Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Learning the shape of the immune and protein universe

Armita Nourmohammad (University of Washington)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The adaptive immune system consists of highly diverse B- and T-cell receptors, which can recognize a multitude of diverse pathogens. Immune recognition relies on molecular interactions between…



High Energy Theory Seminar: Topological defects on the worldsheet

Konstantinous Roumpedakis (Johns Hopkins University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

In this talk, I will discuss the implications of non-invertible topological defects on the worldsheet. I will consider two different setups where such defects arise in string theory. The first setup is toroidal…



Astro On Tap

Mar 21, 2024 - Mar 18, 2024 at - Fergie's Pub 2nd Floor
1214 Sansom Street



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Randomness, Complexity, and the Biological Frontier

Pankaj Mehta (University of Boston)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The towering successes of twentieth century theoretical physics were marked by two guiding principles: symmetry and energy functionals (reflecting equilibrium dynamics). Yet how we…



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: 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…



Primakoff Lecture: Deciphering the Higgs boson: insights and revelations a decade after the discovery

Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) marks a breakthrough in particle physics, and it stands with the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.…



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…



Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: Exotic Higgs decays & AI triggers at the LHC

Tae Min Hong (CERN)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

Data at the LHC allows us to probe whether the Higgs boson communicates with unknown and/or undiscovered sectors beyond the Standard Model. I will discuss ATLAS results on the searches for Higgs decays to dark matter…