45th SLAC Summer Institute

from Monday 14 August 2017 (08:30) to Friday 25 August 2017 (21:45)
SLAC (Kavli Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Aug 2017
15 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017
17 Aug 2017
18 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017
AM
08:30 Registration and Light Refreshments  
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Welcome - Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)  
09:05 Cosmic Frontier Landscape - Steven Ritz (UCSC)  
10:05 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Cosmology Basics (I) - Josh Frieman (Fermilab)  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Cosmology Basics (II) - Josh Frieman (Fermilab)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Cosmology Basics (III) - Josh Frieman (Fermilab)  
10:00 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Big Bang Nuclear Synthesis - Keith Alison Olive (University of Minnesota (US))  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Baryo-/Leptogenesis - Yuval Grossman (Cornell)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 CMB Theory & History - Leonardo Senatore (Stanford University)  
10:00 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Dark Matter - Theory - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US))  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Dark Energy - Theory - Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 CMB Experimental Techniques - Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)  
10:00 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Dark Matter Direct Detection: Noble Liquids - Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC)  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Large Scale Structure: Imaging - Risa Wechsler (Stanford University / SLAC)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 CMB & Inflation - Chaolin Kuo  
10:00 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Dark Matter Direct Detection: Crystals - Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley)  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Large Scale Structure: Spectroscopy - Risa Wechsler (Stanford University / SLAC)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
08:45
Lectures (until 13:00)
08:45 CMB & Light Degree of Freedom - Joel Meyers (CITA, Toronto)  
09:45 --- Morning break & Observation of Solar Eclipse ---
10:45 Axions as Dark Matter - Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)  
11:45 --- break ---
12:00 Dark Energy: Weak Lensing - Michael Schneider (Lawrence Livermoore National Laboratory)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 CMB Cosmology - Nick Battaglia (Princeton University)  
10:00 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Ultra Light Dark Matter - Peter Graham (Stanford University)  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Dark Energy: Galaxy Clusters - Adam Mantz (Stanford University)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Theory of Gravitational Waves - Jolien Creighton (Univ. fo Wisconsin at Milwaukee)  
10:00 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Andrea Albert (Los Alamos National Lab)  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Dark Energy: Supernovae - Alex Kim (LBNL)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45)
09:00 Detection of Gravitational Waves - Norna Robertson (Caltech)  
10:00 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Dark Matter Searches at Accelerator Experiments - Natalia Toro (SLAC)  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Dark Energy: Strong Lensing - Phil Marshall (SLAC)  
08:30 --- Light refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:55)
09:00 Alternative Theories of Gravity - Stacy McGaugh (Case Western Univ.)  
10:00 --- Morning break ---
10:30 Dark Energy: Combined Probes - Elisabeth Krause (SLAC)  
11:30 --- break ---
11:45 Project Award - Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)  
11:55 The Labyrinth Ahead - Roger Blandford (SLAC)  
PM
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference (until 17:35)
14:45 Standard Model and Higgs Results from LHC - Heather Gray (LBNL)  
15:30 New Physics Searches at LHC - Sarah Eno (University of Maryland (US))  
16:15 --- Afternoon break ---
16:35 New Results from LHCb - Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University (US))  
17:05 New Results from ALICE - Peter Martin Jacobs (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
18:00 --- Reception ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Q & A (until 15:45) (ROB Redwood Room)
15:45 --- Afternoon break ---
16:05
Projects (until 18:00) (ROB Redwood Room)
18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference (until 16:35)
14:45 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Lisa Kaufman  
15:15 New Results from Xenon-1T - Dr Christopher Tunnell (University of Chicago)  
15:45 --- Afternoon break ---
16:05 New Results from PICO - C Eric Dahl (Northwestern University)  
16:35
Projects (until 18:00) (ROB Redwood Room)
18:00
Poster social (until 19:30) (SUSB (53) lobby)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:30 SLAC Klystron Gallery Tour  
14:45
Q & A (until 15:45)
15:45 --- Afternoon break ---
16:05
Projects (until 17:05)
16:35 Kavli Vislab Tour   (Kavli Vislab)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference (until 15:45)
14:45 Cosmic Visions: Dark Matter - Philip Schuster (SLAC)  
15:15 Cosmic Visions: CMB - Chaolin Kuo  
15:45 --- Afternoon break ---
16:05 Projects: working session  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference (until 16:15)
14:45 Neutrino Theory - Alexander Friedland (SLAC)  
15:15 Recent Results from Neutrino Experiments - Prof. Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of Toronto/IPP/TRIUMF)  
15:45 New Results from Ice Cube - Spencer Klein (LBNL)  
16:15 --- Afternoon break ---
16:35
Projects (until 18:00)
18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:30 SLAC Klystron Gallery Tour   (Visitor Alcolve)
14:45
Q & A (until 15:45)
15:45 --- Afternoon break ---
16:05
Projects (until 17:05)
16:35 Kavli Vislab Tour   (Kavli Vislab)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference (until 15:45)
14:45 Road to DUNE - Edward Blucher (University of Chicago (US))  
15:15 Atomic Precision Frontier - Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)  
15:45 --- Afternoon break ---
16:05
Projects (until 18:00)
18:00 SSI vs SLAC Soccer game   (Arrillaga Recreation Center)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Projects (until 17:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
14:45 Team 1: Is Dark Energy just Cosmological Constant (CC) ? - Arthur Constantino Scardua (Brazilian Center for Physical Research)  
15:10 Team 2: New field of non-CC Dark Energy - Daniel Brooker (University of Florida)  
15:35 Team 6: Verifying dark photon interpretation of DM - Guido Andreassi (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))  
16:00 --- Afternoon break ---
16:20 Team 10: Neutrino mass scenarios from all experiments - gongjun choi (C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics)  
16:45 Team 15: Combination of techniques for LSST - Henry Grasshorn Gebhardt (Penn State)  
17:10 Team 17: Massive Primordial Black Holes as DM - Benjamin Lehmann (UC Santa Cruz)  
18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:45 Adjourn