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Joint IQ Initiative & PITT PACC Workshop: Axions, Fundamental and Synthetic

US/Eastern
Description

Workshop Goals & Scope: The search for the axion has been a rich source of interdisciplinary collaborations between high energy (HEP) and other fields of physics. As one of the most sought after particles predicted by physics beyond the Standard Model, its detection faces unique challenges as such a light and weakly interacting particle cannot be easily detected using the traditional tools of experimental HEP. To circumvent this difficulty, a number of experiments have been developed that exploit the suitability of quantum systems for axion detection. In parallel, novel materials have been identified which source axion like quasi-particle excitations. The emerging field of axion electrodynamics in magneto-electric media may have promising applications and serve as a useful playground in the search for the fundamental axion which modifies Maxwell’s equations in analogous ways. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts working on these different aspects of axion physics and foster interdisciplinary collaborations that lead to new ideas both in the search for fundamental axions and electro-dynamical effects of synthetic axions in materials.

Dates: April 6-8, 2023 (Thu. - Sat.)

Location: Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center, Carnegie Room, 100 Lytton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Organizers: Brian Batell, Amit Bhoonah, Akshay Ghalsasi, Tao Han, W. Vincent Liu, Vittorio Paolone, Hrvoje Petek

Administrator: Joni George

Confirmed Speakers: 
Prineha Narang (UCLA)
Jan Schutte-Engel (UIUC)
Jeff Dror (UC Santa Cruz)
Alex Sushkov (Boston U.)
So Chigusa (LBNL)
Tanner Trickle (Fermilab)
Surjeet Rajendran (Johns Hopkins U.)
Sang Hui Im (IBS, CTPU)
Yikun Wang (Caltech)
Junyeong Ahn (Harvard)
Suyang Xu (Harvard)
Aaron Chou (Fermilab)
Yohei Ema (U. Minnesota)
Amalia Madden (Perimeter)
Danielle Speller (Johns Hopkins U.)
Chelsea Bartram (SLAC)
Atreyie Ghosh (University of Pittsburgh)
Qiang Li (Stony Brook University & BNL)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registration
Registration
Participants
  • Aaron Chou
  • Akshay Ghalsasi
  • Alexander Sushkov
  • Amalia Madden
  • Ami Hashemi
  • Amit Bhoonah
  • Atreyie Ghosh
  • Brenda Gomez
  • Brian Thomas Batell
  • Danielle Speller
  • Hong Koo Kim
  • Hrvoje Petek
  • Jan Schutte-Engel
  • Joni George
  • Junyeong Ahn
  • Keping Xie
  • Matthew Low
  • Olivia Liebman
  • Sang Hui Im
  • Sena Yang
  • Shuyang Cao
  • So Chigusa
  • Suyang Xu
  • SWAPNIL DUTTA
  • Tanner Trickle
  • Tao Han
  • Tie-Jiun Hou
  • Tom Purdy
  • W. Vincent Liu
  • Yohei Ema
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    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Breakfast 30m
    • 9:00 AM 9:10 AM
      Welcome by the IQ Initiative Director 10m
      Speaker: Prof. W. Vincent Liu (University of Pittsburgh)
    • 9:10 AM 9:45 AM
      Axion detection via stimulated emission 35m
      Speaker: Aaron Chou
    • 9:45 AM 10:20 AM
      Vanishing of Casimir forces in axion electrodynamics 35m
      Speakers: Yohei Ema, Yohei Ema (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
    • 10:20 AM 10:55 AM
      Coffee Break 35m
    • 10:55 AM 11:30 AM
      Axionic and Phonon Polaritons for Axion Dark Matter Detection 35m
      Speakers: Jan Schütte-Engel, Jan Schütte-Engel (RWTH)
    • 11:30 AM 12:05 PM
      Axion dark matter conversion into condensed matter axion 35m
      Speakers: So Chigusa (University of Tokyo), So Chigusa
    • 12:05 PM 12:20 PM
      Discussion 15m
    • 12:20 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 1h 40m
    • 2:00 PM 2:40 PM
      The HAYSTAC Experiment 40m
      Speakers: Danielle Speller (Yale University), Danielle Speller (Johns Hopkins)
    • 2:40 PM 3:20 PM
      Axion electrodynamics and its applications to the Kerr effect in topological anti-ferromagnets (I) 40m
      Speaker: Dr Junyeong Ahn (Harvard University)
    • 3:20 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee Break 40m
    • 4:00 PM 4:40 PM
      Axion electrodynamics and its applications to the Kerr effect in topological anti-ferromagnets (II) 40m
      Speaker: Prof. Suyang Xu (Harvard University)
    • 4:40 PM 5:00 PM
      Discussion 20m
    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Breakfast 30m
    • 9:00 AM 9:35 AM
      Axion electrodynamics in strong topological insulators 35m
      Speaker: Prof. Prineha Narang (UCLA)
    • 9:35 AM 10:10 AM
      Ultrafast Imaging of Plasmonic Vortex Fields with Axion-type Response 35m
      Speaker: Atreyie Ghosh (University of Pittsburgh)
    • 10:10 AM 10:50 AM
      Coffee Break 40m
    • 10:50 AM 11:25 AM
      Detectability of axion dark matter with phonon polaritons and magnons 35m
      Speaker: Tanner Trickle (California Institute of Technology)
    • 11:25 AM 12:00 PM
      The hunt for wave-like dark matter at SLAC 35m
      Speakers: Chelsea Bartram, Chelsea Bartram (SLAC)
    • 12:00 PM 12:20 PM
      Discussions 20m
    • 12:20 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 1h 40m
    • 2:00 PM 2:35 PM
      The CASPER Experiment & future avenues for axion detection using AMO systems 35m
      Speaker: Alexander Sushkov
    • 2:35 PM 3:10 PM
      Sensitivity of spin-precession axion experiments 35m
      Speaker: Dr Jeff Dror (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    • 3:10 PM 3:50 PM
      Coffee Break 40m
    • 3:50 PM 4:25 PM
      The piezoaxionic effect 35m
      Speaker: Dr Amalia Madden (Perimenter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
    • 4:25 PM 5:00 PM
      Discussion 35m
    • 5:30 PM 9:00 PM
      Workshop Banquet 3h 30m
    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Breakfast 30m
    • 9:00 AM 9:35 AM
      Chiral fermions and the chiral magnetic effect 35m
      Speakers: Qiang Li (Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory), Prof. Qiang Li (Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    • 9:35 AM 10:10 AM
      Probing microscopic origins of axions by the chiral magnetic effect 35m
      Speaker: Dr Sang Hui Im (IBS CTPU)
    • 10:10 AM 10:50 AM
      Coffee Break 40m
    • 10:50 AM 11:30 AM
      Detection of axions with opto-mechanical cavities 40m
      Speaker: Yikun Wang (THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
    • 11:30 AM 12:05 PM
      New Direction in Axion Detection 35m
      Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran
    • 12:05 PM 12:20 PM
      Discussion 15m