Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Randomness, Complexity, and the Biological Frontier
Pankaj Mehta (University of Boston)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Non-reciprocal pattern formation
M. Cristina Marchetti (UC Santa Barbara)
Spatio-temporal patterns in nonlinear oscillatory and excitable media have been studied extensively in systems lacking conserved quantities. More recently, pattern formation of conserved fields has…
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: Exotic Higgs decays & AI triggers at the LHC
Tae Min Hong (CERN)
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…