Aspen 2017 Winter Conference "From the LHC to Dark Matter and Beyond"

from Sunday, March 19, 2017 (1:00 AM) to Saturday, March 25, 2017 (1:15 PM)
Aspen, Colorado USA

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 19, 2017
Mar 20, 2017
Mar 21, 2017
Mar 22, 2017
Mar 23, 2017
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 25, 2017
AM
8:00 AM
Monday Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
8:00 AM "SM Higgs" at ATLAS - Peter Onyisi (University of Texas (US))  
8:25 AM The H(125) boson properties at CMS - Andrei Gritsan (Johns Hopkins University (US))  
8:50 AM EW precision tests at the LHC - Alex Pomarol (Universidad de Barcelona)  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:45 AM The Quantum Critical Higgs - John Terning (UC Davis)  
10:10 AM Twenty Ways to Solve the Hierarchy Problem - Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)  
10:35 AM A Collective Quartic for the Composite Higgs from Warped 6d - Michael Geller (Technion)  
8:00 AM
Tuesday Morning Session (until 11:45 AM)
8:00 AM Searches for Dark Matter with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Marco Vanadia (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
8:25 AM Dark Matter searches at CMS - Kristian Hahn (Northwestern University (US))  
8:50 AM Axion searches - Aaron Chou  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:45 AM Super-CDMS - Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley)  
10:10 AM Status of the DAMIC program - Alvaro Chavarria (University of Chicago)  
10:35 AM Future avenues in DM direct detection - Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
8:00 AM
Wednesday Morning Session (until 11:15 AM)
8:00 AM Bottom and charm physics at CMS - Kai Yi (The University of Iowa (US))  
8:25 AM Recent Results on Beauty and Charm Physics with the ATLAS Detector - James William Walder (Lancaster University (GB))  
8:50 AM (Some) Flavor Anomalies: Facts and/or Fictions - Zoltan Ligeti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:45 AM Heavy flavour physics at LHCb - Patrick Haworth Owen (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
10:10 AM Disambiguating New Physics in the Top Sector - Jernej F. Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)  
10:35 AM Gravitational Waves Observed by LIGO - Alan Weinstein (Caltech)  
8:00 AM
Thursday Morning Session (until 12:55 PM)
8:00 AM New results from IceCube - Tomasz Jan Palczewski (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))  
8:25 AM Double Beta Decays - Lindley Winslow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
8:50 AM DUNE: Physics program and status - Ryan Patterson (California Institute of Technology)  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:45 AM Measurements of Neutrino Oscillations at NOvA - Alexander Himmel (Fermilab)  
10:10 AM Oscillations and Baryogenesis - David McKeen (University of Pittsburgh)  
10:35 AM Gamma-ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube - Benjamin Safdi (massachusetts institute of technology)  
8:00 AM
Friday Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
8:00 AM Recent Progress in Jet Physics - Jesse Thaler (MIT)  
8:25 AM CMS Searches Using Jet Substructure - Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))  
8:50 AM Use of novel techniques (jet substructure, flavour tagging) in searches for new phenomena with ATLAS - Francesco Guescini (TRIUMF (CA))  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:45 AM Standard Model Precision Tests: what are we searching for? - Francesco Riva (CERN)  
10:10 AM Electroweak and QCD results from ATLAS - Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (Stanford University (US))  
10:35 AM Standard Model: Electroweak and QCD results - Yurii Maravin (Kansas State University (US))  
8:00 AM
Summary Session (until 10:00 AM)
8:00 AM Theory Summary - Ann Nelson (University of Washington)  
8:45 AM Experiment Summary - Joel Butler (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
9:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:00 AM
Saturday Morning Session (until 12:00 PM)
10:00 AM Transplanckian Cosmic Strings - patrick draper  
10:25 AM Split SUSY: Perspectives from Cosmology and Collider Physics - Matthew Reece (Harvard University)  
10:50 AM Physics with Heavy-Ions and Dark Photon Searches at the LHC-ALICE experiment - Taku Gunji (University of Tokyo (JP))  
PM
5:00 PM Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics  
4:30 PM
Monday Evening Session (until 7:30 PM)
4:30 PM CMS Searches for Exotic Decays of the H(125) - Rachel Yohay (University of California Davis (US))  
4:55 PM Higgs BSM: exotics and rare decays and Higgs in BSM searches at ATLAS - Nikolina Ilic (Stanford University (US))  
5:20 PM LHCb: Beyond Flavor Physics - J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
5:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:15 PM Probing new light force mediators by isotope shift - Yotam Soreq (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
6:40 PM Electroweak Precision Tests at High Energy - Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU)  
7:05 PM Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies with the Fermi-LAT and DES - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab)  
4:30 PM
Tuesday Evening Session (until 8:15 PM)
4:30 PM The SeaQuest experiment & displaced dark sectors - Stefania Gori (Perimeter Institute/Cincinnati University)  
4:55 PM Detecting Dark Matter Down to keV Masses - Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)  
5:20 PM New ideas for the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter - Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
5:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:15 PM Dark Stars: WIMP annihilation can power the first stars - Freese Katherine (Michigan)  
6:40 PM Dark photons from the early universe to LHCb - Wei Xue (MIT)  
7:05 PM ETHOS - From dark particle physics to the distribution of matter in the Universe - Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Harvard University)  
4:30 PM
Public Event - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh) Peter Onyisi (University of Texas (US)) (until 5:30 PM)
5:30 PM PUBLIC LECTURE - Jesse Thaler (MIT)  
6:30 PM
Wednesday Evening Session (until 8:15 PM)
6:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
7:00 PM Searches for new phenomena with long lived particles at ATLAS - Andrew Haas (New York University)  
7:25 PM Long-lived particle searches at CMS - Jamie Antonelli (The Ohio State University (US))  
7:50 PM The Lifetime Frontier: New Searches and New Detectors - David Curtin (University of Maryland)  
4:30 PM
Thursday Evening Session (until 7:55 PM)
4:30 PM The State of the Axion - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of Washington)  
4:55 PM Higgs Relaxation Leptogenesis - Lauren Pearce (University of Minnesota)  
5:20 PM Relaxed Inflation - Walter Tangarife (u)  
5:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:15 PM Implications of CMB Observations for Particle Physics - Raphael Flauger (The University of Texas at Austin)  
6:40 PM Searching for Light Particles through Neff - Daniel Green  
7:05 PM Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background - Jeffrey Filippini (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)  
8:00 PM
Banquet at Aspen Meadows (until 10:00 PM)
4:30 PM
Friday Evening Session (until 9:00 PM)
4:30 PM CMS Searches with leptons, jets and photons - Dominick Olivito (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
4:55 PM Searches for exotics and SUSY new phenomena at ATLAS (resonances, multijets, multileptons etc) - Jacob Alexander Searcy (University of Michigan (US))  
5:20 PM Constraining Quirky Tracks with Conventional Searches - Matthew Low (Institute for Advanced Study)  
5:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:15 PM Charged composite scalar dark matter - Andreas Weiler (Technische Universität Muenchen (DE))  
6:40 PM ATLAS top quark results - Sven Menke (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))  
7:05 PM CMS top quark results - Andreas Jung (Purdue University (US))  
7:30 PM Exotic mirror fermions from chiral gauge theories - David Benjamin Kaplan (American University)