Seminars

Upcoming Seminars



Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: Accelerating the search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter

Christina Mantilla Suarez (UVA)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

Accelerator-based experiments provide a unique opportunity to expand the search for dark sector and rare processes in the MeV to GeV mass range, just below the proton mass. This largely unexplored regime is…



Astrophysics Seminar: Weak Lensing with the Effective Theory of Large-Scale Structure

Stephen Chen (Princeton)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19

In the past decade, effective theories of large-scale structure (EFT) have become the premier way to constrain fundamental physics using spectroscopic surveys starting from first principles. In this talk I…



High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Vladimir Rosenhaus (CUNY)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2


Astrophysics Seminar: Formation and Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Nature vs Nurture?

Yen-Ting Lin (ASIAA)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19

The formation and evolution of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), the most massive galaxies in the universe, is not a well-understood issue in astrophysics.  Are BCGs special compared to other cluster…



Astrophysics Seminar: FRB science results from CHIME

Kendrick Smith (Perimeter)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered, poorly understood class of transient event, and understanding their origin has become a central problem in astrophysics. I will present FRB science results…

Past Seminars



Astrophysics Seminar: High-redshift star formation under the cosmic microscope with SPT+ALMA+JWST

Joaquin Vieira (UIUC)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19


High Energy Theory Seminar: The Quantum Universe from Quantum Gravity

Yasunori Nomura (Berkeley)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

I will discuss issues involved in formulating a quantum theory of the universe, including nonperturbative aspects of quantum gravity. In particular, I will explore how to pose physically meaningful questions in…



High Energy Theory Seminar: Love numbers for astrophysical compact objects in theories beyond General Relativity

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

One can probe nuclear physics with gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger through measurements of a tidal Love number. The latter is a linear response coefficient of the stellar quadrupole moment…



Astrophysics Seminar: Why a tiny neutrino particle inspired me to simulate and reconstruct the entire Universe

Adrian Bayer (Flatiron)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19

Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of cosmic structure on small, non-linear scales, making it crucial to go beyond a traditional power spectrum analysis to tighten constraints on their mass.


High Energy Theory Seminar: Free-falling in Quantum Spacetime

Maulik Parikh (Arizona State University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

Gravity is usually regarded classically, obeying Newton's law or Einstein's equations. Here I will show that, when the gravitational field is treated quantum-mechanically, the classical trajectories of freely falling…