LHC Theory Initiative Fellows Meeting 2017

from Friday 10 February 2017 (08:55) to Saturday 11 February 2017 (22:00)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Madrone Conference Room (Room 224, Bldg 48))

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Feb 2017
11 Feb 2017
AM
09:00
Plenary (until 10:30)
09:00 Welcome - Michael Peskin  
09:15 The state of the art in LHC event simulation - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)  
10:00 Jet substructure at high precision - Andrew Larkoski  
10:30 --- coffee ---
11:00
Plenary (until 12:30)
11:00 Probing the top quark with di-photon and photon+X production at the LHC - Dr Won Sang Cho (Seoul National University)  
11:30 Precision top quark mass determination at the LHC with jet grooming - Sonny Mantry (University of North Georgia)  
12:00 Confronting jet quenching with jet grooming: jet substructure in heavy ion collisions - Yang-Ting Chien (Harvard University)  
09:00
Plenary (until 10:30)
09:00 Relaxion from particle production - Gustavo Marques Tavares (Stanford University)  
09:30 Parton distributions for LHC applications - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)  
10:00 Vector boson production in joint resummation - Vincent Theeuwes (SUNY, Buffalo)  
10:30 --- coffee ---
11:00
Plenary (until 12:30)
11:00 New ideas on long-lived superparticles with hadronic decays at the LHC - Zhen Liu (Fermilab)  
11:30 Type-I 2 Higgs doublet model and the 13 TeV tth "excess" - Daniele Alves  
12:00 Nnaturalness - Tim Cohen (University of Oregon)  
PM
12:30 --- lunch ---
13:45
Plenary (until 15:30)
13:45 Machine learning for LHC applications - Francesco Rubbo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
14:30 Machine learning beyond physics from a physicist's perspective - Jon Walsh (UC Berkeley)  
15:00 Software consulting with skills from particle physics - Michael Fickinger  
15:30 --- coffee ---
16:00
Plenary (until 17:45)
16:00 Blind spots for neutralino dark matter - Peisi Huang (University of Wisconsin-Madison (US))  
16:30 Dark matter searches at dark matter "colliders" - Doojin Kim (CERN)  
17:00 Dark Matter Theory: Current status and detection prospects - Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)  
18:45 --- Dinner ---