Special seminar: Nicola Franchini (APC+Berkley)

Bloomberg 462

TITLE: Quasi-normal modes of rotating black holes beyond General Relativity ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will summarize the recent advancements of quasi-normal modes in alternative theories of gravity. I will explain the main issues in computing the characteristic frequencies of rotating black holes and what are the most prominent strategies to tackle this problem. The […]

Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: (i) Lucas Kang (JHU), (ii) Mohit Srivastav (JHU)

Bloomberg 475

TITLES: Utilizing off-shell Higgs Boson production at the LHC in H* ->ZZ->4l: (i) measuring its properties and (ii) novel extensions. ABSTRACT: The Higgs boson is the last observed addition to the Standard Model, and due to its couplings to other fundamental particles, provides a promising portal through which we can potentially probe new physics. The […]

Department-wide colloquium, Bearden Lecture: Greg Boebinger (FSU/NHMFL)

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

TITLE:  The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research, ABSTRACT:  The National MagLab in the United States exists to provide magnetic fields that are more than a million times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field to thousands of visiting researchers every year.  Why would anyone want to do such a thing?   It turns out that magnetic […]

Special Astrophysics Seminar: Mudit Garg (Zurich University)

Bloomberg 447

TITLE: Decoding Astrophysics from inspiraling LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries ABSTRACT: Our current understanding is that an environment – mainly consisting of gas, stars, or a third massive black hole (MBH) – is required to bring MBH binaries (MBHBs) with total mass ∼ MSun to near-merger from parsec separation. The final inspiral is driven by […]

High energy physics theory seminar: Wenzer Qin (NYU)

Bloomberg 447

TITLE: CMB limits on decaying dark matter: going beyond the ionization threshold ABSTRACT: The temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been used to set constraints on decaying dark matter models down to keV masses. In this talk, I will discuss recent work to extend these limits down into the sub-keV […]