43rd SLAC Summer Institute

from Monday 10 August 2015 (08:30) to Friday 21 August 2015 (21:45)
SLAC (Kavli Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Aug 2015
11 Aug 2015
12 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015
14 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015
20 Aug 2015
21 Aug 2015
AM
08:30 --- Registration and Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Why are Neutrinos important ? - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Neutrino Basics (I) - Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)  
11:45 Neutrino Sources - Deborah Harris (FNAL)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Neutrino Basics (II) - Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Neutrino Cosmology (I) - Alessandro Melchiorri (U. Roma 1)  
11:45 Neutrino Detectors (I) - Robert Svoboda (University of California at Davis)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Neutrino Basics (III) - Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Neutrino Detectors (II) - Robert Svoboda (University of California at Davis)  
11:45 Neutrino Cosmology (II) - Alessandro Melchiorri (U. Roma 1)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Reactor Neutrinos - Karsten Heeger (Yale University)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Neutrino Cross Sections: Outstanding Issues - Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester)  
11:45 Long Baseline Neutrinos (I) - Gary Feldman (Harvard)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Supernova Neutrinos - Alexander Friedland (SLAC)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Direct Mass Measurements - Joseph Formaggio (MIT)  
11:45 Long Baseline Neutrinos (II) - Gary Feldman (High Energy Physics Laboratory)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Short Baseline Neutrinos (I) - William Louis (LANL)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Lepton Flavor Violation - Yuval Grossman (Cornell)  
11:45 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Theory - Werner Rodejohann (MPI Heidelberg)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Short Baseline Neutrinos (II) - William Louis (LANL)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Leptogenesis - Yuval Grossman (Cornell)  
11:45 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Experiments - Lisa Kaufman (Indiana University)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Neutrinos as Dark Matter - Kevork Abazajian (University of California, Irvine)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Neutrino Floor in Dark Matter Detection - Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)  
11:45 Neutrinos at the LHC - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 GeoNeutrinos - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Neutrino Astronomy - Kara Hoffman (UMD)  
11:45 Global Fit to the Neutrino Data - Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (YITP, Stony Brook and ICREA, U. Barcelona)  
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 13:00)
09:00 BSM Searches Using Neutrino Detectors - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)  
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Future Neutrino Facilities - Mark Andrew Thomson (University of Cambridge (GB))  
11:45 Contest and Project Awards  
12:00 The View Ahead - Joseph David Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
PM
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference I (until 17:45)
14:45 Results from Planck/ACT - Renee Hlozek (Princeton University)  
15:15 Results from DES - Dr Matthew Becker (Stanford/KIPAC/SLAC)  
15:45 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:05 Results from BICEP/Keck - Sarah Kernasovskiy (Stanford University)  
16:35 Results from BOSS/DESI - Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (DAPNIA, Saclay)  
18:00 --- Reception ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Discussions (until 17:50) (ROB Redwood Room)
14:45 Q & A  
16:00 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:30 Project kick-off  
18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference II (until 17:45)
14:45 Higgs and SM Results from ATLAS/CMS - Goetz Gaycken (Universitaet Bonn (DE))  
15:15 New Physics Searches at CMS/ATLAS - Ulrich Heintz (Brown University (US))  
15:45 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:05 Results from LHCb - Biplab Dey (INFN Milano)  
16:35 Results from ALICE - Mateusz Ploskon (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
18:00 --- Poster Social ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Discussions (until 17:50)
14:45 Q & A  
16:00 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:30 Project work   (Redwood Room & ROB Patio)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topic Conference Session III (until 15:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
14:45 Results from BaBar - Mathew Graham (SLAC)  
15:15 Results from AMS - Paolo Zuccon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
15:45 --- Afternoon break ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference IV (until 16:15)
14:45 Results from Fermi - Andrea Albert (SLAC)  
15:15 Heavy Photon Search Experiment at JLab - Takashi Maruyama (SLAC)  
15:45 Results from CAST - Jaime Ruz Armendariz (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))  
16:15 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:35
Discussions (until 18:00) (Redwood Room)
16:35 Project work time   (Redwood room)
18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Discussions (until 17:45)
14:45 Q & A  
16:00 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:30 Projects   (Redwood room / ROB patio)
18:00 --- Poster Social ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference V (until 17:05)
14:45 Results from NOVA - Patricia Vahle (College of William and Mary)  
15:15 Results from Borexino - Andrea Pocar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)  
15:45 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:05 Results from CUORE - Brian Fujikawa (LBNL)  
16:35 Results from T2K/Super-K - Yoshinari Hayato (University of Tokyo)  
17:30 Soccer   (Arillaga Recreation Center)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Project Presentations (until 18:00)
14:00 Team 2: Detectors for supernovae detection - Jose Sepulveda (Iowa State University)  
14:20 Team 3: Neutrino model as DM candidate - Samuel Roland (University of Michigan)  
14:40 Team 4: Neutrino CPV phase and leptogenesis - Andrew Cudd  
15:00 Team 8: Exclude SM-like 3-neutrino picture ? - Moriah Tobin (University of Wisconsin, Madison)  
15:20 Team 9: NOVA @ SLAC ? 2nd oscillation max ? - Fernanda Psihas (Indiana University)  
15:40 --- Afternoon break ---
16:00 Team 11: Measure 2K cosmic neutrino background - Noah Kurinsky (SLAC/Stanford)  
16:20 Team 13: Follow up neutrinos double beta decays - Micah Buuck (University of Washington)  
16:40 Team 14: Neutrino cross section experiment - Anne Norrick (The College of William and Mary)  
17:00 Team 16: Neutrino communication to submarine - Ashwin Chopra (UCL)  
17:20 Team 19: Next generation of solar neutrino experiment ? - Justin Vasel (Indiana University)  
18:00 --- Dinner ---
13:00 --- - Adjourn - ---