Name: CosPA 2016
Start: 2016-11-28T08:00:00+11:00
End: 2016-12-02T14:00:00+11:00
Location: No location set

CosPA 2016

from Monday, November 28, 2016 (8:00 AM) to Friday, December 2, 2016 (2:00 PM)

Monday, November 28, 2016

8:15 AM Registration

8:15 AM - 6:15 PM
Room: Foyer
8:45 AM Plenary
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4002
Contributions

8:45 AM Opening Address

9:00 AM Gravitational waves - David McClelland (ANU)

9:30 AM Theories of modified gravity - Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science)

10:00 AM Tests of modified gravity - David Parkinson (University of Queensland)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

11:00 AM Neutrino experiments - Wei Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University)

11:30 AM Neutrino mass in the landscape of vacua - Tsutomu Yanagida (University of Tokyo)

12:00 PM CPs and Type-II Leptogenesis - Jihn E. Kim (Kyung Hee University)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Cosmic microwave background and Large Scale Structure
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 4001
Contributions

2:00 PM New Measurements of CMB Polarisation from SPTpol - Christian Reichardt (University of Melbourne)

2:20 PM First detection of Galaxy Cluster lensing in CMB polarisation - Sanjaykumar Patil (University of Melbourne)

2:40 PM Cosmology from CMB Polarization with POLARBEAR and the Simons Array - Darcy Barron

3:00 PM Planck large scale polarization - Matthieu TRISTRAM (CNRS)

3:20 PM Oscillations in the CMB angular power spectra at ell~120 - Kouichirou Horiguchi (Nagoya University)
Dark matter
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

2:00 PM Dark matter searches in LUX - Claudio Frederico Pascoal da Silva (LIP Coimbra)

2:20 PM Status of COSINE experiment. - Pushparaj Adhikari (Sejong University)

2:40 PM Indirect searches of TeV Dark Matter at the Galactic Center - Viviana Gammaldi (SISSA)

3:00 PM First Results of the GPS.DM Observatory: Search for Dark Matter and Exotic Physics with Atomic Clocks and GPS Constellation - Benjamin Roberts (University of New South Wales)

3:20 PM Improved constraints on annihilating dark matter from cosmic-ray antiprotons - Martin Stref (Montpellier University)
Gravity and gravitational waves
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 3003
Contributions

2:00 PM Tensor perturbations in spatially covariant gravity - Jun'ichi Yokoyama (The University of Tokyo)

2:20 PM Exploring a stochastic background of gravitational waves - Letizia Sammut (Monash University)

2:40 PM Constraining non-commutative space-time from GW150914 - Cyril Lagger (The University of Sydney)

3:00 PM Entropy of Horava-Lifshitz Blakholes - shabana nisar (COMSATS Lahore)

3:20 PM The quantum thermodynamic universe - an emergent perspective - Eric Howard (Macquarie University)
Particle astrophysics
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 3001
Contributions

2:00 PM Measuring the Leptonic Dirac CP Phase with Muon Decay at Rest - Shao-Feng Ge (MPIK)

2:20 PM Neutrino mass and hierarchy determinatiion from new physics - Prativa Pritimita (Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India)

2:40 PM Measuring the Neutrino Mass Ordering with KM3NeT-ORCA - Antoine David Kouchner (Universite de Paris VII (FR))

3:00 PM Highlights of the ANTARES neutrino telescope results - Annarita Margiotta (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

3:20 PM Muon energy reconstruction in large-scale neutrino detectors - Sally Robertson (University of Adelaide)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Cosmic microwave background and Large Scale Structure
4:10 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: 4001
Contributions

4:10 PM Distinguishing between Warm Dark Matter and Late Kinetic Decoupling using CMB spectral distortions. - James Diacoumis (University of New South Wales)

4:30 PM Axion as a cold dark matter candidate: Proof to fully nonlinear perturbation - Jai-chan Hwang

4:50 PM Dark matter self annihilation in cosmological simulations - Nikolas Iwanus (University of Sydney)

5:10 PM Unveiling the Signatures of an Evolving and Interacting Dark Sector - Eromanga Adermann (The University of Sydney)

5:30 PM The Impact of Dark Sector Physics on Large-Scale Structure Topology - Andrew Watts (The University of Sydney)
Dark matter
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

4:10 PM p-wave Annihilating Dark Matter from a Decaying Predecessor and the Galactic Centre Excess - Jonathan Cornell (McGill University)

4:30 PM Semi-Annihilation and Dark Matter Indirect Detection - Yi Cai (The University of Melbourne)

4:50 PM Dark Forces in the Sky: Signals from Z' and the Dark Higgs - Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)

5:10 PM The Dark Matter Interpretation of the Gamma-Ray Excess at the Galactic Centre - Hamish Clark (University of Sydney)
Inflation and early universe cosmology
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 3003
Contributions

4:10 PM Primordial massive gravitational waves in the squeezed vacuum state - Malsawmtluangi Naulak (University of Hyderabad)

4:30 PM Electroweak scale genesis by dynamical scale symmetry breaking and strong scale phase transition in the early universe - Jisuke Kubo (Kanazawa University)

4:50 PM Gravitational Waves from Low Temperature Phase Transitions - Adrian Manning (Sydney University)

5:10 PM Probing physics behind the electroweak symmetry breaking at future gravitational wave interferometers and future collider experiments - Mitsuru Kakizaki (University of Toyama)
Particle astrophysics
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: 3001
Contributions

4:10 PM Prospects for detection of neutrinos in correlation with starburst galaxies - Alex Kyriacou (University of Adelaide)

4:30 PM Collapse of Axion Stars - Rohana Wijewardhana (University of Cincinnati)

4:50 PM Soft X-ray excess from cosmic ALPs in magnetohydrodynamical cluster simulations - Stephen Angus (IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe)
6:00 PM Event: Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Foyer
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
9:00 AM Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4002
Contributions

9:00 AM Dark matter theory - Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

9:30 AM Dark matter direct detection - Manfred Lindner (Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

10:00 AM Darkly-Charged Dark Matter - Lisa Randall (Harvard)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

11:00 AM Galactic positron population - Roland Crocker (Australian National University)

11:30 AM AMS - Mercedes Paniccia (Universite de Geneve (CH))

12:00 PM The Pierre Auger Observatory - Jose Bellido (The University of Adelaide)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Cosmic microwave background and Large Scale Structure
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 3001
Contributions

2:00 PM Relieving tensions related to the lensing of CMB temperature power spectra - Matthieu TRISTRAM (CNRS)

2:20 PM Planck constraints on scalar-tensor cosmology and the variation of the gravitational constant - Junpei Ooba (Nagoya University)

2:40 PM Modeling bispectrum in redshift space from perturbation theory - Ichihiko Hashimoto (Yukawa institute for theoretical physics)

3:00 PM Testing Inflationary Models with Galaxy Formation Simulations - Luke Barnes

3:20 PM Growth of perturbations in dark energy cosmologies - Mohammad Malekjani (Bu Ali Sina University, Depratment of Physics)
Dark matter
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

2:00 PM Global fits of the scalar singlet model using GAMBIT - James McKay (Imperial College London)

2:20 PM Effective vector and fermion Higgs portal: A global study with GAMBIT - Ankit Beniwal (University of Adelaide (AU))

2:40 PM Evaporation on Gev-ish DM in the Sun - Giorgio Busoni

3:00 PM Plasma Dark matter direct detection - Robert Foot (COEPP)

3:20 PM Halo-independent tests of dark matter direct detection signals - Juan Herrero Garcia (University of Adelaide - CoEPP)
Inflation and early universe cosmology
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: 4001
Contributions

2:00 PM Inflation from Supergravity with Gauged R-symmetry in de Sitter Vacuum - Rob Knoops (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)

2:20 PM Multi-phase inflation and endlessly flat scalar potentials - Michal Artymowski (Jagiellonian University)

2:40 PM Ahead of the hunt: leading small field inflationary potential models. - Ira Wolfson (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

3:00 PM Violent preheating in inflation with nonminimal coupling - Ryusuke Jinno (Institute for Basic Science (IBS))
Particle physics
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 3003
Contributions

2:00 PM Collider searches for Higgs portal DM models - pyungwon ko (Korea Inst. for Advanced Study (KIAS))

2:20 PM The muon g-2 and dark matter in the MSSM at 100 TeV - Matthew Talia (University of Sydney)

2:40 PM Mono-top/bottom signature in natural SUSY at LHC - Lei Wu (The University of Sydney)

3:00 PM CP violating Top-Higgs couplings in Light of LHC Run-2 - Ning Liu (The University of Sydney)

3:20 PM Implication of ALEPH 30 GeV dimuon resonance at the LHC - Chaehyun Yu (Korea University)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Cosmic microwave background and Large Scale Structure
4:10 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: 3001
Contributions

4:10 PM Magnetic fields at cosmological recombination - Shohei Saga (Nagoya University)

4:30 PM Test of the Einstein equivalence principle with CMB spectral distortions - Hiroyuki Tashiro (Nagoya University)

4:50 PM Differential expansion and its observational impact in cosmology - Krzysztof Bolejko (University of Sydney)

5:10 PM Shear and rotation in massive galaxy clusters - Ahmad Mehrabi (Bu-Ali Sina university)

5:30 PM Cosmological effects of Late Forming Dark Matter - Abir Sarkar (Raman Research Institute)
Dark matter
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

4:10 PM New effects of dark matter which are linear in the interaction strength - Victor Flambaum (University of New South Wales)

4:30 PM Searching for dark matter and exotic bosons with atoms, molecules and ultracold neutrons - Yevgeny Stadnik (University of New South Wales)

4:50 PM Quantum and Classical Behaviour of Axion Dark Matter - Mark Hertzberg (Tufts University)

5:10 PM A dark matter model with Dirac neutrino masses - Seungwon Baek
Inflation and early universe cosmology
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 4001
Contributions

4:10 PM Blue tensor spectra with slightly parity-violated from axion-gauge couplings - Ippei Obata (Kyoto University)

4:30 PM Naturalness of the relaxion mechanism - Andrew Fowlie (Monash University)

4:50 PM Gravitational waves at aLIGO and vacuum stability with a scalar singlet extension of the Standard Model - Csaba Balazs (Monash University)

5:10 PM Gravitational Wave Instabilities in the Cosmic Neutrino Background - Neil Barrie (The University of Sydney)
Particle astrophysics
4:10 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: 3003
Contributions

4:10 PM Precision Measurement of the Positron, Electron and Antiproton Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Ray with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Zhili Weng (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

4:30 PM Precision Measurement of Nuclei Fluxes and their Ratios in Primary Cosmic Rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Valerio Formato (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

4:50 PM Astrophysical signatures from Galactic positronium, true muonium and true tauonium - Simon Ellis (AAO)

5:10 PM The Statistics of Unresolved Point-Source Populations - Nicholas Rodd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

5:30 PM Gas Towards Gamma-Ray-Emitting Supernova Remnants - Nigel Maxted (The University of New South Wales)
7:00 PM Event: Public talk
Public talk
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
9:00 AM Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4002
Contributions

9:00 AM Inflation - Misao Sasaki (Kyoto University)

9:30 AM Planck CMB results - Silvia Galli

10:00 AM Cosmological surveys - Geraint Lewis (The University of Sydney)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

11:00 AM Astroparticle tests of dark matter theories - Pat Scott (Imperial College)

11:30 AM Mono-X, dijet, and long-lived particle searches at the LHC - Millie McDonald (University of Melbourne (AU))

12:00 PM Invisible Higgs decays, SUSY searches and BSM Higgs at the LHC - Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central University (TW))
Thursday, December 1, 2016
9:00 AM Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4002
Contributions

9:00 AM Baryo-/Leptogenesis - Alexander Kusenko

9:30 AM Neutrino studies in the Mediterranean: the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope - Clancy James (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)

10:00 AM IceCube Neutrinos - Jenni Adams (University of Canterbury)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

11:00 AM Dark energy - Eric Linder (UC Berkeley)

11:30 AM Consistency checks of LCDM - Arman Shafieloo (KASI Daejeon)

12:00 PM Inhomogeneous Cosmology - David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury)
12:30 PM Event: AP CosPA Org Council and General Assembly Joint Meeting
AP CosPA Org Council and General Assembly Joint Meeting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 4020

Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Cosmological models
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 3003
Contributions

2:00 PM All-scale cosmological perturbations and screening of gravity in inhomogeneous Universe - Maxim Eingorn

2:20 PM Uniformity of Cosmic Microwave Background as a Non-Inflationary Geometrical Effect - Branislav Vlahovic (North Carolina Central University)

2:40 PM CMB Hemispherical Power Asymmetry & Noncommutative Spacetimes - Rahul Kothari (IIT Kanpur, India)
Dark matter
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

2:00 PM Particle Physics Models for DM-DR interactions - pyungwon ko (Korea Inst. for Advanced Study (KIAS))

2:20 PM Triplet-Quadruplet Fermionic Dark Matter - Zhao-Huan Yu (University of Melbourne)

2:40 PM Right-handed neutrino dark matter under the B-L gauge interaction - Kunio Kaneta

3:00 PM Probing mixed complex scalar WIMP dark matter - Akiteru Santa (University of Toyama)
Gravity and gravitational waves
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 3001
Contributions

2:00 PM Gravitation, Causality, and Quantum Consistency - Mark Hertzberg (Tufts University)

2:20 PM Black Hole Thermodynamics, Expanding Universe and Dark Energy - Sang Pyo Kim (Kunsan National University)

2:40 PM Relation between gauge fixing and DOFs in scalar-tensor theories - Kazufumi Takahashi (RESCEU, The University of Tokyo)

3:00 PM Dynamical brane backgrounds - Kunihito Uzawa (Kwansei Gakuin University)

3:20 PM Special relativistic hydrodynamics with gravitation - Jai-chan Hwang
Inflation and early universe cosmology
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 4001
Contributions

2:00 PM Testing the low scale seesaw and leptogenesis - Dario Gueter (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

2:20 PM Electroweak baryogenesis in the Z3-invariant NMSSM - Graham White (Monash University)

2:40 PM A Strong Electroweak Phase Transition from the Inflaton Field - Tommi Tenkanen

3:00 PM Efficient perturbative determination of bubble wall profiles - Sujeet Akula (Monash University)

3:20 PM The effects of monopoles on the electroweak phase transition - Suntharan Arunasalam (University of Sydney)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Dark matter
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

4:10 PM Relic Abundance in Secluded Dark Matter Scenario with Massive Mediator - Masato Yamanaka (Kyoto Sangyo University)

4:30 PM A map of the non-thermal WIMP - Chang Sub Shin (Rutgers University)

4:50 PM Determining the Local Dark Matter Density - Hamish Silverwood (University of Amsterdam)
Inflation and early universe cosmology
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 4001
Contributions

4:10 PM Resurrection of large lepton number asymmetries and their cosmological implications - Wanil Park

4:30 PM Adiabatic Invariance of I-balls/Oscillons - Naoyuki Takeda

4:50 PM Production of axion CDM from strings and domain-walls - Toyokazu Sekiguchi (IBS/CTPU)

5:10 PM Natural Inflation with Hidden Scale Invariance - Shelley Liang (The university of Sydney)
Particle physics
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 3003
Contributions

4:10 PM MeV scale leptonic force for cosmic neutrino spectrum and muon anomalous magnetic moment - Joe Sato

4:30 PM Search for a light L_{\mu}-L_{\tau} gauge boson at Belle II - Shihori Hoshino (Saitama University)

4:50 PM Partial Gauge Invariant SM - Zurab Kepuladze (Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, TSU)

5:10 PM Radiative neutrino mass generation for a dimension 7 gauge-invariant operator and its implication for charge lepton flavor violation - Bahman Ghadirian (The University of Sydney)
7:00 PM Event: Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, December 2, 2016
9:00 AM Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4002
Contributions

9:00 AM Fermi LAT - Regina Caputo (University of California, Santa Cruz)

9:30 AM The Cherenkov Telescope Array: A TeV Gamma-Ray Observatory - Gavin Rowell (University of Adelaide)

10:00 AM Dark Energy with the Dark Energy Survey - Tamara Davis (University of Queensland)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4002
Contributions

11:00 AM SABRE - Elisabetta Barberio (University of Melbourne (AU))

11:30 AM Outlook for the discovery of new physics - Raymond Volkas (The University of Melbourne)

12:00 PM Closing

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