HET and HEE Seminars

Upcoming HET and HEE Seminars



High Energy Theory Seminar: Averaged null energy and the renormalization group

Tom Hartman (Cornell University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

The averaged null energy condition, or ANEC, is a fundamental bound on negative energy in quantum field theory. It has applications ranging from black holes to quantum information to the 3D Ising model,…



High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

David Nichols (University of Virginia)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

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Experimental Particle Physics: The Future of Thermal Relic Dark Matter

Matthew Baumgart (ASU)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

The idea that dark matter is nothing more than a “heavy neutrino” that froze out after reheating has long been a seductive one. Indirect detection experiments are just now entering an era where the simplest candidate…



High Energy Theory Seminar: Milky Way satellite galaxies as probe for dark matter

Ariane Dekker (University of Chicago)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

Small-scale dark matter structures provide an important window into primordial density fluctuations and the microphysical properties of dark matter. Deviations from the standard LCDM model can significantly alter the…



High Energy Theory Seminar: Black Holes as Probes for Ultralight Dark Matter

Bruno Bucciotti (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

I will discuss the possibility that dark matter is made of weakly interacting, very light scalar particles, briefly reviewing the strong theoretical motivations of this proposal. In a scenario where non-gravitational…



High Energy Theory Seminar: MIT and Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University

Thomas Steingasser (MIT)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

The SM Higgs sector is subject to two fine-tunings, manifesting in the hierarchy problem and the metastability of the electroweak vacuum. I will explain why these tunings, which were long believed to be independent,…



High Energy Theory Seminar: The dynamics of dRGT massive gravity 

Jan Kożuszek (Imperial College London)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

After reviewing the motivation and challenges connected with the dRGT theory of ghost-free massive gravity, we discuss our recent progress in understanding non-linear dynamics of this model. In spherical symmetry,…