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)
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 May 2015
19 May 2015
20 May 2015
21 May 2015
22 May 2015
AM
08:50 Welcome - George Welch (TAMU)  
09:00 Pran Nath (Northeastern)- Perspectives on Particle Theory from Pion Physics to Sparticles  
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09:25 Teruki Kamon (TAMU) - Arnowitt: Hunt for Dark Matter  
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09:50 Rabi Mohapatra (Maryland)  
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10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Thomas Kehpart (Vanderbilt)  
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11:15 James Dent (Louisiana) - A General Analysis of Direct Detection: from Microphysics to Observational Signatures  
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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  
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08:50 Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial) - Searches for Dark Matter production at the LHC  
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09:30 Rafael Lang (Purdue) - Direct Dark Matter Detection: Status and Outlook  
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10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Mike Boylan-Kolchin (Maryland) - Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Physics in Numerical Simulations  
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11:20 Regina Caputo (UCSC) - Indirect Detection: Dark Matter in the Cosmos  
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09:00 Basil Schneider (TRIUMF) - SUSY Searches in ATLAS  
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09:30 Andres Florez (Universidad de los Andes) - CMS Dark Matter  
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10:00 John Paul Chou (Rutgers) - CMS Hints from Run 1 and Prospects for Run 2  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Alex Drlica-Wagner (FNAL) - Searching for Milky Way Satellite Galaxies: from Optical to Gamma Rays  
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11:30 Savvas Koushiappas (Brown) - Reticulum II: Evidence for gamma-ray emission, its dark matter content and implications for dark matter physics  
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09:00 Peter Redl (Stanford) - CDMS  
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09:30 Robert Webb (TAMU) - LUX/LZ  
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10:00 Paolo Zuccon (MIT) - Latest results of the AMS experiment  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR) - Dark Matter in the Milky Way  
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11:30 Scott Watson (Syracuse) - Revisiting Dark Matter in the Aftermath of LHC and FERMI  
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09:00 Kaushik De (UT Arlington) - Dark Matter Searches in ATLAS  
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09:30 Luis Aparicio (ICTP) - Sequestering SUSY breaking and non-thermal dark matter  
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10:00 Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke) - Future Circular Colliders  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Yang Bai (Wisconsin-Madison) - Boosting Dark Matter Discovery @ LHC  
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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  
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PM
12:05 --- Lunch ---
13:35 Xerxes Tata (Hawaii) - Aspirations and Prospects in the LHC Era  
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14:00 Rajan Gupta (LANL) - Exploring Novel Physics at the TeV Scale through Lattice QCD Simulations of the Nucleon  
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14:25 Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State) - Proton decay in SUSY and non-SUSY GUTs  
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14:50 Kelly Stelle (Imperial) - Supersymmetry, Gravity and Branes: Remembering Dick Arnowitt  
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15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:55 Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt)  
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16:20 Chris Pope (TAMU)  
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16:45 Peter McIntyre (TAMU) - Signals for new symmetries: Arnowitt’s forte, my passion  
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17:10 Bhaskar Dutta (TAMU)  
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18:00 --- Reception speakers - Valery Pokrovsky (TAMU), David Toback (TAMU) ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Pyungwon Ko (KIAS) - Beyond the DM EFT: Higgs portal DM as examples  
14:30 Azar Mustafayev (Hawaii) - Detecting Higgsino Dark Matter at Colliders  
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15:00 Jason Kumar (Hawaii) - Searching for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising From Dark Matter Annihilation  
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Kuver Sinha (Syracuse) - Supersymmetry, Exotics, and Intriguing Hints of New Physics  
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16:30 Can Kilic (UT Austin) - Aspects of Lepton Flavored Dark Matter  
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17:00 Rouzbeh Allahverdi (New Mexico) - Probing the neutrino sector with dark matter indirect detection searches  
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12:00 Ilias Cholis (FNAL) - The Fermi Galactic Center Excess: Background Model Systematics and the Dark Matter Interpretation  
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Prateek Agrawal (FNAL) - WIMPs at the Galactic Center  
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14:30 Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) - Self-interacting Dark Matter -some recent progress  
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15:00 Jiang-hao Yu (UT Austin) - Vector Fermion Portal Dark Matter  
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Yu Gao (TAMU) - Low μ NMSSM at the LHC & Discerning a Hidden `Higgs' Boson  
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16:30 Keith Dienes (Arizona) - Dynamical Dark Matter A Status Report  
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17:00 Brooks Thomas (Reed) - A Non-Minimal Talk about Non-Minimal Dark Sectors  
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18:00 --- Banquet ---
12:00 Adrienne Erickcek (UNC) - The Dark Matter Annihilation Boost from Low-Temperature Reheating  
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Mei-Yu Wang (TAMU) - Impacts of Alternative Dark Matter Models on Milky Way Satellite Kinematics  
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14:30 Yao-Yuan Mao (Stanford)- Modeling Dark Matter Distributions  
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15:00 Sheldon Campbell (Ohio State) - Determining Sensitivity of Astrophysical Anisotropy Signals to Dark Matter Annihilation  
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Ilia Gogoladze (Delaware) - Dark matter, Neutrino mass and Gauge Coupling Unification  
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16:30 Yue Zhang (Caltech) - Yukawa Bound States and Application to Dark Matter  
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17:00 Michele Cicoli (ICTP) - Non-thermal dark matter and dark radiation from strings  
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18:00 --- BBQ ---
12:00 Daniel Chung (Wisconsin-Madison) - Blue Isocurvature Perturbations  
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Marco De Mattia (TAMU) - Search for long-lived particles in dilepton final states  
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14:30 Yuriy Pakhotin (TAMU) - Search for Pair Production of New Light Bosons Decaying into Boosted Dimuons  
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15:00 Joel Walker (Sam Houston State) - Probing the Goldstone Equivalence Theorem in Neutralino Decays via Z/Higgs  
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Mykhailo Dalchenko (TAMU) - Light Nonthermal Dark Matter and the Collider Monotop Chirality  
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16:30 Vannia Gonzalez - (UC Riverside) - Effective Interactions of DM and the Neutrino Portal  
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