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Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars

Past Events

Date
Fri October 11th 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Cara Giovanetti
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is a powerful tool for probing both new physics and LCDM, and complements analyses utilizing the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and results from particle experiment.
Date
Fri October 4th 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Huangyu Xiao

The matter power spectrum on small scales (< 1 Mpc) is very weakly constrained so far.

Date
Fri September 13th 2024, 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Anupam Ray

Dark Matter (DM) remains mysterious. Despite decades of experimental and theoretical efforts, its microscopic identity is still unknown to us.

Date
Fri May 24th 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Nathaniel Craig

What if supersymmetry were an internal symmetry, rather than a spacetime symmetry?

Date
Fri May 17th 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Hongwan Liu

The process of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is a crucial test of cosmology. In this talk, I will describe a new code for predicting the primordial elemental abundance due to BBN.

Date
Fri May 10th 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Zhiquan Sun

It is difficult to construct a post-inflation QCD axion model that solves the axion quality problem (and hence the Strong CP problem) without introducing a cosmological disaster.