The Particle Cosmology Seminar is a weekly series focusing on current research in cosmology, particle physics, and gravity.

The seminar takes place most Fridays from 13.00 - 14.00 in Huxley 503 during term time.

Organisers 

Ben Elder and Mikael Mieskolainen

3-PAC seminars

Archive pre-2021

Pre 2021

To access the seminar archive before April 2021 please see the calendar and information detailed below.

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2014-15 and 2015-16

David Weir, Stavanger
Friday, Mar 18 2016, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Robert Brandenberger, McGill University
Friday, Feb 26 2016, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Matthew McCullough, CERN
Friday, Feb 19 2016, 13:00, Huxley 503

Alastair Currie, Imperial College
Friday, Feb 5 2016, 13:00, Huxley 503

Cora Dvorkin, Harvard CfA
Traces of the Early Universe in the CMB and the Large-Scale Structure
Friday, Jan 15 2016, 13:00, Huxley 503

Julia Harz, LPTHE & Lagrange Institute, Paris
Towards a precise prediction of the the dark matter relic density within the MSSM
Friday, Dec 4 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Hamish Clark, University of Sydney
Dark matter ultracompact minihalos and the small-scale early Universe
Friday, Nov 27 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Daniel Figueroa, CERN
A stiff Higgstory of the Universe
Friday, Nov 13 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Dr Gerasimos Rigopoulos, Newcastle
The quantum/stochastic scalar field in de Sitter
Friday, Oct 30 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503

Marcin Chrzaszcz, Zurich/CERN 
Anomalies in flavour physics
Friday, Oct 16 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Ad hoc (Special 3-PAC): Rick Gaitskell, Brown
LUX - the direct search for dark matter and novel approaches to low-energy callibration
Monday Oct 12, 15:30, Blackett 630 

Ad hoc (HEP / 3-PAC): Hugh Lippincott, Fermilab
Searching for dark matter with bubble chambers
Weds, Sep 30 2015, 16:00, Blackett 539 

Ad-hoc (out of term): Mathew Madhavacheril, Stony Brook
Detection of Lensing of the CMB by Dark Matter Halos
Friday, Sep 11 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Ad-hoc (out of term): Tomas Gonzalo, UCL
Model building in Grand Unified Theories
Friday, Aug 14 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Clare Burrage, Nottingham 
Detecting Dark Energy with Atom Interferometry
Friday, Apr 24 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Francesca Calore, GRAPPA Amsterdam
The Fermi GeV excess: status and perspectives
Friday, Apr 17 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Joe Zuntz, Manchester 
Weak lensing: promise and problems
Friday, Mar 13 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Jérémy Bernon, LPSC Grenoble
Constraining new physics from Higgs measurements
Friday, Feb 27 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Aaron Vincent, IPPP Durham
The Flavour Composition of the high-energy IceCube neutrinos
Friday, Feb 13 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Christopher McCabe, GRAPPA Amsterdam
Searching for dark matter--pseudoscalar interactions
Friday, Jan 30 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Sebastian Wild, TU Munich
Capture and annihilation of dark matter in the Sun: Importance of higher order effects
Friday, Jan 16 2015, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Chris Savage, NORDITA
Statistical issues in the direct detection of dark matter
Friday, Dec 5 2014, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Pat Scott, Imperial
Indications of momentum-dependent asymmetric dark matter in the Sun
Friday, Nov 28 2014, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Felix Kahlhoefer, DESY
Dark matter direct detection: astrophysical uncertainties and new halo-independent methods 
Friday, Nov 14 2014, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Antje Putze, LAPTh Annecy
Cosmic-ray propagation models and their impact on indirect dark-matter searches
Friday, Nov 7 2014, 13:00, Huxley 503 

Dario Cannone, Padova / Portsmouth
Generalized tensor fluctuations and inflation
Friday, Oct 17 2014, 13:00, Blackett 1004 

Phillipp Grothaus, King's College London
About the Neutrino Bound in Direct Dark Matter Searches
Friday, Oct 3 2014, 13:00, Huxley 711c 

Anders Kvellestad, University of Oslo
Chargino decays in Natural SUSY and beyond 
Friday, Sep 19 2014, 13:00, Huxley 711c

Organisers: Pat Scott, Sarah Malik and Emir Gumrukcuoglu