Name: Aspen 2018 - The Particle Frontier
Start: 2018-03-25T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2018-03-31T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Aspen Center for Physics

Aspen 2018 - The Particle Frontier

from Sunday 25 March 2018 (16:00) to Saturday 31 March 2018 (18:00)

Monday 19 March 2018
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Wednesday 21 March 2018
Thursday 22 March 2018
Friday 23 March 2018
Saturday 24 March 2018
Sunday 25 March 2018

17:30 Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics
Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics
17:30 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum

19:30 No host dinner - Recommendation: Hickory House
No host dinner - Recommendation: Hickory House
19:30 - 21:30

Monday 26 March 2018
08:00
08:00 - 10:55
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 CMS results on searches for Supersymmetry - Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))

08:25 ATLAS results on searches for Supersymmetry - Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

08:50 The Muon g-2 Theory Initiative - Aida El-Khadra (UIUC)

09:45 Ground-based Gravitational Wave detectors - Results and Plans (LIGO and Virgo) - David Shoemaker (MIT LIGO)

10:10 Searching for Ultralight Particles with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves - Masha Baryakhtar (PI - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (CA))

10:35 Bright Axion Stars - Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
16:00
16:00 - 19:05
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 ATLAS results on searches for long-lived particles - Hidetoshi Otono (Kyushu University (JP))

16:55 CMS results on searches for long-lived particles - Ted Ritchie Kolberg (Florida State University (US))

17:20 Searches for new particles at LHCb - J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

18:15 Search for Light Dark Sector at BaBar - Chunhui Chen (Iowa State University (US))

18:40 A COmpact DEtector for eXotics at LHCb - Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
19:05 Far Detectors Panel
Far Detectors Panel
19:05 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

19:05 Far Detectors Panel - Andrew Haas (New York University) Felix Kling (University of California, Irvine) John Paul Chou (Rutgers State Univ. of New Jersey (US)) Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
20:00 No host dinner - Recommendation: Mezzaluna
No host dinner - Recommendation: Mezzaluna
20:00 - 22:00
Tuesday 27 March 2018
08:00
08:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Halometry from Astrometry - Neal Weiner (NYU)

08:25 Dark Matter Annihilation, Decay and Scattering in the Cosmic Dawn - Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)

08:50 Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter  with Polar Materials - Tongyan Lin

09:45 CRESST talk: Title TBD - Antonio D'Addabbo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 The PICO Dark Matter Search Experiment - Ilan Levine (Indiana University South Bend)

10:35 XENON1T talk: Upcoming Results from XENON1T - Patrick de Perio (Columbia University)
16:00
16:00 - 19:05
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 LHC results on Top Quark Physics - Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

16:55 Current status of the g-2 experiment at Fermilab - Tammy Walton

17:20 SENSEI: First Results, Status, and Plans - Rouven Essig

18:15 Axion Dark Matter Experiment: Year 1 - Aaron Chou

18:40 Status of DAMIC - Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)
19:05 New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection
New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection
19:05 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

19:05 New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection - Ken Van Tilburg Rafael Lang Richard Partridge (Brown / SLAC) Tongyan Lin
20:00 No host dinner - Recommendation: Mi Chola
No host dinner - Recommendation: Mi Chola
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday 28 March 2018
08:00
08:00 - 10:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Neutron stars as laboratories for particle physics - Sanjay Reddy (U)

08:25 A viable QCD axion in the MeV mass range - Daniele S. M. Alves (NYU / Princeton)

08:50 New Developments in Small-Scale Axion Cosmology - Joshua Eby (University of Cincinnati)

09:45 ATLAS results on searches for exotic new particles - Sara Alderweireldt (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

10:10 CMS results on searches for exotic new particles - Alice Helene Florent (University of California Los Angeles (US))
10:35 Panel: Machine Learning in Particle Physics - Fernanda Psihas (Indiana University) Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US)) Kazuhiro Terao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Panel: Machine Learning in Particle Physics
- Fernanda Psihas (Indiana University)
- Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))
- Kazuhiro Terao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
16:00 Coffee and Tea
Coffee and Tea
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 Physics Cafe
Physics Cafe
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 Physics Cafe at Wheeler Opera House - Sarah Heim (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Tongyan Lin
17:30 Public Lecture
Public Lecture
17:30 - 18:30
Contributions

17:30 Public Lecture at Wheeler Opera House - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))
19:00 No host dinner
No host dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Thursday 29 March 2018
08:00
08:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Looking for the WIMP next door - Julia Shelton

08:25 The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter - Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Caroline)

08:50 Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in the CMB - Kimberly Boddy (University of Hawaii)

09:45 B physics anomalies at LHCb - Fergus Wilson (STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB))

10:10 Implications of the B physics anomalies - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)

10:35 Belle II @ SuperKEKB: a new experiment at intensity frontier - Vladimir Savinov Vladimir Savinov (University of Pittsburgh (US))
16:00
16:00 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 Cosmic Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings - Yanou Cui (Perimeter Institute)

16:55 The LDMX experiment - Bertrand Echenard (California Institute of Technology (US))

17:20 MicroBooNE: Status & Recent Results - Sowjanya Gollapinni

18:15 CEνNS Detection at the SNS: for the COHERENT collaboration - Daniel Salvat (CELLS)

18:40 Neutrinos from beyond the solar system - Cecilia Lunardini (Arizona State University)

19:05 Highlights from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Ali Kheirandish
20:00

20:00 - 22:00
Friday 30 March 2018
08:00
08:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Combining perturbative calculations with parton showers - Christian Bauer

08:25 LHC results on Standard Model measurements and limits on EFTs - Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US))

08:50 ATLAS and CMS results on bottom and charm quarks - Kevin Stenson (University of Colorado Boulder (US))

09:45 Quantum Black holes: new physics and observational probes - Steven Giddings (Univ. of California Santa Barbara)

10:10 Unification from Scattering Amplitudes - Clifford Cheung

10:35 Higgscitement: cosmological dynamics of fine-tuning - JiJi Fan (Brown University)
16:00
16:00 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 Higgs couplings at high scales - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

16:55 CMS results on exotic Higgs searches - Abdollah Mohammadi (Kansas State University (US))

17:20 ATLAS results on exotic Higgs searches - Haleh Hadavand (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

18:15 LHC results on couplings and characterization of H(125) - Sarah Heim (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

18:40 ATLAS results on Higgs decays to bbbar and mumu - Aidan Robson (University of Glasgow (GB))

19:05 CMS results on Higgs decays to bbbar and mumu - Ye Chen (IHEP)
20:00 No host dinner
No host dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Saturday 31 March 2018
07:55
07:55 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Indirect Detection Constraints on DM EFT Model Space (and Maybe Something about Simplified Models) - Jessica Goodman (The Ohio State University)

08:25 Light dark matter signatures in the NOvA near detector - claudia frugiuele (Carleton University)

08:50 Summary of the latest neutrino oscillation results from the NOvA experiment - Michael Baird

09:45 Theory Summary - Liantao Wang (University of Chicago (US))

10:20 Experimental Summary - Ayana Tamu Arce (Duke University (US))