Dark Universe Science Center
Dark Universe Science Center
Upcoming Events
Samuel Wong, University of Washington
PAT C-421
Past Events
- Making Black Holes at the Big Bang: light spectator fields facilitate black hole formation and alleviate fine-tuning (Sarah Geller, UC, Santa Cruz) -
- PPP @ DUSC Seminar: New strategies for detecting meV dark bosons (Amalia Madden – KITP, UC Santa Barbara) -
- PPP @ DUSC Seminar: Majoron meets axion experiments (Qiuyue Liang – Kavli IPMU, U of Tokyo) -
- PPP @ DUSC Seminar: Probing Ultralight Dark Matter with Rydberg Atoms and Electro-Optics (Reza Ebadi – University of Maryland) -
- DUSC-INT Joint Seminar: "First Ten Years of Gravitational-Wave Observations and Beyond" (B.S. Sathyaprakash -- Penn State University) -
- IKKT matrix models and holography (Michael Gutperle, UCLA) -
- How the Cosmic Microwave Background knows about dark radiation (Murali Saravanan, University of Washington) -
- Duality of Turbulence to a solvable string theory (Alexander Migdal, School of Mathematics, IAS, Princeton) -
- Quantum Simulations of SU(3) (Patrick Draper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) -
- Revealing the physics of reionization with high-redshift quasars, JWST observations, and simulations of the IGM (Christopher Cain, Arizona State University) -
- What is a degree of freedom? Configuration spaces and topology (Juan Margalef Bentabol, University Charles III of Madrid) -
- Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons (Isabel Garcia Garcia, University of Washington) -
- The universe's awkward phase (Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci, University of Washington) -
- Building up quantum spacetimes with BCFT tensor networks and symmetric quantum RG (Yikun Jian, Northeastern University) -
- Decoding the Mystery of Dark Matter with Celestial Objects (Anupam Ray, UC Berkeley) -
- The speed of sound of nonlinear large-scale structures
(Caio Bastos de Senna Nascimento, University of Washington) - - Predicting the dark matter - baryon abundance ratio (Anson Hook, University of Maryland) -
- Post-inflationary axions (Rudin Petrossian-Byrne, ICTP Trieste) -
- Where are the supermassive black holes measured by PTAs? (Gabriela Sato-Polito, IAS) -
- Coupled Early Dark Energy (Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania) -
- Shining axions through astrophysical walls (Benjamin Safdi, UC Berkeley) -
- Searching for the Quantum Universe (Arsalan Adil, UC Davis) -
- Unveiling Dark Matter through Gravitational Waves (Yue Zhao, University of Utah) -
- The Rich Phenomenology of Confining Dark Sector - Abundance and Detection (Pouya Asadi, University of Oregon) -
- Holomorphic twist of 4d N=1 gauge theories (Kasia Budzik, Perimeter Institute) -
- Cosmology from the First Year DESI BAO Measurements (Kyle Dawson, University of Utah) -
- Holographic open quantum systems (Mukund Rangamani, UC Davis) -
- Beyond Summary Statistics: Leveraging Generative Models for Field-Level Weak Lensing Analysis (Biwei Dai, UC Berkeley) -
- Varying-constant cosmology from hyperlight, coupled scalars (Zachary Weiner, University of Washington) -
- Axion screening of the CMB (Cristina Mondino, Perimeter Institute) -
- Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits (Roland Farrell, University of Washington) -
- The Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation (Kim Berghaus, Caltech) -
- TBD (Marios Galanis, Perimeter Institute) -
- Towards a neutrino mass measurement with upcoming cosmological surveys: Old challenges and new opportunities (Caio Bastos de Senna Nascimento, University of Washington) -
- Patchy Dark Screening (Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute) -
- Axion-like Particle At Higgs Factories and at Super-K (Kingman Cheung, National Tsing Hua University) -
- The First Stars in LCDM and Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies
(Eli Visbal, University of Toledo) - - EFT for de Sitter Space (Daniel Green, University of California San Diego ) -
- Cosmic Reionization: When, How, and Who?
(Adam Lidz, U Penn) - - The next big thing in gravitational-wave astrophysics (Salvatore Vitale, MIT LIGO) -
- Exploring Fundamental Physics with Galaxy Surveys (Mikhail Ivanov, Institute of Advanced Study ) -
- Precision Cosmology: from CMB to 21cm (Zhilei Xu, MIT) -
- Newborn super star clusters at Cosmic Noon seen through gravitational lensing (Liang Dai, UC Berkeley ) -
- Creating Matter (Without Antimatter!) in the Laboratory (Jason Detwiler, University of Washington / CENPA) -
- The Universe, Seen in the (Far-)Far-Infrared
(Joaquin Vieira, UIUC) - - Axionic ripples in the sky (Renée Hložek, University of Toronto) -
- Searching for New Physics from the Sky with Current and Future Gamma Ray Telescopes (Joshua Foster, MIT) -
- Irreducible Inflationary Production of Dark Sectors: the Example of Dark QED (Olivier Simon, Stanford University) -
- High Energy Physics: Criticality in Eternal Inflation (Justin Khoury (UPenn) ) -
- High Energy Physics: Quantum Field Theory Tools for Gravitational Wave Science (Mikhail Solon, UCLA) -