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Pushing the frontiers of gravitational encounters and collisionless dynamics
The long range nature of gravity complicates the dynamics of self-gravitating many-body systems such as galaxies and dark matter (DM) halos. Relaxation/equilibration of perturbed galaxies and cold dark matter halos...
Nov 22, 2022
First-principle approach to the superpositions of gravitational fields in atom interferometry
Understanding the fundamental nature of gravity at the interface with quantum theory is a major open question in theoretical physics. Recent progress in experiments has enabled probing the interaction of...
Nov 14, 2022
New ALP probes from light meson decays
Rare meson decays are among the most sensitive probes of both heavy and light new physics. Among them, new physics searches using kaons and pions benefit from their small total...
Nov 15, 2022
Causality and Ideal Measurements of Smeared Fields in Quantum Field Theory
The usual quantum mechanical description of measurements, unitary kicks, and other local operations has the potential to produce pathological causality violations in the relativistic setting of quantum field theory (QFT)...
Nov 17, 2022
Toys can't play: physical agents in Spekkens' theory
Information is physical, and for a physical theory to be universal, it should model observers as physical systems, with concrete memories where they store the information acquired through experiments and...
Oct 14, 2022
Phenomenological thermodynamics with multiple quantities of interest
Joint work (in progress) with Ladina Hausmann, Nuriya Nurgalieva and Renato Renner We can classify contemporary approaches to thermodynamics in roughly four camps: (1) Top-down microscopic approaches. These are for...
Oct 21, 2022
Cosmology and astrophysics with the extragalactic light: background and fluctuations
Cosmology and astrophysics with the extragalactic light: background and fluctuations Abstract: The aggregate light emitted by all extragalactic sources can be measured either as an absolute intensity or through its...
Oct 18, 2022
Cosmological Signatures of Interacting Dark Sectors
Models of dark sectors with a mass threshold can have important cosmological signatures. If, in the era prior to recombination, a relativistic species becomes non-relativistic and is then depopulated in...
Oct 25, 2022
BBN circa 2022: New Physics hints from the Early Universe?
Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the greatest outcome of the Standard Model of Particle Physics when put next to ΛCDM cosmology. In this talk, I will first review the...
Oct 28, 2022
Direct Deflection of Particle Dark Matter
Detecting light dark matter that interacts weakly with electromagnetism has recently become one of the benchmark goals of near-term and futuristic direct detection experiments. In this talk, I will discuss...
Oct 15, 2019