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