Activities

2022

conferences

• Beyond the flavor anomalies III, IPPP, Durham, UK Apr 26-28 2022

• A Deep-Learning Era of Particle Theory, MITP, Mainz, Germany, June 13 - July 8 2022

• 50th SLAC Summer Institute (SSI 2022), SLAC, Menlo Park, CA, 8-19 August 2022

• 6th Trilateral meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 20 2022 

talks/seminars

• On Grossman-Nir violating models, 2nd J-PARC HEF-ex WS, virtual, Feb 15 2022

• Models explaining (g-2)_mu, Beyond the flavor anomalies III, IPPP, Durham,  UK, Apr 26 2022 (with A. Crivellin)

• overview of 
flavour theory 
at  colliders

• Machine learning for hadronization, A Deep-Learning Era of Particle Theory, MITP, Mainz, Germany, July 7 2022

• Muonic Force Behind Flavor Anomalies, DESY Theory Seminar, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, Jul 11th 2022

• Neutrino polarizability, 6th Trilateral meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 20 2022      

outreach/schools

• CP violation & matter-antimatter asymmetry: lectures 1&3, SLAC Summer Institute 2022, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA ,Aug 8 2022

visits

other

• co-organizing Astro/Particle seminar series at U. of Cincinnati

• co-organizing the HEP/Astro Results Forum series

• co-organizing PIMKIO meetings

on advisory committee for..

2020

conferences

• New Physics on the Low-Energy Precision Frontier, TH Institute, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan 20 -  Feb 7  2020

talks/seminars

• Flavor violating ALPS, RF6 Dark Sector Theory Day 2, Dec 9 2020

• Searching for new physics using charm&tau, 2020 BESIII New Physics Symposium, Tianjin, Oct 17/18 2020

• Flavor violating axions, HEP Theory Lunch Seminar, U. Minnesota, Oct 16 2020

• Higgs and flavor, CRC meeting, Oct 6 2020

• BSM: direct and indirect searches - FLAVOR, Snowmass Community Planning meeting, Oct 6 2020

• Letter of Interest: physics potential with MEGII-fwd, Rare Processes and Precision Frontier Townhall Meeting, Oct 2 2020

• Light new physics in muon decays, RF05: CLFV - Muon Decays and Transitions, Jul 2 2020

• The Grossman-Nir bound and the KOTO anomaly, virtual HEP seminar, TUM, Jun 18 2020

• Flavor phenomenology of the QCD axion and axion-like particles, "Newton 1665" seminar, Jun 10 2020

• Searching for axion light particles using flavor violating transitions, Joint Israel seminar, Jun 3 2020

• Three exceptions to the Grossman-Nir bound, virtual HEP seminar, IJS, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 12 2020

• Anomaly free Froggatt-Nielsen models of flavor, HEP seminar, BNL, NY, Feb 26 2020

• Non-standard neutrino interactions and low energy experiments, New Physics on the Low-Energy Precision Frontier, TH Institute, CERN, Jan 30 2020

outreach/schools

• introduction to beyond the standard model physics, lectures at QSFP School, Durham, UK, Jan 7 2020

• high energy theory @ UC, summer research discussions series, online, U. Cincinnati, Jul 10 2020

visits

other

• on the organising Committee for the 2020 edition of the LHCb Implications workshop

  • co-organizing Astro/Particle seminar series at U. of Cincinnati

  • co-organizing the LHC Results Forum series

  • co-organizing PIMKIO meetings

  • on advisory committee 

2018

conferences/schools

• 2018 WPI-next mini-workshop "Hints for New Physics in Heavy Flavors", Nov 15-17, 2018, Nagoya, Japan

• Workshop on high-energy implications of flavor anomalies, Oct 22-24 2018, CERN, Switzerland

• IPA 2018 (Interplay between Particle and Astroparticle physics), Oct 8-12 2018, Cincinnati

• The Flavor of New Physics in Collisions, Aspen summer workshop, Jul 29 - Aug 26 2018, Aspen, CO

• SLAC Summer Institute 2018, Jul 30 - Aug 10 2018, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA

• 2018 US Belle II Summer School, Jul 24 - 28 2018, Cincinnati

• Physics at the LHC and Beyond, TH Institute, 16 Jul - 26 Jul 2018, CERN, Geneva Switzerland

• The 2018 European School of High-Energy Physics, Maratea, Italy, 20 June - 3 July 2018

• Workshop on the physics of HL-LHC, and perspectives at HE-LHC, June 18-20 2018, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

• Preparing for Dark Matter Particle Discovery, 11-15 June 2018, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

• The strong CP puzzle and axions, May 14-16 2018, LPSC, Grenoble, France

• Dark Matter at the Dawn of Discovery?, Apr 9-11 2018, Heidelberg U., Heidelberg, Germany

• HE/HL LHC meeting, Apr 4-6 2018, Fermilab, IL

• 5th Annual PIKIO Meeting, Mar 17 2018, Urbana, IL

• 2nd FCC Physics Workshop, 15-19 January 2018, Geneva, CERN

talks/seminars

• Effective field theories for dark matter direct detection,  T-2 seminar, LANL, Los Alamos, NM, Mar 14 2018

• On lepton flavor universality violations, HEP seminar, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ, Feb 14 2018

• b→cτν  anomalies and FCC,  talk at 2nd FCC Physics Workshop, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan 18 2018

• Effective field theories for dark matter direct detection, TH seminar, LANL, Los Alamos, NM, Mar 13 2018

• WG4: Flavour, introductory talk at HL/HE-LHC workshop, Fermilab, Apr 4th, 2018

• Theory of the scattering cross section for DM direct detection, talk at Dark Matter at the Dawn of Discovery?,  Heidelberg, Germany,  Apr 14 2018

• Effective field theories for dark matter direct detection, Physics & Astronomy - Cosmology Seminar, Dartmouth,  Hanover, NH, Apr 26 2018

• News from particle physics precision frontier, Physics Colloquium, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, Apr 27 2018

• Axionic visions, concluding talk at The strong CP puzzle and axions, LPSC, Grenoble, May 14-16 2018

• Taming dark matter interactions with matter, weekly seminar, LAPTh, Annecy, France, May 17 2018

• Taming dark matter interactions, HEP seminar, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, May 21 2018

• From EW scale to DM direct detection, talk at Preparing for Dark Matter Particle Discovery, Gothenburg, Jun 11 2018

• WG4: Flavour, introductory talk HL/HE-LHC workshop, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Jun 17th, 2018

• R_D^(*) with right-handed neutrino, talk at Physics at the LHC and Beyond, CERN TH Institute, Jul 23 2018

• On lepton flavor universality violations, HEPEC seminar, Texas A&M, Oct 2 2018

• On lepton flavor universality violations, HEP seminar, U. Maryland, College Park, MD, Oct 15 2018

• High-energy vs. flavor experiments, talk at Hints for NP in Heavy Flavors, Nagoya, Nov 16 2018

• Effective field theories for dark matter direct detection,  HEP seminar, Case Western Reserve University, OH, Nov 20 2018

outreach/schools

• Introduction to the physics of dark matter, a short 6 hour course, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 2018 

• Flavor physics and CP violation, three lectures at 2018 European School of High-Energy Physics, Maratea, Italy, Jun 24 -26 2018

• Resolving the R(D) and R(D*) Puzzles, a lecture at US Belle II Summer School, Cincinnati, OH, Jul 23 2018

• The mysteries of flavor (I), lecture at SSI 2018, SLAC, Palo Alto, CA, Aug 8 2018

• Flavor physics,  two lectures at 13th Hadron Collider Physics Summer School 2018 , Aug 28 - 29 2018

visits

• • University of Ljubljana, December 2018

other

• • co-organizing Astro/Particle seminar series at U. of Cincinnati

  • co-organizing the LHC Results Forum series

  • co-organizing IPA 2018 at Cincinnati

  • on organising committee for  LHCb Implications Workshop, CERN 17th-19th Oct 2018

  • co-organizing PIKIO meetings

  • working group convener on B2TiP

  • co-organizing GGI 2018, Beyond Standard Model: Where do we go from here?, Aug, 20 2018 - Oct, 05 2018, Florence, Italy

  • co-organizing "Beyond Standard Model: Where do we go from here? Johns Hopkins Workshop Series, Oct, 01 2018 - Oct, 05 2018,  Florence, Italy

  • co-organizing summer Aspen workshop The Flavor of New Physics in Collisions, Jul 29 - Aug 26 2018, Aspen, CO

  • co-organizing Workshop on high-energy implications of flavor anomalies, Oct 22-24 2018, CERN, Switzerland

  • co-organizing TH Institute at CERN on implications of flavor anomalies

  • convener for CLIC input to the European strategy

  • convener for HL/HE-LHC input to the European strategy

2016

conferences/schools

• Annual Theory Meeting & STFC Town Meeting, IPPP Durham, UK, Dec 19-21 2016

• CKM2016, Mumbai, India, Nov 28 - Dec 2 2016

• HEFT2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct 26 -28 2016

• Brda 2016 -Selected topics in flavor and collider physics, Oct 19 - 21 2016, Brda, Slovenia

• Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct 12-14 2016

• Danish Astroparticle Physics Meeting, Southern Denmark U., Odense, Denmark, Oct 5-6 2016

• TeV Particle Astrophysics 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 12 -16 2016

• Physics Beyond Colliders Kickoff workshop, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 6-7 2016

• The Big Bang and the little bangs - Non-equilibrium phenomena in cosmology and in heavy-ion collisions, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Aug 15 -26 2016

• Charting the Unknown: interpreting LHC data from the energy frontier, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, July 29 - Aug 12 2016

• The 2nd International Conference on Charged Lepton Flavor Violation, Jun 20 -22 2016, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

• 3rd NPKI workshop, 12-17 June 2016, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

• 4th Belle II Theory Interface Platform (B2TiP) Workshop, 23-25 May 2016, Pittsburgh, PA

• Higgs Tasting Workshop 2016, May 15 - May 21 2016, Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque, Spain

• New resonance searches at the LHC and impacts on BSM phenomenology, 2016 Spring KPS Pioneer Symposium Program, Korean Physical Society Meeting, Apr 20 -21 2016, Daejeon, Korea

• Towards the Theory of Flavour, 8 - 11 March, 2016, Garching, Germany

• 1st PIKIO meeting, Feb 27 2016, U. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

talks/seminars

• Theoretical developments in Higgs physics, invited review talk, Annual Theory Meeting, IPPP Durham, Dec 19 2016

• Theory overview after CKM2016, invited theorist keynote talk, LHCb week, Dec 9, 2016

• Chiral EFT for dark matter direct detection, HEP seminar, MPIK, Heidelberg, Nov 14 2016

• Flavor and high pT physics, talk at CKM2016, Mumbai, India, Dec 2016

• Chiral EFT for dark matter direct detection, talk at Brda 2016 -Selected topics in flavor and collider physics, Belica, Slovenia, Oct 20 2016

• Searching for dark sectors, opening talk, Danish Astroparticle Physics Meeting, Southern Denmark U., Odense, Denmark, Oct 5 2016

• Renormalization group effects in dark matter direct detection, seminar at CP3-SDU,  Oct 3 2016, Odense, Denmark

• Flavor physics at colliders, lecture at SLAC summer institute, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA, Aug 25 2016

• Higgs and flavor, talk at Charting the Unknown: interpreting LHC data from the energy frontier, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Aug 4 2016

• Renormalization group effects in dark matter direct detection, seminar TUM,  July 7 2016, Munich, Germany

• Scouting for New Physics (using charged leptons), opening talk at CLFV conference, June 20 2016, Charlottesville, VA

• Renormalization group effects in dark matter direct detection, talk at BPKI workshop, June 17 2016, Seoul, Korea

• CKM gamma: theory, talk at B2TIP, May 23 2016, Pittsburgh, PA

• Flavor and high pT physics, plenary talk at B2TiP, May 22 2016, Pittsburgh, PA 

• EDMs and CP violation in the Higgs sector, review talk at Higgs Tasting workshop, May 17 2016, Benasque, Spain

• Renormalization group effects in dark matter direct detection, seminar IBS-CTPU, Apr 22 2016, Daejeon, Korea

• Shining light on the diphoton resonance, talk at New resonance searches at the LHC and impacts on BSM phenomenology, Apr 21, Daejeon, Korea

• Renormalization group effects in dark matter direct detection, HEP seminar, Indiana University, Mar 22 2016, Bloomington, IN

• Renormalization group effects in dark matter direct detection, HEP seminar, UC Berkeley, Apr 4th 2016, Berkeley, CA

• Comments on the diphoton excess: critical reappraisal of effective field theory interpretations, talk at  Joint particle physics meeting, Weizmann Institute, Mar 23 2016, Rehovot, Israel

• Renormalization group effects in dark matter direct detection, HEP seminar, Tel Aviv University, Mar 22 2016, Tel Aviv, Israel

• Higgs and flavor,  talk at Towards the Theory of Flavour, Mar 11 2016, Garching, Germany

• Renormalization group effects in dark matter direct detection, seminar UC Irvine, Feb 10 2016, Irvine, CA

outreach

• Dark Matter,  talk at Saturday physics at U. Cincinnati, Apr 9 2016, Cincinnati, OH

• Fizika visokih energij, talk at Vtis meeting, Dec 20 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia

visits

• • sabbatical leave at CERN since Aug 1st 2016

other

• • co-organizing Astro/Particle seminar series at U. of Cincinnati

  • co-organizing the LHC Results Forum series

  • co-organizing PIKIO meetings

  • organizing committee for 2016 LHCb implications workshop

  • working group convener on B2TiP

  • program advisory committee for CKM2016, Mumbai, India, Nov 28 - Dec 2 2016

  • organizing committee for HEFT2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct 26 -28 2016

  • international advisory committee for  IPA 2016 (Interplay of Particle and Astroparticle Physics), LAL, Orsay, France Sept 5 -9 2016

  • organizing committee, Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects, CERN, Oct 12-14 2016

2014

conferences/schools

• • The landscape of Flavour Physics towards the high intensity era, 9-10 Dec 2014 Palazzo della Carovana, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

  • Higgs/EWSB group, work plan discussion, Nov 24 2014, CERN (remote)

  • Naturalness 2014, 14-17 Nov 2014, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Naturalness 2014 - satellite workshop, 12-13 Nov 2014, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • 2nd B2TiP meeting,  30-31 Oct 2014, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

  • KEK Flavor Factory Workshop (KEK-FF2014FALL),  28-29 Oct 2014, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

  • Physics from Run 2 of the LHC, The 2nd NPKI workshop, 15-19 Sept 2014, Jeju, Korea

  • CKM 2014, The International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, 8-12 Sept 2014, Vienna, Austria

  • Probing the TeV scale and beyond, 16-25 July 2014, MITP, Mainz, Germany

  • Workshop on Physics at a 100 TeV Collider, 23-25 April 2014 SLAC, CA

  • BSM physics opportunities at 100 TeV, Feb 10-11 2014, CERN, Geneva Switzerland

  • Frontiers in Particle Physics: From Dark Matter to the LHC and Beyond, Jan 18-24 2014, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO

  • The top-charm frontier at the LHC, Jan 14-17 2014, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

talks/seminars

• • Charm Physics, talk at The landscape of Flavour Physics towards the high intensity era, Dec 9 2014, Palazzo della Carovana, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

  • An Exclusive Window onto Higgs Yukawa Couplings, talk at Higgs/EWSB group, work plan discussion, Nov 24 2014, CERN (remote)

  • Panel discussion on Flavor and Naturalness, Naturalness 2014, Nov 15 2014, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Dark matter and continuous flavor symmetries, talk at Naturalness 2014 - satellite workshop, Nov 13 2014, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Higgs boson and the fate of the Universe, talk at the Sigma Xi award presentation, Nov 4 2014, U. Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

  • Interplay of direct and indirect searches, talk at 2nd B2TiP meeting, Oct 30 2014, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

  • CP violation and flavor in Higgs phenomenology, talk at KEK Flavor Factory Workshop (KEK-FF2014FALL), Oct 29 2014, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

  • Dark matter and continuous flavor symmetries, HEP seminar, Oct 27 2014, IPMU, Tokyo Japan

  • Dark matter and continuous flavor symmetries, HEP seminar, Oct 25 2014, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

  • An exclusive window onto Higgs Yukawa couplings, talk Physics from Run 2 of the LHC, The 2nd NPKI workshop, Sept 18 2014, Jeju, Korea

  • An exclusive window onto Higgs Yukawa couplings, talk at MITP workshop Probing the TeV scale and beyond, July 17 2014, MITP, Mainz, Germany

  • ɸ1 & ɸ2 (α & β ): Theory, talk at B2TiP Kickoff Meeting, June 16, 2014, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

  • Higgs: a New Window onto New Physics, HEP seminar, June 10 2014, Johannes Gutenberg U. Mainz, Mainz, Germany

  • The strange- (charm-, beauty-, top-)-ness of the Higgs, talk at the workshop From Strange, through Charm and Beauty, to the Top,  April 16 2014, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Higgs as a Window to New Physics, HEP division seminar, Apr 2 2014, Argonne, IL

  • Non-Standard Higgs Decays, HEP seminar, Mar 18 2014, Technion, Haifa, Israel

  • top FCNCs at 100TeV, group meeting talk, Mar 16 2014, Weizmann, Rehovot, Israel

  • Rare top decays at 100 TeV, talk at BSM physics opportunities at 100 TeV, Feb 11 2014, CERN, Geneva Switzerland

  • top FCNCs, talk at The top-charm frontier at the LHC workshop, Jan 14 2014, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

outreach

• • LHC and particle physics, outreach talk at McAuley High School, Mar 7 2014, Cincinnati 

visits

• • Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Mar 14-22 2014

other

• • co-organizing Astro/Particle seminar series at U. of Cincinnati

  • co-organizing the LHC Results Forum series

  • on international advisory committee for IPA 2014 (Interplay of Particle and Astroparticle Physics), 18th-22nd August 2014, Queen Mary University London, London, UK

  • co-organizing winter Aspen workshop Frontiers in Particle Physics: From Dark Matter to the LHC and Beyond, Jan 18-24 2014, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO

  • co-organizing summer Aspen workshop Connecting Flavor Physics with Naturalness: from Theory to Experiment, June 22- July 20 2014, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO

  • working group convener on B2TiP

  • working group convener for CKM2014, Vienna, Austria

2012

conferences/schools

• • CKM 2012, Sept 28 - Oct 2, 2012, Cincinnati, OH

  • Aspen workshops The LHC Shows the Way and New Particle Physics at the LHC and Its Connection to Dark Matter, July 29 - Aug 19 2012, Aspen, CO

  • Workshop "The First Two Years at the LHC", The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 8 -21 2012, Beijing, China

  • CERN TH Summer Institute on BSM Physics, 18-29 June 2012, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  • School on “Quantum Field Theory in High Energy Physics”, May 28 - June 1, 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Chicago 2012 workshop on LHC physics, 2-4 May 2012, Gleacher Center - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • Hot Topics at Colliders: Exploring Hints for New Physics, Apr 27-29, Princeton, NJ

  • The 2nd workshop on "Implications of the LHCb measurements and future prospect", Apr 16-18 2012, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Rencontres de Moriond Electrofaibles, Mar 3-10, 2012, La Thuile, Aosta valley, Italy

  • Top physics and electroweak symmetry breaking in the LHC era, Feb 24 to Feb 29, 2012, Seoul, Korea

  • Searches for New Physics via B-physics in Hadronic Colliders, Feb 6-10, 2012, U. Washington, Seattle, WA

• • Babar collaboration meeting, guest theorist, Jan 23 -25, 2012, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA

talks/seminars

• Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection, seminar, HEP seminar, SLAC, Dec 5 2012, Stanford, Menlo Park, CA

• Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection, seminar, HEP seminar, UC Berkeley, Dec 3 2012, Berkeley, CA

• Dark matter -the current status of searches, Regional gathering of Cincinnati area Mensa, Dec 1, 2012, Cincinnati, OH

• The dark side of Higgs, colloquium at Carnegie Mellon University, Nov 27 2012, Pittsburgh, PA

• What is the meaning of the Higgs boson discovery?, colloquium at Josef Stefan Institute, Nov 9 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia

• What does the Higgs discovery mean?, colloquium at U. of Cincinnati, Oct 25 2012, Cincinnati, OH

• Direct CP violation in charm, HEP seminar, Syracuse U., Oct 19 2012, Syracuse, NY

• Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection, HEP seminar, Cornell, Oct 17 2012, Ithaca, NY

• New physics in top production and decay, seminar at U. of Maryland, Oct 15 2012, College Park, MD

• Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection, seminar, U. of Cincinnati, Oct 9 2012, Cincinnati, OH

• Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection, seminar, Brookhaven National Lab, Oct 4 2012, Brookhaven, NY

• Review of AFB and related topics, talk at the Aspen workshop The LHC Shows the Way, July 31 2012, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO

• Higgs after the discovery: a status report, talk at the workshop The First Two Years at the LHC, July 17 2012, KITPC, Beijing, China

• Direct CP violation in charm, seminar, July 12 2012, Nankai University, Tian Jin, China

• Direct CP violation in charm, seminar, July 11 2012,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Recent anomalies in processes with heavy quarks, Theory colloquium, June 27 2012, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

• Lepton flavor universality violation in B decays, LHC results forum, June 14 2012, over EVO

• Recent anomalies in processes with heavy quarks, HEP seminar, June 13 2012, LPT Orsay, Paris, France

• New Physics in top production and decay, talk at Chicago 2012 workshop on LHC physics, May 3 2012, Chicago, IL

• New Physics in ttbar production, talk at Hot Topics at Colliders: Exploring Hints for New Physics, Apr 27 2012, Princeton, NJ

• CKM gamma from tree decays, talk at The 2nd workshop on "Implications of the LHCb measurements and future prospect", Apr 18 2012, Geneva, Switzerland

• Exciting news from the LHC, Sigma-Pi-Sigma induction banquet, Apr 16 2012, Wright State U., Dayton, OH

• Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection, theory seminar, Mar 29 2012, Fermilab, Chicago, IL

• Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection, HEP seminar, Mar 28 2012, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL

• Direct CP violation in charm - NP or SM?, talk at HEP seminar, Josef Stefan Institute, Mar 15, 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Direct CP violation in D decays, talk at Rencontres de Moriond Electrofaibles, Mar 6, 2012, La Thuile, Aosta valley, Italy

• CP violation in charm - NP or SM?, talk at "Top physics and electroweak symmetry breaking in the LHC era" workshop, Feb 25, 2012, Seoul, Korea

• Bounds on annual modulation signal in dark matter direct detection, CCAPP seminar, Feb 15 2012, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH

• Direct CPV in charm decays, talk at "Searches for New Physics via B-physics in Hadronic Colliders" workshop, Feb 7, 2012, U. Washington, Seattle, WA

• Direct CPV in D decays - new physics or standard model, lunch talk, Jan 25, 2012, LBNL, Berkeley, CA

• Direct CPV in D decays, a guest theorist talk at BaBar Collaboration meeting, Jan 23, 2012, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA

visits

• • CERN Theory Group, Oct 28 - Nov 17, 2012, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay, June 1st - June 30th, 2012, Orsay, Paris, France

other

• • co-organizing Astro/Particle seminar series at U. of Cincinnati

  • co-organizing CKM 2012 conference

  • series of lectures “Quantum Field Theory and Weak Interaction” at School on “Quantum Field Theory in High Energy Physics”, May 28 - June 1, 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • convener of track 5 at ICHEP 2012

2010

conferences/schools

• • Non-Thermal Cosmological Histories of the Universe Workshop, October 18-21, 201, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • CKM2010, 6 Sep - 10 Sep 2010, Warwick, UK

  • IDM2010, 26-30 July, Montpellier, France

  • Aspen "From Colliders to the Dark Sector" workshop, 4 July - 18 July 2010, Aspen, CO, USA

  • PACT, 11 June 2010, SISSA, Trieste, Italy

  • Planck 2010, 31 May - 4 June 2010, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Flavor Physics and CP Violation 2010, May 25-29, 2010, Torino - Italy

talks/seminars

• Implications of the like-sign dimuon anomaly, joint theory-experiment hep seminar, ITP Bern University, Bern, Switzerland, Dec 17 2010

• Implications of the like-sign dimuon anomaly, hep seminar, LPTHE Jussieu, Paris, France, Dec 10 2010

• Implications of the like-sign dimuon anomaly, hep seminar, LPT Orsay, Paris, France, Dec 9 2010

• Dark Matter: from direct detection to LHC, colloquium at Carnegie Mellon U., 8.11.2010, Carnegie Mellon U., Pittsburgh, PA

• Asymmetric Dark Matter and Flavor, talk at Non-Thermal Cosmological Histories of the Universe Workshop, 21.10.2010, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Implications of like-sign dimuon anomaly, hep seminar, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, 22 Sept 2010

• Working group VI summary, summary talk CKM2010, 10.9.2010, Warwick, UK

• The case for measuring gamma precisely,  talk at CKM2010, 7.9.2010, Warwick, UK

• Higgs decays to dark sector, talk at IDM2010, July 30 2010, Montpellier, France

• Like-sign dimuon anomaly and MFV, talk at Aspen workshop "From Colliders to the Dark Sector", 24 July 2010, Aspen, CO, USA

• Higgs decaying to lepton jets, theoretical seminar, University of Chicago, USA, 30 June 2010

• Implications of like-sign dimuon anomaly, theoretical seminar, Fermilab, Batavia, USA, 24 June 2010

• Higgs decaying to lepton jets, talk at PACT, SISSA, Trieste, Italy,11 June 2010

• Implications of like-sign dimuon anomaly, wednesday seminar, SISSA, Trieste, Italy, June 9, 2010

• Global interpretation of direct dark matter searches, high energy seminar, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 8 2010

• Higgs decaying to lepton jets, talk at Planck, 2010, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1 June 2010 

• Angle measurements and new physics, talk at FPCP 2010, Torino, Italy, May 25 2010

• Hidden higgs decaying to lepton jets, theory seminar, University of Zagreb, 7 May 2010

• Global interpretation of direct dark matter searches , TH Cosmo Coffee, CERN, 28 April 2010

• Leptophilic dark matter and  direct detection, thursday seminar, IJS, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 10 Feb 2010

• Leptophilic dark matter and direct detection, high energy seminar, University of Cincinnati, 5 Feb 2010

• Dark matter: from direct detection to LHC, physics colloquium at University of Cincinnati, 4 Feb 2010

• Global interpretation of direct matter searches, high energy seminar, Cornell University, 3 Feb 2010

• Bodi Fizik! (Be a physicist!) and Kaj dela fizik na LHC (What does a physicist do at the LHC), popular talks at Gimnazija Celje Center, Celje, Slovenia, 26.1.2010

visits

• • Fermilab, Chicago, IL, 20.6.2010-4.7.2010

  • Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 14.6.2010-20.6.2010

  • CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 20.4.2010- 2.5.2010

  • Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 3.2.2010-8.2.2010

  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 31.1.2010-3.2.2010

other

• • coorganizing "Joint FMF-JSI high energy physics seminar"  series

2008

conferences

• • CKM 2008, 5th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, Rome, Italy, 9.9.2008-13.9.2008

talks/seminars

• • Gamma from penguin modes, CKM 2008, 9.9.2008, Rome, Italy

  • Interpreting Pamela/ATIC, seminar at Cornell University, 12.12.2008, Ithaca, NY

  • Interpreting dark matter hints,  seminar at Perimeter Institute, 28.11.2008, Waterloo, Canada

  • Doing Big Science in a Small Country: Slovenia @ CERN, The Science Day organised by the Slovenian Semester 2008 in JRC Ispra, Italy, 23.6.2008

longer visits

• • Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada and Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA, from 24.11.2008-12.12.2008

2007

conferences

• • Interplay of Collider and Flavour Physics, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 3-4 2007

  • LHCb UK Meeting 2007, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham U. Durham, UK, Sept 24 -26 2007

  • Between the LHC and B Factories, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, Aug 12 2007 till Sept 2 2007 

  • 5th Flavor Physics and CP Violation Conference (FPCP 2007), Bled, Slovenia, May 12-16 2007

  • SCET07 workshop, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA, Mar 29 - Apr 1 2007

talks/seminars

• • Probing Minimal Flavor Violation at LHC, talk at Interplay of Collider and Flavour Physics, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 4 2007

  • Constraining Minimal Flavor Violation at LHC, Phenomenology seminar, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov 23 2007

  • Review of gamma extractions, LHCb UK Meeting 2007, Durham, UK, Sept 25 2007

  • Introduction to Minimal Flavor Violation, talk at workshop Between the LHC and B Factories, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, Aug 15 2007

  • Constraining Minimal Flavor Violation at LHC, theory seminar, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, Aug 9 2007

  • Predictions for sin(2beta/phi_1)_eff in b -> s penguin dominated modes, 5th Flavor Physics and CP Violation Conference (FPCP 2007), Bled, Slovenia, May 13 2007

  • Redki procesi in iskanje nove fizike (Rare processes and the search for new physics), monday colloquium, U. of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 3 2007

  • Selected hot topics in B physics, theory seminar, ICTP, Trieste, Italy,  April 16, 2007

  • Semiinclusive hadronic B decays using SCET, talk at SCET07 workshop, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, Mar 30 2007

  • Charmless 2-body B decays in SCET, theory seminar, Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia, Mar 9 2007

  • Charmless 2-body B decays in SCET, theory seminar, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Feb 15 2007

  • Charmless 2-body B decays in SCET, theory seminar, Technion, Haifa, Israel, Feb 7 2007

longer visits

• • Carnegie Mellon U., Pittsburgh, PA and Fermilab, Batavia, IL and Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, from 21. 7. 2007 till 3. 9. 2007

  • Carnegie Mellon U. Pittsburgh, PA and LBNL, Berkeley, CA, from Mar 24 till Apr 1 2007

  • Technion, Haifa, Israel, 28. 1. 2007 till 8. 2. 2007 

2006

conferences

• • CKM 2006, 4th International  Workshop on Unitarity Triangle, Nagoya, Japan, Dec 12 -16 2006

  • Beauty 2006, The 11th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines, Oxford, UK, Sept 25 -29 2006

talks/seminars

• Understanding eta(′) K(∗) branching ratios, CKM 2006, Nagoya, Japan, Dec 14 2006

• Penguin polution estimates relevant for phi_2/alpha extraction, CKM 2006, Nagoya, Japan, Dec 13 2006

• gamma from B -> DK : Theoretical review, CKM 2006, Nagoya, Japan, Dec 12 2006 

• Alpha from B-> pi pi, rho rho, rho pi,  talk at Beauty 2006, Oxford, UK, Sept 26 2006

• Gamma from B -> DK, talk at Beauty 2006, Oxford, UK, Sept 27 2006

• Charmless 2-body B decays in SCET, theory seminar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, Aug 18 2006

• Charmless 2-body B decays in SCET, theory seminar, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, May 22 2006

• Charmless 2-body B decays in SCET, theory seminar, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, Apr 27 2006

• Alpha from B0 to a^{+-}_1(1260) pi^{-+}, talk at BaBar collaboration meeting, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA, Feb 25 2006

• Charmless 2-body B decays in SCET, theory seminar, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA, Feb 24 2006

longer visits

• • BNL, Aug 2006

2005

conferences

• • Super B Factory Workshop in Hawaii, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, Oahu, Apr 20-22 2005

  • CKM 2005 workshop, UCSD, San Diego, CA, March 15-18 2005

  • INT theory institute workshop, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA, Apr 2005

talks/seminars

• • Isospin breaking effects in B -> pi pi, rho rho, rho pi, talk at CKM 2005 conference, UCSD, San Diego, CA, March 17 2005

  • Extracting gamma from D Dalitz analysis theory introduction, talk at CKM 2005 conference, UCSD, San Diego, CA, March 16 2005

  • Hot topics in B physics, theory seminar, BNL, Upton, NY, June 15 2005

  • Hot topics in B physics, theory seminar, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, May 3 2005

  • Irreducible theory errors in alpha and gamma extraction, talk at Super B Factory Workshop in Hawaii, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, Oahu, Apr 20 2005

  • (i) Isospin breaking effect in B -> pi pi, rho rho, rho pi, (ii) alpha from two body rho pi, talk at INT theory institute workshop, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA, Apr 14 2005

  • Determination of the CKM phase: overview, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, Mar 28 2005

longer visits

2004

conferences

• • FPCP 2004 conference, EXCO, Daegu, Korea, Oct 4 -9 2004

  • Beach 2004 conference, IIT, Chicago, IL, June 27 -July 3 2004

talks/seminars

• • Determining CKM unitarity triangle angles alpha and gamma, theory seminar, Carnegie Mellon U., Pittsburgh, PA, Dec 1 2004

  • Determining alpha and gamma - theory, talk at FPCP, Daegu, Korea, Oct 6 2004

  • Determining alpha and gamma - theory, theory seminar, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Sept 30 2004

  • Obtaining alpha from B to rho^+- pi^--+, talk at Beach 2004 conference, IIT, Chicago, IL, July 2, 2004

  • Extracting gamma using neutral B to D Ks decays, theory seminar, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Apr 15 2004

longer visits

2003 and before

conferences

• • CKM 2003 workshop, Durham U., Durham, UK, April 5 - 9 2003

  • 8th Adriatic Meeting, Particle Physics in the New Millenium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 4-14 September 2001

talks/seminars

• • Lattice QCD with heavy mesons: quenching and extrapolational errors, theory seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Nov 4  2003

  • Lattice QCD with heavy mesons: quenching and extrapolational errors, theory seminar, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, Oct 30 2003

  • Lattice QCD with heavy mesons: quenching and extrapolational errors, theory seminar, INT, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA, Oct 27 2003

  • Lattice QCD with heavy mesons: quenching and extrapolational errors, theory seminar, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, Oct 16 2003

  • Lattice QCD with heavy mesons: quenching and extrapolational errors, theory seminar, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, Oct 9 2003

  • Lattice QCD with heavy mesons: quenching and extrapolational errors, theory seminar, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA Sept 24 2003

  • Determining gamma using B+- to D K+- with multibody D decays, talk at CKM 2003, Durham U., Durham, UK, Apr 6 2003

  • Rare Decay D0 to gamma gamma, talk given at 8th Adriatic Meeting, Particle Physics in the New Millenium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 7 2001

  • Non-factorizable contributions in D0 to K0 K0bar-decays : talk atTriangle Seminar on Particle Physics, Vienna, Dec 2, 2000

longer visits

• • SLAC, Menlo Park, CA, Sept, Oct 2003

  • Technion, Haifa, Israel, Jan-Feb 2002