Aspen 2008 Winter Conference "Revealing the Nature of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking"

13 Jan 2008, 08:00 → 19 Jan 2008, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Aspen, Colorado USA

Dino Goulianos (Rockefeller University), Jane Nachtman (High Energy Physics), John Terning (UC Davis), M. Wobisch (Fermilab and D0), Yuri Gershtein (Florida State University)

The conference will cover the latest developments in High Energy Physics, concentrating on the theoretical and experimental exploration of the Higgs sector and alternative models of electroweak symmetry breaking. The schedule and the mixture of foreseen talks are designed to encourage interactions between theorists and experimenters, exposing experimenters to the latest theoretical ideas, while providing a dose of reality to the theorists.

agenda program-layout-latest.pdf

Monday, 14 January

08:00 → 11:00 Monday Morning Session

08:40 New Phenomena Searches at Tevatron with Photons and Jets

Speaker: Y. Liu (University of Science and Technology of China)

Slides Aspen08_gjtalk.pdf

09:20 coffee break

09:40 New Phenomena Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Rick Cavanaugh (Inst. for High Energy Physics & Astrophysics, University of Florida)

Slides cavanaugh-Aspen-2008.pdf cavanaugh-Aspen-2008.ppt

10:20 B-physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Gavril Giurgiu (Johns Hopkins)

Slides B_Physics_at_Tevatron_Aspen_2008.pdf B_Physics_at_Tevatron_Aspen_2008.ppt

16:30 → 19:20 Monday Evening Session

16:30 Minimal Flavor Violation

Speaker: G. Perez (Stony Brook)

Slides perez-newMFV.pdf

16:55 Latest CLEO results

Speaker: Ian P. Shipsey (Purdue University)

Slides Shipsey_Aspen_Jan_08_v2.pdf Shipsey_Aspen_Jan_08_v2.ppt

17:20 Analystic Gluon PDF's using only the proton structure function

Speaker: M. Block (Northwestern)

Slides Block_Aspen_Jan_2008_web_2.pdf Block_Aspen_Jan_2008_web_2.ppt

17:45 coffee break

18:05 New Phenomena Searches at HERA

Speaker: D. Pitzl (DESY)

Slides pitzl-aspen.pdf

18:30 QCD at HERA

Speaker: Y. Yamazaki (Kobe University)

Slides yamazaki-aspen2008.pdf yamazaki-aspen2008.ppt

18:55 QCD at Tevatron

Speaker: Dmitry Bandurin (Kansas State University)

Slides report_aspen08_qcd_tev_v3.pdf

Tuesday, 15 January

08:00 → 11:00 Tuesday Morning Session

08:00 Electroweak Results from Tevatron

Speaker: J. Zhu (Stony Brook)

Slides zhu-aspen.pdf

08:40 High Order QCD Calculations

Speaker: D. Forde (SLAC)

Slides aspen_Jan_2008.pdf aspen_Jan_2008.pptx

09:20 coffee break

09:40 Measuring Masses and Spins Of New Particles at Colliders

Speaker: K.C. Kong (FNAL)

Slides K.C.Kong.Aspen2008.pdf

10:20 Higgs at the LHC

Speaker: Francesco Tartarelli (Univ. + INFN)

Slides tarta_aspen_jan08.pdf tarta_aspen_jan08.ppt

16:30 → 19:20 Tuesday Evening Session

16:30 Top Mass

Speaker: Dr regina demina (university of rochester)

Slides Aspen_Mt_Regina.pdf Aspen_Mt_Regina.ppt

16:55 Light Higgs at the Tevatron

Speaker: Wei-Ming Yao (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))

Slides sm_higgs_search_aspen08.pdf

17:20 Heavy Higgs at the Tevatron

Speaker: S. Lammers (Columbia)

Slides AspenSMHiggs_HM.pdf

17:45 coffee break

18:05 Flavor Models in Warped Extra Dimensions

Speaker: C. Csaki (Cornell)

Slides Csaki.pdf

18:30 Strongly Interacting Light Higgs

Speaker: Christophe Grojean (CERN-PH-TH)

Slides Grojean_Aspen_2.pdf

18:55 BSM Higgs at the Tevatron

Speaker: A. Anastassov (Northwestern)

Slides anton_aspen08.pps

Wednesday, 16 January

08:00 → 11:00 Wednesday Morning Session

08:00 Cosmic Rays

Speaker: M. Mostafa (University of Utah)

Slides Aspen08-CosmicRays.pdf

08:40 Non-standard Higgs Decays

Speaker: D. Kaplan (JHU)

Slides kaplan-Higgs-Aspen2008.pdf

09:20 coffee break

09:40 Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: T. Shutt (Case Western)

Slides Aspen_Jan08TS.pdf

10:20 SUSY and Cosmology

Speaker: H. Baer (Florida State)

Slides baer-aspen.pdf

16:30 → 16:55 Wednesday Afternoon Session

16:30 How Well Do We Understand the Standard Model?

Speaker: Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)

Slides mrenna-aspen-08.pdf

Thursday, 17 January

08:00 → 11:00 Thursday Morning Session

08:00 New Physics at Babar, Belle, and Super B-factories

Speaker: Prof. Tom Browder (University of Hawaii)

Slides Aspen_teb.pdf Aspen_teb.ppt

08:40 Neutrino Experiment

Speaker: N. Saoulidou

Slides ASPEN_2008_NS.pdf

09:20 coffee break

09:40 Composite Higgs

Speaker: Alex Pomarol (Universidad de Barcelona)

Slides pomarol-Aspen08.pdf

10:20 SLHC Status

Speaker: Wesley Smith (University of Wisconsin)

Slides smith_slhc_aspen_jan08.ppt

16:30 → 17:45 Thursday Evening Session

16:30 ILC Status

Speaker: Mike Hildreth (Stanford University)

Slides Hildreth_Aspen_ILC_talk.pdf Hildreth_Aspen_ILC_talk.pptx

16:55 Colliding Neutrinos

Speaker: Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University)

Slides Aspen2008NuCollide.pdf

17:20 LHC Status

Speaker: M. Lemont (CERN)

Slides lhc-status-aspen-jan08-lamont.pdf lhc-status-aspen-jan08-lamont.ppt

18:05 → 19:20 Panel: Funding of the University Program

Friday, 18 January

08:00 → 11:00 Friday Morning Session

08:00 Extra Dimensions at the LHC

Speaker: K. Agashe (Maryland)

Slides agashe.pdf

08:40 New Phenomena Searches at Tevatron with Leptons

Speaker: A. Canepa (FNAL)

Slides canepa.pdf

09:20 break

09:40 Higgs and Electroweak Fits

Speaker: M. Chen (UC Irvine)

Slides chen.pdf

10:20 Neutrino Theory

Speaker: B. Kayser (FNAL)

Slides kayser.pdf

16:30 → 19:20 Friday Evening Session

16:30 Theory of Quark and Lepton Masses

Speaker: Bogdan Dobrescu (FNAL)

Slides aspen-dobrescu.pdf

16:55 Unparticles

Speaker: P. Fox (FNAL)

Slides unparticles.pdf

17:20 Quirks

Speaker: R. Harnik (Stanford)

Slides aspen2008harnik.pdf

17:45 coffee break

18:05 Hidden Valley

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Slides 08_Aspen.pdf

18:30 Dark Energy

Speaker: W. Carithers (LBNL)

Slides CarithersDarkEnergy.pdf CarithersDarkEnergy.ppt

18:55 Top Propoerties

Speaker: Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers University)

Slides aspen_top_prop.pdf

Saturday, 19 January

09:00 → 10:20 Summary Session

09:00 Theory Summary

Speaker: S. Thomas (Rutgers)

Slides Aspen-Winter08-summary.pdf Aspen-Winter08-summary.ppt

09:40 Experiment Summary

Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University)

Slides Aspen_Experimental_Summary.pdf