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Research Seminars

2023 - 2024 Seminars

Date and Time Location Title/Speaker
May 2 2024 - 4:00pm CENPA Conference Room NPL-178 Pushing physics boundaries with precise timing
Simone Mazza, UC Santa Cruz
May 1 2024 - 2:30pm PAT C-421 Beyond Summary Statistics: Leveraging Generative Models for Field-Level Weak Lensing Analysis
Biwei Dai, UC Berkeley
Apr 30 2024 - 9:00am to 6:00pm PAT C-520 Pacific Northwest Particle Theory Seminar
Apr 30 2024 - 4:00pm CENPA Conference Room nEXO and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay
Brian Lenardo, SLAC
Apr 30 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-520 Double Scaled SYK and de Sitter Holography
Herman Verlinde, Princeton University
Apr 30 2024 - 2:10pm PAT C-520 Level-rank duality and 3d mirror symmetry
Niklas Garner, University of Washington
Apr 30 2024 - 1:40pm PAT C-520 Linear hydrodynamical stability and the laws of thermodynamics
Eric Mefford, University of Victoria
Apr 30 2024 - 11:40am PAT C-520 Associativity is Enough
Natalie Paquette, University of Washington
Apr 30 2024 - 11:00am PAT C-520 Randomness in conformal field theories
Moshe Rozali, UBC
Apr 30 2024 - 10:30am PAT 421 S@INT Seminar: "Variational learning quantum many-body systems"
Alessandro Lovato
Apr 30 2024 - 9:30am PAT C-520 Emergence of space and time in holography
Hong Liu, MIT
Apr 25 2024 - 4:00pm CENPA Conference Room NPL-178 The Crucial Role of Underground Argon in Rare-Event Searches
Thomas Thorpe, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apr 25 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB C520 Emergent photons and fractionalized excitations in a quantum spin liquid
Pengcheng Dai, Rice University
Apr 24 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB B421 Collective electronic magnetism and gate-defined excitonic confinement in van der Waals devices
Tomasz Smolenski, ETH
Apr 23 2024 - 4:00pm CENPA Conference Room NPL-178 Why reinvent the wheel? The case for LEGEND and DarkSide technological overlap
Claudio Savarese, PhD
Apr 23 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 The semiclassical description of CFT in the large charge regime
Riccardo Rattazzi, EPFL
Apr 23 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB B421 Experimental Signatures of Higher Order Topology
Richard Deblock, Saclay
Apr 22 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm PAB B421 Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulator Multilayers
Yi-Fan Zhao, Department of Physics, Berkeley
Apr 16 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Gravitational form factors of hadrons from lattice QCD
Dimitra Pefkou, University of California, Berkeley
Apr 9 2024 - 4:00pm CENPA Conference Room (Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95071028354) Precision Tests of the Standard Model: The Project 8 and Muon g-2 Experiments
Christine Claessens, University of Washington
Apr 9 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Primordial Black Holes from Axion Domain Wall Collapse
Marius Kongsore, NYU
Apr 4 2024 - 4:00pm CENPA Conference Room (Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95071028354) The origin of flavour: from the Higgs boson to rare pion decays
Quentin Buat, University of Washington
Apr 4 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB C520 Unconventional Superconducting Quantum Criticality in Monolayer WTe2
Sanfeng Wu, Princeton
Apr 2 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm PAB B421 Chiral density waves in correlated quantum materials
Hu Miao (Oakridge National Laboratory)
Apr 2 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm PAB B421 Chiral density waves in correlated quantum materials
Hu Miao (Oakridge National Laboratory)
Apr 2 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm PAB B421 Chiral density waves in correlated quantum materials
Hu Miao (Oakridge National Laboratory)
Apr 2 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm PAB B421 Chiral density waves in correlated quantum materials
Hu Miao (Oakridge National Laboratory)
Apr 2 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Varying-constant cosmology from hyperlight, coupled scalars
Zachary Weiner, University of Washington
Apr 2 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Varying-constant cosmology from hyperlight, coupled scalars
Zachary Weiner, University of Washington
Mar 28 2024 - 9:30am Online S@INT Seminar: "Nuclear matter in mergers: the quest for equilibrium"
Mark Alford
Mar 27 2024 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm PAB 421 Microscopic Study of Ferroic Orders in Quasi-1D Chalcogenides
Guodong Ren
Mar 14 2024 - 10:30am PAT C-421 S@INT Seminar: "New Physics from Multi-messenger Studies of Neutron Star Mergers"
Bhupal Dev
Mar 12 2024 - 10:30am PAT C-421 S@INT Seminar: "(Un)welcome intruders: Getting your nucleus to come out of its shell (in ab initio calculations)"
Mark A. Caprio
Mar 11 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm PAB 421 Quantum Geometry and Orbital Frustration in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Haidong Tian, Ohio State University
Mar 5 2024 - 4:30pm Zoom (https://washington.zoom.us/j/93742380533) Search for exotic Higgs boson decays with CMS and fast machine learning solutions for the LHC
Ho Fung Tsoi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mar 5 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 SPartAcous: a new interacting dark sector model faces cosmological tensions
Gustavo Marques-Tavares, University of Utah
Feb 27 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Disordered quantum critical fixed points from holography
Andrew Lucas, University of Colorado Boulder
Feb 23 2024 - 12:40pm PAT C-421 Constraining the Higgs self-coupling and looking for new physics
Yulei Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Singapore
Feb 22 2024 - 10:30am PAT C-421 S@INT Seminar: "First-principles nuclear structure theory and implications for fundamental physics"
Matthias Heinz
Feb 20 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Axion screening of the CMB
Cristina Mondino, Perimeter Institute
Feb 20 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Axion screening of the CMB
Cristina Mondino, Perimeter Institute
Feb 16 2024 - 9:15am PAT C520 INT Workshop - Electroweak and Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the EIC
Feb 15 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB C520 Z2-Nontrivial Moiré Minibands and Interaction-Driven Chern insulator in Topological Insulator Based Moiré Heterostructures
Kaijie Yang, Penn State
Feb 15 2024 - 10:00am PAT C520 INT Workshop - Electroweak and Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the EIC
Feb 14 2024 - 9:15am PAT C520 INT Workshop - Electroweak and Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the EIC
Feb 13 2024 - 4:30pm PAT C-421 Search for pair production of higgsinos in events with two Higgs bosons and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s)=13 TeV pp collisions at the ATLAS experiment
Michael Donald Hank, University of Pennsylvania
Feb 13 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Resurgent Extrapolation and QFT: Mining Perturbation Theory for Non-perturbative Information
Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
Feb 13 2024 - 9:15am PAT C520 INT Workshop - Electroweak and Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the EIC
Feb 12 2024 - 9:00am PAT C520 INT Workshop - Electroweak and Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the EIC
Feb 8 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB B421 Topological Nanophotonics
Li He, University of Pennsylvania
Feb 8 2024 - 10:30am PAT C-421 S@INT Seminar: "Searching for muon to electron conversion"
Kaori Fuyuto --- Los Alamos National Laboratory
Feb 6 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Chiral gauge theory at the boundary between topological phases
David B. Kaplan, University of Washington
Feb 1 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB B421 Revealing correlation and topology in Kagome lattices using STM
Hong Li, Boston College
Jan 30 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Non-Invertible Symmetries in String Theory
Jacob McNamara, Caltech
Jan 23 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits
Roland Farrell, University of Washington
Jan 23 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits
Roland Farrell, University of Washington
Jan 16 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua
Richard Nally, Cornell University
Jan 9 2024 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Bounds on the Equation of State from QCD Inequalities
 and Lattice QCD
Yuki Fujimoto, University of Washington
Dec 7 2023 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAT C-520 Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4
Yuanbo Zhang, Fudan University
Dec 5 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 The Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation
Kim Berghaus, Caltech
Dec 5 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 The Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation
Kim Berghaus, Caltech
Nov 30 2023 - 12:30pm to 1:20pm PAT C-520 Increasing Qubit Count and Connectivity Without Sacrificing Fidelity
Sara Mouradian
Nov 29 2023 - 2:30pm PAT C610D TBD
Marios Galanis, Perimeter Institute
Nov 28 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Bootstrapping Dual Resonance
Grant Remmen, New York University
Nov 16 2023 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB C-520 Engineering 2D quantum materials with atomic precision 
Tiancong Zhu, UC Berkeley
Nov 14 2023 - 4:30pm PAT C-421 PIONEER, a next-generation rare pion decay experiment
Quentin Buat, University of Washington
Nov 14 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Towards a neutrino mass measurement with upcoming cosmological surveys: Old challenges and new opportunities
Caio Bastos de Senna Nascimento, University of Washington
Nov 14 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Towards a neutrino mass measurement with upcoming cosmological surveys: Old challenges and new opportunities
Caio Bastos de Senna Nascimento, University of Washington
Nov 14 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Theoretical systematics in Large-Scale Structure Surveys
Charuhas Shiveshwarkar, University of Washington
Nov 7 2023 - 4:30pm PAT C-421 SUB-Millicharged Experiment (SUBMET) at J-PARC
Jae Hyeok Yoo, Korea University
Nov 7 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Black hole tides from scattering amplitudes
Julio Parra-Martinez, University of British Columbia
Nov 3 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule), Zoom option available INT Workshop - Theoretical Physics Uncertainties to Empower Neutrino Experiments
Nov 2 2023 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm PAB B421 Fractional Chern Insulators vs. Non-Magnetic States in Twisted Bilayer MoTe2
Nicolas Regnault, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris and CNRS
Nov 2 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule), Zoom option available INT Workshop - Theoretical Physics Uncertainties to Empower Neutrino Experiments
Nov 1 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule), Zoom option available INT Workshop - Theoretical Physics Uncertainties to Empower Neutrino Experiments
Oct 31 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Probing Quantum Black Hole Microstates
Matthew Heydeman, Harvard University
Oct 31 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule), Zoom option available INT Workshop - Theoretical Physics Uncertainties to Empower Neutrino Experiments
Oct 30 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule), Zoom option available INT Workshop - Theoretical Physics Uncertainties to Empower Neutrino Experiments
Oct 24 2023 - 4:30pm PAT C-421 FASER entering uncharted territory: the first result of dark photon search and the first observation of collider neutrinos
Shih-Chieh Hsu, University of Washington
Oct 24 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Line defects in CFTs: from magnets to Wilson lines
Gabriel Cuomo, New York University/Princeton University
Oct 24 2023 - 10:30am PAT C-421 S@INT Seminar: "Low energy three- and four-body systems in EFTs"
Xincheng Lin --- Duke University
Oct 20 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule) INT Workshop - Probing QCD at High Energy and Density with Jets
Oct 19 2023 - 3:30pm CENPA Conference Room What can we learn from EDM searches - and how?
Tim Chupp, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Oct 19 2023 - 12:30pm to 1:25pm B421 From new materials to new devices: TBG phaser and drive-controlled anomalous Hall effect
Gil Refael, Caltech
Oct 19 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule) INT Workshop - Probing QCD at High Energy and Density with Jets
Oct 18 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule) INT Workshop - Probing QCD at High Energy and Density with Jets
Oct 17 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Progress in calculating multiparticle amplitudes from lattice QCD
Stephen Sharpe, University of Washington
Oct 17 2023 - 2:05pm PAT C-211 Identifying the Various Forms of Capital Utilized by Physics Graduate Students in Bridge Programs
Dr. Geraldine L. Cochran, Ohio State University
Oct 17 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule) INT Workshop - Probing QCD at High Energy and Density with Jets
Oct 16 2023 - 9:00am PAT C520, PAT C607 (see schedule) INT Workshop - Probing QCD at High Energy and Density with Jets
Oct 12 2023 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm C520 Circuit complexity and functionality: a thermodynamic perspective
Claudio Chamon, Boston University
Oct 10 2023 - 4:30pm PAT C-421 The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: A Tale of Physics, Software, and ML
Alexandra Golub and Gordon Watts, University of Washington
Oct 10 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 A loophole in the proofs of quantum triviality and asymptotic freedom
Paul Romatschke, University of Colorado Boulder
Oct 10 2023 - 10:30am PAT C-421 (participants are also welcome to join via Zoom) S@INT Seminar: "Prospects for Discovery In the Dynamics of Heavy Nuclei and Nuclear Data"
Kyle Godbey - Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Oct 3 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Ravioli and Holomorphic-Topological QFT
Niklas Garner, University of Washington
Sep 26 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Patchy Dark Screening
Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute
Sep 26 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Patchy Dark Screening
Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute
Sep 12 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Axion-like Particle At Higgs Factories and at Super-K
Kingman Cheung, National Tsing Hua University
Sep 12 2023 - 3:00pm PAT C-421 Axion-like Particle At Higgs Factories and at Super-K
Kingman Cheung, National Tsing Hua University
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