Particle Theory Seminars

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 Maximilian Ruhdorfer (mr2336@cornell.edu), Lyanna (Xiangyu) Zhang (xz856@cornell.edu), or Katerina Malysheva (evm23@cornell.edu).

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Wed May 22
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	Avital Dery	Cornell	New directions in kaon physics
Wed Feb 14
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	Matthias Neubert	Mainz	RG-improved resummation of super-leading logarithms and the Glauber series
Fri May 3	David Dunsky	NYU	Production of ROMP Dark Matter
Wed May 8
Fri May 10
Wed May 15
Fri May 17

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Fri Dec 1	Lorenzo Ricci	Maryland	Exploring the flavor of the TeV
Wed Aug 30	Matthias Neubert	Mainz	Probing for ALPs precisely
Fri Sept 1
Wed Sept 6
Fri Sept 8	David Grabovsky	UCSB	Heavy States in 3d Gravity and 2d CFT
Tue Sept 12 10:00am	Cliff Cheung	Caltech	Note time 10:00am
Fri Sept 15	Bingrong Yu	Cornell	Invariant Theory and Leptonic CP Violation
Wed Sept 20	Gabriele Rigo	IPhT Saclay	The Two Scales of New Physics in Higgs Couplings
Fri Sept 22	Innes Bigaran	Fermilab & Northwestern	What if cLFV was only detectable in tau decays?
Wed Sept 27	Xucheng Gan	NYU	Millicharged Cosmology
Fri Sept 29	Zamir Heller-Algazi	Tel-Aviv University	Relevant Dilaton Stabilization
Wed Oct 4	Neal Weiner	NYU	Dark Sectors Below the MeV Scale
Fri Oct 6	Sridip Pal	Caltech	Lightcone Modular bootstrap and Cardy-like formula for Near-extremal black holes
Wed Oct 11	no seminar - Fall break
Fri Oct 13
Wed Oct 18	Cari Cesarotti	MIT	Physics potential of future muon colliders
Fri Oct 20
Wed Oct 25	Yue Zhang	Carleton	Dark Matter from Early Universe Neutrino Oscillation
Thurs Oct 26 3:30pm	Suzanne Bintanja	Amsterdam	Holographic imprints on asymptotic expansions 3:30pm
Fri Oct 27	Alberto Nicolis	Columbia	Apparent Fine Tunings for Field Theories with Broken Space-Time Symmetries
Wed Nov 1	Weiguang Cao	Tokyo U	Duality and non-invertible symmetry with subsystem symmetry
Fri Nov 3
Wed Nov 8	Zoltan Ligeti	Lawrence Berkeley National Lab	B Anomalies: Still HQETing
Fri Nov 10	Álvaro Pastor-Gutiérrez	MPI Heidelberg	Unveiling hidden phases and charting strong sectors
Wed Nov 15	Michael Nee	Harvard University	Axion couplings in Grand Unified Theories
Fri Nov 17 12:00pm	Bibhushan Shakya	DESY	Phenomenological Aspects of Dark First Order Phase Transitions
Wed Nov 22	no seminar - Thanksgiving break
Fri Nov 24	no seminar - Thanksgiving break
Wed Nov 29	Qianshu Lu	Institute for Advanced Study and New York University	The Quality/Cosmology Tension for a Post-Inflation QCD Axion

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Wed May 17	Raffaele Savelli	Rome University
Wed Feb 1	Francesco Di Filippo	YITP, Kyoto University	Hearts of Darkness: theory and phenomenology of non-singular black holes.
Fri Feb 3	Rashmish Mishra	Harvard	A model agnostic approach to hidden sectors
Wed Feb 8	Marat Freytsis	Cornell	Effective uses of quantum simulation for particle physics
Fri Feb 10	Ameen Ismail	Cornell	Relevant dilaton stabilization
Wed Feb 15	Seth Koren	Chicago	Putting Generalized Symmetries to Work for Particle Physics
Fri Feb 17
Tue Feb 21 at	Clifford Cheung	Caltech	CANCELLED
Fri Feb 24	no seminar		February Break
Wed Mar 1
Fri Mar 3
Wed Mar 8	Manuel A. Buen-Abad	Maryland	An acoustic dark sector model and tensions in the cosmological data
Fri Mar 10	Ian Moult	Yale	Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC
Wed Mar 15	Yiming Chen	Princeton University	Black hole spin-statistics
Fri Mar 17	Taewook Youn	University of Texas	Twin Quark Dark Matter
Wed Mar 22	Subhajit Ghosh	Notre Dame	Probing Axionic Instabilities in the late Universe via CMB-B mode
Fri Mar 24	no seminar		Prospective Student visit
Wed Mar 29	Itay Bloch	LBL	Millicharged Dark Matter Propagating in Space and on Earth
Fri Mar 31	no seminar		Spring Break
Wed Apr 5
Fri Apr 7
Wed Apr 12	Scott Collier	Princeton University	3d gravity and Teichmuller TQFT
Fri Apr 14	Anatoly Dymarsky	University of Kentucky	Holographic description of code CFTs
Wed Apr 19	Joseph Tooby-Smith	Cornell	Symmetries of field theories
Fri Apr 21	reserved for B Exam
Wed Apr 26
Fri Apr 28
Wed May 3	Yang Ma	INFN, Bologna	Bread and butter physics at future multi-TeV lepton colliders
Fri May 5	reserved for B Exam
Wed May 10	Bernardo Zan	Princeton University

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Fri Dec 2	Reserved for Joint Seminar with UMD: Ian Moult	Yale	Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC
Wed Aug 31	Stefan Schacht	Manchester U	Theory of CP Violation in Charm Decays
Fri Sept 2	Maximilian Ruhdorfer	Cornell	RG of GR from on-shell amplitudes
Wed Sept 7
Fri Sept 9	Andre LeClair	Cornell	On the classification of UV completions of integrable TT¯ deformations of CFT
Wed Sept 14
Fri Sept 16
Wed Sept 21	Venkatesa Chandrasekaran	IAS	Large N algebras and generalized entropy
Fri Sept 23	David Meltzer	Cornell	Conformal Colliders for the Wilson-Fisher Theory
Wed Sept 28	Margarita Gavrilova	Cornell	Systematics of U-spin Amplitude Sum Rules
Fri Sept 30	Ben Stefanek	Zurich U.	Hints towards a theory of flavor at the TeV scale
Wed Oct 5	Daniel Carney	LBL, Berkeley	Fundamental physics at the quantum limits of measurement
Fri Oct 7	No seminar
Wed Oct 12
Fri Oct 14	Zhengkang Zhang	UCSB	Magic Zeroes and Hidden Symmetries
Wed Oct 19	Christopher Dessert	NYU	Polarization Signals of Axions at Magnetic White Dwarfs
Fri Oct 21	Alessandro Podo	Columbia U.	Integer solutions to the anomaly equations for a class of chiral gauge theories
Wed Oct 26	Shu-Heng Shao	Stony Brook University	Non-invertible Symmetries in Nature
Fri Oct 28	Austin Joyce	Univ. of Chicago	A boundary view on cosmology
Wed Nov 2	Jorrit Kruthoff	IAS	An integrable road to a perturbative plateau
Fri Nov 4	Devin Walker	Dartmouth	CANCELLED: Bosonic Mixing in Curved Spacetime
Tue Nov 8 at 4pm	Abhiram Kidambi	Kavli IPMU	BPS black holes and Niemeier lattices: An Octonionic Supergravity Story
Wed Nov 9	Konstantin Springmann	TU Munich	How axions change stars
Fri Nov 11	reserved
Tue Nov 15 at 4pm	Severin Lüst	Harvard	Effective Theory of Warped Compactifications and the Implications for KKLT
Wed Nov 16	Du Pei	University of Southern Denmark	Conformal field theories and topological modular forms
Fri Nov 18
Wed Nov 23	Thanksgiving break
Fri Nov 25	Thanksgiving break
Tue Nov 29 at 3pm	Zohar Komargodski	Stony Brook	Phases of Wilson and 't Hooft Lines
Wed Nov 30	Benjamin Lehmann	MIT	Direct detection of dark matter far from the weak scale

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Fri May 13	David Kolchmeyer	Harvard
Fri Jan 28
Wed Feb 2
Fri Feb 4
Wed Feb 9	Jasper Roosmale Nepveu	DESY	The seeds of EFT double copy
Fri Feb 11	Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo	IPhT, Saclay	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Cosmological Selection of the Weak Scale
Wed Feb 16
Fri Feb 18	Q Exams
Wed Feb 23	Snowmass Theory Frontier Conference
Fri Feb 25	Snowmass Theory Frontier Conference
Wed Mar 2	Daniel Aloni	Boston U.	A Step in Understanding the Hubble Tension
Fri Mar 4 11:30am	RESERVED
Wed Mar 9	Joshua W. Foster	MIT	Searching for Axion Conversion with the GBT Breakthrough Listen Galactic Center Survey
Fri Mar 11	Scott Melville	Cambridge U.	Amplitudes in the sky
Wed Mar 16
Fri Mar 18	Alex Pomarol	Barcelona	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Small instantons and the axion mass
Wed Mar 23	Atakan Hilmi Fırat	MIT	D-instanton superpotential in type II string theory on Calabi-Yau orientifolds
Fri Mar 25	Prospective Student visit
Wed Mar 30	Michael Trott	NBI	The Geometric SMEFT description of curved Higgs Field Space(s)
Fri Apr 1
Wed Apr 6	Spring break
Fri Apr 8	Spring break
Wed Apr 13	Sam Homiller	Harvard	Complementary Signals of Lepton Flavor Violation at a High-Energy Muon Collider
Fri Apr 15	Matthias Neubert	Mainz U.	Resummation of Super-Leading Logarithms
Wed Apr 20	Pratik Rath	UCSB	The Page Curve for Reflected Entropy
Fri Apr 22	Maxim Pospelov	Perimeter Inst.	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Standard Model and EDMs
Wed Apr 27	Lampros Lamprou	UBC	Falling inside holographic black holes
Fri Apr 29	Naomi Gendler	Cornell	PQ Axiverse
Wed May 4	Giulia Isabella	IJCLab, Orsay	Gravitational Causality, the Eikonal Approximation and the Photon Self-Stress
Fri May 6	Zhengkang Zhang	UCSB	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Magic Zeroes and Hidden Symmetries
Wed May 11	Ho Tat Lam	MIT

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Wed Dec 8	John Stout	Harvard	Ionization of Gravitational Atoms
Wed Sept 1
Fri Sept 3
Wed Sept 8	Jeff Dror	UC Santa Cruz	The Cosmic Axion Background
Fri Sept 10	Andres Karch	U. of Texas, Austin	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Branes, Islands, and Massive Gravitons
Wed Sept 15	John Terning	UC Davis	Spurious Poles in Electric-Magnetic Scattering
Fri Sept 17
Wed Sept 22	Walter Tangarife	Loyola U	Sterile neutrinos and self-interactions
Fri Sept 24
Wed Sept 29	Asher Berlin	NYU	Heterodyne Detection of Axion Dark Matter
Fri Oct 1	Zi-Yu Dong	Beijing, Inst. Theor. Phys.	Constructing On-shell Operator basis for all Masses and Spins
Wed Oct 6	Zachary Polonsky	U of Cincinnati	Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry in Neutral Kaons
Fri Oct 8	Xiaochuan Lu	U. Oregon	Effective Field Theory for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Wed Oct 13	Alex Belin	CERN	Bootstrapping Quantum Extremal Surfaces
Fri Oct 15
Wed Oct 20	Ira Rothstein	CMU	A Generic Class of Field Theories Which {\it Appear} to be Finely Tuned
Fri Oct 22	Gian Giudice	CERN	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Self-Organised Localisation
Tue Oct 26 4pm	Andrew Strominger	Harvard	Special seminar (Bethe Lectures) The Holographic Principle in Flat Space
Wed Oct 27	no seminar
Fri Oct 29	Juri Smirnov	Stockholm University	Thermal Sqeezeout of Dark Matter
Wed Nov 3	Hongwan Liu	Princeton U. / NYU	Lyman-Alpha Constraints on Cosmic Heating from Dark Matter Annihilation and Decay
Fri Nov 5	Monica Pate	Harvard U.	Celestial Operator Product Expansions and w_{1+infinity} Symmetry for All Spins
Wed Nov 10
Fri Nov 12	Josh Ruderman	New York U.	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Dark Sector Prospects Away from Equilibrium
Wed Nov 17	Christophe Grojean	DESY	The BSM orders of CPV
Fri Nov 19	Phil Saad	IAS	Comments on wormholes and factorization
Wed Nov 24			Thanksgiving break - no seminar
Fri Nov 26			Thanksgiving break - no seminar
Wed Dec 1	Mark Mezei	SCGP	The volume of the black hole interior at late times
Fri Dec 3	David Kaplan	Johns Hopkins U	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: A Causal Modification of Quantum Mechanics

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Thu May 13	Zackaria Chacko	Maryland	Pheno Seminar:
Thu Feb 11	Diego Redigolo	CERN	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Ripples in Spacetime from broken SUSY video
Wed Feb 17	Ofri Telem	Berkeley	Joint LEPP String/Pheno Seminar: Amplitudes for Monopoles video
Thu Feb 18	Mitrajyoti Ghosh	Cornell	Pheno Seminar: Probing the two-neutrino exchange force using atomic parity violation video
Wed Feb 24			String Seminar:
Thu Feb 25	Weishuang Linda Xu	Harvard U.	Pheno Seminar: Exploring the Co-SIMP dark sector video
Wed Mar 3			String Seminar:
Thu Mar 4	Rick S. Gupta	Durham U., IPPP	Pheno Seminar: A heavy axion/'massless up' from partial compositeness video
Wed Mar 10	Kepa Sousa	Charles U.	String Seminar: Type-IIB Flux Vacua with Universal Mass Spectrum video
Thu Mar 11	Nathaniel Craig	UCSB	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Optimal Transport for Particle Physicists video
Wed Mar 17	Konstantin Aleshkin	Columbia U.	String Seminar: Computation of period integrals in Landau-Ginzburg phase video
Thu Mar 18	Andrew Gomes	Cornell University	Pheno Seminar: SuperSIMPs video
Wed Mar 24	Yikun Jiang	Cornell	String Seminar: Entanglement entropy and edge modes in topological string theory video
Thu Mar 25	Joseph Tooby-Smith	Cambridge U.	Pheno Seminar: Inverse Higgs 'Constraints’ video
Wed Mar 31			String Seminar:
Thu Apr 1	Avital Dery	Cornell	Pheno Seminar: The return of the Kaon video
Wed Apr 7			String Seminar:
Thu Apr 8	Jure Zupan	U Cincinnati	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: New physics in muons? video
Wed Apr 14	Eanna Flanagan	Cornell	String Seminar: An order-unity correction to Hawking radiation video
Thu Apr 15	Manuel A. Buen-Abad	Brown U.	Pheno Seminar: Constraints on Axions from Cosmic Distance Measurements video
Wed Apr 21			String Seminar:
Thu Apr 22	Mario Reig	Univ. of Valencia	Pheno Seminar: The Stochastic Axiverse video
Wed Apr 28	Henry Lin	Princeton	String Seminar: Signatures of global symmetry violation in relative entropies and replica wormholes video
Thu Apr 29	Francesco Sgarlata	Cornell	Pheno Seminar: Open questions about constraints on gravitational EFTs
Wed May 5			String Seminar:
Thu May 6	Yang Bai	Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Magnetic Black Holes with Electroweak-Symmetric Coronas
Wed May 12			String Seminar:

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Thu Dec 10	Katelin Schutz	MIT	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Making dark matter out of light: the cosmology of sub-MeV freeze-in video
Thu Sept 3	Ameen Ismail	Cornell	Pheno Seminar: Crunching Dilaton, Hidden Naturalness video
Wed Sept 9			String Seminar:
Thu Sept 10 4:30pm	Jonathan Kozaczuk	UC San Diego	Pheno Seminar: Plasmon Production from Dark Matter Scattering
Wed Sept 16	Mudassir Moosa	Cornell	String Seminar: A Renyi Quantum Null Energy Condition video
Thu Sept 17	Wei Xue	U Florida	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: New Physics Interpretations of the XENON1T Excess video
Wed Sept 23	Manki Kim	Cornell	String Seminar: Updates on de Sitter Vacua in String Theory video
Thu Sept 24	Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic	Perimeter	Pheno Seminar: Higgs Bosons with Large Couplings to Light Quarks video
Wed Sept 30	Mehmet Demirtas	Cornell	String Seminar: The Calabi-Yau Landscape: Beyond the Lampposts video
Thu Oct 1	Mauro Valli	UC Irvine	Pheno Seminar: B anomalies under the lens of electroweak precision video
Wed Oct 7	Anatoly Dymarsky	University of Kentucky	String Seminar: Quantum codes, lattices, and CFTs video
Thu Oct 8	Soubhik Kumar	Maryland	Pheno Seminar: Probing the High-Quality QCD Axion video
Wed Oct 14			String Seminar:
Thu Oct 15	Seth Koren	U Chicago	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: UV/IR Mixing and the Hierarchy Problem video
Wed Oct 21	Antony Speranza	Perimeter	String Seminar: Anomalies in gravitational charge algebras of null boundaries and black hole entropy video
Thu Oct 22	Prasanth Shyamsundar	U. Florida	Pheno Seminar: InClass nets for unsupervised classification, OASIS to meet HEP simulation requirements video
Wed Oct 28			String Seminar:
Thu Oct 29	Andrea Caputo	TAU-Weizmann	Pheno Seminar: Looking for BSM physics in CMB and 21 cm data video
Wed Nov 4			String Seminar:
Thu Nov 5	Da Liu	UC Davis	Pheno Seminar: Higgs Mechanism from On-Shell Massive Amplitude video
Wed Nov 11			String Seminar:
Thu Nov 12	Martin Schmaltz	Boston U	Joint Pheno Seminar with Maryland: Interacting dark radiation, the CMB, and the H0 tension video
Wed Nov 18	Thomas Grimm	Utrecht University	String Seminar: Moduli Space Holography and the Finiteness of Flux Vacua video
Thu Nov 19	Daniel Stolarski	Carleton	Pheno Seminar: Emerging Jets
Wed Nov 23			String Seminar:
Thu Nov 26	No Seminar - Thanksgiving
Wed Dec 2	Jacob McNamara	Harvard	String Seminar: Wormholes in Holography and the Swampland video
Thu Dec 3	Bryan Ostdiek	Harvard	Pheno Seminar: The top mass: precision and BSM implications video
Tue Dec 8 10am	Gregoire Mathys		String Seminar: On the Stress Tensor Light-ray Operator Algebra

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Fri May 1	Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic	Perimeter	New physics in the Higgs sector Poster
Wed Jan 22
Fri Jan 24	No seminar		(Q exam)
Wed Jan 29
Fri Jan 31
Wed Feb 5
Fri Feb 7	Victor Gorbenko	IAS	CANCELLED
Wed Feb 12
Fri Feb 14
Wed Feb 19	Elina Fuchs	Fermilab/Univ of Chicago	Electroweak Baryogenesis, Higgs rates and EDMs with dim-6 complex Yukawas Poster
Thu Feb 20 1pm	Niccolo Cribiori	Vienna	Uplifting anti-D-branes Poster
Fri Feb 21	Matthias Schlaffer	Fermilab/Univ of Chicago	LEPP Joint Seminar: Relaxion searches at future colliders Poster
Wed Feb 26
Fri Feb 28	Cynthia Chang	McGill	LEPP Joint Seminar: Illuminating the Dark Universe with Radio Observations Poster
Tue Mar 3 12:30pm	Caterina Vernieri	CERN	LEPP Joint Seminar: What is the Higgs boson hiding? Poster
Wed Mar 4	Simon Catterall	Syracuse	N=4 Super Yang-Mills on the Lattice Poster
Fri Mar 6
Wed Mar 11	Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic	Perimeter	POSTPONED
Fri Mar 13	Prasanth Shyamsundar	U. Florida	POSTPONED Quantum computing and machine learning in high energy data analysis Poster
Wed Mar 18
Fri Mar 20	No seminar		(prospective grad student weekend)
Wed Mar 25	Jonathan Kozaczuk	UC San Diego	POSTPONED
Fri Mar 27	Da Liu	UC, Davis	POSTPONED
Wed Apr 1	No seminar		(spring break)
Fri Apr 3	No seminar		(spring break)
Wed Apr 8	Soubhik Kumar	Maryland U., College Park	POSTPONED
Fri Apr 10	Alexey Milekhin	Princeton	POSTPONED
Wed Apr 15	Bryan Ostdiek	Harvard	POSTPONED
Fri Apr 17	Sarah Harrison	McGill	POSTPONED
Wed Apr 22	Mauro Valli	Irvine	POSTPONED
Fri Apr 24	Daniel Stolarski	Carleton	POSTPONED
Wed Apr 29

Summer/Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Fri Dec 6
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	Conformal Freeze-In of Dark Matter Poster
Fri Nov 1	Javi Serra	TU Munich	Weak Gravity Conjecture from Amplitudes' Positivity Poster
Wed Nov 6	Patrick Fox	Fermilab	All anomaly-free U(1) theories Poster
Fri Nov 8	Junwu Huang	Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.	Searches for other vacua: A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider Poster
Wed Nov 13	Yi-Ming Zhong	Boston U.	Core collapse halos Poster
Fri Nov 15	Pouya Asadi	MIT	Theoretical Updates on the Flavor Anomalies Poster
Wed Nov 20	Nikita Blinov	Fermilab	Axion Dark Matter Production and Sub-Structure in Non-Standard Cosmologies Poster
Fri Nov 22	John Terning	UC Davis	Detecting Magnetic Dark Matter
Wed Nov 27	Thanksgiving break
Fri Nov 29	Thanksgiving break
Wed Dec 4

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	Anže 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

Archive of previous seminars are available.