Seminars

Upcoming Seminars



High Energy Theory Seminar: 5D SCFTs, Brane Webs, GTPs, Quivers and Geometry

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

String/M-Theory provides various approaches for constructing 5d Superconformal Field Theories, most notably geometric engineering via M-theory on toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds and webs of (p,q) 5-branes in Type IIB String…



Astrophysics Seminar: Near-field Cosmology with Stellar Streams

Nora Shipp (Carnegie Mellon)
- David Rittenhouse Labs, 4E19

Stellar streams, the tidal remnants of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies orbiting throughout the Milky Way’s halo, are some of the most powerful tools in the study of near-field cosmology. In particular, they are…



High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

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



High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Alberto Nicolis (Columbia University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2



Astrophysics seminar: "TBA"

Mike McElwain (NASA)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19

Past Seminars



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…



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…



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…