Maxim Perelstein Associate Professor Theoretical Physics Group 334 Newman Lab Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: +1 607 255 4118 mp325 (at) cornell.edu

Research Interests

• Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics
  • Models of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, including supersymmetry, extra dimensions, and extended gauge/global symmetries at the TeV scale.
  • Collider Phenomenology: searches for new physics at the Tevatron, LHC, and beyond.
• Cosmological Applications of Particle Physics: dark matter, dark energy, inflation.

Publications etc.

• My CV (including publications list): ps / pdf
• My papers from SPIRES database.

Recent Research Talks

• "Model Discrimination with Simple Processes at the LHC" -- BSM-LHC Workshop, Boston, June 2009.
• "Model Discrimination with the CMS Detector" -- HEFTI Workshop on Missing Energy Signals at LHC, Davis, April 2009.
• "Who Ordered the Stop?" -- Princeton CTP Mini-Symposium, October 2008.
• "LHC Signatures of the MSSM Golden Region" -- KITP Conference, June 2008.
• "Colliders to the Cosmos: Dark Matter and Electroweak Phase Transition" -- seminars at BU, Madison and Irvine, April-May 2008.
• "Littlest Higgs Model with T Parity" -- seminars at Ohio State, SLAC, and Caltech, April-May 2008.

Recent Review Talks/Lectures

• "Introduction to Collider Physics" -- TASI-09 lectures, Boulder CO, June 2009 (video and notes available)
• "Non-SUSY WIMP Dark Matter Candidates" -- Dark Matter at the Crossroads Workshop, DESY, Hamburg, October 2008.
• "Beyond the SM Models at the Tevatron and LHC" -- Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (HCP2008), Galena, IL, May 2008.
• "BSM Physics Overview" -- MC4BSM3 Workshop, CERN, March 2008.

Recent Public Talks

• "Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Questions for the LHC" -- Cornell Physics Colloqiuim, September 2008 (for non-particle physicists)
• "The Standard Model and Beyond" -- NYSS APS/AAPT Connference, Cornell, April 2008 (for high-school science teachers)

Workshops

• MC4BSM-4 - UC Davis, April 3-4, 2009
• MC4BSM3 - CERN, March 10-11, 2008
• MC4BSM2 - Princeton, March 23-24, 2007
• MC4BSM - Monte Carlo Tools for Beyond the Standard Model Physics, Fermilab, March 20-21, 2006
• 2005 ILC Workshop, Snowmass -- Physics Beyond the Standard Model Working Group

Teaching

• Fall 2009 -- Phys 7661 (Collider Physics)
• Spring 2009 -- Phys 4443 (Intermediate Quantum Mechanics)
• Fall 2008 -- Phys 2213 (Electricity, Magnetism and Thermal Physics) [also F2007, Sp2007]
• Fall 2006 -- Phys 651 (Relativistic Quantum Field Theory) [see also F2005, F2004].
• Spring 2006 -- Phys 116 (Mechanics and Special Relativity) [see also Sp2005, Sp2004].

Local Links

• Cornell Theoretical Particle Physics Group
• Seminar Schedule -- Wednesdays 2:00 pm and Fridays 12:30 pm

Other Useful Links

• SPIRES database at SLAC.
• E-print Archives at Cornell.
• Particle Data Group