McDonald Institute seminars feature experimentalists and theorists engaged in particle, astroparticle, and astronomical research.
Full seminar abstracts and seminar videos are posted at
Upcoming Seminars
Past Seminars
October 14 2021
Chris Cappiello (Queen’s University)
October 28 2021
Seyda Ipek (Carleton University)
November 4 2021
Qinrui Liu (Queen’s University)
November 18 2021
Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon)
January 28 2021
(Perimeter Institute)
September 30 2021
(McGill University)
Plasmon phase space and millicharged particles
March 30 2021
Xavier Mougeot (CEA Saclay)
Weak interaction transitions in ionizing radiation metrology: from fundamental physics to applications
March 16 2021
Evan McDonough (U. Chicago)
Constraining Early Dark Energy with Large Scale Structure
February 16 2021
(Forschungszentrum Jülich)
The new journey to the center of the Earth: geoneutrino measurement with Borexino
February 9 2021
Rebecca Leane (SLAC)
Dark Matter in Stars and Planets
January 26 2021
Hongwan Liu (NYU & Princeton)
Lyman-Alpha Constraints on Cosmic Heating from Dark Matter Annihilation and Decay
January 12 2021
Lina Necib (Carnegie Observatory/MIT)
Tracing Dark Matter with Stars
December 8 2020 (SPECIAL TIME: 12:00pm ET)
(Perimeter Institute)
Rethinking the origin of neutrino masses: the role of gravity
December 1 2020
Patrick Fitzpatrick (MIT)
New Pathways to the Relic Abundance of Vector-Portal Dark Matter
November 10 2020
Miguel Escudero (TU Munich)
Neutrinos in Cosmology
October 13 2020
Mehdi Shafiee (Queen’s)
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
September 29 2020
(Carleton)
Emerging Jets
September 15 2020
Pedro Machado (Fermilab)
Back to (Mass-)Square(d) One: The Neutrino Mass Ordering after NOvA and T2K recent results
March 3 2020
(University of Queensland)
Searches for dark matter and new physics with GAMBIT
February 11 2020
(York University)
The dark matter distribution from simulations and Gaia data
February 4 2020
(SLAC)
New opportunities in MeV neutrino astrophysics
January 28 2020
Carlos Vivo-Vilches (Carleton)
Accelerator mass spectrometry Survey of Trace Radionuclides for Experiments on Astroparticle physics (ASTREA)
January 27 2020
(TRIUMF)
Gravitational Microlensing of Non-baryonic Compact Objects
January 21 2020
(Johns Hopkins)
Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in Cosmology
January 7 2020
Elaine Fortes (Universidade Federal do Pampa)
2019
October 8 2019
(Brookhaven)
Inelastic dark matter revives the dark photon explanation of the muon g-2 anomaly
October 7 2019
Björn Lehnert (LBNL)
KATRIN/neutrino masses
September 17 2019
(NYU)
Searching for Ultralight Bosons with Black holes and Gravitational Waves
July 12 2019
(IPPP, Durham University)
On the (low) threshold to new physics?
March 21 2019
(NCSU)
Vacuum decay, black holes, and extra dimensions
March 14 2019
(University of Toronto)
Dark Sectors in Electron Fixed-Target Experiments
February 28 2019
(York University)
New directions in self-interacting dark matter, from astrophysics to the lattice
February 21 2019
(TRIUMF)
Gravitational Waves: a new window on the Dark and Early Universe
February 7 2019
Charlie Rasco (Oak Ridge National Lab)
Who Cares ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Nuclear Beta Decay; Reactor Decay Heat, Astrophysical r-Process, and the Reactor Neutrino Anomalies and their Connections to Beta Decay
January 17 2019
(Brown University)
New Gravitational Probes of Dark Matter
2018
November 15 2018
(Northwestern University)
1st Flight Engineering Results and Future Dark Matter Searches with the Micro-X Sounding Rocket
November 8 2018
(Harvard)
Searching for nu physics with liquid argon detectors
October 18 2018
(Illinois)
Dark Matter In and Out of Equilibrium
October 4 2018
(Brown University)
Particle Phenomenology in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
September 27 2018
(IPPP Durham University)
Making the most of direct detection