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

from Monday, June 6, 2022 (7:30 AM) to Friday, June 10, 2022 (1:00 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 6, 2022
Jun 7, 2022
Jun 8, 2022
Jun 9, 2022
Jun 10, 2022
AM
7:30 AM
Registration - Knight Hall Foyer (until 8:45 AM) ()
8:45 AM
Plenary I - Emerson Auditorium - Francesc Ferrer (Washington University in St Louis) (until 10:30 AM) ()
8:45 AM Welcome Address - Brad Joliff (McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences)   ()
9:00 AM CMB Physics - Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)   ()
9:30 AM Hubble Tension - Adam Riess   ()
10:00 AM Reconstructing Cosmology - Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary II - Emerson Auditorium - Ramanath Cowsik (until 12:30 PM) ()
11:00 AM Emergent Early-universe Cosmology - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)   ()
11:30 AM Cosmological Magnetic Fields - Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University)   ()
12:00 PM Weighing Neutrinos using Cosmology - Shun Saito (Missouri University of Science and Technology)   ()
8:30 AM
Plenary V - Emerson Auditorium - Jim Buckley (until 10:30 AM) ()
8:30 AM AMS Physics Results - Matteo Duranti (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))   ()
9:00 AM Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments - Rupak Mahapatra (Texas A&M University)   ()
9:30 AM Dark Matter Anomalies - Dan Hooper   ()
10:00 AM Dark Matter in SUSY: Status and Prospects - Rohini Godbole (Centre for Theoretical Studies (CTS))   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary VI - Emerson Auditorium - Manel Errando (until 12:30 PM) ()
11:00 AM Strongly Interacting Dark Matter - Suchita Kulkarni (University of Graz)   ()
11:30 AM Line-intensity Mapping and Dark Matter - Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
12:00 PM Gamma-ray Astrophysics - Petra Huentemeyer   ()
8:30 AM
Plenary VIII - Saori Pastore (until 10:30 AM) ()
8:30 AM Neutrinos in Cosmological Environments - Evan Grohs   ()
9:00 AM Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments - Gail McLaughlin   ()
9:30 AM New Physics with Neutron Star Mergers - Steven Harris (Washington University in St. Louis)   ()
10:00 AM Supernova Physics - Alexander Friedland   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary IX - Maria Piarulli (until 12:30 PM) ()
11:00 AM Sterile Neutrinos - George Fuller   ()
11:30 AM EFT of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Vincenzo Cirigliano   ()
12:00 PM Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay as Probe of New Physics - Frank Deppisch   ()
8:30 AM
Plenary X - Emerson Auditorium - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College) (until 10:30 AM) ()
8:30 AM IceCube Physics Results - Brian Clark (Ohio State University)   ()
9:00 AM Fundamental Physics with Highest Energy Neutrinos - Abigail Vieregg (University of Chicago)   ()
9:30 AM Lab-based Neutrino Experiments - Kate Scholberg   ()
10:00 AM Neutrino Theory - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary XI - Emerson Auditorium - Shreyashi Chakdar (until 12:30 PM) ()
11:00 AM New Physics at DUNE - Doojin Kim (Texas A & M University (US))   ()
11:30 AM Dark Unification - Clara Murgui   ()
12:00 PM On the Origin of Baryon and Lepton Number Violation - Pavel Fileviez Perez   ()
8:30 AM
Plenary XIV - Emerson Auditorium - Urjit Yajnik (IIT Bombay, Mumbai) (until 10:30 AM) ()
8:30 AM LHC Exotica Results - Andrew Askew (Florida State University (US))   ()
9:00 AM Future Colliders - Tao Han   ()
9:30 AM Long-lived Particles and FIMP Dark Matter - Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University)   ()
10:00 AM Forward Physics Facilities - Jonathan Feng (University of California Irvine (US))   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary XV - Emerson Auditorium - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University) (until 12:45 PM) ()
11:00 AM New Physics with Gravitational Waves - James Dent (Sam Houston State University)   ()
11:30 AM Gravitational Wave Probes of Dark Matter and Leptogenesis - Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)   ()
12:00 PM Current Status and Future Directions in Particle Physics and Cosmology - Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University)   ()
12:40 PM Closing Remarks - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)   ()
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:30 PM
Plenary III - Emerson Auditorium - Tom Kephart (until 3:00 PM) ()
1:30 PM Axion Detection Experiments - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)   ()
2:00 PM Axions in the Early Universe - Fabrizio Rompineve (CERN)   ()
2:30 PM Thermal Axions: Production Mechanisms and Cosmological Signals - Francesco D'Eramo (University of Padua)   ()
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM
Plenary IV - Emerson Auditorium - Shufang Su (University of Arizona) (until 5:00 PM) ()
3:30 PM Electromagnetic Properties of Neutrinos - Sudip Jana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)   ()
4:00 PM SUSY from the String Landscape - Howard Baer   ()
4:30 PM How Looking At Genetics & Networks Led To Solving A Quantum Gravity Problem - Jim Gates   ()
6:00 PM --- Welcome Reception - Holmes Lounge ---
12:30 PM --- Conference Photo - Frick Atrium Stairs ---
12:40 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:30 PM
Plenary VII - Emerson Auditorium - Mike Nowak (until 3:00 PM) ()
1:30 PM EHT Constraints on Theories of Gravity - Michael Wondrak (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS))   ()
2:00 PM Precision Higgs Physics - Shufang Su (University of Arizona)   ()
2:30 PM BSM Higgs Physics - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)   ()
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM
Parallel - Anil Thapa (University of Virginia) (until 6:00 PM) ()
3:30 PM Baryon Number Violation in Neutron Stars - Mohammadreza Zakeri (University of Kentucky)   ()
3:45 PM Observable proton decay in Flipped SU(5) - Maria Mehmood (Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)   ()
4:00 PM Probing the $\nu_{R}$-philic $Z'$ at DUNE near detectors - Garv Chauhan (UCLouvain)   ()
4:15 PM $W$ boson mass, dark matter and $(g-2)_\ell$ in the ScotoZee neutrino mass model - Ritu Dcruz (Oklahoma State University)   ()
4:30 PM Correlating $W$-Boson Mass Shift with Muon ${g-2}$ Anomaly in the 2HDM - Vishnu Padmanabhan Kovilakam (Oklahoma State University)   ()
4:45 PM Upper bound on the smuon mass from vacuum stability in the light of muon g−2 anomaly - So Chigusa   ()
5:00 PM Muon g-2, Neutralino Dark Matter and Stau NLSP - Amit Tiwari   ()
5:15 PM Fermion masses and mixings in 3HDM with $S_3$ flavor symmetry - Shiyuan Xu   ()
5:30 PM Novel Manifestations of Primordial Black Holes - Volodymyr Takhistov   ()
3:30 PM
Parallel - David Tucker-Smith (until 6:00 PM) ()
3:30 PM Toponium at the LHC - Ya-Juan Zheng   ()
3:45 PM Cp Violating Top Yukawa at the Multi TeV Muon Collider - Morgan Cassidy (University of Washington (US))   ()
4:00 PM Machine-Learning quantum entanglement with top quark pair production at the LHC - Zhongtian Dong (University of Kansas)   ()
4:15 PM Heavy Neutral Lepton Searches at the Electron-Ion Collider - Keping Xie (University of Pittsburgh)   ()
4:30 PM Quarkofobic W' for LHC searches - Jose Ruiz (Universidad de Antioquia (CO))   ()
4:45 PM Searches for new physics in the final state $B-\tau_h-p_T^{miss}$ - Tomas Atehortua Garces (Universidad de Antioquia (CO))   ()
5:00 PM Multi-track Displaced Vertices at B-Factories - Albany Blackburn (Harvey Mudd College)   ()
5:15 PM Recent results from Belle II - Jim Cochran (Iowa State Univ.)   ()
5:30 PM Muon g-2 and the B-physics anomalies in RPV Supersymmetry and the discovery prospect at LHC - Fang Xu   ()
5:45 PM Probing dark sectors with proton bremsstrahlung - Saeid Foroughi-Abari (University of Victoria)   ()
3:30 PM
Parallel - Arnab Dasgupta (PITT-PACC) (until 6:00 PM) ()
3:30 PM Beyond Fisher Forecasting for Cosmology - Joseph Ryan (Southern Methodist University)   ()
3:45 PM Revisiting an Early Dark Energy model and the Hubble Tension in a non-flat Universe - Jordan Stevens (Missouri University of Science and Technology)   ()
4:00 PM Can Thermal Friction Thaw the Hubble Tension? - Kim Berghaus (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
4:15 PM 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)   ()
4:30 PM The impact of relative baryon-CDM perturbations on the evolution of Large-Scale Structures - Hasti Khoraminezhad (Missouri University of Science and Technology)   ()
4:45 PM Finding Evidence for Inflation and the Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields with CMB Surveys - Sayan Mandal   ()
5:00 PM Cosmological collider signatures of massive gauge bosons - Moinul Rahat   ()
5:15 PM Effects of a Hidden Sector On the Matter Power Spectrum - Himanish Ganjoo (North Carolina State University)   ()
5:30 PM What does cosmology tell us about the mass of thermal-relic dark matter? - Rui An (University of Southern California)   ()
5:45 PM A bound on the unparticle-photon cross section from the CMB temperature - Maryam Aghaei Abchouyeh   ()
3:30 PM
Parallel - Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati) (until 6:00 PM) ()
3:30 PM Impact of Sommerfeld Effect and Bound State Formation in Simplified t-Channel Dark Matter Models - Mathias Becker (Technical University of Munich)   ()
3:45 PM The Light Dark Matter eXperiment, LDMX - Robert Group   ()
4:00 PM Dark matter studies with the PADME experiment - Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University (US))   ()
4:15 PM Maximizing Direct Detection with HYPER Dark Matter - Robert McGehee   ()
4:30 PM The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory - Madeleine Zurowski (University of Melbourne)   ()
4:45 PM Optimal Pair-finding For Flow Mapping in Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers - Jacob Mclaughlin (Northwestern University)   ()
5:00 PM Analytic Approximations for the Velocity Suppression of Dark Matter Capture - Jillian Paulin (Colgate University)   ()
5:15 PM Experimental signatures of a new dark matter WIMP - Roland Allen   ()
5:30 PM Kaluza-Klein Portal Matter - GEORGE WOJCIK   ()
5:45 PM Polarized solitons in higher-spin dark matter - Mudit Jain   ()
7:00 PM
Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Adam Riess (until 8:00 PM) ()
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:30 PM
Parallel - Peizhi Du (until 3:00 PM) ()
1:30 PM Phenomenology of the Dark Matter sector in the Two Higgs Doublet Model with Complex Scalar Singlet extension - Juhi Dutta   ()
1:45 PM Acausality in Superfluid Dark Matter and MOND-like Theories - Neil Shah   ()
2:00 PM Exploring Fundamental Physics with Atmospheric Collider - Volodymyr Takhistov (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)   ()
2:15 PM On the construction of theories of $Sp(4)$ dark matter - Seán Mee   ()
2:30 PM New production mechanism for keV neutrino dark matter - Carlos Jaramillo   ()
2:45 PM Two-Component Dark Matter (Review) - Ali Alnafisah (King Saud University)   ()
1:30 PM
Parallel - Vincent Rodgers (until 3:00 PM) ()
1:30 PM Detecting High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Microwave Cavities - Jan Schütte-Engel   ()
1:45 PM Astrometric Gravitational-Wave Detection via Stellar Interferometry - Dr Michael A. Fedderke (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
2:00 PM Traces of a Heavy Field in Gravitational Waves - Dr Keisuke Inomata (University of Chicago, KICP)   ()
2:15 PM Revisiting gravitational wave background from primordial black holes - Heling Deng   ()
2:30 PM Gravitational Waves from Early Universe Turbulent Sources at the QCD Scale - Emma Clarke   ()
2:45 PM Forecasting detections of gravitational-wave tails from LIGO data - Matthew Carney   ()
1:30 PM
Parallel - Prudhvi Bhattiprolu (University of Michigan) (until 3:00 PM) ()
1:30 PM The Radio Neutrino Observatory - Greenland (RNO-G) Experiment - Cosmin Deaconu   ()
1:45 PM Memory-triggered supernova neutrino detection - Mainak Mukhopadhyay (Arizona State University)   ()
2:00 PM Hidden-Sector Neutrinos and Freeze-In Leptogenesis - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)   ()
2:15 PM 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)   ()
2:30 PM Neutrino echoes as a probe of secret neutrino interactions - Jose Carpio (Penn State University)   ()
2:45 PM The dark side of neutrinos - Shreyashi Chakdar   ()
1:30 PM
Parallel - Robert Group (until 3:00 PM) ()
1:30 PM Inelastic deexcitation of the Hoyle state - Lee Sobotka   ()
2:00 PM New Results from the Majorana Demonstrator - In Wook Kim   ()
2:15 PM Search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in Ge-76 in the LEGEND experiment - Valentina Biancacci   ()
2:30 PM Overview of nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment - Prakash Gautam   ()
2:45 PM The Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment at Oak Ridge National - Cameron Blake Erickson (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)   ()
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM
Parallel - Kim Berghaus (Stony Brook University) (until 4:45 PM) ()
3:30 PM T-RAX: Transversely Resonant Axion eXperiment - Chang Lee (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   ()
3:45 PM Altered Axion Abundance from a Dynamical Peccei-Quinn Scale - Itamar J. Allali   ()
4:00 PM High-quality axions in solutions to the $\mu$ problem - Prudhvi Bhattiprolu (University of Michigan)   ()
4:15 PM Searching for Ultra-light Bosons with Stellar Tidal Disruption Events - Peizhi Du (Stony Brook University)   ()
4:30 PM Gegenschein signal from an inhomogeneous axion dark matter distribution - Takuya Okawa   ()
3:30 PM
Parallel - Maurice Van Putten (Sejong University) (until 4:45 PM) ()
3:30 PM Tachyon-Dominated Cosmology: Status Update - Prof. Ian Redmount (Saint Louis University, Department of Physics)   ()
3:45 PM Linking early universe transient CP violation and the electron Electric Dipole Moment - Urjit Yajnik (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)   ()
4:00 PM Neff constraint on portal interaction with hidden sectors - Pranjal Ralegankar   ()
4:15 PM Freeze-in baryogenesis via dark-matter oscillations - David Tucker-Smith (Williams College)   ()
4:30 PM Gravitational Wave Pathway for Testable Leptogenesis - Arnab Dasgupta (PITT-PACC)   ()
3:30 PM
Parallel - Robert McGehee (until 4:45 PM) ()
3:30 PM Probing Miracle-less WIMP Dark Matter via Gravitational Waves Spectral Shapes - Dr Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)   ()
3:45 PM Detecting Dark Matter around Black Holes with Gravitational Waves - Niklas Becker   ()
4:00 PM Scattering Amplitudes and Unitarity for Gravitationally Mediated Dark Matter in Extra Dimensions - Kirtimaan Mohan   ()
4:15 PM Vector Boson Dark Matter From Trinification - Anil Thapa (University of Virginia)   ()
4:30 PM Stasis in an Expanding Universe: A Recipe for Stable Mixed-Component Cosmological Eras - Brooks Thomas   ()
3:30 PM
Parallel - Jim Mertens (until 4:45 PM) ()
3:30 PM Projective Gauge Theory and Thomas-Whitehead Gravity - Vincent Rodgers   ()
3:45 PM Projective Invariance as the Foundational Principle Beneath Dark Energy and Inflation - Kory Stiffler   ()
4:00 PM Inflation from Dynamical Projective Connections - Catherine Whiting (Colorado Mesa University)   ()
4:15 PM Projective Geometry, Dark Matter Halos, and Supermassive Black Holes - Tyler Grover (The University of Iowa)   ()
4:30 PM Generative Adversarial Networks for Approximating the Chameleon Scalar Field - William Charles (Washington University in St. Louis)   ()
5:30 PM --- Excursion - Riverfront ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:30 PM
Plenary XII - Emerson Auditorium - Mike Ogilvie (until 3:00 PM) ()
1:30 PM Implications of Observable Baryon Number Violation - Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)   ()
2:00 PM QCD Equation of State - Claudia Ratti   ()
2:30 PM Muon g-2 - Martin Hoferichter   ()
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM
Plenary XIII - Emerson Auditorium - Gerald Cleaver (Baylor University) (until 5:00 PM) ()
3:30 PM LHCb Physics Results - Manuel Franco Sevilla (University of Maryland (US))   ()
4:00 PM Theory Overview of Rare B-decays - Nazila Mahmoudi (CERN and Lyon University (FR))   ()
4:30 PM Interpreting the Flavor Anomalies - Amarjit Soni (BNL)   ()
5:30 PM --- Conference Dinner - Boathouse at Forest Park ---