Events Calendar

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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)

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Magdalena Siwek, Signatures of Circumbinary Disk Dynamics in Astrophysical Binary Populations (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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

Lorenzo Ricci, Conformal collider at work (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Cammie Norton, Black Holes and Baby Universes (8:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

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Jesse Thaler, Centaur Science: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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

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Misha Shaposhnikov, Weyl-invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity: unifying the strong CP and hierarchy puzzles (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Julien Lavalle, Early dressing of primordial black holes with cold dark matter particles (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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

Michael Baker, Phase Transitions, Dark Matter and Black Holes (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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

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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)

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Gabriela Sato-Polito, Where are the supermassive black holes measured by PTAs? (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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

Giovanni Villadoro, Open String Axiverse (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Weiguang Cao, Duality viewpoint of noninvertible symmetry protected topological phases (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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

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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)

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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)