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20
Apr
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Kevin Zhou
Quantum and Classical Effects of Axion Dark Matter
13
Apr
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Ben Safdi
The QCD Axion Mass in String Theory
06
Apr
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Mia West
Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Gravitational Waves and the Origin of the Dark Eta Prime Mass in Confining Dark Sectors.
30
Mar
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Dr. Andreas Schachner
From Strings to the Universe: Bridging Geometry and Cosmology
23
Mar
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Hannah Banks
Searching for Ultra-Light Dark Matter with Quantum Sensing Technologies
16
Mar
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Elliott Gesteau
When can spacetime emerge?
09
Mar
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Gabriel Assant
Asymptotic safety as a ghost-free, unitary, and predictive UV completion of gravity
02
Mar
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Yitian Sun
Radio Signatures of the Dark Sector: From 21-cm Cosmology to Axion Echoes
23
Feb
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Arash Ardehali
Chiral gauge theories on a circle: taming perturbative effects with supersymmetry
09
Feb
2026
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Yannick Kluth
Asymptotic Safety: A (Non?)-perturbative route to quantum gravity
08
Dec
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Leo Kim
Forming and Finding Dark Compact Objects
24
Nov
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Joshua Kirklin
Quantum gravity on a null ray segment
17
Nov
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
: Benoit Laurent
Bubble Wall Velocity Simplified: Tractable Regimes and Closed Form Estimates
11
Nov
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Saniya Heeba
DM @ Finite Temperature
10
Nov
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Bethany Anne Suter
DM Direct Detection: From Particle Physics to Material Science
20
Oct
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Ludovic Varrin
From Quantum Corner Symmetries to the Area Law
06
Oct
2025
2:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Petro Bittar
Long Lived Signals of Low Temperature Baryogenesis
05
Sep
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 408
Jonathan Oppenheim
Decoherence vs diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity
05
Jun
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
David McKeen
Complications in Simple Dark Sectors
26
May
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Theodore Jacobson
Exact selection rules and degeneracies from symmetry fractionalization
01
May
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 408
Cumrun Vafa
Recent Developments in the Swampland Program
28
Apr
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Ameen Ismail
Crunchy critical natural Higgs
14
Apr
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Daniel Kapec
Quasinormal Corrections to Near-Extremal Black Hole Thermodynamics
24
Mar
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Luca Ciambelli
Gravity on Null Hypersurfaces
03
Mar
2025
2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Andrea Dei
Tensionless AdS3/CFT2 and Single Trace TTbar