High Energy Physics Seminars 2023-2024
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 Ryan Plestid and Yikun Wang
2023-2024
Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
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15-Sept @1pm special date and time |
Aman Singal | Stony Brook | Going beyond the Standard Model with linear response theory |
2-Oct | Ryan Janish | Fermilab | Light Shining Through a Thin Wall: Evanescent Hidden Photon Detection |
9-Oct | Wouter Dekens | INT, U. Washington | Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory |
16-Oct | Chiara Salemi | KICP, Stanford/SLAC | Qubit-based sensing for axion dark matter |
19-Oct @noon special date at time |
Aurora Ireland | U. Chicago | Supermassive primordial black holes from inflation |
23-Oct | Michael Mackenzie | Northwestern U. | The search for µ− → e+ conversion at µ− → e− conversion experiments |
24-Oct special date |
Brooke Russell | LBL | The 2x2 Demonstrator - A demonstrator for the DUNE ND-LAr Near Detector based on the ArgonCube Design |
30-Oct | Kevin Zhou | Stanford U. | Electromagnetism and Gravity with Continuous Spin |
6-Nov | Prineha Narang | UCLA | Axion electrodynamics through the lens of condensed matter |
9-Nov @noon special date at time |
Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr | UC, Riverside | Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter Models with Astrophysical Observations |
13-Nov | Kelly Stifter | SLAC | Leveraging quantum sensors to shine new light on searches for low-mass dark matter |
20-Nov | Amalia Madden | Perimeter Institute | The Piezoaxionic Effect: dark matter detection and new forces |
27-Nov | Jure Zupan | U. Cincinnati | Prospecting for new physics using muons |
30-Nov special date |
Stephen Hsu | Michigan State | Quantum Hair and Black Hole Information |
Dec 4 | Kevin McFarland | U. Rochester | Neutrino Scattering for Neutrino Oscillations |
Dec 5 special date |
Alexander Kish | Fermilab | State-of-the art R&D on optical photon detection at Fermilab |
Winter Break | |||
8-Jan | Inbar Savoray | UC Berkeley | Learning New Physics from Data – a Symmetrized Approach |
9-Jan Special date/time (noon) |
Richard Ruiz | IFJ PAN | Life at a Multi-TeV Muon Collider |
9-Jan special date |
Julia Gonski | SLAC | Machine Learning and Microelectronics for 'New' New Physics Searches at the Energy Frontier |
10-Jan special date |
Abhisek Datta | UCLA | Measurements of Higgs Boson Properties with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider |
15-Jan | No seminar | Martin Luther King Jr. day | |
16-Jan special date/time (2pm) |
Michael Ramsey-Musolf |
TD Lee Institute/Shanghai Jiao Tong U UMass Amherst Caltec |
Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition: Collider-Gravitational Wave Complementarity |
16-Jan special date |
Ken Van Tilburg | NYU | Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC) |
17-Jan special date |
Jennet Dickinson | Fermilab | Boosted Higgs production and smart trackers of the future |
22-Jan | Elena Pinetti | Fermilab & KICP | Probing dark matter with cosmic voids |
29-Jan | Seminar Cancelled | --- | |
5-Feb - POSTPONED (see below) | --- | --- | |
12-Feb | Nashwan Sabti | Johns Hopkins | Cosmology and the high-redshift Universe |
13-Feb *changed from 06-Feb* |
Chiara Salemi | SLAC | Seeing the invisible: the search for low-mass axion dark matter with DMRadio |
19-Feb | No seminar | President's Day holiday | |
20-Feb *changed from 05-Feb* |
Benjamin Lillard | U. Oregon | Molecules For Dark Matter Detection |
26-Feb | Akshay Ghalsasi | U. Pittsburgh | Gravitational Waves from NNaturalness |
4-Mar | Anirudh Prabhu | Princeton | Axions in High-Energy Astrophysical Plasmas |
12-Mar | Tiziano Campores | Boston University | Neutrino Physics at the LHC : the SND@LHC experiment |
Spring Recess | |||
1-Apr | Biplab Dey | Eötvös U. | Journeys beyond the Standard Model in the flavor and dark sectors at LHCb and CODEX-b |
8-Apr | Cristina Mantilla Suarez | Fermilab | TBA |
15-Apr | Sam Homiller | Harvard | TBA |
22-Apr | Huangyu Xiao | Fermilab & KICP | TBA |
29-Apr | Isabel Garcia Garcia | U. Washington | |
6-May | Gonzalo Alonso-Alvarez | U. Toronto | TBA |
7-May special date |
Sebastian Ellis | Geneva U. | |
13-May | Zhiquan Sun | MIT | |
20-May | Masha Baryakhtar | U. Washington | TBA |
27-May | No seminar | Memorial Day holiday | |
28-May | Andrea Thamm | U. Mass. Amherst | TBA |