Seminars

Upcoming Seminars



High Energy Theory Seminar: Search for exotic Higgs boson decays with CMS and fast machine learning solutions for the LHC

Ho Fung Tsoi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3C4

There is still room for BSM physics in the scalar sector, which could manifest as Higgs boson decays to a pair of light pseudoscalars. I will present a search for such decay in final states with two b quarks and two…



Experimental Particle Physics: Searching for Exotic and Rare Physics Processes with Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Detectors

Daisy Kalra (Columbia University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

Neutrinos are some of the most abundant but elusive particles in the universe. The groundbreaking discovery of neutrino oscillations, recognized by the 2015 Nobel Prize, revealed the existence of non-zero neutrino…



High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Konstantinous Roumpedakis (UCLA)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2



High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Sebastian Franco (CUNY)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2



High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Lorenzo Ricci (University of Maryland)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

Past Seminars



High Energy Theory Seminar: Two dimensional QCD as a string theory

Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

50 years after the duality of large N gauge theories to string theories was suggested, we still do not have a constructive method to find the string dual of a given gauge theory. I will review work in progress (in…



Astrophysics Seminar: High-resolution images of light dark matter — First results of the DAMIC-M experiment

Radomir Smida (University of Chicago)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19

The DAMIC-M experiment will exploit the sub-electron resolution capabilities of skipper charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to search for light dark matter particles in a broad range of masses from 1 eV to 10 GeV. A…



High Energy Theory Seminar: Making massive spin-2 particles from gravity during and after inflation

Andrew Long (Rice University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

The phenomenon of cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) occurs during and after inflation as quantum fields “feel” the cosmological expansion are excited out of their ground state.  CGPP is a…



Astrophysics Seminar: SPHEREx: An all-sky near-infrared spectral survey

Howard Hui (Caltech)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, Center for Particle Cosmology Lounge

SPHEREx, an upcoming NASA medium-class Explorer Mission, will perform the first all-sky near infrared spectral survey. With a targeted launch date in early 2025, SPHEREx will map the entire sky at 6.2 arcsec from 0.…



High Energy Theory Seminar: Black Holes as the 21st century laboratory: New Tools and Prospects

Alfredo Guevara González (Harvard)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4N12

Recent breakthrough observations of black holes call for a new conceptual framework that unifies their analysis, from gravitational wave production to VLBI imaging of the photon ring. I will show how this is achieved…