| May 2025 |
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| 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: The pseudo-Dirac Higgsino is one of the last surviving electroweak WIMPs. The LHC will not reach the 1.1 TeV target mass even with full luminosity and prospects for its indirect detection depend on a favorable dark matter density profile at the galactic center. Since it has only off-diagonal couplings at tree-level, its direct detection is possible only when the mass splitting is smaller than the initial center of mass kinetic energy. This direct detection loophole is actually more generic; going by the name 'inelastic dark matter'. In this talk I will talk about my recent efforts to reach mass splittings larger than what has been thought to be possible thus far, by invoking interesting astrophysics, elements from the end of the periodic table, and large volume neutrino detectors. | 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) |
| 5 Wenzer Qin, A new way to form supermassive black holes (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 6 Tetyana Pitik, Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs: A Pathway to Gamma-Ray Bursts and Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 7 , 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) + Abstract: | 8 | 9 Vladimir Rosenhaus, Renormalization Group in wave turbulence (11:10 AM - 12:30 PM) + Abstract: Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM) |
| 12 | 13 | 14 Sebastian Ellis, Classical and Quantum Detection of Gravitational Waves (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract: , 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) + Abstract: | 15 | 16 Soichiro Shimamori, Boundary Scattering and Non-invertible Symmetries in 1+1 Dimensions (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) + Abstract: |
| 19 | 20 | 21 Louis Hamaide, New insights into optomechanical detection of ultralight dark matter (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 22 | 23 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 , Binary Accretion Discussion (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM) Sebastian Cespedes, Causality Bounds on the Primordial Power Spectrum (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 29 | 30 |