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