Talks

DateTitleSpeakerEventLinks
22 June 2026 A Passive Detector for Observing Reactor CEvNS via Nuclear Recoil-Induced Crystal Defects (poster) Sam Hedges Neutrino 2026 - Irvine, CA
17 June 2026 Mineral Detectors for Neutrinos Patrick Stengel Virginia Tech CNP seminar
10 June 2026 Mineral Detectors for Neutrinos Patrick Stengel University of Maryland QTC group seminar
4 June 2026 Paleo-Detectors: An alternative approach to direct detection Dionysios Theodosopoulos IDM2026, Zaragoza, Spain
4 June 2026 Mineral Detectors for Neutrinos Patrick Stengel University of Delaware Particle Physics & Particle Astrophysics seminar
2 June 2026 Detection of fast and thermal neutrons with a passive crystalline detector (poster) Sam Hedges UPR 2026 - UT Knoxville
27 May 2026 Mineral Detectors for Neutrinos Patrick Stengel Johns Hopkins University HEP-ex seminar
20 May 2026 TEM Study of Heavy Ion Tracks In Olivine Hannah Ross MDDM Workshop 2026 - UM
20 May 2026 From recoils to readout: recent progress and open questions in diamond-based mineral detection Daniel Ang MDDM Workshop 2026 - UM
19 May 2026 University of Michigan Research Update: Investigation of Readout Technology and Defect Formation for Astrophysical Particle Detection Emilie LaVoie-Ingram MDDM Workshop 2026 - UM
19 May 2026 Surface Characterization of Mineral Samples Relevant for Particle Detection Rabeya Rabu MDDM Workshop 2026 - UM
19 May 2026 Can Paleo-Detectors Reconstruct Dark Matter Mass and Interactions? Dionysios Theodosopoulos MDDM Workshop 2026 - UM
18 May 2026 Updates on the VT mesoSPIM Sam Hedges MDDM Workshop 2026 - UM
18 May 2026 Data analysis and machine learning for mesoSPIM imaging of color centers from nuclear recoils in LiF Patrick Stengel MDDM Workshop 2026 - UM
8 May 2026 Poster: Tracking Dark Matter in Minerals using Electron Diffraction Andre Peterson 2026 UNF Materials Symposium
17 April 2026 Investigating Track Formation and Morphology in Paleo-Detectors: Research Updates from the University of Michigan Emilie LaVoie-Ingram MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
17 April 2026 Progress Towards Paleo-Detectors at the University of Michigan Hannah Ross MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
17 April 2026 Progress Towards Paleo-Detectors at the University of Michigan: Ion tracks creation and characterization Kai Sun MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
16 April 2026 Probing WIMP-Nucleon Effective Interactions with Paleo-Detectors Dionysios Theodosopoulos MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
15 April 2026 Mineral Detectors for Neutrinos Patrick Stengel MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
15 April 2026 Surface Characterization of Mineral Samples Relevant for Particle Detection Chris Kelso MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
14 April 2026 Directional Dark Matter Detection and Beyond: Diamond as a Platform for Mineral Detectors Daniel Ang MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
14 April 2026 Imaging nuclear recoil damage in minerals with light-sheet microscopy Sam Hedges MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
14 April 2026 Calorimetric vs track readout of paleo detectors Patrick Huber MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
14 April 2026 Color center defect optical properties and formation dynamics in materials for dark matter detection Vsevolod Ivanov MDvDM 2026 - KIT (Germany)
19 March 2026 Ancient Minerals as Paleo-Detectors: The search for high-throughput, nanometer-scale microscopy for the frontier of neutrino and dark matter detection Emilie LaVoie-Ingram APS Global Physics Summit March 2026
19 March 2026 Imaging nuclear recoils with light-sheet microscopy Sam Hedges APS Global Physics Summit March 2026
19 March 2026 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Paleodetectors Audrey Wu APS Global Physics Summit March 2026
18 March 2026 Ancient Minerals as Dark Matter Detectors Hannah Ross APS Global Physics Summit March 2026
28 January 2026 NSF GCR MDDM: University of Michigan Research Update Emilie LaVoie-Ingram MDDM Mini Workshop 2026 - online
12 December 2025 Imaging nuclear recoils with light-sheet microscopy at VT Sam Hedges VT CNP Day 2025
9 December 2025 Searching for Dark Matter…in Rocks Sam Hedges VT Postdoc Seminar Series
4 December 2025 Imaging nuclear recoils with light sheet fluorescence microscopy Sam Hedges Yale NPA Seminar
1 December 2025 Strain and Defect Engineering of One-Dimensional TiS3 and NbS3 Materials Toward Single-Photon Emission Jordan Chapman MRS Fall 2025
1 December 2025 Insights from Defect Databases for the Design of Color Centers for Quantum Technology Vsevolod Ivanov MRS Fall 2025
27 November 2025 Nuclear recoil detection with color centers in bulk lithium fluoride Patrick Stengel IJS-FMF High Energy Physics seminar (Slovenia)
5 November 2025 Progress in Directional Dark Matter Detection Using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond Daniel Ang Center for Neutrino Physics Seminar, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1 November 2025 Poster: Tracking Dark Matter in Minerals using EBSD Andre Peterson 2025 Physics and Astronomy Congress (SPSCon)
30 October 2025 Nuclear recoil detection with color centers in bulk lithium fluoride Patrick Stengel Neutrino Physics and Machine Learning 2025 conference (Japan)
24 October 2025 Tailor-made Color Centers for Quantum Technologies using Insights from Defect Databases Vsevolod Ivanov 2025 SESAPS Meeting
23 October 2025 Poster: First-principles Calculations of Random 1D Nitrogen Vacancy Spin Chains in Diamond Makena Kaiman 2025 SESAPS Meeting
23 October 2025 Poster: Database of Silicon Color Center Defects and Analysis via Graph Neural Networks Pete Downey 2025 SESAPS Meeting
19 October 2025 Imaging nuclear recoils with light-sheet microscopy Sam Hedges APS Division of Nuclear Physics 2025
19 October 2025 Characterization of Radiation Induced Color Centers in Lithium Fluoride (poster) Abhiram Sharma APS Division of Nuclear Physics 2025
8 October 2025 Imaging nuclear recoils with light sheet microscopy Sam Hedges Coordinating Panel on Advanced Detectors 2025
23 September 2025 Nuclear recoil detection with color centers in bulk lithium fluoride Patrick Stengel AI 4 Science 2025 conference (Slovenia)
9 September 2025 Searching for Cosmic Particles in Rocks! (poster) Sam Hedges Flip-the-Fair 2025, Roanoke VA
8 September 2025 Progress in Directional Dark Matter Detection Using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond Daniel Ang HEP - Astro Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
27 August 2025 Nuclear recoil detection with color centers in bulk lithium fluoride. Patrick Huber University of Maryland QTC group seminar
26 August 2025 Paleo-Detecors: A new Endeavor for Dark Matter Detection Dionysios Theodosopoulos Corfu2025-Workshop on Standard Model and Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 2025
5 August 2025 Using Ancient Rocks to Look for Neutrinos and Dark Matter Josh Spitz REU Seminar, University of Michigan
10 June 2025 Nuclear recoil detection with color centers in bulk lithium fluoride. Patrick Huber Magnificent CEvNS - Rio De Janeiro (Brazil)
1 June 2025 Dark Matter Katie Freese From Puzzles to New Insights in Fundamental Physics, Campagna, Italy, June 2025
27 May 2025 Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter Patrick Stengel University of Hawaii at Manoa HEP Seminar
23 May 2025 Mineral Detectors on the Moon Patrick Stengel MDvDM 2025 - JAMSTEC (Japan)
23 May 2025 Advanced Microscopy Study of Tracks in Natural and Synthesized Quartz Kai Sun MDvDM 2025 - JAMSTEC (Japan)
22 May 2025 Update of mineral detection efforts at the University of North Florida Chris Kelso MDvDM 2025 - JAMSTEC (Japan)
22 May 2025 Nuclear recoil detection with color centers in bulk lithium fluoride. Patrick Huber MDvDM 2025 - JAMSTEC (Japan)
21 May 2025 Atmospheric Neutrino and Dark Matter Detection with Paleo-Detectors at the University of Michigan Emilie LaVoie-Ingram MDvDM 2025 - JAMSTEC (Japan)
20 May 2025 Towards Quantum Sensing for Directional Dark Matter Detection Using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond Daniel Ang MDvDM 2025 - JAMSTEC (Japan)
20 May 2025 Surrogate sample preparation with neutron irradiation Igor Jovanovic MDvDM 2025 - JAMSTEC (Japan)
20 May 2025 First-principles screening of mineral candidates for dark matter detection with the PALEOCCENE technique Vsevolod Ivanov MDvDM 2025 - JAMSTEC (Japan)
16 May 2025 Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter Patrick Stengel Majorana-Raychaudhuri Seminar (Italy)
15 May 2025 Poster: First Principles Calculations of Nitrogen Vacancy Center Properties Abigail Vancoevering VT Physics Departmental Poster Session
6 May 2025 Using Ancient Rocks to Look for Neutrinos and Dark Matter Josh Spitz 10th LCTP Spring Symposium: Hunting for Particle Dark Matter, University of Michigan
13 April 2025 Digging Up Dark Matter with Paleo-Detectors Emilie LaVoie-Ingram University of Michigan Saturday Morning Physics
4 April 2025 Mineral Detection of Dark Matter and Neutrinos Chris Kelso 2025 UNF Materials Symposium
20 March 2025 Atmospheric Neutrino and Dark Matter Detection with Ancient Minerals Emilie LaVoie-Ingram APS Global Physics Summit March 2025
19 March 2025 First Principles Simulation of Color-Center Defects in Lithium Fluoride for Sensing Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils Mariano Guerrero-Perez APS Global Physics Summit March 2025
19 March 2025 LDA+Gutzwiller approach for treating correlated electrons in color center defects Benjamin Burdick APS Global Physics Summit March 2025
18 March 2025 Towards Quantum Sensing for Directional Dark Matter Detection Using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond Daniel Ang APS Global Physics Summit March 2025
13 March 2025 Mineral Detection of Dark Matter and Neutrinos Chris Kelso The Search for New Physics: Leaving No Stone Unturned
1 March 2025 Paleodetectors: Ancient Minerals from Deep Underground”, Los Angeles, CA, March 2025 Katie Freese UCLA Dark Matter 2025: the 15th Symposium, March 2025
11 February 2025 Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter Patrick Stengel SLAC FPD Seminar
16 January 2025 Materials Selections for DM/Neutrinos Detections Kai Sun MDDM Workshop 2025 - Virginia Tech
16 January 2025 First-principles Spin and Optical Properties of Vacancy Clusters in Lithium Fluoride Vsevolod Ivanov MDDM Workshop 2025 - Virginia Tech
15 January 2025 Paleo-Detector Research at the University of Michigan Emilie LaVoie-Ingram MDDM Workshop 2025 - Virginia Tech
15 January 2025 Mineral Detectors on the Moon Patrick Stengel MDDM Workshop 2025 - Virginia Tech
14 January 2025 Defect Formation: Dynamics Vsevolod Ivanov MDDM Workshop 2025 - Virginia Tech
14 January 2025 Dark Matter: Direct (Mineral) Detection Patrick Stengel MDDM Workshop 2025 - Virginia Tech
14 January 2025 Dark Matter: Direct (Mineral) Detection Chris Kelso MDDM Workshop 2025 - Virginia Tech
13 January 2025 Defect Formation: Energy & Equilibrium Vsevolod Ivanov MDDM Workshop 2025 - Virginia Tech
4 December 2024 Searching for proton decay with paleo-detectors Patrick Stengel DISCRETE 2024 conference (Slovenia)
31 October 2024 Quantum Sensing with Diamond Defects: From Navigation to Dark Matter Detection Daniel Ang Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, MD - invited talk
28 October 2024 Unearthing Earth's Past With Paleo-Detectors: Novel Methods for Atmospheric Neutrino and WIMP Detection Emilie LaVoie-Ingram SNOLab Invited Seminar
16 October 2024 Crazy Ideas in Neutrino Physics (and Making Them Happen) Josh Spitz Physics Department Colloquium, University of Michigan
12 July 2024 Towards a Prototype Paleo-Detector for Supernova Neutrino and Dark Matter Detection Emilie LaVoie-Ingram 17th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (Italy)
1 July 2024 Concluding Theory Talk of the Conference Katie Freese International Dark Matter Meeting (IDM2024), L'Aquila, Italy, July 2024
16 May 2024 Poster: First Principles Simulation of Color-Center Defects in Lithium Fluoride for Sensing Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils Mariano Guerrero-Perez 2024 Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science
16 May 2024 Poster: AB INITIO PROPERTIES OF COLOR CENTER DEFECTS FOR MINERAL DETECTION OF DARK MATTER Pranshu Bhaumik 2024 Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science
30 April 2024 Using Ancient Rocks to Look for Atmospheric Neutrinos Josh Spitz High Energy Physics Seminar, Michigan State University
19 April 2024 Using Ancient Rocks to Look for Atmospheric Neutrinos Josh Spitz Particle Physics Seminar, Wayne State University
11 April 2024 Using Ancient Rocks to Look for Atmospheric Neutrinos Josh Spitz Society of Physics Students Seminar, University of Michigan
10 January 2024 Imaging Atmospheric Neutrinos with Paleo-detectors Josh Spitz MDvDM 2024 - Virginia Tech (DC)
9 January 2024 Towards a Prototype Paleo-Detector for Supernova Neutrino and Dark Matter Detection Emilie LaVoie-Ingram MDvDM 2024 - Virginia Tech (DC)
9 January 2024 Progress in directional DM detection with quantum diamond sensors Daniel Ang MDvDM 2024 - Virginia Tech (DC)