High Energy Physics Seminars 2025-2026
All seminars begin at 4pm and take place in Lauritsen 469, unless otherwise specified.
Please send email to [email protected] to request the Zoom link. Requests must be received by the previous business day.
In person talks are limited to those in possession of a valid Caltech ID.
The organizers of this seminar series are Leonardo Badurina and Margarita Gavrilova.
2025-2026
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6-Oct | Joshua Labounty | University of Washington | Final Results from the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab |
| 13-Oct | Bingrong Yu | Cornell University | Quantum Forces in Standard Model and Dark Sector |
| 20-Oct | Soubhik Kumar | Tufts University | Probing Ultra-heavy Particle Physics using Precision Cosmology |
| 24-Oct (special date) *9:30 AM* | Xinpeng Wang | Kavli IPMU, U of Tokyo | Gravitational Waves from the Fifth-Force Mergers |
| 27-Oct | Christopher Dessert | Flatiron Institute CCA | Dark Radiation from the Axiverse |
| 28-Oct (special date) *4 PM* | Pavel Fileviez Perez | Case Western University | On Theories of Neutrino Masses and Dark Matter |
| 3-Nov | Asher Berlin | Fermilab | Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Particles |
| 10-Nov | Erwin Tanin | Stanford | Cosmology of dark forces: strong limits and 𝜈 effects |
| 17-Nov | Santiago Agüí-Salcedo | UChicago | The Open Effective Field Theory of Inflation. |
| 24-Nov | Michele Tarquini | Caltech | Spectrum completeness from dispersion relations |
| 1-Dec | No seminar | ||
| 4-Dec (special date) *12 PM* | Aidan Reilly | Stanford | Astrophysical Signals of Asymmetric Dark Matter |
| 8-Dec | Yuval Grossman | Cornell University | The Return of the Kaon |
| WINTER BREAK | |||
| 5-Jan | No seminar | ||
| 12-Jan | Subhajit Ghosh | U Texas Austin | CMB constraints on non-minimally coupled ultralight dark matter |
| 19-Jan | No Seminar | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | |
| 23-Jan (special date) *1 PM* | Tatsuya Daniel | McGill University | Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector |
| 26-Jan | No seminar | ||
| 2-Feb | Federico Cima | Caltech | Strong & Radiative Decays: two different stories in B-physics |
| 9-Feb | Henrique Rubira | Cambridge University, KICC and Munich University Observatory | The renormalization group for large-scale structure |
| 16-Feb | No Seminar | President's Day | |
| 23-Feb | Dimitrios Kosmopoulos | CERN | Dynamical Love Numbers for Black Holes and Beyond from Shell Effective Field Theory |
| 25-Feb (special date) *11 AM* | Simon Knapen | LBNL, Berkeley | Physics at a high energy plasma wakefield collider |
| 2-Mar | Junwu Huang | Perimeter Institute | Light Boson Dark Matter & Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics |
| 9-Mar | Josh Foster | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Detecting uHz Gravitational Waves with Binary Resonances |
| SPRING BREAK | |||
| 30-Mar | Carl Beadle | University of Toronto | Dark Matter NMR and its sensitivity to extra couplings |
| 6-Apr | Hannah Banks | NYU | Flavor, Accidentally |
| 10-Apr (special date) *1 PM* | Ira Rothstein | Carnegie Mellon University | A unified approach to the self force problem |
| 13-Apr | Claudio Manzari | IAS | A Few Thoughts on Flavor |
| 15-Apr (special date) *4 PM* | Rajan Gupta | Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) | Axial vector form factors and the scalar charge of nucleons from lattice QCD |
| 20-Apr | Pablo Quilez | CERN | Multiple axions: Strong CP, Dark Matter and how to count them |
| 23-Apr (special date) *11 AM* | Francesco Sciotti | IFAE | Higher point positivity and large-Nc QCD |
| 27-Apr | Seth Koren | Notre Dame U | Global Structure of Symmetries in Particle Physics |
| 4-May | Ameen Ismail | U Chicago | |
| 11-May | Austin Batz | University of Oregon | |
| 18-May | Gustavo Alves | Fermilab and Northwestern University | |
| 21-May (special date*) *12 PM* | Jackie Lodman | Harvard University | |
| 25-May | No Seminar | Memorial Day | |
| 27-May (special date) *4pm* | Giuseppe Lucente | SLAC |