Events

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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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