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 |
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11-Mar special date |
Xing Fan | Northwestern University & Harvard University | Quantum Precision Measurement of Positrons and Radioactive Molecules for New Physics |
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12-Mar special date 12:00pm |
Yi Chen | Vanderbilt University | Ripples in a trillion-degree soup of quarks and gluons |
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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 |
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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 | |
| 12-May | Paul Steinhardt | Princeton University | TBD |
| 19-May | Yue Zhang | Carleton University | |
| 26-May | No seminar | Memorial Day holiday | |
| 27-May | Giacomo Marocco | LBNL, Berkeley | TBD |
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29-May 12:00 PM |
Christian Biello | Garching, Max Planck Institut |