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)
ICISE

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 10, 2016
Jul 11, 2016
Jul 12, 2016
Jul 13, 2016
Jul 14, 2016
Jul 15, 2016
Jul 16, 2016
AM
8:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Plenary - Pham Q. Hung (University of Virginia (US)) Van TRAN THANH (Rencontres du Vietnam) (until 10:00 AM)
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 (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
Plenary Session 2 - P. Q. Hung (University of Virginia) (until 12:00 PM)
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))  
8:30 AM
Plenary Session 5 - Jihn E. Kim (Kyung Hee University) (until 10:00 AM)
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 ---
10:30 AM
Plenary Session 6 - Jihn E. Kim (Kyung Hee University) (until 11:30 AM)
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 (until 12:45 PM)
8:30 AM
Parallel II - Bjoern Penning (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)) (until 10:10 AM)
8:30 AM Mass composition and shower physiscs studies with the data of the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Mrs 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 - Dr 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)  
8:30 AM
Parallel III - Hong Van Nguyen Thi (Institute of Physics, 10 Dao Tan, Ba Dinh, Hanoi) (until 10:10 AM)
8:30 AM Direct Dark Matter Detection with XENON1T - Mr Julien on behalf of the XENON collaboration Wulf (University of Zürich)  
8:50 AM The dual light-emitting crystals detector for WIMPs direct searches - Mr 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 - Dr Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)  
9:30 AM free time  
8:30 AM
Parallel V - Kameshwar C Wali (Syracuse University) (until 10:10 AM)
8:30 AM On higher dimensional nonlinear massive gravity - Dr 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 - Dr Dimitrios Giataganas (NCTS)  
8:30 AM
Parallel VI - Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science) (until 10:10 AM)
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 - Dr James Unwin (University of Illinois)  
9:30 AM Constraints on cosmological viscosity from GW150914 observation - Dr Gaurav Goswami (Ahmedabad University)  
9:50 AM Constraints on preinflation fluctuations in a nearly flat open $\Lambda_{\rm CDM}$ cosmology - Dr Lan NGUYEN (Hanoi National University of Education)  
10:10 AM
Coffee Break/Discussion (until 10:40 AM)
10:40 AM
Parallel I - Serguey Petcov (SISSA) (until 12:40 PM)
10:40 AM Results from the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam - Dr Nobuko Kitagawa (Nagoya University)  
11:00 AM Results from the NOvA Experiment - Dr 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)  
10:40 AM
Parallel II - Anna Goussiou (University of Washington (US)) (until 12:20 PM)
10:40 AM Search for a high mass diphoton resonance using the ATLAS detector - Mr Andrew HARD (University of Wisconsin)  
11:00 AM Exotic Zγ Search with the ATLAS Detector and its Implication to the 750 GeV γγ Excess - Dr Dart-yin Soh (Institute of Physics-Academia Sinica)  
11:20 AM Composite models for 750 GeV diphoton excess at the LHC - Dr Chaehyun Yu (Academia Sinica)  
11:40 AM Interpreting the 750 GeV Di-photon Resonance using photon-jets in Hidden-Valley-like models - Dr 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)  
10:40 AM
Parallel IV - Giovanni Punzi (Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT)) (until 12:20 PM)
10:40 AM Searches for light new-physics particles with BaBar data - Prof. 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  
10:40 AM
Parallel V - Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii) (until 12:20 PM)
10:40 AM Gauge Coupling Unification in Gauge-Higgs Grand Unification - Naoki Yamatsu (Kyoto Sangyo University)  
11:00 AM Families-unified GUTs from superstring - Prof. Jihn E. Kim (Kyung Hee University)  
11:20 AM O(N) scalar field model in de Sitter space: beyond the leading IR approximation - Dr 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)  
10:40 AM
Parallel VI - Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science) (until 12:20 PM)
10:40 AM The Origin of the hot Big Bang from the Standard Model Higgs - Dr 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 - Mr Kiyoharu Kawana (Kyoto University)  
8:30 AM
Plenary Session 7 - Danny Marfatia (until 10:00 AM)
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 (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
Plenary Sesion 8 - Danny Marfatia (until 12:30 PM)
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)  
8:30 AM
Plenary Session 11 - Rohini Godbole (Centre for Theoretical Studies (CTS)) (until 10:00 AM)
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 (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
Plenary Session 12 - Rohini Godbole (Centre for Theoretical Studies (CTS)) (until 12:30 PM)
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))  
9:00 AM
Summaries and closing - Van TRAN THANH (Rencontres du Vietnam) P. Q. Hung (University of Virginia) (until 11:00 AM)
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 (until 12:00 PM)
PM
3:00 PM
Arrival and Registration (until 7:00 PM)
7:00 PM
Welcome Reception and Dinner (until 9:30 PM)
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Plenary Session 3 - Bob Hirosky (University of Virginia (US)) (until 3:00 PM)
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 (until 3:30 PM)
3:30 PM
Plenary Session 4 - Bob Hirosky (University of Virginia (US)) (until 4:00 PM)
3:30 PM Natural SUSY phenomenology at LHC - Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)  
4:00 PM
Plenary Session 10 (until 4:30 PM)
4:00 PM Quantum Field Theories in Higher Dimensions - Kimyeong Lee (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)  
4:30 PM
Beach and informal discussions (until 6:00 PM)
6:00 PM
Banquet Dinner at ICISE with province president (tentative) (until 8:30 PM)
12:45 PM
Parallel I - Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii) (until 2:45 PM)
12:45 PM Recent neutrino oscillation results from T2K - Dr 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 - Mr 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 - Dr Masaki Yang (Saitama University)  
12:45 PM
Parallel II - Andreas Jung (Purdue University (US)) (until 2:45 PM)
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 - Mr 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 - Dr Ken-ichi Okumura (Kyushu University)  
12:45 PM
Parallel III - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab) (until 2:45 PM)
12:45 PM Recent Results at Ultra-high Cosmic Ray Energies from the Pierre Auger Observatory. - Prof. 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 - Dr Huitzu Tu (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)  
2:25 PM Dark Astronomical Compact Objects in Inflationary Dark Matter model - Dat Duong (University of Virginia)  
12:45 PM
Parallel IV - Tzu-Chiang Yuan (Academia Sinica) (until 2:45 PM)
12:45 PM $\mu^-e^-\rightarrow e^-e^-$ in muonic atoms - Mr 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 - Prof. Liang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)  
12:45 PM
Parallel V -Dr Lan Nguyen (Hanoi National University of Education) (until 2:45 PM)
12:45 PM Probing classically conformal B-L model with gravitational waves - Dr 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 - Prof. 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 - Dr Shingo Takeuchi (Institute for Fundamental Study, Naresuan University)  
2:45 PM
Coffee Break/Discussion (until 3:15 PM)
3:15 PM
Parallel I - Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State University) (until 4:55 PM)
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)  
3:15 PM
Parallel II - Farid Ould-Saada (University of Oslo (NO)) (until 4:55 PM)
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 - Dr 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)  
3:15 PM
Parallel III - Celine Boehm (LAPP-Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules () (until 4:55 PM)
3:15 PM Phenomenology of electroweak multiplets as dark matter candidates. - Dr 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 - Mr Pengwei Xie (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)  
4:35 PM NEWS: Nuclear Emulsions for WIMP Search - Murat Ali Guler (Middle East Technical University (TR))  
3:15 PM
Parallel IV - Tzu-Chiang Yuan (Academia Sinica) (until 4:55 PM)
3:15 PM Lepton Flavor Violating Radiative Decays in EW-Scale $\nu_R$ Model: An Update - Mr 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 - Dr Nguyen Dinh Dinh (Institute of Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam)  
3:15 PM
Parallel V - Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin & HKUST) (until 4:55 PM)
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 - Dr Kai Schmitz (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK))  
3:55 PM Resurrecting Quartic and Quadratic inflaton potentials in two-field inflationary model - Dr 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 - Dr Kyohei Mukaida (Kavli IPMU)  
4:55 PM
Beach and informal discussions (until 6:25 PM)
7:00 PM
Dinner (until 9:00 PM)
12:20 PM
Lunch (until 1:50 PM)
2:00 PM
Excursion (until 6:00 PM)
7:00 PM
Dinner (until 9:00 PM)
12:30 PM
Lunch (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Plenary Session 9 - Robert Group (University of Virginia) (until 3:00 PM)
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 (until 3:30 PM)
3:30 PM
Plenary Session 10 - Robert Group (University of Virginia) (until 4:00 PM)
3:30 PM Higher Spins and Strings - Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS, Mumbai)  
4:00 PM
Beach and informal discussions (until 6:30 PM)
7:00 PM
Conference Banquetat at Center (until 9:30 PM)
12:30 PM
Lunch (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Plenary Session 13 - robert bernstein (until 3:30 PM)
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 (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
Plenary Session 14 - robert bernstein (until 4:30 PM)
4:00 PM LIGO experiment - Yuri Levin (Monash University)  
4:30 PM
Beach and informal discussions (until 6:00 PM)
7:00 PM
Dinner (until 9:00 PM)
12:00 PM
Depart for post conference tours (until 1:00 PM)