Events Calendar

 March 2025        
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Roman Scoccimarro, Pairwise velocities at infinity and the redshift-space power spectrum (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

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JJ Zanazzi, Resonance locking and hot Jupiters (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Giorgio Gratta, nEXO and the quest for neutrino-less double beta decay. (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Janosz Dewberry, Shake, rattle, and roll: waves, tides, and turbulence in stellar and planetary system (1:00 PM - 2:15 PM)

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Giorgio Gratta, Testing Gravity at Ever Shorter Scale: A Trip into Exotic Experimental Physics (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Cara Giovanetti, Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Computation to Advance the Detection Prospects of Dark Matter (10:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

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

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Jesse Liu, Colliding light to measure tau g–2 (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

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Richard Anantua, A Message from the Horizon Scale by EHT: Deciphering Observational Signatures of Sgr A* and M87* (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Mathew Calkins, Office Hours (5:30 PM - 6:30 PM)

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

Junwu Huang, Novel string production mechanisms & gravitational wave detectors (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Mathew Calkins, Office Hours (4:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Jacob Barandes, What's Wrong with Quantum Theory, and How to Fix It (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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

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Anthony Pullen, Probing Dusty Galaxies with FIR Surveys (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

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Tony Zhou (host), ACT DR6 Webinar Inbox (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM)

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Carol Cuesta Lazaro, Beyond the Observable: A Machine Learning Perspective on Modern Cosmology (11:15 AM - 12:30 PM)

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

Daniel Harlow, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Tianli Wang, A CFT Dual for Celestial MHV Amplitudes (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM)

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

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, SPRING BREAK; Campus Closed

Rhine Samajdar (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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

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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)

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William Pannell, Gradient flow and the curvature of theory space (3:10 PM - 4:10 PM)

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Bart Ripperda, Are We There Yet? First-principles Modeling of Multimessenger sSignals in the Plasma Universe (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM)

-- Abstract: Astrophysical black holes are surrounded by accretion disks, jets, and coronae consisting of magnetized relativistic plasma. They produce observable multi wavelength and multi messenger signals from near the event horizon and it is currently unclear how this emission is exactly produced. The electromagnetic radiation typically has a non-thermal component, implying a power-law distribution of emitting relativistic electrons. Magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence are viable mechanisms to tap the large reservoir of magnetic energy in these systems and accelerate electrons to extreme energies. The accelerated electrons can then emit high-energy photons that themselves may strongly interact with the plasma, rendering a highly nonlinear system. In some cases the electromagnetic emission is accompanied by a multi messenger signal in the form of neutrinos, cosmic rays, or gravitational waves. Modeling the emitting systems necessitates a combination of magnetohydrodynamic models to capture the global dynamics of the formation of dissipation regions, and a kinetic treatment of plasma processes that are responsible for particle acceleration, quantum electrodynamics effects like pair creation and annihilation, and radiation. I will present novel studies of accreting black holes and how they radiate in regions close to black hole event horizon, using both first-principles general relativistic kinetic particle-in-cell simulations and global large-scale three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics models. With a combination of models, I determine where and how dissipation of magnetic energy occurs, what kind of emission signatures are typically produced, and what they can teach us about the nature of black holes.

Raagini Patki, A Novel Bispectrum extracting the Kinematic SZ effect as a Cosmological Probe (2:00 PM - 2:30 PM)

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

Csaba Csaki, Exploring QCD-like dynamics from supersymmetric cousins (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Alessandra Buonanno, Theoretical Challenges in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Dalimil Mazac, Spectral gaps and conformal field theory (10:00 AM - 11:15 AM)

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