Talks

A collection of talks I've given over the years

2012

• Studying Hot Many Body QCD, University of Johannesburg Physics Seminar, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Studying Hot Many Body QCD, University of Pretoria Physics Colloquium, Pretoria, South Africa
• Studying Hot Many Body QCD, University of the Witwatersrand Theory Seminar, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Perturbative Probes of Heavy Ion Collisions?, CERN Heavy Ion Physics Seminar, Geneva, Switzerland
• Perturbative Probes of Heavy Ion Collisions?, Kernphysikalisches Kolloquium at the Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt, Germany
• Perturbative Probes of Heavy Ion Collisions?, EMMI at GSI Seminar, Darmstadt, Germany
• Weakness or Strength in the Golden Years of RHIC and LHC?, presentation at Hard Probes 2012, Cagliari, Italy
• Do We Understand Energy Loss? The Critical Mass Dependence Test, presentation at the MUONS Workshop at iThembaLABS, Somerset West, South Africa

2011

June-September

• Determining the Emergent Properties of Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter, presentation at AIMS Day at UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
• Testing pQCD and AdS/CFT Energy Loss at RHIC and LHC, parallel talk at the 19th Particles & Nuclei International Conference (PANIC2011) in Cambridge, MA, USA
• Energy Loss Calculations, RHIC, and First Results from LHC, Center for Theoretical Physics seminar given on July 21st at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Energy Loss Calculations, RHIC, and First Results from LHC, Nuclear Theory seminar given on July 13th at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
• Gluon Tomography with EVMP, seminar given on June 30th at the Electron-Ion Collider Task Force Meeting in Upton, NY, USA

January-May

• Calculation of Energy Loss in AA Collisions, invited talk given on May 31st at the High-pT Probes of High Density QCD at LHC 2011 (HPHD2011) in Palaiseau, France
• Quenching and Tomography from RHIC to LHC, parallel talk given on May 10th at the 22nd International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2011) in Annecy, France
• Phenomenology of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, seminar given on April 19th at the UCT Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre (ACGC), Cape Town, South Africa
• Phenomenology of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, invited talk given on April 15th at the National Institute for Theoretical Physics (NITheP) Associates meeting, Stellenbosch, South Africa
• Testing Energy Loss and the Pion Puzzle (?) at LHC, invited talk given on April 4th at the 6th International Workshop on High-pT physics at LHC 2011 in Utrecht, Netherlands
• Phenomenology of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, seminar given on March 29th to the Theory Group at the University of the Witwatersrand

2010

September-December

• Qualitative and quantitative jet physics?, parallel talk given on December 9th at the Kruger2010 workshop
• Qualitative and quantitative jet physics?, parallel talk given on October 11th at Hard Probes 2010
• The EIC, Heavy Quarks, and QGP Phenomenology, talk given on October 4th at the INT Gluons and the Quark Sea workshop
• Phenomenology of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, colloquium given on September 12th to the Physics Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

July and August

• RHIC in the Age of the LHC, seminar given on August 24th to the Nuclear Physics Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Heavy Ion Physics and Electron Ion Colliders, invited talk given on July 29th at the Electron-Ion Collider Collaboration Meeting
• Heavy Ion Physics at RHIC and LHC, seminar given on July 16th to the Nuclear Physics Group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Energy Loss Mechanisms and Jet Physics, invited talk given on July 12th at the PHENIX Collaboration meeting

March-June

• RHIC Challenges and LHC Outlook, invited talk given on June 21st at the INT Quantifying the Properties of Hot QCD Matter workshop
• Theory Comparisons, invited talk given on June 19th at the JET Collaboration meeting
• Theory Update on Energy Loss, invited talk given on June 8th at the RHIC & AGS Users' meeting
• Qualitative Successes of AdS/CFT at RHIC, talk given on March 21st at the GLS/SPOCK meeting
• Uncertainies and Consistency (?) in pQCD and AdS/CFT Jet Physics, seminar given on March 17th to the Nuclear Physics Group at Columbia University
• Successes, Failures, and Uncertainties in Jet Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions, seminar given on March 11th to the Nuclear Physics Group at Wayne State University

January and February

• Successes, Failures, and Uncertainties in Jet Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions, colloquium given on February 23rd to the Physics Department at the University of Cape Town
• Successes, Failures, and Uncertainties in Jet Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions, virtual seminar given on February 18th to the Nuclear Physics Group at Iowa State University
• Jet Energy Loss with pQCD and AdS/CFT in Heavy Ion Collisions, seminar given on February 11th at the Helsinki Institute of Physics
• Successes, Failures, and Uncertainties in Jet Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions, seminar given on February 8th to the Nuclear Theory Group at the University of Jyvaskyla
• Heavy Ion Collisions with pQCD and AdS/CFT, seminar given on January 19th to the Nuclear Theory Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2009

October-December

• Heavy Ion Collisions with pQCD and AdS/CFT, seminar given on December 18th to the Nuclear Theory Group at SUNY Stony Brook
• Energy Loss in the Hot QCD Brick I, plenary given on December 16th at the joint TECHQM/CATHIE workshop
• Heavy Ion Collisions with pQCD and AdS/CFT, seminar given on November 24th to the Nuclear Theory Group at the University of Washington
• String Theory meets Field Theory in Heavy Ion Collisions, talk given on October 23rd at the Mid-West Theory Get-Together
• String Theory meets Field Theory in Heavy Ion Collisions, seminar given on October 1st to the Nuclear Physics Group at The Ohio State University

June-September

• pQCD and AdS/CFT in Heavy Ion Collisions, seminar given on September 22nd at the Institute of Nuclear & Particle Physics at Ohio University
• pQCD and AdS/CFT in Heavy Ion Collisions, seminar given on September 8th to the High Energy Physics Group at Purdue University
• WHDG Brick and Comparing WHDG to ASW-SH, invited talk given on July 7th at the TECHQM Collaboration meeting
• Understanding Energy Loss of Heavy Quarks, invited talk given on June 2nd at the RHIC & AGS Users' meeting

January-May

• An Introduction to AdS/CFT and Heavy Ion Phenomenology, seminar given on May 28th at the Aspen Center for Physics' String Duals workshop
• Theoretical Thoughts on Energy Loss at RHIC and LHC, seminar given on May 21st to the Nuclear Physics Group at the University of Colorado at Boulder
• Shock Treatment: Heavy Quark Energy Loss in a Novel Geometry, talk given on April 3rd at Quark Matter 2009
• Testing AdS/CFT at LHC, invited talk given on February 2nd at the Workshop on High-pT Physics at LHC
• Shock Treatment: Heavy Quark Drag in Novel AdS Geometries, invited talk given on January 22nd at the Heavy Quark Physics in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions workshop at UCLA

2008

• WHDG @ TECHQM, invited talk given on December 16th at the TECHQM Collaboration meeting
• Testing String Theory with Jets, seminar given on November 13th to the Nuclear Physics Group at The Ohio State University
• Testing AdS/CFT Drag and pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss, seminar given on October 28th to the Nuclear Theory Group at McGill University
• Zeroth Order Heavy Quark Photon/Gluon Bremsstrahlung, talk given on May 3rd at the Yale-Columbia Fest
• Heavy Quark Photon Bremsstrahlung, talk given on April 9th at the Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics
• Falsifying AdS/CFT Drag or pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss with A+A at RHIC and LHC, talk given on February 9th at Quark Matter 2008
• Falsifying AdS/CFT Drag or pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss with A+A at RHIC and LHC, seminar given on January 10th to the Nuclear Physics Group at The Ohio State University

2007

July-December

• Falsifying AdS/CFT Drag or pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss with A+A at RHIC and LHC, seminar given on November 30th to the Nuclear Theory Group at Texas A & M University
• Falsifying AdS/CFT Drag or pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss with A+A at RHIC and LHC, invited talk given on November 2nd at the Heavy Quarks workshop at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Probing AdS/CFT with Heavy Quarks, invited talk given on October 26th at the AdS Strings Intersect with Nuclear Beams at Columbia workshop
• pQCD vs. AdS/CFT Tested by Heavy Quark Energy Loss, seminar given on August 31st to the Nuclear Physics & RIKEN Theory group at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Identified Charm and Bottom Jets to Test pQCD vs. AdS/CFT Energy Loss, seminar given on August 22nd to the Nuclear Physics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Heavy Quark Jet Quenching to Test pQCD vs. AdS/CFT, poster given at the Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions meeing at McGill University

January-June

• pQCD vs. AdS/CFT Tested by Heavy Quark Energy Loss, talk given on June 25th at Strange Quark Matter 2007
• Possible String Theoretic Deviations from pQCD in Heavy Quark Energy Loss at LHC, talk given on June 1st at the LHC Last Call for Predictions workshop
• Possible String Theoretic Deviations from pQCD in Heavy Quark Energy Loss at LHC, seminar given on May 21st at the CERN Heavy Ion Forum
• The LHC to Test pQCD vs. AdS/CFT Heavy Quark Energy Loss, talk given on April 26th at the 44th RNM workshop
• Heavy LHC Predictions: A Charming Disambiguation of Energy Loss, talk given at the Helmholtz Meeting
• The LHC to Test pQCD vs. AdS/CFT Heavy Quark Energy Loss, talk given on April 26th at the 44th RNM workshop

2006

• LHC Predictions from an extended theory with Elastic, Inelastic, and Path Length Fluctuating Jet Energy Loss, poster given on November 15th at Quark Matter 2006
• Jet Quenching at RHIC and the LHC, invited talk given to the High-pT Working group at the Goethe University
• RHIC High-pT Physics, colloquium given to the Physics Department at the Goethe University
• Surface or Volume Emission at RHIC: Is Jet Tomography Possible?, seminar given on September 22nd to the Nuclear Physics Group at the Goethe University
• Overcoming Fragility, talk given on June 14th at Hard Probes 2006
• Heavy Quark Energy Loss, invited talk given on June 6th at the RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting

2005

• Role of Dynamic Geometry in Jet Tomography, talk given on December 12th at Heavy Flavor Productions workshop at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• A Promising Solution to the Elliptic Quench Puzzle at RHIC, poster given on July 31st at Quark Matter 2005
• The Importance of Both RAA and v2, talk given at the Yale-Columbia Fest