| April 2025 |
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| 31 Connor Hainje, A new formula for the area of a triangle, and applications (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Aurelio Amerio, Searching dark matter subhalos among unassociated Fermi-LAT sources (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: William Pannell, Gradient flow and the curvature of theory space (3:10 PM - 4:10 PM) + Abstract: | 1 Bart Ripperda, Are We There Yet? First-principles Modeling of Multimessenger sSignals in the Plasma Universe (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract: Raagini Patki, A Novel Bispectrum extracting the Kinematic SZ effect as a Cosmological Probe (2:00 PM - 2:30 PM) + Abstract: | 2 , HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Csaba Csaki, Exploring QCD-like dynamics from supersymmetric cousins (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 3 Alessandra Buonanno, Theoretical Challenges in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 4 Dalimil Mazac, Spectral gaps and conformal field theory (10:00 AM - 11:15 AM) + Abstract: Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM) |
| 7 | 8 Magdalena Siwek, Signatures of Circumbinary Disk Dynamics in Astrophysical Binary Populations (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 9 , HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Lorenzo Ricci, Conformal collider at work (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: Cammie Norton, Black Holes and Baby Universes (8:00 PM - 9:30 PM) + Abstract: | 10 Jesse Thaler, Centaur Science: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 11 Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM) |
| 14 Misha Shaposhnikov, Weyl-invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity: unifying the strong CP and hierarchy puzzles (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 15 Julien Lavalle, Early dressing of primordial black holes with cold dark matter particles (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 16 , HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Michael Baker, Phase Transitions, Dark Matter and Black Holes (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 17 | 18 Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM) |
| 21 Marius Kongsore, Generalized Symmetries for the Generalist (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Nat Levine, Convexity of scaling dimensions over conformal manifolds (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) -- Abstract: We study d-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with exactly marginal couplings and the property that the finite part of the sphere partition function is unambiguous. This class includes all odd-dimensional CFTs with conformal manifolds, and sufficiently supersymmetric even-dimensional ones. We prove that the scaling dimension of the lightest unprotected scalar operator with fixed quantum numbers is a concave function. More generally, the sum of the lowest n such scaling dimensions is concave for any n. These results hold with respect to a dressed Riemannian metric on the conformal manifold: the standard Zamolodchikov metric multiplied by the sphere partition function. We show how these convexity statements can imply monotonicity in the context of holographic CFTs, assuming the unprotected states decouple in the weakly coupled gravity limit. We test our results in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in both the planar and non-planar regimes. | 22 Gabriela Sato-Polito, Where are the supermassive black holes measured by PTAs? (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 23 , HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Giovanni Villadoro, Open String Axiverse (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 24 | 25 Weiguang Cao, Duality viewpoint of noninvertible symmetry protected topological phases (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM) |
| 28 Marcus DuPont, Spherical Bondi accretion in a binary black hole system (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 29 Risa Wechsler, Unveiling the nature of dark matter with small-scale cosmic structure (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: Joan La Madrid, Comments on Gravity (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 30 Calvin Chen, The Power of Precision Astrometry (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM) + Abstract: , 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) + Abstract: | 1 Lyman Page, A New Experiment to Search for QCD Axions as Dark Matter (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract: Lyman Page, Exploring the Birth of the Universe with the CMB (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 2 Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM) |