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A Multi-Wavelength Exploration of Transient Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes

Speaker: Megan Masterson (MIT Kavli Institute) Date: Monday June 23, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: Our expectations for how matter accretes onto ...

Real-time Anomaly Detection at the CMS Experiment

Speaker: Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University) Date: Monday June 2, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: During Run-3 at the LHC, the search for new physics has significantly expanded. Development ...

CLEW: towards a truly global SMEFT analysis

Speaker: Tom Tong (University of Siegen) Date: Tuesday May 13, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: SMEFT global analyses commonly encounter two major challenges: (1) Incomplete observables and (2) ...

Demographics of the Dynamic Radio Sky

Speaker: Dillon Dong (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) Date: Monday May 12. 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Conference Room) Abstract: The upcoming VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) transient catalog features ~4,000 radio point ...

Phase Separation in Flocks, Herds and Swarms (Polar Active Fluids)

Speaker: Maxx Miller (University of Oregon) Date: Monday May 5, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: “Flocking” is the collective coherent motion of a large number of ...

The Star Formation and Chemical Enrichment Histories of Galaxies in the Early Universe

Speaker: Charity Woodrum Date: Monday April 28, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 240D Willamette Hall (OMQ Conference Room) Abstract: One of the most active fields in modern astrophysics is galaxy ...

Expanding the diversity of tidal disruption events

Speaker: Jean Somalwar Date: Monday, April 21, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is tidally shredded by a supermassive black hole (SMBH). They ...

The Power of the Dark Sink*

Speaker: Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota) Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract I will describe a simple dark sector structure which, if present, has implications for the direct detection ...

Good luck with finals, and enjoy the break!