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)
Gaston d'Orléans

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 31, 2015
Jun 1, 2015
Jun 2, 2015
Jun 3, 2015
Jun 4, 2015
Jun 5, 2015
AM
9:00 AM
Opening - Thanh Van Tran (Orsay) (until 9:45 AM)
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))  
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9:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:15 AM
First Session - Karl Jakobs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE)) (until 12:30 PM)
10:15 AM The LHC in Run 2, status and plans - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
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11:00 AM Neutrino Astronomy - Francis Halzen (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wiscons)  
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11:45 AM Holography: from black holes to condensed matter - Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago)  
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9:00 AM
QCD+EW+Top Physics+Heavy Ions - Juan Fuster Verdu (Universidad de Valencia (ES)) (until 11:30 AM)
9:00 AM Test of QCD at Colliders - Alexander Savin (University of Wisconsin (US))  
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9:30 AM Status of electroweak physics - Emmanuel Sauvan (LAPP (IN2P3/CNRS))  
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10:00 AM Top Quark production and properties - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA))  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Standard Model theory - Prof. Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))  
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11:30 AM
Beyond the Standard Model Physics - Eduard Masso Soler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)) Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Rutgers University) (until 3:30 PM)
11:30 AM SUSY searches - Shoji Asai (University of Tokyo (JP))  
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12:00 PM Exotic searches - Dr Juan Alcaraz Maestre (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM TOP partner searches - Patrizia Azzi (INFN-PD and CERN)  
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2:30 PM Implications of SUSY searches for BSM - Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)  
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3:00 PM Recasting experimental searches - Michele Papucci (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.)  
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8:00 AM --- Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé ---
8:30 AM
Neutrino Physics - Sotirios Loucatos (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM Present status of neutrino parameters and near future prospects - M. Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (YITP Stony Brook and ICREA U. Barcelona)  
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9:00 AM Long term neutrino prospects - Marco Zito (IRFU CEA-Saclay)  
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9:30 AM BSM neutrino physics confronted with LHC - Frank Deppisch (University College London (UK))  
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10:00 AM Theoretical aspects of CP violation and flavour in the leptonic sector - Ferruccio Feruglio (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Heavy Flavour Physics - Tan Chung-I (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM CP violation and rare decays - Tim Gershon (Warwick)  
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11:30 AM XYZ particles - Stephen Lars Olsen (Daejeon, Korea)  
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12:00 PM Implications of Heavy Flavour measurements - Ulrich Haisch (Oxford)  
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9:00 AM
The Dark Universe - Jodi Cooley (SMU) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Direct searches for dark matter - Rafael Lang  
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9:30 AM Indirect dark matter searches - Louis Strigari (Texas A&M University)  
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10:00 AM Dark matter theory - David Cerdeno (IPPP Durham)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Cosmology - David Cerdano (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Our Universe: News from the oldest light - Torsten Ensslin (MPA Munich)  
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11:30 AM Expansion history of the Universe - Mickael Rigault (HU Berlin)  
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12:00 PM Cosmological constraints on inflation - Hiranya Peiris (University College London)  
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PM
3:00 PM
Registration (until 6:00 PM) (Secretariat @Chateau)
7:00 PM
Reception (until 8:00 PM) (Chateau's Courtyard)
8:00 PM
Dinner (until 10:00 PM) (Dining Room @Chateau)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
The Higgs Boson - Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE)) (until 4:30 PM)
2:00 PM Higgs boson production at the LHC - Krisztian Peters (CERN)  
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2:30 PM The Higgs boson profile - Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
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3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM Exotic Higgs boson decays - Jessie (Julia) Shelton (U. Illinois at Urbana Champaign)  
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4:00 PM Higgs boson, BSM interpretations - Eduard Masso Soler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))  
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5:15 PM --- Conference Photograph ---
6:00 PM --- Visit of the Chateau de Blois ---
8:00 PM --- Dinner ---
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
BSM + DM - Shoji Asai (University of Tokyo (JP)) (until 7:20 PM)
4:00 PM Accidental matter at the LHC - Luca Di Luzio  
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4:20 PM New Physics for EW baryogenesis - Jose Miguel No (University of Sussex)  
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4:40 PM Interference effects in BSM processes - Elina Fuchs (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
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5:00 PM Constraints on supersymmetry after Run 1 ATLAS searches - Anyes Taffard (University of California Irvine (US))  
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5:20 PM Light stop decays - Ramona Groeber (INFN)  
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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))  
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6:00 PM Weakly interacting and third generation SUSY searches at the LHC - Alexandre Aubin (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))  
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6:20 PM Searches for RPV SUSY and long lived particles at the LHC - Minghui Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))  
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6:40 PM Revisiting LHC gluino mass bounds through radiative decays using MadAnalysis 5 - Guillaume Chalons (LPSC Grenoble)  
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7:00 PM Searching for links between general relativity and quantum mechanics - Thuan Vo Van ((Vietnam))  
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4:00 PM
EW + Top + Higgs - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA)) (until 7:00 PM)
4:00 PM Recent Top Quark Results from the Tevatron - Yvonne Peters Yvonne Peters  
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4:20 PM Top quark mass measurements at the LHC - Juan Fuster Verdu (Universidad de Valencia (ES)) Juan Fuster Verdú (IFIC-Valencia (ES))  
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4:40 PM Top-quark production at the LHC - Javier Fernandez Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
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5:00 PM Measurements of top-quark properties at the LHC - Kelly Beernaert (Ghent University (BE))  
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5:20 PM Constraining top quark Z-boson couplings at the LHC - Markus Christian Schulze (CERN)  
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5:40 PM Top quark form factors measurements at the ILC - Roman Poeschl (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))  
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6:00 PM Search for rare top-quark decays at the LHC - Filipe Almeida Veloso (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)  
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6:20 PM Light Quark Composite Partners - Seung J. Lee (KAIST)  
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6:40 PM Search strategies for heavy quark partners at LHC run-II - Thomas Dieter Flacke (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR))  
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4:00 PM
Neutrinos - Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 7:20 PM)
4:00 PM Latest results of the T2K experiment - Benjamin Quilain (University of Kyoto)  
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4:20 PM The NOvA experiment: status and future - Bruno Zamorano (University of Sussex)  
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4:40 PM Latest results from the Double Chooz experiment - Antoine Collin (MPI Heidelberg)  
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5:00 PM Results from the Daya Bay experiment - Bedrich Roskovec (Charles University, Prague)  
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5:20 PM KM3NeT/ORCA: Measuring neutrino oscillations and the mass hierarchy in the Mediterranean - Martijn Jongen (NIKHEF)  
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5:40 PM Leptonic flavour models - Christoph Luhn  
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6:00 PM Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with CUORE-0 and CUORE - Claudia Tomei (INFN Roma)  
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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)  
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6:40 PM Hadron Production Measurements from NA61/SHINE for Neutrino Flux Predictions - Dr Katarzyna KOWALIK (National Center for Nuclear Research, Warsaw)  
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7:00 PM Neutrino electromagnetic interactions:a window to new physics - Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)  
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4:00 PM
QCD + Heavy Flavour - Timothy Gershon (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 7:00 PM)
4:00 PM Recent Heavy Flavor Physics Results from the Tevatron - Brad Abbott (Oklahoma)  
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4:20 PM Measurement of HF production at Atlas and CMS - Alexis Pompili (Bari)  
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4:40 PM Measurement of HF properties at Atlas and CMS - Adam Edward Barton (Lancaster)  
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5:00 PM Measurements of CP-violating phases in B decays at LHCb - Laurence Carson (Edinburgh)  
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5:20 PM Measurements of CP violation and mixing in charm decays at LHCb - Oliver Lupton (Oxford)  
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5:40 PM Results on CP violation in heavy meson decays at e+e- B Factories - Thomas Latham (Warwick)  
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6:00 PM Semileptonic b-hadron decays at LHCb - Brian Hamilton (College Park-Maryland)  
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6:20 PM Rare beauty and charm decays at LHCb - Alessandro Mordà (Marseille)  
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6:40 PM Leptonic B decays and related results at B Factories - Youngmin Yook (Yonsei)  
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8:00 PM --- Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Astro + Cosmo I-II - Michael Rigault Rafael Lang (until 7:50 PM)
2:00 PM A compelling case for Dark Matter in the Gamma-Ray Sky - Tim Linden (U)  
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2:20 PM Preliminary results of the final SNLS cosmology analysis - Patrick El-Hage (T. W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory-Rice University-Unknown)  
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2:40 PM The LSST: General Presentation and New Method for Redshift Reconstruction - Adeline Choyer  
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3:00 PM Cosmology in the era of BOSS - Nicolas Busca (Laboratoire Astroparticules et Cosmologie)  
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3:20 PM Early Science Results from the Dark Energy Survey - Kathy Romer (University of Sussex)  
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3:40 PM Updates from the BICEP/KECK Array - Zeesh Ahmed  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM South Pole Telescope E-Mode, B-Mode, and Gravitational Lensing Spectra - Jason Gallicchio (University of Chicago)  
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4:50 PM Recent highlights from the Fermi-LAT - Benoit Lott (Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG))  
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5:10 PM Antares Results in the Light of IceCube Discovery - Vladimir Kulikovskiy (LNS)  
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5:30 PM Status and Perspectives of KM3NeT/ARCA - Agata Trovato (INFN)  
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5:50 PM VERITAS: Observatory Status and Recent Highlights - Gernot Maier (DESY)  
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6:10 PM HESS Highlights - Francois Brun (IRFU, CEA Saclay)  
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6:30 PM The HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory - Colas Riviere  
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6:50 PM Results from the Telescope Array - Gordon Thomson (University of Utah)  
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7:10 PM The MAGIC Telescope System: Scientific Highlights, Status and Future Perspectives - Sabrina Einecke (University Dortmund)  
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2:00 PM
BSM + DM - Patrizia Azzi (INFN Padova (IT)) Juan Alcaraz Maestre (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES) (until 7:50 PM)
2:00 PM Searches for heavy resonances at the LHC - Aidan Sean Randle-Conde (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))  
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2:20 PM Searches for dark matter and extra dimensions at the LHC - Marie-Helene Genest (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
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2:40 PM Searches for new phenomena with heavy quarks and multileptons at the LHC - Loic Valery (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))  
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3:00 PM SHiP: a new facility for searching for long-lived neutral particles and studying the tau neutrino properties - Geraldine Conti (CERN)  
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3:20 PM Axions-like particles at colliders - Ken Mimasu (University of Sussex)  
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3:40 PM Search for Pseudoscalar and Scalar Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles with the OSQAR Experiment - Matthias Schott (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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))  
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4:50 PM A taste of dark matter: flavour constraints on pseudoscalar mediators - Christopher McCabe (University of Amsterdam)  
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5:10 PM Self-interacting asymmetric dark matter - Kalliopi Petraki (Nikhef)  
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5:30 PM Particle cosmological probes on light dark matter - Kenji Kadota (IBS)  
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5:50 PM Latest Results from the LUX Dark Matter Search Experiment - Simon Fiorucci (Brown University)  
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6:10 PM Dark Matter searches with HESS - Knut Mora (University of Stockholm)  
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6:30 PM Status of the first EDELWEISS-III physics run - Valentin Kozlov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
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6:50 PM The direct WIMPs search within the XENON Project: the status of the art - Fabio Valerio Massoli Fabio Valerio Massoli (INFN Bologna)  
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7:10 PM Recent Results from the CRESST Experiment - Raimund Strauss (MPI Munich)  
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7:30 PM Vortices in axion condensate dark halos - Marek Szydlowski  
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2:00 PM
EW + Top + Higgs - Krisztian Peters (CERN) Stephen Jacob Sekula (Southern Methodist University (US)) (until 7:30 PM)
2:00 PM Di-boson production at the LHC and gauge couplings - Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))  
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2:20 PM Prospects for W-mass measurements at the LHC - Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (CERN)  
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2:40 PM Electroweak Chiral Lagrangians - Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)  
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3:00 PM Elektroweak constraints from Gfitter - Thomas Peiffer (Universitaet Hamburg)  
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3:20 PM EW constraints on composite Higgs models - Matteo Salvarezza (INFN Rome)  
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3:40 PM Spacetime curvature and the Higgs stability during inflation - Tommi Markkanen (Imperial College London)  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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))  
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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))  
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5:10 PM Higgs boson couplings, from combination of all channels - Dr Tae Min Hong (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
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5:30 PM Pseudo-observables in Higgs decays - David Marzocca (University of Zurich)  
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5:50 PM Boosted Higgs boson channel(s) - Matthias Josef Schlaffer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
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6:10 PM Higgs boson properties (mass, spin/CP) - Nikolina Ilic (Stanford University (US))  
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6:30 PM DiHiggs production and new physics - Andreas Papaefstathiou (CERN)  
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6:50 PM Searches for BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC - Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))  
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7:10 PM Double Higgs boson production in the Standard Model with extra scalar particles - Evgenii Zhemchugov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU))  
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2:00 PM
QCD + Heavy Flavour - Stephen Lars Olsen Emmanuel Sauvan (LAPP (IN2P3/CNRS)) (until 7:50 PM)
2:00 PM Recent QCD&EW Results from the Tevatron - Darren Price (Manchester)  
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2:20 PM Latest results on jets and photon production from Atlas and CMS - Kadir Ocalan (Middle East Technical Univ.)  
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2:40 PM Inclusive W, Z, and W&Z+jets production at Atlas and CMS - Benjamin Brau (Massachusetts)  
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3:00 PM NNLO corrections to Higgs + 1 jet - Fabrizio Caola (CERN)  
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3:20 PM N3LO corrections to inclusive Higgs production - Bernhard Mistlberger (ETH Zurich)  
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3:40 PM Progress in NNPDF - Valerio Bertone (CERN)  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Electroweak physics and QCD in the forward direction at LHCb - William Barter (CERN)  
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4:50 PM Charmed hadron physics at BESIII - Yong Huang (Nanjing, China)  
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5:10 PM Exotics and charmonia at BESIII - Zhihong Wang (Hefei, China)  
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5:30 PM Heavy quark spectroscopy at LHCb - Yiming Li (Orsay-LAL)  
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5:50 PM Recent results and prospects on kaon physics from CERN - Plamen Petrov (Louvain)  
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6:10 PM Results of HI physics from Atlas and CMS - Emilien Chapon (Palaiseau)  
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6:30 PM Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle on Antimatter with the AEgIS Experiment - Davide Pagano (University of Brescia)  
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8:00 PM --- Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Astro/Cosmo/Dark Matter - High Energy Universe - Thomas Lohse (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Gamma Ray Astronomy - Stefan Funk (Stanford University and SLAC)  
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2:30 PM Acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays - Alexandre Marcowith  
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3:00 PM Cosmic Ray and Air Shower Experiments - Markus Roth (KIT)  
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3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
Astro/Cosmo/Dark Matter - High Energy Universe (until 4:30 PM)
4:00 PM Results from the AMS experiment and status of Dark Matter Searches - Laurent Derome (LPSC Grenoble)  
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4:30 PM
Discussion on Physics in Vietnam (until 5:15 PM)
4:30 PM The ICISE centre  
4:50 PM Presentation on 2016 Conferences  
5:00 PM Discussion  
8:00 PM --- Cocktail and Conference Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Summary and Conclusion - Thanh Van Tran (Orsay) (until 3:45 PM)
2:00 PM Summary Talk - Dr Gavin Salam (CERN)  
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3:00 PM Concluding Remarks - Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT/Orsay)  
3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---