Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars

Past Events

Date
Fri March 22nd 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Giacomo Marocco

Optically levitated microspheres are quantum-limited impulse sensors.

Date
Fri March 8th 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Melissa Diamond

I present a novel way to produce dark compact objects and primordial black holes.

Date
Fri March 1st 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Alessandro Podo

Positivity bounds on the S-matrix provide powerful constraints on effective field theories in flat space.

Date
Fri February 23rd 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Manoj Kaplinghat

A dark force, which is a necessary ingredient of self-interacting dark matter models, can lead to gravothermal collapse of dark matter in small mass halos.

Date
Fri February 16th 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Simon Knapen

I will explain how we can search for light Dark Matter by detecting small amounts of phonons in specific crystals.

Date
Fri February 9th 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Aurora Ireland

Much remains to be understood about the origin and evolution of our universe's largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs).