Seminars

All seminars for Spring 2026 will take place on Tuesdays in Lyman 330 at 10:30am. 

DateVisitorSeminar TitleAffiliation
May 5, 2026
Joshua Benabou
Axions from Core Collapse Supernovae and GALAXIS
University of California, Berkeley
April 28, 2026
Arushi Bodas
Cosmological Collider Physics Beyond the Inflationary Hubble Scale
University of Chicago
April 21, 2026
Marius Kongsore
Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons
New York University
April 14, 2026
David Dunsky
Cosmological Production of ROMP Dark Matter
New York University
April 7, 2026
Abhishek Banerjee
Composite Ultralight Scalars, Fifth Forces, and Atomic Clocks
University of Maryland
March 24, 2026
Gongjun Choi
An extradimensional axion in a 5D warped orbifold GUT.
University of Minnesota
March 17, 2026
Junwu Huang
Light Boson Dark Matter & Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics
Perimeter Institute
March 10, 2026
Soubhik Kumar
Gravitational Waves from Spectator Fields
Tufts University
March 3, 2026
Josu Aurrekoetxea
Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
MIT
February 17, 2026
Ben Lehmann
Broadening direct searches for light dark matter
MIT
November 11, 2025
Aurora Ireland
A Classical-to-Quantum Transition for Inflationary Perturbations
Stanford University 
November 4, 2025
Bryce Cyr
Synergies between CMB spectral distortions and 21cm cosmology; A dark photon case study
MIT
October 21, 2025
Badal Bhalla
Three-body Encounters with Primordial Black Holes
University of Oklahoma
October 14, 2025
Kevin Langhoff
A Flavor of SO(10) Unification with a Spinor Higgs
MIT
September 30, 2025
Michael Baker
Exploding Black Holes Beyond the Standard Model
UMass Amherst
September 9, 2025
Belén Gavela
Higgs near-criticality at future colliders
UAM Spain 
April 29, 2025
Huangyu Xiao
Monopole Baryogenesis with a theta angle
University of Chicago
April 22, 2025
Majid Ekhterachian
Electroweak Baryogenesis without dipole moments
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
April 15, 2025
Anson Hook
Dyonic Bound States
University of Maryland
April 8, 2025
Sergei Dubovsky
A Real World Warped Compactification
New York University
April 1, 2025
Stefan Stelzl
The Tolerable Inhomogeneities During BBN
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
March 18, 2025
Dibya Chattopadhyay
From the Mediterranean to Antarctica, via New Physics?
Oklahoma State University
March 11, 2025
Surjeet Rajendran
Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics
Johns Hopkins University
March 4, 2025
John Terning
Abelian Instantons
University of California, Davis 
February 18, 2025
Nicholas Rodd
 
Lawrence Berkeley Lab
February 11, 2025
Vincent Lee
Quantum Gravity Signals in 4D Einstein gravity from 2D JT gravity
University of California, Berkeley
November 26, 2024
Max Ruhdorfer
On the Dynamical Origin of the η′ Potential and the Axion Mass
Stanford University 
November 19, 2024
Claudio Andrea Manzari
Strong CP and Flavor
University of California, Berkeley
November 12, 2024
Nathaniel Craig
Broken higher-form symmetries in particle physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
November 5, 2024
Ami Katz
Thermalization and Chaos in QFT
Boston University 
October 29, 2024
Bibhushan Shakya
Cosmic Colliders: High Energy Physics with First Order Phase Transitions
DESY 
October 15, 2024
Huangyu Xiao
Dark Matter Substructure as a Window to Fundamental Physics
Fermilab
October 8, 2024
Sergey Sibiryakov
Thermal false vacuum decay is not what it seems
Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
October 1, 2024
Itay Bloch
Snipe Hunt: using the largest cavities on earth to search for DM
CERN
September 24, 2024
Tracy Slatyer
Dark Matter, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Birth of the First Stars
MIT
September 17, 2024
Soubhik Kumar
Rare Processes during Inflation: CMB Hotspots and Early Galaxies
Tufts University