Seminars
Nuclear Theory Seminars
NT Seminars are held (unless otherwise noted)
every other Wednesdays at 1pm in the Swiatecki Lounge (228) @ LBL
every other Thursday at 4pm in Birge 468 (sky-bridge connected to Physics South) @ UC Berkeley
Seminar Organizers: Dimitra Pefkou, Andre Walker-Loud
Past seminars:
Constraining Baryon Number Violation with Neutron Stars, Probing Dark Sectors, Susan Gardner (U Kentucky), November 10, 2022
Unpolarized and polarized gluon distribution functions in the nucleon from lattice QCD, Raza Sufian (U Kentucky), November 9, 2022
Probing the QCD phase structure with proton number fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions, Volodya Vovchenko (INT, LBNL), September 7, 2022
Hard probes at the EIC with QED and QCD Factorization, Jianwei Qiu (Jefferson Lab), August 22, 2022
Short-range correlations and the EMC effect in an EFT approach, [HIT/NT Seminar], Juinn-Wei Chen (Natl. Taiwan U.), July 29, 2022
How to measure the W Mass: A Theory Perspective, Joshua Isaacson (Fermilab), Jul 6, 2022
Extracting the pion-nucleon sigma term from the lattice, Nolan Miller (UNC), June 22, 2022
Multi-differential Jet Substructure Measurement in High Q2 Deep-Inelastic Scattering with the H1 Detector, Vinicius Mikuni (LBNL), June 1, 2022
Precision Standard Model Phenomenology at N3LO and beyond, Gherardo Vita (SLAC), Friday, May 6, 2022
Hadronic 3-body problem, Maxim Mai (GWU), Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Precision Physics & Proton Structure at the LHC, Johannes Michel (MIT), March 30, 2022
Was There an Electroweak Phase Transition? Michael Ramsey-Musolf (UMass Amherst), February 23, 2022
Lattice QCD Determination of the Bjorken-$x$ Dependence of PDFs at Next-to-next-to-leading Order, Yong Zhao (Argonne National Lab), February 2, 2022
The quark-gluon plasma: multi-messenger nuclear physics, microscopic relativistic fluids and big data, Jean-François Paquet (Duke), December 1, 2021
The Sivers asymmetry: From standard processes to the EIC, John Terry (UCLA), October 13, 2021
Visualizations of the Centre Vortex Structure of QCD-Vacuum Fields, Derek Leinweber (Adelaide), September 29, 2021
Exploring nucleon partonic structure from quantum computing, Hongxi Xing (South China Normal U), September 22, 2021
Jet substructure to classify in-medium jet quenching, Dr. Liliana Apolinario (LIP/Lisbon), September 15, 2021
Taming systematic errors in Lattice PDF calculations, Joseph Karpie (Columbia U), June 30, 2021
Recent developments in the theory of neutrinoless double beta decay, Jordy de Vries (U Amsterdam, Nikhef), June 16, 2021
Recent updates from JAM, Nobuo Sato (JLab), June 9, 2021
Quantum Monte Carlo studies of nuclear systems, Maria Piarulli (WUSTL), May 26, 2021
Leading jets and energy loss, Felix Ringer (LBNL), May 19, 2021
Mismatches between Perturbative and Non-perturbative Views of Hadronization in QCD, John Collins (Penn State University), May 12, 2021
Diquark Formation in SeaQuest, SpinQuest and the nuclear EMC Effect, Jennifer Rittenhouse West (LBNL), May 5, 2021
The role of the chiral anomaly in polarized deeply inelastic scattering: emergent axion-like dynamics and the small-x effective action, Andrey Tarasov (OSU), April 28, 2021
First detection of solar neutrinos from CNO cycle with the Borexino detector, Davide Basilico (UniMi/INFN), April 21, 2021
Core-Collapse Supernovae: From Simulations to Observations, David Vartanyan (UC Berkeley), April 7, 2021
Ultraviolet structure of integrated TMD observables, Ted Rogers (JLab / Old Dominion U.), March 31, 2021, Youtube Link
Dense matter: heavy-ion vs. neutron-star physics, Veronica Dexheimer (Kent State U), March 17, 2021
Gauge-invariant Trotterization via shear transformations, Jesse Stryker (Maryland), March 10, 2021
Looking inside the heart of a supernova from underground, Alexander Friedland (SLAC), March 3, 2021
EIC physics from Lattice QCD: The proton mass and spin decompositions, Martha Constantinou (Temple U), February 24, 2021
Space-Time Reciprocity and Fragmentation, Duff Neill (LANL), February 17, 2021
Capture Reactions in Effective Field Theories, Gautam Rupak (Mississippi State University), February 10, 2021
Effective Field theory for jet substructure in heavy ion collisions, Varun Vaidya (MIT), February 3, 2021
Lattice Field Theory on Quantum Computers, Hank Lamm (Fermilab), January 13, 2021
Searching for charged lepton flavor violation at the EIC, Emanuele Mereghetti (LANL), December 16, 2020
Neutron stars as dark matter laboratories, Sanjay Reddy (INT, Seattle), December 9, 2020
Mapping out the phase diagram of QCD in hadronic transport, Agnieszka Sorensen (UCLA/ LBNL), December 3, 2020
Lepton-nucleus scattering within nuclear many-body theory, Noemi Rocco (Argonne National Lab), December 2, 2020
Machine learning for lattice field theory, Phiala Shanahan (MIT), November 18, 2020
Three-body nuclear interactions from QCD, Andrew Jackura (Old Dominion U), November 10, 2020
Pion condensation in the early Universe at nonvanishing lepton flavor asymmetry, Volodymyr Vovchenko (LBNL), October 29, 2020
Groomed and energy-energy correlation event shapes at EIC, Yiannis Makris (INFN, Pavia), October 28, 2020
Nucleon-nucleon Scattering at mπ ∼ 710 MeV from Lattice QCD, Ben Hoerz (LBNL), October 21, 2020
Multiparticle Scattering in Lattice QCD with Applications to (g − 2)µ and ν Oscillation, Aaron Meyer (UC Berkeley/LBNL), October 14, 2020
Unlocking QCD dynamics using jet substructure, Kyle Lee (LBNL), October 7, 2020
Neutron stars meet constraints from astrophysics, gravitation, high and low energy nuclear physics, Violetta Sagun (University of Coimbra, Portugal), April 7, 2020
Selected Results from RHIC BES-I, Nu Xu (LBNL), April 6, 2020
World-line dynamics and the chiral anomaly in polarized DIS, Raju Venugopalan (BNL), April 29, 2020
The other critical point: hydrodynamics and chiral symmetry breaking, Derek Teaney (Stony Brook), April 24, 2020
Enhanced Monte-Carlo and Rule Based Integration for the nucleon matter EOS, Ken McElvain, April 15, 2020
Heavy Flavor Kinematic Correlations in Cold Nuclear Matter, Ramona Vogt (LLNL/UC Davis/LBNL), April 8, 2020
Microcanonical particlization of relativistic hydrodynamics, Dima Oliinychenko (LBNL), April 1, 2020.
Nucleosynthesis and resonance production in heavy-ion collisions via the Saha equation, Volodymyr Vovchenko (LBNL), March 25, 2020.
From two to three-body systems in lattice QCD, Ruairí Brett (GWU), March 2, 2020.
Quarkonium semiclassical transport from open quantum system, HIT Seminar, Xiaojun Yao (MIT), February 27, 2020.
Sensitivity of Dijet Acoplanarity to non-perturbative color dof of QCD fluids produced at RHIC and LHC, Miklos Gyulassy (LBNL), February 21, 2020.
Jet quenching in small systems, Peter Jacob (LBNL), February 14, 2020.
Optimal Control for the Quantum Simulation of Nuclear Dynamics, Kyle Wendt (LLNL), February 12, 2020.
Large momentum effective theory and parton distributions on lattice, Xiangdong Ji (Maryland), January 14, 2020.
Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification: Errors for Your EFT, Daniel Philips (Ohio U.), January 9, 2020
Toy model for germanium 76 neutrinoless double-beta decay, Toño Coello Perez (LLNL), December 11, 2019
Quarkonium production and polarization in high-energy collisions, Vincent Cheung (UC Davis), December 4, 2019
QCD's phase diagram from Dyson-Schwinger equations, Philipp Isserstedt (U Giessen), November 22, 2019
Bridging phenomenology and lattice QCD for 2- & 3-hadron systems, Maxim Mai (GWU), November 13, 2019
Distinguishing Majorana and Dirac Neutrinos, Baha Balantekin (U of Wisconsin), NSD Colloquium, November 13, 2019
Elementary correlation functions in QCD and their application, Nicolas Wink (Heidelberg U), October 31, 2019
Flowing the Electric Dipole Moment, Andrea Shindler (MSU), October 24, 2019
Determining the Properties of Dense Matter from Neutron Star Observations, Andrew Steiner (UTK), October 23, 2019
0νββ-Decay: Lepton Number, Neutrino Mass, and the Origin of Matter, Michael Ramsey-Musolf (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), NSD Colloquium, October 23, 2019
Parton Energy Loss and the Generalized Jet Transport Coefficient, Yuanyuan Zhang (CCNU, LBNL), October 16, 2019
The H-dibaryon from lattice QCD, Andrew Hanlon (Mainz), September 25, 2019
Hadronic contributions to the running of the electromagnetic coupling and the electroweak mixing angle, Marco Cè (Mainz), September 18, 2019
The neutron star merger GW170817 and neutron rich matter in the laboratory and in the heavens, Charles Horowitz (Indiana), September 11, 2019
Chemical freeze-out conditions of net-kaons in heavy-ion collisions, Jamia Stafford (U of Houston), September 10, 2019
Quarkyonic Matter and Neutron Stars, Larry McLerran (INT, Seattle), August 29, 2019
Nuclear spin-isospin physics: From phenomena to fundamentals, Haozhao Lian (RIKEN, August 15, 2019
Neutrino Long Baseline Experiments and Nuclear Physics, Ulrich Mosel (Giessen, Germany), July 18, 2019
Non perturbative quark pressure improved with renormalization group properties, Marcus Benghi Pinto (UFSC), June 5, 2019
Towards the QCD equation of state at finite density, Volodymyr Vovchenko (FIAS, Frankfurt), May 2, 2019
Sorting out jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions, Jasmine Brewer (MIT), May 1, 2019
Equation of state for hot QCD and compact stars from a mean field approach, Anton Motornenko (FIAS, Frankfurt), April 29, 2019
Jet deflection in hot QCD matter: experiment and theory, Peter Jacobs, Miklos Gyulassy, April 12, 2019
Understanding nonperturbative corrections to the groomed jet mass and it’s applications, Aditya Pathak (University of Vienna), April 4, 2019
The role of nuclear fission in the nucleosynthesis of the rapid neutron capture, Matthew Ryan Mumpower (LANL), April 3, 2019
Meson interactions at Large Nc from Lattice QCD, Fernando Romero Lopez (University of Valencia), March 28, 2019
Transverse spin effects in the collinear twist-3 formalism, Marc Schlegel (New Mexico State University), March 27, 2019
Transverse momentum distributions with jets, Daniel Gutierrez Reyes (UCM, Spain), March 21, 2019
Exploring quantum annealing for applications to nuclear physics, Jason Chang (RIKEN/LBNL), March 8, 2019
Lattice Calculations of PDFs from LaMET, Yu-Sheng Liu (TD Lee Institute, Shanghai), February 5, 2019
The Jet Shape at NLL, Pedro Cal (University of Amsterdam), January 23, 2019
Non perturbative calculations of Parton Distribution Functions, Kostas Orginos (W&M and JLab), January 11, 2019
Spectroscopy on Lattice: Progress and Outstanding Challenges, Raul Briceno (ODU and JLab), January 8, 2019
Proton Mass and Spin Decomposition, Keh-Fei Liu (Kentucky), January 3, 2019
About Dark Matter Scattering off Light Nuclei, Christopher Körber (LBNL), December 12, 2018
Multi-hadron matrix elements from Lattice QCD, Ben Hörz (LBNL), December 7, 2018
Jets and Their Substructure in Heavy Ion Collisions, HIT Seminar, Felix Ringer (LBNL), December 4, 2018
Particle-vortex statistics and the nature of quark matter, Aleksey Cherman (University of Minnesota), November 28, 2018
Systematic Calculation of 3-D Nucleon Structure from Lattice QCD, HIT Seminar, Yong Zhao (MIT), November 27, 2018
New Aspects of flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos, Manibrata Sen (UC Berkeley and Northwestern University), November 20, 2018
Calculation of power corrections to the TMD factorization in the background field method, Andrey Tarasov (BNL), November 15, 2018
Filling the gap in the GUNS: the solar neutrino flux at keV energies, Edoardo Vitagliano (MPI, Munich), November 6, 2018
Exploring the tension between nature and the Standard Model: the muon anomalous magnetic moment, Marina Marinkovic (Trinity College Dublin), Oct. 24, 2018
Parton distributions from Lattice QCD, Joe Karpie (The College of William & Mary), October 1, 2018
Jet energy loss distributions from LBT and Bayesian analysis, Longgang Pang (UC Berkeley/LBNL), September 21, 2018
Atomic Aspects of Light Dark Matter Searches, Cheng-Pang Liu (National Dong Hwa University), August 10, 2018
Hadronic Superpartners from Superconformal and Supersymmetric Algebra, Marina Nielsen (Sao Paulo, SLAC), Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Low- vs high-energy searches of new phenomena: a model-independent analysis, Martín González-Alonso (CERN), Tuesday, June 5, 2018
New Observables in Quarkonium Production at Colliders, Jean-Philippe, Lansberg (Orsay, France), May 8, 2018
Event-by-event pre-equilibrium dynamics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, Soeren Schlichting (U. of Washington, Seattle), May 2, 2018
Transverse Momentum Resummation for single top quark production at the LHC, Bin Yan (MSU), April 25, 2018
Nuclear matter from chiral effective field theory, Christian Drischler (LBNL,Berkeley), Thursday Feb 27, 2018
Fission and the formation of the r-process rare-earth abundance peak in neutron star mergers, Nicole Vassh (Notre Dame), Feb. 7, 2018
Probing TeV physics with precision calculations of nucleon Structure using lattice QCD., Rajan Gupta (LANL), Friday, Jan. 26, 2018
HOBET: Connecting LQCD to Nuclear Structure, Ken McElvain (LBNL,Berkeley), Tuesday, Jan. 23 2018
Hadron Interactions from Lattice QCD, Takumi Doi (RIKEN), Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018
Most Strange Dibaryon from Lattice QCD, Tetsuo Hatsuda (iTHEMS, RIKEN), Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, with supplement material of slides by Kenji Morita
The Recent Developments of the Two-baryon System in Lattice QCD, Takumi Iritani (RIKEN, Japan), Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018
Using effective field theory and Bayesian methods to improve results for key solar fusion cross sections, Daniel Phillips (Ohio U.), Monday, Jan. 8, 2018
Quark and Glue Spins--a tale of crisis and puzzles, Keh-Fei Liu (Kentucky), Jan.3 and 10, 2018
Supersymmetric Properties of Hadron Physics from Light-Front Holography and Superconformal Algebra, Stan Brodsky (SLAC), Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017
Ab initio approach to Thermalization in Heavy Ion collisions, Raju Venugopalan (BNL), HIT Seminar, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017
Interfaces between hydrodynamics and transport for heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies, Dima Oliinychenko (LBNL), Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017
Dynamical modelling of relativistic heavyion collisions at the RHIC BES energies, Chun Shen (BNL), Thursday, Nov. 15, 2017
Latest Result of Dark Matter Search at PandaX-II Xiangdong Ji (TD Lee Institute, Shanghai), Special Seminar, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017
Two Facets of QGP, Yi Yin (MIT), Thursday, Nov. 8, 2017
Exponential reduction of finite volume effects with twisted boundary conditions, Srimoyee Sen (INT), Thursday Nov. 2, 2017
Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory, Wouter Dekens (LANL), Wednesday Oct 25, 2017
Theoretical Challenges in Semi-Inclusive DIS, Nobuo Sato (JLab and UConn), Wednesday Oct. 19, 2017
Topics in Jet Substructure, Duff Neill (LANL), Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Inclusive Jet Production at the LHC, Felix Ringer (LBNL), Wednesday, August 30, 2017