Research Progress Meeting Date: October 12, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Luke Kelley (UC Berkeley) Title: Nanohertz Gravitational Waves: Exploring the most massive black holes in the Universe Abstract: Earlier this year NANOGrav, along with other pulsar timing arrays, …
Research Progress Meeting Date: October 19, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Joshua Batson (Anthropic AI) Title: More is Different: Generalization in Large (Language) Models Abstract: Specialized machine learning models have been successfully applied in science and industry for decades. …
Research Progress Meeting Date: October 26, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Kelly Stifter (Fermilab) Title: Leveraging quantum sensors to shine new light on searches for low-mass dark matter Abstract: While dark matter accounts for approximately 85% of the mass in …
Research Progress Meeting Date: November 7, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: B50 Auditorium Speakers: Career Panel Title: How to land a faculty position: A panel discussion with career scientists in the physics division Abstract: In this panel discussion postdocs and students will have …
Research Progress Meeting Date: November 14, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Aleksandra Kusiak (Columbia) Title: Probing the Ionized Gas Thermodynamics in Distant Galaxies with the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Abstract: The Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect—the Doppler boost of low-energy Cosmic Microwave Background photons …
Research Progress Meeting Date: November 21, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Roohi Dalal (Princeton) Title: New Cosmology Constraints from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Data Release Abstract: The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey is the deepest present-day weak lensing experiment, …
Research Progress Meeting Date: November 28, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Lee Hagaman (University of Chicago) Title: Investigating Short-Baseline Neutrino Anomalies Using MicroBooNE Abstract: The MicroBooNE experiment is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) in the Booster Neutrino …
Research Progress Meeting Date: November 30, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Michael MacKenzie (Northwestern University) Title: Searches for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at CMS and Mu2e Abstract: Neutrino oscillations have shown that lepton flavor is not a conserved quantity. …
Research Progress Meeting Date: December 5, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Michael Williams (University of Michigan) Title: Searches for Particle Dark Matter with LZ and TESSERACT Abstract: The search for particle dark matter is one of the primary challenges …
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 …