Name: 2016 Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics
Start: 2016-01-11T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2016-01-16T12:00:00-07:00
Location: ACP, Aspen, CO

2016 Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics

from Monday, 11 January 2016 (08:00) to Saturday, 16 January 2016 (12:00)

Monday, 11 January 2016
08:00 Jan 11 Morning Session: Higgs and Top Physics
Higgs and Top Physics
08:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Higgs Physics in ATLAS and CMS - Guillaume Unal (CERN)

08:30 SM Higgs Theory - John Campbell (Unknown) John Campbell

09:00 BSM Higgs Theory - Nausheen Shah (Fermilab)

10:00 Top Physics in ATLAS and CMS - Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University (US))

10:30 Top Physics Theory - Fabrizio Caola (CERN)
11:00 Skiing/Free Time
Skiing/Free Time
11:00 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 Jan 11 Afternoon Session: Dark Matter and Heavy-Ion Physics
Dark Matter and Heavy-Ion Physics
16:30 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 Dark Matter Theory - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

17:00 Indirect Detection Searches for DM - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)

18:00 Heavy Ion Theory - Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

18:30 Experimental Heavy Ion Results - I - Grazia Luparello (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT))

19:00 Heavy Ion Experiment - II - Brian Cole (Columbia University (US)) Marumi Kado (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
19:30 Dinner at the Aspen Meadows
Dinner at the Aspen Meadows
19:30 - 21:30
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
08:00 Jan 12 Morning Session
08:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Gamma Ray Observations - Brian Humensky (University of Chicago)

08:30 HAWC Status and UHECR Results - Jordan Goodman (University of Maryland, College Park)

09:00 CMB and Cosmological Parameters - Brian Keating

10:00 New Ideas on Higgs Naturalness - Brian Thomas Batell

10:30 Explaining LHC flavor anomalies - Andreas Crivellin (CERN)
11:00 Skiing/Free time
Skiing/Free time
11:00 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 12 Afternoon Session
16:30 - 20:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 Future Hadron Colliders - Daniel Schulte (CERN)

17:00 Physics at Future e+e- Colliders - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

18:00 Searches for SUSY (ATLAS/CMS) - Christopher West (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))

18:30 Searches beyond SUSY (ATLAS) - Haichen Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

19:00 Searches beyond SUSY (CMS) - Keti Kaadze (Kansas State University (US))

19:30 750 GeV Excess Discussion - Moderator: Nima Arkani-Hamed
20:00 Dinner in Aspen
Dinner in Aspen
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Flug Forum
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
08:00 13 Morning Session
08:00 - 11:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 EW Physics at the LHC - Louis Helary (Boston University (US))

08:30 EW Physics Theory - Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)

09:00 NLO MC For Collider Physics - Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

10:00 Hard QCD at the LHC - David d'Enterria (CERN)

10:30 Recent Progress in NNLO Calculations - Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

11:00 Advanced Methods for Scattering Amplitudes - Johannes Henn (IAS)
11:30 Skiing/Free Time
Skiing/Free Time
11:30 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 Public Lecture
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Wheeler Opera House
Contributions

16:30 Physics Cafe - Mark Messier (IU) Nausheen Shah (Wayne State University)

17:30 Public Lecture: Are we ready for a final theory of physics? - Michael Peskin
18:30 Dinner in Aspen
Dinner in Aspen
18:30 - 23:30
Room: Flug Forum
Thursday, 14 January 2016
08:00 14 Morning Session
08:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Flavor Physics - Rare Decays & Lifetime - Julien Cogan (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France)

08:30 Flavor Physics - CP Violation - Silvia Borghi (University of Manchester (GB))

09:00 Flavor Physics Theory - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Perimeter Institute)

10:00 Precision EW calculations for future experiments - Thomas Blum

10:30 mu2e and g-2 status - Brendan Casey (Fermilab)
11:00 Skiing/Free time
Skiing/Free time
11:00 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 14 Afternoon Session
16:30 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 UHE Neutrino Experiments - Claudio Kopper (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

17:00 Astrophysical Neutrino Probes - Ina Sarcevic (university of arizona)

18:00 Neutrino Physics Theory - Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham (GB))

18:30 Accelerator-Based Neutrino Experiments - Mark Messier (IU)

19:00 Reactor-Based Neutrino Experiments - Karsten Heeger (University of Wisconsin)
19:30 Banquet
19:30 - 22:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

21:30 Banquet award presentation - Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))

22:00 Ski race movie
Friday, 15 January 2016
08:00 15 Morning Session
08:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Axion Searches - Dmitry Budker

08:30 Gravitational Wave Searches - Jocelyn Read

09:00 EFT for Dark Matter & Neutrinos - Richard Hill

10:00 Searches for 0vbb Decay - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

10:30 Physics at Future Neutrino Facilities - Jelena Maricic (University of Hawaii)
11:00 Skiing/Free Time
Skiing/Free Time
11:00 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 15 Afternoon Session
16:30 - 20:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 New Techniques for LHC BSM Searches in Run 2 - James William Dolen (State University of New York (US))

17:00 Theoretical advances in boosted studies - Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)

18:00 DM Direct Detection Status - Rafael Lang

18:30 DM in Cosmos - Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)

19:00 Soft QCD in ATLAS & CMS - Douglas Michael Schaefer (CERN)

19:30 Resummation and SCET - Thomas Becher (University of Bern)
20:00 Dinner in Aspen
Dinner in Aspen
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Flug Forum
Saturday, 16 January 2016
08:00 Jan 16 Morning Session: Summary session
Summary session
08:00 - 12:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Belle-II Status - Milind Vasant Purohit (University of South Carolina (US))

08:18 Status of the SoLid Experiment - Jonathan Link (Virginia Tech)

08:36 COHERENT Status - phil barbeau

08:54 MicroBooNe Status - Taritree Wongjirad

09:30 Theoretical Summary and New Ideas - Michael Peskin

10:15 Experimental Summary - Marumi Kado (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))