2018-2019 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.
Spring 2019 Seminars
Simulating Galaxy Formation: Illustris, IllustrisTNG and beyond
February 7, 2019
Mark Vogelsberger, MIT
Collision Course: Particle Physics as a Machine Learning Testbed
February 14, 2019
Jesse Thaler, MIT
Combining Simulations, Physics Understanding, and Machine Learning for Better Measurements
February 28, 2019
Johann Brehmer, NYU
Dark Matter Strikes Back at the Galactic Center
March 7, 2019
Rebecca Leane, MIT
Bent Lobes and Red Sequences: The Study of High-z Galaxy Clusters in the Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) Survey
March 14, 2019
Emmet Golden-Marx, Boston University
New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping and the Cosmic Microwave Background
March 21, 2019
Laura Newburgh, Yale
Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos
March 28, 2019
Jia Liu, Princeton
Applying Convolutional Neural Networks to MicroBooNE
April 11, 2019
Taritree Wongjirad, Tufts
First Images of a Black Hole
May 2, 2019
Kazunori Akiyama, Haystack Observatory
Fall 2018 Seminars
Dark Universe Group Symposium
August 30, 2018
Dark Universe Group, Brandeis University
Future Accelerators and Doing Physics With Them
September 6, 2018
Philipp Roloff, CERN
The LIGO instruments towards the next Observing Run and Beyond
September 13, 2018
Lisa Barsotti, MIT
The Snowball Chamber: Neutron-Induced Nucleation in Supercooled Water
September 27, 2018
Matthew Szydagis, University at Albany
Preparing for Dark Energy measurements with LSST
October 3, 2018
Ian dell’Antonio, Brown University
Galaxy Clusters in the Dark Energy Survey
October 11, 2018
Tom McClintock, BNL
Gravitational wave astrophysics and cosmology with DES galaxies
October 25, 2018
Antonella Palmese, Fermilab
Journey to the center of the Galaxy: following gas accretion from hundreds of parsecs to the black hole
November 1, 2018
Elisabeth A.C. Mills, Brandeis University
Scintillator Detector for Neutrino Physics
November 8, 2018
Minfang Yeh, BNL
FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC
November 15, 2018
Felix Kling, UC Irvine
The Dark Matter Search Enters a New Regime
November 29, 2018
Scott Hertel, UMass Amherst
Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment
December 6, 2018
Nicholas Koehler, CERN