Seminars/Events

2020 COFI Webinar series on “Advanced Instrumentation, Dark Matter and Neutrinos”

June 24, 2020 at 12:00 CST
Cosmin Deaconu (University of Chicago)
Exploring the ultra-high-energy universe with the ANITA long-duration balloon experiment

June 17, 2020 at 12:00 CST
Dr. Julieta Gruszko (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Shedding ‘Nu’ Light on the Nature of Matter:The Search for Majorana Neutrinos

April 22, 2020 at 12:00 CST
Prof. Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)
Looking for Majorana in All the Wrong Places

April 15, 2020 at 12:00 CST
Prof. Kevork N. Abazajian
Arising and demising dark matter signals on the sky, and the potential of future searches

April 8, 2020 at 12:00 CST
Stefano Profumo
What is the Dark Matter?

April 1, 2020 at 12:00 CST
Yu-Dai Tsai (Fellow at KICP, U Chicago, Fermilab)
Dark Secrets at the High-Energy Intensity Frontier: FerMINI, LongQuest, Neutrino Experiments, and Neutrino Telescopes

March 4, 2020 at 12:00 CST
Yuber Perez-Gonzalez (Northwestern, Fermilab, COFI Fellow)
The cosmic neutrino background and other possible neutrino relics

February 26, 2020 at 12:00 CST
Ivan Martinez-Soler (Northwestern, Fermilab, COFI Fellow)
Capabilities of neutrino decay on the Supernova Neutronization-Burst Flux

February 5, 2020 at 2:00 pm CST
Guillermo Fernandez Moroni and Juan Estrada (Fermilab)
Skipper-CCD and reactor neutrinos in Argentina

July 15, 2019
Lecture: The Dark Side of the Universe

March 12, 2019
Lecture: Revealing the Hidden Universe with Black Hole Mergers

March 11, 2019
Charla Magistral: “Simposio: Mujeres en la Ciencia y Tecnología”

Nov. 29, 2018 to Dec. 1, 2018
Workshop: Novel Instrumentation on Fundamental Physics : Agenda

Nov. 13, 2018
Charla Magistral:The Dawn of Gravitational-Waves Astrophysics

Oct. 26, 2018 to Oct. 28, 2018
Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Gravitational Waves : Agenda

May 21, 2018 to May 25, 2018
Workshop: Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Models Using Charged Leptons : Agenda

Summer 2017 series
Kate Scholberg (Duke University – Durham, North Carolina, USA)
Results from the COHERENT collaboration on neutrino coherent scattering : Talk

C Eric Dahl (Northwestern University – Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Low threshold liquid-noble bubble chambers : Talk

Omar Miranda (Cinvestav -Mexico City, Mexico)
Low energy neutrino phenomenology : Talk

Winter 2017 series
Kevork Abazajian (University of California, Irvine)
Theory: dark matter models from the astro theory point of view : Talk

Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University – Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Cryogenic Semiconductor Detectors for Dark Matter searches : Talk

Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University – Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Neutrino Anomalies & CEνNS : Talk

Thiago S. Gonçalves and Karín Menéndez-Delmestre (Observatório do Valongo Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter : Talk

Gianluca Cavoto Sapienza ( Univ Roma and INFN)
Directional WIMP detection R&D : Talk

Salman Habib (Argonne National Laboratory – USA)
Cosmological Simulations with HACC : Talk

October 2017

Workshop : Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Models Using Charged Leptons
*Postponed for May 2018 due to hurricane Maria*

September 2017

Seminar :  Results from the COHERENT collaboration on neutrino coherent scattering

July 2017

Seminar : Low threshold liquid-noble bubble chambers

May 2017

Seminar:  Low energy neutrino phenomenology

February 2017

Workshop: Dark Matter to Low Energy Neutrinos: Theory and Experimental Discussion

July 2016

Post Graduate Summer School: “COFI Advanced Instrumentation and Analysis Techniques Summer School

December 2015

Instituto de Cosmologia y Fisica de las Americas

HitoshiWorkshop on Gravitational Waves in “El Convento Hotel“:  Agenda

Instituto de Cosmologia y Fisica de las Americas
Visit from Prof. Hitoshi Murayama (University of California, Berkeley, USA and
Director of Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan)

In the News:  Link

May 2015

figueroa_enectaliVisit from Prof. Enectali Figueroa Feliciano (MIT)

  • Instituto de Cosmologia y Fisica de las Americas
    COFI Charla Magistral – Public lecture in UPR Medical School: Poster
  • Outreach Program – Interaction with high school students at Academia María Reina, Rio Piedras, PR

December 2014

November 2014

powerofwonderlarge1Visit from Nobel Laureate Adam Riess : Press coverage