WHAT IS ʋ? INVISIBLES12 and Alexei Smirnov Fest

11 Jun 2012, 08:00 → 13 Jul 2012, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)

Belén Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham)

This is the kick-off meeting of the FP7 funded Initial Training Network Invisibles, which focuses on Neutrino and Dark Matter phenomenology and their connection.      This event is also the first thematic workshop organized in the context of the project.

Monday, 11 June

12:00 → 12:30 Brane, Bulk and Superluminal Travel

Convener: Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

slides GALILEO_talk_(Weiler).pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Vectorlike matter and grand unification

Convener: Borut Bajc (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)

slides firenze_(bajc).pdf

Tuesday, 12 June

12:00 → 12:30 Perturbations to mu-tau symmetry in neutrino mixing

Convener: Danny Marfatia (University of Kansas)

slides Marfatia.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Coherence of Supernova Supernova

Convener: Joern Kersten (University of Hamburg)

slides CoherenceSN.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 GLOBES

Invisibles ITN Training Lecture

Convener: Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

slides Huber_GLOBES.pdf

Wednesday, 13 June

12:00 → 12:30 Reactor neutrino fluxes

Convener: Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

12:30 → 13:00 Can heavy neutrinos dominate neutrinoless double beta decay?

Convener: Jacobo Lopez Pavon (Durham University)

slides neutrinoless_LopezPavon.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 GLOBES

Invisibles ITN Training Lecture

Convener: Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

slides Huber_GLOBES.pdf

Thursday, 14 June

11:30 → 12:00 What is nu? news from cosmology

Convener: Raul Jimenez (ICC, Barcelona)

slides GGI2012.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Fermionic dark matter via Higgs portal

Convener: Laura Lopez-Honorez (MPI Heidelberg)

slides GGI12-LLH.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 GLOBES

Invisibles ITN Training Lecture

Convener: Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

slides Huber_GLOBES.pdf

Friday, 15 June

11:30 → 12:00 Probing non-standard properties with dark matter detectors

Convener: Maxim Pospelov (Perimeter Institute, University of Victoria)

slides pospelov.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Fingerprinting Dark Energy: distinctive marks of viscosity

Convener: Elisabetta Majerotto (UAM and IFT)

slides GGI.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Standard Model ++

Convener: Luis Anchodorqui (Northwestern University)

slides GGI_Anchordoqui.pdf

Monday, 18 June

11:30 → 12:00 Neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles

Convener: Prof. Cecilia Lunardini (University of Washington - Seattle)

slides Lunardini.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Pseudo Nambu-Goldstone

Convener: Michele Frigerio (IFAE, UAB, Barcelona)

slides Frigerio.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Quark and Lepton Flavour

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Boris Kayser

slides Kayser_18_June.php.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 Nus in Astroph and Cosmology

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Dr Georg Raffelt (Max Planck Institut fuer Physik)

slides raffelt1.pdf

Tuesday, 19 June

11:30 → 12:00 New Physics Beyond Flavour Dogmas

Convener: Gustavo Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico)

slides Branco.php.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 On the Potential of Lepton Minimal Flavour Violation

Convener: Rodrigo Alonso (UAM)

slides Alonso.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 A SUSY SU(5) x T’ Unified Model of Flavour with large θ13

Convener: Aurora Meroni (INFN- SISSA)

slides Meroni.php.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Quark and Lepton Flavour

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Boris Kayser

slides Kayser_18_June.php.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 Nus in Astroph and Cosmology

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Dr Georg Raffelt (Max Planck Institut fuer Physik)

slides raffelt2.pdf

Wednesday, 20 June

11:30 → 12:00 Do the recent neutrino oscillation, LHC and Fermi results indicate a framework?

Convener: Dr Martti Raidal (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))

slides Raidal.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Lepton Mixing and Lepton Flavour Violation in Holographic Composite Higgs

Convener: Claudia Hagedorn (INFN, Section of Padua)

slides Hagedorn.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 S_3 and the angle θ13

Convener: Dr Liliana Velasco-Sevilla (University of Minnesota)

slides Velasco_Liliana.php.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Quark and Lepton Flavour

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Boris Kayser

slides GGI1206-2.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 BSM and GUTs

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Andrea Romanino (SISSA)

slides romaninoGGI.pdf

Thursday, 21 June

11:30 → 12:00 Some comments on the flavor mix and magnitude of High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino fluxes

Convener: sandip pakvasa (university of hawaii)

slides GGIFlorence_june_2012.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 The von Dyck symmetries and mixing

Convener: Daniel Hernandez

slides D_Hernandez.php.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 A large reactor mixing angle from Flavor models

Convener: Martin Spinrath (INFN- SISSA)

slides GGI12_Spinrath.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Nus in Astroph and Cosmology

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Dr Georg Raffelt (Max Planck Institut fuer Physik)

slides raffelt3.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 BSM and GUTs

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Andrea Romanino (SISSA)

slides romaninoGGI.pdf

Friday, 22 June

11:30 → 12:00 Neutrino cosmology

Convener: Haim Goldberg (Northwestern U)

slides GGI_goldberg_jun22b.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Theoretical uncertainties in diffuse gamma-ray constraints on dark matter

Convener: Steve Blanchet (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

slides Blanchet.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 New physics effects in neutrino fluxes from cosmic accelerators

Convener: Mehta Poonam (University of Delhi)

slides Poonam.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Detectors for Neutrino Physics

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Dr Adam Para (Fermilab)

slides Para_2012.pdf Para_2012.pptx

16:30 → 17:30 Detectors for Neutrino Physics

Invisibles ITN Training
Lectures

Convener: Dr Adam Para (Fermilab)

slides Para_2012.pdf Para_2012.pptx

Sunday, 24 June

09:30 → 09:50 General network

Convener: Belen Gavela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

09:50 → 10:25 EU nodes overview/Madrid premeeting resume

Convener: Pascoli Silvia (University of Durham)

slides EUNodes.pdf

10:25 → 10:50 YS: Cosmological bounds on neutrino masses

Convener: Jordi Salvado

slides Salvado_Jordi.pdf

10:50 → 11:00 Columbia Univ./XENON node

Laura Baudis on behalf of Elena Aprile

Convener: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

slides columbia_node.pdf

11:30 → 11:45 Tokyo (ICCR-IPPMU) Node

Convener: Pilar Hernandez (Universidad de Valencia)

slides GGI-Kajita-1206.pdf

11:45 → 12:10 DM detection in a Radiative Neutrino Mass Model

Convener: Takashi Toma

slides Takashi_Toma.pdf

12:10 → 12:25 Harvard Node

Convener: Belen Gavela (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

slides Harvard_node_of_Invisibles.pdf

12:25 → 12:40 CERN Node

Convener: Dr Elena Wildner (CERN)

slides Elena_Wildner.pdf

12:40 → 13:00 Fermilab Node

Convener: Stephen Parke (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

slides GGI_invisibles_(parke).pdf

14:15 → 14:40 Ring-like and aberration patterns in directional dark matter detection

Young Scientist

Convener: Nassim Bozorgnia (UCLA)

slides GGI12-Bozorgnia.pdf

14:40 → 14:55 Delhi Node

Convener: Brajesh Choudhary (University of Delhi)

slides GGI-Invisibles-DELHI.pdf

14:55 → 15:10 HRI Node

Convener: Sandhya Choubey (Harish Chandra Research Institute)

slides Sandhya_Choubey.pdf

15:10 → 15:35 Neutrino Physics from recent Cosmological data

Young Scientist

Convener: maria archidiacono (university of rome "La Sapienza")

slides Archidiacono_ggi.pdf

15:35 → 15:50 Colombia Node

Convener: Martha Alice Losada (Universidad Antonio Narino (CO))

slides Marta_Losada_GGI.pdf

15:50 → 16:05 Sao Paulo Node

Convener: Renata Zukanovich (Universidade de Sao Paulo)

slides SaoPauloNode.pdf

16:30 → 16:55 Interacting dark matter contribution to the Galactic 511 keV gamma ray emission

Young Scientist

Convener: Aaron Vincent

slides AaronVincent-GGI.pdf

16:55 → 17:10 Iran Node

Convener: Yasaman Farzan (Unknown)

slides Farzan_GGI.pdf

17:10 → 17:35 Interplay between direct detection and collider for neutralino dark matter

Young Scientist

Convener: Giorgio Arcadi

slides Arcardi-GGI.pdf

17:35 → 17:55 Medialab: Communication in Science

Convener: Enrico Maria Balli (Sissa Medialab)

slides Balli-GGI.pdf

Monday, 25 June

09:50 → 10:00 Conference presentation

Convener: Belen Gavela (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

slides Gavela_GGI_25-06-12.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Exp. review-accelerators

Convener: Chris Walter (Duke University)

slides Walter_GGI.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Exp. review- reactors

Convener: Yifang Wang (Daya Bay)

slides Wang-GGI.pdf Wang-GGI.ppt

11:30 → 12:00 Review of global fits

Convener: Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))

slides schwetz-GGI.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Theoretical implications of Theoretical implications of Theoretical implications of large θ13

Convener: Steve King (University of Southampton)

slides King_GGI.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Physics of Neutrino Oscillations and Flavour Conversion I

Invisibles ITN Training Lecture

Convener: Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)

0 Smirnov1.pdf Smirnov1.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Phenomenological implications of large θ13 : CP and hierarchy

Convener: Enrique Fernandez Martinez

slides Fernandez-Martinez_GGI.pdf

15:30 → 15:55 Experimental status of LSND and reactor anomalities, and future prospects for sterile neutrino searches

Convener: Steve Brice (Fermilab)

slides Brice_LSND_Reactor.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Very Low-energy seesaw and perspective on sterile neutrinos

Convener: Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

slides Gouvea_GGI.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 The challenges and opportunities of future LBL facilities

Conveners: Dr Elena Wildner (CERN), Stephen Parke (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

slides

• Parke-GGI.pdf
• Questions_GGI.pdf
• Wildner_GGI.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Smirnov Fest Reception

Tuesday, 26 June

10:00 → 10:30 Exp. review on neutrinoless double beta decay*

Convener: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

slides baudis_doublebeta_review.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Exp. review on LHC data*

Convener: Andrew J Lankford (University of California, Irvine)

slides Lankford.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Tests of neutrino masses at the LHC*

Convener: Mu-Chun Chen (University of California/Irvine)

slides GGI2012-MCChen.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 A(4), θ13 and CP violation

Convener: Ernest Ma (University of California/Riverside)

slides Ma_ggi_nu.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Neutrinos, GUTs and the early Universe

Convener: Prof. Stefan Antusch (University of Basel)

slides Antusch_GGI_Invisibles_2012.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Physics of Neutrino Oscillations and Flavour Conversion II

Invisibles ITN Training Lecture

Convener: Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)

slides ggi1a.pdf ggi1a.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Neutrinos and extra dimensions*

Convener: renata zukanovich funchal (Universidade de São Paulo)

slides Zukanovich_Funchal_2.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Uncovering Multiple CP Violating Mechanisms of bb0nu-Decay

Convener: Prof. Serguey Petcov (SISSA)

slides PetcovGGI260612.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Exp. review on LFV

Convener: Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka University)

slides GGI2012-KUNO.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 LFV- theory

Convener: Ana Teixeira (LPC Clermont- Ferrand)

slides AnaTeixeira.ITN.2012.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Neutrino Flavour Models and Impact on LFV

Convener: Mr Luca Merlo (Technische Universitat Munchen)

slides Merlo.pdf

Wednesday, 27 June

10:00 → 10:30 Review on DM searches

Convener: Marc Schumann (University of Zurich)

slides ggi_schumann.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 The saga of light WIMPS in direct dark matter searches

Convener: Graciela Gelmini

slides GGI-2012.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 DM in BSM theories

Convener: Laura Covi (DESY)

slides Covi-BSM-DM-nu.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Review on Asymmetric Dark Matter

Convener: Mr Mattias Blennow (Royal Institute of Technology)

slides blennow_florence_2012_ADM.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Sterile Neutrinos as warm Dark Matter

Convener: Prof. Manfred Lindner (Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

slides Lindner.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Physics of Neutrino Oscillations and Flavour Conversion III

Invisibles ITN Training Lecture

Convener: Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)

15:00 → 15:30 Sterile neutrinos: the dark side of the light fermions

Convener: Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)

slides kusenko.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 When Astrophysics starts to constrain the Supersymmetric parameter space: what is left for the neutralino?

Convener: Celine Boehm (LAPP-Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules ()

slides Boehm.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Inflation and Right-Handed Sneutrino as Thermal Dark Matter

Convener: Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester)

slides Pilaftsis.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 The four basic ways of creating dark matter through a portal

Convener: Thomas Hambye (Univ. L. Brussels)

slides Hambye.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 DM via the Higgs portal

Convener: Oleg Lebedev (Unknown)

slides Lebedev.pdf

Thursday, 28 June

09:45 → 10:00 Title to be confirmed

Convener: Michele Frigerio (IFAE, UAB, Barcelona)

10:00 → 10:30 Past, Present and Future of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Convener: Yoichiro Suzuki (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Univ. of Tokyo)

slides suzuki.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Paradoxes of Neutrino Oscillations

Convener: Evgeny Akhmedov (Max-Plank-Insitut fuer Kernphysik)

slides Akhmedov.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 UHE cosmic neutrinos: failures and hopes

Convener: Venya Berezinsky (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

slides Berezinsky.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Collective neutrino flavour oscillations

Convener: Dr Georg Raffelt (Max Planck Institut fuer Physik)

slides raffelt.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Supernova Neutrinos

Convener: Amol Dighe (Unknown)

slides Dighe.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Sterile Neutrinos

Convener: Michele Maltoni (Unknown)

slides seminar-maltoni.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Solar neutrinos and neutrino physics in Brazil

Convener: Pedro De Holanda (Unicamp)

slides PedrodeHolanda.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Flavour structure from the seesaw

Convener: Michael Schmidt (The University of Melbourne)

slides MichaelSchmidt.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Neutrino Oscillation and Neutrino Velocity

Convener: Hisakazu Minakata (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

slides minakata.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Neutrino mass models – an S0 (10) perspective

Convener: Rabindra Mohapatra (U. MD)

slides Rabi.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Brief remarks and conclusions

Convener: Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)

slides ALEXEIcombined.pdf smirnov.pdf

Friday, 29 June

10:00 → 10:30 Exp. Cosmology update

Convener: Licia Verde (ICC)

slides verde.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Review on ν masses from cosmology

Convener: Alessandro Melchiorri (Univ. Roma I La Sapienza)

slides Melchiorri_2.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Cosmological lepton asymmetry

Convener: Sergio Pastor (IFIC Valencia)

slides pastor.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Leptogenesis confronting neutrino data

Convener: Pascuale Di Bari (University of Southampton)

slides Pascuale_Di_Bari.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Physics of Neutrino Oscillations and Flavour Conversion IV

Invisibles ITN Training Lecture

Convener: Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)

slides smirnov.pdf smirnov.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Constraining Neutrinos With BBN and the CMB

Convener: Gary Steigman (Ohio State University)

slides steigman.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Using neutrino telescopes to learn about particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology

Convener: Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)

slides mocioiu.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Sterile neutrinos in Icecube

Convener: Sandhya Choubey (Harish Chandra Research Institute)

slides Sandhya_Choubey.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Superluminal Nus

Convener: Andrew Cohen (Unknown)

slides cohen.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Discussion/Conclusions

Convener: Boris Kayser

slides kayser.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Di che cosa è fatto l’universo?

Public Lecture

Convener: Graciela Gelmini

slides MO-Firenze-it-compressed.pdf

Monday, 2 July

11:30 → 12:00 MFV in the leptonic sector with two Higgs doublets

Convener: Margarita Rebelo (IST/Technical University of Lisbon)

slides mnrneutrinosGGI12.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts, and tests of the cosmic ray paradigm

Convener: Walter Winter (Wurzburg University)

slides 1207SeminarGGI.pdf 1207SeminarGGI.ppt

16:00 → 17:00 CONNECTION TO FERMILAB: UPDATE ON THE HIGGS SEARCH

slides ejames_jul02_wine_cheese.pdf wfisher_HiggsWC2012_v4.pdf

Tuesday, 3 July

11:30 → 12:00 Neutrino searches with the Auger Observatory

Convener: Esteban Roulet (Centro Atómico Bariloche)

slides ggi_roulet.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Neutrino mass models and sizable theta_13

Convener: Christoph Luhn (University of Durham)

slides luhn-ggi.pdf

Wednesday, 4 July

09:00 → 12:00 CONNECTION TO CERN: UPDATE ON THE HIGGS SEARCH

Discussion Session led by Brajesh
Choudhary (Univ. of Delhi) / /Marta
Losada (UAN,
Colombia)

Thursday, 5 July

11:30 → 12:00 News about $nu$s

Convener: Elisabeth Jenkins

slides Jenkins.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Minimal 3+2 neutrino model versus oscillation anomalies

Convener: Hernandez Pilar (Valencia Univ./IFIC)

slides Hernandez_P.pdf

Friday, 6 July

11:30 → 12:00 Neutrino wakes in LSS

Convener: Carlos Peña Garay (IFIC/Universidad de Valencia)

12:00 → 12:30 Neutrino masses and TeV scale: going beyond the tree-level d=5 operator

Convener: florian Bonnet (INFN Sezione di Padova)

slides Bonnet_GGI.pdf

Monday, 9 July

11:30 → 12:00 Beyond dark matter detection with neutrino telescopes

Convener: Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (IST)

slides GGI12_PalomaresRuiz.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 The Majorana bubble. Dreams, propaganda in facts in bbonu landscape

Convener: Juan Jose Gomez Cadenas (Universidad de Valencia (ES))

slides Firenze2012_(gomez_cadenas).pdf

Tuesday, 10 July

11:30 → 12:00 Electroweak corrections for the LHC

Convener: Aneesh Manohar (UCSD)

slides AM_GGI.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Strong Higgs dynamics with MFV

Convener: Juan Yepes (Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC)

slides GGI_2012-Juan_Yepes.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Flavor symmetries - finding tests and alternatives

Convener: Henrich Paes (TU Dortmund)

slides GGI_(paes).pdf

Wednesday, 11 July

11:30 → 12:00 Gauge field as a dark matter candidate

Convener: Yasaman Farzan (Unknown)

slides Florence-meeting_(farzan).pdf

12:00 → 12:30 A review of Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Program

Convener: Brajesh Choudhary (University of Delhi)

slides 11July2012-GGI-Talk_(choudhary).pdf

Thursday, 12 July

11:30 → 12:00 Complementary roles of a neutrino detector in southern hemisphere for geo and supernova neutrinos

Convener: Hiroshi Nunokawa (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro)

12:00 → 12:30 A Minimal Model of Neutrino Flavor

Convener: Dr Akin Wingerter (Ohio State University)

slides talk_(wingerter).pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Leptogenesis with small violation of B-L

Convener: Nuria Rius (Universitat de València)

slides ggi_(rius).pdf

Friday, 13 July

11:30 → 12:00 Lepton flavor violation in minimal flavor violation extensions of the seesaw

Convener: Enrico Nardi (INFN)

slides GGI_(nardi).pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Neutrino diffraction: finite size corrections to Fermi’s Golden rule

Convener: Kenzo Ishikawa

slides neutrino(Firenze)_(ishikawa).pdf