Events Calendar

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Marcus DuPont, Spherical Bondi accretion in a binary black hole system (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

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Risa Wechsler, Unveiling the nature of dark matter with small-scale cosmic structure (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

-- Abstract: Cosmological and astrophysical measurements provide clear evidence for the existence of dark matter, and in recent years they have started to map dark matter over large volumes of the cosmos -- but we still do not know the mass or interaction properties of the dark matter particle(s?). I will describe how measurements of small-scale cosmic structure -- including dwarf galaxies, gravitational lenses, and the properties of stellar streams -- are already providing insight into the microphysical properties of dark matter. Large photometric and spectroscopic surveys coming online in the near future will accelerate this search in a way that is complementary to other dark matter probes, and have the potential to detect truly dark halos below the limit of galaxy formation and confirm or rule out a key prediction of our standard cosmological model.

Joan La Madrid, Comments on Gravity (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Calvin Chen, The Power of Precision Astrometry (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Harikrishnan Ramani, Improving prospects for the direct detection of Higgsino dark matter (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Lyman Page, A New Experiment to Search for QCD Axions as Dark Matter (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

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Lyman Page, Exploring the Birth of the Universe with the CMB (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM)

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Wenzer Qin, A new way to form supermassive black holes (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

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Tetyana Pitik, Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs: A Pathway to Gamma-Ray Bursts and Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Howie Haber, RG-stable parameter relations of a scalar field theory in absence of a symmetry (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Vladimir Rosenhaus, Renormalization Group in wave turbulence (11:10 AM - 12:30 PM)

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Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM)

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Sebastian Ellis, Classical and Quantum Detection of Gravitational Waves (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Zach Weiner, Searching for coupled, hyperlight scalars across cosmic history (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM)

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Soichiro Shimamori, Boundary Scattering and Non-invertible Symmetries in 1+1 Dimensions (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM)

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Louis Hamaide, New insights into optomechanical detection of ultralight dark matter (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, Binary Accretion Discussion (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM)

Sebastian Cespedes, Causality Bounds on the Primordial Power Spectrum (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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