2016 Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics

11 Jan 2016, 08:00 → 16 Jan 2016, 12:00 US/Mountain

Flug Forum (ACP, Aspen, CO)

2016 Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics

Race.mp4

Monday 11 January

08:00 → 11:00 Jan 11 Morning Session: Higgs and Top Physics

08:00 Higgs Physics in ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Guillaume Unal (CERN)

Aspen-HiggsLHC-Unal.pdf

08:30 SM Higgs Theory

Speakers: John Campbell (Unknown), John Campbell

Aspen2016.pdf

09:00 BSM Higgs Theory

Speaker: Nausheen Shah (Fermilab)

AspenWinter_2016_NS.pdf

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 Top Physics in ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University (US))

Aspen-2016-3.pdf

10:30 Top Physics Theory

Speaker: Fabrizio Caola (CERN)

aspen_top_theory.pdf

11:00 → 16:30 Skiing/Free Time

16:30 → 19:30 Jan 11 Afternoon Session: Dark Matter and Heavy-Ion Physics

16:30 Dark Matter Theory

Speaker: Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

tait-Aspen.pdf

17:00 Indirect Detection Searches for DM

Speaker: Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)

Aspen2016-Murgia.pdf

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 Heavy Ion Theory

Speaker: Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Aspen2016.pdf

18:30 Experimental Heavy Ion Results - I

Speaker: Grazia Luparello (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT))

Aspen2015_Luparello.pdf

19:00 Heavy Ion Experiment - II

Speakers: Brian Cole (Columbia University (US)), Marumi Kado (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

Aspen_Jan2016v3.pdf

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner at the Aspen Meadows

Tuesday 12 January

08:00 → 11:00 Jan 12 Morning Session

08:00 Gamma Ray Observations

Speaker: Brian Humensky (University of Chicago)

Humensky_Aspen_v1.pdf

08:30 HAWC Status and UHECR Results

Speaker: Jordan Goodman (University of Maryland, College Park)

Aspen1a.pdf

09:00 CMB and Cosmological Parameters

Speaker: Brian Keating

Keating_Aspen_2016.pdf

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 New Ideas on Higgs Naturalness

Speaker: Brian Thomas Batell

Batell.pdf

10:30 Explaining LHC flavor anomalies

Speaker: Andreas Crivellin (CERN)

Aspen.pdf

11:00 → 16:30 Skiing/Free time

16:30 → 20:00 12 Afternoon Session

16:30 Future Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Daniel Schulte (CERN)

FCC_Aspen_final2.pdf

FCC_Aspen_final2.pptx

17:00 Physics at Future e+e- Colliders

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

aspene+e-.pdf

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 Searches for SUSY (ATLAS/CMS)

Speaker: Christopher West (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))

cawest_aspen.pdf

18:30 Searches beyond SUSY (ATLAS)

Speaker: Haichen Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

AspenHWv5.pdf

19:00 Searches beyond SUSY (CMS)

Speaker: Keti Kaadze (Kansas State University (US))

KetiKaadze-Aspen2016.pdf

19:30 750 GeV Excess Discussion

Speaker: Moderator: Nima Arkani-Hamed

750aspentalk.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner in Aspen

Wednesday 13 January

08:00 → 11:30 13 Morning Session

08:00 EW Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Louis Helary (Boston University (US))

LouisHelaryAspen2016V1.pdf

08:30 EW Physics Theory

Speaker: Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)

aspen.pdf

09:00 NLO MC For Collider Physics

Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

maltoni-aspen-2016.pdf

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 Hard QCD at the LHC

Speaker: David d'Enterria (CERN)

dde_hardQCD_aspen_jan16.pdf

10:30 Recent Progress in NNLO Calculations

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

aspen_melnikov.pdf

11:00 Advanced Methods for Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Johannes Henn (IAS)

aspen_jmhenn_jan_13_2016.pdf

11:30 → 16:30 Skiing/Free Time

16:30 → 18:30 Public Lecture

16:30 Physics Cafe

Speakers: Mark Messier (IU), Dr Nausheen Shah (Wayne State University)

17:30 Public Lecture: Are we ready for a final theory of physics?

Speaker: Michael Peskin

FinalTheory.pdf

18:30 → 23:30 Dinner in Aspen

Thursday 14 January

08:00 → 11:00 14 Morning Session

08:00 Flavor Physics - Rare Decays & Lifetime

Speaker: Julien Cogan (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France)

Cogan_HeavyFlavorRareDecays_Aspen2016.pdf

08:30 Flavor Physics - CP Violation

Speaker: Silvia Borghi (University of Manchester (GB))

Aspen2016_borghi.pdf

09:00 Flavor Physics Theory

Speaker: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Perimeter Institute)

Altmannshofer_Aspen.pdf

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 Precision EW calculations for future experiments

Speaker: Thomas Blum

talk.pdf

10:30 mu2e and g-2 status

Speaker: Brendan Casey (Fermilab)

casey-aspen-v1.pdf

11:00 → 16:30 Skiing/Free time

16:30 → 19:30 14 Afternoon Session

16:30 UHE Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Claudio Kopper (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

CKopper_Aspen2016.pdf

17:00 Astrophysical Neutrino Probes

Speaker: Ina Sarcevic (university of arizona)

Aspen2016_Ina.pdf

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 Neutrino Physics Theory

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham (GB))

AspenWinter2016.pdf

18:30 Accelerator-Based Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Mark Messier (IU)

messier-aspen2016.pdf

19:00 Reactor-Based Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Karsten Heeger (University of Wisconsin)

Heeger-reactornu-Aspen.pdf

19:30 → 22:30 Banquet

Conference dinner

21:30 Banquet award presentation

Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))

Banquet.pdf

22:00 Ski race movie

Ski race movie

Friday 15 January

08:00 → 11:00 15 Morning Session

08:00 Axion Searches

Speaker: Dmitry Budker

Budker Aspen Jan 2016.pdf

08:30 Gravitational Wave Searches

Speaker: Jocelyn Read

Read-LIGO-AspenWinter2016.pdf

09:00 EFT for Dark Matter & Neutrinos

Speaker: Richard Hill

hill_Aspen2016.pdf

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 Searches for 0vbb Decay

Speaker: Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

Gratta_bb_decay_Aspen_Jan2016.pdf

10:30 Physics at Future Neutrino Facilities

Speaker: Jelena Maricic (University of Hawaii)

FutureNeutrinoFacilitesMaricicFinalAspen2016.pdf

11:00 → 16:30 Skiing/Free Time

16:30 → 20:00 15 Afternoon Session

16:30 New Techniques for LHC BSM Searches in Run 2

Speaker: James William Dolen (State University of New York (US))

Aspen - Dolen - FINAL.pdf

17:00 Theoretical advances in boosted studies

Speaker: Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)

jthaler_AspenWinter2016.pdf

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 DM Direct Detection Status

Speaker: Rafael Lang

rafael_directdetection-2.pdf

18:30 DM in Cosmos

Speaker: Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)

KoushiappasAspenWin15.pdf

19:00 Soft QCD in ATLAS & CMS

Speaker: Douglas Michael Schaefer (CERN)

schaefer_soft_qcd_aspen.pdf

19:30 Resummation and SCET

Speaker: Thomas Becher (University of Bern)

Aspen_2016.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner in Aspen

Saturday 16 January

08:00 → 12:00 Jan 16 Morning Session: Summary session

08:00 Belle-II Status

Speaker: Milind Vasant Purohit (University of South Carolina (US))

Purohit_Talk_Aspen_16.pdf

08:18 Status of the SoLid Experiment

Speaker: Jonathan Link (Virginia Tech)

Aspen_2016.pdf

08:36 COHERENT Status

Speaker: phil barbeau

COHERENT_ASPEN_2015.pdf

08:54 MicroBooNe Status

Speaker: Taritree Wongjirad

2016_01_16_Aspen_MicroBooNEStatus.pdf

09:12 Coffee Break

09:30 Theoretical Summary and New Ideas

Speaker: Michael Peskin

AspenSummary2016.pdf

10:15 Experimental Summary

Speaker: Marumi Kado (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

AspenSummary.pdf