Name: PASCOS 2016: 22nd International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology
Start: 2016-07-10T15:00:00+07:00
End: 2016-07-16T13:30:00+07:00
Location: ICISE

PASCOS 2016: 22nd International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology

from Sunday, July 10, 2016 (3:00 PM) to Saturday, July 16, 2016 (1:30 PM)

Monday, July 4, 2016
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Friday, July 8, 2016
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Sunday, July 10, 2016

3:00 PM Arrival and Registration

3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Welcome Reception and Dinner

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Monday, July 11, 2016
8:30 AM Welcome and Opening Plenary
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - P. Q. Hung (University of Virginia) Van TRAN THANH (Rencontres du Vietnam)

9:00 AM Perspectives on String Theory by David Gross - David Gross (KITP/UCSB)

9:30 AM Neutrino oscillation experiments - Takaaki Kajita
10:00 AM Conference photograph, Coffee break

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Plenary Session 2: Overviews/Discoveries
Overviews/Discoveries
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM High energy neutrinos - Danny Marfatia

11:00 AM Standard Model Higgs boson studies at the LHC - Aurelio Juste Rozas (ICREA and IFAE (ES))

11:30 AM Top quark studies - Andreas Jung (Fermilab) Andreas Jung (Purdue University (US))
12:00 PM Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Plenary Session 3: Overviews/Discoveries
Overviews/Discoveries
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Standard model and EW measurements at ATLAS and CMS - Alberto Belloni (University of Maryland (US))

2:00 PM Challenging the CKM picture of CP violation in the Standard Model at LHCb - Giovanni Punzi (Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT))

2:30 PM A Guide to survive in early results of LHC RUN II: Long term prospects - mihoko nojiri (KEK)
3:00 PM Coffee Break/Discussion

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Plenary Session 4: Overviews/Discoveries
Overviews/Discoveries
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Natural SUSY phenomenology at LHC - Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)
4:00 PM Plenary Session 10: String Theories
String Theories
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Quantum Field Theories in Higher Dimensions - Kimyeong Lee (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
4:30 PM Beach and informal discussions

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Banquet Dinner at ICISE with province president (tentative)

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
8:30 AM Plenary Session 5: Cosmology/Dark Energy
Cosmology/Dark Energy
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Inflation and gravitational waves - Valerie Domcke (SISSA)

9:00 AM Overview of Planck results - Eric Hivon

9:30 AM Current status of Dark Energy and beyond - Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science)
10:00 AM Coffee Break/Discussion
Coffee Break/Discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Plenary Session 6: Cosmology/Dark Energy
Cosmology/Dark Energy
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM DES Experiment - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

11:00 AM Models of inflation - Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin & HKUST)
11:30 AM Lunch

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM Parallel I: Neutrino Physics
Neutrino Physics
12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

12:45 PM Recent neutrino oscillation results from T2K - Son V Cao (Kyoto University)

1:05 PM T2K exotics: sterile neutrinos and Lorentz violation searches - Phillip Litchfield (UCL)

1:25 PM Neutrino interaction cross-section measurements - David Payne (University of Liverpool)

1:45 PM Favored B_{c} decay modes to search for Majorana neutrino - Sanjoy Mandal (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

2:05 PM Majorana neutrino mass matrices induced by rigid E-brane instantons - Yoshiyuki Tatsuta (Waseda Univ.)

2:25 PM Hierarchical majorana neutrinos from democratic mass matrices - Masaki Yang (Saitama University)
Parallel II: SUSY/Higgs
SUSY/Higgs
12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

12:45 PM Search for low mass Higgs-boson like resonances at CMS - Junquan Tao (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

1:05 PM An Exploratory study of Higgs-boson pair production - Jung Chang (National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Physics Division)

1:25 PM Exploring minimally flavor violating Higgs decays - Jusak Tandean

1:45 PM Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of Neutral Higgses in Extended Mirror Fermion Model - Chrisna Setyo Nugroho (Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 116, Taiwan)

2:05 PM Vacuum stablility and SUSY at high scales with two Higgs doublets - Felix Bruemmer (Université de Montpellier)

2:25 PM Singlet-doublet mixing in NMSSM and approximate scale symmetries - Ken-ichi Okumura (Kyushu University)
Parallel III: Particle-Astrophysics
Particle-Astrophysics
12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

12:45 PM Recent Results at Ultra-high Cosmic Ray Energies from the Pierre Auger Observatory. - Roger Clay (University of Adelaide)

1:05 PM Measuring Velocity Distribution of Dark Matter by Directional Detection - Keiko Nagao

1:25 PM High-resolution SZ cartography of clusters of galaxies with the NIKA camera at the IRAM 30-m telescope - Frederic Mayet (LPSC Grenoble)

1:45 PM Searches for Axion-Like Particles with NGC1275: Observation of Spectral Modulations - Markus Rummel

2:05 PM Effects of Goldstone bosons on gamma-ray bursts - Huitzu Tu (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

2:25 PM Dark Astronomical Compact Objects in Inflationary Dark Matter model - Dat Duong (University of Virginia)
Parallel IV: Precision Experiments
Precision Experiments
12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

12:45 PM $\mu^-e^-\rightarrow e^-e^-$ in muonic atoms - Yuichi UESAKA (Osaka University)

1:05 PM The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab - ivano sarra (infn)

1:25 PM DeeMe, a muon to electron conversion search experiment at J-PARC MLF - Hiroaki Natori (KEK)

1:45 PM The COMET experiment - Phillip Litchfield (UCL)

2:05 PM Recent Progress on Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab - Liang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Parallel V: Gravity/Cosmology
Gravity/Cosmology
12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

12:45 PM Probing classically conformal B-L model with gravitational waves - Ryusuke Jinno (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

1:05 PM Gauge invariance in the actual calculation of a bubble nucleation rate - Yutaro Shoji (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

1:25 PM Chiral Primordial GWs due to the production of non-Abelian gauge field - Ippei Obata (Kyoto University)

1:45 PM Entanglement Dynamics of Detectors in an Einstein Cylinder - Chung-Hsien Chou (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University)

2:05 PM Hawking fluxes and Anomalies in the Rotating Regular Black Holes with the Time-Delay - Shingo Takeuchi (Institute for Fundamental Study, Naresuan University)
2:45 PM Coffee Break/Discussion

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM Parallel I: Neutrino Physics
Neutrino Physics
3:15 PM - 4:55 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM SHiP: a new facility with a dedicated detector to search for new long-lived neutral particles and studying tau neutrino properties - Murat Ali Guler (Middle East Technical University (TR))

3:35 PM Search for Neutrino Less Double Beta Decay with Majorana Demonstrator - Yuri Efremenko (University of Tennessee)

3:55 PM The next Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) experiment - Xilei Sun (IHEP)

4:15 PM Degeneracies in long-baseline neutrino experiments from nonstandard interactions - Jiajun Liao (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Parallel II: SUSY/EW extensions
SUSY/EW extensions
3:15 PM - 4:55 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Phenomenology of minimal Z’ models: from the LHC to high energy scales - Luigi Delle Rose (University of Southampton)

3:35 PM Profiling Z' bosons using charge asymmetry in top pair production with the lepton-plus-jets final state at the LHC - Declan Millar (University of London (GB))

3:55 PM Distinguished LHC signatures of EW scale right-handed ‘Fertile’ neutrinos - Shreyashi Chakdar (University of Virginia) Shreyashi Chakdar (oklahoma state university)

4:15 PM Constraints on non-universal gaugino mass scenario using the latest LHC data - Junichiro Kawamura (Waseda University)

4:35 PM Bottom-Tau Unification in Supersymmetric Model with Heavy Sfermions - Takeo Moroi (The University of Tokyo)
Parallel III: Dark Matter / Dark Energy
Dark Matter / Dark Energy
3:15 PM - 4:55 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Phenomenology of electroweak multiplets as dark matter candidates. - Marco Taoso (IFT, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

3:35 PM Simplified DM models with the full SM gauge symmetry - Alexander Natale (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

3:55 PM Axion as a cold dark matter candidate: fully relativistic and nonlinear analysis - Jai-chan Hwang

4:15 PM Updates from the PandaX-II experiment - Pengwei Xie (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

4:35 PM NEWS: Nuclear Emulsions for WIMP Search - Murat Ali Guler (Middle East Technical University (TR))
Parallel IV: Precision Experiments
Precision Experiments
3:15 PM - 4:55 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Lepton Flavor Violating Radiative Decays in EW-Scale $\nu_R$ Model: An Update - Van Que Tran (Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

3:35 PM $\mu \to e$ Conversion in the Electroweak-scale Right-handed Neutrino Model - Trinh Le (University of Virginia)

3:55 PM Lepton flavor violation processes in the charged lepton sector in minimal lepton flavor violation models - Nguyen Dinh Dinh (Institute of Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam)
Parallel V: Inflation and alternatives
Inflation and alternatives
3:15 PM - 4:55 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Non-minimally coupled inflation with a pre-inflation anamorphic contracting era; 750 GeV resonance as the inflaton: Unitarity violation and why the resonance is a real singlet scalar - John McDonald (Lancaster University)

3:35 PM Polonyi Inflation - Kai Schmitz (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK))

3:55 PM Resurrecting Quartic and Quadratic inflaton potentials in two-field inflationary model - Suratna Das (IIT Kanpur) Suratna Das

4:15 PM General Pole Inflation and Inflationary Attractors - Takahiro TERADA

4:35 PM Metastable Electroweak Vacuum and Chaotic Inflation - Kyohei Mukaida (Kavli IPMU)
4:55 PM Beach and informal discussions: Beach and informal discussions
Beach and informal discussions
4:55 PM - 6:25 PM

7:00 PM Dinner

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
8:30 AM Parallel II: QCD/strong interactions
QCD/strong interactions
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Mass composition and shower physiscs studies with the data of the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Patricia Sanchez-Lucas (University of Granada)

8:50 AM Holographic approach to electron–photon deep inelastic scattering at small x - Akira Watanabe (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

9:10 AM Heavy Axion Solution of the Strong CP Problem - Archil Kobakhidze (The University of Sydney)

9:30 AM A Model of Heavy QCD Axion and the LHC Signature - Hajime Fukuda (The University of Tokyo)
Parallel III: Dark Matter / Dark Energy
Dark Matter / Dark Energy
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Direct Dark Matter Detection with XENON1T - Julien on behalf of the XENON collaboration Wulf (University of Zürich)

8:50 AM The dual light-emitting crystals detector for WIMPs direct searches - Xuan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

9:10 AM Estimating J-factors of dSphs for indirect dark matter detections - Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)

9:30 AM free time
Parallel V: Strings/GUT
Strings/GUT
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM On higher dimensional nonlinear massive gravity - Tuan Do (Vietnam National University, Hanoi)

8:50 AM Leptogenesis in $E_6 \times U(1)_A$ SUSY GUT model - Masato Yamanaka (Kyoto Sangyo University)

9:10 AM Magnetized orbifold models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking - Keigo SUMITA

9:30 AM Three-generation models from SO(32) heterotic string theory - Hajime Otsuka

9:50 AM AdS/dS gauge/gravity correspondence - Dimitrios Giataganas (NCTS)
Parallel VI: Cosmology
Cosmology
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM A non-perturbative analysis of the cosmological constant problem - Babar Qureshi (Dept. of Physics, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS)

8:50 AM Heavy graviton dark matter in bimetric theory - Federico Urban (KBFI)

9:10 AM Cosmology with Democratic Initial Conditions - James Unwin (University of Illinois)

9:30 AM Constraints on cosmological viscosity from GW150914 observation - Gaurav Goswami (Ahmedabad University)

9:50 AM Constraints on preinflation fluctuations in a nearly flat open $\Lambda_{\rm CDM}$ cosmology - Lan NGUYEN (Hanoi National University of Education)
10:10 AM Coffee Break/Discussion

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM Parallel I: Neutrino Physics
Neutrino Physics
10:40 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM Results from the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam - Nobuko Kitagawa (Nagoya University)

11:00 AM Results from the NOvA Experiment - Gavin Davies (Indiana University)

11:20 AM Probing Neutrino Mass Hierarchy by Comparing the Charged-Current and Neutral-Current Interaction Rates of Supernova Neutrinos - Guey-Lin Lin (National Chiao-Tung University)

11:40 AM Constraining Lorentz Violation with IceCube High Energy Neutrino Data - Wei-Hao Lai (National Chiao-Tung University)

12:00 PM COHERENT experiment at SNS - Yuri Efremenko (University of Tennessee)

12:20 PM New Results from RENO and Future RENO-50 Project - Seon-Hee Seo (Seoul National University)
Parallel II: 750 GeV Resonance
750 GeV Resonance
10:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM Search for a high mass diphoton resonance using the ATLAS detector - Andrew HARD (University of Wisconsin)

11:00 AM Exotic Zγ Search with the ATLAS Detector and its Implication to the 750 GeV γγ Excess - Dart-yin Soh (Institute of Physics-Academia Sinica)

11:20 AM Composite models for 750 GeV diphoton excess at the LHC - Chaehyun Yu (Academia Sinica)

11:40 AM Interpreting the 750 GeV Di-photon Resonance using photon-jets in Hidden-Valley-like models - Chih-Ting Lu (National Tsing Hua University)

12:00 PM Large loop-coupling enhancement of a 750 GeV pseudoscalar from a light dark sector - Stefano Di Chiara (NICPB)
Parallel IV: Precision/collider joint session
Precision/collider joint session
10:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM Searches for light new-physics particles with BaBar data - Livio Lanceri (INFN and University of Trieste)

11:00 AM Studies of the rare decays B -> K* l+ l- and B -> K pi pi gamma and search for B+ -> K+ tau+ tau- at BABAR - Abi Soffer (Tel Aviv University (IL))

11:20 AM Neutral pion form factor measurement and Search for K+ to pi+ nunu at NA62 - Michal Zamkovsky (Charles University (CZ))

11:40 AM free time
Parallel V: Strings/GUT
Strings/GUT
10:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM Gauge Coupling Unification in Gauge-Higgs Grand Unification - Naoki Yamatsu (Kyoto Sangyo University)

11:00 AM Families-unified GUTs from superstring - Jihn E. Kim (Kyung Hee University)

11:20 AM O(N) scalar field model in de Sitter space: beyond the leading IR approximation - Diana Laura LOPEZ NACIR (CERN)

11:40 AM DBI action of real linear superfield in 4D N=1 conformal supergravity - Shuntaro Aoki (Waseda University)

12:00 PM Dirac Operator in Discretized Kaluza-Klein Theory - Aiviet Nguyen (Information Technology Institute, VNU)
Parallel VI: Cosmology
Cosmology
10:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM The Origin of the hot Big Bang from the Standard Model Higgs - Daniel G. Figueroa (CERN)

11:00 AM Can Brans-Dicke theory with Λ>0 describe stars? - Antonio Enea Romano (UDEA/YITP)

11:20 AM Adiabaticity and gravity theory independent conservation laws for cosmological perturbations - Antonio Enea Romano (UDEA/YITP)

11:40 AM Explaining the Standard Model criticality from Coleman’s Theory - Kiyoharu Kawana (Kyoto University)
12:20 PM Lunch

12:20 PM - 1:50 PM

2:00 PM Excursion

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

7:00 PM Dinner

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, July 14, 2016
8:30 AM Plenary Session 7: Neutrino physics
Neutrino physics
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Neutrino Mixing, Leptonic CP Violation and Neutrino Masses from Discrete Flavor Symmetries - Serguey Petcov (SISSA)

9:00 AM Fertile neutrinos - Alfredo Aranda (Universidad de Colima)

9:30 AM Neutrinoless double-beta decay: First results of GERDA Phase II and the status of other experiments - Alexey Lubashevskiy (MPIK)
10:00 AM Coffee Break/Discussion

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Plenary Sesion 8: Neutrino physics
Neutrino physics
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM Magnetic Moments against Majorana, Right-handed W against leptogenesis - jean-marie frere (ULB)

11:00 AM Progress And Prospects of Reactor Neutrino Experiments - Kam-Biu Luk (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

11:30 AM Astrophysics and particle physics  with IceCube and beyond - Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State University)

12:00 PM Long baseline neutrinos - Jeff Hartnell (University of Sussex)
12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Plenary Session 9: Precision Experiments
Precision Experiments
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Charged Lepton Flavor Violation: An Overview - robert bernstein

2:00 PM Final results of the MEG experiment and status of MEG II - Giovanni Signorelli (Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT))

2:30 PM CLFV theory review - Joe Sato
3:00 PM Coffee Break/Discussion

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Plenary Session 10: String Theories
String Theories
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Higher Spins and Strings - Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS, Mumbai)
4:00 PM Beach and informal discussions

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

7:00 PM Conference Banquetat at Center

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Friday, July 15, 2016
8:30 AM Plenary Session 11: DM/Exotics
DM/Exotics
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Dark Matter Interactions and Impact on Structure Formation - Celine Boehm (LAPP-Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules () celine boehm

9:00 AM DM detection: phenomenology - Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

9:30 AM Dark matter and new phenomena searches at CMS - Bjoern Penning (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
10:00 AM Coffee Break/Discussion

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Plenary Session 12: DM/Exotics
DM/Exotics
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM New physics and dark matter searches from ATLAS - Farid Ould-Saada (University of Oslo (NO))

11:00 AM Lepton flavor violation in BSM Higgs - Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)

11:30 AM BSM Higgs searches at the LHC - Anna Goussiou (University of Washington (US))

12:00 PM Indirect searches of New Physics with very rare decay at LHCb - Thibaud Humair (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Plenary Session 13: Future machines and technologies
Future machines and technologies
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM SuperCDMS - Bruno SERFASS (UC Berkeley)

2:00 PM Belle-II - Akimasa Ishikawa (Tohoku University (JP))

2:30 PM ILC - Tomohiko Tanabe

3:00 PM CEPC-SppC Accelerator Status - Jie Gao (Institute of High Energy Physics, China)
3:30 PM Coffee Break/Discussion

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Plenary Session 14: LIGO Experiment
LIGO Experiment
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM LIGO experiment - Yuri Levin (Monash University)
4:30 PM Beach and informal discussions

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

7:00 PM Dinner: Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday, July 16, 2016
9:00 AM Summaries and closing
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Summary and perspectives I: DM/DE/Cosmology - Jihn E. Kim (Kyung Hee University)

9:30 AM Summary and perspectives II: Collider Directions - Rohini Godbole (Centre for Theoretical Studies (CTS))

10:00 AM Summary and perspectives III: Neutrino and precision measurements - Manfred Lindner (Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

10:30 AM Closing remarks
11:00 AM Lunch

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Depart for post conference tours

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM