Arnowitt Symposium and Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics
from
Monday 18 May 2015 (08:00)
to
Friday 22 May 2015 (18:00)
Monday 18 May 2015
08:50
Welcome - George Welch (TAMU)
Welcome - George Welch (TAMU)
08:50 - 09:00
09:00
Pran Nath (Northeastern)- Perspectives on Particle Theory from Pion Physics to Sparticles
Pran Nath (Northeastern)- Perspectives on Particle Theory from Pion Physics to Sparticles
09:00 - 09:25
09:25
Teruki Kamon (TAMU) - Arnowitt: Hunt for Dark Matter
Teruki Kamon (TAMU) - Arnowitt: Hunt for Dark Matter
09:25 - 09:50
09:50
Rabi Mohapatra (Maryland)
Rabi Mohapatra (Maryland)
09:50 - 10:15
10:15
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:50
10:50
Thomas Kehpart (Vanderbilt)
Thomas Kehpart (Vanderbilt)
10:50 - 11:15
11:15
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 - 11:40
11:40
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 - 12:05
12:05
Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 13:35
13:35
Xerxes Tata (Hawaii) - Aspirations and Prospects in the LHC Era
Xerxes Tata (Hawaii) - Aspirations and Prospects in the LHC Era
13:35 - 14:00
14:00
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
14:00 - 14:25
14:25
Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State) - Proton decay in SUSY and non-SUSY GUTs
Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State) - Proton decay in SUSY and non-SUSY GUTs
14:25 - 14:50
14:50
Kelly Stelle (Imperial) - Supersymmetry, Gravity and Branes: Remembering Dick Arnowitt
Kelly Stelle (Imperial) - Supersymmetry, Gravity and Branes: Remembering Dick Arnowitt
14:50 - 15:15
15:15
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:55
15:55
Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt)
Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt)
15:55 - 16:20
16:20
Chris Pope (TAMU)
Chris Pope (TAMU)
16:20 - 16:45
16:45
Peter McIntyre (TAMU) - Signals for new symmetries: Arnowitt’s forte, my passion
Peter McIntyre (TAMU) - Signals for new symmetries: Arnowitt’s forte, my passion
16:45 - 17:10
17:10
Bhaskar Dutta (TAMU)
Bhaskar Dutta (TAMU)
17:10 - 17:35
18:00
Reception speakers - Valery Pokrovsky (TAMU), David Toback (TAMU)
Reception speakers - Valery Pokrovsky (TAMU), David Toback (TAMU)
18:00 - 19:00
Tuesday 19 May 2015
08:50
Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial) - Searches for Dark Matter production at the LHC
Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial) - Searches for Dark Matter production at the LHC
08:50 - 09:30
09:30
Rafael Lang (Purdue) - Direct Dark Matter Detection: Status and Outlook
Rafael Lang (Purdue) - Direct Dark Matter Detection: Status and Outlook
09:30 - 10:10
10:10
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40
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 - 11:20
11:20
Regina Caputo (UCSC) - Indirect Detection: Dark Matter in the Cosmos
Regina Caputo (UCSC) - Indirect Detection: Dark Matter in the Cosmos
11:20 - 12:00
12:00
Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
Pyungwon Ko (KIAS) - Beyond the DM EFT: Higgs portal DM as examples
Pyungwon Ko (KIAS) - Beyond the DM EFT: Higgs portal DM as examples
14:00 - 14:30
14:30
Azar Mustafayev (Hawaii) - Detecting Higgsino Dark Matter at Colliders
Azar Mustafayev (Hawaii) - Detecting Higgsino Dark Matter at Colliders
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Jason Kumar (Hawaii) - Searching for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising From Dark Matter Annihilation
Jason Kumar (Hawaii) - Searching for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising From Dark Matter Annihilation
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Kuver Sinha (Syracuse) - Supersymmetry, Exotics, and Intriguing Hints of New Physics
Kuver Sinha (Syracuse) - Supersymmetry, Exotics, and Intriguing Hints of New Physics
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Can Kilic (UT Austin) - Aspects of Lepton Flavored Dark Matter
Can Kilic (UT Austin) - Aspects of Lepton Flavored Dark Matter
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
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
17:00 - 17:30
Wednesday 20 May 2015
09:00
Basil Schneider (TRIUMF) - SUSY Searches in ATLAS
Basil Schneider (TRIUMF) - SUSY Searches in ATLAS
09:00 - 09:30
09:30
Andres Florez (Universidad de los Andes) - CMS Dark Matter
Andres Florez (Universidad de los Andes) - CMS Dark Matter
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
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 - 10:30
10:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
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 - 11:30
11:30
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 - 12:00
12:00
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 - 12:30
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Prateek Agrawal (FNAL) - WIMPs at the Galactic Center
Prateek Agrawal (FNAL) - WIMPs at the Galactic Center
14:00 - 14:30
14:30
Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) - Self-interacting Dark Matter -some recent progress
Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) - Self-interacting Dark Matter -some recent progress
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Jiang-hao Yu (UT Austin) - Vector Fermion Portal Dark Matter
Jiang-hao Yu (UT Austin) - Vector Fermion Portal Dark Matter
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
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
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Keith Dienes (Arizona) - Dynamical Dark Matter A Status Report
Keith Dienes (Arizona) - Dynamical Dark Matter A Status Report
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Brooks Thomas (Reed) - A Non-Minimal Talk about Non-Minimal Dark Sectors
Brooks Thomas (Reed) - A Non-Minimal Talk about Non-Minimal Dark Sectors
17:00 - 17:30
18:00
Banquet
Banquet
18:00 - 20:00
Thursday 21 May 2015
09:00
Peter Redl (Stanford) - CDMS
Peter Redl (Stanford) - CDMS
09:00 - 09:30
09:30
Robert Webb (TAMU) - LUX/LZ
Robert Webb (TAMU) - LUX/LZ
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
Paolo Zuccon (MIT) - Latest results of the AMS experiment
Paolo Zuccon (MIT) - Latest results of the AMS experiment
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR) - Dark Matter in the Milky Way
Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR) - Dark Matter in the Milky Way
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
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 - 12:00
12:00
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 - 12:30
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
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
14:00 - 14:30
14:30
Yao-Yuan Mao (Stanford)- Modeling Dark Matter Distributions
Yao-Yuan Mao (Stanford)- Modeling Dark Matter Distributions
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
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
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Ilia Gogoladze (Delaware) - Dark matter, Neutrino mass and Gauge Coupling Unification
Ilia Gogoladze (Delaware) - Dark matter, Neutrino mass and Gauge Coupling Unification
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Yue Zhang (Caltech) - Yukawa Bound States and Application to Dark Matter
Yue Zhang (Caltech) - Yukawa Bound States and Application to Dark Matter
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Michele Cicoli (ICTP) - Non-thermal dark matter and dark radiation from strings
Michele Cicoli (ICTP) - Non-thermal dark matter and dark radiation from strings
17:00 - 17:30
18:00
BBQ
BBQ
18:00 - 19:30
Friday 22 May 2015
09:00
Kaushik De (UT Arlington) - Dark Matter Searches in ATLAS
Kaushik De (UT Arlington) - Dark Matter Searches in ATLAS
09:00 - 09:30
09:30
Luis Aparicio (ICTP) - Sequestering SUSY breaking and non-thermal dark matter
Luis Aparicio (ICTP) - Sequestering SUSY breaking and non-thermal dark matter
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke) - Future Circular Colliders
Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke) - Future Circular Colliders
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Yang Bai (Wisconsin-Madison) - Boosting Dark Matter Discovery @ LHC
Yang Bai (Wisconsin-Madison) - Boosting Dark Matter Discovery @ LHC
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
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 - 12:00
12:00
Daniel Chung (Wisconsin-Madison) - Blue Isocurvature Perturbations
Daniel Chung (Wisconsin-Madison) - Blue Isocurvature Perturbations
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
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
14:00 - 14:30
14:30
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
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
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
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Mykhailo Dalchenko (TAMU) - Light Nonthermal Dark Matter and the Collider Monotop Chirality
Mykhailo Dalchenko (TAMU) - Light Nonthermal Dark Matter and the Collider Monotop Chirality
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Vannia Gonzalez - (UC Riverside) - Effective Interactions of DM and the Neutrino Portal
Vannia Gonzalez - (UC Riverside) - Effective Interactions of DM and the Neutrino Portal
16:30 - 17:00