Name: Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics
Start: 2014-05-12T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2014-05-15T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University

Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics

from Monday, 12 May 2014 (08:00) to Thursday, 15 May 2014 (18:00)

Monday, 12 May 2014
08:40 Collider session: morning
morning
08:40 - 10:25
Contributions

08:40 Andrey Korytov - Status of Higgs boson studies with the CMS Detector

09:15 Michel Janus - Review of the current ATLAS SM Higgs results

09:50 Sunil Somalwar - Recent results from CMS SUSY searches with emphasis on higgs final states
10:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 - 10:45
10:45 Collider session: morning
morning
10:45 - 12:30
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 Hal Evans – ATLAS BSM Higgs

11:20 Archana Anandakrishnan - Gluino limits on Triangles: A lesson from SO(10) GUTS

11:55 Xerxes Tata - Naturalness and Supersymmetry: Radiatively Driven Natural SUSY
12:30 Lunch break

12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Collider session: afternoon
afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Contributions

13:30 John Paul Chou - Status of CMS Exotica Results

14:05 Mansoora Shamim – ATLAS exotic searches

14:40 Ze’ev Surujon - Exotic Higgs Decays
15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:35
15:35 Collider session: afternoon
afternoon
15:35 - 17:20
Contributions

15:35 Carmen Garcia – ATLAS Upgrade physics

16:10 Chris Hill - The Evolution of LHC (and the CMS experiment)

16:45 Yuriy Pakhotin - Exotic Higgs decays to boosted dimuons
18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
08:35 Collider session: morning
morning
08:35 - 10:20
Contributions

08:35 Amir Farbin - SUSY searches at ATLAS

09:10 Adrian Perieanu - Searches for BSM Higgs bosons and non-SM Higgs decays at CMS

09:45 Azar Mustafayev - Collider Signatures of Natural SUSY
10:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 - 10:45
10:45 Collider session: morning
morning
10:45 - 12:30
Contributions

10:45 Peter McIntyre - 100 TeV Hadron Collider for a New World Laboratory

11:20 Jianghao Yu - Better Mass Measurement using Many Body Phase Space Boundary in Cascade Decay

11:55 Peisi Huang - What does a higgs tell us about SUSY?
12:30 Lunch break: Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Collider session: afternoon
afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Contributions

13:30 Rouzbeh Allahverdi - Light non-thermal dark matter: a minimal model and detection prospects

14:05 Yang Bai - Fermion Portal Dark Matter

14:40 Kuver Sinha - Whither Thermal Freezeout
15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:35
15:35 Collider session: afternoon
afternoon
15:35 - 17:20
Contributions

15:35 Bibhushan Shakya - A New Probe of Neutralino Decays at the LHC

16:10 Yu Gao - Probing the nature of neutrinos under the supersymmetric U (1)_B−L

16:45 Joel Walker - Enhancing Collider Sensitivity to Stau-Neutralino Co-Annihilation by Application of a Boosted Event Topology Selection
18:00 Banquet dinner
Banquet dinner
18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
08:40 Dark matter session: morning
morning
08:40 - 10:25
Contributions

08:40 Louis Strigari - Dark Matter Searches with Fermi-LAT

09:15 Carter Hall - Results of the first underground run of the LUX dark matter experiment

09:50 Wolfgang Lorenzon - PandaX: Status and Plans
10:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 - 10:45
10:45 Dark matter session: morning
morning
10:45 - 12:30
Contributions

10:45 Michele Cicoli - Pre- and Post-inflationary string cosmology

11:20 Veronica Bindi - Recent Results from the AMS-02 experiment

11:55 Jong-Chul Park - Light dark matter and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray excesses
12:30 Lunch break: Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Dark matter session: afternoon
afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Contributions

13:30 Brian Batell - Flavored Dark Matter

14:05 Hai-Bo Yu - Self-interacting Dark Matter

14:40 Howard Baer - Mixed axion/higgsino dark matter in natural SUSY
15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:35
15:35 Dark matter session: afternoon
afternoon
15:35 - 17:20
Contributions

15:35 Sheldon Campbell - Turning Dark Matter Hints into Dark Matter Discoveries

16:10 Matthias Danninger - Dark Matter searches and High Energy neutrinos in IceCube

16:45 Farinaldo Da Silva Queiroz - The Effective Hooperon
18:30 BBQ
BBQ
18:30 - 20:30
Thursday, 15 May 2014
08:40 Dark matter session: morning
morning
08:40 - 10:25
Contributions

08:40 Scott Watson - Towards a post-Inflationary Universe

09:15 Daniel Chung - Observing Inflationary Quantum Fluctuations of Fermionic Dark Matter

09:50 Ilia Gogoladze - The 3.5 keV X-ray line and Supersymmetry
10:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 - 10:45
10:45 Dark matter session: morning
morning
10:45 - 12:30
Contributions

10:45 Ray Bunker - Recent results from SuperCDMS

11:20 Keith Dienes - Dynamical Dark Matter: A New Framework for Dark-Matter Physics

11:55 Brooks Thomas - Dynamical Dark Matter: Phenomenological Implications
12:30 Lunch break: Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Dark matter session: afternoon
afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Contributions

13:30 Niayesh Afshordi - Probing Dark Matter Nanostructure

14:05 Shufang Su - Unveiling Light Neutralino Dark Matter at Colliders

14:40 Martin Winkler - Compressed Supersymmetry from the High Scale
15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:35
15:35 Dark matter session: afternoon
afternoon
15:35 - 17:20
Contributions

15:35 Andrew Sonnenschein - Dark Matter Detection With Superheated Liquids: COUPP and PICO.

16:10 Wei Xue - Higgs portal Dark Matter and cosmic ray constraints

16:45 David Sanford - Simplified Models of Mixed Dark Matter