Seminars
All seminars for Spring 2026 will take place on Tuesdays in Lyman 330 at 10:30am.
| Date | Visitor | Seminar Title | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
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 |