Announcing the Pacific Postdoc Program!
Fall Program Axions: Theory to Experiment, October 5-November 1 2025. Applications open until June 5 2025!
Spring Program Robust Inference from Cosmological Clustering (Spring 2026, dates TBA)
The Pacific Postdoc Program is generously supported by the Simons Foundation.
Regular Events
DUSC Seminars - Tuesdays 3:00PM PAB C421
DUSC Group Meeting/Journal Club - Wednesdays 2:30PM PAB E-Science Center
Local Conferences and Workshops of Interest
Pacific Postdoc Program Fall Program, Axions: Theory to Experiment, October 5-November 1 2025
INT Program: Discovering Continuous GW with Nuclear, Astro and Particle Physics November 18-22, 2024
Summiting the Unknown: New Physics, New Voices, New Opportunities July 14th-16th 2022
INT Program: Dark Matter in Compact Objects, Stars, and in Low Energy Experiments August 1 - September 2 2022
Decoding the Mystery of Dark Matter with Celestial Objects: Anupam Ray, UC Berkeley - March 11, 2025
The speed of sound of nonlinear large-scale structures: Caio Bastos de Senna Nascimento, University of Washington - March 4, 2025
Predicting the dark matter - baryon abundance ratio: Anson Hook, University of Maryland - February 25, 2025
Post-inflationary axions: Rudin Petrossian-Byrne, ICTP Trieste - February 18, 2025
Where are the supermassive black holes measured by PTAs?: Gabriela Sato-Polito, IAS - February 11, 2025
Coupled Early Dark Energy: Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania - January 28, 2025
Revisiting Standard-Model-induced EDMs: Maxim Pospelov, University of Minnesota - January 7, 2025
Shining axions through astrophysical walls: Benjamin Safdi, UC Berkeley - December 3, 2024
Unveiling Dark Matter through Gravitational Waves: Yue Zhao, University of Utah - November 19, 2024
The Rich Phenomenology of Confining Dark Sector - Abundance and Detection: Pouya Asadi, University of Oregon- November 12, 2024
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: New Physics and New Tools: Cara Giovanetti, New York University - November 5, 2024
Cosmology from the First Year DESI BAO Measurements: Kyle Dawson, University of Utah - May 21, 2024
Beyond Summary Statistics: Leveraging Generative Models for Field-Level Weak Lensing Analysis: Biwei Dai, UC Berkeley - May 1, 2024
Varying-constant cosmology from hyperlight, coupled scalars: Zachary Weiner, University of Washington - April 2, 2024
Axion screening of the CMB: Cristina Mondino, Perimeter Institute - February 20, 2024
Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits: Roland Farrell, University of Washington - January 23, 2024
The Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation: Kim Berghaus, Caltech - December 5, 2023
Precision Astrometry and AGN physics with Intensity Interferometry: Marios Galanis, Perimeter Institute - November 29, 2023
Towards a neutrino mass measurement with upcoming cosmological surveys: Old challenges and new opportunities: Caio Bastos de Senna Nascimento, University of Washington - November 14, 2023
Patchy Dark Screening: Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute - September 26, 2023
Axion-like Particle At Higgs Factories and at Super-K: Kingman Cheung, National Tsing Hua University - September 12, 2023
The First Stars in LCDM and Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies: Eli Visbal, University of Toledo - June 6, 2023
EFT for de Sitter Space: Daniel Green, University of California San Diego - May 23, 2023
Cosmic Reionization: When, How, and Who?: Adam Lidz, U Penn - May 16, 2023
The next big thing in gravitational-wave astrophysics : Salvatore Vitale, MIT LIGO - May 11, 2023
Exploring Fundamental Physics with Galaxy Surveys: Mikhail Ivanov, Institute of Advanced Study - March 7, 2023
Precision Cosmology: from CMB to 21cm: Zhilei Xu, MIT - February 28, 2023
Newborn super star clusters at Cosmic Noon seen through gravitational lensing: Liang Dai, UC Berkeley - December 6, 2022
Creating Matter (Without Antimatter!) in the Laboratory: Jason Detwiler, University of Washington / CENPA - November 30, 2022
The Universe, Seen in the (Far-)Far-Infrared: Joaquin Vieira, UIUC - November 22, 2022
Axionic ripples in the sky: Renée Hložek, University of Toronto - October 24, 2022
Searching for New Physics from the Sky with Current and Future Gamma Ray Telescopes: Joshua Foster, MIT - October 4, 2022
Irreducible Inflationary Production of Dark Sectors: the Example of Dark QED: Olivier Simon, Stanford University - May 24, 2022
High Energy Physics: Criticality in Eternal Inflation: Justin Khoury (UPenn) - May 10, 2022
High Energy Physics: Quantum Field Theory Tools for Gravitational Wave Science: Mikhail Solon, UCLA - May 3, 2022
Searching for New Physics at Future Muon Colliders: Cari Cesarotti - December 9, 2021
Binary Mergers of Dark Matter Blobs: Melissa Diamond, Johns Hopkins - December 8, 2021
Friendship in the Axiverse: David Cyncynates, Stanford - November 23, 2021
The NASDUCK collaboration: using quantum magnetometers to look for ultralight dark matter: Itay Bloch, Tel Aviv - November 10, 2021
Constraining Dark Matter Interactions Throughout Cosmic History: Benjamin Wallisch - November 9, 2021
Gravitational waves and gauge fields in the early Universe: Zach Weiner, University of Washington - November 2, 2021
Solar Neutrinos: from background to signal: Tien-Tien Yu, University of Oregon - October 12, 2021