Arnowitt Symposium and Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics

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

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

University Ave & Ireland Street, College Station, Texas 77845
Anthony Rose (Texas A & M University (US)), Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University), Ghosh Tathagata (University of Texas A&M), Louis Strigari (Stanford University), Mei-Yu Wang (Texas A&M University), Mykhailo Dalchenko (Texas A & M University (US)), Teruki Kamon (Texas A & M University (US)), Yu Gao (U)
Description
The 2015 Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics will be held from May 18 – May 22, 2015, at the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University. The workshop will focus on recent results from collider experiments and progress in the field of dark matter. The second and third days of the workshop will concentrate on the work being done on collider experiments. There will also be discussion of the implications of recent results, and related topics in particle phenomenology. The final two days of the workshop will focus on a discussion of dark matter, with talks highlighting recent results from various direct and indirect experimental searches and also related topics in astrophysics and cosmology. In order to honor the passing of our esteemed colleague, Dr. Richard Arnowitt, the first day of this year’s workshop will be dedicated to him. The Arnowitt Symposium will be held on May 18, 2015. Dr. Richard Arnowitt was a pillar of his field, and well known for his research on general relativity and the development of the ADM formalism with Dr. Stanley Deser and Dr. Charles Misner.
    • 1
      Welcome - George Welch (TAMU)
    • 2
      Pran Nath (Northeastern)- Perspectives on Particle Theory from Pion Physics to Sparticles
      Slides
    • 3
      Teruki Kamon (TAMU) - Arnowitt: Hunt for Dark Matter
      Slides
    • 4
      Rabi Mohapatra (Maryland)
      Slides
    • 10:15
      Coffee break
    • 5
      Thomas Kehpart (Vanderbilt)
      Slides
    • 6
      James Dent (Louisiana) - A General Analysis of Direct Detection: from Microphysics to Observational Signatures
      Slides
    • 7
      Howie Baer (Oklahoma) - Supergravity gauge theories strike back: There is no crisis for SUSY but a new collider may be required for discovery
      Slides
    • 12:05
      Lunch
    • 8
      Xerxes Tata (Hawaii) - Aspirations and Prospects in the LHC Era
      Slides
    • 9
      Rajan Gupta (LANL) - Exploring Novel Physics at the TeV Scale through Lattice QCD Simulations of the Nucleon
      Slides
    • 10
      Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State) - Proton decay in SUSY and non-SUSY GUTs
      Slides
    • 11
      Kelly Stelle (Imperial) - Supersymmetry, Gravity and Branes: Remembering Dick Arnowitt
      Slides
    • 15:15
      Coffee break
    • 12
      Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt)
      Slides
    • 13
      Chris Pope (TAMU)
      Slides
    • 14
      Peter McIntyre (TAMU) - Signals for new symmetries: Arnowitt’s forte, my passion
      Slides
    • 15
      Bhaskar Dutta (TAMU)
      Slides
    • 18:00
      Reception speakers - Valery Pokrovsky (TAMU), David Toback (TAMU)
    • 16
      Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial) - Searches for Dark Matter production at the LHC
      Slides
    • 17
      Rafael Lang (Purdue) - Direct Dark Matter Detection: Status and Outlook
      Slides
    • 10:10
      Coffee break
    • 18
      Mike Boylan-Kolchin (Maryland) - Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Physics in Numerical Simulations
      Slides
    • 19
      Regina Caputo (UCSC) - Indirect Detection: Dark Matter in the Cosmos
      Slides
    • 12:00
      Lunch
    • 20
      Pyungwon Ko (KIAS) - Beyond the DM EFT: Higgs portal DM as examples
    • 21
      Azar Mustafayev (Hawaii) - Detecting Higgsino Dark Matter at Colliders
      Slides
    • 22
      Jason Kumar (Hawaii) - Searching for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising From Dark Matter Annihilation
      Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • 23
      Kuver Sinha (Syracuse) - Supersymmetry, Exotics, and Intriguing Hints of New Physics
      Slides
    • 24
      Can Kilic (UT Austin) - Aspects of Lepton Flavored Dark Matter
      Slides
    • 25
      Rouzbeh Allahverdi (New Mexico) - Probing the neutrino sector with dark matter indirect detection searches
      Slides
    • 26
      Basil Schneider (TRIUMF) - SUSY Searches in ATLAS
      Slides
    • 27
      Andres Florez (Universidad de los Andes) - CMS Dark Matter
      Slides
    • 28
      John Paul Chou (Rutgers) - CMS Hints from Run 1 and Prospects for Run 2
      Slides
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 29
      Alex Drlica-Wagner (FNAL) - Searching for Milky Way Satellite Galaxies: from Optical to Gamma Rays
      Slides
    • 30
      Savvas Koushiappas (Brown) - Reticulum II: Evidence for gamma-ray emission, its dark matter content and implications for dark matter physics
      Slides
    • 31
      Ilias Cholis (FNAL) - The Fermi Galactic Center Excess: Background Model Systematics and the Dark Matter Interpretation
      Slides
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 32
      Prateek Agrawal (FNAL) - WIMPs at the Galactic Center
      Slides
    • 33
      Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) - Self-interacting Dark Matter -some recent progress
      Slides
    • 34
      Jiang-hao Yu (UT Austin) - Vector Fermion Portal Dark Matter
      Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • 35
      Yu Gao (TAMU) - Low μ NMSSM at the LHC & Discerning a Hidden `Higgs' Boson
      Slides
    • 36
      Keith Dienes (Arizona) - Dynamical Dark Matter A Status Report
      Slides
    • 37
      Brooks Thomas (Reed) - A Non-Minimal Talk about Non-Minimal Dark Sectors
      Slides
    • 18:00
      Banquet
    • 38
      Peter Redl (Stanford) - CDMS
      Slides
    • 39
      Robert Webb (TAMU) - LUX/LZ
      Slides
    • 40
      Paolo Zuccon (MIT) - Latest results of the AMS experiment
      Slides
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 41
      Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR) - Dark Matter in the Milky Way
      Slides
    • 42
      Scott Watson (Syracuse) - Revisiting Dark Matter in the Aftermath of LHC and FERMI
      Slides
    • 43
      Adrienne Erickcek (UNC) - The Dark Matter Annihilation Boost from Low-Temperature Reheating
      Slides
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 44
      Mei-Yu Wang (TAMU) - Impacts of Alternative Dark Matter Models on Milky Way Satellite Kinematics
      Slides
    • 45
      Yao-Yuan Mao (Stanford)- Modeling Dark Matter Distributions
      Slides
    • 46
      Sheldon Campbell (Ohio State) - Determining Sensitivity of Astrophysical Anisotropy Signals to Dark Matter Annihilation
      Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • 47
      Ilia Gogoladze (Delaware) - Dark matter, Neutrino mass and Gauge Coupling Unification
      Slides
    • 48
      Yue Zhang (Caltech) - Yukawa Bound States and Application to Dark Matter
      Slides
    • 49
      Michele Cicoli (ICTP) - Non-thermal dark matter and dark radiation from strings
      Slides
    • 18:00
      BBQ
    • 50
      Kaushik De (UT Arlington) - Dark Matter Searches in ATLAS
      Slides
    • 51
      Luis Aparicio (ICTP) - Sequestering SUSY breaking and non-thermal dark matter
      Slides
    • 52
      Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke) - Future Circular Colliders
      Slides
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 53
      Yang Bai (Wisconsin-Madison) - Boosting Dark Matter Discovery @ LHC
      Slides
    • 54
      Tianjun Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - The Supersymmetric Standard Models with a Pseudo-Dirac Gluino from Hybrid F- and D-Term Supersymmetry Breakings
      Slides
    • 55
      Daniel Chung (Wisconsin-Madison) - Blue Isocurvature Perturbations
      Slides
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 58
      Joel Walker (Sam Houston State) - Probing the Goldstone Equivalence Theorem in Neutralino Decays via Z/Higgs
      Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • 59
      Mykhailo Dalchenko (TAMU) - Light Nonthermal Dark Matter and the Collider Monotop Chirality
      Slides
    • 60
      Vannia Gonzalez - (UC Riverside) - Effective Interactions of DM and the Neutrino Portal
      Slides