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  Monday, May 9, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, PSC 3150

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Takemichi Okui, Cornell  

Friday, May 6, 1:30pm, Online *Special Online Seminar*

Particle Theory/ Cornell Seminar: Title: tk
Zhengkang Zhang, UC Santa Barbara

  Monday, May 2, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, PSC 3150

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Csaba Csaki, Cornell

Thursday April 28, 12:30pm, PSC 3150

Nuclear Theory Seminar: From Nuclei to Neutron Stars with Chiral Effective Field Theory and Multimessenger Astrophysics
Ingo Tews, LANL

Wednesday April 28, 2:30pm, Room 3150 Physical Sciences Complex

Gravity Theory Seminar: Slicing duality and holographic cosmology

Stefano Antonini, UMD

   Wednesday, April 27, 2:30pm, PSC 3150 *Special Seminar*

Particle Theory Seminar: title: tk

Jogesh Pati, SLAC

Friday, April 22, 12:30pm, PSC 3150  *Special Seminar*

Particle Theory/ Cornell Seminar: Standard Model and EDMs
Maxim Pospelov, University of Minnesota

 Wednesday April 20, 2:00pm, PSC 3150

Joint Gravity-Particle Theory Seminar: The central dogma and entanglement in de Sitter space

Edgar Shaghoulian, University of Pennsylvania

  Monday, April 18, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Avoided Deconfinement in Randall-Sundrum models

Prateek Agrawal, Oxford

Thursday April 14, 12:30pm, Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Nuclear matter from chiral effective field theory with quantified uncertainties
Christian Drischler, MSU/FRIB

   Monday, April 11, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, PSC 3150

Particle Theory Seminar: Freeze-in, glaciation, and UV sensitivity from light mediators.

Nicolás Fernández, UIUC

Thursday March 14, 12:30pm, Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: Symplectic Yang-Mills on the lattice
Jack Holligan, UMD

Tuesday March 8, 2:00pm, PSC 3150

Gravity Theory Seminar: Hyperbolic geometry for black-hole perturbations

Anil Zenginoglu, IPST, UMD

 Monday, March 7, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, PSC 3150

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Cari Cesarotti, Harvard

    Thursday March 3, 12:30pm, PSC 3150

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: Symplectic Yang-Mills on the lattice
Jack Holligan, UMD

   Monday, February 28, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Parity symmetry breaking scale and Standard Model parameters
Keisuke Harigaya, CERN

 Thursday February 24, 12:30pm, Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Recent Developments on Nuclear Lattice EFT
Ulf Meissner, U Bonn

   Monday, February 14, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Benjamin Lehmann, UCSC

Friday, February 11, 1:30pm, Online *Special Online Seminar*

Particle Theory/ Cornell Seminar: Cosmological Selection of the Weak Scale
Raffaele D'Agnolo, IPhT Saclay

   Thursday February 10, 12:30pm 3150 Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Sigma Models on Quantum Computers
Andy Sheng, UMD

  Monday, February 7, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Non-Gaussianity in Maps of the Large Scale Structure

Daniel Green, UC San Diego

 Monday, November 1, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Haipeng An, Tsinghua University

Thursday, October 28, 2:30pm, Room 3150 Physical Sciences Complex *Special Seminar*

Particle Theory Seminar: New backgrounds and new ideas for sub-GeV dark matter direct detection

Peizhi Du, Stony Brook University

 Thursday October 28, 11:30pm-12:30pm, Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: tk
Christina Aidala, University of Michigan

Friday, October 22, 1:30-2:30pm, Online *Special Online Seminar*

Particle Theory/ Cornell Seminar: Self-Organised Localisation

Gian Giudice, CERN 

Thursday October 21, 11:30pm-12:30pm, Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: “Short-range-correlation physics in atomic nuclei”
Richard Furnstahl, Ohio State

Friday, October 22, 1:30-2:30pm, Online *Special Online Seminar*

Particle Theory/ Cornell Seminar: Self-Organised Localisation

Gian Giudice, CERN 

 Monday, October 18, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150 Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: 21-cm cosmology in 2021

Julian Munoz, CfA

  Thursday October 14, 11:30pm-12:30pm, PSC 2136

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: Thermalization of Gauge Theories from their Entanglement Spectrum
Niklas Mueller, UMD

Wednesday October 13, 3:00pm, Room 3150 Physical Sciences Complex

Gravity Theory Seminar: Canonical analysis of gauge theories in regions with boundaries.

Alejandro Corichi, Center for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Mexico (UNAM)
Seminar Recording

Wednesday, October 13, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Online

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: Looking forward to new physics at the LHC

Felix Kling, SLAC

 Monday, October 11, 3:00pm – 4:30pm

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: Darkness Beyond Unitarity

Pouya Asadi, MIT

  Thursday September 30, 11:30pm-12:30pm, Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: A lattice QCD perspective on the muon g-2
Balint Toth, Wuppertal

Monday, September 27, 3:00pm – 4:30pm

 

Particle Theory Seminar: Axion Production in Pulsar Magnetosphere Gaps

Anirudh Prabhu, Stanford

  Thursday September 23, 11:30pm-12:30pm, Online

 

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Mapping Nucleon Parton Distributions with Lattice QCD
Huey-Wen Lin, Michigan State

Wednesday September 22, 3:00pm, Online

Gravity Theory Seminar: Modular Hamiltonians of excited CFT states

Phuc Nguyen, Lehman College, CUNY and University of Haifa 

 Monday, September 20, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150 Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: New developments in axion physics: challenges from the muon g-2 and echoes of supernova remnants.

Manuel Buen-Abad, UMD

 Thursday September 16, 11:30pm-12:30pm, Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: Nucleon-nucleon interactions and the large-Nc expansion: Applications to symmetry violations and neutrinoless double beta decay
Matthias Schindler, University of South Carolina

  Monday, September 13, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150 Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: Using line-intensity mapping to look for exotic radiative decays

Jose Luis Bernal, JHU

Friday September 10, 1:30pm-2:30pm, *Special Online Seminar*

Particle Theory/ Cornell Seminar: Title: Branes, Islands, and Massive Gravitons
Andreas Karch, University of Texas, Austin

 Thursday September 9, 11:30pm-12:30pm, Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: A New Concept for the Momentum of a Particle in a Space with Impenetrable Boundaries
Uwe-Jens Wiese, University of Bern

Thursday September 2, 11:30am-12:30pm, Room 2136 Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Toward first-principles calculation of the shear viscosity - classical and quantum approaches
Yukari Yamauchi, UMD

Monday, August 30, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Bridging the microhertz gap with asteroids: opportunities and challenges for gravitational wave detection
Michael Fedderke, JHU

Tuesday, August 24, 2:00pm, Online

Gravity Theory Seminar: Thermodynamic ensembles with cosmological horizons

Batoul Banihashemi, UMD Link to Recording

Friday April 30, 1:30pm-3:30pm Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Noise-resilient quantum simulation of nuclear dynamics
Sofia Quaglioni, LLNL

 Monday, April 26, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Title and abstract: tk

Tomer Volansky, Tel Aviv University

Friday April 23, 1:30pm-3:30pm Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Quantum simulating lattice gauge theories – high-energy physics at ultra-cold temperatures 
Philipp Hauke, University of Trento

Friday March 5, 1:30pm-3:30pm Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Pion structure from lattice QCD
Peter Petrezcky, BNL
Monday, March 8, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Title and abstract: tk

Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic, Perimeter Institute

  Monday, March 1, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: Simple Holographic Models of Black Hole Evaporation 
Daniel Harlow, KITP

 

Thursday February 11, 4:00pm-5:30pm, *Special Online Seminar*

Particle Theory/ Cornell Seminar: Title: tk
Diego Redigolo, CERN

 Monday, February 8, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk
Isabel Garcia, KITP

 Monday, February 1, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Andrea Tesi, Florence University 

 

Friday January 29, 1:30pm-3:30pm Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Questions About Proton Mass
Xiangdong Ji, UMD

 
Monday, January 25, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Online

Particle Theory Seminar: On-shell amplitudes for model building 
Camila Machado, DESY

 

Friday September 11, 2pm-3:30pm Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Three-particle interaction from the lattice: a progress report
Steve Sharpe, University of Washington

Monday, September 14, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Online 

Particle Theory Seminar: Cosmological Phase Transition of Composite Higgs Confinement
Majid Ekhterachian, UMD

Thursday September 17, 4:00pm-5:30pm, *Special Online Seminar*

Particle Theory/ Cornell Seminar: Title: New Physics Interpretation of the XENON1T Excess 
Wei Xue, UF

Friday September 18, 2pm-3:30pm Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: tk
David Kaplan, JHU

Friday September 4, 2:00pm Online

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Neutron Star Merger Dynamics
David Radice, Penn State University


Monday, August 31, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Online
 

Particle Theory Seminar: Cosmology and Unification
Raman Sundrum, UMD


Thursday April 2, 11:00am-12:30pm Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: tk
Dean Lee, Michigan State University


Thursday March 5, 11:00am-12:30pm Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: The equation of state and deconfinement in QCD
Alexei Bazavov, Temple University

 

Monday, March 2, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory
Jordy De Vries, University of Massachusetts

Thursday February 27, 11:00am-12:30pm Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: tk
Martha Constantinou, Temple University

Monday, February 24, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Malte Buschmann, University of Michigan 

  Monday, February 17, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Asher Berlin, New York University

Monday, February 10, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: Hunting New Physica through Portals

Zhen Liu, University of Maryland

 Monday, February 3, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Indirect search for dark matter in current and upcoming radio observations

Arpan Kar, Harish-Chandra Reserach Institute

Monday, January 27, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Minimal signatures of the Standard Model in cosmological collider physics

Davide Racco, Perimeter Institute 

Wednesday, December 11, 2:00pm-3:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex, Preceeded by Lunch at 12:30pm

Joint JHU/ EPT Seminar: Modeling final state radiation on a quantum computer
Ben Nachman, LBNL

 Monday, December 9, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Masha Baryakhtar, NYU

Thursday, December 5, 4:00pm-5:00pm Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: UV perspectives on Composite Dark Matter

Alessandro Podo, Scuola Normale Superiore 

 Monday, December 2, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Imprints of the Early Universe on Axion Dark Matter Substructure

Nikita Blinov, Fermilab

Monday, November 25, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Particle Physics in the Gravitational Wave Era

Toby Opferkuch, CERN

Thursday, November 21, 4:00pm-5:00pm Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Neutron Star Mergers Chirp About Vacuum Energy

Gabriele Rigo, Syracuse University

 Thursday November 21, 11:00am-12:30pm Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: From light-nuclei to neutron matter within chiral dynamics
Maria Piarulli, Washington University in St. Louis

 Monday, November 18, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

David Curtin, University of Toronto

Thursday November 14, 11:00am-12:30pm Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Large Nc constraints on pionless EFT: a low-energy few-nucleon window into QCD
Roxanne Springer, Duke University

Monday, November 11, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Higgs-confinement phase transition to 2+1 D abeliam superfluids 

Srimoyee Sen, Iowa State University

Thursday, November 7, 4:00pm-5:00pm Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: A Modern Perspective on Numbu-Goldstone Bosons

Ian Low, Northwestern University and Argonne National Lab

Monday, November 4, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 2136,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Fundamental Physics with Supernovae and Superconductors

Ryan Janish, University of California, Berkeley

Thursday October 31, 4:00pm-5:00pm Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Title: tk
Jian Liang, University of Kentucky

Wednesday, October 30, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: The Collisional Penrose Process and its Rold in Dark Matter Annihilation Around Black Holes
Jeremy Schnittman, NASA Goddard Flight Space Center

Wednesday October 30, 4:00pm-5:30pm, Room 2136,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Axion Dark Matter Detection with CMB Polarization 

Michael Fedderke, Stanford University

 Tuesday October 22, 1:30pm-3:00pm Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Gluonic Probe for the Short Range Correlation in Nucleus
Feng Yuan, Lawrence Berkeley Lab

 Thursday October 18, 10:00am-12:00pm Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Emergent Dynamical Symmetry in the Nuclear many-body system from its ab initio description
Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame

Tuesday October 15, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:The mass and spin structure of the proton
Yoshitaka Hatta, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Monday, October 14, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Looking for Axion Dark Matter: from Dwarf Galaxies to Pulsars

Andrea Caputo, University of Valencia

 Thursday October 10, 11:00am-12:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Deeply inelastic scattering structure functions on a hybrid quantum computer
Niklas Mueller, Brookhaven National Laboratory

 Wednesday, October 9, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: Constructing and Exploring Charged Myers-Perry Black Holes 

Chris Verhaaren, University of California

Monday, October 7, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Learning from Dark Monopoles

Chris Verhaaren, University of California

 Thursday October 3, 11:00am-12:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Novel methods for simulating quantum many-body physics on classical and quantum computers
Itay Hen, University of Southern California

  Thursday September 26, 11:00am-12:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: SU(2) gauge theory on digital quantum computers
Jesse Stryker, University of Washington

Monday, September 23, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Recent Progress in Cosmological Collider Physics

Zhong-Zhi Xianyu, Harvard

Wednesday, September 18, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Joint Gravity/ Particle Theory Seminar: Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter: A New Frontier
Rouven Essig, Stonybrook

Monday, September 16th, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Brian Swingle, University of Maryland

Monday, September 9th, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: Chasing Accreted Mily Way Structurs within Gaia DR2 using Deep Learning

Tim Cohen, University of Oregon 

 Monday, August 26, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Title: tk

Kim Berghaus, Johns Hopkins University


Monday, May 6, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Cosmological Probes of Higgs Dynamics in the Early Universe  

Jiji Fan, Brown University

Wednesday May 8, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Weakly-bound nuclei as a probe of the statistical hadronization model
Yukari Yamauchi, UM

Wednesday May 15, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Lattice calculation of the hardonic light-by-light contirbution to the muon magnetic moment
Luchang Jin, University of Connecticut

Tuesday, May 28, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: Diffeomorphism invariance and the black hole information paradox 

Phuc Nguyen, University of Maryland

Tuesday, April 30, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

MCFP Seminar: A Classical-Quantyn Correspondence

Tanmay Vachaspati, Arizona State University

Friday, April 26, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: The CLIC Potential for New Physics

Roberto Franceschini, Rome 3 University & INFN

 Monday, April 26, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Directional detection of light dark matter with athermal phonons

Simon Knapen, IAS

Thursday April 25, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Joint Gravity/ Particle Theory Seminar: CPT-Symmetric Universe
Latham Boyle, Perimeter Institute

 Wednesday, April 24, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 462, Bloomberg Hall, Johns Hopkins University

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: A New Frontier in the Search for Dark Matter

Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab

Wednesday April 24, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Reliable effective field theory predictions in low-energy nuclear physics using Bayesian statistics
Sarah Wesolowski, Salisbury

 
Monday, April 22, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Making and Measuring Ultra-Light Matter

Andrew Long, University of Michigan and Rice University

Wednesday April 17, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Locating the Quantum Chromodynamic Critical Point
Jaquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Rutgers

Wednesday, April 17, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar:How to build a wormhole (How to prepare the thermofield double state) 

Ben Freivogel, University of Amsterdam

Monday, April 15, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar:Pulsar timing as a probe of primordial black holes and subhalos

Jeff Dror, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, April 10, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: Relativistic effects in macroscopically delocalized quantum superpositions

Albert Roura, University of Ulm 

Monday, April 8, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Electroweak symmetric dark matter ball 

Yang Bai, UW-Madison

Wednesday, April 3, 10:00am-11:30am, Room 3100A, Atlantic Building

Informal Joint Gravity/ QUiCKs Seminar: Recoverign the QNEC from the ANEC
Tom Faulkner, University of Illinois at Ubrana-Champaign 

Wednesday, April 3, 2:00pm-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Neutron-stars as probes for nuclear physics 
Ingo Tews, LANL

Wednesday, March 27, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: Ultralight boson detection with gravitational waves

Emanuele Berti, JHU

Monday, March 25, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar:  The (Metric) Space of Collider Events
Patrick Komiske, MIT

Wednesday, March 13, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: Probing the nature of gravity and compact objects with gravitational wave observations

Alessandra Buonanno, UMD

Wednesday, March 6, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: Dual of the bulk symplectic form and the volume of maximal slices in AdS/CFT

Gabor Sarosi, University of Pennsylvania

 Wednesday March 6, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Fission and lanthanide production in r-process nucleosynthesis
Nicole Vassh, Notre Dame

Monday, March 4, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar:  Firewalls in General Relativity
Surjeet Rajendran, Fermilab

Wednesday, February 27, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: Black-hole Energy Extraction via General-Relativistic Kinetic Plasma Simulations 

Kyle Parfrey, NASA

Wednesday, February 27, 2:00pm-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Charge-exchange modes and weak-interaction processes in Relativistic Nuclear Field Theory"
Caroline Robin, INT

Monday, February 25, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar:  Searching for flavour symmetries: old data new tricks
Jessica Turner, Fermilab

Friday, February 22, 11:00am-12:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: Sign of the Times: Sign Problems in Modern Physics
Hank Lamm, UMD


Monday, February 18, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "The Dawn of FIMP Dark Matter"
Tommi Tenkanen, John's Hopkins University 

Wednesday, February 13, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Starobinsky inflation, dark energy, and dark matter in supergravity"

Sergey Ketov, Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kavli IPMU, Japan

Monday, February 11, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: tk

Matthew Low, Fermilab

Thursday, February 7, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Continuum Naturalness"

Seung Lee, Korea Institute of Advanced Study

Monday, February 4, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: tk

Alexander Friedland, SLAC

 Wednesday, January 30, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 462, Bloomberg Hall, Johns Hopkins University

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "tk"

Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh

Wednesday, January 30, 2:00pm-3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Real-time quantum scattering with trapped ions?"
Yannick Meurice, University of Iowa

Wednesday, January 30, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "The transmission of information between remote UdW detectors Vs. causality"

Theodora Kolioni, University of Patra, Greece

Monday, January 28, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: Observable signatures of dark photons from supernovae

Gustavo Marques Tavares, University of Maryland

Thursday, December 13, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "title tk"

Xingang Chen, Harvard University 

Monday, November 12, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Detecting Composite Dark Matter"

Dorota Grabowska, University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, November 14, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Causality Constraints in Holography"

Netta Engelhardt, Princeton University & MIT 

 

Wed, Thur, Fri, November 14-16, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Room 1136 (Wed) & 3150 (Thur + Fri), Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Relativistic Fluid Dynamics Out of Equilibrium"
Paul Romatschke, University of Colorado

Thursday, November 15, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Hot and Dense Neutron-Rich Matter in Supernovae and Neutron Star Mergers"
Jeremy Holt, Texas A&M University

Thursday, November 15, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Baryogengesis and Dark Matter from B Mesons"

Gilly Elor, University of Washington

Monday, November 19, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Cooling self-interacting dark matter halos"

Yiming Zhong, Boston University

Monday, November 26, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "title tk"

Diego Redigolo, Princeton University

Wednesday, November 28, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Hairy binary black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory"

Mohammed Khalil, University of Maryland 

Thursday, November 29, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"title tk"
Alessandro Roggero, University of Washington

Wednesday, November 29, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "The Gravitational S-matrix and Precision Predictions for Binary Inspirals"

Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Melon University 

Monday, December 3, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Dark Matter in Disequilibrium and Implications for Direct Detection"

Lina Necib, California Institute of Technology

Monday, December 10, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "title tk"

Oren Slone, Princeton University

Wednesday, November 7, 12:00pm – 3:00pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "Timing BSM signals at the LHC"

Zhen Liu, University of Maryland

Wednesday, October 31, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Tabletop experiments for quantum gravity"

Dan Carney, QuICS, University of Maryland 

Monday, October 29, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Axions From Strings: the Attractive Solution"

Marco Gorghetto, International Centre for Theoretical Physics/SISSA

Friday, October 26, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "A Local First Law of Gravity"

Andrew Svesko, Arizona State University 

Thursday, October 25, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"3 Hadrons In (In-) Finite Volume"
Maxim Mai, George Washington University

Monday, October 22, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Severe Constraints on New Physics Explanations of the MiniBooNE Excess"

Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab

Thursday, October 18, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Pseudo Parton Distributions from Lattice QCD"
Joseph Karpie, College of William & Mary

Monday, October 15, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "On lepton flavor universality violations"

Jure Zupan, University of Cincinnati

Thursday, October 11, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Nucleon electric dipole moments from Lattice QCD"
Sergey Syritsyn, Stony Brook

 

Wednesday, October 10, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Anisotropies in the Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Phase Transitions"

Yuhsin Tsai, University of Maryland 

 

Monday, October 8, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Probing the early Universe with gravitational waves from cosmic strings"

Yanou Cui, University of California, Riverside

Friday, October 5, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Anyonic particle-vortex statistics and the nature of dense QCD"
Srimoyee Sen, University of Washington and Institute for Nuclear Theory

Thursday, October 4, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Complex Langevin in Nonrelativistic Rotating Bosonic Systems"
Casey Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Wednesday, October 3, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "The Belle II Experiment at KEK"

Leo Piilonen, Virginia Tech and BELLE-II

Thursday, September 27, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Coarse Graining Hadronic and Nuclear Interactions"
Enrique Ruiz Arriola, University of Granada

Wednesday, September 26, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Simulations of pair-producing gaps at the base of AGN jets"

Alex Chen, Princeton University 

 

Monday, September 24, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes"

Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute

 

Monday, September 17, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Dark Matter in Light of the 21cm EDGES Signal"

Ely Kovetz, Johns Hopkins University

 

Monday, September 10, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Self-Interacting Dark Matter and Galaxy Rotation Curves"

Hai-bo Yu, University of California Riverside

Friday, August 31, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Lattice QCD calculation of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to muon g-2"
Bipasha Chakraborty, Jefferson Lab

Monday, August 27, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Learning to constrain new physics"

Johann Brehmer, New York University

Tuesday, August 7, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "BSM physics in neutrino scattering"

Xunjie Xu, Max Planck Institute

Thursday, July 19, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Transverse spin structure of octet baryons using Lattice QCD"
Jacob Bickerton, University of Adelaide

Monday, July 16, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "$SU(5) \times U(1)_X$ Grand Unification with Minimal Seesaw and Z′-portal Dark Matter"

Nobuchika Okada, University of Alabama

 

Thursday, July 12, 10:00am – 11:00am, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "A viable QCD axion in the MeV mass range"

Daniele Alves, Los Alamos National Lab

 

Monday, July 9, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Positive gravitational subsystem energies from CFT cone relative entropies"

Dominik Neuenfeld, University of British Columbia

 

Thursday, June 28, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "New Physics at IceCube"

Bhupal Dev, Washington University

 

Wednesday, May 23, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Model-Independent Constraints on R(J/Psi)"
Hank Lamm, University of Maryland

 

Monday, May 21, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

MCFP Seminar: "Causality and Energy Conditions in QFT"

Sandipan Kundu, Johns Hopkins University

 

Friday, May 18, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3204, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Pre-Candidacy Talk: "Hybrid Seesaw Leptogenesis and TeV Singlets"

 Majid Ekhterachian, University of Maryland

  

Thursday, May 10, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Analyzing the Gamma-Ray sky with Wavelets"

Ilias Cholis, Johns Hopkins University

 

Wednesday, May 2, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"QED-corrected Lellouch-Luescher formula for K->\pi\pi decay"
Yiming Cai, University of Maryland

 

Monday, April 30, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

MCFP Seminar: "Gravitational physics from quantum information constraints"
Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia

 

Friday, April 27, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Dissertation Defense: "Investigations on entanglement entropy in gravity"

Antony Speranza, University of Maryland 

 

Monday, April 23, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Recent Results from the Light Dark Matter Frontier"

Tomer Volansky, Tel Aviv University

 

 

Friday, April 20, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room ATL3100A, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Asymptotic Symmetries and Holography"

Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland 

 

Thursday, April 19, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

MCFP/CMTC Colloquium: "Fast Scrambling on Sparse Graphs"

Andy Lucas, Stanford University

  

Wednesday, April 18, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Beyond Thimbles: Integration Contours to Solve a Sign Problem"
Scott Lawrence, University of Maryland

 

Wednesday, April 11, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Real-time Dynamics of Gauge Theories on the Lattice"
Mark Mace, Stony Brook University & Brookhaven National Lab

 

Wednesday, April 11, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Probing Velocity Dependent Self Intereacting Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes"

Ivone Albuquerque, University of São Paulo

 

Monday, April 9, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Self-Destructing Dark Matter"

Ofri Telem, Cornell University

 

Friday, April 6, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room ATL3100A, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Bulk Entanglement Gravity and Radon Transform: Towards Finding Einstein's Equation in Hilbert Space"

Charles Cao, California Insitute of Technology 

  

Friday - Sunday, April 6 - 7, College Park Marriot Hotel and Conference Center

MCFP Workshop on Lattice Parton Physics

Organizers:  

Taku Izubuchi, BNL
Karl Jansen, DESY
Xiangdong Ji, University of Maryland
Jianwei Qiu, JLab
Feng Yuan, LBNL

  

Wednesday, April 4, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Recent Lattice Results on the XYZ States"
Chuan Liu, Peking University

 

Monday, April 2, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Shedding light on Dark Matter with Cosmological Observations"

Vivian Poulin, Johns Hopkins University

    

Wednesday, March 28, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 462, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg Hall

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "Science and Detectors of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment"

Elizabeth Worcester, Brookhaven National Lab

 

Monday, March 26, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Distorted Neutrino Oscillations From Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter"

Pedro Machado, Fermilab 

 

Friday, March 16, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "The Factorization Problem in Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity"

Daniel Harlow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 

Wednesday, March 14, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Quantifying New Contributions to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay from Lattice QCD"
Amy Nicholson, University of North Carolina

      

Monday, March 12, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Flavor-specific scalar mediators"

Brian Batell, University of Pittsburgh 

    

Friday, March 9, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "What the Einstein Equations think may be happening inside quiescent black holes"

Charles W. Misner, University of Maryland 

Monday, March 5, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Building the Dynamical Diquark Model for Exotic Hadrons"
Richard Lebed, Arizona State University

   

Monday, March 5, 12:30pm – 2:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "The Holographic Shape of Entanglement and Einstein's Equations"

Onkar Parrikar, University of Pennsylvania 

 

Monday, March 5, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Dark quarkonium formation in the early universe"

Michael Geller, University of Maryland

  

Monday, February 26, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Cosmological Constraints on the Effective Theory of Dark Matter Interactions"

Kimberly Boddy, Johns Hopkins University 

   

Wednesday, February 21, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Thinking Inside the Box - Hadron Resonances in QCD"
Jozef Dudek, College of William & Mary

 

Monday, February 19, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Machine Learning for Jet Physics at the Large Hadron Collider"

Ben Nachman, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab 

   

Monday, February 12, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Dispersive tools for light meson scattering and resonance determinations"
Jose Ramon Pelaez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

Monday, February 12, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Solving the Hierarchy Problem Discretely"

Anson Hook, University of Maryland 

   

Friday, February 9, 11:00am – 12:00pm, Room 2136, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Going with the Flow: Complexified Path Integrals and a Solution to the Sign Problem"
Gökçe Başar, University of Illinois, Chicago

 

Wednesday, February 7, 12:30pm – 2:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Quark and Glue Spins from Lattice QCD"
Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky

 

Monday, February 5, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Resonant absorption of dark matter in molecules"

Ken Van Tilburg, IAS Stanford and New York University 

   

Wednesday, January 31, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar:"Neutrino-nucleon Scattering in the Neutrinosphere"
Neill Warrington, University of Maryland

 

Monday, January 29, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "New physics opportunities for long-lived particles at electron-proton colliders"

Kaustubh Deshpande, University of Maryland 

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