<p>Joint Theory Seminar Speaker: Seyda Ipek (UC Irvine)<br />mail: sipek@uci.edu<br />Title: High Scale QCD and Baryogenesis<br />Host: Verhaaren<br />Room: 432<br />Abstract: Generally we do not think about QCD when we try to explain the matter--antimatter asymmetry of the universe. I will describe a model where we raise the QCD confinement scale. This can generate a first-order phase transition and triggers electroweak breaking. This provides a baryogenesis scenario with many other cosmological consequences.</p>