Joseph Conlon





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This page is being edited (August 2024) to fill in the gaps below, as far as possible.

2024

Percolating Cosmic String Networks from Kination, Padua (String Pheno), 06/24
String Theory and the Early Universe: Constraints and Opportunities, Moriond Cosmology, 04/24
Space, Manor Primary School, Didcot, 01/24

2023

String Theory and the First Half of the Universe (BLACKBOARD TALK), Kings College London, 10/23
String Theory and the Early Universe, COST WISPers meeting, Bari 09/23
Physics at the End of the World, SUSY, Southampton 07/23

2022

Axions: From Angles to Particle, Oxford Morning of Theoretical Physics, 11/22
Physics At The End of the World, FPUK Meeting, Swansea, 09/22
Physics At The End of the World, Oxford Morning of Theoretical Physics, 06/22
Holographic Questions on Moduli Stabilisation, Annecy/Lyon (online), 03/22
String Theory: A Theory of What?, UIC (online), 02/22

2021

Exploring the Holographic Swampland, Swampland Seminar (online), 10/21
The Holographic Swampland, Dalitz Seminar, Oxford, 5/21

2020

2019

2018

2017

From string theory to Active Galactic Nuclei: searching for axions with X-rays, Lucca (GRC Conference), 05/17
From string theory to Active Galactic Nuclei: searching for axions with X-rays, Munich, 05/17
From string theory to Active Galactic Nuclei: searching for axions with X-rays, Oxford (theory colloquium), 05/17
String Theory and Cosmology: Ships that pass in the night, Leuven, 04/17
Searches for dark matter and axion-like particles in Active Galactic Nuclei, DESY (New Directions in String Phenomenology), 02/17
Searching for New Physics with Active Galactic Nuclei, Oxford (undergraduate physics society), 02/17
Searches for dark matter and axion-like particles in Active Galactic Nuclei, Aveiro, 01/17
Searches for dark matter and axion-like particles in Active Galactic Nuclei, Barcelona, 01/17

2016

Moduli and Axions in the X-ray Universe, Uppsala, 11/16
Status of the 3.5 keV Line, Oxford lunch seminar, 10/16
Moduli and a Cosmic Axion Background, Frankfurt (FIAS Workshop on Quantum Gravity), 09/16
Lectures on string phenomenology (blackboard), Chengdu (Summer School), 07/16
Searching for ALPs in Galaxy Clusters, ICTP Trieste (QuevedoFest), 05/16
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, Bonn (Bethe Institute), 03/16
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, Cambridge, 01/16

2015

Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, Institute for Nuclear Research, Sofia, 11/15
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, PASCOS 2015, Bonn, 07/15
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, Gordon Research Conference, Hong Kong, 06/15
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, CERN, 05/15
Dark Radiation and a Cosmic Axion Background, Sussex, 03/15
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, Copenhagen (CP3 Origins), 03/15
Making Light from the Dark Universe, Cambridge (undergraduate physics society), 02/15
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes , Portsmouth, 01/15

2014

Moduli, a 0:1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background and the Galaxy Cluster Soft Excess , Imperial, 11/14
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes , Kings College London, 11/14
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes , Daejeon, 10/14
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, DESY Theory Workshop, 09/14
Moduli Stabilisation: The Why and the What?, String Pheno 2014 (ICTP), 07/14
Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes, Johns Hopkins Workshop, 07/14
Moduli, a 0.1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background and the Galaxy Cluster Soft Excess, Princeton (Strings 2014), 06/14
A Cosmic ALP Background and Soft X-ray Excesses from Galaxy Clusters, Patras Axion Meeting (CERN), 06/14
Making Light from the Dark Universe,Oxford (undergraduates), 05/14
BICEP: Implications for Theory,Oxford (Maths Institute), 05/14
BICEP: Implications for Theory,Oxford, 04/14
Dark Radiation, The Cluster Soft Excess and a 0:1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background, Nottingham, 01/14

2013

Dark Radiation, The Cluster Soft Excess and a 0:1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background, Madrid (Christmass Meeting), 12/13
The Cluster Soft Excess, Dark Radiation and a 0:1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background, Oxford (Astrophysics Colloquium), 12/13
A 0.1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background and the Cluster Soft Excess, Sussex, 11/13
Dark Radiation, The Cluster Soft Excess and a 0:1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background, Trieste, 11/13
Dark Radiation, The Cluster Soft Excess and a 0:1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background, Heidelberg, 10/13
The Cluster Soft Excess, Dark Radiation and a 0:1 − 1 keV Cosmic Axion Background, Cambridge, 10/13
Dark Radiation and a 0.1-1keV Cosmic Axion Background, Cambridge (COSMO 2013), 09/13
Searching for a Cosmic Axion Background, DESY (String Pheno 2013), 07/13
Quantum Field Theory, Oxford Theoretical Physics Alumni Talk, 06/13
Origin and Phenomenology of Dark Radiation, Bonn (Planck 2013), 03/13
Origin and Phenomenology of Dark Radiation, Southampton, 05/13
Origin and Phenomenology of Dark Radiation, Kings London, 03/13
Dark Radiation in LARGE Volume Models, Oxford Axion Workshop, 01/13

2012

Dark Radiation in LARGE Volume Models, Hamburg, 11/12
Dark Radiation in LARGE Volume Models, Brussels, 11/12
Dark Radiation in LARGE Volume Models, Bad Honnef, 10/12
Superpotential Desequestering in String Models, Madrid, String Pheno Workshop, 09/12
Cosmophysics of the LARGE Volume Scenario I, Hokkaido, UTQuest Workshop, 08/12
Cosmophysics of the LARGE Volume Scenario II, Hokkaido UTQuest Workshop, 08/12
Quantum Gravity Constraints on Inflation (BLACKBOARD), Isaac Newton Institute, 06/12
Brane-Antibrane Backreaction in Axion Monodromy Inflation (BLACKBOARD), Uppsala (Workshop on Brane Backreaction), 05/12
Brane-Antibrane Backreaction in Axion Monodromy Inflation (BLACKBOARD), Paris, 01/12

2011

Supersymmetric Radiative Flavour (BLACKBOARD) Cambridge (Cavendish), 10/11
String Theory: Alexander or Ozymandias?, Balliol College, Oxford, 10/11
Scattering and Sequestering of Local Moduli in Local Models , Madison (String Pheno 2011), 08/11
The Large Volume Scenario: A Status Report, Stockholm, 06/11
Vacuum Destabilisation by Dense Astrophysical Objects (BLACKBOARD), Cambridge (DAMTP), 01/11
Supersymmetric Radiative Flavour (BLACKBOARD), Glasgow, 04/11
Anomaly Mediation in Superstring Theory , Puri, India (Indian Strings Meeting 2011), 01/11

2010

How Long is a Piece of String?, Oxford (TP Colloquium) 10/10,
Anomaly Mediation in Superstring Theory, Paris (String Phenomenology 2010), 07/10,
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models California Institute of Technology, 04/10
Overview of Moduli Stabilisation (BLACKBOARD), KITP Santa Barbara String Pheno Workshop, 03/10
Recent Developments in String Phenomenology Bad Honnef (XXII BSM Meeting), 03/10
Holomorphy Constraints on Local GUTs Munich, Strings and GUTs Meeting, 02/10
Aspects of Moduli in String Compactifications (BLACKBOARD), Perimeter Institute, 01/10 (mini-course of three lectures)

2009

Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models, Stockholm University, 11/09
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models, Queen Mary University of London, 11/09
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models, University of Oxford, 10/09
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models (BLACKBOARD), University of Cambridge, 10/09
String Phenomenology, EPS-HEP Conference 2009, Krakow, 07/09
Axions, WIMPs and WISPs: Top-Down Motivation, Durham-Patras Axions Workshop, 07/09
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models, PASCOS 2009, DESY, Hamburg, 07/09
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models, Warsaw, 06/09 (String Phenomenology 2009)
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models, CERN, 03/09
Large Volume and Gauge Unification, Mitchell Workshop, Texas, 03/09
Gauge Unification in Local String Models (BLACKBOARD), University of Amsterdam, 02/09
Strings and Phenomenology: Chalk and Cheese, University of Oxford, 01/09

2008

Towards Realistic String Vacua, University of Oxford, 12/08
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, IPMU, Tokyo, Japan, 11/08
Towards Realistic String Vacua (BLACKBOARD), Ecole Normale, Paris, 10/08
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, King's College London, 10/08
String Cosmology (BLACKBOARD), University of Oxford, 09/08 (two lectures, UniverseNet cosmology school)
Hyperweak Gauge Groups in LARGE Volume Models, DESY, Hamburg, 06/08
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Amsterdam, 06/08
Continuous Global Symmetries in String Compactifications, University of Pennsylvania, 06/08 (String Phenomenology 2008)
String Pheno and Moduli Stabilisation 1 2 Dublin, 05/08 (two lectures, 15th Irish QFT Meeting)
Strings and Phenomenology: Chalk and Cheese, University of Cambridge, 05/08
Phenomenological Aspects of LARGE Volume String Compactifications, University of Utrecht, 05/08
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, Texas A&M University, 04/08
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Texas at Austin, 04/08
High Scale Inflation and Low Scale Susy Breaking, University of Cambridge, 02/08
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Stockholm, 02/08
Supersymmetric Flavour Universality in String Theory,University of Michigan, 01/08

2007

Mirror Mediation, Bangalore, India, 12/07 (From Strings to LHC II)
Mirror Mediation, University of Barcelona, 12/07
Mirror Mediation, Queen Mary University of London, 11/07
Strings, SUSY and LHC, Kings College London, 11/07 (Fundamental Physics UK meeting)
Hierarchy Problems and SUSY Breaking in String Theory, CERN, Geneva, 10/07
High Scale Inflation and Low Scale Susy Breaking, University of Nottingham, 09/07
Astrophysics and Cosmology of LARGE Volume Models, ICTP, Trieste, 07/07 (Strings and Cosmology)
Sparticle Spectra from LARGE Volume String Models, Imperial College, London, 07/07 (PASCOS-07)
University of Cambridge, 06/07
Neutrino Masses in LARGE Volume Models, University of Rome, 06/07 (String Pheno 2007)
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Madrid, 05/07
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, Harvard University, 04/07
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, MIT, 04/07
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, Rutgers University, 04/07
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Pennsylvania, 04/07
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, Princeton University, 04/07
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Swansea, 03/07
Moduli and the Cosmic Photon Background, University of Nottingham, 03/07 (UK Cosmology Meeting)
Kahler Metrics for Chiral Matter, DESY, Hamburg, 02/07 (Workshop on Flux Compactifications)
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Warsaw, 02/07
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Utrecht, 02/07

2006

Kahler Metrics for Chiral Matter, Imperial College, London, 12/06
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, AEI Potsdam, 12/06
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Durham, 11/06
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Liverpool, 11/06
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory and the LARGE Volume Scenario, University of Oxford, 11/06
Soft SUSY Breaking in String Compactifications ICTP, Trieste, 10/06
Kahler Metrics for Chiral Matter, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, 10/06
University of Cambridge, 08/06 (Cambridge-Mitchell Conference)
ICTP, Trieste, 05/06 (String Vacua and the Landscape)
University of Sussex, 04/06
University of Cambridge, 03/06
Stanford University, 01/06

2005

Ohio State University, 11/05 (Strings and the Real World)
University of Cambridge, 10/05
Greater Paris String Theory Seminar, 10/05
University of Southampton, 10/05
University of Durham 10/05 (UK Cosmology Meeting)
University of Durham 07/05 (SUSY 2005)
Max-Planck-Institut, Munich 06/05 (String Phenomenology 2005)
Max-Planck-Institut, Munich 04/05
University of Sussex, 03/05
University of Cambridge, 02/05
University of Oxford, Maths Institute, 01/05