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
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