Speaker: Charlotte Alison Ward (Univ. of Maryland at College Park) Title: Using The Zwicky Transient Facility and Vera C. Rubin Observatory To Study Black Hole Seeds, Discover High-Z Quasars, and Measure […]

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Phillipp Windischofer (University of Oxford) Title: Detectors for Physics and Physics For Detectors Abstract: Powerful instrumentation has been a key enabler for many discoveries at the forefront of […]

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Chiara Salemi (Massachusettes Institute of Technology) Title: Seeing the Invisible: Search for Low-Mass Axion Dark Matter Abstract: Multiple astrophysical and cosmological observations have shown that the visible matter […]

Speaker: Jason Sun (CalTech) Title: Understanding the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies with Intensity Mapping  Abstract: The intensity mapping (IM) technique has been devised as a powerful tool to investigate the formation/evolution of the […]

Speaker: Matthew Ho (Carnegie Mellon) Title: Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimation Using Deep Learning  Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss how we use modern deep learning models to infer galaxy cluster masses […]

Speaker: Lingyuan Ji (John Hopkins) Title: Cosmological Neutrino Perturbations Without The Boltzmann Hierarchy  Abstract: We present a formulation of cosmological perturbation theory where the Boltzmann hierarchies that evolve the neutrino phase-space distributions […]

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Julie Pagès (University of Zurich) Title: Different Flavors For Different Particles: Mass Hierarchies, B Anomalies, and Neutrinos  Abstract: Despite many advances in neutrino physics, their masses are […]

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Sherry Song (Princeton University) Title: Integration and Analysis of the Balloon-borne Telescope, SPIDER Abstract: Ever since the discovery of cosmic microwave background(CMB) in the year of 1965, its […]

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Ralph Massarczyk (LANL) Title: Results from the BEST Sterile Neutrino Oscillation Experiment  Abstract: The Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) searches for the oscillations between active and sterile […]

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Chelsea Bartram (U. of Washington) Title: "Combing the Cosmos: A Deep Dive Into the Nature of (Dark) Matter and Fundamental Symmetries" Abstract: One of the most striking […]

Abstract: The possibility that the DM sits inside an EW multiplet is still viable in scenarios where Z-mediated elastic scattering of DM with nucleons is absent. Using an effective field […]

Abstract: Reliable reconstruction of neutrino energy in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and in the Fermilab-based short-baseline oscillation program requires a realistic description of the ground state properties of the […]

ABSTRACT: The search for dark matter is one of the most important challenges in modern physics. In my presentation I will make a brief introduction to the direct detection of […]

KamLAND-Zen is searching for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay in Xe-136 using a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator. The KamLAND-Zen detector was recently upgraded with almost double the amount of xenon and an […]

Date: Friday, September 2, 2022 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Conference Room B50-5132 Speaker: Zhelei Xu (MIT) Title: Precision Cosmology: from CMB and 21cm This is a HYBRID […]

Date: Friday, September 16, 2022 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Speaker: Yuuki Omori (University of Chicago) Title: “Constraining cosmology and astrophysics using the combination of CMB x LSS, and […]