McDonald Institute seminars bring together experimental and theoretical astroparticle physicists, and astronomers. They are held approximately fortnightly, September to November and January to March, and on an ad hoc basis outside of term.
Full abstracts and recordings are posted at
Upcoming Seminars
September 19 2024
(University of Toronto)
September 24 2024
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
October 3 2024
(Chiba University/IceCube)
October 10 2024
(Perimeter Institute)
November 7 2024
(Duke University)
November 14 2024
(York University)
Past Seminars
January 9
Marianne Moore (MIT)
On the cosmology and terrestrial signals of sexaquark dark matter
January 29
Daniel Egana Ugrinovic (Perimeter Institute)
February 12
Nathan Musoke (University of New Hampshire)
February 29 (Joint with Astro)
Ben Lehmann (MIT)
March 4
Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)
March 21
Daryl Haggard (McGill)
March 28 (Joint with Astro)
Will Thompson (MIT)
March 23 2023
Vicky Kaspi (McGill)
March 16 2023
Amy Connolly (Ohio State)
Ultra high energy neutrino detection in Antarctic ice: an evolving story
March 9 2023
Kim Berghaus (Stony Brook)
The Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation
March 2 2023
Sarah Shandera (Penn State)
Dark Black Holes
February 9 2023
Melissa Diamond (Queen's)
Finding Dark Matter in Fireballs
January 12 2023
Paschal Coyle (Centre de Physique de Particules de Marseille, France)
Fishing for neutrinos: Astroparticle and Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss
November 24 2022
(Perimeter Institute)
Semi-Visible Dark Photons
August 19 2022
Jong-Chul Park (Chungnam National University)
GLIPS: Graphene-based Light Invisible Particle Search
August 18 2022
Seodong Shin (Jeonbuk National University)
Hidden role of a sub-component dark matter
July 20 2022
Lorenzo Pagnanini (Gran Sasso)
Recent developments on cryogenic calorimeters for low-background searches
April 29 2022
Patrick Stengel (SISSA)
Neutrino point source searches for dark matter spikes
November 30 (special time 2:30 pm, contact Mark Richardson for details)
Juna Kollmeier (CITA)
SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
November 18 2021
Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon)
Solar Neutrinos: from background to signal
November 11 2021
Qinrui Liu (Â鶹ÍøÕ¾)
The Origin of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
October 28 2021
Seyda Ipek (Carleton University)
WIMP Dark Matter In An Unusual Cosmological History
October 14 2021
Chris Cappiello (Â鶹ÍøÕ¾)
Probing the landscape of heavy, strongly interacting, and composite dark matter
September 30 2021
(McGill University)
Plasmon phase space and millicharged particles
September 16 2021
Jooyoung Lee (Â鶹ÍøÕ¾)
Dark Matter Search Experiment in Korea
March 30 2021
Xavier Mougeot (CEA Saclay)
Weak interaction transitions in ionizing radiation metrology: from fundamental physics to applications
March 16 2021
(U. Chicago)
Constraining Early Dark Energy with Large Scale Structure
February 16 2021
(Forschungszentrum Jülich)
The new journey to the center of the Earth: goeneutrino measurement with Borexino
February 9 2021
Rebecca Leane (SLAC)
Dark Matter in Stars and Planets
January 26 2021
Hongwan Liu (NYU & Princeton)
Lyman-Alpha Constraints on Cosmic Heating from Dark Matter Annihilation and Decay
January 12 2021
Lina Necib (Carnegie Observatory/MIT)
Tracing Dark Matter with Stars
December 8 2020 (SPECIAL TIME: 12:00pm ET)
(Perimeter Institute)
Rethinking the origin of neutrino masses: the role of gravity
December 1 2020
Patrick Fitzpatrick (MIT)
New Pathways to the Relic Abundance of Vector-Portal Dark Matter
November 10 2020
Miguel Escudero (TU Munich)
Neutrinos in Cosmology
October 13 2020
Mehdi Shafiee (Queen’s)
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
September 29 2020
(Carleton)
Emerging Jets
September 15 2020
Pedro Machado (Fermilab)
Back to (Mass-)Square(d) One: The Neutrino Mass Ordering after NOvA and T2K recent results
March 3 2020
(University of Queensland)
Searches for dark matter and new physics with GAMBIT
February 11 2020
(York University)
The dark matter distribution from simulations and Gaia data
February 4 2020
(SLAC)
New opportunities in MeV neutrino astrophysics
January 28 2020
Carlos Vivo-Vilches (Carleton)
Accelerator mass spectrometry Survey of Trace Radionuclides for Experiments on Astroparticle physics (ASTREA)
January 27 2020
Nirmal Raj (TRIUMF)
Gravitational Microlensing of Non-baryonic Compact Objects
January 21 2020
(Johns Hopkins)
Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in Cosmology
January 7 2020
Elaine Fortes (Universidade Federal do Pampa)
October 8 2019
(Brookhaven)
Inelastic dark matter revives the dark photon explanation of the muon g-2 anomaly
October 7 2019
Björn Lehnert (LBNL)
KATRIN/neutrino masses
September 17 2019
(NYU)
Searching for Ultralight Bosons with Black holes and Gravitational Waves
July 12 2019
(IPPP, Durham University)
On the (low) threshold to new physics?
March 21 2019
(NCSU)
Vacuum decay, black holes, and extra dimensions
March 14 2019
(University of Toronto)
Dark Sectors in Electron Fixed-Target Experiments
February 28 2019
(York University)
New directions in self-interacting dark matter, from astrophysics to the lattice
February 21 2019
Djuna Croon (TRIUMF)
Gravitational Waves: a new window on the Dark and Early Universe
February 7 2019
Charlie Rasco (Oak Ridge National Lab)
January 17 2019
(Brown University)
New Gravitational Probes of Dark Matter)
November 15 2018
(Northwestern University)
November 8 2018
(Harvard)
Searching for nu physics with liquid argon detectors
October 18 2018
(Illinois)
Dark Matter In and Out of Equilibrium
October 4 2018
(Brown University)
Particle Phenomenology in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
September 27 2018
(IPPP Durham University)
Making the most of direct detection