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Events During the 2026 Spring Semester
January 2026
- Thursday, January 8th
- Joshua Henry Peterson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Improved Techniques for the Determination of the Neutrino Mass Ordering with IceCube1 DeepCore and the IceCube Upgrade
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Francis Halzen
February 2026
March 2026
- Wednesday, March 4th
- Ganesh Parida
- Hunting heavy di-Higgs resonances in bbtautau final states and commissioning of GPUs for the CMS High-Level Trigger.
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Tulika Bose
April 2026
- Wednesday, April 1st
- Augustus Azelis
- Some statistical results in ion temperature gradient-driven turbulence theory
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Paul W. Terry
- Monday, April 20th
- Shivani Lomte
- A search for dark matter recoiling from the standard model Higgs boson using the CMS experiment
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 3290 (NOTE UPDATED LOCATION), hosted by Sridhara Dasu
May 2026
- Friday, May 1st
- Michael Martinez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Taking Inventory of the Most Promising Lensed Radio Sources for Constraining Fundamental Properties of Dark Matter
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin or , hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Stephen McKay
- The Physical Properties and Redshifts of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: Observational Studies with ALMA and JWST
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Stephen McKay
- Wednesday, May 27th
- Cameron Kuchta, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Measurements of Electron Pressure Anisotropy during Laboratory Magnetic Reconnection
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by Jan Egedal
- Thursday, May 28th
- Lekshmi Thulasidharan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Dynamical Imprints in Galactic Disks: Tracing History with Stellar Ages, Motions, and Structure
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5280 CH, hosted by Elena D'Onghia
- Friday, May 29th
- Dean Chen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Baryoid Dark Matter: Explaining the Dark Matter-Baryon Coincidence
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or , hosted by Yang Bai