Contact Information Mailing Address : Department of Physics Northeastern University 110 Forsyth Street Boston, MA 02115 Campus Office : 225 Dana Research Center Campus Phone : (617) 373-2956 E-mail Address : b.nelson (AT) neu.edu

• Graduate Journal Club 2009/2010
• Physics U303: Modern Physics

• [ Spring 2007 ] Physics U151: Introductory Physics I for Engineers
• [ Fall 2007 ]     Physics U303: Modern Physics
• [ Spring 2008 ] Physics G733: Advanced Topics in Particle Physics & Cosmology
• [ Fall 2008 ]     Physics U161: Introductory Physics I for Physics Majors
• [ 2006-2007 ] Graduate Journal Club 2006
• [ 2007-2008 ] Graduate Journal Club 2007
• [ 2008-2009 ] Graduate Journal Club 2008

• Studying Gaugino Mass Unification at the LHC: BSM-LHC

Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC (Pre-SUSY09 Workshop), Northeastern University, Boston, June 2 - June 4, 2009.

Transparencies: PDF File

• Theory and Phenomenology of Exotic Isosinglet Quarks and Squarks: SUSY 2007

15th Annual International Conference On Supersymmetry And The Unification Of Fundamental Interactions, Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 25 - August 1, 2007.

Transparencies: PDF File

• Identifying the Geometry of the MSSM: String Pheno 2006

Fifth International Conference on String Phenomenoloy, KITP, UC Santa Barbara, August 28 - September 1, 2006.

Transparencies: PDF File

• The Search for Neutrino Masses in Heterotic String Models: Fields/Perimeter Thematic Program on String Theory

Workshop on String Phenomenoloy, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, March 28 - April 1, 2005.

Transparencies: PDF File

• What Does LHC Data Have to Do with String Phenomenology?: String Pheno 2004

Third International Conference on String Phenomenoloy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 1-6, 2004.

Transparencies: PDF File

• What Do LEP Higgs Results Tell Us About String-Based Models?: SUSY 2003

11th Annual International Conference On Supersymmetry And The Unification Of Fundamental Interactions, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, June 5-10, 2003.

Transparencies: Postscript File

• Experimental Signatures of Kahler Stabilization of the Dilaton: Sugra20

International Conference: 20 Years of Supergravity, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, March 17-20, 2003.

Proceedings: (hep-ph/0307255)

Transparencies: Postscript File

• Anomaly-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking From a String Theory Perspective: String Pheno 2002

The First International Conference on String Phenomenology, Oxford, United Kingdom, July 6-11, 2002.

Proceedings: (hep-ph/0211087)

Trasnparencies: Postscript File

• Fine-Tuning, Dilaton Stabilization and Nonuniversal Gaugino Masses: SUSY 2002

10th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions DESY, Hamburg, Germany, June 17-23, 2002.

Transparencies: Postscript File

• Hidden Sector Gaugino Condensation and the Observable World: PASCOS 99

7th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Lake Tahoe, California, December 10-16, 1999.

Proceedings: (hep-ph/0009277)

• A partial listing of classic papers in my library can be found here.

• SuSpect Homepage
• SPheno Homepage
• SoftSUSY Homepage
• Comparison of common SUSY analysis codes by Sabine Kraml
• MicrOmegas Homepage
• DarkSUSY Homepage

• A list of PYTHIA color flow patterns for each KCC code can be found here.
  NOTE: These codes were compiled for version 6.3 and have not yet been checked against version 8.X. This is the holiest-of-holies for PYTHIA, so if you have no idea what a KCC code is, best leave this alone (c.f. Raiders of the Lost Ark)!

• Two-part lecture series on SUSY at the LHC for the Penn Seminar Series:

  Part One: An Introduction to Supersymmetry and the MSSM

  Part Two: Studying SUSY at the LHC

• Reading Course on QFT

Forbidden Words of 2009, courtesy of Matt Groening (and back issues).
My own list of words so overused they have no meaning anymore (if they ever really did).