The Mitchell Institute supports regular seminar series in Astronomy, High Energy Experiment, and High Energy Theory. Seminars by experts from all over the world are held weekly during the academic semester. The seminar series is open to all but a strong scientific background in the field is recommended.
Astronomy Seminars
11:30am - 12:30pm | MIST M102, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Miguel Holgado (Carnegie Mellon University )
Astronomy
11:30am - 12:30pm | MIST M102, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Joey Rodriguez (Michigan State University )
Astronomy
11:30am - 12:30pm | MIST M102, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Benedikt Diemer (University of Maryland )
Astronomy
11:30am - 12:30pm | MIST M102, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Sean Johnson (University of Michigan )
Astronomy
High Energy Phenomenology, Experiment, and Cosmology Seminars
4:00pm - 5:00pm
In this talk, I will give an overview of how elastic and exothermic scatterings among dark matter particles give rise to distinctive features in late-time structure formation. I will explain how astrophysical observations on the structures of galaxies can probe such unique features, and discuss how the observations can help distinguish different dark matter models. I will then explain how the interplay between the elastic and exothermic scatterings self-heats the overall dark matter in the early Universe. I will demonstrate that self-heating is often realized in scenarios of (sub-)GeV scale non-minimal dark sector. I will discuss how self-heating leaves imprints in cosmological observables and how it affects the interpretation of direct/indirect-detection experiments. Finally, I will discuss how astrophysical/cosmological observations and accelerator-based experiments can be complementary to each other in probing multi-component dark matter scenarios.
HEPEC
4:00pm | Hawking Auditorium, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Mike Trott (Niels Bohr Institute)
HEPEC
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Hawking Auditorium, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Matheus Hostert (Perimeter Institute & University of Minnesota)
HEPEC
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Hawking Auditorium, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Prasanth Shyamsundar (Fermilab)
HEPEC
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Hawking Auditorium, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Wei Xue (University of Florida)
HEPEC
High Energy Theory Seminars
3:00pm - 4:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Sridip Pal (Institute for Advanced Study)
High Energy Theory
3:00pm - 4:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Kurt Hinterbichler (Case Western Reserve University)
High Energy Theory
3:00pm - 4:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Yiming Chen (Princeton University)
High Energy Theory
3:00pm - 4:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Mihalis Dafermos (UniversIty of Cambridge & Princeton University)
High Energy Theory
3:00pm - 4:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Riccardo Penco (Carnegie Mellon University)
High Energy Theory
3:00pm - 4:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Dominik Neuenfeld (Perimeter Institute)
High Energy Theory
3:00pm - 4:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Luca Iliesiu (Stanford University)
High Energy Theory
2:00pm - 3:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Daniele Pranzetti (Perimeter Institute)
High Energy Theory
3:00pm - 4:00pm | MIST M108, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas, 77843, Central Texas, United States
Speaker: Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
High Energy Theory