May 8 – 10, 2023
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Plenary Program

Last update May 2, 2023.
The plenary sessions will take place both in-person at David Lawrence Hall 121 and virtually through zoom ID 93881636632 with password sent with email.

   

Monday, May 8

Tuesday, May 9

Wednesday, May 10

Chair: Graham Kribs (University of Oregon)

Chair: Ciaran Williams (University of Buffalo)

Chair: Tina Kahniashvlli (CMU)

8:40 - 8:45                                    
Welcome: Arthur Kosowsky 


8:45 - 9:20
Mario Campanelli  (ATLAS, UCL)
SM physics at the LHC

8:40 - 8:45 
Josh Sayre (Phys. Rev. D)
Physical Review Journals

8:45 - 9:20
George W.-S. Hou (National Taiwan Univ.)
Perspectives on flavor physics

 

 

8:45 - 9:20
Wren Suess (UCSC/ Stanford)
Early discoveries with JWST

9:20 - 9:55
Tova Holmes (CMS, U. of Tennessee)
Searches for new physics at the LHC

9:20 - 9:55
Conor Henderson (Cincinnati)
Physics results from LHCb

9:20 - 9:55
Carmen Carmona Benitez (LZ, PSU)
Progress and prospects in dark matter direct detection

9:55 - 10:30

C.-P. Yuan (MSU)

Bread & butter physics at the LHC
 

9:55 - 10:30
Paddy Fox (Fermilab)
Beyond-the-Standard Model theories

9:55 - 10:30
Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon)
New approaches on dark matter detection

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break

Chair: Konstantin Matchev (Florida)

Chair: Scott Watson (Syracuse)

Chair: Marc Sher (William and Mary)

11:00 - 11:35
Kaladi S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)
Theories of neutrino masses

11:00 - 11:35
Rebecca Leane (SLAC)
Astrophysical probes for BSM new physics

11:00 - 11:35
Clay Cordova (U. of Chicago)
Generalized symmetry in particle physics

11:35 - 12:10
David Caratelli (UCSB)
Experimental status of neutrino physics 

11:35 - 12:10
Lina Necib (MIT)
Unraveling Dark Matter with Gaia

11:35 - 12:10
Ben Heidenreich (UMass)
Weak gravity conjecture and particle physics

12:10 - 12:45
Ramon Winterhalder (UC Louvain, Belgium)
Machine learning for particle physics

12:10 - 12:45
Andrew Long (Rice U.)
Particle cosmology 

12:10 - 12:45
Joel Butler (FNAL)
Visions in particle physics

Lunch break until 2:15 PM

Lunch break until 2:00 PM

Symposium adjourns

1:00 - 2:00
Forum on early career development
Speaker: Kelly Stifter (Fermilab)

Panelists: Keith Dienes and Zhen Liu

 

  

2:15 - 6:30 PM
Parallel Sessions
Mini-review: Felix Yu (Mainz, Germany):
Physics with axions and axion-like particles

Mini-review: Alessandro Vicini (Milano, INFN): Understanding the W-boson mass

2:00 - 6:30 PM
Parallel Sessions
Mini-review: Ian Lewis (U. of Kansas): Higgs boson physics: an update

 

 

 

6:45 - 7:45 PM: Cocktail hour

7:45 - 10:30 PM: Symposium banquet & Pheno prize ceremony