Name: Blois2015: 27th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology"
Start: 2015-05-31T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-06-05T16:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Blois2015: 27th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology"

from Sunday, May 31, 2015 (3:00 PM) to Friday, June 5, 2015 (4:00 PM)

Monday, May 25, 2015
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015

3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Secretariat @Chateau

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Chateau's Courtyard

8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Dining Room @Chateau

Monday, June 1, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Jean Tran Thanh Van (LPT, Univ. Orsay)

9:15 AM Welcome - Marc Gricourt (Mayor of Blois) (Mayor of Blois)

9:30 AM Introduction - Karl Jakobs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
9:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Marguerite de Valois, ground floor
10:15 AM
10:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

10:15 AM The LHC in Run 2, status and plans - Mike Lamont (CERN)

11:00 AM Neutrino Astronomy - Francis Halzen (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wiscons)

11:45 AM Holography: from black holes to condensed matter - Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Dining Room
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

2:00 PM Higgs boson production at the LHC - Krisztian Peters (CERN)

2:30 PM The Higgs boson profile - Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

3:30 PM Exotic Higgs boson decays - Jessie (Julia) Shelton (U. Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

4:00 PM Higgs boson, BSM interpretations - Eduard Masso Soler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))
5:15 PM Conference Photograph
Conference Photograph
5:15 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Chateau's Courtyard

6:00 PM Visit of the Chateau de Blois
Visit of the Chateau de Blois
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans

8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Dining Room
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

9:00 AM Test of QCD at Colliders - Alexander Savin (University of Wisconsin (US))

9:30 AM Status of electroweak physics - Emmanuel Sauvan (LAPP (IN2P3/CNRS))

10:00 AM Top Quark production and properties - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA))

11:00 AM Standard Model theory - Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

11:30 AM SUSY searches - Shoji Asai (University of Tokyo (JP))

12:00 PM Exotic searches - Juan Alcaraz Maestre (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

2:00 PM TOP partner searches - Patrizia Azzi (INFN-PD and CERN)

2:30 PM Implications of SUSY searches for BSM - Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)

3:00 PM Recasting experimental searches - Michele Papucci (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Marguerite de Valois, Ground floor
4:00 PM Parallel Session
Parallel Session
4:00 PM - 7:20 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Accidental matter at the LHC - Luca Di Luzio

4:20 PM New Physics for EW baryogenesis - Jose Miguel No (University of Sussex)

4:40 PM Interference effects in BSM processes - Elina Fuchs (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

5:00 PM Constraints on supersymmetry after Run 1 ATLAS searches - Anyes Taffard (University of California Irvine (US))

5:20 PM Light stop decays - Ramona Groeber (INFN)

5:40 PM Results on searches using jet(s) + ETmiss signatures (incl. monojets and inclusive SUSY with jet/Etmiss signatures) - Phat Srimanobhas (Chulalongkorn University (TH))

6:00 PM Weakly interacting and third generation SUSY searches at the LHC - Alexandre Aubin (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

6:20 PM Searches for RPV SUSY and long lived particles at the LHC - Minghui Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))

6:40 PM Revisiting LHC gluino mass bounds through radiative decays using MadAnalysis 5 - Guillaume Chalons (LPSC Grenoble)

7:00 PM Searching for links between general relativity and quantum mechanics - Thuan Vo Van ((Vietnam))
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Recent Top Quark Results from the Tevatron - Yvonne Peters Yvonne Peters

4:20 PM Top quark mass measurements at the LHC - Juan Fuster Verdu (Universidad de Valencia (ES)) Juan Fuster Verdú (IFIC-Valencia (ES))

4:40 PM Top-quark production at the LHC - Javier Fernandez Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

5:00 PM Measurements of top-quark properties at the LHC - Kelly Beernaert (Ghent University (BE))

5:20 PM Constraining top quark Z-boson couplings at the LHC - Markus Christian Schulze (CERN)

5:40 PM Top quark form factors measurements at the ILC - Roman Poeschl (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

6:00 PM Search for rare top-quark decays at the LHC - Filipe Almeida Veloso (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

6:20 PM Light Quark Composite Partners - Seung J. Lee (KAIST)

6:40 PM Search strategies for heavy quark partners at LHC run-II - Thomas Dieter Flacke (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR))
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
4:00 PM - 7:20 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Latest results of the T2K experiment - Benjamin Quilain (University of Kyoto)

4:20 PM The NOvA experiment: status and future - Bruno Zamorano (University of Sussex)

4:40 PM Latest results from the Double Chooz experiment - Antoine Collin (MPI Heidelberg)

5:00 PM Results from the Daya Bay experiment - Bedrich Roskovec (Charles University, Prague)

5:20 PM KM3NeT/ORCA: Measuring neutrino oscillations and the mass hierarchy in the Mediterranean - Martijn Jongen (NIKHEF)

5:40 PM Leptonic flavour models - Christoph Luhn

6:00 PM Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with CUORE-0 and CUORE - Claudia Tomei (INFN Roma)

6:20 PM The GERDA Experiment for the Search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Phase I Results and Phase II Upgrades - Manuel Walter (University of Zurich)

6:40 PM Hadron Production Measurements from NA61/SHINE for Neutrino Flux Predictions - Katarzyna KOWALIK (National Center for Nuclear Research, Warsaw)

7:00 PM Neutrino electromagnetic interactions:a window to new physics - Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Recent Heavy Flavor Physics Results from the Tevatron - Brad Abbott (Oklahoma)

4:20 PM Measurement of HF production at Atlas and CMS - Alexis Pompili (Bari)

4:40 PM Measurement of HF properties at Atlas and CMS - Adam Edward Barton (Lancaster)

5:00 PM Measurements of CP-violating phases in B decays at LHCb - Laurence Carson (Edinburgh)

5:20 PM Measurements of CP violation and mixing in charm decays at LHCb - Oliver Lupton (Oxford)

5:40 PM Results on CP violation in heavy meson decays at e+e- B Factories - Thomas Latham (Warwick)

6:00 PM Semileptonic b-hadron decays at LHCb - Brian Hamilton (College Park-Maryland)

6:20 PM Rare beauty and charm decays at LHCb - Alessandro Mordà (Marseille)

6:40 PM Leptonic B decays and related results at B Factories - Youngmin Yook (Yonsei)
8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Dining Room
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

8:00 AM Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé
Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé
8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Dining Room
2:00 PM Parallel Session
Parallel Session
2:00 PM - 7:50 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM A compelling case for Dark Matter in the Gamma-Ray Sky - Tim Linden (U)

2:20 PM Preliminary results of the final SNLS cosmology analysis - Patrick El-Hage (T. W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory-Rice University-Unknown)

2:40 PM The LSST: General Presentation and New Method for Redshift Reconstruction - Adeline Choyer

3:00 PM Cosmology in the era of BOSS - Nicolas Busca (Laboratoire Astroparticules et Cosmologie)

3:20 PM Early Science Results from the Dark Energy Survey - Kathy Romer (University of Sussex)

3:40 PM Updates from the BICEP/KECK Array - Zeesh Ahmed

4:30 PM South Pole Telescope E-Mode, B-Mode, and Gravitational Lensing Spectra - Jason Gallicchio (University of Chicago)

4:50 PM Recent highlights from the Fermi-LAT - Benoit Lott (Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG))

5:10 PM Antares Results in the Light of IceCube Discovery - Vladimir Kulikovskiy (LNS)

5:30 PM Status and Perspectives of KM3NeT/ARCA - Agata Trovato (INFN)

5:50 PM VERITAS: Observatory Status and Recent Highlights - Gernot Maier (DESY)

6:10 PM HESS Highlights - Francois Brun (IRFU, CEA Saclay)

6:30 PM The HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory - Colas Riviere

6:50 PM Results from the Telescope Array - Gordon Thomson (University of Utah)

7:10 PM The MAGIC Telescope System: Scientific Highlights, Status and Future Perspectives - Sabrina Einecke (University Dortmund)
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
2:00 PM - 7:50 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Searches for heavy resonances at the LHC - Aidan Sean Randle-Conde (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))

2:20 PM Searches for dark matter and extra dimensions at the LHC - Marie-Helene Genest (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

2:40 PM Searches for new phenomena with heavy quarks and multileptons at the LHC - Loic Valery (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))

3:00 PM SHiP: a new facility for searching for long-lived neutral particles and studying the tau neutrino properties - Geraldine Conti (CERN)

3:20 PM Axions-like particles at colliders - Ken Mimasu (University of Sussex)

3:40 PM Search for Pseudoscalar and Scalar Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles with the OSQAR Experiment - Matthias Schott (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

4:30 PM Probing the non thermal dark matter at hadron colliders with events containing a single top quark in the final state - Mykhailo Dalchenko (Texas A & M University (US))

4:50 PM A taste of dark matter: flavour constraints on pseudoscalar mediators - Christopher McCabe (University of Amsterdam)

5:10 PM Self-interacting asymmetric dark matter - Kalliopi Petraki (Nikhef)

5:30 PM Particle cosmological probes on light dark matter - Kenji Kadota (IBS)

5:50 PM Latest Results from the LUX Dark Matter Search Experiment - Simon Fiorucci (Brown University)

6:10 PM Dark Matter searches with HESS - Knut Mora (University of Stockholm)

6:30 PM Status of the first EDELWEISS-III physics run - Valentin Kozlov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

6:50 PM The direct WIMPs search within the XENON Project: the status of the art - Fabio Valerio Massoli Fabio Valerio Massoli (INFN Bologna)

7:10 PM Recent Results from the CRESST Experiment - Raimund Strauss (MPI Munich)

7:30 PM Vortices in axion condensate dark halos - Marek Szydlowski
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
2:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Di-boson production at the LHC and gauge couplings - Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))

2:20 PM Prospects for W-mass measurements at the LHC - Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (CERN)

2:40 PM Electroweak Chiral Lagrangians - Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

3:00 PM Elektroweak constraints from Gfitter - Thomas Peiffer (Universitaet Hamburg)

3:20 PM EW constraints on composite Higgs models - Matteo Salvarezza (INFN Rome)

3:40 PM Spacetime curvature and the Higgs stability during inflation - Tommi Markkanen (Imperial College London)

4:30 PM Study of Higgs boson production in bosonic decay channels at the LHC (incl. off-shell production) - Susumu Oda (ICEPP, University of Tokyo) Susumu Oda (Kyushu University (JP))

4:50 PM Study of Higgs boson production in fermionic decay channels at the LHC (incl. mumu and tau-mu) - Maria Cepeda Hermida (University of Wisconsin (US))

5:10 PM Higgs boson couplings, from combination of all channels - Tae Min Hong (University of Pittsburgh (US))

5:30 PM Pseudo-observables in Higgs decays - David Marzocca (University of Zurich)

5:50 PM Boosted Higgs boson channel(s) - Matthias Josef Schlaffer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

6:10 PM Higgs boson properties (mass, spin/CP) - Nikolina Ilic (Stanford University (US))

6:30 PM DiHiggs production and new physics - Andreas Papaefstathiou (CERN)

6:50 PM Searches for BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC - Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

7:10 PM Double Higgs boson production in the Standard Model with extra scalar particles - Evgenii Zhemchugov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU))
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
2:00 PM - 7:50 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Recent QCD&EW Results from the Tevatron - Darren Price (Manchester)

2:20 PM Latest results on jets and photon production from Atlas and CMS - Kadir Ocalan (Middle East Technical Univ.)

2:40 PM Inclusive W, Z, and W&Z+jets production at Atlas and CMS - Benjamin Brau (Massachusetts)

3:00 PM NNLO corrections to Higgs + 1 jet - Fabrizio Caola (CERN)

3:20 PM N3LO corrections to inclusive Higgs production - Bernhard Mistlberger (ETH Zurich)

3:40 PM Progress in NNPDF - Valerio Bertone (CERN)

4:30 PM Electroweak physics and QCD in the forward direction at LHCb - William Barter (CERN)

4:50 PM Charmed hadron physics at BESIII - Yong Huang (Nanjing, China)

5:10 PM Exotics and charmonia at BESIII - Zhihong Wang (Hefei, China)

5:30 PM Heavy quark spectroscopy at LHCb - Yiming Li (Orsay-LAL)

5:50 PM Recent results and prospects on kaon physics from CERN - Plamen Petrov (Louvain)

6:10 PM Results of HI physics from Atlas and CMS - Emilien Chapon (Palaiseau)

6:30 PM Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle on Antimatter with the AEgIS Experiment - Davide Pagano (University of Brescia)
8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Dining Room
Thursday, June 4, 2015
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

8:30 AM Present status of neutrino parameters and near future prospects - M. Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (YITP Stony Brook and ICREA U. Barcelona)

9:00 AM Long term neutrino prospects - Marco Zito (IRFU CEA-Saclay)

9:30 AM BSM neutrino physics confronted with LHC - Frank Deppisch (University College London (UK))

10:00 AM Theoretical aspects of CP violation and flavour in the leptonic sector - Ferruccio Feruglio (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Marguerite de Valois, Ground floor
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

11:00 AM CP violation and rare decays - Tim Gershon (Warwick)

11:30 AM XYZ particles - Stephen Lars Olsen (Daejeon, Korea)

12:00 PM Implications of Heavy Flavour measurements - Ulrich Haisch (Oxford)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Dining Room
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

2:00 PM Gamma Ray Astronomy - Stefan Funk (Stanford University and SLAC)

2:30 PM Acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays - Alexandre Marcowith

3:00 PM Cosmic Ray and Air Shower Experiments - Markus Roth (KIT)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Marguerite de Valois, Ground floor
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

4:00 PM Results from the AMS experiment and status of Dark Matter Searches - Laurent Derome (LPSC Grenoble)
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

4:30 PM The ICISE centre

4:50 PM Presentation on 2016 Conferences

5:00 PM Discussion
8:00 PM Cocktail and Conference Dinner
Cocktail and Conference Dinner
8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Friday, June 5, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

9:00 AM Direct searches for dark matter - Rafael Lang

9:30 AM Indirect dark matter searches - Louis Strigari (Texas A&M University)

10:00 AM Dark matter theory - David Cerdeno (IPPP Durham)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Marguerite de Valois, Ground floor
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

11:00 AM Our Universe: News from the oldest light - Torsten Ensslin (MPA Munich)

11:30 AM Expansion history of the Universe - Mickael Rigault (HU Berlin)

12:00 PM Cosmological constraints on inflation - Hiranya Peiris (University College London)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Dining Room
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Gaston d'Orléans
Contributions

2:00 PM Summary Talk - Gavin Salam (CERN)

3:00 PM Concluding Remarks - Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT/Orsay)

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