| May 2023 |
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| 1 Xuyao Hu, The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and turbulence (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) , Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) | 2 Austin McDowell, Constraining GRB Properties with Afterglow Light Curves (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM) + Abstract: , Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) | 3 , HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Linda Xu, The continuum and the line: new analyses of Fermi gamma-ray data (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 4 , Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM) Dave Thirumalai, Collective Movement in cells - From jamming to superdiffusion (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM) | 5 Nicolas Boulanger, New higher-spin topological systems in 3D (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
| 8 Francis Bernardeau, Nulling properties of tomographic cosmic shear observations (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 9 Michael Unger, New Models of the Magnetic Field of the Galaxy (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 10 Dam Thanh Son, Bosonization of Fermi surfaces and coadjoint orbits (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 11 , Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM) Yue Hu, Characterizing 3D Galactic Magnetic Fields with Anisotropic MHD turbulence (12:30 PM - 1:00 PM) + Abstract: | 12 Benedikt Schosser, 21cm Parameter Inference (11:00 AM - 11:45 AM) + Abstract: Burt Ovrut, Realistic Heterotic Vacua, Inflation and FIMP Dark Matter (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) -- Abstract: The talk begins with a brief review of the B-L MSSM vacuum of heterotic M-theory. This theory satisfies all theoretical and phenomenological constraints required by a realistic theory of particle physics. Within this context, it is shown that an inflaton composed of a Higgs field and a sneutrino produces a successful inflationary theory in the observable sector. Aspects of this theory, including reheating are discussed. The hidden sector is then introduced, consisting of an "anomalous" U(1) line bundle with a computable number of low energy chiral matter superfields. After supersymmetry breaking, a linear combination of the dilaton and Kahler modulus remains relatively light and acts as a "moduli portal" between the observable and hidden sector. The explicit moduli interactions with both sectors are presented and shown to produce a dark matter production mechanism to the scalar fields of the hidden sector chiral matter. Within the context of this B-L MSSM theory, the dark matter "relic density" is computed and shown to be consistent with present cosmological data. Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
| 15 Xingyang Yu, Dualities and Symmetries of Quantum Field Theories from Brane Engineering (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM) + Abstract: | 16 | 17 Laurent Baulieu, Gravitons, BRST-BMS4 Symmetry and its Cocycles from Horizontality Conditions (1:00 PM - 2:15 PM) + Abstract: | 18 | 19 Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
| 22 | 23 Zihui Wang, New topics in quantum chromodynamics and astro-particle probes of dark matter (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM) + Abstract: | 24 | 25 Xingchen Xu, Non-perturbative Interactions Between Dark Matter and Baryons: Scattering, Capture, and Experimental Constraints (9:00 AM - 11:00 AM) + Abstract: John Davis, Observations spanning multiple astronomical scales point to the existence of an unknown form of matter (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract: Zare (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM) Ben Wandelt, AI-Driven Discoveries at the Frontiers of Cosmology (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM) + Abstract: | 26 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 Kate Storey-Fisher, Tools for Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM) + Abstract: | 1 | 2 |