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
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 and 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
2-Apr (Updated -Special Date)	Matteo Cremonesi	Carnegie Mellon	Using Machine Learning to Deal with the Data from the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter
8-Apr	Cristina Mantilla Suarez	Fermilab	The accelerator-driven hunt for hidden sector dark matter in the US
15-Apr	Sam Homiller	Harvard	Flavorful New Physics and Wrinkles in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism
22-Apr	Huangyu Xiao	Fermilab & KICP	Detecting Dark Matter Substructures on Small Scales with Fast Radio Bursts
29-Apr	Yohei Ema	U. Minnesota & FTPI	Indirect probes of muon EDM and spin force
6-May	Gonzalo Alonso-Alvarez	U. Toronto	The role of dark matter in supermassive black hole mergers
7-May special date	Sebastian Ellis	Geneva U.	Dark Matter Signals from the Ionosphere
13-May	Zhiquan Sun	MIT	Heavy quark transverse momentum-dependent fragmentation
20-May - rescheduled to May 28	Masha Baryakhtar	U. Washington	Cosmology with varying constants: hyperlight, coupled scalars across cosmic history
23-May @noon special date at time	Yannis Georis	Louvain University	From the early Universe to colliders: Low-scale leptogenesis
27-May	No seminar		Memorial Day holiday
30-May @noon special date at time	Gramos Qerimi	Tech U., (TUM)	Effective field theory treatment of the freeze-out mechanism of thermal non-relativistic dark matter pairs
25-June special seminar	Glennys Farrar	NYU	Unexplained "invisible" final states in the charmonium region
29-July special seminar	Stephen Hsu	Michigan State University	Black Hole Information and Replica Wormholes