “Cosmology and Particle Physics (.pptx),” March 2015
- Texas A&M Big Data Workshop: “Big Computing and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy (.pptx),” February 2015 and (.pdf)
- Fermilab Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar (Wine & Cheese): “CDF Legacy Results/2014 and Future (.pptx),” December 2014 and (.pdf)
- Memorial Symposium in honor of Dr. Richard Arnowitt “ Collider Physics: Supersymmetry at Fermilab Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider(.pptx),” September 2014 and (.pdf)
- Fermilab Users Meeting: “Tevatron Physics(.pptx),” June 2014 and (.pdf)
- Graduate Student Research Topic Seminar: “Cosmology, Particle Physics and Dark Matter (.pptx),” September 2013
- Invited Talk: Lake Louise Winter Institute (LLWI 2013): “New Particle and Interaction Searches at CDF: BSM Higgs, Top and SUSY (.pdf),” February 2013
- Graduate Student Research Topic Seminar: “Cosmology and Particle Physics in Collider Experiments (.pptx),” September 2012 Updated Version for Undergrads
- Invited Talk: Conference on the Interface of Particle And Nuclear Physics (CIPANP) “Measurements of the Top Quark Charge Asymmetry at CDF ,” June 2012 (.pdf)
- Invited Talk: Conference on the Interface of Particle And Nuclear Physics (CIPANP) “Top Quark Properties,” June 2012 (.pdf)
- Parallel Session Talk (Phenomenology): Conference on the Interface of Particle And Nuclear Physics (CIPANP) “Gauge Mediated SUSY and the Higgs at the Tevatron,” June 2012 (.pdf)
- Graduate Student Research Topic Seminar: “Cosmology and Particle Physics in Collider Experiments (.pptx), October 2011 ”
- Astronomy Symposium (TAMU) “Particle Physics and Cosmology,” August 2010
- High Energy Seminar (Harvard): “The Search for Supersymmetry at CDF in the LHC Era (.ppt),” April 2010
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- Videos: p10 (Dark Matter in Galaxies)
- Department Colloquium: “Searching for the Particles of the Early Universe (.ppt)”
- Sam Houston State University, Jan 2010
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Nov 2009
- University of Hawaii, Nov 2009
- Texas A&M University, Oct 2009
- Invited Lectures: 3rd International Summer School on Astroparticle Physics (Nijmegen `09) “Hadron Collider Results Impacting Particle Astrophysics Lecture I, Lecture II” Aug 2009
- High Energy Seminar (TAMU): “Status of the Searches for GMSB SUSY in Photon Final States” July 2009
- Invited Tevatron Conference talk (APS 2009) “Physics Beyond the Standard Model (.ppt),” May 2009 (.pdf)
- High Energy Seminar: “Summary of CDF Searches for SUSY“:
- Cornell/LEPP Seminar, April 2009
- Rochester High Energy Seminar, April 2009
- Baylor High Energy Seminar, March 2009
- Rice High Energy Seminar, Feb 2009
- UCLA HEP Seminar, Feb 2009
- UC Santa Barbara/UC Davis Seminar, Feb 2009
- SLAC Orange room Seminar, Feb 2009
- LBL/Berkeley High Energy/Astrophysics Department Seminar, Dec 2008(.ppt) and (.pdf)
- Tevatron Searches Conference Talk (PANIC 2008) Nov 2008 .ppt
- Invited Tevatron SUSY and BSM Summary Conference Talk (Physics at LHC 2008): Sept 2008 .ppt
- SUSY Phenomenology Conference Talk (ICHEP 2008): July 2008 .ppt
- SUSY Summary Talk at CDF Collaboration Meeting : March 2008 .ppt (.pdf version)
- SUSY Phenomenology Conference Talk (SUSY07): PowerPoint Version with Graphics and (.pdf without graphics)
- Invited SUSY Phenomenology Conference Talk (Particle Physics and Cosmology 2007, PPC2007): PowerPoint Version with Graphics and (.pdf without graphics)
- HEP Seminar (Texas Tech): August 05 Version, .pdf (.ppt)
- HEP Seminar (Wisconsin, Florida): (May 05 Version, .pdf) In powerpoint (3/05) (3/05 .pdf)
- Department Colloquium (TAMU, Buffalo): In powerpoint (10/04, has visuals,) (.pdf version without visuals,)
- Invited Tevatron SUSY Summary Conference Talk (HCP `04): In powerpoint(6/04) In .pdf
Proceedings draft: in .pdf In .doc
- HEP Seminar (UChicago) In powerpoint (5/04) In .pdf
- Department Colloquium (TAMU): In powerpoint (9/02) In .pdf
Same thing but with no backup slides In powerpoint In .pdf
- HEP Seminar (UT, TAMU, Maryland) In powerpoint (4/02) In .pdf
- Department Colloquium (TAMU): In powerpoint (5/00) In .pdf
- Invited Tevatron New Phenomena Summary Conference Talk (Moriond `00): Postscript (3/00) + Proceedings Draft
- Invited Tevatron New Phenomena Summary Conference Talk (Ringberg `99): Ringberg Talk (6/99) + Backup Plots + Proceedings Draft
- Invited Tevatron Exotics Summary Conference Talk (LaThuile `98): Postscript(3/98)
- HEP Seminar (UChicago, Argonne, Duke, Hopkins, Penn, Maryland, FNAL): The gammagamma + X Analysis (3/98)
- Enrico Fermi Institute Seminar/Nathan Sugerman Award Talk (UChicago): The gammagamma + X Analysis (12/97)
- Conference Talk on gammagamma+Met (DPF 96): .pdf (7/96)
- Conference talk on W’->WZ->enujj (New Perspectives): .pdf (6/96)
- Conference talk on Technicolor ->W+jetjet (TeV33): .pdf (5/96)
- HEP Seminar (UChicago): Search for W’ in the W+jet-jet Decay Channel: W’->WZ->enujj (2/96)
Also EMTiming talks can be found here
Some of my students/post-doc talks can be found here
Outreach and Public Talks
- North Alabama Mensa: “Big Bang and Dark Matter on a Sunday Afternoon (.pptx),” April 2021 and (.pdf)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy Prospective Graduate Student Open House”High energy physics: The most fundamental questions, the biggest and coolest toys (.pptx),” March 2021 and (.pdf)
- Texas A&M Aggie Recruitment Committee: Whoopin’ Weekend”What does Dark Matter have to do with the Big Bang Theory? (.pptx),” March 2019 and (.pdf)
- Texas A&M Honors/Pasta and Prof Session”What does Dark Matter have to do with the Big Bang Theory? (.pptx),” April 2018 and (.pdf)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy Prospective Graduate Student Open House”High energy physics: The most fundamental questions, the biggest and coolest toys (.pptx),” March 2018 and (.pdf)
- Gents of Texas A&M “What does Dark Matter have to do with the Big Bang Theory? (.pptx),” March 2018 and (.pdf)
- Saturday Morning Physics Physics Lecture “What does Dark Matter have to do with the Big Bang Theory? (.pptx),” January 2018 and (.pdf)
- Lunar Society of Waco”What does Dark Matter have to do with the Big Bang Theory? (.pptx),” March 2016 and (.pdf)
- Aggie Gentlemen of Integrity-TAMU Talk: ” Celebrity, Wealth and Privilege are the Wrong Goals! (.pptx),” April 2016 and (.pdf)
- Davidson Scholars: ” Einstein, Black Holes and Gravity Waves, oh my! (.pptx),” April 2016 and (.pdf)
- MSC Bethancourt Scholar Lecture Series”What does Dark Matter have to do with the Big Bang Theory? (.pptx),” March 2016 and (.pdf)
- Society of Physics Student-TAMU Talk: ” Einstein, Black Holes and Gravity Waves, oh my! (.pptx),” February 2016 and (.pdf)
- TedX TAMU Talk: “Dark Matter and the Big Bang (.pptx),” April 2015 Also, a video link I don’t know how to link
- MSC Bethancourt Scholar Lecture Series (Inagural Lecture): “What does Dark Matter have to do with the Big Bang Theory? (.pptx),” October 2014 and (.pdf)
- Aerospace Engineering Seminar Series: “Astronomy, Cosmology, Particle Physics and the Universe (.pptx),” September 2014 and (.pdf)
- Bryan Collegiate High School: “College and Career Day(.pptx),” May 2014 (.pdf)
- Saturday Morning Physics Public Lecture: Dark Matter and the Big Bang Theory, Jan 2014
- Videos: P6 (How the Solar System Turns), P7 (How the Galaxy Turns), P35 (Particles in the LHC),
- Norton Elementary’s Meet a Scientist: “Who wants to know a little about fun science stuff?(.pptx),” April 2013
- Honor’s Undergrad Research Program Seminar (Pizza and Prof): “Scientists, The Big Bang and the Big Bang Theory(.pptx),” February 2013
- Invited Lecture: 7th Annual International Aggie Football Symposium “Fun Things to Watch for During a Football Game… Physics in Motion,” Oct 2011
- Public Lecture: “The Big Bang, Dark Matter and Searching for New Particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (.ppt)”
- Adult Education Series, Congregation Beth Shalom, April 2011
- Keynote Speech, Davidson Scholars (Texas A&M), March 2011
- Keynote Speech, Texas Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (Texas A&M), January 2011
- Public Lecture (The Teaching Company) “Dark Matter: Inquiring Minds Want to Know (.ppt)“, February 2011
- Invited Lecture: 5th Annual International Aggie Football Symposium “Fun Things to Watch for During a Football Game… Physics in Motion,” Oct 2009
- Science Cafe: “A Big Bang Occurred… Then what?” June 2009
- Invited Adult Education Public Lecture: “A Big Bang Occurred… Then what?: The Story of the Universe since the Beginning,” May 2009 (.pdf)
- Videos: p26 (LHC),
- Saturday Morning Physics Public Lecture: LHC The $9 Billion Dollar Window to the Universe”, Jan 2009
Teaching and Teaching Research Talks
- Astronomy Seminar (TAMU): “ASTR/PHYS 119 A Companion Course to ASTR/PHYS 109, “Big Bang and Black Holes” (.ppt),” Nov 2010(.pdf)
- Particle-Astronomy-Cosmology (PAC) Seminar (TAMU) “Big Bang, Black Holes, No Math: ASTR/PHYS 109 at Texas A&M”, Nov 2009 (.pdf)
- Invited Physics & WebCT Conference Talk (Teaching with Technology `06): PDF Version , Powerpoint Version
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