High Energy Physics and Particle Astrophysics Seminar Series – Department of Physics | CSU

High Energy Physics and Particle Astrophysics Seminar Series

Venue – Physics Interaction Space, Tuesdays at 1 pm Mountain Time

Fall 2026

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
25 August	Andrea Caputo	University of Rome Sapienza
1 September	Anthony Menzo	University of Alabama
8 September	Hank Lamm	Fermilab
15 September	Nassim Bozorgnia	University of Alberta
22 September
29 September	Ramón Merino	University of Granada
6 October	Hannah Banks	University of New York
13 October	Benjamin Monreal	Case Western Reserve University
20 October	Stephanie Wissel	Penn State
27 October	Joe Formaggio	MIT
3 November	Jack Laiho	Syracuse University
10 November	Peter Stangl	University of Mainz
17 November	Letizia Parato	University of Colorado Boulder
24 November	Fall Break	–	–
1 December	Niklas Muller	University of New Mexico
8 December	Lu Ren	University of Colorado Boulder

Spring 2026

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
January 27	Rescheduled
February 3	Savvas Zafeiropoulos	CPT, CNRS and Aix Marseille University	Parton distribution functions from Lattice QCD
February 10	Patrick Huber	Virginia Tech	Neutrinos and nuclear security
February 17	Ryan Kellermann	KEK Tsukuba	Inclusive semileptonic decays of charmed mesons from lattice QCD
February 24	Justin Mueller	Fermilab	High-Level Reconstruction of LArTPC Data with SPINE
March 3	Chris Marshall	University of Rochester	What’s new with neutrinos?
March 10
March 17	Yang Bai	Wisconsin University	Large Neutrino “Collider”
March 24	Olivia Bitter	Northwestern University	How Matter Matters: A Story of Time Invariance Violation in Neutrino Oscillations
March 31	José Javier Hernandez Hernandez	University of Bielefeld	QCD topology, axions and electromagnetic fields on the lattice
April 7	Hooman Davoudiasl	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Nano-Hz Gravitational Waves and Supernova Neutrinos
April 14	Ian Moult	Yale University	Energy Correlators in Particle Physics, QFT and Gravity
April 21	Pavan Pavan	University of Bielefeld	Renormalization of the energy-momentum tensor in (2+1)-flavor QCD
April 28	Wouter Van De Pontseele	Colorado School of Mines	Catching the Recoil: From Precision Calorimetry in Ricochet to Sterile Neutrinos in BeEST
May 5	Isobel Kolbé	University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)	Jet Quenching in the LHC’s Oxygen era
May 7	Stefan Sandner	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Type-I seesaw and leptogenesis

Fall 2025

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
September 9	Dr. Aaron Meyer	Lawrence Livermore National Lab	The Axial Form Factor Extracted from Elementary Targets
September 16	Dr. Julie Pages	University of California, San Diego	Towards a Field Redefinition Invariant Description of Effective Field Theories
September 23	Dr. Or Hen	MIT	Gluons in Nuclei: From Near-Threshold J/ψ to Universality
September 30	Dr. Miguel Abenza	CERN	Neutrino Cosmology in 2025
October 7	Omar Alterkait	Tufts	A New Era of Detector Simulation: Parallelization and Differentiability
October 14	Dr. Stephen Sharpe	University of Washington	Scattering Amplitudes from Lattice QCD
October 21	Dr. Gopolang Mohlabeng	Simon Fraser University	Searching for Light Accelerated Dark Matter
October 28
November 4	Dr. Ben Assi	Fermilab	QCD Theory meets Information Theory
November 11	Dr. Anil Thapa	Colorado State University	Electromagnetic Properties of Neutrinos: Magnetic Moments and Polarizability
November 18	Dr. Carlos Henrique de Lima	TRIUMF
November 25	Fall Break	Fall Break	Fall Break
December 2	Dr. Peter Petreczky	Brookhaven National Lab	From Hadrons to Quarks: QCD at High Temperature and Charmed Quarks
December 9	Dr. Matteo Saccardi	Colorado State University	Spectral densities from Euclidean-time lattice correlation functions

Spring 2025

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
January 28	Dr. Ivan Martinez Soler	IPPP, Durham	Current Status and Future Prospects of the Neutrino Mixing Scenario
February 4	Dr. Javier Fernandez Acevedo	SLAC	Probing Dark Matter with Galactic Center Compact Stars
February 11
February 18
February 25	Dr. Jure Zupan	University of Cincinnati	Rare Muon Transitions and Searches for New Physics
March 4	Jacob Sitison	CU Boulder	Muon g-2: Insights from the Lattice (in-person talk)
March 11	Dr. Karthik Ramanathan	Washington University, St. Louis	Direct Detection of Dark Matter using Quantum Sensors and Techniques
March 18	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 25	Dr. Sally Dawson	Brookhaven NL	The Search for New Physics through Precision Measurements
April 1	Dr. Josu Hernandez-Garcia	IFIC, Valencia University	Limits on HNL Mixing and their Connection with the nu-SMEFT
April 8	Dr. Julian Heeck	University of Virginia	The Landscape of Baryon Number Violation
April 15	Dr. Matthew Dolan	University of Melbourne	TBD
April 22	Dr. Anson Hook	University of Maryland	Predicting the Dark Matter – Baryon Abundance Ratio
April 29	Dr. Henric Krawczynski	Washington University, St. Louis	Experimental High Energy Astrophysics on Stratospheric Balloon Flights: XL-Calibur and DR-TES
May 6	Dr. Angelo Di Canto	Brookhaven NL	Belle II: a flavorful experiment

Fall 2024

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
August 27	Dr. Carlos Arguelles-Delgado	Harvard University	Searching for New Physics With High-Energy Neutrinos at IceCube
September 3
September 10
September 17	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
September 24	Biswajit Padhi	Colorado State University	Gravitational Wave Spectra and Exotic Phases in the Early Universe
October 1	Dr. Seyda Ipek	Carleton University	Baryogenesis with the Standard Model CP Violation
October 8	Dr. Kim Berghaus	Caltech	The Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation
October 15	Dr. Christopher Monahan	Colorado College	Understanding the internal structure of protons and neutrons from first principles (in-person talk)
October 18	Dr. Kirtimaan Mohan	Michigan State University	Scattering amplitudes and equivalence theorems for KK gravitons in five dimensional theories (in-person talk/Friday @ 3pm, Conference Room)
October 22	Dr. Bryce Littlejohn	Illinois Tech	Low-Energy Physics in Neutrino Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers
October 29
November 5	Miguel Hernandez Morquecho	Illinois Tech	Measurements of Pion and Muon Nuclear Capture at Rest on Argon in the LArIAT Experiment
November 12
November 19	Dr. Mark Ross-Lonergan	LANL/Columbia	Sterile Neutrinos are Dead! Long live the Sterile Neutrino?
November 26	Fall Break	Fall Break	Fall Break
December 3