PACTS 2018: Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology Tallinn Symposium

from Monday, 18 June 2018 (09:00) to Friday, 22 June 2018 (13:10)
Estonian Academy of Sciences (Conference Hall)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Jun 2018
19 Jun 2018
20 Jun 2018
21 Jun 2018
22 Jun 2018
AM
09:00
Registration (until 09:55) ()
09:55
Welcome (until 10:00) (Conference Hall)
09:55 Welcome - Martti Raidal (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))   (Conference Hall)
10:00
Gravity (until 12:15) (Conference Hall)
10:00 Black holes as brains: Holographic neural networks with area-law entropy and exponentially enhanced memory capacity - Prof. Georgi Dvali   (Conference Hall)
10:30 David and Goliath: black hole superradiance - Prof. Vitor Cardoso   (Conference Hall)
11:00 Testing the nature of compact objects with gravitational waves - Prof. Paolo Pani   (Conference Hall)
11:30 Gravity with more or less variables - Prof. Roberto Percacci   (Conference Hall)
09:00
Dark Matter (until 10:20) (Conference Hall)
09:00 Results of the WIMP search with XENON1T - Prof. Marco Garbini   (Conference Hall)
09:30 WIMPS and beyond --- Super-cool dark matter - Prof. Thomas Hambye   (Conference Hall)
09:55 Bounds on Dark Matter annihilations from 21 cm data - Dr Guido D'Amico (CERN)   (Conference Hall)
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Dark Matter (until 12:25) (Conference Hall)
10:45 Exploring WISPy Dark Matter - Prof. Joerg Jaeckel   (Conference Hall)
11:10 Indirect DM searches - Dr Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)   (Conference Hall)
11:35 Possible cosmic ray tests of new physics - Dr Kfir Blum (CERN)   (Conference Hall)
12:00 Sterile neutrino dark matter and 3,5 kev line - Prof. Alexey Boiarskyi (Leiden University (NL))   (Conference Hall)
09:00
Flavour (until 10:20) (Conference Hall)
09:00 B-anomalies: an experimental overview - Dr Siim Tolk (CERN)   (Conference Hall)
09:30 The flavor of Higgs - Prof. Yosef Nir   (Conference Hall)
09:55 Are the LHCb etc. Tensions due to Non-perturbative Effects in Pure Standard Model ? - Prof. Holger Becht Nielsen   (Conference Hall)
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Flavour (until 12:00) (Conference Hall)
10:45 B-physics anomalies and flavor non-universal gauge interactions - Prof. Gino Isidori (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (Conference Hall)
11:10 Flavour anomalies. where we are and what is next? - Prof. Joaquim Matias   (Conference Hall)
11:35 Clockwork Flavor - Prof. Jernej F. Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)   (Conference Hall)
09:00
Gravitational waves, phase transitions and vacuum stability (until 10:15) (Conference Hall)
09:00 Gravitational waves from first order phase transitions - Prof. Mark Hindmarsh   (Conference Hall)
09:25 Gravitational Waves from Dark Matter Genesis - Prof. Jiusuke Kubo   (Conference Hall)
09:50 Spacetime curvature and vacuum stability during and after inflation - Prof. Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College (GB))   (Conference Hall)
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Gravitational waves, phase transitions and vacuum stability (until 12:25) (Conference Hall)
10:45 Higgs-inflaton mixing - Prof. Oleg Lebedev (University of Helsinki)   (Conference Hall)
11:10 Semiclassical approach to Higgsplosion - Prof. Valentin Khoze   (Conference Hall)
11:35 The Higgs self-coupling and its implications - Prof. Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))   (Conference Hall)
08:30
Higher derivatives Gravity and Ghosts (until 10:15) (Conference Hall)
09:00 The Case against Ghosts in Fundamental Theory - Prof. Richard Woodard   (Conference Hall)
09:25 From fakeons and Lee-Wick models to quantum gravity - Prof. Damiano Anselmi   (Conference Hall)
09:50 Classical and quantum dynamics of higher-derivative systems - Prof. Andrei Smilga   (Conference Hall)
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:40
Higher derivatives Gravity and Ghosts (until 11:30) (Conference Hall)
10:40 Recent progress in fighting ghosts in quantum gravity - Prof. Ilya Shapiro   (Conference Hall)
11:05 Quadratic Gravity - Dr Salvio Alberto (CERN)   (Conference Hall)
11:30
Closure Talks (until 12:30) (Conference Hall)
11:30 Roadsigns for cosmology - Prof. Kari Enqvist (University of Helsinki)   (Conference Hall)
12:00 Naturalness: SUSY and other solutions. - Prof. Graham Ross   (Conference Hall)
PM
13:30
Cosmology (until 15:00) (Conference Hall)
13:30 A definitive test of cold dark matter - Prof. Carlos Frenk   (Conference Hall)
14:00 Fluctuations of the gravitational field generated by dark substructures - Dr Jorge Penarrubia   (Conference Hall)
14:30 Challenges in looking for new physics through cosmology - Prof. Alan Heavens (Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology)   (Conference Hall)
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Cosmology (until 16:30) (Conference Hall)
15:30 Testing the Cosmological Principle - Prof. Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB) and Niels Bohr Institute (DK))   (Conference Hall)
16:00 Bose condensation and decay of ALP dark matter - Prof. Igor Tkachev   (Conference Hall)
16:30
Discussion (until 17:30) (Conference Hall)
18:00
Welcome Reception (until 20:00) (Conference Hall)
14:00
Dark Matter and Gravity (until 15:40) (Conference Hall)
14:00 Signatures of Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter - Prof. Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)   (Conference Hall)
14:25 Primordial black holes, dark matter, and other cosmological puzzles. - Prof. Alexander Dolgov (Novosibirsk State University and ITEP, Moscow)   (Conference Hall)
14:50 Dark matter decay via the gravity portal - Prof. Alejandro Ibarra   (Conference Hall)
15:15 Self interacting dark matter - Dr Matti Heikinheimo (Helsinki Institute of Physics)   (Conference Hall)
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10
Beyond General Relativity (until 17:40) (Conference Hall)
16:10 Spacetime and dark matter from spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry - Dr Tomi Koivisto   (Conference Hall)
16:40 Recent developments in Bimetric and multimetric theories of gravity - Dr Sayed Fawad Hassan   (Conference Hall)
17:10 Testing DM and MOND models with galactic rotation curves - Prof. Mads Frandsen   (Conference Hall)
17:40
Discussion (until 18:30) (Conference Hall)
13:30
Naturalness (until 15:30) (Conference Hall)
13:30 Status and perspectives of BSM searches at the LHC - Dr Maurizio Pierini   (Conference Hall)
14:00 Hard talk on compositeness - Prof. Francesco Sannino (CP3-Origins)   (Conference Hall)
14:30 SUSY GUTs of Flavour - Prof. Steve King   (Conference Hall)
15:00 … or naturallessness - Prof. Kimmo Tuominen   (Conference Hall)
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Naturalness (until 17:30) (Conference Hall)
16:00 Conformal symmetry: towards the link between the Fermi and the Planck scales - Prof. Mikhail Shaposhnikov   (Conference Hall)
16:30 Conformal Extensions of the Standard Model - Prof. Manfred Lindner   (Conference Hall)
17:00 Quantum scale symmetry in particle physics, gravity and cosmology - Prof. Christof Wetterich   (Conference Hall)
17:30
Discussion (until 18:30) (Conference Hall)
13:30
Inflation and New Physics (until 15:00) (Conference Hall)
13:30 Present theoretical status of inflation and expected discoveries - Prof. Alexei Starobinsky   (Conference Hall)
14:00 Quintessential Inflation with α-attractors - Dr Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Lancaster University)   (Conference Hall)
14:30 Classifying single-field inflationary models - Dr Laur Järv (University of Tartu)   (Conference Hall)
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Cosmology (until 17:00) (Conference Hall)
15:30 CMB Cosmology beyond thermal equilibrium - Dr Jens Chluba   (Conference Hall)
16:00 Present and future of CMB observations - Prof. Jacques Delabrouille   (Conference Hall)
16:30 Black hole lasers powered by axion superradiant instabilities - Dr Joao Rosa (U)   (Conference Hall)
17:00
Excursion (until 19:00) (Conference Hall)
19:30
Conference Dinner (until 22:30) ()