PPC 2022: XV International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology

from Monday 6 June 2022 (07:30) to Friday 10 June 2022 (13:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022
10 Jun 2022
AM
07:30
Registration - Knight Hall Foyer (until 08:45) ()
08:45
Plenary I - Emerson Auditorium - Francesc Ferrer (Washington University in St Louis) (until 10:30) ()
08:45 Welcome Address - Brad Joliff (McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences)   ()
09:00 CMB Physics - Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)   ()
09:30 Hubble Tension - Adam Riess   ()
10:00 Reconstructing Cosmology - Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary II - Emerson Auditorium - Ramanath Cowsik (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Emergent Early-universe Cosmology - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)   ()
11:30 Cosmological Magnetic Fields - Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University)   ()
12:00 Weighing Neutrinos using Cosmology - Shun Saito (Missouri University of Science and Technology)   ()
08:30
Plenary V - Emerson Auditorium - Jim Buckley (until 10:30) ()
08:30 AMS Physics Results - Matteo Duranti (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))   ()
09:00 Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments - Rupak Mahapatra (Texas A&M University)   ()
09:30 Dark Matter Anomalies - Dan Hooper   ()
10:00 Dark Matter in SUSY: Status and Prospects - Rohini Godbole (Centre for Theoretical Studies (CTS))   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary VI - Emerson Auditorium - Manel Errando (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Strongly Interacting Dark Matter - Suchita Kulkarni (University of Graz)   ()
11:30 Line-intensity Mapping and Dark Matter - Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
12:00 Gamma-ray Astrophysics - Petra Huentemeyer   ()
08:30
Plenary VIII - Saori Pastore (until 10:30) ()
08:30 Neutrinos in Cosmological Environments - Evan Grohs   ()
09:00 Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments - Gail McLaughlin   ()
09:30 New Physics with Neutron Star Mergers - Steven Harris (Washington University in St. Louis)   ()
10:00 Supernova Physics - Alexander Friedland   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary IX - Maria Piarulli (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Sterile Neutrinos - George Fuller   ()
11:30 EFT of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Vincenzo Cirigliano   ()
12:00 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay as Probe of New Physics - Frank Deppisch   ()
08:30
Plenary X - Emerson Auditorium - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College) (until 10:30) ()
08:30 IceCube Physics Results - Brian Clark (Ohio State University)   ()
09:00 Fundamental Physics with Highest Energy Neutrinos - Abigail Vieregg (University of Chicago)   ()
09:30 Lab-based Neutrino Experiments - Kate Scholberg   ()
10:00 Neutrino Theory - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary XI - Emerson Auditorium - Shreyashi Chakdar (until 12:30) ()
11:00 New Physics at DUNE - Doojin Kim (Texas A & M University (US))   ()
11:30 Dark Unification - Clara Murgui   ()
12:00 On the Origin of Baryon and Lepton Number Violation - Pavel Fileviez Perez   ()
08:30
Plenary XIV - Emerson Auditorium - Urjit Yajnik (IIT Bombay, Mumbai) (until 10:30) ()
08:30 LHC Exotica Results - Andrew Askew (Florida State University (US))   ()
09:00 Future Colliders - Tao Han   ()
09:30 Long-lived Particles and FIMP Dark Matter - Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University)   ()
10:00 Forward Physics Facilities - Jonathan Feng (University of California Irvine (US))   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary XV - Emerson Auditorium - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University) (until 12:45) ()
11:00 New Physics with Gravitational Waves - James Dent (Sam Houston State University)   ()
11:30 Gravitational Wave Probes of Dark Matter and Leptogenesis - Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)   ()
12:00 Current Status and Future Directions in Particle Physics and Cosmology - Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University)   ()
12:40 Closing Remarks - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)   ()
PM
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
Plenary III - Emerson Auditorium - Tom Kephart (until 15:00) ()
13:30 Axion Detection Experiments - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)   ()
14:00 Axions in the Early Universe - Fabrizio Rompineve (CERN)   ()
14:30 Thermal Axions: Production Mechanisms and Cosmological Signals - Francesco D'Eramo (University of Padua)   ()
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Plenary IV - Emerson Auditorium - Shufang Su (University of Arizona) (until 17:00) ()
15:30 Electromagnetic Properties of Neutrinos - Sudip Jana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)   ()
16:00 SUSY from the String Landscape - Howard Baer   ()
16:30 How Looking At Genetics & Networks Led To Solving A Quantum Gravity Problem - Jim Gates   ()
18:00 --- Welcome Reception - Holmes Lounge ---
12:30 --- Conference Photo - Frick Atrium Stairs ---
12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
Plenary VII - Emerson Auditorium - Mike Nowak (until 15:00) ()
13:30 EHT Constraints on Theories of Gravity - Michael Wondrak (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS))   ()
14:00 Precision Higgs Physics - Shufang Su (University of Arizona)   ()
14:30 BSM Higgs Physics - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)   ()
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Parallel - Anil Thapa (University of Virginia) (until 18:00) ()
15:30 Baryon Number Violation in Neutron Stars - Mohammadreza Zakeri (University of Kentucky)   ()
15:45 Observable proton decay in Flipped SU(5) - Maria Mehmood (Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)   ()
16:00 Probing the $\nu_{R}$-philic $Z'$ at DUNE near detectors - Garv Chauhan (UCLouvain)   ()
16:15 $W$ boson mass, dark matter and $(g-2)_\ell$ in the ScotoZee neutrino mass model - Ritu Dcruz (Oklahoma State University)   ()
16:30 Correlating $W$-Boson Mass Shift with Muon ${g-2}$ Anomaly in the 2HDM - Vishnu Padmanabhan Kovilakam (Oklahoma State University)   ()
16:45 Upper bound on the smuon mass from vacuum stability in the light of muon g−2 anomaly - So Chigusa   ()
17:00 Muon g-2, Neutralino Dark Matter and Stau NLSP - Amit Tiwari   ()
17:15 Fermion masses and mixings in 3HDM with $S_3$ flavor symmetry - Shiyuan Xu   ()
17:30 Novel Manifestations of Primordial Black Holes - Volodymyr Takhistov   ()
15:30
Parallel - David Tucker-Smith (until 18:00) ()
15:30 Toponium at the LHC - Ya-Juan Zheng   ()
15:45 Cp Violating Top Yukawa at the Multi TeV Muon Collider - Morgan Cassidy (University of Washington (US))   ()
16:00 Machine-Learning quantum entanglement with top quark pair production at the LHC - Zhongtian Dong (University of Kansas)   ()
16:15 Heavy Neutral Lepton Searches at the Electron-Ion Collider - Keping Xie (University of Pittsburgh)   ()
16:30 Quarkofobic W' for LHC searches - Jose Ruiz (Universidad de Antioquia (CO))   ()
16:45 Searches for new physics in the final state $B-\tau_h-p_T^{miss}$ - Tomas Atehortua Garces (Universidad de Antioquia (CO))   ()
17:00 Multi-track Displaced Vertices at B-Factories - Albany Blackburn (Harvey Mudd College)   ()
17:15 Recent results from Belle II - Jim Cochran (Iowa State Univ.)   ()
17:30 Muon g-2 and the B-physics anomalies in RPV Supersymmetry and the discovery prospect at LHC - Fang Xu   ()
17:45 Probing dark sectors with proton bremsstrahlung - Saeid Foroughi-Abari (University of Victoria)   ()
15:30
Parallel - Arnab Dasgupta (PITT-PACC) (until 18:00) ()
15:30 Beyond Fisher Forecasting for Cosmology - Joseph Ryan (Southern Methodist University)   ()
15:45 Revisiting an Early Dark Energy model and the Hubble Tension in a non-flat Universe - Jordan Stevens (Missouri University of Science and Technology)   ()
16:00 Can Thermal Friction Thaw the Hubble Tension? - Kim Berghaus (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
16:15 A Hubble parameter estimate H0 = (73.37 ± 0.54) km/s/Mpc from the late-time Universe and the BAO - Maurice van putten (Sejong University)   ()
16:30 The impact of relative baryon-CDM perturbations on the evolution of Large-Scale Structures - Hasti Khoraminezhad (Missouri University of Science and Technology)   ()
16:45 Finding Evidence for Inflation and the Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields with CMB Surveys - Sayan Mandal   ()
17:00 Cosmological collider signatures of massive gauge bosons - Moinul Rahat   ()
17:15 Effects of a Hidden Sector On the Matter Power Spectrum - Himanish Ganjoo (North Carolina State University)   ()
17:30 What does cosmology tell us about the mass of thermal-relic dark matter? - Rui An (University of Southern California)   ()
17:45 A bound on the unparticle-photon cross section from the CMB temperature - Maryam Aghaei Abchouyeh   ()
15:30
Parallel - Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati) (until 18:00) ()
15:30 Impact of Sommerfeld Effect and Bound State Formation in Simplified t-Channel Dark Matter Models - Mathias Becker (Technical University of Munich)   ()
15:45 The Light Dark Matter eXperiment, LDMX - Robert Group   ()
16:00 Dark matter studies with the PADME experiment - Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University (US))   ()
16:15 Maximizing Direct Detection with HYPER Dark Matter - Robert McGehee   ()
16:30 The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory - Madeleine Zurowski (University of Melbourne)   ()
16:45 Optimal Pair-finding For Flow Mapping in Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers - Jacob Mclaughlin (Northwestern University)   ()
17:00 Analytic Approximations for the Velocity Suppression of Dark Matter Capture - Jillian Paulin (Colgate University)   ()
17:15 Experimental signatures of a new dark matter WIMP - Roland Allen   ()
17:30 Kaluza-Klein Portal Matter - GEORGE WOJCIK   ()
17:45 Polarized solitons in higher-spin dark matter - Mudit Jain   ()
19:00
Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Adam Riess (until 20:00) ()
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
Parallel - Peizhi Du (until 15:00) ()
13:30 Phenomenology of the Dark Matter sector in the Two Higgs Doublet Model with Complex Scalar Singlet extension - Juhi Dutta   ()
13:45 Acausality in Superfluid Dark Matter and MOND-like Theories - Neil Shah   ()
14:00 Exploring Fundamental Physics with Atmospheric Collider - Volodymyr Takhistov (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)   ()
14:15 On the construction of theories of $Sp(4)$ dark matter - Seán Mee   ()
14:30 New production mechanism for keV neutrino dark matter - Carlos Jaramillo   ()
14:45 Two-Component Dark Matter (Review) - Ali Alnafisah (King Saud University)   ()
13:30
Parallel - Vincent Rodgers (until 15:00) ()
13:30 Detecting High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Microwave Cavities - Jan Schütte-Engel   ()
13:45 Astrometric Gravitational-Wave Detection via Stellar Interferometry - Dr Michael A. Fedderke (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
14:00 Traces of a Heavy Field in Gravitational Waves - Dr Keisuke Inomata (University of Chicago, KICP)   ()
14:15 Revisiting gravitational wave background from primordial black holes - Heling Deng   ()
14:30 Gravitational Waves from Early Universe Turbulent Sources at the QCD Scale - Emma Clarke   ()
14:45 Forecasting detections of gravitational-wave tails from LIGO data - Matthew Carney   ()
13:30
Parallel - Prudhvi Bhattiprolu (University of Michigan) (until 15:00) ()
13:30 The Radio Neutrino Observatory - Greenland (RNO-G) Experiment - Cosmin Deaconu   ()
13:45 Memory-triggered supernova neutrino detection - Mainak Mukhopadhyay (Arizona State University)   ()
14:00 Hidden-Sector Neutrinos and Freeze-In Leptogenesis - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)   ()
14:15 Impact of neutrino effective NSSI on sterile neutrino dark matter production in the early universe - Ms Cristina Benso (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg)   ()
14:30 Neutrino echoes as a probe of secret neutrino interactions - Jose Carpio (Penn State University)   ()
14:45 The dark side of neutrinos - Shreyashi Chakdar   ()
13:30
Parallel - Robert Group (until 15:00) ()
13:30 Inelastic deexcitation of the Hoyle state - Lee Sobotka   ()
14:00 New Results from the Majorana Demonstrator - In Wook Kim   ()
14:15 Search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in Ge-76 in the LEGEND experiment - Valentina Biancacci   ()
14:30 Overview of nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment - Prakash Gautam   ()
14:45 The Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment at Oak Ridge National - Cameron Blake Erickson (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)   ()
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Parallel - Kim Berghaus (Stony Brook University) (until 16:45) ()
15:30 T-RAX: Transversely Resonant Axion eXperiment - Chang Lee (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   ()
15:45 Altered Axion Abundance from a Dynamical Peccei-Quinn Scale - Itamar J. Allali   ()
16:00 High-quality axions in solutions to the $\mu$ problem - Prudhvi Bhattiprolu (University of Michigan)   ()
16:15 Searching for Ultra-light Bosons with Stellar Tidal Disruption Events - Peizhi Du (Stony Brook University)   ()
16:30 Gegenschein signal from an inhomogeneous axion dark matter distribution - Takuya Okawa   ()
15:30
Parallel - Maurice Van Putten (Sejong University) (until 16:45) ()
15:30 Tachyon-Dominated Cosmology: Status Update - Prof. Ian Redmount (Saint Louis University, Department of Physics)   ()
15:45 Linking early universe transient CP violation and the electron Electric Dipole Moment - Urjit Yajnik (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)   ()
16:00 Neff constraint on portal interaction with hidden sectors - Pranjal Ralegankar   ()
16:15 Freeze-in baryogenesis via dark-matter oscillations - David Tucker-Smith (Williams College)   ()
16:30 Gravitational Wave Pathway for Testable Leptogenesis - Arnab Dasgupta (PITT-PACC)   ()
15:30
Parallel - Robert McGehee (until 16:45) ()
15:30 Probing Miracle-less WIMP Dark Matter via Gravitational Waves Spectral Shapes - Dr Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)   ()
15:45 Detecting Dark Matter around Black Holes with Gravitational Waves - Niklas Becker   ()
16:00 Scattering Amplitudes and Unitarity for Gravitationally Mediated Dark Matter in Extra Dimensions - Kirtimaan Mohan   ()
16:15 Vector Boson Dark Matter From Trinification - Anil Thapa (University of Virginia)   ()
16:30 Stasis in an Expanding Universe: A Recipe for Stable Mixed-Component Cosmological Eras - Brooks Thomas   ()
15:30
Parallel - Jim Mertens (until 16:45) ()
15:30 Projective Gauge Theory and Thomas-Whitehead Gravity - Vincent Rodgers   ()
15:45 Projective Invariance as the Foundational Principle Beneath Dark Energy and Inflation - Kory Stiffler   ()
16:00 Inflation from Dynamical Projective Connections - Catherine Whiting (Colorado Mesa University)   ()
16:15 Projective Geometry, Dark Matter Halos, and Supermassive Black Holes - Tyler Grover (The University of Iowa)   ()
16:30 Generative Adversarial Networks for Approximating the Chameleon Scalar Field - William Charles (Washington University in St. Louis)   ()
17:30 --- Excursion - Riverfront ---
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
Plenary XII - Emerson Auditorium - Mike Ogilvie (until 15:00) ()
13:30 Implications of Observable Baryon Number Violation - Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)   ()
14:00 QCD Equation of State - Claudia Ratti   ()
14:30 Muon g-2 - Martin Hoferichter   ()
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Plenary XIII - Emerson Auditorium - Gerald Cleaver (Baylor University) (until 17:00) ()
15:30 LHCb Physics Results - Manuel Franco Sevilla (University of Maryland (US))   ()
16:00 Theory Overview of Rare B-decays - Nazila Mahmoudi (CERN and Lyon University (FR))   ()
16:30 Interpreting the Flavor Anomalies - Amarjit Soni (BNL)   ()
17:30 --- Conference Dinner - Boathouse at Forest Park ---