High Energy Physics Seminars 2021-22
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 |