Research Progress Meeting Date: December 7, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Gerrit Farren (Cambridge) Title: The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the large scale structure with ACT DR6 CMB lensing and cross-correlation with unWISE Abstract: I will present work on …
Research Progress Meeting Date: December 12, 2023 Time: 1:00- 2:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Christina Wang (Cal Tech) Title: Search for New Physics with CMS and Quantum Sensors Abstract: I will present two new highly complementary approaches to search for physics …
Research Progress Meeting Date: December 14, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Deion Fellers (University of Oregon) Title: FASER’s Search for Dark Photons and Neutrinos Abstract: FASER is an experiment at the LHC that is designed to search for light, …
Research Progress Meeting Date: December 19, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Emily Perry (UCL) Title: Towards the discovery of galactic dark matter: the LZ experiment and beyond Abstract: The discovery of the nature of dark matter is …
Research Progress Meeting Date: January 18, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Joseph Bramante (Queen's University) Title: Back to the Future With High Mass Dark Matter Abstract: A number of theories predict that dark matter is a supermassive particle or …
Research Progress Meeting Date: January 25, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Philip Harris (MIT) Title: You can observe a lot by just watching (new AI strategies for the LHC and beyond) Abstract: With large amounts of data, a Higgs …
Research Progress Meeting Date: February 1, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Mariel Pettee (LBNL) Title: Towards a Foundation Model for Fundamental Physics Abstract: The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 ignited an ongoing worldwide conversation about the possible impacts of Large …
Research Progress Meeting Date: February 6, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Lindley Winslow (MIT) Title: The Search for GUT-Scale Axions: Really Big Magnets and Quantum Sensing Abstract: The particle nature of dark matter remains one of the …
Research Progress Meeting Date: February 15, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: William Coulton (Cambridge) Title: Novel cosmological tests with precision CMB measurements Abstract: High resolution cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments provide views of the Universe both at redshift ~1100, …
Research Progress Meeting Date: February 20, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Clara Verges (Harvard) Title: A new era for cosmology with current and next-generation CMB experiments Abstract: Cosmology has experienced a considerable surge in the past thirty …