Topic of the Week

Day Speaker Link to the Talk Where Attendance
March 28, 2024 at 1 pm Rafael Coelho Lopes De Sa (U. Mass Amherst) TBA WH11 NE (Sunrise)
January 23, 2024 at 3 pm Simon Knapen (LBNL, UC Berkeley) Opportunities for data scouting at ATLAS, CMS & LHCb WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 14, 2023 at 2 pm Abhisek Datta (UCLA) Measurement of ttH and tH Production Rates in the H to bb Decay Channel at CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 26, 2023 at 3 pm David Curtin (U. of Toronto) The MATHUSLA LLP Detector Proposal - current status and prospects WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 20, 2023 at 3 pm Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg U. Mainz) Probing new chiral gauge symmetries with exotic Z decays and associated Z' production modes WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 25, 2023 at 3 pm Caterina Vernieri (SLAC, Stanford U.) A "cool" route to unveil the Higgs boson’s secrets WH11 NE (Sunrise)
March 8, 2023 at 2 pm Jan Strube (PNNL) Physics and detector research opportunities at Higgs factories WH11 NE (Sunrise)
December 13, 2022 at 3 pm Federico Meloni (DESY) Track reconstruction with quantum computers at the LUXE experiment WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 18, 2022 at 3 pm Matt Strassler Dark showers WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 9, 2022 at 3 pm Juan Carlos Helo (La Serena U.) Heavy neutral leptons at the lifetime frontier WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 12, 2022 at 3 pm Andrew Whitbeck (TTU) SUSY, (death), and robots WH11 NE (Sunrise)
March 8, 2022 at 3 pm Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (TRIUMF, UBC) Searching in (the) dark and new directions: News from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider Video conference only
September 7, 2021 at 3 pm Claire Antel (Universite de Geneve) The FASER Experiment: Commissioning of a not-so-large LHC experiment in search for new physics in far corners Video conference only 28
May 4, 2021 at 3 pm Matthew Citron (UC Santa Barbara) The milliQan experiment: search for millicharged particles at the LHC Video conference only
April 13, 2021 at 3 pm Christopher Tunnell (Rice) The XENON1T Electronic-Recoil Excess Video conference only
April 6, 2021 at 3 pm Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley) Let There be Light: unlocking the secrets of the Universe with neutrinos Video conference only
February 23, 2021 at 3 pm Jean-Roch Vlimant (Caltech) Andvancing Particle Physics with Deep Learning Video conference only 42
January 26, 2021 at 3 pm Greg Landsberg (Brown) Searches for new physics with FACET - a Forward-Aperture CMS ExTension Video conference only 24
October 27, 2020 at 3 pm Georgios Krintiras (Kansas) Top Quarks and the Little Bang Standard Model Video conference only
October 13, 2020 at 3 pm Kate Pachal (Duke) Hunting for new physics using long-lived particles Video conference only 30
August 25, 2020 at 2 pm Markus Klute (MIT) The case for the FCC-ee Video conference only 25
July 16, 2020 at 2 pm Massimo Casarsa Hands-on Tutorial on Muon Collider Video conference only
July 14, 2020 at 2 pm Donatella Lucchesi and Zhen Liu Physics Prospects at Muon Colliders Video conference only 45
June 16, 2020 at 3 pm Sarah Eno Future ee Colliders Video conference only
June 9, 2020 at 3 pm David Neuffer and Vladimir Shiltsev Muon Colliders Video conference only
May 13, 2020 at 2 pm Snowmass Energy Frontier Conveners Snowmass Energy Frontier Plans Video conference only
April 14, 2020 at 3 pm Nhan Tran (Fermilab) Opportunities in Dark Sectors at Accelerators Video conference only
March 17, 2020 at 3 pm Jean-Roch Vlimant (Caltech) CANCELLED Advancing Particle Physics with Deep Learning WH11 NE (Sunrise)
February 25, 2020 at 3 pm Angela Fava (Fermilab) Insights in the Liquid Argon TPC Detecting Technique WH11 NE (Sunrise)
January 7, 2020 at 2 pm Jay Lawhorn (Caltech) CANCELLED Vector Boson Scattering at CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
December 11, 2019 at 3 pm Jonathan Long (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) SUSY Searches with ATLAS and Potential Improvements from Track Triggers WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 26, 2019 at 3 pm Alex Tuna (Harvard) Evidence of the production of three massive vector bosons using the ATLAS detector WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 12, 2019 at 3 pm Tilman Plehn (University of Heidelberg) Classification Networks in Particle Physics WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 5, 2019 at 3 pm Luca Cadamuro (Fermilab) DiHiggs Production at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 29, 2019 at 3 pm Josh Isaacson (Fermilab) Machine Learning for Phase Space Integration WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 21, 2019 at 3 pm Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool) Prospects for LHC Run 3 and HL-LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 15, 2019 at 3 pm Patrick Meade (Stonybrook University) Probing the Higgs and Flavor WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 1, 2019 at 4 pm Cristian Pena (Fermilab) Expanding Long Lived Particle Searches in CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 20, 2019 at 3 pm Dibyashree Sengupta (University of Oklahoma) Collider phenomenology of few Natural SUSY models WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 13, 2019 at 3 pm Raffaele D'Agnolo (SLAC) Learning New Physics From a Machine WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 30, 2019 at 3 pm Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) ATLAS Heavy Ions WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 23, 2019 at 3 pm JP Chou (Rutgers University) Low Mass Hadronic Resonances WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 21, 2019 at 3 pm Kate Scholberg (Duke University) COHERENT WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 30, 2019 at 3 pm Greg Landsberg (Brown Unversity) B Physics at CMS and Opportunities WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 15, 2019 at 1 pm Kevin Pedro (Fermilab) FPGA-accelerated Machine Learning WH11 NE (Sunrise)
March 19, 2019 at 3 pm Kimberly Palladino (Unversity of Wisconsin Madison) Dark Matter Searches with LUX and LZ WH11 NE (Sunrise)
March 5, 2019 at 3 pm Lailin Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Probing New Physics and the Nature of the Higgs Boson at ATLAS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
December 11, 2018 at 3 pm Ben Carlson (Unversity of Pittsburgh) Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson with ATLAS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 7, 2018 at 3 pm Chris Rogan (Unversity of Kansas) Peaks, Valleys, Deserts: Searching for the invisible at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 30, 2018 at 2 pm David Sperka (University of Florida) Present and Future of Higgs Couplings Measurements at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 22, 2018 at 2 pm Lawrence Lee (Harvard) How SUSY can still save the day WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 18, 2018 at 2 pm Simon Knapen (LBNL) Long Lived Particles with CODEX-b WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 11, 2018 at 2 pm Michael Peskin (SLAC) Physics Program at Future e+e- Colliders (ILC, CEPC, CLIC) WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 27, 2018 at 2 pm David Barney (CERN) The High Granularity Calorimeter upgrade project for CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 21, 2018 at 3 pm Sean-Jiun Wang (University of Florida) CMS observation of Higgs decaying to bottom quarks WH7 XO (Racetrack)
August 14, 2018 at 3 pm Ben Jones (UT Arlington) Neutrinoless double beta decay WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 7, 2018 at 1 pm Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (UMass Amherst) Exotic Higgs in ATLAS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 17, 2018 at 3 pm Dirk Wiedner (University of Heidelberg) Mu3e WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 19, 2018 at 3 pm Zhen Liu (Fermilab) Long-lived Particles (Theory) WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 29, 2018 at 3:30 pm Alan Weinstein (Caltech) Gravitational Waves WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 15, 2018 at 3:30 pm Gordon Watts (University of Washington) Long-lived Particles (Experiment) WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 8, 2018 at 3:30 pm Luca Galli (INFN-Pisa) MEG II WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 10, 2018 at 3:30 pm Tongyan Lin (UCSD) Dark Matter WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 3, 2018 at 3:30 pm Bryan Fulsom (PNNL) Belle II WH11 NE (Sunrise)
March 13, 2018 at 3 pm Omar Moreno (SLAC) Heavy Photon Search WH11 NE (Sunrise)
February 27, 2018 at 3 pm LianTao Wang (University of Chicago) Future Colliders WH11 NE (Sunrise)
January 24, 2018 at 3 pm Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers) Track Trigger WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 28, 2017 at 3:30 pm Giovanni Zevi Della Porta (UCSD) Search for Standard Model production of four top quarks WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 19, 2017 at 1 pm Tim Cohen (Oregon) Adventures with Machine Learning WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 8, 2017 at 3 pm Andrea Tesi (U Chicago) WW scattering WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 11, 2017 at 3 pm Andrew Larkoski (Reed College) Jet Substructure WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 30, 2017 at 3 pm Pilar Coloma (FNAL) Beam Dump Experiments WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 23, 2017 at 3 pm Jiji Fan (Brown) Future Collider Physics WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 17, 2017 at 3:30 pm Ryan Patterson (Caltech) NOvA and DUNE WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 9, 2017 at 3 pm Josh Ruderman (NYU) New Physics from Standard Model Measurements WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 25, 2017 at 3 pm Chris Neu (Virginia) ttH and single top+H WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 18, 2017 at 3 pm Andrei Gritsan (JHU) Higgs Measurements in LHC Run 2 WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 14, 2017 at 2:30 pm David Shih (Rutgers) Cornering Natural SUSY at Run II of the LHC and Beyond WH11 NE (Sunrise)
January 17, 2017 at 3 pm Sarah Eno (Maryland) Radiation Damage in Plastic Scintillators WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 29, 2016 at 3 pm Larry Nodulman (ANL) LHC as a Photon Collider, Results from Atlas (and CMS)” WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 22, 2016 at 3 pm Markus Stoye (CERN) Soft objects for new physics WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 25, 2016 at 3 pm Felix Yu (U. of Mainz) di-Higgs WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 18, 2016 at 3 pm Jessie Shelton (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Higgs Exotic, displaced WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 12, 2016 at 3 pm Ben Hooberman (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) EWK SUSY from ATLAS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 27, 2016 at 3 pm Carlos Wagner (U. of Chicago) SUSY (including pMSSM) WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 13, 2016 at 3 pm Doug Glenzinski (Fermilab) Mu2e and g-2 WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 30, 2016 at 3 pm Chris Quigg (Fermilab) Looking Forward from ICHEP2016 WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 23, 2016 at 3 pm Peter Skands (Monash University ) Understanding Hadronisation at PP Colliders WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 16, 2016 at 3 pm Stefania Gori (University of Cincinnati) Signatures of Flavorful Higgs Bosons WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 26, 2016 at 3 pm Si Xie (Caltech) Precision timing in CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 21, 2016 at 3 pm Shufang Su (U. of Arizona) BSM searches with Higgs WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 31, 2016 at 3 pm Nhan Tran (Fermilab) Dissecting Jets and Missing Energy Searches WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 3, 2016 at 3 pm Lauren Tompkins (Stanford) ATLAS Higgs physics prospects and the FTK system WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 27, 2016 at 3 pm Howard Baer (U. of Oklahoma) EWKkinos at LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 12, 2016 at 3 pm Gordon Kane (U. of Michigan) Compactifying M-theory to 4D to describe our world, and predicting LHC Superpartner and Higgs data WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 5, 2016 at 3 pm Tim Tait (UC Irvine) DM at LHC 13 TeV WH11 NE (Sunrise)
March 10, 2016 at 3 pm Dominick Olivito (UCSD) Searches for Dark Matter and Supersymmetry at 13 TeV with CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
March 8, 2016 at 3 pm Gray Rybka (U. of Washington) Axion searches and measurements of neutrino mass WH11 NE (Sunrise)
March 2, 2016 at 3 pm Edward W. Kolb (U. of Chicago) The status of dark matter WH11 NE (Sunrise)
February 16, 2016 at 3 pm David W. Miller (U. of Chicago) Boosting the search for new physics: jet substructure and SUSY searches in Run 2 and beyond WH11 NE (Sunrise)
December 15, 2015 at 3 pm Duccio Abbaneo (CERN) The High-Luminosity Upgrade of the CMS Tracker WH11 NE (Sunrise)
December 2, 2015 at 3 pm Mike Williams (MIT) LHCb: Results, Status & Prospects WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 10, 2015 at 3 pm Matt Strassler (Harvard) New Physics at 13 TeV WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 3, 2015 at 3 pm Felix Yu (Mainz) The Coannihilation Codex WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 27, 2015 at 3 pm Sebastian White (CERN/Princeton) The Case for Fast Timing in CMS at HL-LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
October 13, 2015 at 3 pm André De Gouvêa (NorthWestern) Neutrino Physics WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 29, 2015 at 3 pm Dmitri Denisov (Fermilab) High Energy Colliders: Past, Present and Future WH11 NE (Sunrise) 55 (45 CMS)
August 18, 2015 at 3 pm Phil Harris (CERN) Dark Matter at LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 11, 2015 at 3 pm Andrea Massironi H → WW and WW: Run I and prospects for Run II WH11 NE (Sunrise)
August 4, 2015 at 3 pm Freya Blekman (VUB) The rarest of rare decays in the top quark sector: multitops WH11 NE (Sunrise)
July 7, 2015 at 3 pm Paul Lujan (Princeton) First Results of the Pixel Luminosity Telescope at CMS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 30, 2015 at 3 pm Alexey Luchinsky Tetraquarks Composed of 4 Heavy Quarks: Spectroscopy, Decay Modes, Production at Hadronic Colliders WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 17, 2015 at 3 pm Sho Maruyama Search for supersymmetry in the vector boson fusion topology at CMS: Run I results and Run II prospects WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 3, 2015 at 3 pm Nausheen Shah Phenomenological implications of the naturally aligned NMSSM WH11 NE (Sunrise) 33
May 27, 2015 at 3 pm Sekhar Chivukula and Elizabeth Simmons (MSU) Identifying Dijet Resonances at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise) 40
May 13, 2015 at 3 pm Joey Huston (MSU) PDF's for Run 2 at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise) 45
Apr 30, 2015 at 3:30 pm Daniel Whiteson (UC Irvine) Improved Particle Searches with Deep Learning WH11 NE (Sunrise) 40 (40 CMS)
Apr 15, 2015 at 3 pm Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton) Searching for Hidden Dark Sectors at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise) 55 (45 CMS)
Apr 7, 2015 at 3 pm Alan Weinstein (CalTech) Status of the search for gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO WH11 NE (Sunrise) 54 (49 CMS)
Mar 17, 2015 at 3 pm Maurizio Pierini (CERN) Data scouting for discovery of low energy new phenomena WH11 NE (Sunrise) 48 (43 CMS)
Mar 11, 2015 at 3 pm Anadi Canepa (TRIUMF) Search for Supersymmetry at ATLAS and physics potential of the HL-LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise) 50 (50 CMS)
Mar 5, 2015 at 3 pm Valeri Lebedev (Fermilab) Future colliders: hadrons versus leptons WH11 NE (Sunrise) 45 (40 CMS)
Feb 17, 2015 at 3 pm Itay Yavin (McMaster University / Perimeter Institute) New experiments and tools for old and new physics WH11 NE (Sunrise) 55 (43 CMS)
Feb 10, 2015 at 3 pm LianTao Wang (University of Chicago) New Physics targets for LHC Run 2 WH11 NE (Sunrise) 50 (40 CMS)
December 9 at 3 pm Brock Tweedie (University of Pittsburgh) Deriving New LHC Constraints on Displaced Superparticles WH11 NE (Sunrise) 48 (40 CMS)
November 12 at 3 pm Raffaele D'Agnolo (IAS) Higgs Couplings, a Tale of Two Scales WH11 NE (Sunrise) 50 (40 CMS)
October 29 at 3 pm Andreas Jung (FNAL) Recent top quark results at the Tevatron WH11 NE (Sunrise) 45
September 17 at 3 pm Frank Hartmann (Karlsruhe) Student lecture about silicon sensor technology and sensor testing WH11 NE (Sunrise) 54 total
August 12 at 3 pm Joey Huston (Michigan State U.) PDFs for the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise) 24 total (18 CMS)
August 11 at 3 pm Joey Huston (Michigan State U.) The new Les Houches high precision wish list WH11 NE (Sunrise) 10 total (8 CMS)
July 31 at 3 pm Ajay Kumar (U. of Delhi) Recent results on HWW and probing WW production in VBF topology, both with semileptonic final states WH11 NE (Sunrise) 24 total (24 CMS)
July 22 at 3 pm Matt Reece (Harvard) Natural SUSY's Last Hiding Places WH11 NE (Sunrise) 54 total (44 CMS)
June 17 at 3 pm Tim Cohen (SLAC) Jet Substructure by Accident WH11 NE (Sunrise) 42 total (38 CMS)
June 5 at 3 pm Jochen Ott (Hamburg University) Practical Statistics WH11 NE (Sunrise) 28 total (28 CMS)
TBD Giuliano Panico (CERN) ETBD WH11 NE (Sunrise) RESCHEDULED
April 30 at 3 pm David Curtin (Stonybrook) SUSY in Standard Model Standard Candles WH11 NE (Sunrise) 47 total (40 CMS)
April 17 at 4 pm Greg Landsberg (Brown) New developments in dark matter searches at colliders - Greg Landsberg (Brown) WH11 NE (Sunrise) 68 total (59 CMS)
April 15 at 3 pm Kaustubh Agashe (Maryland) Using energy-peaks to measure particle (new and old) masses WH11 NE (Sunrise) 38 total (29 CMS)
March 18 at 3 pm Rouven Essig (Stonybrook) Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson WH11 NE (Sunrise) 40 total (30 CMS)
March 4 at 3 pm Sally Dawson (Brookhaven) Higgs Couplings WH11 NE (Sunrise) 59 total (49 CMS)
February 18 at 3 pm Frank Petriello (Northwestern University) Opportunities in Higgs physics at the LHC Run II WH11 NE (Sunrise) 54 total (39 CMS)
February 13 at 3 pm Steven Worm (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab.) The Search for Dark Matter at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise) 49 total (41 CMS)
February 5 at 3 pm Rouven Essig (Stonybrook) Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson WH11 NE (Sunrise) Cancelled b/c of snow
January 23 at 1 pm Felix Yu (FNAL) Measuring CP Violation in h -> tau+tau- at Colliders WH2 NE (Snake Pit) 26 total (15 CMS)
January 21 at 3 pm Felix Yu (FNAL) Fully Exploring Exotic Production of the 126 GeV Higgs WH11 NE (Sunrise) 27 total (17 CMS)
December 3 at 3:00 pm Lian-Tao Wang (U Chicago) New signatures of dark matter at the LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
November 19 at 3:00 pm Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab) Direct searches for Dark Matter WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 24 at 3:00 pm Deepak Kar (Glasgow) Jet substructure studies in ATLAS WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 23 at 2:00 pm Deepak Kar (Glasgow) Improving Monte Carlo generators for ATLAS Run 2 WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 20 at 1:00 pm Paolo Giacomelli (INFN) Future physics prospects at LHC and HL-LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
September 18 at 1:00 pm Nathaniel Craig (Rutgers) Searching for Signs of the Second Higgs WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 25 at 3:00 pm Yevgeny Kats (Rutgers University) LHC searches examined via the RPV MSSM: Part 2 - stops and gluinos WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 24 at 2:00 pm Jared Evans (Rutgers University) LHC searches examined via the RPV MSSM: Part 1 - R-parity violation and higgsinos WH11 NE (Sunrise)
June 19 at 1:30 pm Hooman Davoudiasl (Brookhaven) Higgs Decays as a Window into the Dark Sector WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 30 at 1:30 pm Markus Schulze (Argonne) Associated top quark pair production: A new era in top quark physics WH11 NE (Sunrise)
May 24 at 1:30 pm Natalia Toro (Perimeter Institute) Closing the Door on Weak-Scale SUSY WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 18 at 2:00 pm Adi Bornheim (CalTech) Picosecond timing for precision physics at High Luminosity LHC WH11 NE (Sunrise)
April 17 at 2:00 pm Mayda Velasco (Northwestern) Search for the Higgs boson in the Z boson plus a photon channel and other dilepton plus photon topologies in pp collisions using the CMS detector WH11 NE (Sunrise)