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

from Sunday, 31 May 2015 (15:00) to Friday, 5 June 2015 (16:00)
Gaston d'Orléans

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
31 May 2015
1 Jun 2015
2 Jun 2015
3 Jun 2015
4 Jun 2015
5 Jun 2015
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)
09:15 Welcome - Marc Gricourt (Mayor of Blois) (Mayor of Blois)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
09:30 Introduction - Karl Jakobs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:45 --- Coffee break ---
10:15
First Session - Karl Jakobs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE)) (until 12:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
10:15 The LHC in Run 2, status and plans - Mike Lamont (CERN)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:00 Neutrino Astronomy - Francis Halzen (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wiscons)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:45 Holography: from black holes to condensed matter - Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:00
QCD+EW+Top Physics+Heavy Ions - Juan Fuster Verdu (Universidad de Valencia (ES)) (until 11:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
09:00 Test of QCD at Colliders - Alexander Savin (University of Wisconsin (US))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:30 Status of electroweak physics - Emmanuel Sauvan (LAPP (IN2P3/CNRS))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:00 Top Quark production and properties - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Standard Model theory - Prof. Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:30
Beyond the Standard Model Physics - Eduard Masso Soler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)) Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Rutgers University) (until 15:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
11:30 SUSY searches - Shoji Asai (University of Tokyo (JP))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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12:00 Exotic searches - Dr Juan Alcaraz Maestre (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 TOP partner searches - Patrizia Azzi (INFN-PD and CERN)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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14:30 Implications of SUSY searches for BSM - Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:00 Recasting experimental searches - Michele Papucci (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.)   (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 - M. Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (YITP Stony Brook and ICREA U. Barcelona)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:00 Long term neutrino prospects - Marco Zito (IRFU CEA-Saclay)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:30 BSM neutrino physics confronted with LHC - Frank Deppisch (University College London (UK))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:00 Theoretical aspects of CP violation and flavour in the leptonic sector - Ferruccio Feruglio (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Heavy Flavour Physics - Tan Chung-I (until 12:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
11:00 CP violation and rare decays - Tim Gershon (Warwick)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:30 XYZ particles - Stephen Lars Olsen (Daejeon, Korea)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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12:00 Implications of Heavy Flavour measurements - Ulrich Haisch (Oxford)   (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 - Rafael Lang   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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09:30 Indirect dark matter searches - Louis Strigari (Texas A&M University)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:00 Dark matter theory - David Cerdeno (IPPP Durham)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Cosmology - David Cerdano (until 12:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
11:00 Our Universe: News from the oldest light - Torsten Ensslin (MPA Munich)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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11:30 Expansion history of the Universe - Mickael Rigault (HU Berlin)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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12:00 Cosmological constraints on inflation - Hiranya Peiris (University College London)   (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 - Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE)) (until 16:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
14:00 Higgs boson production at the LHC - Krisztian Peters (CERN)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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14:30 The Higgs boson profile - Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Exotic Higgs boson decays - Jessie (Julia) Shelton (U. Illinois at Urbana Champaign)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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16:00 Higgs boson, BSM interpretations - Eduard Masso Soler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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17:15 --- Conference Photograph ---
18:00 --- Visit of the Chateau de Blois ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
BSM + DM - Shoji Asai (University of Tokyo (JP)) (until 19:20) ()
16:00 Accidental matter at the LHC - Luca Di Luzio   ()
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16:20 New Physics for EW baryogenesis - Jose Miguel No (University of Sussex)   ()
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16:40 Interference effects in BSM processes - Elina Fuchs (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   ()
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17:00 Constraints on supersymmetry after Run 1 ATLAS searches - Anyes Taffard (University of California Irvine (US))   ()
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17:20 Light stop decays - Ramona Groeber (INFN)   ()
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17:40 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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18:00 Weakly interacting and third generation SUSY searches at the LHC - Alexandre Aubin (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))   ()
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18:20 Searches for RPV SUSY and long lived particles at the LHC - Minghui Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))   ()
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18:40 Revisiting LHC gluino mass bounds through radiative decays using MadAnalysis 5 - Guillaume Chalons (LPSC Grenoble)   ()
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19:00 Searching for links between general relativity and quantum mechanics - Thuan Vo Van ((Vietnam))   ()
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16:00
EW + Top + Higgs - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA)) (until 19:00) ()
16:00 Recent Top Quark Results from the Tevatron - Yvonne Peters Yvonne Peters   ()
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16:20 Top quark mass measurements at the LHC - Juan Fuster Verdu (Universidad de Valencia (ES)) Juan Fuster Verdú (IFIC-Valencia (ES))   ()
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16:40 Top-quark production at the LHC - Javier Fernandez Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))   ()
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17:00 Measurements of top-quark properties at the LHC - Kelly Beernaert (Ghent University (BE))   ()
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17:20 Constraining top quark Z-boson couplings at the LHC - Markus Christian Schulze (CERN)   ()
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17:40 Top quark form factors measurements at the ILC - Roman Poeschl (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))   ()
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18:00 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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18:20 Light Quark Composite Partners - Seung J. Lee (KAIST)   ()
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18:40 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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16:00
Neutrinos - Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 19:20) ()
16:00 Latest results of the T2K experiment - Benjamin Quilain (University of Kyoto)   ()
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16:20 The NOvA experiment: status and future - Bruno Zamorano (University of Sussex)   ()
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16:40 Latest results from the Double Chooz experiment - Antoine Collin (MPI Heidelberg)   ()
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17:00 Results from the Daya Bay experiment - Bedrich Roskovec (Charles University, Prague)   ()
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17:20 KM3NeT/ORCA: Measuring neutrino oscillations and the mass hierarchy in the Mediterranean - Martijn Jongen (NIKHEF)   ()
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17:40 Leptonic flavour models - Christoph Luhn   ()
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18:00 Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with CUORE-0 and CUORE - Claudia Tomei (INFN Roma)   ()
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18:20 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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18:40 Hadron Production Measurements from NA61/SHINE for Neutrino Flux Predictions - Dr Katarzyna KOWALIK (National Center for Nuclear Research, Warsaw)   ()
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19:00 Neutrino electromagnetic interactions:a window to new physics - Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)   ()
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16:00
QCD + Heavy Flavour - Timothy Gershon (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 19:00) ()
16:00 Recent Heavy Flavor Physics Results from the Tevatron - Brad Abbott (Oklahoma)   ()
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16:20 Measurement of HF production at Atlas and CMS - Alexis Pompili (Bari)   ()
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16:40 Measurement of HF properties at Atlas and CMS - Adam Edward Barton (Lancaster)   ()
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17:00 Measurements of CP-violating phases in B decays at LHCb - Laurence Carson (Edinburgh)   ()
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17:20 Measurements of CP violation and mixing in charm decays at LHCb - Oliver Lupton (Oxford)   ()
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17:40 Results on CP violation in heavy meson decays at e+e- B Factories - Thomas Latham (Warwick)   ()
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18:00 Semileptonic b-hadron decays at LHCb - Brian Hamilton (College Park-Maryland)   ()
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18:20 Rare beauty and charm decays at LHCb - Alessandro Mordà (Marseille)   ()
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18:40 Leptonic B decays and related results at B Factories - Youngmin Yook (Yonsei)   ()
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20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Astro + Cosmo I-II - Michael Rigault Rafael Lang (until 19:50) ()
14:00 A compelling case for Dark Matter in the Gamma-Ray Sky - Tim Linden (U)   ()
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14:20 Preliminary results of the final SNLS cosmology analysis - Patrick El-Hage (T. W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory-Rice University-Unknown)   ()
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14:40 The LSST: General Presentation and New Method for Redshift Reconstruction - Adeline Choyer   ()
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15:00 Cosmology in the era of BOSS - Nicolas Busca (Laboratoire Astroparticules et Cosmologie)   ()
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15:20 Early Science Results from the Dark Energy Survey - Kathy Romer (University of Sussex)   ()
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15:40 Updates from the BICEP/KECK Array - Zeesh Ahmed   ()
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 South Pole Telescope E-Mode, B-Mode, and Gravitational Lensing Spectra - Jason Gallicchio (University of Chicago)   ()
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16:50 Recent highlights from the Fermi-LAT - Benoit Lott (Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG))   ()
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17:10 Antares Results in the Light of IceCube Discovery - Vladimir Kulikovskiy (LNS)   ()
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17:30 Status and Perspectives of KM3NeT/ARCA - Agata Trovato (INFN)   ()
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17:50 VERITAS: Observatory Status and Recent Highlights - Gernot Maier (DESY)   ()
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18:10 HESS Highlights - Francois Brun (IRFU, CEA Saclay)   ()
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18:30 The HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory - Colas Riviere   ()
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18:50 Results from the Telescope Array - Gordon Thomson (University of Utah)   ()
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19:10 The MAGIC Telescope System: Scientific Highlights, Status and Future Perspectives - Sabrina Einecke (University Dortmund)   ()
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14:00
BSM + DM - Patrizia Azzi (INFN Padova (IT)) Juan Alcaraz Maestre (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES) (until 19:50) ()
14:00 Searches for heavy resonances at the LHC - Aidan Sean Randle-Conde (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))   ()
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14:20 Searches for dark matter and extra dimensions at the LHC - Marie-Helene Genest (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   ()
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14:40 Searches for new phenomena with heavy quarks and multileptons at the LHC - Loic Valery (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))   ()
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15:00 SHiP: a new facility for searching for long-lived neutral particles and studying the tau neutrino properties - Geraldine Conti (CERN)   ()
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15:20 Axions-like particles at colliders - Ken Mimasu (University of Sussex)   ()
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15:40 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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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 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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16:50 A taste of dark matter: flavour constraints on pseudoscalar mediators - Christopher McCabe (University of Amsterdam)   ()
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17:10 Self-interacting asymmetric dark matter - Kalliopi Petraki (Nikhef)   ()
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17:30 Particle cosmological probes on light dark matter - Kenji Kadota (IBS)   ()
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17:50 Latest Results from the LUX Dark Matter Search Experiment - Simon Fiorucci (Brown University)   ()
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18:10 Dark Matter searches with HESS - Knut Mora (University of Stockholm)   ()
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18:30 Status of the first EDELWEISS-III physics run - Valentin Kozlov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   ()
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18:50 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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19:10 Recent Results from the CRESST Experiment - Raimund Strauss (MPI Munich)   ()
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19:30 Vortices in axion condensate dark halos - Marek Szydlowski   ()
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14:00
EW + Top + Higgs - Krisztian Peters (CERN) Stephen Jacob Sekula (Southern Methodist University (US)) (until 19:30) ()
14:00 Di-boson production at the LHC and gauge couplings - Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))   ()
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14:20 Prospects for W-mass measurements at the LHC - Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (CERN)   ()
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14:40 Electroweak Chiral Lagrangians - Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)   ()
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15:00 Elektroweak constraints from Gfitter - Thomas Peiffer (Universitaet Hamburg)   ()
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15:20 EW constraints on composite Higgs models - Matteo Salvarezza (INFN Rome)   ()
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15:40 Spacetime curvature and the Higgs stability during inflation - Tommi Markkanen (Imperial College London)   ()
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 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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16:50 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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17:10 Higgs boson couplings, from combination of all channels - Dr Tae Min Hong (University of Pittsburgh (US))   ()
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17:30 Pseudo-observables in Higgs decays - David Marzocca (University of Zurich)   ()
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17:50 Boosted Higgs boson channel(s) - Matthias Josef Schlaffer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   ()
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18:10 Higgs boson properties (mass, spin/CP) - Nikolina Ilic (Stanford University (US))   ()
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18:30 DiHiggs production and new physics - Andreas Papaefstathiou (CERN)   ()
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18:50 Searches for BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC - Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   ()
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19:10 Double Higgs boson production in the Standard Model with extra scalar particles - Evgenii Zhemchugov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU))   ()
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14:00
QCD + Heavy Flavour - Stephen Lars Olsen Emmanuel Sauvan (LAPP (IN2P3/CNRS)) (until 19:50) ()
14:00 Recent QCD&EW Results from the Tevatron - Darren Price (Manchester)   ()
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14:20 Latest results on jets and photon production from Atlas and CMS - Kadir Ocalan (Middle East Technical Univ.)   ()
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14:40 Inclusive W, Z, and W&Z+jets production at Atlas and CMS - Benjamin Brau (Massachusetts)   ()
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15:00 NNLO corrections to Higgs + 1 jet - Fabrizio Caola (CERN)   ()
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15:20 N3LO corrections to inclusive Higgs production - Bernhard Mistlberger (ETH Zurich)   ()
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15:40 Progress in NNPDF - Valerio Bertone (CERN)   ()
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Electroweak physics and QCD in the forward direction at LHCb - William Barter (CERN)   ()
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16:50 Charmed hadron physics at BESIII - Yong Huang (Nanjing, China)   ()
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17:10 Exotics and charmonia at BESIII - Zhihong Wang (Hefei, China)   ()
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17:30 Heavy quark spectroscopy at LHCb - Yiming Li (Orsay-LAL)   ()
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17:50 Recent results and prospects on kaon physics from CERN - Plamen Petrov (Louvain)   ()
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18:10 Results of HI physics from Atlas and CMS - Emilien Chapon (Palaiseau)   ()
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18:30 Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle on Antimatter with the AEgIS Experiment - Davide Pagano (University of Brescia)   ()
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20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Astro/Cosmo/Dark Matter - High Energy Universe - Thomas Lohse (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE)) (until 15:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
14:00 Gamma Ray Astronomy - Stefan Funk (Stanford University and SLAC)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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14:30 Acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays - Alexandre Marcowith   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:00 Cosmic Ray and Air Shower Experiments - Markus Roth (KIT)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Astro/Cosmo/Dark Matter - High Energy Universe (until 16:30) (Gaston d'Orléans)
16:00 Results from the AMS experiment and status of Dark Matter Searches - Laurent Derome (LPSC Grenoble)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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16:30
Discussion on Physics in Vietnam (until 17:15) (Gaston d'Orléans)
16:30 The ICISE centre   (Gaston d'Orléans)
16:50 Presentation on 2016 Conferences   (Gaston d'Orléans)
17:00 Discussion   (Gaston d'Orléans)
20:00 --- Cocktail and Conference Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Summary and Conclusion - Thanh Van Tran (Orsay) (until 15:45) (Gaston d'Orléans)
14:00 Summary Talk - Dr Gavin Salam (CERN)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
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15:00 Concluding Remarks - Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT/Orsay)   (Gaston d'Orléans)
15:15 --- Coffee break ---