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 ET .
Click here for information to help speakers planning their trip to Ithaca. For more information please contact Arthur Platschorre, Bingrong Yu, Taewook Youn, Lyanna Zhang, or Katerina Malysheva.
Upcoming Seminar Schedule
Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Jan 21 | Reserved | |||
| Fri Jan 23 | Reserved | |||
| Wed Jan 28 | Reserved | |||
| Fri Jan 30 | Reserved | |||
| Wed Feb 4 | Reserved | |||
| Fri Feb 6 | Reserved | |||
| Wed Feb 11 | Reserved | |||
| Fri Feb 13 | Reserved | |||
| Wed Feb 18 | Reserved | |||
| Fri Feb 20 | Reserved | |||
| Wed Feb 25 | Reserved | |||
| Fri Feb 27 | Reserved | |||
| Wed Mar 4 | Marco Costa | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | Exploring Neutrino Compositeness with invisible and displaced signals | Arthur Platschorre |
| Fri Mar 6 | ||||
| Wed Mar 11 | Marianne Moore | MIT | A dark matter candidate in the Standard Model? | Bingrong Yu |
| Fri Mar 13 | ||||
| Wed Mar 18 | ||||
| Fri Mar 20 | ||||
| Wed Mar 25 | Yujin Park | Rutgers | Search for Axions with Supernovae | Taewook Youn |
| Fri Mar 27 | ||||
| Wed Apr 1 | Spring Break | |||
| Fri Apr 3 | Spring Break | |||
| Wed Apr 8 | Rashmish Mishra | Harvard | Growing a warped dimension during Inflation | Taewook Youn |
| Fri Apr 10 | Subhojit Roy | Argonne | Self-Consistent Thermal Resummation and Early-Universe Phase Transitions | Maxim Perelstein |
| Wed Apr 15 | Kevin Zhou | LBL, Berkeley and UC, Berkeley | Arthur Platschorre | |
| Fri Apr 17 | Fernanda Huller | Cornell | Csaba Csaki | |
| Wed Apr 22 | Matthias Neubert | Mainz U. | Factorization Beyond Coherence | Csaba Csaki |
| Fri Apr 24 | ||||
| Wed Apr 29 | Reserved | |||
| Fri May 1 | Arushi Bodas | Fermilab | Maxim Perelstein | |
| Wed May 6 | Reserved | |||
| Fri May 8 |
Current Semester Seminar Schedule - Fall 2025
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Sep 3 | Steven Ferrante | Cornell U. | Sommerfeld Enhancement of Quantum Forces for Dark Matter | Maxim Perelstein |
| Fri Sep 5 | ||||
| Wed Sep 10 | Kai Bartnick | Munich, Tech. U. | Degenerate Stars as Laboratories: Probing Axions and Ultralight Scalars. | Csaba Csaki |
| Fri Sep 12 | ||||
| Wed Sep 17 | Fabrizio Rompineve | Barcelona, IFAE | Gravitational waves from the early Universe and cosmic Domain Walls | Csaba Csaki |
| Fri Sep 19 | Deniz Bozkurt | DESY | Towards an Analytic Bootstrap Framework for Thermal CFTs | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Sep 24 | Kevin Langhoff | MIT | A Flavor of SO(10) Unification with a Spinor Higgs | Taewook Youn |
| Fri Sep 26 | Arthur Platschorre | Cornell | Higher Axions | |
| Wed Oct 1 | Isaac Wang | Fermilab | BSM Light Mediator Opportunities from On-Going SM Experiments | Taewook Youn |
| Thu Oct 2 at 3pm 438 PSB | Manki Kim | Stanford | Non-linear sigma model in string field theory | Liam McAllister |
| Fri Oct 3 | Scott Collier | Syracuse | Towards a microscopic realization of dS3 | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Oct 8 | Dan Kondo | Tokyo U., IPMU | Axion/ ALP scenario with high scale inflation | Csaba Csaki |
| Fri Oct 10 | Sarah Geller | UC, Santa Cruz | Black Holes from the Big Bang: the formation and detection of primordial black hole dark matter in the asteroid mass window | Yuval Grossman |
| Wed Oct 15 | Fall Break | |||
| Fri Oct 17 | ||||
| Wed Oct 22 | Gongjun Choi | Minnesota | Cheshire θ terms, Aharonov-Bohm effects, and axions | Taewook Youn |
| Fri Oct 24 | Bingrong Yu | Cornell | Quantum Forces in Standard Model and Dark Sector | |
| Wed Oct 29 | Inbar Savoray | UC, Berkeley | Giving Machine Learning a Boost Towards Respecting (Approximate) Symmetries | Yuval Grossman |
| Fri Oct 31 | ||||
| Wed Nov 5 | Wenzer Qin | NYU | Not-quite-primordial black holes | Csaba Csaki |
| Fri Nov 7 | Josh Benabou | UC, Berkeley | What is the QCD axion mass? | Liam McAllister |
| Wed Nov 12 | Jon Sorce | Princeton | Algebraic locality and generalized symmetries | Wayne Weng |
| Fri Nov 14 | Cynthia Yan | Harvard | Cusps in 3d gravity | Wayne Weng |
| Tues Nov 18 at 4:30 pm 401PSB | Nathan Seiberg | School of Natural Sciences Institute | Anomalous Continuous Translations | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Nov 19 | No Seminar | |||
| Fri Nov 21 | Ahmed Almheiri | NYU Abu Dhabi & NYU | Black hole disappearance | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Nov 26 | ||||
| Fri Nov 28 | ||||
| Wed Dec 3 | Marius Kongsore | NYU | Dyon Loops, Axions, and the Symmetries in Between | Arthur Platschorre |
| Fri Dec 5 |
Previous Semester Seminar Schedule - Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Jan 29 | ||||
| Fri Jan 31 | ||||
| Wed Feb 5 | Diandian Wang | Harvard | Open/Closed Virasoro TQFT, 3d Gravity with EOW Branes, and a Random Ensemble of BCFTs | Tom Hartman |
| Fri Feb 7 | Devin Walker | Dartmouth College | Gravitational Wave Effective Theory with Curvature Corrections and Bosonic Mixing | Yuval Grossman |
| Wed Feb 12 | Hengameh Bagherian | Harvard | Interacting Dark Radiation and Cosmological Tensions | Sam Homiller |
| Fri Feb 14 | Majed Khalaf | Hebrew U. | The Quantum Spectral Method: From Atomic Orbitals to Inspiralling Black Holes. | Csaba Csaki |
| Wed Feb 19 | February break | |||
| Fri Feb 21 | Nicholas L. Rodd | LBL, Berkeley | A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter | Bingrong Yu |
| Wed Feb 26 | Andreas Blommaert | IAS | Comments on the density matrix of the universe in two dimensional quantum cosmology | Tom Hartman |
| Fri Feb 28 | Jonah Kudler-Flam | IAS | Aspects of the Hartle-Hawking State | Tom Hartman |
| Wed Mar 5 | Gabriele Di Ubaldo | Berkeley | AdS_3/RMT_2 beyond the ramp | Tom Hartman |
| Fri Mar 7 | Jeff Dror | U. Florida | The fluctuating spacetime of dark matter | Taewook Youn |
| Wed Mar 12 | Rotem Ovadia | Hebrew U. | The Seiberg-Witten Axion | Csaba Csaki |
| Fri Mar 14 | Jae Hyeok Chang | Fermilab/UIC | Dynamical generation of the baryon asymmetry from a scale hierarchy | Taewook Youn |
| Wed Mar 19 | Xun-Jie Xu | IHEP | The Cosmological Neff: A Powerful Probe of Neutrino Physics | Yuval Grossman |
| Fri Mar 21 | Tao Xu | The University of Oklahoma | Pulsating Stars as Laboratories for Axions | Sam Homiller |
| Wed Mar 26 | Andrea Thamm | UMass Amherst | Black hole explosions in the SM and Beyond | Maxim Perelstein |
| Fri Mar 28 | Spring break | |||
| Wed Apr 2 | Spring break | |||
| Fri Apr 4 | Spring break | |||
| Tue Apr 8 at 4:30 pm 700 Clark | Hitoshi Murayama | Berkeley | New candidates for composite dark matter | Csaba Csaki |
| Wed Apr 9 | Andreas Stergiou | KCL | Gradient Properties of RG Flows | Tom Hartman |
| Fri Apr 11 | Bea Noether | Berkeley | ASQCD: Corrections and New Calculations | Csaba Csaki |
| Wed Apr 16 | Saquib Hassan | Oxford U. | De Sitter constraints on branes | Yuval Grossman |
| Fri Apr 18 | Anson Hook | Maryland U. | Dyonic bound states | Bingrong Yu |
| Wed Apr 23 | Katherine Fraser | Berkeley | Axion Interactions with Topological Defects | Sam Homiller |
| Fri Apr 25 | ||||
| Wed Apr 30 | Brando Bellazzini | Saclay | From Positivity to Gravity: Constraints on Massive Higher Spins | Csaba Csaki |
| Fri May 2 | ||||
Previous Semester Seminar Schedule - Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue Aug 27 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 |
Previous Semester Seminar Schedule - 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 at 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 | ||||