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Rabi-Fest 2022

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PSC 3150 Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Physical Sciences Building, 3rd Floor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Description
We are organizing a two-day workshop, "Rabi-Fest", to celebrate the illustrious career and many achievements in research and mentorship of Professor Rabi Mohapatra on the occasion of his retirement.  This event will take place at the University of Maryland, College Park, during October 20-21, 2022, and is being sponsored by the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics. 
 
Professor Mohapatra has made major contributions to a variety of areas in elementary particle physics. These include the theory and phenomenology of neutrino masses, understanding the origin of parity violation, solving the strong CP problem, grand unification of forces and matter, the nature and origin of dark matter, understanding the flavor puzzle, and the origin of matter in the universe.  He is one of the pioneers in the development of the seesaw mechanism that explains small neutrino masses.  He is a discoverer of left-right symmetric theories, considered to be leading candidates for physics beyond the Standard Model.  His proposal to test baryon number violation via neutron-antineutron oscillations is currently being explored experimentally.  Rabi is also the proponent of the Majoron, a massless scalar associated with spontaneous breaking of lepton number symmetry.  His two textbooks, "Unification and Supersymmetry" and "Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics" are widely used references. His 500-plus research publications can be found here.
 
Many of these topics and related issues will be discussed at the workshop.
 
This is primarily an in-person meeting, with very few exceptions for Zoom talks.

 

Due to space constraints, participation at the conference is by invitation only. However, the talks will be live-streamed via zoom. If you are interested in attending the talks online, please register and we will send you the zoom link.

 

Organizers: Kaustubh Agashe (UMD), Kaladi Babu (OSU), Zackaria Chacko (UMD), Bhupal Dev (WUSTL), Raman Sundrum (UMD), Haibo Yu (UC Riverside) 

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  • Thursday 20 October
    • 10:00 → 10:05
      Welcome Address by MCFP Director 5m
      Speaker: Raman Sundrum
    • 10:05 → 10:10
      Introduction by the Physics Chair 5m
      Speaker: Steve Rolston
    • 10:10 → 10:40
      My friendship with Rabi (and a view on a corner of BSM) [zoom] 30m
      Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri (SNS)
      Barbieri_Rabi_October_2022.pdf
    • 10:40 → 11:10
      Rabi and my (ad)venture in particle physics 30m
      Speaker: Xiangdong Ji
      rabi_ji.pdf
      rabi_ji.pptx
    • 11:10 → 11:30
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 11:30 → 12:00
      The old and the new muon g-2 puzzle 30m
      Speaker: Antonio Masiero (Univ. of Padova)
      Rabi-Fest_g-2_masiero_2022.pdf
    • 12:00 → 12:30
      Rabi and the Parity Solution to the Strong CP Problem 30m
      Speaker: Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)
      Rabi_Fest_Babu.pdf
    • 12:30 → 13:00
      Rabi’s Always Bright Inspirations 30m
      Speaker: Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)
      2022RabiFest_MCChen.pdf
    • 13:00 → 14:00
      Lunch break 1h
    • 14:00 → 14:30
      Does SUSY Like Rabi? 30m

      Professor Mohapatra is rightly celebrated as one of the originators and strongest
      proponents of 'Left-Right Symmetric Models' which predict massive neutrinos.
      There are SUSY extensions of such constructions. However, there also exists
      SUSY extensions that are intrinsically not left-right symmetric even if the spectrum
      of the propagating particles respect the symmetry. We discuss the distinction this
      make in constructing higher order operators in beyond the standard model
      constructions.

      Speaker: Jim Gates (University of Maryland)
      Gates_SUZYQ2.pdf
    • 14:30 → 15:00
      The Phenomenal Career of Rabi as a Physicist and as a Mentor [zoom] 30m
      Speaker: Jogesh Pati (SLAC)
      slides of Pati for Rabi Fest.pdf
    • 15:00 → 15:30
      Conformal extensions of the standard model [zoom] 30m
      Speaker: Manfred Lindner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
      Lindner-Rabi_Fest.pdf
    • 15:30 → 15:40
      Group Photo 10m

      Gather in the lobby outside the seminar room

    • 15:40 → 16:00
      Coffee break 20m
    • 16:00 → 16:30
      What is an axion string? 30m
      Speaker: Michael Dine
      talk_mohapatra_2022_axion_strings.pdf
    • 16:30 → 17:00
      Rabi and Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations 30m
      Speaker: Robert Shrock (Stony Brook University)
      shrock_rmf.pdf
    • 17:00 → 17:30
      Prospects of Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Search 30m
      Speaker: Yuri Kamyshkov (University of Tennessee)
      Kamyshkov 17-00 talk.pdf
      Kamyshkov 17-00 talk.pptx
    • 17:30 → 18:00
      Naturalness and Quantum Field Theories with Broken Space-Time Symmetries 30m
      Speaker: Ira Rothstein (CMU)
      Ira_Rabi-fest.pdf
    • 18:30 → 20:30
      Conference Dinner 2h

      College Park Marriott Hotel and Conference Center

  • Friday 21 October
    • 10:00 → 10:30
      The Left-Right Renaissance [zoom] 30m
      Speaker: Goran Senjanovic
      RabiFest22.pdf
    • 10:30 → 11:00
      Searches for Left-Right Symmetric Models at the LHC [zoom] 30m
      Speaker: Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University (BE))
      kskovpenLRSM.pdf
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Rabi's scenarios for neutrino mass and a "big picture" [zoom] 30m
      Speaker: Alexei Smirnov
      rabi22.pdf
    • 11:30 → 11:45
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 11:45 → 12:15
      What can 21 cm line at cosmic dawn tell us about fundamental physics? [zoom] 30m
      Speaker: Pran Nath
      RabiFest-talk-Pran_Nath.pdf
    • 12:15 → 12:45
      Neutrinos that are NOT Gone Missing [zoom] 30m
      Speaker: Tao Han
      2022-Rabi.pdf
    • 12:45 → 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 15m
    • 14:00 → 14:30
      Monopoles, Strings and Gravitational Waves 30m
      Speaker: Qaisar Shafi
      Rabifest Slides Draft.pdf
    • 14:30 → 15:00
      Solutions of MiniBooNE anomaly using Dark Sector Models 30m
      Speaker: Bhaskar Dutta
      Rabi_Fest_dutta.pdf
    • 15:00 → 15:15
      Recent work with Rabi: Unified model for solving big problems of the Standard Model 15m
      Speaker: Nobuchika Okada
      NobuOkada_Rabi-Fest_2022.pdf
    • 15:15 → 15:30
      Strong CP problem and an energy independent test of left-right symmetric model 15m
      Speaker: Ravi Kuchimanchi
      ravi-kuchimanchi-2022.pdf
    • 15:30 → 16:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:00 → 16:15
      Stellar Probes of Light Scalar 15m
      Speaker: Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)
      Dev_rabi-fest.pdf
      Dev_rabi-fest.pptx
    • 16:15 → 16:30
      Self-Interacting Dark Matter 15m
      Speaker: Haibo Yu (University of California Riverside)
      2022UMD_HBYU.pdf
    • 16:30 → 17:00
      Rabi, me and some Dark matter Tidbits 30m
      Speaker: Shmuel Nussinov (Tel Aviv)
      thumbnail_IMG_5949.jpeg
    • 17:00 → 17:15
      Reminiscences by Zoom participants 15m
      Zoom Screenshots
    • 17:15 → 17:20
      Remarks by Manju 5m
      Speaker: Manju Mohapatra
      Manju_rabifest-note.pdf
      Manju_rabifest-note.pptx
    • 17:20 → 17:30
      Remarks by Rabi 10m
      Speaker: Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)
      Fest_Rabi1.pdf
    • 17:30 → 17:35
      Vote of Thanks from Organizers 5m
      Speakers: Haibo Yu (University of California Riverside), Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University), Kaustubh Agashe, Raman Sundrum, Zackaria Chacko
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