Seminare de DPNC ================ Mercredi, 24 jan. 1996 17.00 - Auditoire Stuckelberg Universite de Geneve Departement de physique nucleaire et corpusculaire 24, quai Ernest-Ansermet 1211 Geneva 4 Tel. 022 702 6273 Fax 022 781 2192 ****************************************************************************** Sujet: Par: Dr. Matthias Neubert, CERN Resume: Title: Recent results in B decays Abstract: Recent developments in the theory of heavy flavour decays are reviewed together with a summary of new experimental results. The topics covered include: determinations of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements V_cb and V_ub, form factors in semileptonic B decays, rare radiative B decays, the semileptonic branching ratio of the B meson and charm counting, lifetimes of b-flavoured hadrons, and the deter- mination of alpha_s from Upsilon spectroscopy.