Dark Universe Seminars
Repository for Brandeis Dark Universe Seminars schedule
Schedule 2019 - Thursdays 4 pm.
Spring term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 02.07 | Mark Vogelsberger (MIT) | Simulating Galaxy Formation: Illustris, IllustrisTNG and beyond |
| 02.14 | Jesse Thaler (MIT) | Collision Course: Particle Physics as a Machine Learning Testbed |
| 02.21 | --- | Midterm recess |
| 02.28 | Johann Brehmer (NYU) | Combining Simulations, Physics Understanding, and Machine Learning for Better Measurements |
| 03.07 | Rebecca Lane (MIT) | Dark Matter Strikes Back at the Galactic Center |
| 03.14 | Emmet Golden-Marx (Boston University) | Bent Lobes and Red Sequences: The Study of High-z Galaxy Clusters in the Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) Survey |
| 03.21 | Laura Newburgh (Yale) | New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping and the Cosmic Microwave Background |
| 03.28 | Jia Liu (Princeton) | Cosmology with massive neutrinos |
| 04.04 | --- | --- |
| 04.11 | Taritree Wongjirad (Tufts) | Applying Convolutional Neural Networks to MicroBooNE |
| 04.18 | --- | APS April Meeting |
| 04.25 | --- | Passover/Midterm recess |
| 05.02 | Kazunori Akiyama (Haystack Obervatory) | First Images of a Black Hole |
| 05.09 | --- | Exams |
Female speakers: ~33%
Schedule 2018 - Thursdays 4 pm.
Fall term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08.30 | --- | No seminar |
| 09.06 | Philipp Roloff (CERN) | Future accelarators and doing physics with them |
| 09.13 | Lisa Barsotti (MIT) | The LIGO instruments towards the next Observing Run and beyond |
| 09.20 | --- | Marcelle & Bjoern travel |
| 09.27 | Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany) | The Snowball Chamber: neutron-induced nucleation in supercooled water |
| 10.03* | Ian dell'Antonio (Brown University) | Preparing for Dark Energy measurements with LSST |
| 10.11 | Tom McClintock (BNL) | Galaxy Clusters in the Dark Energy Survey |
| 10.18 | --- | No seminar |
| 10.25 | Antonella Palmese (Fermilab) | Gravitational wave astrophysics and cosmology with DES galaxies |
| 11.01 | Elisabeth A.C. Mills (Brandeis) | Journey to the center of the Galaxy: following gas accretion from hundreds of parsecs to the black hole |
| 11.08 | Minfang Yeh (BNL) | Scintillator Detector for Neutrino Physics |
| 11.15 | Felix Kling (UC Irvine) | FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC |
| 11.22 | --- | Thanksgiving |
| 11.29 | Scott Hertel (UMass/Amherst) | The Dark Matter Searches Enters a New Regime |
| 12.06 | Nicholas Koehler (CERN) | Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS experiment |
*In a different day, Wednesday.
Female speakers: ~27%
Spring term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 02.15 | Sam McDermott (FNAL) | Is Self-Interacting Dark Matter Undergoing Dark Fusion? |
| 02.22 | --- | Midterm break |
| 03.01 | Justo Martin-Albo (Harvard) | The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay |
| 03.08 | Hsin-Yu Chen (Harvard) | Here comes the light--GW170817 and gravitational-wave precision cosmology |
| 03.15 | --- | SnowPAC |
| 03.22 | Albert de Roeck (CERN) | Searches or long-lived particles at the Large Hadron Collider |
| 03.29 | Sally Shaw (UCSB) | FInal Results of the LUX Direct Dark Matter Search |
| 04.05 | ||
| 04.12 | Albion Lawrence (Brandeis) | Effetive Field Theory for Large Field Inflation |
| 04.19 | --- | LZ collaboration week |
| 04.25 | Aran Garcia-Bellido (Rochester) | Top Gear at LHC |
Female speakers: ~28%