Particle Theory Seminars
Seminars are normally held in the Physical Sciences Building room 401 on Wednesdays at 2 pm and on Fridays at 1pm (pizza at 12:30pm).
Click here for information to help speakers planning their trip to Ithaca. For more information please contact Sungwoo Hong (sh768@cornell.edu), Edgar Shaghoulian (es947@cornell.edu), or Katerina Malysheva (evm23@cornell.edu).Summer/Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Dec 6 | Matthias J. Schlaffer | Weizmann Inst. | |
| Tue July 2 | Indranil Halder | Matter Chern-Simons Theories in a Background Magnetic Field Poster | |
| Wed Sept 4 | Andrea Manenti | EPFL | Implications of the ANEC in four dimensional SCFTs Poster |
| Fri Sept 6 | Emilie Passemar | Indiana University | LEPP Joint Seminar: Determination of Vus and status of the first-row CKM unitarity Poster |
| Wed Sept 11 | |||
| Fri Sept 13 | Avital Dery | Cornell | LEPP Joint Seminar: New physics implications of the LHCb discovery of CP violation in charm decays Poster |
| Wed Sept 18 | Sokratis Trifinopoulos | Zurich U. | B-physics anomalies: The bridge between R-parity violating Supersymmetry and flavoured Dark Matter Poster |
| Fri Sept 20 | |||
| Wed Sept 25 | Fady Bishara | DESY | The Tower of Effective Field Theories for Dark Matter Direct Detection Poster |
| Fri Sept 27 | |||
| Wed Oct 2 | Max Ruhdorfer | TU Munich | Effective Field Theory of Gravity to All Orders Poster |
| Fri Oct 4 | |||
| Wed Oct 9 | Sebastien Renaux-Petel | Paris, Inst. Astrophys | Inflation and Geometry Poster |
| Fri Oct 11 | John Stout | Amsterdam | Gravitational Collider Physics Poster |
| Wed Oct 16 | |||
| Fri Oct 18 | |||
| Wed Oct 23 | Po-Jen Wang | NYU | Thermal Relic Targets with Exponentially Small Couplings Poster |
| Fri Oct 25 | Francesco Sgarlata | SISSA, Trieste | Supersoft bounds and Higher Spins EFTs Poster |
| Wed Oct 30 | Gowri Kurup | Cornell | |
| Fri Nov 1 | Javi Serra | TU Munich | |
| Wed Nov 6 | Patrick Fox | Fermilab | |
| Fri Nov 8 | Junwu Huang | Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. | |
| Wed Nov 13 | Yi-Ming Zhong | Boston U. | |
| Fri Nov 15 | Pouya Asadi | MIT | |
| Wed Nov 20 | Nikita Blinov | Fermilab | |
| Fri Nov 22 | John Terning | UC Davis | |
| Wed Nov 27 | Thanksgiving break | ||
| Fri Nov 29 | Thanksgiving break | ||
| Wed Dec 4 | Elina Fuchs | Weizmann Inst. | |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri May 10 | Nima Lashkari | IAS | Constraining correlation functions of QFT using Modular theory Poster | |
| Wed Jan 16 | ||||
| Fri Jan 18 | Nima Afkhami-Jeddi | Cornell | Causality and Universality of Einstein Gravity Poster | |
| Wed Jan 23 | Irene Valenzuela | Cornell | The String Swampland and Emergence of Global Symmetries Poster | |
| Fri Jan 25 | ||||
| Wed Jan 30 | ||||
| Fri Feb 1 | Iftah Galon | Rutgers | LEPP Joint Seminar: Exploring dark sectors at FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC Poster | |
| Wed Feb 6 | Saso Grozdanov | MIT | Thermal transport and quantum chaos in holographic theories with stringy corrections and kinetic theory | |
| Fri Feb 8 | Cody Long | Northeastern University | Axion Reheating the Landscape Poster | |
| Wed Feb 13 | Mudassir Moosa | Cornell | Does holographic complexity satisfy Lloyd's bound? Poster | |
| Fri Feb 15 | Itay Bloch | Tel Aviv | LEPP Joint Seminar: Comagnetometers as a Probe to New Physics Poster | |
| Wed Feb 20 | Dalimil Mazac | Stony Brook | A crossing-symmetric OPE inversion formula Poster | |
| Fri Feb 22 | Marat Freytsis | Tel Aviv/IAS | LEPP Joint Seminar: Seeing the dark matter halo through Gaia’s eyes with machine learning Poster | |
| Wed Feb 27 | Diego Redigolo | Tel Aviv/IAS | Probing New Forces at Flavor Factories Poster | |
| Fri Mar 1 | Marcus Berg | Karlstad | String Loops in Curved Space Poster | |
| Wed Mar 6 | Claudius Krause | Fermilab | Higgs Effective Field Theories and their renormalization Poster | |
| Fri Mar 8 11am and 2:30pm | Ben Nachman | LBNL | LEPP Joint Seminars: Preparing ATLAS pixels for the high rate and radiation environment of the HL-LHC, and Modeling final state radiation on a quantum computer Poster | |
| Fri Mar 8 1pm | Oliver Witzel | Boulder | LEPP Joint Seminar: Nonperturbative calculations for exclusive semileptonic B(s) decays in the Standard Model Poster | |
| Wed Mar 13 | Sylvain Fichet | ICTP/SAIFR/Caltech | Quantum forces from the dark sector Poster | |
| Fri Mar 15 | Emmanuel Stamou | Chicago | Low Energy Probes of High Energy CP Violation Poster | |
| Wed Mar 20 | Max Zimet | Stanford | K3 metrics from little string theory Poster | |
| Fri Mar 22 | No seminar | (prospective grad student weekend) | ||
| Wed Mar 27 | Ahmed Almheiri | IAS | An Investigation into Evaporating Eternal Black Holes Poster | |
| Fri Mar 29 | Gustavo Marques Tavares | Maryland | LEPP Joint Seminar: Observable signatures of dark photons from supernovae Poster | |
| Wed Apr 3 | No seminar | (spring break) | ||
| Fri Apr 5 | No seminar | (spring break) | ||
| Wed Apr 10 | Cristina Mondino | NYU | Looking for new physics in real data: from LHC to GAIA Poster | |
| Fri Apr 12 | Bethe lecturer John Preskill | Caltech | LEPP Joint Seminar: Simulating Quantum Field Theory with a Quantum Computer Poster | |
| Wed Apr 17 | Simone Blasi | MPI Heidelberg | Softened Goldstone-symmetry breaking Poster | |
| Fri Apr 19 | Julian Munoz | Harvard | LEPP Joint Seminar: Searching for Dark Matter and Dark Energy at Cosmic Dawn | |
| Tue Apr 23 3pm | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | LEPP Informal Seminar Poster | |
| Wed Apr 24 | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | Elementary Positive Geometry of Causal Diamonds, Particles and Strings Poster | |
| Wed Apr 24 7:30pm Schwartz Aud | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | Public Lecture: What’s the point of doing fundamental science? Poster | |
| Thu Apr 25 10:30am | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | LEPP Joint Seminar: Toy models for UV-IR solutions of "fine-tuning" problems Poster | |
| Thu Apr 25 4pm 200 Baker | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | Mathematics Joint Oliver Club and Physics Colloquium: Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, Total Positivity and Motives Poster | |
| Wed May 1 | ||||
| Fri May 3 | Cari Cesarotti | Harvard | Searching in CMS Open Data for Dimuon Resonances with Substantial Transverse Momentum Poster | |
| Wed May 8 | Ofri Telem | Cornell | Naturalness without New Resonances: The Continuum Composite Higgs Poster | |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Dec 14 | ||||
| Wed Aug 29 | Jay Hubisz | Syracuse U. | Self-Organized Higgs Criticality Poster | |
| Fri Aug 31 | Stefan Schacht | Cornell | LEPP Joint Seminar: Extraction of V_{cb} from B -> D^*l nu and SM prediction of R(D^*) Poster | |
| Wed Sept 5 | Peizhi Du | University of Maryland | Hybrid seesaw leptogenesis and TeV singlets Poster | |
| Fri Sept 7 | ||||
| Mon Sept 10 2:30pm | Bernard Julia | Ecole Normale Superieure, France | E8 families Poster | |
| Wed Sept 12 | Paul Oehlmann | Virginia Tech | F-theory and global models of high energy physics Poster | |
| Fri Sept 14 | Nathan Lourie | U Penn | LEPP Joint Seminar: Sub-arcminute Galactic Polarimetry with the Next Generation Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) Poster | |
| Wed Sept 19 | Sungwoo Hong | Cornell | Dirac neutrino from clockwork and its phenomenology Poster | |
| Fri Sept 21 301 PSB | Jim Talbert | DESY | LEPP Joint Seminar: Leptoquarks, residual flavour symmetries, and anomalous B-decays: a (roughly) model-independent approach to R_K(*) and fermionic mixing Poster | |
| Wed Sept 26 | ||||
| Fri Sept 28 | ||||
| Wed Oct 3 | Jason Aebischer | Technische Universität München | Epsilon'/epsilon beyond the SM: Poster | |
| Fri Oct 5 | John Stout | University of Amsterdam | Non-perturbative Potentials in the Real Time Poster | |
| Wed Oct 10 | ||||
| Fri Oct 12 | Zhen Liu | University of Maryland | LEPP Joint Seminar: Timing BSM signals at the LHC Poster | |
| Wed Oct 17 | ||||
| Fri Oct 19 | Murat Kologlu | Caltech | The Conformal Bootstrap at Finite Temperature and the 3d Ising CFT Poster | |
| Wed Oct 24 | Grant N. Remmen | UC Berkeley | Weak Gravity Conjecture from Black Hole Entropy Poster | |
| Fri Oct 26 | Andrew J. Long | University of Michigan | LEPP Joint Seminar: Black Holes, and Nuggets, and Blobs. Oh my! Poster | |
| Tue Oct 30 B Exam | Wee Hao Ng | Cornell | Revisiting hydrogen-antihydrogen oscillations in the interstellar medium Poster | |
| Wed Oct 31 | Jorrit Kruthoff | University of Amsterdam | Superradiance and representation theory Poster | |
| Fri Nov 2 | Matthew D. Klimek | Cornell | LEPP Joint Seminar: Neural Network-Based Approach to Phase Space Integration Poster | |
| Wed Nov 7 | Marco Farina | Stony Brook | Searching for anomalies at the LHC with machine learning Poster | |
| Fri Nov 9 | John Terning | UC Davis | Resolving the Weinberg Paradox with Topology Poster | |
| Tues Nov 13 | Bernardo Zan | IHES | Walking, weakly first order phase transitions and complex CFTs Poster | |
| Wed Nov 14 | Matthew Reece | Harvard | Photon Masses in the Landscape and Dark Photon Dark Matter Poster | |
| Fri Nov 16 | Arvin Shahbazi Moghaddam | Berkeley | Energy is Entanglement Poster | |
| Wed Nov 21 | ||||
| Fri Nov 23 | ||||
| Wed Nov 28 | Felix Yu | Mainz | Collider probes of a gauged U(1) baryon number Poster | |
| Fri Nov 30 | Jonathan Heckman | U. Penn | F-theory and Dark Energy Poster | |
| Tue Dec 4 4pm | Miguel Montero | KU Leuven | The WGC from holographic entanglement entropy | |
| Fri Dec 7 | ||||
| Wed Dec 12 | ||||
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu June 21 1pm 438 PSB | Kin-Wang Ng | Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Primordial black holes and gravitational waves in inflation Poster | |
| Wed Jan 17 | ||||
| Fri Jan 19 | ||||
| Wed Jan 24 | Daniel Aloni | Weizmann Institute | What can we do with Belle two? Poster | |
| Fri Jan 26 | ||||
| Wed Jan 31 | Jiang-Hao Yu | ITP-CAS | Twin Symmetry Breaking in Twin Higgs Models Poster | |
| Fri Feb 2 | David McKeen | University of Pittsburgh | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Neutrino Portal Dark Matter Poster | |
| Wed Feb 7 | Eric Perlmutter | Caltech | Modern Explorations of Double-Trace Deformations Poster | |
| Fri Feb 9 | Tomer Volansky | Tel Aviv University | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter Poster | |
| Wed Feb 14 | Nadav Outmezguine | Tel Aviv University | Dissipative Dark Matter and the Growth of Black Holes Poster | |
| Fri Feb 16 | ||||
| Wed Feb 21 | Gabriel Lee | Cornell/Korea U | Dark Quarkonium Formation in the Early Universe Poster | |
| Fri Feb 23 | Rahul Datta | NASA Goddard Space Science Center | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Measuring CMB Polarization with ACTPol and PIPER Poster | |
| Mon Feb 26 | Amy Lowitz | U Chicago | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Detector and Readout Architectures for mm-wave Cosmology with SPT3G and Beyond Poster | |
| Wed Feb 28 | Daliang Li | Johns Hopkins | Bulk reconstruction in AdS3 Poster | |
| Fri Mar 2 | Corrinne Mills | UIC | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Baryogenesis and BSM Higgs physics Poster | |
| Wed Mar 7 | Kimberly Boddy | Johns Hopkins | Cosmological Constraints on the Effective Theory of Dark Matter Interactions Poster | |
| Fri Mar 9 | Oren Slone | Princeton | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: New Directions in the Search for Light Dark Matter Poster | |
| Wed Mar 14 | Dave Sutherland | UC, Santa Barbara | Anderson localisation in theory space Poster | |
| Fri Mar 16 | ||||
| Wed Mar 21 | Diego Redigolo | Tel Aviv University | (Rel)-axions and SM hierarchies Poster | |
| Fri Mar 23 | Reserved | (prospective grad student visit weekend) | ||
| Tue Mar 27 4pm 301PSB | Gustavo Turiaci | Princeton University | Quantum Gravity in Two Dimensional (nearly) AdS Poster | |
| Wed Mar 28 | Anson Hook | University of Maryland | Solving the Hierarchy Problem Discretely Poster | |
| Fri Mar 30 | Phillip Barbeau | Duke University | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: The World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Poster | |
| Wed Apr 4 | No seminar | (Spring break) | ||
| Fri Apr 6 | No seminar | (Spring break) | ||
| Wed Apr 11 | Aaron Held / Fleur Versteegen | University of Heidelberg | The status of asymptotic safety for gravity and the Standard Model Poster | |
| Fri Apr 13 | Matthias Neubert | Mainz | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Effective Field Theory after a New Physics Discovery Poster | |
| Wed Apr 18 438 PSB | Sergei Dubovsky | New York University | Complementarity from Identity Poster | |
| Fri Apr 20 | Denver Whittington | Syracuse | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Investigating Neutrino Properties with the NOvA Experiment Poster | |
| Wed Apr 25 | Yuri Shirman | UC, Irvine | Pre-ADS superpotential from multi-monopoles Poster | |
| Fri Apr 27 | ||||
| Wed May 2 | Gabriele Rigo | Syracuse | Neutron Star Mergers Chirp About Vacuum Energy Poster | |
| Fri May 4 | An˛e Slosar | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: 21-cm cosmology after 2021 Poster | |
| Wed May 9 | ||||
| Fri May 11 | Gopolang Mohlabeng | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Revisiting the Dark Photon Interpretation of the Muon g-2 anomaly Poster | |
| Wed May 16 | ||||
| Fri May 18 | Patrick Draper | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Strong CP at colliders and on the lattice Poster | |
| Mon May 21 10am 120 PSB | Salvator Lombardo | Cornell University | Thesis defense: Continuum Top Partners Poster | |
| Mon May 21 3pm 301 PSB | Michael Krohn | University of Colorado | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Boosted Higgs: Precision Measurements and New Physics Poster | |
| Tue May 22 1pm 120 PSB | Yu-Dai Tsai | Cornell University | Thesis defense: New Models, Terrestrial, and Multi-Messenger Probes of New Physics: Dark Matter Poster | |
| Wed May 23 2pm 301 PSB | Jose Monroy | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: The inverted top-Higgs coupling and a bit on how the CMS pixel detector was built Poster | |
| Tue May 29 3pm 301 PSB | Menglei Sun | Carnegie Mellon University | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Search for supersymmetry at CMS in events with photons Poster | |
| Wed May 30 | Raghu Mahajan | Princeton University | The SYK model at very low energies Poster | |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Dec 15 | Steve Choi | Princeton | Precision Cosmology with Advanced ACTPol Poster |
| Wed Aug 23 | Simon Kast | KIT | Flavoured Dark Matter in Dark Minimal Flavour Violation Poster |
| Fri Aug 25 | No seminar - Q Exams | ||
| Wed Aug 30 | Matthias Neubert | Mainz | LHC as an Axion Factory: Probing an Axion Explanation for (g-2)_\mu with Exotic Higgs Decays Poster |
| Fri Sep 1 | Kyle Story | Stanford | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Searching for cosmic inflation: CMB Polarization B-mode Delensing with SPTpol and Herschel Poster |
| Tue Sep 5 | Matthias Weissenbacher | Tokyo U., IPMU & Munich, Max Planck Inst. | A Tale of Higher Derivatives and the Kählerpotential Poster |
| Wed Sep 6 438 PSB | Teng Ma | ITP and Chinese Academy of Science, Bejing | The Maximally Composite Higgs Model Poster |
| Fri Sep 8 120PSB | Kaustubh Agashe | Univ. of Maryland | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Using Energy-Peaks to Measure (new and old) Particle Masses |
| Wed Sep 13 | Reserved | ||
| Fri Sep 15 | |||
| Wed Sep 20 | Ben Lillard | UC Irvine | S-Confining Product Gauge Groups and Composite Axions Poster |
| Fri Sep 22 | Livia Soffi | Cornell | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unveiling New Physics with Photons at LHC CMS Experiment Poster |
| Mon Sep 25 2:15pm | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | Scattering Amplitudes in the Real World I |
| Tue Sep 26 2pm | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | Scattering Amplitudes in the Real World II |
| Wed Sep 27 2pm | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Positive Geometry I |
| Thu Sep 28 2pm | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Positive Geometry II |
| Fri Sep 29 | Nima Arkani-Hamed | IAS | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: UV/IR Correlations Solve Fine- Tuning Problems? |
| Wed Oct 4 | Roni Harnik | Fermilab | Direct Detection with Neutrino Detectors and Self Destructing Dark Matter Poster |
| Fri Oct 6 | Tao Han | University of Pittsburgh | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Physics Motivations for Future Colliders Poster |
| Wed Oct 11 | |||
| Fri Oct 13 | |||
| Wed Oct 18 | Martin Jung | TU Munich | Bounds on New Physics from Electric Dipole Moments Poster |
| Fri Oct 20 | |||
| Wed Oct 25 | Edgar Shaghoulian | Cornell | Gauge/Gravity Duality and the Eguchi-Kawai Mechanism Poster |
| Thu Oct 26 | John Terning | UC Davis | Little Conformal Symmetry Poster |
| Fri Oct 27 | Marcelle Soares-Santos | Brandeis University | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Observation of a Gravitational Wave Emitting Neutron Star Merger with the Dark Energy Camera Poster |
| Wed Nov 1 | Joseph Bramante | Perimeter Institute | Finding Dark Matter With Neutron Star Mergers and Thermal Emission Poster |
| Fri Nov 3 | David Curtin | Univ. of Maryland | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: BSM Opportunities at ep Colliders Poster |
| Wed Nov 8 | Siddharth Sharma | Princeton | Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Nearby Galaxy Groups Poster |
| Fri Nov 10 | Jessie Shelton | UIUC | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Looking for the WIMP Next Door Poster |
| Tue Nov 14 PSB438 | Antony Speranza | U. Maryland | Edge Modes and Entanglement in Diffeomorphism-invariant Theories Poster |
| Wed Nov 15 | Andreas Trautner | University of Bonn | CP Violation From a Symmetry Principle Poster |
| Fri Nov 17 | Lindsey Gray | FNAL | Joint Experimental and Theory Seminar in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Time for an Upgrade: Trackers with Precision Timing at the HL-LHC and Beyond Poster |
| Tue Nov 21 | Ronak Soni | TIFR Mumbai | BRST vs. EPR: The Maxwell Story Poster |
| Wed Nov 22 | No Seminar | ||
| Fri Nov 24 | No Seminar | ||
| Tue Nov 28 10:15am PSB470 | Hirosi Ooguri | Caltech | Symmetry of Quantum Gravity and Other Swampland Constraints Poster |
| Wed Nov 29 | Raymond Co | Univ. of Michigan | QCD Axion Dark Matter with f_a as low as 10^8 GeV Poster |
| Fri Dec 1 | Scott Aaronson | UT Austin | Firewalls, AdS/CFT, and Computational Complexity Poster |