Speakers: Xiaochuan Lu (University of California, San Diego) Symmetry principles are extremely powerful tools for understanding the properties of physics systems generally, including particle physics. The ideas of symmetry are critical for establishing the Standard Model of particle physics and will guide us towards future discoveries. In this talk, I will explain how to make ... Read more
Speakers: Brian Henning (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics/UCSB) Strong-coupling phenomena—ranging from exotic meson structures to the rich QCD phase diagram impacting heavy ion collisions, neutron stars, and early-universe transitions—pose challenges that have long eluded our conventional perturbative and lattice tools. In this colloquium, I will present a novel nonperturbative approach based on Hamiltonian truncation (HT), ... Read more
Speakers: Gilly Elor (University of Texas, Austin) What is the Universe made of? Why do complex structures such as ourselves exist? I will present my proposal for simultaneously solving both these outstanding mysteries of particle physics: Mesogenesis, which generates both the observed asymmetry of matter over antimatter in the early Universe, and the population of Dark ... Read more
Speakers: Matthew Low (University of Pittsburgh) One of the enduring mysteries in particle physics is the lightness of the Higgs mass which is known as the electroweak hierarchy problem. Traditionally, colliders have been the leading tool to search for theories that solve this problem. In recent years, however, data from the Large Hadron Collider has ... Read more
Speakers: Pouya Asadi (University of Oregon) The particle nature of dark matter is currently one of the biggest open questions of particle physics. In this colloquium I will review some of the evidence for the existence of the dark matter and discuss the need for its non-gravitational interactions with the Standard Model. I will also ... Read more