ABSTRACT: The Gaia mission has provided distance and velocity measurements of over a billion stars in the Milky Way, making it the largest stellar catalog at hand. Simultaneously, recent developments in cosmological simulations have made it possible to track stars …

Lina Necib (Caltech) “Dark Matter in the Era of Gaia” Read More »

Abstract: The three Nambu-Goldstone bosons in the longitudinal modes of the W and Z  together with the Higgs boson span a 4-dimensional manifold. The geometry of this manifold, invariant under field re-parametrization, encodes the scalar dynamics which are vastly unexplored …

Rodrigo Alonso (Durham U) “Geometry for Higgs Dynamics and Effective Field Theory” Read More »

Uros Seljak, Chirag Modi, Vanessa Boehm (LBL/Berkeley) How deadly is COVID-19?  A time series analysis of Italy mortality data Abstract: A counterfactual analysis of 2020 mortality data reported from towns in Italy, with data from the previous five years as …

Seljak, Modi, Boehm (RPM) Read More »

Abstract: The American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields is gearing up for its next community planning process (for historical reasons, called Snowmass).  This process will occur over the next year and culminate in a 10 year plan (with …

RPM – Physics Division | Ben Nachman (LBNL) “Gearing up for the 2021 APS DPF Community Planning Process (aka Snowmass)” https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95017728528 Read More »