Particle Theory Seminars
Particle Theory Seminars are normally held in the Physical Sciences Building room 401 on Wednesdays at 2 pm and on Fridays at 1pm EDT (refreshments at 12:30pm).
Upcoming Seminar Schedule
Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Jan 29 | ||||
| Fri Jan 31 | ||||
| Wed Feb 5 | Diandian Wang | Harvard | Tom Hartman | |
| Fri Feb 7 | Devin Walker | Yuval Grossman | ||
| Wed Feb 12 | Hengameh Bagherian | Harvard | Sam Homiller | |
| Fri Feb 14 | Majed Khalaf | Hebrew U. | Csaba Csaki | |
| Wed Feb 19 | February break | |||
| Fri Feb 21 | Anson Hook | Maryland U. | Bingrong Yu | |
| Wed Feb 26 | Andreas Blommaert | IAS | Tom Hartman | |
| Fri Feb 28 | Jonah Kudler-Flam | IAS | Tom Hartman | |
| Wed Mar 5 | Gabriele Di Ubaldo | Berkeley | Wayne Weng | |
| Fri Mar 7 | Jeff Dror | U. Florida | Taewook Youn | |
| Wed Mar 12 | Rotem Ovadia | Hebrew U. | Csaba Csaki | |
| Fri Mar 14 | Jae Hyeok Chang | Fermilab/UIC | Taewook Youn | |
| Wed Mar 19 | Xun-Jie Xu | IHEP | Yuval Grossman | |
| Fri Mar 21 | Nicholas L. Rodd | LBL, Berkeley | A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter | Bingrong Yu |
| Wed Mar 26 | Andrea Thamm | UMass Amherst | Maxim Perelstein | |
| Fri Mar 28 | Spring break | |||
| Wed Apr 2 | Spring break | |||
| Fri Apr 4 | Spring break | |||
| Wed Apr 9 | Andreas Stergiou | KCL | Tom Hartman | |
| Fri Apr 25 | Yoni Kahn | U. Illinois | Eric Kuflik | |
Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue Aug 27 3:00 PM | Margherita Putti | DESY | The Axion Forest - Spotting String Axions | Liam McAllister |
| Wed Aug 28 | ||||
| Fri Aug 30 | ||||
| Wed Sep 4 | ||||
| Fri Sep 6 | Juhi Dutta | University of Oklahoma | Prospects of natural anomaly mediated SUSY breaking at HL-LHC | Yuval Grossman |
| Wed Sep 11 | Itay Bloch | LBNL / Berkeley | Snipe Hunt: using the largest cavities on earth to search for DM | Yuval Grossman |
| Fri Sep 13 | Jason Pollack | Syracuse U. | Generic ETH: Eigenstate Thermalization beyond the Microcanonical | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Sep 18 | ||||
| Fri Sep 20 | Taewook Youn | Cornell | Some findings from QCD-like theories | Yuval Grossman |
| Wed Sep 25 | Pietro Pelliconi | Geneva U. | Mesoscopic Gravity | Tom Hartman |
| Fri Sep 27 | Elliott Gesteau | Caltech | Wormhole Renormalization: a gauge group for topology change | Tom Hartman |
| Tue Oct 1 10:30am 438PSB | Benjamin Safdi | UC Berkeley | Indirect detection of higgsino dark matter in gamma-rays | Maxim Perelstein |
| Wed Oct 2 | ||||
| Fri Oct 4 | Sarunas Verner | U Florida | Gravitational wave signals from spectator scalar fields | Csaba Csaki |
| Wed Oct 9 | Azadeh Maleknejad | King's College London | Weyl Fermion Creation by Cosmological Gravitational Wave Background at 1-loop | Maxim Perelstein |
| Fri Oct 11 | Fall break | |||
| Wed Oct 16 | Matthias Neubert | Mainz U. | Factorization restoration through Glauber gluons | Yuval Grossman |
| Fri Oct 18 | Cristofero Fraser-taliente | Oxford University | Computation of Quark Masses in String Theory | Liam McAllister |
| Wed Oct 23 | Runqing Wang | Notre Dame | Constructing Operator Basis in N=1 Supersymmetry | Csaba Csaki |
| Fri Oct 25 | Wei Xue | Florida U. | Stability of Superconducting Strings | Maxim Perelstein |
| Tue Oct 29 10:30 am 438PSB | Marius de Leeuw | Trinity College Dublin | Finding Integrable Models | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Oct 30 | Peizhi Du | Rutgers | Dark Radiation Isocurvature from Cosmological Phase Transitions | Sam Homiller |
| Fri Nov 1 | Chitraang Murdia | UPenn | New Signals for Multiparty Entanglement | Wayne Weng |
| Wed Nov 6 | Huangyu Xiao | Fermilab | Dark Matter Substructure as a Window to Fundamental Physics | Bingrong Yu |
| Fri Nov 8 11:00 am 301PSB | Rodolfo Capdevilla | Fermilab | Road to Minimal WIMPs | Taewook Youn |
| Wed Nov 13 | Tony Menzo | Cincinnati U. | From heavy to light: new physics at high-intensity muon experiments | Yuval Grossman |
| Fri Nov 15 | Alesandro Lenoci | Hebrew U. | Superradiance clouds in the sky: ultralight bosons around black holes | Csaba Csaki |
| Wed Nov 20 | Marija Tomašević | Amsterdam | Stringy Gregory-Laflamme | Wayne Weng |
| Fri Nov 22 | Pratik Rath | Berkeley | Entanglement Negativity and its Holographic Dual | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Nov 27 | Thanksgiving | |||
| Fri Nov 29 | Thanksgiving | |||
| Wed Dec 4 | Luca Ciambelli | Perimeter Institute | Quantizing the gravitational constraints on null hypersurfaces | Tom Hartman |
| Fri Dec 6 | Xiaoyi Liu | UCSB | Existence and Stability of Euclidean Wormholes with $S^1\times S^2$ Boundaries | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Dec 11 | Muldrow Etheredge | UMass Amherst | A Distance Conjecture for Branes | Liam McAllister |
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Jan 31 | Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez | Toronto | The role of dark matter in supermassive black hole mergers | |
| Fri Feb 2 | ||||
| Wed Feb 7 | Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca | MIT | Near-Extremal Black Hole Entropies from Replica Matrices | |
| Fri Feb 9 | ||||
| Wed Feb 14 | Reserved | |||
| Fri Feb 16 | ||||
| Wed Feb 21 | Wayne Weng | Cornell | Deformations of JT Gravity and Matrix Models | |
| Fri Feb 23 | Jakob Moritz | CERN | Hierarchies from string theory | |
| Wed Feb 28 | No seminar - break | |||
| Fri Mar 1 | Manki Kim | MIT | A Worldsheet Description of Flux Compactifications | |
| Wed Mar 6 | ||||
| Fri Mar 8 | Stefan Stelzl | EPFL | Axions at high densities | |
| Wed Mar 13 | Abhishek Banerjee | Maryland | From QCD scale to QCD axion, a dynamical solution to dark matter and baryons coincidence | |
| Fri Mar 15 | Ken Van Tilburg | NYU | Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC) | |
| Wed Mar 20 | ||||
| Fri Mar 22 | No seminar - prospective graduate visit weekend | |||
| Wed Mar 27 | Gregoire Mathys | EPFL | A is for the ANEC | |
| Fri Mar 29 | No seminar | |||
| Wed Apr 3 | No seminar - spring break | |||
| Fri Apr 5 | No seminar - spring break | |||
| Wed Apr 10 | Riccardo Rattazzi | EPFL | The quantum mechanics of a perfect fluid | |
| Fri Apr 12 | Rachel Houtz | Florida U. | Discrete Goldstone Bosons | |
| Wed Apr 17 | ||||
| Fri Apr 19 | Fien Apers | Oxford U. | String theory and the first half of the universe | |
Mon Apr 22 2:30pm | Seung J. Lee | Korea U. | Axion DM from Inflation-driven QPT | |
| Wed Apr 24 | Guglielmo Coloretti | Zurich U. | New Higgses at the Electroweak scale | |
| Fri Apr 26 | Yifan Wang | NYU | Fusing conformal impurities in higher dimensions | |
| Wed May 1 | ||||
| Fri May 3 | David Dunsky | NYU | Production of ROMP Dark Matter | |
| Wed May 8 | ||||
| Fri May 10 | ||||
| Wed May 15 | ||||
| Fri May 17 | ||||
Seminars are normally held in the Physical Sciences Building room 401 on Wednesdays at 2 pm and on Fridays at 1pm EDT (refreshments at 12:30pm).
Click here for information to help speakers planning their trip to Ithaca. For more information please contact Bingrong Yu, Samuel Homiller, Wayne Weng, Lyanna (Xiangyu) Zhang, or Katerina Malysheva.