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High Energy Physics Seminars 2020-21

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 Two short tales of axions
31-May Memorial Day holiday