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 ...

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Using Multi-scale Simulations to Probe the Physics of Multi-messenger Transients

.Speaker: Ore Gottlieb Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: With the advent of next-generation multi-messenger observatories (e.g., LIGO ...

Interacting Dark Sectors and Cosmological Tensions

Speaker: Gustavo Marques Tavares Date: Monday, March 3, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the non-trivial cosmological consequences of interacting dark sectors, in ...

A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter

Speaker: Nick Rodd (LBNL) Date: Monday, February 24, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: In this talk I will outline a fundamentally quantum description of bosonic dark matter from which the conventional ...

Using cogsworth to make self-consistent population synthesis & galactic dynamics simulations of observable binary product populations

Speaker: Tom Wagg Date: Monday, February 10, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: Feedback from massive ...

Probing Dark Matter Microphysics Using Stellar Streams

Speaker: Aditya Parikh (Stony Brook University) Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: If dark matter has strong self-interactions, future astrophysical and ...

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Phenomenology of strongly interacting dark sectors with light vector mesons

Speaker: Elias Bernreuther (UC San Diego) Date: Monday, December 9, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: Stable dark matter (DM) particles may arise as dark pions from ...

Road to Minimal WIMPs

Speaker: Rodolfo Capdevilla (Fermilab) Date: Monday, December 2, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: Minimal WIMP models extend the Standard Model with an electroweak multiplet whose ...