High Energy Physics Seminars 2024-2025

All seminars are at 4pm in 469 unless specified.

Zoom link, inquire for password to attend via Zoom

In person talks are limited to those w/a valid Caltech ID.

The organizer of this seminar is Ryan Plestid, Kim Berghaus, and Leonardo Badurina.

2024-2025

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
30-Sept* - changed to 01-Oct	Isabel Garcia Garcia	U. Washington	Axion interactions with Domain and Bubble Walls
7-Oct	Srimoyee Sen	Iowa State U.	Weyl fermion on a finite lattice
14-Oct	Florian Piegsa	Univ of Bern	Pulsed, Polarized and Sliced – Fundamental Ingredients in Neutron Precision Physics
21-Oct	Saurunas Verner	U. Florida	Astrometric Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter
28-Oct	Michael Saavedra	Carnegie Mellon	High Energy Scattering in Classical and Quantum Gravity
4-Nov	Josh Bendavid	MIT	High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CMS
8-Nov (special date)	Michael Ramsey-Musolf	U. Mass Amherst Shanghai Jia Tong University	How Viable is Electroweak Baryogenesis?
11-Nov	Melissa Diamond	Queens U.	Limiting Light Dark Matter with Luminous Hadronic Loops
12-Nov (4 PM special date)	Luigi Marchese	Fermilab	Challenging the Standard Model of Particle Physics and the CMS tracker with flavour
18-Nov	Nathan Seiberg	IAS	Anomalous Continuous Translations
20-Nov (11 AM special time)	Hengameh Bagherian	Harvard	Joint with Informal Meeting Interacting Dark Radiation and Cosmological Tensions
25-Nov	Marios Galanis	Perimeter Inst.	Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise
2-Dec	Nicholas Rodd	LBNL	A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter
5-Dec (12 PM special time)	Roberto Bruschini	Ohio State	Exotic hidden-heavy hadrons
WINTER BREAK
6-Jan	Aishik Ghosh	LBNL & UC Irvine	Overcoming challenges of quantum interference at LHC with neural simulation-based inference and a full implementation in ATLAS
13-Jan	Seminar Cancelled	N/A	N/A
20-Jan	no seminar		Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
27-Jan	Joshua Benabou	UC. Berkeley	Time-delayed gamma-ray signatures of heavy axions from core-collapse supernovae
3-Feb	Donal O'Connell	Edinburgh U.	Semiclassical Amplitudes and Black Holes
10-Feb	Christiane Scherb	UC Berkeley/LBNL	Dark showers from sneaky dark matter
17-Feb	no seminar		President's Day holiday
18-Feb (Tues. @ 1 PM)	Raffaele Tito d'Agnolo	Institut de Physique Théorique	Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?
24-Feb	Chia-Hsien Shen	National Taiwan University	New Structures in Renormalization Group from Fundamental Principles
3-Mar	Innes Bigaran	Northwestern University & Fermilab	Tau physics as a portal for discovery
11-Mar special date	Xing Fan	Northwestern University & Harvard University	Quantum Precision Measurement of Positrons and Radioactive Molecules for New Physics
12-Mar special date 12:00pm	Yi Chen	Vanderbilt University	Ripples in a trillion-degree soup of quarks and gluons
12-Mar special date 4:00pm	Laurent Lellouch	Aix-Marseille Universite, Universite de Toulon, CNRS	Probing the Standard Model to 0.37 ppm with the muon anomalous magnetic moment
13-Mar 12:00 PM	Jan Schütte-Engel	UC. Berkeley, RIKEN	Unveiling Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Gravitational Waves
17-Mar	Roxanne Springer	Duke	Low-energy effective field theories based upon the symmetries of QCD
SPRING BREAK
31-Mar	Devin Walker	Dartmouth	Bosonic Mixing in Curved Spacetime
7-Apr	Margarita Gavrilova	Cornell U.	Higher Order Flavor Sum Rules
14-Apr	Haibo Yu	UC Riverside	Gravothermal Collapse of Dark Matter Halos: Observational Insights
21-Apr	No seminar
28-Apr	Anson Hook	U. Maryland	Predicting the dark matter - baryon abundance ratio
5-May	Jake Rudolph	UC Irvine	Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Neutrino Flavor Symmetries
12-May	Paul Steinhardt	Princeton University	How the universe came to be smooth and flat
19-May	Yue Zhang	Carleton University	Neutrino Self-interaction: Motivations and Future Probes
26-May	No seminar		Memorial Day holiday
27-May	Giacomo Marocco	LBNL, Berkeley	Magnetomechanical detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
29-May special date 12:00pm	Christian Biello	Garching, Max Planck Institut	QCD and Parton Shower matching for LHC event simulations