Times: Tuesdays, 4:15-5:30 p.m.

To receive the announcements and the invitations to the video conference, please contact Yu Watanabe and subscribe to the Google group tepapp-seminar@lists.ucla.edu. All subscribers will receive a zoom invitation to the seminar as full participants, or are welcome to join us in room PAB 4-708 of the Physics and Astronomy Building at UCLA.

Seminars marked 'in person' indicate the speaker will be physically at UCLA (rather than on zoom).

Spring 2026


Tuesday, March 30, 2026 In person / Zoom
Cristiano Germani (University of Barcelona) The trichotomy of primordial black holes initial conditions


Winter 2026


Tuesday, February 10, 2026 In person / Zoom
Dan Kondo (Kavli IPMU) DFSZ axion ALP scenario with high scale inflation

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 In person / Zoom
Kiyoto Ogawa (Nagoya University) Full Three-Loop Electroweak Multiplet Contributions to the Electron Electric Dipole Moment

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 In person / Zoom
Qinrui Liu (Simon Fraser University) The Flavor Composition of the High-Energy Cosmic Neutrino Sky: Today and Tomorrow


Fall 2025


Tuesday, Oct. 7 2025 In person / Zoom
Fumio Uchida (IBS) Primordial magnetic fields (and baryogenesis) during the electroweak crossover


Tuesday, Oct. 7 2025 In person / Zoom
Yu Watanabe (UCLA) Dark Matter and MeV γ-ray Detection with COSI


Tuesday, Oct. 21 2025 In person / Zoom
Garv Chauhan (Arizona State U.) Gamma Ray Echo from Particle Decays in Supernovae


Tuesday, Oct. 28 2025 In person / Zoom
Xinpeng Wang (Kavli IPMU) Gravitational Waves from the Fifth-Force Mergers


Tuesday, Nov. 4 2025 In person / Zoom
Maira Dutra (NASA Goddard) Gamma rays from light dark matter in vector-scalar portals


Tuesday, Nov. 18 2025 In person / Zoom
Hiroki Yoneda (Kyoto U) Gamma-ray observations in the MeV band: Current Status and Future Prospects


Tuesday, Nov. 25 2025 In person / Zoom
Victoria Knapp-Perez(UC, Irvine) Field Dependent Dynamics in the Early Universe: Non-Equilibrated Scalars and Cosmological Stasis




Winter/Spring 2025


Tuesday, Jan. 28 2025 In person
Andreas Crivellin (Universität Zürich) New Higgses at the Electroweak Scale


Tuesday, Feb. 11 2025 In person
Jason Arakawa (Delaware U. and KEK, Tsukuba) Transient Targets for Dark Matter Searches using Quantum Sensors


Tuesday, Mar. 11 2025 In person
Jan Schutte-Engel (UC Berkeley) TBC


Tuesday, Apr. 1 2025 In person
Alina Kochocki (Michigan State University) TBC


Tuesday, Apr. 8 2025
Christopher Shallue (Harvard) TBC, Hawking radiation


Tuesday, Apr. 29 2025
Thomas Callister TBC, LIGO non-redshift dependence


Tuesday, May 6 2025 In person
Julien Froustey (UC Berkeley) TBC


Tuesday, May 13 2025
Michael Fedderke (Perimeter Institute) TBC


Tuesday, May 20 2025 In person
Kris Pardo (USC)TBC, dark matter


Tuesday, May 27 2025
Daniel D'Orazio (Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins) TBC, SMBH binaries


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