The EFI hosts colloquia every Monday at 3:30pm during the academic quarter. With the speaker's permission, we record and post those talks here. If we have livestreams of any talks, they will also be on this page.
Organized by: David Miller, Fred Ciesla, Keisuke Harigaya, Daniel Holz, Andrey Kravtsov, Jeff McMahon, Paolo Privitera, Sav Sethi
February 9, 2026
Searches for light dark matter and solar neutrino interactions with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment by Ann M. Wang, SLAC
February 16, 2025
Obsessed by a Dream: Rolf Widerøe - History and Future of Accelerator Technology in the Context of a Giant by Norbert Holtkamp, Director of Fermilab
Organized by: David Miller, Fred Ciesla, Keisuke Harigaya, Daniel Holz, Andrey Kravtsov, Jeff McMahon, Paolo Privitera, Sav Sethi
September 29, 2025
A Forty-Year Vision for Elementary-Particle Physics by Michael Turner
October 6, 2025
Axions in QFT and Quantum Gravity by Matthew Reece, Harvard
October 13, 2025
Quantum Physics with Individual Acoustic Phonons by Andrew Cleland, UChicago
October 27, 2025
Searching for the Unexpected from Colliders to Stars with Modern Machine Learning by David Shih, Rutgers University
November 3, 2025
From Quantum Scattering Amplitudes to Gravitational Waves by Zvi Bern, UCLA
November 10, 2025
Unveiling the Hidden: A Search for Light Dark Matter with DAMIC-M by Paolo Privitera, UChicago
November 17, 2025
Fishing for Neutrinos in the Mediterranean Sea by Antoine Kouchner, CNRS/Paris-Cite
December 8, 2025
Detection of Dark Matter Axions at High Frequency: Journey from Classical Microwaves to Quantised Photons by Akira Miyazaki, CNRS/Paris-Saclay
Organized by: Juan Collar, Marcela Carena, Clay Córdova, Andrew Davis, Dave DeMille, Andrey Kratsov, David Miller
March 24, 2025
Enforcing Self-Consistent Kinematic Constraints in Neutrino Energy Estimators by Joshua Barrow, University of Minnesota
April 14, 2025
Status and First Results from the MilliQan Experiment by Michael Carrigan, Ohio State University
April 21, 2025
Higgs and Neutrinos: Portal to the Future of Particle Physics by Yifang Wang, IHEP
April 28, 2025
The Long and Short of Sterile Neutrinos by Adam Lister, University of Wisconsin
May 5, 2025
Critical Phenomena and the Conformal Bootstrap by David Poland, Yale
May 12, 2025
The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle by Chen-Yu Liu, Illinois
May 19, 2025
Black Holes in Quantum Gravity: Old Puzzles and New Connections by Tom Hartman, Cornell
Organized by: Juan Collar, Marcela Carena, Clay Córdova, Andrew Davis, Dave DeMille, Andrey Kratsov, David Miller
January 6, 2025
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC by Kenneth Long, CERN
January 27, 2025
New Tech for New Physics – A “how-to” guide on tomorrow detectors by Claudio Savarese, Princeton
February 3, 2025
Dark Matter and Bubbles by Carsten Krauss, University of Alberta
February 10, 2025
Accelerators for Future Colliders by Cameron Geddes, LBL
February 17, 2025
Multi-disciplinary Research at the Bern medical Cyclotron by Saverino Braccini, University of Bern
February 24, 2025
PROSPECT-I final oscillation results and PROSPECT-II physics goals and detector design by Ohana Benevides Rodrigues, IIT
March 3, 2025
AGN HBT OMG by Neal Dalal, Perimeter Institute
March 10, 2025
Discoveries in the Deep: The Future of Science at SNOLAB by Jodi Cooley, SNOLAB
Organized by: Juan Collar, Marcela Carena, Clay Córdova, Andrew Davis, Dave DeMille, Andrey Kratsov, David Miller
September 30, 2024
Discovering the Origin of Matter with LEGEND by Julia Gruszko, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
October 7, 2024
Picosecond Timing ASICs for Hybrid Cryogenic Detectors by Adam Quinn, Fermilab
October 14, 2024
From Quantum Simulation of Cosmological Models to Time Reversal Symmetry by Cheng Chin, UChicago
October 21, 2024
Taking the low road: extending the reach of collider physics experiments with low-level detector information by Grace Cummings, Fermilab
October 28, 2024
Tuning In To Dark Matter by Alex Millar, Fermilab
November 4, 2024
Any way you slice it: The Lund jet plane as a unique probe of QCD by Jennifer Roloff, Brown
November 11, 2024
My Journey in the Hunt for Dark Matter: from WIMPs to Light Dark Matter and Axionlike Particles by Wooyoung Jang, University of Texas at Arlington
Novmeber 18, 2024
��-Techniques for ��-Physics by Joe Formaggio, MIT
December 2, 2024
Searching for Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider: A Tale from the Trenches by Ben Hooberman, University of Illinois
Organized by: Emil Martinec, Juan Collar, Andy Davis, Karri DiPetrillo, Keisuke Harigaya, Daniel Holz, Young-Kee Kim
March 18, 2024
The upgrade of CMS endcap calorimeter for the High-Luminosity LHC by Nadja Strobbe, University of Minnesota
April 15, 2024
Physics Potential At A Muon Collider by Cari Cesarotti, MIT
April 22, 2024
HGTD: Towards an ATLAS Timing Detector for HL-LHC by Stefan Guindon, CERN
April 29, 2024
Testing Gravity at ever shorter scale: a trip into exotic experimental physics by Giorgio Gratta, Stanford
May 6, 2024
Emergence in trillion-degree matter and other high-density systems by Austin Baty, UIC
May 13, 2024
Swamplandish Predictions for Our Universe by Cumrun Vafa, Harvard
May 20, 2024
Triggering on New Physics at the CMS Experiment by Isobel Ojalvo, Princeton
Organized by: Emil Martinec, Juan Collar, Andy Davis, Karri DiPetrillo, Keisuke Harigaya, Daniel Holz, Young-Kee Kim
January 22, 2024
Symmetry, Anomalies and Anomaly Inflow by Jeff Harvey, UChicago
January 29, 2024
EHT Images of Black Holes: What We Learn from Them and How We Can Improve Them by Lia Medeiros, Institute for Advanced Study
February 5, 2024
Dark Matter Searches At Coherent Captain-Mills by Mayank Tripathi, University of Florida
February 19, 2024
On the Rise or Fall of Antimatter by Chris Rasmussen, CERN
February 26, 2024
Beam Cooling at the EIC by Sergei Nagaitsev, Jefferson Lab
March 4, 2024
Quantum Tops: Quantum Information Meets High-Energy Physics by Yoav Afik, UChicago/CERN
Organized by: Emil Martinec, Juan Collar, Andy Davis, Karri DiPetrillo, Keisuke Harigaya, Daniel Holz, Young-Kee Kim
October 2, 2023
New Results From The Muon g-2 Experiment by Esra Barlas Yucel, University of Illinois
October 9, 2023
UnNuclear Physics: Conformal Symmetry In Nuclear Reactions by Dam T. Son, UChicago
October 23, 2023
Exploring New Light Particles Across Multiple Frontiers by Kohsaku Tobioka, Florida State
October 30, 2023
Conformal Bootstrap: From Polyakov to Our Days by Slava Rychkov, Paris-Saclay
November 6, 2023
Measuring the Higgs Potential at the LHC and Beyond by Brendon Bullard, Stanford
November 27, 2023
Measurement by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry of Cosmic-Ray-Produced Nuclides from Materials Collected Below the Greenland Ice Sheet by Marc Caffee, Purdue
December 4, 2023
The Accelerator-Driven Hunt For Hidden Sector Dark Matter In The US by Cristina Mantilla Suarez, Fermilab
Organized by: David Miller, Young-Kee Kim, Marcela Carena, Fred Ciesla, Henry Frisch, Wayne Hu, Bob Wald
March 27, 2023
Microelectronics at Fermilab by Farah Fahim, Fermilab
April 3, 2023
Some Recent Results in Gravitational-Wave Science by Daniel Holz, UChicago
April 10, 2023
The Global Effect Towards Making a Muon Collider by Diktys Stratakis, Fermilab
Apr 10, 2023
Towards a 10 TeV Muon Collider by Karri DiPetrillo, UChicago
April 24, 2023
MCP 201AI and Neutrino Physics by Corey Adams, ANL
May 1, 2023
The Electron-Ion Collider by Haiyan Gao, Brookhaven National Laboratory/Duke University
May 8, 2023
Higgs Pair Production Searches With The ATLAS Experiment At The Large Hadron Collider by Jannicke Pearkes, UC Boulder
May 15, 2023
Accelerator and Beam Physics Research at Fermilab by Giulio Stancari, Fermilab
May 22, 2023
Leveraging Quantum Sensors To Shine New Light On Searches For Low-Mass Dark Matter by Kelly Stiffer, Fermilab
Organized by: David Miller, Young-Kee Kim, Marcela Carena, Fred Ciesla, Henry Frisch, Wayne Hu, Bob Wald
February 6, 2023
A Vision for Fermilab by Lia Merminga, Director of Fermilab
February 20, 2023
Physics Research with Highly Polarized Gamma Rays at HIGS Facility by Ying Wu, Duke University
March 6, 2023
What are NRLEEs and What Are They Good for? by Bradley Meyer, Clemson University
Organized by: David Miller, Young-Kee Kim, Marcela Carena, Fred Ciesla, Henry Frisch, Wayne Hu, Bob Wald
October 17, 2022
Experimental study of beam instabilities in the presence of strong space charge by Robert Ainsworth, Fermilab
October 24, 2022
Searching for Dark Matter with BREAD: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection by Stefan Knirck, Fermilab
November 7, 2022
Parity symmetry breaking scale and Standard Model parameters by Keisuke Harigaya, UChicago
November 21, 2022
Landscape of Particle Accelerators and Snowmass'21 Planning for Future by Vladimir Shiltsev, Fermilab
November 28, 2022
Boosted Higgs and Effect Field Theory by Nick Smith, Fermilab
December 5, 2022
Machine Learning in The Natural Sciences by Rebecca Willett, UChicago
Organized by: David Miller, Jeff McMahon, David Kutasov, William Irvine, Jon Rosner
April 4, 2022
PUEO and RNO-G: Two New Experiments to Detect Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos by Abigail Vieregg, UChicago
May 2, 2022
Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and Information Loss by Bob Wald, UChicago
Organized by: David Miller, Jeff McMahon, David Kutasov, William Irvine, Jon Rosner
February 14, 2022
An experimental overview of effective field theory exploration at the LHC by Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Northwestern University
February 21, 2022
Predicting collective dynamics and instabilities in high-brightness storage rings light sources by Ryan Lindberg, Argonne
February 28, 2022
Development of Wire-Cell Event Reconstruction for LArTPCs in Neutrino Physics by Xin Qian, Brookhaven National Laboratory
March 7, 2022
A New Path to New Physics at the LHC by Wade Fisher, Michigan State University
Organized by: David Miller, Jeff McMahon, David Kutasov, William Irvine, Jon Rosner
October 4, 2021
Towards a New Generation of Bubble Chambers with Light Nuclear Targets by Bryan Ramson, Fermilab
November 8, 2021
C3, An Advanced Concept for a High Energy e+e- Linear Collider by Caterian Vernieri & Emilio Nanni, SLAC
November 15, 2021
Radio-Frequency Superconductivity R&D at Fermilab for Accelerators and Quantum Applications by Daniel Bafia, Fermilab
November 29, 2021
The Next Generation CMB Experiment, CMB-S4 by John Carlstron, Abby Vieregg, Jeff McMahon, Thomas Crawford, Adam Anderson, Bradford Benson, UChicago
December 6, 2021
Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect with isobar collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider by Prithwish Tribedy, BNL
Organized by: Yau Wah, Craig Hogan, Damiano Caprioli, Sav Sethi, Abby Vieregg, Sergei Nagaitsev
March 29, 2021
Muon Colliders: Opening New Horizons for Particle Physics by Vladimir Shiltsev, Fermilab
April 5, 2021
Black Boxes or Interpretable Models? Applications of Machine Learning, Symmetries, and Domain Knowledge to High-Dimensional Problems in Particle Physics by David Miller, UChicago
April 12, 2021
Searching for Muon to Electron Conversion in a Muonic Atom - Quest for new physics by Yoshitaka Kuno, Osaka University
April 19, 2021
ANNIE: Neutron multiplicity in neutrino interactions and new technologies by Vincent Fischer, Iowa State
April 26, 2021
Compton Gamma-ray Source Powered by a Storage Ring Free-Electron Laser by Ying Wu, Duke University
May 3, 2021
First Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab by Tammy Walton, Fermilab
May 10, 2021
How measuring 6D beam distributions can help control losses in high power accelerators by Kiersten Ruisard, Oak Ridge National Lab
May 17, 2021
Kaon physics at CERN with the NA62 Experiment by Giuseppe Ruggiero, Lancaster University
May 24, 2021
Recent Neutrino Oscillation Results from the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) Experiment by Clarence Wret, University of Rochester
Organized by: Yau Wah, Craig Hogan, Damiano Caprioli, Sav Sethi, Abby Vieregg, Sergei Nagaitsev
January 11, 2021
Status of Belle II by David Cinabro, Wayne State University/DOE
February 8, 2021
Enabling MeV-Scale Discovery By Improving Liquid Argon TPC Performance by Joseph Zennamo, Fermilab
February 15, 2021
COSINE experiment - A WIMP dark matter search experiment with NaI(Tl) detectors by Hyunsu Lee, Institute for Basic Science, Korea
February 22, 2021
Towards more efficient accelerating rf systems: Superconducting Energy Recovery Linacs and thermometry of high Q cavities by Nilanjan Banerjee, UChicago
March 1, 2021
From Galaxies to Faces: Recognizing the Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy and Society by Brian Nord, Fermilab and UChicago