Name: Blois2014: 26th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology"
Start: 2014-05-18T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-05-23T16:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Blois2014: 26th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology"

from Sunday 18 May 2014 (15:00) to Friday 23 May 2014 (16:00)

Monday 12 May 2014
Tuesday 13 May 2014
Wednesday 14 May 2014
Thursday 15 May 2014
Friday 16 May 2014
Saturday 17 May 2014
Sunday 18 May 2014

15:00

15:00 - 18:00
Room: Secretariat @Chateau

19:00

19:00 - 20:00
Room: Chateau's Courtyard

20:00

20:00 - 22:00
Room: Dining Room @Chateau

Monday 19 May 2014
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Jean Tran Thanh Van (LPT, Univ. Orsay)

09:15 Welcome - Marc Gricourt (Mayor of Blois) (Mayor of Blois)

09:30 Mapping the Universe - George Smoot III (LBNL)
09:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:45 - 10:30
Room: First Floor
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

10:30 Introduction - Boaz Klima (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

10:45 Astroparticle Physics: Today and Tomorrow - George Smoot III (LBNL)

11:20 The LHC: Past, Present, and Future - Daniel Tovey (University of Sheffield (GB))

11:55 HEP Theory - Today and Tomorrow - Christophe Grojean (ICREA - Institucio catalana de recerca estudis avancats (ES))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Dining Room
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

14:00 Decays of the scalar boson into dibosons - Louis Fayard (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

14:35 Higgs searches in fermionic channels - Jim Olsen (Princeton University (US))

15:10 Higgs property measurements and future collider prospects - Kyle Cranmer (New York University (US))
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: First Floor
16:15
16:15 - 16:45
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

16:15 Higgs Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Sally Dawson (BNL)
17:15 Conference Photograph
Conference Photograph
17:15 - 17:45
Room: Chateau's Courtyard

18:00 Visit of the Chateau de Blois
Visit of the Chateau de Blois
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans

20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Dining Room
Tuesday 20 May 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

09:00 Test of QCD at Colliders - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

09:30 Status of electroweak physics - Slawek Tkaczyk (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:00 The structure of the proton - Constraints on parton distribution functions from the LHC - Maria Ubiali (Cambridge)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: First Floor
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

11:00 Top Quark Studies at Hadron Colliders - Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium)

11:30 Top Quark Physics -Theoretical Issues- - Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE))
12:00
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

12:00 Hunting BSM with DM: perspectives for a WIMP discovery - Thomas Hambye
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Dining Room
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

14:00 Non-SUSY Searches - Erez Etzion (Tel Aviv University (IL))

14:30 Searches for BSM in final states with 3rd Generation Particles - Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

15:00 SUSY searches - Pascal Pralavorio (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:30 What if Electroweak Symmetry Breaking were unnatural? - John March-Russell (Oxford university)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: First Floor
16:30 Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 RPV SUSY after LHC-I - Roberto Franceschini (CERN)

16:50 Inclusive SUSY searches at the LHC - Sophie Henrot-Versille (LAL)

17:10 Third generation SUSY searches at the LHC - Jacob Thomas Linacre (FermiLab)

17:30 Electroweak SUSY searches at the LHC - Federica Legger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))

17:50 Searches for heavy resonances at the LHC - Laurent Thomas (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))

18:10 Searches for long lived particles at the LHC - Ian Tomalin (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

18:30 Searches for dark matter and extra dimensions at the LHC - Iacopo Vivarelli (University of Sussex (GB))

18:50 Searches for new phenomena with heavy quarks and multi leptons at the LH - Christian Contreras Campana (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 Results of T2K - Davide Sgalaberna

16:50 Statistical issues for long baseline neutrino experiments - Mattias Blennow

17:10 Results of Double Chooz - Frederic Yermia (Subatech)

17:30 Results from the Daya Bay experiment - Xin Qian (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:50 Sterile neutrino phenomenology - Antonio Palazzo

18:10 Results from Borexino - Marco Giammarchi (INFN Milano)

18:30 Results from GERDA - Neslihan Becerici-Schmidt

18:50 Results of EXO - Lisa Kaufman (Indiana U)

19:10 Neutrinoless double beta decay and non-standard neutrino interactions in nuclear medium - Fedor Simkovic
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16:30 - 19:50
Contributions

16:30 Measurements of Heavy Flavour Production at ATLAS and CMS - Konstantin Toms (New Mexico)

16:50 Latest results in rare decays at LHCb - Michal Kreps (Coventry-Warwick)

17:10 CP violation in the B system at LHCb - Matthew Reid (Coventry-Warwick)

17:30 Hadronic b decays and the Unitarity triangle angle gamma at LHCb - Jeremy Dalseno (Bristol)

17:50 Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb - Evelina Gersabeck (Heidelberg Uni.)

18:10 Searches for New Physics in Charm and Bottom Decays at the Tevatron - Mark Williams (Indiana)

18:30 Measurements of Heavy Flavour Properties at ATLAS and CMS - Ilse Kratschmer (Vienna)

18:50 b and c hadron spectroscopy at LHCb - Antonio Alves (Roma)

19:10 Recent Results on Quarkonium(-like) states at B-factories - Ruslan Chistov (ITEP)

19:30 XYZ physics at the BESIII experiment - Zhiqing Liu (Mainz)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 Production of single top quark - results from the Tevatron and the LHC- - Chang-Seong Moon (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

16:50 Top jet substructure - Dorival Goncalves Netto (Heidelberg University)

17:10 Top quark physics at the Tevatron (all but single top) - Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))

17:30 Top quark production at Ecm=8 TeV - Pierre-Antoine Delsart (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

17:50 Top quark mass measurements at the LHC - Benjamin Stieger (CERN)

18:10 Measurements of top quark properties at the LHC - Roman Lysak (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

18:30 Top partners - Luca Panizzi (University of Southampton)

18:50 Rare top quark decays in the Standard Model and beyond - Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz (B)

19:10 Effective field theory for top quarks at NLO accuracy - Cen Zhang (CP3 Université catholique de Louvain)
20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Dining Room
Wednesday 21 May 2014

08:00 Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé
Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé
08:00 - 12:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Dining Room
14:00 Parallel Session
Parallel Session
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Recent results of the SNLS experiment - Patrick El-Hage (LPNHE, Paris)

14:20 A dark matter model for 3.5keV X-ray line - Seungwon Baek (KIAS, Seoul)

14:40 Current Status Of The H.E.S.S. Dark Matter Searches - Emrah Birsin (HU Berlin)

15:00 Dark matter searches with IceCube - Jan Lünemann (Brussels)

15:20 Dark matter annihilations and decays after the AMS-02 positron measurements - Anna Lamperstorfer (TU Munich)

15:40 CMB Lensing and B-modes from the South Pole Telescope - Clarence Chang (KICP, Chicago)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Latest Result and Future Plan of MEG Experiment - Yuki Fujii (Tokyo University)

14:20 Search for a new dark boson in eta meson decays - Damian Pszczel (NCNR, Warsaw)

14:40 Flavour symmetric models after LHC run 1: where to look for them? - Filippo Sala (IPhT, Saclay)

15:00 Searches for New Physics with LHCb - Marcin Chrzaszcz (University of Zurich (CH), Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

15:20 Natural susy after the LHC 8TeV run - Kamila Kowalska (NCBR, Warsaw)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 New SM Measurements at the Tevatron - Arie Bodek (Rochester)

14:20 Electroweak tests at the LHC - Nenad Vranjes (Saclay)

14:40 QCD and EW measurements in the forward region at LHCb - Katharina Müller (Zurich UZH)

15:00 Latest Results on Jet production from the LHC - Terron Cuadrado (Madrid)

15:20 W/Z+Jets and W/Z+HF Production at the LHC - Ludivine Ceard (Louvain)

15:40 Di-Boson Production Cross Section at the LHC - Hugues Louis Brun (Oviedo)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Study of Higgs boson production in bosonic decay channels at the LHC - Roberta Volpe (National Central University (TW))

14:20 Study of Higgs boson production in fermionic decay channels at the LHC - Vivek Jain (State University of New York (US))

14:40 Combinations of results of Higgs boson production at the LHC (production rates, couplings) - Christian Meineck (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE)) Christian Meineck (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))

15:00 Higgs boson studies at the Tevatron - Lidija Zivkovic (University of Belgrade (RS))

15:20 Higgs and EW precision data - Andrea Tesi (Pisa)

15:40 The Higgs cross section at N3LO - Falko Dulat (ETH Zurich)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
16:30 Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 Results from NuSTAR - Kerstin Perez ((Columbia Univ.))

16:50 The MAGIC Telescope System: Recent results and future perspectives - Dominik Elsässer (Würzburg)

17:10 HESS J1640-465 - an exceptionally luminous gamma-ray SNR - Peter Eger (MPI-K, Heidelberg)

17:30 Surprises and exceptional activity in the VHE sky observed by VERITAS - Lucie Gerard (DESY, Zeuthen)

17:50 TeV astroparticle physics with HAWC - Michelle Hui (Michigan Technological University)

18:10 Last results of the ANTARES neutrinos telescope - Christophe Hugon (INFN, Genova)

18:30 Neutrino electromagnetic properties and new effects in astrophysics - Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)

18:50 Pierre Auger Observatory: recent results and future prospects - Antonio Bueno (Granada)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 Direct Dark Matter search with the XENON experiment - Boris Bauermeister (Mainz)

16:50 The EDELWEISS-III Dark Matter search: Status and first data - Bernhard Siebenborn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

17:10 Update on the COUPP-60 and PICO-2L dark matter experiments - Orin harris (U. of Washington)

17:30 The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiment at SNOLAB - Chris Ouellet (Carleton)

18:10 Low fine tuning in the MSSM with higgsino dark matter and unification constraints - Enrico Maria Sessolo (NCBJ, Warsaw)

18:30 Two Higgs doublet models with U(1)_H Higgs symmetry and dark matter - Chaehyun Yu (KIAS)

18:50 Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Local U(1) symmetry - Yong Tang (KIAS)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 Search for heavy exotics with hidden charm - Mikhail Barabanov (Dubna)

16:50 Light hadron spectroscopy at BESIII - Jifeng Hu (Torino)

17:10 Recent results and prospects on kaon physics from CERN - Mathieu Perrin-Terrin (CERN)

17:50 On the generalized unitarity of the dimensionally regularized amplitud - Angelo Raffaele Fazio (Colombia)

18:10 Measurements of the proton structure at HERA - Ian Brock (Bonn)

18:30 HERAFitter - an open source QCD Fit platform - Oleg Kuprash (DESY)

18:50 Review of Diffraction at HERA - Alessia Bruni (Bologna)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 Measurements of the Higgs Boson Spin and CP at the LHC - Roko Plestina (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

16:50 Searches for BSM Higgs Bosons at the LHC - Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)) Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous (S)

17:10 Search for a light CP-odd Higgs boson in B decays - Fergus Wilson (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)) Fergus Wilson (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

17:30 Higgs vacuum (in)stability and its cosmological implications - Archil Kobakhidze (The University of Sydney)

17:50 Phenomenology of the minimal classically scale invariant Higgs sector - Arsham Farzinnia (CTPU, IBS)

18:10 Higgs exotic decays - Prerit Jaiswal (Florida State University)

18:30 Studies of Higgs Boson Properties in Future LHC Runs (Snowmass & ECFA studies) - Rostislav Konoplich (New York University (US))
20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Dining Room
Thursday 22 May 2014
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

08:30 Present status of neutrino parameters and near future prospects - Eligio Lisi (INFN Bari)

09:00 Long term neutrino prospects - Mauro Mezzetto

09:30 LFV and neutrino physics BSM - André de Gouvea (Northwestern)

10:00 Theoretical aspects of flavour in the leptonic sector - Mu-Chun Chen (Irvine)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: First Floor
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

11:00 CP violation and search for New Physics - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)

11:30 Rare decays and search for New Physics - Patrick Koppenburg (NIKHEF)

12:00 The path to the detection of Earth-type planets - Michel Mayor (Geneva)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Dining Room
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

14:00 Neutrino Astronomy - Tyce DeYoung (Penn State Univ.)

14:30 Gamma Ray Astronomy - Stefan Ohm (Leicester)

15:00 Listening for the Echoes of Inflation with BICEP2 and Beyond - Jeffrey Filippini (KIPAC, Caltech)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: First Floor

16:00

16:00 - 17:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans

20:00 Cocktail and Conference Dinner
Cocktail and Conference Dinner
20:00 - 00:00
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Friday 23 May 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

09:00 Direct searches for dark matter - Bruno Serfass (UC Berkeley)

09:30 Complementarity of Dark Matter searches - Gianfranco Bertone (GRAPPA, Amsterdam)

10:00 Light particle dark matter - Philip Schuster (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: First Floor
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

11:00 Cosmic microwave background: A review - Ken Ganga (APC, Paris)

11:30 Cosmology probes - Nicolas Regnault (LPNHE, Paris)

12:00 DES Early Data Analyses - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Dining Room
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

14:30 Summary Talk - Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US))

15:35 Concluding Remarks - Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT/Orsay)

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