Name: Aspen 2017 Winter Conference "From the LHC to Dark Matter and Beyond"
Start: 2017-03-19T01:00:00-06:00
End: 2017-03-25T13:15:00-06:00
Location: Aspen, Colorado USA

Monday 13 March 2017
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Wednesday 15 March 2017
Thursday 16 March 2017
Friday 17 March 2017
Saturday 18 March 2017
Sunday 19 March 2017

17:00 Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics
Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics
17:00 - 19:00

Monday 20 March 2017
08:00 Monday Morning Session
Monday Morning Session
08:00 - 11:00
Contributions

08:00 "SM Higgs" at ATLAS - Peter Onyisi (University of Texas (US))

08:25 The H(125) boson properties at CMS - Andrei Gritsan (Johns Hopkins University (US))

08:50 EW precision tests at the LHC - Alex Pomarol (Universidad de Barcelona)

09:45 The Quantum Critical Higgs - John Terning (UC Davis)

10:10 Twenty Ways to Solve the Hierarchy Problem - Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)

10:35 A Collective Quartic for the Composite Higgs from Warped 6d - Michael Geller (Technion)
16:30 Monday Evening Session
Monday Evening Session
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 CMS Searches for Exotic Decays of the H(125) - Rachel Yohay (University of California Davis (US))

16:55 Higgs BSM: exotics and rare decays and Higgs in BSM searches at ATLAS - Nikolina Ilic (Stanford University (US))

17:20 LHCb: Beyond Flavor Physics - J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

18:15 Probing new light force mediators by isotope shift - Yotam Soreq (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

18:40 Electroweak Precision Tests at High Energy - Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU)

19:05 Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies with the Fermi-LAT and DES - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab)
Tuesday 21 March 2017
08:00 Tuesday Morning Session
Tuesday Morning Session
08:00 - 11:45
Contributions

08:00 Searches for Dark Matter with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Marco Vanadia (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

08:25 Dark Matter searches at CMS - Kristian Hahn (Northwestern University (US))

08:50 Axion searches - Aaron Chou

09:45 Super-CDMS - Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley)

10:10 Status of the DAMIC program - Alvaro Chavarria (University of Chicago)

10:35 Future avenues in DM direct detection - Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science)
16:30
16:30 - 20:15
Contributions

16:30 The SeaQuest experiment & displaced dark sectors - Stefania Gori (Perimeter Institute/Cincinnati University)

16:55 Detecting Dark Matter Down to keV Masses - Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)

17:20 New ideas for the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter - Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

18:15 Dark Stars: WIMP annihilation can power the first stars - Freese Katherine (Michigan)

18:40 Dark photons from the early universe to LHCb - Wei Xue (MIT)

19:05 ETHOS - From dark particle physics to the distribution of matter in the Universe - Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Harvard University)
Wednesday 22 March 2017
08:00 Wednesday Morning Session
Wednesday Morning Session
08:00 - 11:15
Contributions

08:00 Bottom and charm physics at CMS - Kai Yi (The University of Iowa (US))

08:25 Recent Results on Beauty and Charm Physics with the ATLAS Detector - James William Walder (Lancaster University (GB))

08:50 (Some) Flavor Anomalies: Facts and/or Fictions - Zoltan Ligeti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

09:45 Heavy flavour physics at LHCb - Patrick Haworth Owen (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

10:10 Disambiguating New Physics in the Top Sector - Jernej F. Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)

10:35 Gravitational Waves Observed by LIGO - Alan Weinstein (Caltech)
16:30 Physics Cafe
Physics Cafe
16:30 - 17:30
17:30 PUBLIC LECTURE - Jesse Thaler (MIT)
PUBLIC LECTURE
- Jesse Thaler (MIT)
17:30 - 18:30
18:30 Wednesday Evening Session
Wednesday Evening Session
18:30 - 20:15
Contributions

19:00 Searches for new phenomena with long lived particles at ATLAS - Andrew Haas (New York University)

19:25 Long-lived particle searches at CMS - Jamie Antonelli (The Ohio State University (US))

19:50 The Lifetime Frontier: New Searches and New Detectors - David Curtin (University of Maryland)
Thursday 23 March 2017
08:00 Thursday Morning Session
Thursday Morning Session
08:00 - 12:55
Contributions

08:00 New results from IceCube - Tomasz Jan Palczewski (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))

08:25 Double Beta Decays - Lindley Winslow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08:50 DUNE: Physics program and status - Ryan Patterson (California Institute of Technology)

09:45 Measurements of Neutrino Oscillations at NOvA - Alexander Himmel (Fermilab)

10:10 Oscillations and Baryogenesis - David McKeen (University of Pittsburgh)

10:35 Gamma-ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube - Benjamin Safdi (massachusetts institute of technology)
16:30 Thursday Evening Session
Thursday Evening Session
16:30 - 19:55
Contributions

16:30 The State of the Axion - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of Washington)

16:55 Higgs Relaxation Leptogenesis - Lauren Pearce (University of Minnesota)

17:20 Relaxed Inflation - Walter Tangarife (u)

18:15 Implications of CMB Observations for Particle Physics - Raphael Flauger (The University of Texas at Austin)

18:40 Searching for Light Particles through Neff - Daniel Green

19:05 Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background - Jeffrey Filippini (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
20:00 Banquet at Aspen Meadows
Banquet at Aspen Meadows
20:00 - 22:00
Friday 24 March 2017
08:00 Friday Morning Session
Friday Morning Session
08:00 - 11:00
Contributions

08:00 Recent Progress in Jet Physics - Jesse Thaler (MIT)

08:25 CMS Searches Using Jet Substructure - Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

08:50 Use of novel techniques (jet substructure, flavour tagging) in searches for new phenomena with ATLAS - Francesco Guescini (TRIUMF (CA))

09:45 Standard Model Precision Tests: what are we searching for? - Francesco Riva (CERN)

10:10 Electroweak and QCD results from ATLAS - Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (Stanford University (US))

10:35 Standard Model: Electroweak and QCD results - Yurii Maravin (Kansas State University (US))
16:30 Friday Evening Session
Friday Evening Session
16:30 - 21:00
Contributions

16:30 CMS Searches with leptons, jets and photons - Dominick Olivito (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

16:55 Searches for exotics and SUSY new phenomena at ATLAS (resonances, multijets, multileptons etc) - Jacob Alexander Searcy (University of Michigan (US))

17:20 Constraining Quirky Tracks with Conventional Searches - Matthew Low (Institute for Advanced Study)

18:15 Charged composite scalar dark matter - Andreas Weiler (Technische Universität Muenchen (DE))

18:40 ATLAS top quark results - Sven Menke (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))

19:05 CMS top quark results - Andreas Jung (Purdue University (US))

19:30 Exotic mirror fermions from chiral gauge theories - David Benjamin Kaplan (American University)
Saturday 25 March 2017
08:00
08:00 - 10:00
Contributions

08:00 Theory Summary - Ann Nelson (University of Washington)

08:45 Experiment Summary - Joel Butler (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
10:00 Extra Session
Extra Session
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 Transplanckian Cosmic Strings - patrick draper

10:25 Split SUSY: Perspectives from Cosmology and Collider Physics - Matthew Reece (Harvard University)

10:50 Physics with Heavy-Ions and Dark Photon Searches at the LHC-ALICE experiment - Taku Gunji (University of Tokyo (JP))