| March 2024 |
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| 26 Anirban Roy, Multi-line Intensity Mapping: A Bridge Between Astrophysics and Cosmology (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract: Matthew Buican, Some Applications of Free Supersymmetric Fields (2:30 PM - 3:45 PM) + Abstract: | 27 Foteini Oikonomou, News from the search for the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays: Insights from the maximum rigidity distribution and a possible new source class (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 28 Mariangela Lisanti, How to Destroy a Galaxy with Dark Matter (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 29 Jun Kono, Quantum Vacuum Dressed Materials (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 1 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
| 4 Gabriel Cuomo, Semiclassical physics at large quantum numbers: old and new applications (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Thomas Steingasser, Higgs criticality in and beyond the Standard Model (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: Fiona Seibold, Scattering on effective strings and compactified membranes (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM) + Abstract: | 5 Ben Farr, Hearing the forest for the trees: understanding LIGO/Virgo's plurality of singularities (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 6 HEP/Pheno Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Luca Delacrétaz, Bound on thermalization from hydrodynamic fluctuations (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 7 | 8 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Federico Ambrosino, Exploring mesons in Generalized QCD_2 with integrability (12:00 PM - 1:15 PM) + Abstract: Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
| 11 Cameron Norton, Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 12 Adrian Bayer, Towards an Optimal Cosmological Detection of Neutrino Mass with Field-Level Inference (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 13 Claudio Andrea Manzari, Solving the Strong CP Problem without an axion (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 14 Tova Holmes, Muon Colliders: the Next Generation of Particle Accelerators (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM) Xingyang Yu, Stringy Approach to SymTFTs and Categorical Symmetries (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: Abhay Narayan Pasupathy, Teaching an Old Dog Some New Tricks (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 15 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) |
| 18 | 19 , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 20 HEP/Pheno Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 21 | 22 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Alon Farragi, String Derived Z′ Model at an Upgraded Superconducting Super Collider (12:30 PM - 1:45 PM) + Abstract: Chris Hull, The action for self-dual p-form gauge fields and the geometry of gravitons (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: |
| 25 Neal Weiner, Exciting nu physics below an MeV (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract: Bingrong Yu, Axion dark matter from inflation-driven quantum phase transition (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) -- Abstract: We propose a new mechanism to produce axion dark matter from inflationary fluctuations. Quantum fluctuations during inflation are strengthened by a coupling of the axion kinetic term to the inflaton. This coupling acts as an order parameter, breaking the scale invariance of the axion power spectrum and driving a quantum phase transition. A red-tilted spectrum leads to an exponential enhancement of the axion abundance as the comoving horizon shrinks during inflation. This enhancement allows sufficient axion production to comprise the entire dark matter abundance, despite the ultralight mass. Our mechanism predicts a significantly different parameter space from the usual misalignment mechanism, allowing much larger couplings to Standard Model particles, which can be probed by future axion experiments. It is applicable to both QCD axion and axion-like particles. | 26 Ken Van Tillburg, Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC) (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 27 Tony Gherghetta, A Holographic View of the QCD Axion (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 28 Arjun Yodh, Imaging and Spectroscopy of (Mostly) Brain with Diffusing Light (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 29 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Reza Javadi Nezhad, Soft Symmetries in Gauge Theories (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Zare (3:45 PM - 5:30 PM) |