Frontiers in Particle Physics: From Dark Matter to the LHC and Beyond

from Saturday, January 18, 2014 (8:00 AM) to Friday, January 24, 2014 (10:55 AM)
Aspen Center for Physics (Flug Forum)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jan 18, 2014
Jan 19, 2014
Jan 20, 2014
Jan 21, 2014
Jan 22, 2014
Jan 23, 2014
Jan 24, 2014
AM
8:00 AM
Present and Future - overview of theory and experiments (until 9:25 AM)
8:00 AM Theory Overview - Joseph David Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
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8:40 AM Experiment overview - Andrew James Lankford (University of California Irvine (US))  
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9:25 AM --- break ---
9:40 AM
Top physics (until 11:10 AM)
9:40 AM Theoretical predictions for top-pair and single-top production - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)  
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10:05 AM Top BSM - boosted and resonances - Robin Erbacher (University of California Davis (US))  
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10:30 AM Top cross section, asymmetry and single top - Prof. Karl Ecklund (Rice University (US))  
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8:00 AM
Higgs Physics (until 9:15 AM)
8:00 AM Constraints on CP violating Higgs couplings - Joachim Brod (TU Munich)  
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8:25 AM Measuring CP violation in Higgs to tau+ tau- at Colliders - Reinard Primulando (Johns Hopkins University)  
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8:50 AM Higgs Bosons: present and future - Jack Gunion (University of California Davis (US))  
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9:15 AM --- break ---
9:40 AM
Higgs Physics (until 10:55 AM)
9:40 AM Higgs production with a jet veto - Prof. Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz)  
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10:05 AM Matching NNLO Calculations and Parton Showers - Simone Alioli (LBNL & UC Berkeley)  
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10:30 AM Higgs EFT - Jamison Galloway (Rome La Sapienza)  
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8:00 AM
Astrophysics and Cosmology (until 9:15 AM)
8:00 AM A Possible Dark Matter Signal in Gamma Rays from the Inner Galaxy - Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)  
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8:25 AM Gamma-ray dark matter searches - Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins  
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8:50 AM HESS Results - Wilfried Domainko  
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9:15 AM --- break ---
9:40 AM
Dark Matter (until 11:20 AM)
9:40 AM TBD - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)  
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10:05 AM New Dark Matter Detectors using DNA for Nanometer Tracking - Katherine Freese  
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10:30 AM SolarAxion Searches with IAXO: The Dark Side of the Sun - Julia Katharina Vogel (CERN - PH/UGC)  
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8:00 AM
Heavy Flavor (until 9:15 AM)
8:00 AM B->K^*mumu Theory - Sebastian Jager Sebastian Jager  
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8:25 AM Bs->mumu Theory - Emmanuel Stamou (TUM)  
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8:50 AM Heavy flavor at lepton colliders - Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)  
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9:15 AM --- break ---
9:25 AM
Neutrinos (until 10:40 AM)
9:25 AM Towards the measurements of mass hierarchy and CP violation in neutrino oscillations - Walter Winter (Wurzburg University)  
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9:50 AM Model Building for Lepton Mixing and Neutrino Masses - Claudia Hagedorn (INFN, Section of Padua)  
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10:15 AM Dark matter or neutrino recoil: interpretation of recent experimental results - Josef Pradler (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)  
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10:40 AM --- Break ---
10:45 AM
Neutrinos (until 11:35 AM)
10:45 AM Current experimental situation in neutrino physics - Ryan Patterson (Caltech)  
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11:10 AM Planning for Future Neutrino Experiments - Dr Alexandre Sousa (Harvard University)  
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8:00 AM
Dark Matter (until 9:15 AM)
8:00 AM SuperCDMS - Nader mirabolfathi (UC-Berkeley)  
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8:25 AM First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment - Karen Gibson (Case Western Reserve University)  
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8:50 AM Self-interacting dark matter - Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)  
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9:15 AM --- break ---
9:40 AM
Astrophysics and Cosmology (until 10:55 AM)
9:40 AM Fundamental physics from current and future cosmological probes - Anze Slosar  
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10:05 AM Dark Mediator Dark Matter - David Curtin (Cornell)  
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10:30 AM The Effect of Gravitational Focusing on Annual Modulation - Ms Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)  
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8:00 AM
SUSY and Exotica (until 9:15 AM)
8:00 AM Forward Lepton- Photon-Jet Systems for SLHC Experiments - David Winn (Fairfield University (US))  
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8:25 AM Using the Razor to unravel difficult LHC signatures - Matthew Buckley (F)  
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8:50 AM Light non-degenerate composite partners at the LHC - Seung Lee (KAIST)  
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9:15 AM --- break ---
9:40 AM
Summaries - Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 10:55 AM)
9:40 AM Theory Summary - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
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10:17 AM Experimental Summary - Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))  
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PM
5:00 PM
Arrival and Evening Reception (until 7:00 PM)
4:00 PM
Top physics (until 5:15 PM)
4:00 PM Top BSM theory - Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)  
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4:25 PM Measurements of top quark mass (to cover ATLAS+CMS+Tevatron) - Karl-Johan Grahn (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
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4:50 PM Electroweak Theory - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)  
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5:15 PM --- break ---
5:40 PM
Electroweak Physics (until 6:55 PM)
5:40 PM Electroweak Experiment - Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
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6:05 PM Mu2e Experiment - Robert Kutschke (Femilab)  
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6:30 PM Taking the Muon for a Spin - Thomas Gadfort (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
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4:30 PM
Higgs Physics (until 5:45 PM)
4:30 PM Measurements of Higgs boson couplings - Dr Michela Biglietti (INFN Roma Tre)  
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4:55 PM Higgs spin parity determination - Mr Giacomo Ortona (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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5:20 PM Search for exotic Higgs - Justin Griffiths (University of Texas at Arlington (US))  
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5:45 PM --- break ---
6:10 PM
Higgs Physics (until 7:25 PM)
6:10 PM Higgs flavor physics - Yonit Hochberg (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
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6:35 PM Experimental details of fermionic final states in Higgs decays - John Conway (University of California Davis (US))  
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7:00 PM Future prospects for Higgs measurements at LHC Run-2 - Hubert Kroha (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)  
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4:30 PM
QCD (until 5:45 PM)
4:30 PM QCD Theory - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)  
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4:55 PM Parton Distribution Functions - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))  
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5:20 PM QCD Experiment - Stephen Paul Bieniek (University College London)  
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5:45 PM --- break ---
6:05 PM
Heavy Flavor (until 7:20 PM)
6:05 PM BSM and flavor - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (F)  
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6:30 PM Rare heavy flavor decays at the LHC - Dr Alexander Shires (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
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6:55 PM CP violation in B and D mesons - Daniel Johnson (University of Oxford (GB))  
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4:30 PM
Physics Cafe (until 5:30 PM)
5:30 PM
Public Lecture (until 6:45 PM)
4:00 PM
SUSY and Exotica (until 5:15 PM)
4:00 PM Flavored BSM vs. the LHC - Andreas Weiler (CERN)  
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4:25 PM New strong interactons and the top pair forward-backward asymmetry - Alexander Kagan (university of cincinnati)  
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4:50 PM Dynamical R-Parity Violation - Eric Kuflik  
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5:15 PM --- break ---
5:40 PM
SUSY and Exotica - John Paul Chou (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US)) (until 6:55 PM)
5:40 PM SUSY after the Higgs Discovery - Marcela Carena  
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6:05 PM SUSY and Exotica at CMS - Jim Hirschauer (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
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6:30 PM SUSY and exotica at ATLAS - Henri Bachacou (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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7:30 PM
Dinner at Aspen Meadows (until 9:30 PM)