Arnowitt Symposium and Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics
from
Monday, May 18, 2015 (8:00 AM)
to
Friday, May 22, 2015 (6:00 PM)
Monday, May 18, 2015
8:50 AM
Welcome - George Welch (TAMU)
Welcome - George Welch (TAMU)
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Pran Nath (Northeastern)- Perspectives on Particle Theory from Pion Physics to Sparticles
Pran Nath (Northeastern)- Perspectives on Particle Theory from Pion Physics to Sparticles
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
9:25 AM
Teruki Kamon (TAMU) - Arnowitt: Hunt for Dark Matter
Teruki Kamon (TAMU) - Arnowitt: Hunt for Dark Matter
9:25 AM - 9:50 AM
9:50 AM
Rabi Mohapatra (Maryland)
Rabi Mohapatra (Maryland)
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM
Thomas Kehpart (Vanderbilt)
Thomas Kehpart (Vanderbilt)
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM
James Dent (Louisiana) - A General Analysis of Direct Detection: from Microphysics to Observational Signatures
James Dent (Louisiana) - A General Analysis of Direct Detection: from Microphysics to Observational Signatures
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
11:40 AM
Howie Baer (Oklahoma) - Supergravity gauge theories strike back: There is no crisis for SUSY but a new collider may be required for discovery
Howie Baer (Oklahoma) - Supergravity gauge theories strike back: There is no crisis for SUSY but a new collider may be required for discovery
11:40 AM - 12:05 PM
12:05 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:05 PM - 1:35 PM
1:35 PM
Xerxes Tata (Hawaii) - Aspirations and Prospects in the LHC Era
Xerxes Tata (Hawaii) - Aspirations and Prospects in the LHC Era
1:35 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Rajan Gupta (LANL) - Exploring Novel Physics at the TeV Scale through Lattice QCD Simulations of the Nucleon
Rajan Gupta (LANL) - Exploring Novel Physics at the TeV Scale through Lattice QCD Simulations of the Nucleon
2:00 PM - 2:25 PM
2:25 PM
Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State) - Proton decay in SUSY and non-SUSY GUTs
Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State) - Proton decay in SUSY and non-SUSY GUTs
2:25 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM
Kelly Stelle (Imperial) - Supersymmetry, Gravity and Branes: Remembering Dick Arnowitt
Kelly Stelle (Imperial) - Supersymmetry, Gravity and Branes: Remembering Dick Arnowitt
2:50 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM
Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:55 PM
3:55 PM
Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt)
Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt)
3:55 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
Chris Pope (TAMU)
Chris Pope (TAMU)
4:20 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM
Peter McIntyre (TAMU) - Signals for new symmetries: Arnowitt’s forte, my passion
Peter McIntyre (TAMU) - Signals for new symmetries: Arnowitt’s forte, my passion
4:45 PM - 5:10 PM
5:10 PM
Bhaskar Dutta (TAMU)
Bhaskar Dutta (TAMU)
5:10 PM - 5:35 PM
6:00 PM
Reception speakers - Valery Pokrovsky (TAMU), David Toback (TAMU)
Reception speakers - Valery Pokrovsky (TAMU), David Toback (TAMU)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
8:50 AM
Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial) - Searches for Dark Matter production at the LHC
Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial) - Searches for Dark Matter production at the LHC
8:50 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Rafael Lang (Purdue) - Direct Dark Matter Detection: Status and Outlook
Rafael Lang (Purdue) - Direct Dark Matter Detection: Status and Outlook
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM
Mike Boylan-Kolchin (Maryland) - Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Physics in Numerical Simulations
Mike Boylan-Kolchin (Maryland) - Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Physics in Numerical Simulations
10:40 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM
Regina Caputo (UCSC) - Indirect Detection: Dark Matter in the Cosmos
Regina Caputo (UCSC) - Indirect Detection: Dark Matter in the Cosmos
11:20 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Pyungwon Ko (KIAS) - Beyond the DM EFT: Higgs portal DM as examples
Pyungwon Ko (KIAS) - Beyond the DM EFT: Higgs portal DM as examples
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Azar Mustafayev (Hawaii) - Detecting Higgsino Dark Matter at Colliders
Azar Mustafayev (Hawaii) - Detecting Higgsino Dark Matter at Colliders
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Jason Kumar (Hawaii) - Searching for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising From Dark Matter Annihilation
Jason Kumar (Hawaii) - Searching for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising From Dark Matter Annihilation
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Kuver Sinha (Syracuse) - Supersymmetry, Exotics, and Intriguing Hints of New Physics
Kuver Sinha (Syracuse) - Supersymmetry, Exotics, and Intriguing Hints of New Physics
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
Can Kilic (UT Austin) - Aspects of Lepton Flavored Dark Matter
Can Kilic (UT Austin) - Aspects of Lepton Flavored Dark Matter
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Rouzbeh Allahverdi (New Mexico) - Probing the neutrino sector with dark matter indirect detection searches
Rouzbeh Allahverdi (New Mexico) - Probing the neutrino sector with dark matter indirect detection searches
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
9:00 AM
Basil Schneider (TRIUMF) - SUSY Searches in ATLAS
Basil Schneider (TRIUMF) - SUSY Searches in ATLAS
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Andres Florez (Universidad de los Andes) - CMS Dark Matter
Andres Florez (Universidad de los Andes) - CMS Dark Matter
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM
John Paul Chou (Rutgers) - CMS Hints from Run 1 and Prospects for Run 2
John Paul Chou (Rutgers) - CMS Hints from Run 1 and Prospects for Run 2
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Alex Drlica-Wagner (FNAL) - Searching for Milky Way Satellite Galaxies: from Optical to Gamma Rays
Alex Drlica-Wagner (FNAL) - Searching for Milky Way Satellite Galaxies: from Optical to Gamma Rays
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Savvas Koushiappas (Brown) - Reticulum II: Evidence for gamma-ray emission, its dark matter content and implications for dark matter physics
Savvas Koushiappas (Brown) - Reticulum II: Evidence for gamma-ray emission, its dark matter content and implications for dark matter physics
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Ilias Cholis (FNAL) - The Fermi Galactic Center Excess: Background Model Systematics and the Dark Matter Interpretation
Ilias Cholis (FNAL) - The Fermi Galactic Center Excess: Background Model Systematics and the Dark Matter Interpretation
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Prateek Agrawal (FNAL) - WIMPs at the Galactic Center
Prateek Agrawal (FNAL) - WIMPs at the Galactic Center
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) - Self-interacting Dark Matter -some recent progress
Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) - Self-interacting Dark Matter -some recent progress
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Jiang-hao Yu (UT Austin) - Vector Fermion Portal Dark Matter
Jiang-hao Yu (UT Austin) - Vector Fermion Portal Dark Matter
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Yu Gao (TAMU) - Low μ NMSSM at the LHC & Discerning a Hidden `Higgs' Boson
Yu Gao (TAMU) - Low μ NMSSM at the LHC & Discerning a Hidden `Higgs' Boson
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
Keith Dienes (Arizona) - Dynamical Dark Matter A Status Report
Keith Dienes (Arizona) - Dynamical Dark Matter A Status Report
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Brooks Thomas (Reed) - A Non-Minimal Talk about Non-Minimal Dark Sectors
Brooks Thomas (Reed) - A Non-Minimal Talk about Non-Minimal Dark Sectors
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6:00 PM
Banquet
Banquet
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Thursday, May 21, 2015
9:00 AM
Peter Redl (Stanford) - CDMS
Peter Redl (Stanford) - CDMS
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Robert Webb (TAMU) - LUX/LZ
Robert Webb (TAMU) - LUX/LZ
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Paolo Zuccon (MIT) - Latest results of the AMS experiment
Paolo Zuccon (MIT) - Latest results of the AMS experiment
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR) - Dark Matter in the Milky Way
Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR) - Dark Matter in the Milky Way
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Scott Watson (Syracuse) - Revisiting Dark Matter in the Aftermath of LHC and FERMI
Scott Watson (Syracuse) - Revisiting Dark Matter in the Aftermath of LHC and FERMI
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Adrienne Erickcek (UNC) - The Dark Matter Annihilation Boost from Low-Temperature Reheating
Adrienne Erickcek (UNC) - The Dark Matter Annihilation Boost from Low-Temperature Reheating
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Mei-Yu Wang (TAMU) - Impacts of Alternative Dark Matter Models on Milky Way Satellite Kinematics
Mei-Yu Wang (TAMU) - Impacts of Alternative Dark Matter Models on Milky Way Satellite Kinematics
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Yao-Yuan Mao (Stanford)- Modeling Dark Matter Distributions
Yao-Yuan Mao (Stanford)- Modeling Dark Matter Distributions
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Sheldon Campbell (Ohio State) - Determining Sensitivity of Astrophysical Anisotropy Signals to Dark Matter Annihilation
Sheldon Campbell (Ohio State) - Determining Sensitivity of Astrophysical Anisotropy Signals to Dark Matter Annihilation
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Ilia Gogoladze (Delaware) - Dark matter, Neutrino mass and Gauge Coupling Unification
Ilia Gogoladze (Delaware) - Dark matter, Neutrino mass and Gauge Coupling Unification
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
Yue Zhang (Caltech) - Yukawa Bound States and Application to Dark Matter
Yue Zhang (Caltech) - Yukawa Bound States and Application to Dark Matter
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Michele Cicoli (ICTP) - Non-thermal dark matter and dark radiation from strings
Michele Cicoli (ICTP) - Non-thermal dark matter and dark radiation from strings
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6:00 PM
BBQ
BBQ
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Friday, May 22, 2015
9:00 AM
Kaushik De (UT Arlington) - Dark Matter Searches in ATLAS
Kaushik De (UT Arlington) - Dark Matter Searches in ATLAS
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Luis Aparicio (ICTP) - Sequestering SUSY breaking and non-thermal dark matter
Luis Aparicio (ICTP) - Sequestering SUSY breaking and non-thermal dark matter
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke) - Future Circular Colliders
Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke) - Future Circular Colliders
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Yang Bai (Wisconsin-Madison) - Boosting Dark Matter Discovery @ LHC
Yang Bai (Wisconsin-Madison) - Boosting Dark Matter Discovery @ LHC
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Tianjun Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - The Supersymmetric Standard Models with a Pseudo-Dirac Gluino from Hybrid F- and D-Term Supersymmetry Breakings
Tianjun Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - The Supersymmetric Standard Models with a Pseudo-Dirac Gluino from Hybrid F- and D-Term Supersymmetry Breakings
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Daniel Chung (Wisconsin-Madison) - Blue Isocurvature Perturbations
Daniel Chung (Wisconsin-Madison) - Blue Isocurvature Perturbations
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Marco De Mattia (TAMU) - Search for long-lived particles in dilepton final states
Marco De Mattia (TAMU) - Search for long-lived particles in dilepton final states
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Yuriy Pakhotin (TAMU) - Search for Pair Production of New Light Bosons Decaying into Boosted Dimuons
Yuriy Pakhotin (TAMU) - Search for Pair Production of New Light Bosons Decaying into Boosted Dimuons
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Joel Walker (Sam Houston State) - Probing the Goldstone Equivalence Theorem in Neutralino Decays via Z/Higgs
Joel Walker (Sam Houston State) - Probing the Goldstone Equivalence Theorem in Neutralino Decays via Z/Higgs
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Mykhailo Dalchenko (TAMU) - Light Nonthermal Dark Matter and the Collider Monotop Chirality
Mykhailo Dalchenko (TAMU) - Light Nonthermal Dark Matter and the Collider Monotop Chirality
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
Vannia Gonzalez - (UC Riverside) - Effective Interactions of DM and the Neutrino Portal
Vannia Gonzalez - (UC Riverside) - Effective Interactions of DM and the Neutrino Portal
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM