Conferences This Week and Next Week

Celebrating 40 Years of Damped Lya Systems

Mar 16, 2026 - Mar 19, 2026

Seminars This Week and Next Week

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Karsten Heeger (Yale Univ.)
Title:	Probing the Nature of Neutrino Mass
Date:	Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Hugo Holland (IAS)
Title:	The separate universe approach and gauge fixing procedures for multifield inflation models.
Date:	Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Max Pettini (Cambridge)
Title:	Weighing the Universe with Metal-Poor Damped Lyman alpha Systems
Date:	Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Kimberly Boddy (The University of Texas at Austin)
Title:	Cosmological Constraints on Non-Minimally Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter
Date:	Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (fundamentals seminar)

Speaker:	Luca Marchetti (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Background Independence: What Is Observable in Gravity, and How Do We Quantize It?
Date:	Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	It is only in person.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ben Davison (University of Edinburgh)
Title:	TBA
Date:	Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	This seminar serves as the introductory talk in a four-lecture series on the same topic. Prof. Ben Davison will give three additional lectures at 13:30 at the following venues. Seminar Room A on March 30 (Mon) Seminar Room B on April 1 (Wed) Seminar Room B on April 2 (Thu)