2016 Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics

from Monday, January 11, 2016 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, January 16, 2016 (12:00 PM)
ACP, Aspen, CO (Flug Forum)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jan 11, 2016
Jan 12, 2016
Jan 13, 2016
Jan 14, 2016
Jan 15, 2016
Jan 16, 2016
AM
8:00 AM
Jan 11 Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
8:00 AM Higgs Physics in ATLAS and CMS - Guillaume Unal (CERN)  
8:30 AM SM Higgs Theory - John Campbell (Unknown) John Campbell  
9:00 AM BSM Higgs Theory - Nausheen Shah (Fermilab)  
9:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:00 AM Top Physics in ATLAS and CMS - Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University (US))  
10:30 AM Top Physics Theory - Fabrizio Caola (CERN)  
11:00 AM --- Skiing/Free Time ---
8:00 AM
Jan 12 Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
8:00 AM Gamma Ray Observations - Brian Humensky (University of Chicago)  
8:30 AM HAWC Status and UHECR Results - Jordan Goodman (University of Maryland, College Park)  
9:00 AM CMB and Cosmological Parameters - Brian Keating  
9:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:00 AM New Ideas on Higgs Naturalness - Brian Thomas Batell  
10:30 AM Explaining LHC flavor anomalies - Andreas Crivellin (CERN)  
11:00 AM --- Skiing/Free time ---
8:00 AM
13 Morning Session (until 11:30 AM)
8:00 AM EW Physics at the LHC - Louis Helary (Boston University (US))  
8:30 AM EW Physics Theory - Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)  
9:00 AM NLO MC For Collider Physics - Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))  
9:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:00 AM Hard QCD at the LHC - David d'Enterria (CERN)  
10:30 AM Recent Progress in NNLO Calculations - Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)  
11:00 AM Advanced Methods for Scattering Amplitudes - Johannes Henn (IAS)  
11:30 AM --- Skiing/Free Time ---
8:00 AM
14 Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
8:00 AM Flavor Physics - Rare Decays & Lifetime - Julien Cogan (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France)  
8:30 AM Flavor Physics - CP Violation - Silvia Borghi (University of Manchester (GB))  
9:00 AM Flavor Physics Theory - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Perimeter Institute)  
9:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:00 AM Precision EW calculations for future experiments - Thomas Blum  
10:30 AM mu2e and g-2 status - Brendan Casey (Fermilab)  
11:00 AM --- Skiing/Free time ---
8:00 AM
15 Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
8:00 AM Axion Searches - Dmitry Budker  
8:30 AM Gravitational Wave Searches - Jocelyn Read  
9:00 AM EFT for Dark Matter & Neutrinos - Richard Hill  
9:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:00 AM Searches for 0vbb Decay - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)  
10:30 AM Physics at Future Neutrino Facilities - Jelena Maricic (University of Hawaii)  
11:00 AM --- Skiing/Free Time ---
8:00 AM
Jan 16 Morning Session (until 12:00 PM)
8:00 AM Belle-II Status - Milind Vasant Purohit (University of South Carolina (US))  
8:18 AM Status of the SoLid Experiment - Jonathan Link (Virginia Tech)  
8:36 AM COHERENT Status - phil barbeau  
8:54 AM MicroBooNe Status - Taritree Wongjirad  
9:12 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:30 AM Theoretical Summary and New Ideas - Michael Peskin  
10:15 AM Experimental Summary - Marumi Kado (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))  
PM
4:30 PM
Jan 11 Afternoon Session (until 7:30 PM)
4:30 PM Dark Matter Theory - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)  
5:00 PM Indirect Detection Searches for DM - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)  
5:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:00 PM Heavy Ion Theory - Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
6:30 PM Experimental Heavy Ion Results - I - Grazia Luparello (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT))  
7:00 PM Heavy Ion Experiment - II - Brian Cole (Columbia University (US)) Marumi Kado (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))  
7:30 PM --- Dinner at the Aspen Meadows ---
4:30 PM
12 Afternoon Session (until 8:00 PM)
4:30 PM Future Hadron Colliders - Daniel Schulte (CERN)  
5:00 PM Physics at Future e+e- Colliders - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)  
5:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:00 PM Searches for SUSY (ATLAS/CMS) - Christopher West (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))  
6:30 PM Searches beyond SUSY (ATLAS) - Haichen Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
7:00 PM Searches beyond SUSY (CMS) - Keti Kaadze (Kansas State University (US))  
7:30 PM 750 GeV Excess Discussion - Moderator: Nima Arkani-Hamed  
8:00 PM --- Dinner in Aspen ---
4:30 PM
Public Lecture (until 6:30 PM) (Wheeler Opera House)
4:30 PM Physics Cafe - Mark Messier (IU) Dr Nausheen Shah (Wayne State University)  
5:30 PM Public Lecture: Are we ready for a final theory of physics? - Michael Peskin  
6:30 PM --- Dinner in Aspen ---
4:30 PM
14 Afternoon Session (until 7:30 PM)
4:30 PM UHE Neutrino Experiments - Claudio Kopper (University of Wisconsin--Madison)  
5:00 PM Astrophysical Neutrino Probes - Ina Sarcevic (university of arizona)  
5:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:00 PM Neutrino Physics Theory - Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham (GB))  
6:30 PM Accelerator-Based Neutrino Experiments - Mark Messier (IU)  
7:00 PM Reactor-Based Neutrino Experiments - Karsten Heeger (University of Wisconsin)  
7:30 PM
Banquet (until 10:30 PM)
9:30 PM Banquet award presentation - Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))  
10:00 PM Ski race movie  
4:30 PM
15 Afternoon Session (until 8:00 PM)
4:30 PM New Techniques for LHC BSM Searches in Run 2 - James William Dolen (State University of New York (US))  
5:00 PM Theoretical advances in boosted studies - Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)  
5:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:00 PM DM Direct Detection Status - Rafael Lang  
6:30 PM DM in Cosmos - Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)  
7:00 PM Soft QCD in ATLAS & CMS - Douglas Michael Schaefer (CERN)  
7:30 PM Resummation and SCET - Thomas Becher (University of Bern)  
8:00 PM --- Dinner in Aspen ---