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

from Sunday 18 May 2014 (15:00) to Friday 23 May 2014 (16:00)
Gaston d'Orléans

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 May 2014
19 May 2014
20 May 2014
21 May 2014
22 May 2014
23 May 2014
AM
09:00
Opening - Thanh Van Tran (Orsay) (until 09:45) (Gaston d'Orléans)
09:00 Welcome - Jean Tran Thanh Van (LPT, Univ. Orsay)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:15 Welcome - Marc Gricourt (Mayor of Blois) (Mayor of Blois)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
09:30 Mapping the Universe - George Smoot III (LBNL)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:45 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
First Session - Boaz Klima (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) (until 12:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
10:30 Introduction - Boaz Klima (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:45 Astroparticle Physics: Today and Tomorrow - George Smoot III (LBNL)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:20 The LHC: Past, Present, and Future - Daniel Tovey (University of Sheffield (GB))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:55 HEP Theory - Today and Tomorrow - Christophe Grojean (ICREA - Institucio catalana de recerca estudis avancats (ES))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:00
QCD+EW+Top Physics - Sally Dawson (BNL) (until 10:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
09:00 Test of QCD at Colliders - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:30 Status of electroweak physics - Slawek Tkaczyk (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:00 The structure of the proton - Constraints on parton distribution functions from the LHC - Maria Ubiali (Cambridge)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
QCD+EW+Top Physics - Sally Dawson (BNL) (until 12:00) (Gaston d'Orléans)
11:00 Top Quark Studies at Hadron Colliders - Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:30 Top Quark Physics -Theoretical Issues- - Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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08:00 --- Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé ---
08:30
Neutrino Physics - Sotirios Loucatos (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) (until 10:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
08:30 Present status of neutrino parameters and near future prospects - Eligio Lisi (INFN Bari)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:00 Long term neutrino prospects - Mauro Mezzetto   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:30 LFV and neutrino physics BSM - André de Gouvea (Northwestern)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:00 Theoretical aspects of flavour in the leptonic sector - Mu-Chun Chen (Irvine)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Heavy Flavour Physics - Bolek Pietrzyk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 12:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
11:00 CP violation and search for New Physics - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:30 Rare decays and search for New Physics - Patrick Koppenburg (NIKHEF)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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12:00 The path to the detection of Earth-type planets - Michel Mayor (Geneva)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:00
The Dark Universe - Jodi Cooley (SMU) (until 10:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
09:00 Direct searches for dark matter - Bruno Serfass (UC Berkeley)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:30 Complementarity of Dark Matter searches - Gianfranco Bertone (GRAPPA, Amsterdam)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:00 Light particle dark matter - Philip Schuster (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Cosmology - Mauro Mezzetto (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei) (until 12:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
11:00 Cosmic microwave background: A review - Ken Ganga (APC, Paris)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:30 Cosmology probes - Nicolas Regnault (LPNHE, Paris)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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12:00 DES Early Data Analyses - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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PM
15:00
Registration (until 18:00) (Secretariat @Chateau)
19:00
Reception (until 20:00) (Chateau's Courtyard)
20:00
Dinner (until 22:00) (Dining Room @Chateau)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
The Higgs Boson -Prof. Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (until 15:45) (Gaston d'Orléans)
14:00 Decays of the scalar boson into dibosons - Louis Fayard (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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14:35 Higgs searches in fermionic channels - Jim Olsen (Princeton University (US))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:10 Higgs property measurements and future collider prospects - Kyle Cranmer (New York University (US))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15
The Higgs Boson -Prof. Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (until 16:45) (Gaston d'Orléans)
16:15 Higgs Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Sally Dawson (BNL)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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17:15 --- Conference Photograph ---
18:00 --- Visit of the Chateau de Blois ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00
Beyond the Standard Model Physics - Christophe Grojean (ICREA - Institucio catalana de recerca estudis avancats (ES)) (until 12:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
12:00 Hunting BSM with DM: perspectives for a WIMP discovery - Thomas Hambye   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Beyond the Standard Model Physics - Christophe Grojean (ICREA - Institucio catalana de recerca estudis avancats (ES)) (until 16:00) (Gaston d'Orléans)
14:00 Non-SUSY Searches - Erez Etzion (Tel Aviv University (IL))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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14:30 Searches for BSM in final states with 3rd Generation Particles - Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:00 SUSY searches - Pascal Pralavorio (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:30 What if Electroweak Symmetry Breaking were unnatural? - John March-Russell (Oxford university)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
BSM + DM - Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)) (until 19:30) ()
16:30 RPV SUSY after LHC-I - Roberto Franceschini (CERN)   ()
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16:50 Inclusive SUSY searches at the LHC - Sophie Henrot-Versille (LAL)   ()
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17:10 Third generation SUSY searches at the LHC - Jacob Thomas Linacre (FermiLab)   ()
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17:30 Electroweak SUSY searches at the LHC - Federica Legger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))   ()
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17:50 Searches for heavy resonances  at the LHC - Laurent Thomas (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))   ()
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18:10 Searches for long lived particles at the LHC - Ian Tomalin (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))   ()
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18:30 Searches for dark matter and extra dimensions at the LHC - Iacopo Vivarelli (University of Sussex (GB))   ()
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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))   ()
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16:30
Neutrinos - Lisa Kaufman (I) (until 19:30) ()
16:30 Results of T2K - Davide Sgalaberna   ()
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16:50 Statistical issues for long baseline neutrino experiments - Mattias Blennow   ()
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17:10 Results of Double Chooz - Frederic Yermia (Subatech)   ()
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17:30 Results from the Daya Bay experiment - Xin Qian (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   ()
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17:50 Sterile neutrino phenomenology - Antonio Palazzo   ()
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18:10 Results from Borexino - Marco Giammarchi (INFN Milano)   ()
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18:30 Results from GERDA - Neslihan Becerici-Schmidt   ()
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18:50 Results of EXO - Lisa Kaufman (Indiana U)   ()
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19:10 Neutrinoless double beta decay and non-standard neutrino interactions in nuclear medium - Fedor Simkovic   ()
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16:30
QCD + HF + EW - Kamila Kowalska (Warsaw) (until 19:50) ()
16:30 Measurements of Heavy Flavour Production at ATLAS and CMS - Konstantin Toms (New Mexico)   ()
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16:50 Latest results in rare decays at LHCb - Michal Kreps (Coventry-Warwick)   ()
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17:10 CP violation in the B system at LHCb - Matthew Reid (Coventry-Warwick)   ()
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17:30 Hadronic b decays and the Unitarity triangle angle gamma at LHCb - Jeremy Dalseno (Bristol)   ()
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17:50 Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb - Evelina Gersabeck (Heidelberg Uni.)   ()
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18:10 Searches for New Physics in Charm and Bottom Decays at the Tevatron - Mark Williams (Indiana)   ()
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18:30 Measurements of Heavy Flavour Properties at ATLAS and CMS - Ilse Kratschmer (Vienna)   ()
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18:50 b and c hadron spectroscopy at LHCb - Antonio Alves (Roma)   ()
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19:10 Recent Results on Quarkonium(-like) states at B-factories - Ruslan Chistov (ITEP)   ()
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19:30 XYZ physics at the BESIII experiment - Zhiqing Liu (Mainz)   ()
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16:30
Top + Higgs - Daniel Tovey (University of Sheffield (GB)) (until 19:30) ()
16:30 Production of single top quark - results from the Tevatron and the LHC- - Chang-Seong Moon (Sezione di Pisa (IT))   ()
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16:50 Top jet substructure - Dorival Goncalves Netto (Heidelberg University)   ()
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17:10 Top quark physics at the Tevatron (all but single top) - Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))   ()
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17:30 Top quark production at Ecm=8 TeV - Pierre-Antoine Delsart (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   ()
Transparents
17:50 Top quark mass measurements at the LHC - Benjamin Stieger (CERN)   ()
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18:10 Measurements of top quark properties at the LHC - Roman Lysak (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))   ()
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18:30 Top partners - Luca Panizzi (University of Southampton)   ()
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18:50 Rare top quark decays in the Standard Model and beyond - Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz (B)   ()
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19:10 Effective field theory for top quarks at NLO accuracy - Cen Zhang (CP3 Université catholique de Louvain)   ()
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20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Astro + Cosmo I - Lucie Gerard (DESY) (until 16:00) ()
14:00 Recent results of the SNLS experiment - Patrick El-Hage (LPNHE, Paris)   ()
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14:20 A dark matter model for 3.5keV X-ray line - Seungwon Baek (KIAS, Seoul)   ()
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14:40 Current Status Of The H.E.S.S. Dark Matter Searches - Emrah Birsin (HU Berlin)   ()
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15:00 Dark matter searches with IceCube - Jan Lünemann (Brussels)   ()
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15:20 Dark matter annihilations and decays after the AMS-02 positron measurements - Anna Lamperstorfer (TU Munich)   ()
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15:40 CMB Lensing and B-modes from the South Pole Telescope - Clarence Chang (KICP, Chicago)   ()
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14:00
BSM + DM - Stephen Jacob Sekula (Southern Methodist University (US)) (until 16:00) ()
14:00 Latest Result and Future Plan of MEG Experiment - Yuki Fujii (Tokyo University)   ()
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14:20 Search for a new dark boson in eta meson decays - Damian Pszczel (NCNR, Warsaw)   ()
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14:40 Flavour symmetric models after LHC run 1:  where to look for them? - Filippo Sala (IPhT, Saclay)   ()
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15:00 Searches for New Physics with LHCb - Marcin Chrzaszcz (University of Zurich (CH), Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))   ()
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15:20 Natural susy after the LHC 8TeV run - Kamila Kowalska (NCBR, Warsaw)   ()
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14:00
QCD + HF + EW - Erez Etzion (Tel Aviv University (IL)) (until 16:00) ()
14:00 New SM Measurements at the Tevatron - Arie Bodek (Rochester)   ()
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14:20 Electroweak tests at the LHC - Nenad Vranjes (Saclay)   ()
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14:40 QCD and EW measurements in the forward region at LHCb - Katharina Müller (Zurich UZH)   ()
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15:00 Latest Results on Jet production from the LHC - Terron Cuadrado (Madrid)   ()
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15:20 W/Z+Jets and W/Z+HF Production at the LHC - Ludivine Ceard (Louvain)   ()
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15:40 Di-Boson Production Cross Section at the LHC - Hugues Louis Brun (Oviedo)   ()
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14:00
Top + Higgs - Ian Brock (Universitaet Bonn (DE)) (until 16:00) ()
14:00 Study of Higgs boson production in bosonic decay channels at the LHC - Roberta Volpe (National Central University (TW))   ()
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14:20 Study of Higgs boson production in fermionic decay channels at the LHC - Vivek Jain (State University of New York (US))   ()
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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))   ()
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15:00 Higgs boson studies at the Tevatron - Lidija Zivkovic (University of Belgrade (RS))   ()
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15:20 Higgs and EW precision data - Andrea Tesi (Pisa)   ()
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15:40 The Higgs cross section at N3LO - Falko Dulat (ETH Zurich)   ()
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
Astro + Cosmo II - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab) (until 19:30) ()
16:30 Results from NuSTAR - Kerstin Perez ((Columbia Univ.))   ()
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16:50 The MAGIC Telescope System: Recent results and future perspectives - Dominik Elsässer (Würzburg)   ()
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17:10 HESS J1640-465 - an exceptionally luminous gamma-ray SNR - Peter Eger (MPI-K, Heidelberg)   ()
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17:30 Surprises and exceptional activity in the VHE sky observed by VERITAS - Lucie Gerard (DESY, Zeuthen)   ()
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17:50 TeV astroparticle physics with HAWC - Michelle Hui (Michigan Technological University)   ()
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18:10 Last results of the ANTARES neutrinos telescope - Christophe Hugon (INFN, Genova)   ()
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18:30 Neutrino electromagnetic properties and new effects in astrophysics - Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)   ()
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18:50 Pierre Auger Observatory: recent results and future prospects - Antonio Bueno (Granada)   ()
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16:30
BSM + DM - Philip Schuster (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) (until 19:30) ()
16:30 Direct Dark Matter search with the XENON experiment - Boris Bauermeister (Mainz)   ()
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16:50 The EDELWEISS-III Dark Matter search: Status and first data - Bernhard Siebenborn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)   ()
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17:10 Update on the COUPP-60 and PICO-2L dark matter experiments - Orin harris (U. of Washington)   ()
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17:30 The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiment at SNOLAB - Chris Ouellet (Carleton)   ()
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18:10 Low fine tuning in the MSSM with higgsino dark matter and unification constraints - Enrico Maria Sessolo (NCBJ, Warsaw)   ()
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18:30 Two Higgs doublet models with U(1)_H Higgs symmetry and dark matter - Chaehyun Yu (KIAS)   ()
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18:50 Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Local U(1) symmetry - Yong Tang (KIAS)   ()
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16:30
QCD + HF + EW - Slawomir Marek Tkaczyk (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 19:30) ()
16:30 Search for heavy exotics with hidden charm - Mikhail Barabanov (Dubna)   ()
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16:50 Light hadron spectroscopy at BESIII - Jifeng Hu (Torino)   ()
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17:10 Recent results and prospects on kaon physics from CERN - Mathieu Perrin-Terrin (CERN)   ()
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17:50 On the generalized unitarity of the dimensionally regularized amplitud - Angelo Raffaele Fazio (Colombia)   ()
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18:10 Measurements of the proton structure at HERA - Ian Brock (Bonn)   ()
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18:30 HERAFitter - an open source QCD Fit platform - Oleg Kuprash (DESY)   ()
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18:50 Review of Diffraction at HERA - Alessia Bruni (Bologna)   ()
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16:30
Top + Higgs - Iacopo Vivarelli (University of Sussex (GB)) (until 19:30) ()
16:30 Measurements of the Higgs Boson Spin and CP at the LHC - Roko Plestina (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))   ()
Poster
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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)) Dr Fergus Wilson (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))   ()
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17:30 Higgs vacuum (in)stability and its cosmological implications - Archil Kobakhidze (The University of Sydney)   ()
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17:50 Phenomenology of the minimal classically scale invariant Higgs sector - Arsham Farzinnia (CTPU, IBS)   ()
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18:10 Higgs exotic decays - Prerit Jaiswal (Florida State University)   ()
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18:30 Studies of Higgs Boson Properties in Future LHC Runs (Snowmass & ECFA studies) - Rostislav Konoplich (New York University (US))   ()
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20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Cosmic Messengers - Thomas Lohse (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE)) (until 15:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
14:00 Neutrino Astronomy - Tyce DeYoung (Penn State Univ.)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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14:30 Gamma Ray Astronomy - Stefan Ohm (Leicester)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:00 Listening for the Echoes of Inflation with BICEP2 and Beyond - Jeffrey Filippini (KIPAC, Caltech)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Discussion about Physics in Vietnam (until 17:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
20:00 --- Cocktail and Conference Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Summary and Conclusion - Thanh Van Tran (Orsay) (until 16:00) (Gaston d'Orléans)
14:30 Summary Talk - Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:35 Concluding Remarks - Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT/Orsay)   (Gaston d'Orléans)