High Energy Physics Seminars

NOTE: All Fall 2020/Winter 2021/Spring 2021 seminars will be held via Zoom.

2020-2021

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
5-Oct 10 AM*	Clarence Wret	Univ of Rochester	Recent results from the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment
12-Oct 4 PM	Sam McDermott	Fermilab	New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap
19-Oct	no seminar
26-Oct 4 PM	Seth Koren	University of Chicago	UV/IR Mixing and the Hierarchy Problem
2-Nov 9 AM*	Juan Estrada	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	Skipper-CCDs for dark matter, neutrinos, quantum science and astronomy
3-Nov 10am*	Tova Holmes	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Off the Beaten Track: Long-Lived Particles at the LHC
9-Nov 4 PM	Cristina Mondino	Perimeter Institute	Probing Dark Matter substructure with astrometric weak lensing
16-Nov 4PM	Kelly Stifter	Stanford University	The LZ dark matter experiment: Development, construction and current status
23-Nov 4PM	John Donoghue	UMass Amherst	Renormalizable QFT for gravity
30-Nov 10AM*	Andrea Bocci	CERN	Towards a heterogeneous computing farm for the CMS High Level Trigger
7-Dec 4PM	Rebecca Leane	SLAC	Exoplanets as New Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors
Winter Break
4-Jan	No seminar
11-Jan	No seminar
18-Jan	MLK Jr. Day holiday
25-Jan	Callum Jones	UCLA	Generalizing the Double-Copy: Masses and Higher-Derivatives
1-Feb	Isabel Garcia-Garcia	UCSB	P not PQ
8-Feb	No seminar
15-Feb	President's Day holiday
22-Feb	Raymond Co	Minnesota University	New Roles of the (QCD) Axion in Dark Matter and Baryogenesis
23-Feb 2PM	Daniel Baxter	University of Chicago/KICP	Dark Matter Photography with DAMIC
24-Feb 2PM	David Caratelli	Fermilab	Neutrinos in High Definition: MicroBooNE and the Road Ahead
1-Mar	Yingying Li	Fermilab	Loops and Trees in Generic 4d EFT up to operator dimension 8
2-Mar 2pm	Noah Kurinsky	FNAL	Quantum Sensors for Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter
8-Mar	Julian Muñoz	Harvard	Searching for new physics at cosmic dawn and reionization
Spring Recess
22-Mar 4pm	Sean Westerdale	INFN/Princeton	The DarkSide of the Standard Model: Searching for dark matter DEAP underground with liquid argon
23-Mar 2pm	Alvine Kamaha	SUNY Albany	The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment
24-Mar 2pm	Brian Lenardo	Stanford University	Searching for new physics in liquid xenon time projection chambers
29-Mar	Nicholas Orlofsky	Carleton U.	Phenomenology of Magnetic Black Holes
31-Mar 2pm	Alden Fan	KIPAC/Stanford University/SLAC	Go Big, Go Left: Pushing the Limits of Liquid Xenon Detectors for Dark Matter Detection
5-Apr	Raman Sundrum	University of Maryland	Cosmology and Unification
12-Apr *9am	Cristián Peña	Fermilab	Enabling Searches for Long-lived Particles and Precision Timing at CMS
19-Apr	Hongwan Liu	Princeton	Dark photons and the cosmic radiation background
3-May *10am	Scott Melville	DAMTP, Cambridge	Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Positivity Bounds for Cosmology
6-May new date 12pm*	Jessie Shelton	UIUC	Nonstandard thermal histories and the small-scale matter power spectrum
10-May	Brian Swingle	Brandeis	Cosmology at the end of the world
17-May	Pouya Asadi	MIT	Thermal Squeezeout of Dark Matter
24-May	Jiji Fan	Brown
31-May	Memorial Day holiday