High Energy Physics Seminars
Effective Spring Term 2022, 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 organizers of this seminar are Andreas Helset, Clara Murgui and Julio Parra-Martinez.
2021-2022
Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
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4-Oct *12 PM* Zoom | Ilaria Brivio | Heidelberg | The SMEFT program at the LHC |
11-Oct | Yikun Wang | Caltech | Electroweak Bubble Wall Velocity |
18-Oct | Mikhail Ivanov | IAS, Princeton | EFT on the sky: from galaxies to black holes |
25-Oct | Enrico Herrmann | UCLA | Collider physics tools for classical gravitational wave observables |
1-Nov *12 PM* Zoom | Djuna Croon | Durham | Rethinking false vacuum decay |
8-Nov | No seminar | ||
15-Nov | Cari Cesarotti | Harvard University | Searching for New Physics at Future Muon Colliders |
22-Nov Zoom | Peizhi Du | Stony Brook | New backgrounds and new ideas for sub-GeV dark matter direct detection |
29-Nov Zoom | Xiaochuan Lu | U. Oregon | Is SMEFT Enough? |
6-Dec | Brent William Stone | UCLA | A search for heavy resonances decaying to HH in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV. |
13-Dec | Kathryn Sutton | Caltech | MicroBooNE's Search for the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess |
Winter Break | |||
10-Jan *9:45 am* Zoom | Giuseppe Bevilacqua | University of Siena | Dressing and Tuning -Dressing of a spin 1/2 system |
17-Jan | no seminar | MLK Jr. Day holiday | |
18-Jan - POSTPONED | Jiangai Liu | Shanghai University | TBD |
24-Jan | Victor Gorbenko | Stanford | Analyticity and Unitarity for Cosmological Correlators |
31-Jan | Matteo Cremonesi | University of Notre Dame | Turning the LHC to the Dark Side: The Standard Dark Matter Search Approach, Its Limitations, and How to Overcome Them |
7-Feb Zoom | Cristian Peña | Fermilab | Unlocking the CMS Experiment to Catch Long-lived Particles |
14-Feb | Ian Moult | Yale | Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC |
21-Feb | no seminar | President's Day holiday | |
24-Feb *1pm in 469 Lauritsen* | Jonathan Ouellet | MIT | Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero |
28-Feb | Ryan Plestid | University of Kentucky | Coulomb enhancements for fundamental physics |
7-Mar Zoom *10 am* | Prateek Agrawal | Oxford | Axion Strings in the Sky |
Spring Recess | |||
28-Mar | Yiming Zhong | KICP, U. Chicago | Precision Calculation of Inflation Correlators at One Loop |
1-Apr *4pm* | Joachim Kopp | CERN, U. Mainz | Dark Matter from Cosmological Phase Transitions |
4-Apr *1pm* | Eliezer Rabinovici | CERN, H. U. Jerusalem | Persistent Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at High Temperatures |
4-Apr *4pm* Zoom | Michael Dine | UCSC | Light Quarks at Large N |
11-Apr | Mario Reig | Oxford | The axion-photon coupling and grand unified theories |
18-Apr *12pm* Zoom | Clifford Burgess | Perimeter, McMaster U | Surprising and Dark Implications of a Supersymmetric Gravity Sector |
25-Apr | No seminar | ||
2-May Zoom | Michael Ramsey-Musolf |
T.D. Lee Institute/Shanghai Jiao Tong U., U Mass Amherst. Caltech |
Was There an Electroweak Phase Transition? |
9-May | Saptaparna Bhattacharya | Northwestern University |
An experimental overview of effective field theory exploration at the LHC |
16-May | no seminar | ||
23-May | |||
30-May | no seminar | Memorial Day holiday |