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

from Saturday, 18 January 2014 (08:00) to Friday, 24 January 2014 (10:55)
Aspen Center for Physics (Flug Forum)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Jan 2014
19 Jan 2014
20 Jan 2014
21 Jan 2014
22 Jan 2014
23 Jan 2014
24 Jan 2014
AM
08:00
Present and Future - overview of theory and experiments (until 09:25) (Flug Forum)
08:00 Theory Overview - Joseph David Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Flug Forum)
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08:40 Experiment overview - Andrew James Lankford (University of California Irvine (US))   (Flug Forum)
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09:25 --- break ---
09:40
Top physics (until 11:10) (Flug Forum)
09:40 Theoretical predictions for top-pair and single-top production - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)   (Flug Forum)
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10:05 Top BSM - boosted and resonances - Robin Erbacher (University of California Davis (US))   (Flug Forum)
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10:30 Top cross section, asymmetry and single top - Prof. Karl Ecklund (Rice University (US))   (Flug Forum)
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08:00
Higgs Physics (until 09:15) (Flug Forum)
08:00 Constraints on CP violating Higgs couplings - Joachim Brod (TU Munich)   (Flug Forum)
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08:25 Measuring CP violation in Higgs to tau+ tau- at Colliders - Reinard Primulando (Johns Hopkins University)   (Flug Forum)
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08:50 Higgs Bosons: present and future - Jack Gunion (University of California Davis (US))   (Flug Forum)
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09:15 --- break ---
09:40
Higgs Physics (until 10:55) (Flug Forum)
09:40 Higgs production with a jet veto - Prof. Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz)   (Flug Forum)
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10:05 Matching NNLO Calculations and Parton Showers - Simone Alioli (LBNL & UC Berkeley)   (Flug Forum)
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10:30 Higgs EFT - Jamison Galloway (Rome La Sapienza)   (Flug Forum)
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08:00
Astrophysics and Cosmology (until 09:15) (Flug Forum)
08:00 A Possible Dark Matter Signal in Gamma Rays from the Inner Galaxy - Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)   (Flug Forum)
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08:25 Gamma-ray dark matter searches - Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins   (Flug Forum)
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08:50 HESS Results - Wilfried Domainko   (Flug Forum)
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09:15 --- break ---
09:40
Dark Matter (until 11:20) (Flug Forum)
09:40 TBD - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)   (Flug Forum)
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10:05 New Dark Matter Detectors using DNA for Nanometer Tracking - Katherine Freese   (Flug Forum)
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10:30 SolarAxion Searches with IAXO: The Dark Side of the Sun - Julia Katharina Vogel (CERN - PH/UGC)   (Flug Forum)
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08:00
Heavy Flavor (until 09:15) (Flug Forum)
08:00 B->K^*mumu Theory - Sebastian Jager Sebastian Jager   (Flug Forum)
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08:25 Bs->mumu Theory - Emmanuel Stamou (TUM)   (Flug Forum)
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08:50 Heavy flavor at lepton colliders - Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)   (Flug Forum)
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09:15 --- break ---
09:25
Neutrinos (until 10:40) (Flug Forum)
09:25 Towards the measurements of mass hierarchy and CP violation in neutrino oscillations - Walter Winter (Wurzburg University)   (Flug Forum)
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09:50 Model Building for Lepton Mixing and Neutrino Masses - Claudia Hagedorn (INFN, Section of Padua)   (Flug Forum)
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10:15 Dark matter or neutrino recoil: interpretation of recent experimental results - Josef Pradler (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)   (Flug Forum)
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10:40 --- Break ---
10:45
Neutrinos (until 11:35) (Flug Forum)
10:45 Current experimental situation in neutrino physics - Ryan Patterson (Caltech)   (Flug Forum)
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11:10 Planning for Future Neutrino Experiments - Dr Alexandre Sousa (Harvard University)   (Flug Forum)
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08:00
Dark Matter (until 09:15) (Flug Forum)
08:00 SuperCDMS - Nader mirabolfathi (UC-Berkeley)   (Flug Forum)
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08:25 First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment - Karen Gibson (Case Western Reserve University)   (Flug Forum)
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08:50 Self-interacting dark matter - Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)   (Flug Forum)
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09:15 --- break ---
09:40
Astrophysics and Cosmology (until 10:55) (Flug Forum)
09:40 Fundamental physics from current and future cosmological probes - Anze Slosar   (Flug Forum)
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10:05 Dark Mediator Dark Matter - David Curtin (Cornell)   (Flug Forum)
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10:30 The Effect of Gravitational Focusing on Annual Modulation - Ms Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)   (Flug Forum)
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08:00
SUSY and Exotica (until 09:15) (Flug Forum)
08:00 Forward Lepton- Photon-Jet Systems for SLHC Experiments - David Winn (Fairfield University (US))   (Flug Forum)
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08:25 Using the Razor to unravel difficult LHC signatures - Matthew Buckley (F)   (Flug Forum)
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08:50 Light non-degenerate composite partners at the LHC - Seung Lee (KAIST)   (Flug Forum)
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09:15 --- break ---
09:40
Summaries - Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 10:55) (Flug Forum)
09:40 Theory Summary - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (Flug Forum)
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10:17 Experimental Summary - Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))   (Flug Forum)
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PM
17:00
Arrival and Evening Reception (until 19:00) (Flug Forum)
16:00
Top physics (until 17:15) (Flug Forum)
16:00 Top BSM theory - Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)   (Flug Forum)
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16:25 Measurements of top quark mass (to cover ATLAS+CMS+Tevatron) - Karl-Johan Grahn (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Flug Forum)
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16:50 Electroweak Theory - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)   (Flug Forum)
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17:15 --- break ---
17:40
Electroweak Physics (until 18:55) (Flug Forum)
17:40 Electroweak Experiment - Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Flug Forum)
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18:05 Mu2e Experiment - Robert Kutschke (Femilab)   (Flug Forum)
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18:30 Taking the Muon for a Spin - Thomas Gadfort (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (Flug Forum)
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16:30
Higgs Physics (until 17:45) (Flug Forum)
16:30 Measurements of Higgs boson couplings - Dr Michela Biglietti (INFN Roma Tre)   (Flug Forum)
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16:55 Higgs spin parity determination - Mr Giacomo Ortona (Universita e INFN (IT))   (Flug Forum)
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17:20 Search for exotic Higgs - Justin Griffiths (University of Texas at Arlington (US))   (Flug Forum)
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17:45 --- break ---
18:10
Higgs Physics (until 19:25) (Flug Forum)
18:10 Higgs flavor physics - Yonit Hochberg (Weizmann Institute of Science)   (Flug Forum)
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18:35 Experimental details of fermionic final states in Higgs decays - John Conway (University of California Davis (US))   (Flug Forum)
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19:00 Future prospects for Higgs measurements at LHC Run-2 - Hubert Kroha (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)   (Flug Forum)
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16:30
QCD (until 17:45) (Flug Forum)
16:30 QCD Theory - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)   (Flug Forum)
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16:55 Parton Distribution Functions - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))   (Flug Forum)
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17:20 QCD Experiment - Stephen Paul Bieniek (University College London)   (Flug Forum)
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17:45 --- break ---
18:05
Heavy Flavor (until 19:20) (Flug Forum)
18:05 BSM and flavor - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (F)   (Flug Forum)
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18:30 Rare heavy flavor decays at the LHC - Dr Alexander Shires (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))   (Flug Forum)
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18:55 CP violation in B and D mesons - Daniel Johnson (University of Oxford (GB))   (Flug Forum)
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16:30
Physics Cafe (until 17:30) ()
17:30
Public Lecture (until 18:45) ()
16:00
SUSY and Exotica (until 17:15) (Flug Forum)
16:00 Flavored BSM vs. the LHC - Andreas Weiler (CERN)   (Flug Forum)
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16:25 New strong interactons and the top pair forward-backward asymmetry - Alexander Kagan (university of cincinnati)   (Flug Forum)
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16:50 Dynamical R-Parity Violation - Eric Kuflik   (Flug Forum)
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17:15 --- break ---
17:40
SUSY and Exotica - John Paul Chou (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US)) (until 18:55) (Flug Forum)
17:40 SUSY after the Higgs Discovery - Marcela Carena   (Flug Forum)
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18:05 SUSY and Exotica at CMS - Jim Hirschauer (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Flug Forum)
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18:30 SUSY and exotica at ATLAS - Henri Bachacou (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Flug Forum)
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19:30
Dinner at Aspen Meadows (until 21:30) ()