| May 2025 |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 28 Marcus DuPont, Spherical Bondi accretion in a binary black hole system (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 29 Risa Wechsler, Unveiling the nature of dark matter with small-scale cosmic structure (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: Joan La Madrid, Comments on Gravity (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 30 Calvin Chen, The Power of Precision Astrometry (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM) + Abstract: , HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Harikrishnan Ramani, Improving prospects for the direct detection of Higgsino dark matter (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 1 Lyman Page, A New Experiment to Search for QCD Axions as Dark Matter (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract: Lyman Page, Exploring the Birth of the Universe with the CMB (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 2 Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM) |
| 5 Wenzer Qin, A new way to form supermassive black holes (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 6 Tetyana Pitik, Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs: A Pathway to Gamma-Ray Bursts and Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 7 , HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Howie Haber, RG-stable parameter relations of a scalar field theory in absence of a symmetry (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 8 | 9 Vladimir Rosenhaus, Renormalization Group in wave turbulence (11:10 AM - 12:30 PM) + Abstract: Calkins (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM) |
| 12 | 13 | 14 Sebastian Ellis, Classical and Quantum Detection of Gravitational Waves (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract: , HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Zach Weiner, Searching for coupled, hyperlight scalars across cosmic history (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) + Abstract: | 15 | 16 Soichiro Shimamori, Boundary Scattering and Non-invertible Symmetries in 1+1 Dimensions (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) + Abstract: |
| 19 | 20 | 21 Louis Hamaide, New insights into optomechanical detection of ultralight dark matter (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) -- Abstract: Optomechanical sensors have seen recent innovations which make them more useful as leading detectors of ultralight dark matter. To date they remain a less-studied class of detectors among the rapidly developing field of quantum sensors, and a full study of the potential of these sensors to detect scalar, pseudoscalar and vector DM coupling is lacking. After giving the necessary background knowledge to calculate their sensitivity, I will give some new insights into optimisation of these systems for DM detection and propose a new detector which can lead to new bounds on DM couplings, focusing on B-L vector DM as an illustration. This new setup, proposed in collaboration with experimentalists, is easily feasible with current technologies, and will operate at the standard quantum limit (SQL). Finally I will briefly discuss the prospects of improving on these bounds by reaching SQL on resonance and other exciting near-future prospects. | 22 | 23 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 , Binary Accretion Discussion (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM) Sebastian Cespedes, Causality Bounds on the Primordial Power Spectrum (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 29 | 30 |