Name: PACTS 2018: Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology Tallinn Symposium
Start: 2018-06-18T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2018-06-22T13:10:00+03:00
Location: Estonian Academy of Sciences

PACTS 2018: Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology Tallinn Symposium

from Monday, 18 June 2018 (09:00) to Friday, 22 June 2018 (13:10)

Monday, 18 June 2018

09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:55
09:55 Welcome
09:55 - 10:00
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

09:55 Welcome - Martti Raidal (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))
10:00 Gravity
10:00 - 12:15
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

10:00 Black holes as brains: Holographic neural networks with area-law entropy and exponentially enhanced memory capacity - Georgi Dvali

10:30 David and Goliath: black hole superradiance - Vitor Cardoso

11:00 Testing the nature of compact objects with gravitational waves - Paolo Pani

11:30 Gravity with more or less variables - Roberto Percacci
13:30 Cosmology: Part 1
Part 1
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

13:30 A definitive test of cold dark matter - Carlos Frenk

14:00 Fluctuations of the gravitational field generated by dark substructures - Jorge Penarrubia

14:30 Challenges in looking for new physics through cosmology - Alan Heavens (Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology)
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Conference Hall
15:30 Cosmology: Part 2
Part 2
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

15:30 Testing the Cosmological Principle - Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB) and Niels Bohr Institute (DK))

16:00 Bose condensation and decay of ALP dark matter - Igor Tkachev
16:30 Discussion

16:30 - 17:30
Room: Conference Hall

18:00 Welcome Reception

18:00 - 20:00
Room: Conference Hall
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
09:00 Dark Matter: Part 1
Part 1
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

09:00 Results of the WIMP search with XENON1T - Marco Garbini

09:30 WIMPS and beyond --- Super-cool dark matter - Thomas Hambye

09:55 Bounds on Dark Matter annihilations from 21 cm data - Guido D'Amico (CERN)
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:45
Room: Conference Hall
10:45 Dark Matter: Part 2
Part 2
10:45 - 12:25
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

10:45 Exploring WISPy Dark Matter - Joerg Jaeckel

11:10 Indirect DM searches - Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)

11:35 Possible cosmic ray tests of new physics - Kfir Blum (CERN)

12:00 Sterile neutrino dark matter and 3,5 kev line - Alexey Boiarskyi (Leiden University (NL))
14:00 Dark Matter and Gravity
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

14:00 Signatures of Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter - Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

14:25 Primordial black holes, dark matter, and other cosmological puzzles. - Alexander Dolgov (Novosibirsk State University and ITEP, Moscow)

14:50 Dark matter decay via the gravity portal - Alejandro Ibarra

15:15 Self interacting dark matter - Matti Heikinheimo (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: Conference Hall
16:10 Beyond General Relativity
16:10 - 17:40
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

16:10 Spacetime and dark matter from spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry - Tomi Koivisto

16:40 Recent developments in Bimetric and multimetric theories of gravity - Sayed Fawad Hassan

17:10 Testing DM and MOND models with galactic rotation curves - Mads Frandsen
17:40 Discussion

17:40 - 18:30
Room: Conference Hall
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
09:00 Flavour: Part 1
Part 1
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

09:00 B-anomalies: an experimental overview - Siim Tolk (CERN)

09:30 The flavor of Higgs - Yosef Nir

09:55 Are the LHCb etc. Tensions due to Non-perturbative Effects in Pure Standard Model ? - Holger Becht Nielsen
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:45
Room: Conference Hall
10:45 Flavour: Part 2
Part 2
10:45 - 12:00
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

10:45 B-physics anomalies and flavor non-universal gauge interactions - Gino Isidori (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

11:10 Flavour anomalies. where we are and what is next? - Joaquim Matias

11:35 Clockwork Flavor - Jernej F. Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)
13:30 Naturalness: Part 1
Part 1
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

13:30 Status and perspectives of BSM searches at the LHC - Maurizio Pierini

14:00 Hard talk on compositeness - Francesco Sannino (CP3-Origins)

14:30 SUSY GUTs of Flavour - Steve King

15:00 … or naturallessness - Kimmo Tuominen
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Conference Hall
16:00 Naturalness: Part 2
Part 2
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

16:00 Conformal symmetry: towards the link between the Fermi and the Planck scales - Mikhail Shaposhnikov

16:30 Conformal Extensions of the Standard Model - Manfred Lindner

17:00 Quantum scale symmetry in particle physics, gravity and cosmology - Christof Wetterich
17:30 Discussion

17:30 - 18:30
Room: Conference Hall
Thursday, 21 June 2018
09:00 Gravitational waves, phase transitions and vacuum stability: Part 1
Part 1
09:00 - 10:15
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

09:00 Gravitational waves from first order phase transitions - Mark Hindmarsh

09:25 Gravitational Waves from Dark Matter Genesis - Jiusuke Kubo

09:50 Spacetime curvature and vacuum stability during and after inflation - Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College (GB))
10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: Conference Hall
10:45 Gravitational waves, phase transitions and vacuum stability: Part 2
Part 2
10:45 - 12:25
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

10:45 Higgs-inflaton mixing - Oleg Lebedev (University of Helsinki)

11:10 Semiclassical approach to Higgsplosion - Valentin Khoze

11:35 The Higgs self-coupling and its implications - Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))
13:30 Inflation and New Physics
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

13:30 Present theoretical status of inflation and expected discoveries - Alexei Starobinsky

14:00 Quintessential Inflation with α-attractors - Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Lancaster University)

14:30 Classifying single-field inflationary models - Laur Järv (University of Tartu)
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Conference Hall
15:30 Cosmology: Part 3
Part 3
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

15:30 CMB Cosmology beyond thermal equilibrium - Jens Chluba

16:00 Present and future of CMB observations - Jacques Delabrouille

16:30 Black hole lasers powered by axion superradiant instabilities - Joao Rosa (U)
17:00 Excursion

17:00 - 19:00
Room: Conference Hall

19:30 Conference Dinner

19:30 - 22:30
Friday, 22 June 2018
08:30 Higher derivatives Gravity and Ghosts: Part 1
Part 1
08:30 - 10:15
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

09:00 The Case against Ghosts in Fundamental Theory - Richard Woodard

09:25 From fakeons and Lee-Wick models to quantum gravity - Damiano Anselmi

09:50 Classical and quantum dynamics of higher-derivative systems - Andrei Smilga
10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:40
Room: Conference Hall
10:40 Higher derivatives Gravity and Ghosts: Part 2
Part 2
10:40 - 11:30
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

10:40 Recent progress in fighting ghosts in quantum gravity - Ilya Shapiro

11:05 Quadratic Gravity - Salvio Alberto (CERN)
11:30 Closure Talks
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Conference Hall
Contributions

11:30 Roadsigns for cosmology - Kari Enqvist (University of Helsinki)

12:00 Naturalness: SUSY and other solutions. - Graham Ross