Dark Universe Seminar Series
This seminar series is sponsored by the Dark Energy/Dark Matter group, jointly hosted by Professors Marcelle Soares-Santos and Bjoern Penning.
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in Abelson 333.
*As of March 12, 2020, all remaining Dark Universe seminars for the Spring 2020 semester have been cancelled.*
Spring 2020 Seminars
The Research Program at SNOLAB
January 30, 2020
Jeter Hall, SNOLAB
Cosmology with Thousands of Type Ia Supernovae
February 6, 2020
Dillon Brout, University of Pennsylvania
No Seminar
February 13, 2020
No Seminar (Midterm Recess)
February 20, 2020
*Cancelled*
February 27, 2020
Yangyang Cheng, Cornell University
Dark Matter Particle Physics from Astrophysics
March 5, 2020
Matt Buckley, Rutgers University
*Cancelled*
March 12, 2020
Erin Kara, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall 2019 Seminars
No Seminar (first week of classes)
August 29, 2019
Dark Universe Research Symposium, Part I
September 5, 2019
Alyssa Garcia, Paulo Barchi, Anushka Shrivastava, Prajita Bhattarai, Michael Williams, Mark Murdy
Dark Universe Research Symposium, Part II
September 12, 2019
Luke Korley, Emily Flanagan, Johnny Estevez de Queiroz, Nora Sherman, Federico Berlfein, Todd Zenger
Shedding the 'Nu' Light on the Nature of Matter: The Search for Majorana Neutrinos
September 19, 2019
Julieta Gruszko, MIT
Probing Cosmic Acceleration with Galaxy Clusters
September 26, 2019
Heidi Wu, Ohio State University
No Seminar (Brandeis Monday)
October 3, 2019
Insights from Stellar Archaeology into the Lives (and Deaths) of the First Stars
October 10, 2019
Rana Ezzeddine, MIT
Introducing the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX)
October 24, 2019
Craig Group, University of Virginia
Probing Dark Energy with Large-Scale Galaxy Clustering: From Instrumentation to Simulation
October 31, 2019
Duan Yutong, Boston University
Desperately Seeking SUSY
November 7, 2019
Indara Suarez, Boston University
Understanding the Nature of Neutrinos via Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
November 14, 2019
Wenqin Xu, University of South Dakota
Some QCD-related results from the ATLAS experiment
November 21, 2019
Hugo Beauchemin, Tufts University
No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holiday)
November 28, 2019
The H0 problem and neutrino interactions
December 5, 2019
Martin Schmaltz, Boston University