May 10, 2023
Hadron renaissance: The heavy-quark exotics
by Prof. Richard Lebed, Arizona State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 26, 2023
Strong-field magnetohydrodynamics
by Prof. Saso Grozdanov, University of Edinburgh and University of Ljubljana
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 12, 2023
The Universe as a lab for new physics across cosmic times
by Prof. Cora Dvorkin, Harvard University
Link to slides
March 29, 2023
Magnetohydrodynamic stability and evolution of magnetars
by Dr. Peter Rau, University of Washington
Link to slides and video on YouTube
March 15, 2023
Probing the cosmic unknowns through neutrinos
by Prof. Irene Tamborra, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Link to slides and video on YouTube
March 1, 2023
How ignition and target gain > 1 were achieved in inertial fusion
by Dr. Omar A. Hurricane, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Link to slides and video on YouTube
February 1, 2023
Ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions as seen through photons
by Prof. Jean-Francois Paquet, Vanderbilt University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
January 18, 2023
Thermalization, hadronization, and entanglement
by Prof. Berndt Mueller, Duke University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
2022
December 14, 2022
Electromagnetic radiation probing QCD matter
by Prof. Ralf Rapp, Texas A&M University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
November 30, 2022
Fundamental physics with nuclei
by Prof. Saori Pastore, Washington University in St. Louis
Link to slides and video on YouTube
November 16, 2022
Strong interaction matter in the universe
by Prof. Achim Schwenk, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Link to slides and video on YouTube
November 2, 2022
Inhomogeneous dense matter in strong magnetic fields
by Prof. Tomas Brauner, University of Stavanger, Norway
Link to slides and video on YouTube
October 19, 2022
Probing physics beyond the Standard Model at low energies
by Prof. Vincenzo Cirigliano, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington
Link to slides and video on YouTube
October 5, 2022
Parity-Time (PT) Symmetry
by Prof. Carl M. Bender, Washington University in Saint Louis
Link to slides and video on YouTube
September 21, 2022
Why are theorists excited about exotic nuclei?
by Prof. Filomena Nunes, National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab, Michigan State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
September 7, 2022
Testing dark matter interactions through cosmic history
by Prof. Tracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 24, 2022
Using large-Nc to order nucleon-nucleon interactions
by Prof. Roxanne P. Springer, Duke University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 10, 2022
Building a realistic neutron star from holography
by Prof. Andreas Schmitt, University of Southampton, UK
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 27, 2022
Soft pions and the dynamics of the chiral phase transition
by Prof. Derek Teaney, Stony Brook University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 13, 2022
QCD phase structure from fluctuations of conserved charges
by Prof. Volodymyr Vovchenko, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 29, 2022
The impact of dark matter on compact stars
by Prof. Violetta Sagun, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 15, 2022
Binary neutron stars: from macroscopic collisions to microphysics
by Prof. Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 1, 2022
Odd viscoelasticity
by Prof. Piotr Surowka, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 18, 2022
Astrophysical constraints from neutron stars on the high-density equation of state: current status and near-term prospects
by Prof. Sophia Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 4, 2022
Early time gluon fields in relativistic heavy ion collisions
by Prof. Margaret E. Carrington, Brandon University, Canada
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 20, 2022
Core-collapse supernovae: From neutrino-driven explosion models to observations
by Prof. Hans-Thomas Janka, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 6, 2022
Neutrinos, the Early Universe, and gravitational collapse
by Prof. George M. Fuller, University of California, San Diego
Link to slides and video on YouTube
March 23, 2022
Mapping the structure of hadrons with lattice QCD
by Prof. Huey-Wen Lin, Michigan State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
February 23, 2022
Dense QCD and compact stars
by Prof. Armen Sedrakian, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany and Wroclaw University, Poland
Link to slides and video on YouTube
February 9, 2022
On the QCD phase diagram in a magnetic field
by Prof. Massimo D'Elia, University of Pisa, Italy
Link to slides and video on YouTube
January 26, 2022
When cold, dense quarks are not a Fermi liquid
by Dr. Marton Lajer, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Link to slides and video on YouTube
January 12, 2022
Demystifying black holes
by Prof. Georgi R. Dvali, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Link to slides and video on YouTube
2021
December 15, 2021
Shining new light on the physics of neutron star mergers
by Prof. Brian Metzger, Columbia University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
December 8, 2021
Spin polarization and spin transport in quark-gluon plasma
by Prof. Xu-Guang Huang, Fudan University
Link to slidesand video on YouTube
December 1, 2021
JWST status as of 2021, and some of its first science programs: Faint object time domain, cluster lensing & caustic transits
by Prof. Rogier A. Windhorst, Arizona State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
November 24, 2021
Open-Quantum-Systems: Thermometry at the extremes
by Prof. Alexander Rothkopf, University of Stavanger, Norway
Link to slides and video on YouTube
November 17, 2021
Adventures in flatland: Quantum criticality in the 2+1d Thirring model
by Prof. Simon Hands, University of Liverpool, UK
Link to slides and video on YouTube
November 10, 2021
Index theorems, generalized Hall currents, and topology for gapless defect fermions
by Prof. Srimoyee Sen, Iowa State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
November 3, 2021
Unnuclear physics: Conformal symmetry in nuclear reactions
by Prof. Dam T. Son, University of Chicago
Link to slides and video on YouTube
October 27, 2021
Multi-messenger astronomy and the physics of hot and dense matter
by Prof. Andrew W. Steiner, University of Tennessee
Link to slides and video on YouTube
October 20, 2021
Small-x contribution to the proton spin puzzle
by Prof. Yuri V. Kovchegov, Ohio State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
October 13, 2021
Plasma screening and the critical end point in the QCD phase diagram
by Prof. Alejandro Ayala, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Link to slides and video on YouTube
October 6, 2021
Neutrinos and gravity: multi-messenger scenarios
by Prof. Cecilia Lunardini, Arizona State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
September 29, 2021
Chiral anomalous processes in magnetospheres of compact stars
by Prof. Eduard Gorbar, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Link to slides and video on YouTube
September 22, 2021
Geometry and anomalies in Dirac matter
by Prof. Maria A. H. Vozmediano, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Link to slides and video on YouTube
September 15, 2021
On the phase structure of QCD
by Prof. Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Link to slides and video on YouTube
September 8, 2021
Semiclassical theory of QCD phase transitions
by Prof. Edward Shuryak, Stony Brook University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
September 1, 2021
Nuclear lattice simulations
by Prof. Dean Lee, Michigan State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 25, 2021
Towards quantum simulations for nuclear and particle physics
by Prof. Martin J. Savage, University of Washington
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 18, 2021
Anomalous spin-rotation coupling at finite temperature
by Dr. Matteo Buzzegoli, Iowa State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 11, 2021
Tests of general relativity with black hole shadows
by Prof. Dimitrios Psaltis, University of Arizona
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 4, 2021
Extracting the diffusivity and charge susceptibilities of the QGP from experiment
by Prof. Scott Pratt, Michigan State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 28, 2021
QCD, gravity and inertia
by Prof. Oleg Teryaev, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 21, 2021
New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds
by Prof. Kostya Trachenko, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 7, 2021
Wave turbulence and anomalous diffusion of jets in the QGP
by Prof. Yacine Mehtar-Tani, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 30, 2021
Probing the dense matter equation of state with neutron star mergers
by Dr. Carolyn Raithel, Institute for Advanced Study & Princeton University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 23, 2021
Heavy flavor kinematic correlations in cold (and hot) nuclear matter
by Prof. Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 16, 2021
New developments of spin physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions
byProf. Francesco Becattini, University of Florence, Italy
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 9, 2021
A NICER view of neutron stars
by Prof. Anna L. Watts, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 2, 2021
Chiral magnetic effect: from quarks to quantum computers
by Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev, Stony Brook University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 26, 2021
Hydrodynamics for heavy-ion collisions – status and recent developments
by Prof. Ulrich Heinz, Ohio State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 19, 2021
A primer on Tsallis statistics for nuclear and particle physics
by Prof. Joseph Kapusta, University of Minnesota
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 12, 2021
Does the spin “flow” in relativistic heavy-ion collisions?
by Prof. Radoslaw Ryblewski, Institute of Nuclear Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 5, 2021
Bottomonium suppression in the QGP – From EFTs to non-unitary quantum evolution
by Prof. Michael Strickland, Kent State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 28, 2021
Electrodynamics of hot nuclear matter and other chiral media
by Prof. Kirill Tuchin, Iowa State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 21, 2021
Deconstructing relativistic fluid dynamics
by Prof. Jorge Noronha, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 7, 2021
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Post Planck
by Prof. Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
Link to slides and video on YouTube
March 31, 2021
Multi-messenger heavy-ion physics
by Prof. Chun Shen, Wayne State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
March 24, 2021
Relativistic nuclear collisions: factory for exotic quantum matter
by Prof. Jinfeng Liao, Indiana University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
February 24, 2021
Evolution of primordial neutrino helicities in astrophysical magnetic fields and implications for their detection
by Prof. Gordon Baym, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Links to slides and video on YouTube
February 17, 2021
Semi-Abelian gauge theories, non-invertible symmetries, and string tensions beyond N-ality
by Prof. Mithat Unsal, North Carolina State University
Links to slides and video on YouTube
February 10, 2021
Nonrelativistic multiscale systems with effective quantum field theories
by Prof. Nora Brambilla, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Links to slides and video on YouTube
February 3, 2021
Einstein-Cartan gravity: inflation, dark matter and electroweak symmetry breaking
by Prof. Mikhail Shaposhnikov, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Links to slides and video on YouTube
January 27, 2021
The impact of electromagnetic and vortical fields in relativistic nuclear collisions
by Dr. Lucia Oliva, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Links to slides and video on YouTube
January 20, 2021
Exploring the QGP at finite baryon chemical potential in and out of equilibrium
by Prof. Elena Bratkovskaya, GSI, Germany
Links to slides and video on YouTube
January 13, 2021
Atoms and ions as quantum simulators of quarks, gluons, and nuclei?
by Prof. Zohreh Davoudi, University of Maryland
Links to slides and video on YouTube
2020
December 9, 2020
Topology change, emergent symmetry and compact star matter
by Prof. Yong-Liang Ma, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, China
Links to slides and video on YouTube
December 2, 2020
What have we learned about binary neutron stars since the discovery of GW170817?
by Prof. Duncan Brown, Syracuse University
Links to slides and video on YouTube
November 25, 2020
Helical magnetic fields in the early universe
by Prof. Axel Brandenburg, Nordita, Sweden
Links to slides and video on YouTube
November 18, 2020
QCD at finite density and phenomenology
by Prof. Claudia Ratti, University of Houston
Links to slides and video on YouTube
November 11, 2020
Quark-gluon plasma and thermodynamics of QCD on the lattice
by Prof. Alexei Bazavov, Michigan State University
Links to slides and video on YouTube
November 04, 2020
The reasonable and unreasonable effectiveness of hydrodynamics in exotic quantum matter Prof. Hong Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Links to slides and video on YouTube
October 28, 2020
Decoding the path integral: resurgent asymptotics and extreme QFT
by Prof. Gerald V. Dunne, University of Connecticut
Links to slides and video on YouTube
October 21, 2020
Strangeness in nuclei and neutron stars
by Dr. Laura Tolos, Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
Links to slides and video on YouTube
October 14, 2020
Hydrodynamics with 50 particles. What does it mean and how to think about it?
by Prof. Donato Giorgio Torrieri, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
Links to slides and video on YouTube
October 07, 2020
Pushing the limits of hydrodynamics
by Prof. Pavel Kovtun, University of Victoria, Canada
Links to slides and video on YouTube
September 30, 2020
A data-driven approach to quantifying the shear viscosity of nature’s most ideal liquid
by Prof. Steffen A. Bass, Duke University
Links to slides and video on YouTube
September 23, 2020
NICER, gravitational waves, and neutron stars
by Prof. M. Coleman Miller, University of Maryland
Links to slides and video on YouTube
September 16, 2020
Color instabilities in quark-gluon plasma
by Prof. Stanisław Mrówczyński, Jan Kochanowski University & National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland
Links to slides and video on YouTube
September 09, 2020
What is Quark Matter?
by Prof. Aleksey Cherman, University of Minnesota
Links to slides and video on YouTube
September 2, 2020
Non-equilibrium QCD in heavy-ion collisions
by Prof. Sören Schlichting, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 26, 2020
Anomalous transport in the quark-gluon plasma
by Prof. Roy A. Lacey, Stony Brook University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 19, 2020
Separating fact from fantasy in the proton's spin: the chiral anomaly and the proton spin puzzle
by Dr. Raju Venugopalan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 12, 2020
Dense matter in the gravitational wave sky
by Prof. Charles J. Horowitz, Indiana University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
August 5, 2020
Transport and dissipation in neutron star mergers
by Prof. Mark G. Alford, Washington University in St. Louis
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 29, 2020
Chirality in Cosmology
by Prof. Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 22, 2020
Jet tomography of hot and cold nuclear matter
by Prof. Xin-Nian Wang, Central China Normal University & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 15, 2020
The smallest fluid on earth
by Dr. Björn Schenke, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 8, 2020
Quark matter in the cores of neutron stars
by Prof. Aleksi Kurkela, CERN & University of Stavanger, Norway
Link to slides and video on YouTube
July 1, 2020
Global polarization signals from hot, dense and whirly QCD matter
by Prof. Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans, Universidad de Colima, México
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 24, 2020
Hot QCD matter in magnetic fields: phase transition and permeability
by Prof. Gergely Endrődi, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 17, 2020
Dense matter in neutron stars and its role in multi-messenger astrophysics
by Prof. Sanjay Reddy, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington
Link to slides and video on YouTube
June 10, 2020
Strike for Black Lives ShutDownSTEM: no colloquium
June 3, 2020
The challenge of discovering QCD critical point
by Prof. Mikhail Stephanov, University of Illinois Chicago
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 27, 2020
Sterile neutrinos: unifying cosmology with particle physics
by Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 20, 2020
The magnetized Universe
by Prof. Tanmay Vachaspati, Arizona State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 13, 2020
Electron hydrodynamics in solids
by Dr. Pavlo Sukhachov, Nordita, Sweden
Link to slides and video on YouTube
May 6, 2020
Exotic matter produced in neutron star mergers"
by Prof. Veronica Dexheimer, Kent State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 29, 2020
Topological metals"
by Prof. Anton Burkov, University of Waterloo, Canada
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 22, 2020
Is the Feynman path integral complex enough?"
by Prof. Gökçe Başar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 15, 2020
Neutron star mergers and the origins of the heaviest elements"
by Prof. Rebecca Surman, University of Notre Dame
Link to slides
April 8, 2020
The golden age of chirality and quantum mechanics"
by Dr. Karl Landsteiner, Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Spain
Link to slides and video on YouTube
April 1, 2020
Hydrodynamization and attractors in rapidly expanding fluids
by Dr. Mauricio Martinez Guerrero, North Carolina State University
Link to slides and video on YouTube
March 25, 2020
Nature's most extreme fluid -- the quark gluon plasma
by Prof. Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Link to slides and video on YouTube
