Title: Institution building: The story of IISER's

Speaker: Prof. N. Sathyamurthy, Director, IISER Mohali

Venue: Lecture Hall, NISER

Date: 2016-Sep-06 15:00:00

Abstract: To be announced

Title: Active Matter

Speaker: Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy, TCIS, Hyderabad

Venue: Lecture Hall, NISER

Date: 2016-Sep-06 16:15:00

Abstract:

Title: Quest for a Unified Theory

Speaker: Prof. Sudhakar Panda, Director, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar

Venue: Room 004, SBS Building, IIT Bhubaneswar, Argul-Jatni, Bhubaneswar

Date: 2016-Sep-08 16:00:00

Abstract: In this talk, we will review our modern understanding of the building blocks of matter and their interactions. We will motivate the necessity of one unified quantum theory to describe all the interactions. We will critically examine the pros and cons of a candidate, called String Theory, for this purpose

Title: Light Higgs Bosons at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Monoranjan Guchait , TIFR, Mumbai

Venue: IOP Lecture Hall

Date: 2016-Sep-09 16:00:00

Abstract: The recent data indicates that the observed Higgs boson of mass ~ 125 GeV at the LHC experiments is very likely to be the SM-like. However, beyond standard model physics can also accommodate this SM like Higgs boson. For example, the supersymmetic extension of the SM, e.g. the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model(MSSM) offers one of its Higgs boson as the SM-like, but this model requires too much fine tuning of the parameters space and, is also severely constrained. On the other hand, the next to the MSSM (NMSSM) can accommodate the SM-like Higgs boson very easily without much tuning of its parameters. The interesting consequence of this model is that it predicts more Higgs bosons in addition to the SM like Higgs boson and, some of them can be very light, even at the level of few GeV. In this talk, after reviewing recent Higgs results,I plan to discuss the NMSSM Higgs phenomenology in the context of the LHC Run 2 experiments.