Speakers: Giordan Stark (UC Santa Cruz) Communicating results between experimentalists and theorists in particle physics has been long and varied. From efficiency maps to selection cut flows - the collaboration between the two communities has continued to grow and evolve. Now, particularly more than ever, a stronger effort has been led within the ATLAS Collaboration ... Read more
Speakers: Chrisy Xiyu Du (UH. Mech. Eng.) Biological materials gain complexity from the programmable nature of their components. To manufacture materials with comparable complexity synthetically, we need to create building blocks with low crosstalk so that they only bind to their desired partners. Canonically, these building blocks are made using DNA strands or proteins to ... Read more
Speakers: Chrisy Xiyu Du (UH. Mech. Eng.) Biological materials gain complexity from the programmable nature of their components. To manufacture materials with comparable complexity synthetically, we need to create building blocks with low crosstalk so that they only bind to their desired partners. Canonically, these building blocks are made using DNA strands or proteins to ... Read more
Speakers: Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii) Biological materials gain complexity from the programmable nature of their components. To manufacture materials with comparable complexity synthetically, we need to create building blocks with low crosstalk so that they only bind to their desired partners. Canonically, these building blocks are made using DNA strands or proteins to achieve specificity. ... Read more
Speakers: Vladimir Shiltsev (NIU) Over the past three decades, the science of beams has evolved into a distinct discipline with its own subjects and methods. Some 30,000 accelerators are in operation worldwide today, including over 100 of major facilities for fundamental science research. Around 5,000 accelerator scientists and engineers work in over 50 countries, collaborating ... Read more
Speakers: Vladimir Shiltev I will discuss key accelerator and beam physics developments that have advanced nuclear and high-energy physics, highlighting their relevance to major future projects such as the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee, a Higgs Factory at CERN), and the Muon Collider. I will first focus on electron lenses (e-lenses) for beam-beam ... Read more
Speakers: Chris Gordon (University of Canterbury) If QCD axion dark matter formed post-inflation, axion miniclusters emerged from isocurvature fluctuations and later merged hierarchically into minihalos. These minihalos, potentially disrupted by stellar encounters in the Milky Way, affect axion detectability. We extend prior analyses by more accurately incorporating multiple stellar encounters and dynamical relaxation timescales, simulating ... Read more
Speakers: Xiaochuan Lu (University of California, San Diego) Effective Field Theories (EFTs) have wide reaching applications in particle physics of and beyond the Standard Model (BSM). They also serve as the foundation for our modern understanding of renormalization in Quantum Field Theories. In this talk, I will discuss a few crucial aspects of EFTs, including ... Read more
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) High-energy physics experiments measure distributions of relativistic events across phase space, yet traditionally phase space has served merely as a calculational backdrop. In this seminar, I propose a paradigm shift: viewing phase space as a dynamic, geometric entity deeply entwined with the underlying physics. By treating phase ... 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) I will present an overview of my short and long term research plans. I will begin by presenting more background behind my colloquium topic: mesogenesis. The goal of my 4-year mesogenesis research plan is to enable the discovery (or complete exclusion) of all variations of this mechanism. I ... Read more