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, March 25, 2018 (4:00 PM) to Saturday, March 31, 2018 (6:00 PM)

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

5:30 PM Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics
Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Flug Forum

7:30 PM No host dinner - Recommendation: Hickory House
No host dinner - Recommendation: Hickory House
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Monday, March 26, 2018
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

8:00 AM CMS results on searches for Supersymmetry - Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))

8:25 AM ATLAS results on searches for Supersymmetry - Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

8:50 AM The Muon g-2 Theory Initiative - Aida El-Khadra (UIUC)

9:45 AM Ground-based Gravitational Wave detectors - Results and Plans (LIGO and Virgo) - David Shoemaker (MIT LIGO)

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

10:35 AM Bright Axion Stars - Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 7:05 PM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

4:30 PM ATLAS results on searches for long-lived particles - Hidetoshi Otono (Kyushu University (JP))

4:55 PM CMS results on searches for long-lived particles - Ted Ritchie Kolberg (Florida State University (US))

5:20 PM Searches for new particles at LHCb - J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

6:15 PM Search for Light Dark Sector at BaBar - Chunhui Chen (Iowa State University (US))

6:40 PM A COmpact DEtector for eXotics at LHCb - Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
7:05 PM Far Detectors Panel
Far Detectors Panel
7:05 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

7:05 PM 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)
8:00 PM No host dinner - Recommendation: Mezzaluna
No host dinner - Recommendation: Mezzaluna
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

8:00 AM Halometry from Astrometry - Neal Weiner (NYU)

8:25 AM Dark Matter Annihilation, Decay and Scattering in the Cosmic Dawn - Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)

8:50 AM Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter  with Polar Materials - Tongyan Lin

9:45 AM CRESST talk: Title TBD - Antonio D'Addabbo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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

10:35 AM XENON1T talk: Upcoming Results from XENON1T - Patrick de Perio (Columbia University)
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 7:05 PM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

4:30 PM LHC results on Top Quark Physics - Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

4:55 PM Current status of the g-2 experiment at Fermilab - Tammy Walton

5:20 PM SENSEI: First Results, Status, and Plans - Rouven Essig

6:15 PM Axion Dark Matter Experiment: Year 1 - Aaron Chou

6:40 PM Status of DAMIC - Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)
7:05 PM New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection
New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection
7:05 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

7:05 PM New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection - Ken Van Tilburg Rafael Lang Richard Partridge (Brown / SLAC) Tongyan Lin
8:00 PM No host dinner - Recommendation: Mi Chola
No host dinner - Recommendation: Mi Chola
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

8:00 AM Neutron stars as laboratories for particle physics - Sanjay Reddy (U)

8:25 AM A viable QCD axion in the MeV mass range - Daniele S. M. Alves (NYU / Princeton)

8:50 AM New Developments in Small-Scale Axion Cosmology - Joshua Eby (University of Cincinnati)

9:45 AM ATLAS results on searches for exotic new particles - Sara Alderweireldt (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

10:10 AM CMS results on searches for exotic new particles - Alice Helene Florent (University of California Los Angeles (US))
10:35 AM 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 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Flug Forum
4:00 PM Coffee and Tea
Coffee and Tea
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Flug Forum
4:30 PM Physics Cafe
Physics Cafe
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Physics Cafe at Wheeler Opera House - Sarah Heim (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Tongyan Lin
5:30 PM Public Lecture
Public Lecture
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

5:30 PM Public Lecture at Wheeler Opera House - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))
7:00 PM No host dinner
No host dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, March 29, 2018
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

8:00 AM Looking for the WIMP next door - Julia Shelton

8:25 AM The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter - Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Caroline)

8:50 AM Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in the CMB - Kimberly Boddy (University of Hawaii)

9:45 AM B physics anomalies at LHCb - Fergus Wilson (STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB))

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

10:35 AM Belle II @ SuperKEKB: a new experiment at intensity frontier - Vladimir Savinov Vladimir Savinov (University of Pittsburgh (US))
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

4:30 PM Cosmic Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings - Yanou Cui (Perimeter Institute)

4:55 PM The LDMX experiment - Bertrand Echenard (California Institute of Technology (US))

5:20 PM MicroBooNE: Status & Recent Results - Sowjanya Gollapinni

6:15 PM CEνNS Detection at the SNS: for the COHERENT collaboration - Daniel Salvat (CELLS)

6:40 PM Neutrinos from beyond the solar system - Cecilia Lunardini (Arizona State University)

7:05 PM Highlights from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Ali Kheirandish
8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, March 30, 2018
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

8:00 AM Combining perturbative calculations with parton showers - Christian Bauer

8:25 AM LHC results on Standard Model measurements and limits on EFTs - Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US))

8:50 AM ATLAS and CMS results on bottom and charm quarks - Kevin Stenson (University of Colorado Boulder (US))

9:45 AM Quantum Black holes: new physics and observational probes - Steven Giddings (Univ. of California Santa Barbara)

10:10 AM Unification from Scattering Amplitudes - Clifford Cheung

10:35 AM Higgscitement: cosmological dynamics of fine-tuning - JiJi Fan (Brown University)
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

4:30 PM Higgs couplings at high scales - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

4:55 PM CMS results on exotic Higgs searches - Abdollah Mohammadi (Kansas State University (US))

5:20 PM ATLAS results on exotic Higgs searches - Haleh Hadavand (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

6:15 PM LHC results on couplings and characterization of H(125) - Sarah Heim (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

6:40 PM ATLAS results on Higgs decays to bbbar and mumu - Aidan Robson (University of Glasgow (GB))

7:05 PM CMS results on Higgs decays to bbbar and mumu - Ye Chen (IHEP)
8:00 PM No host dinner
No host dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday, March 31, 2018
7:55 AM
7:55 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

8:00 AM Indirect Detection Constraints on DM EFT Model Space (and Maybe Something about Simplified Models) - Jessica Goodman (The Ohio State University)

8:25 AM Light dark matter signatures in the NOvA near detector - claudia frugiuele (Carleton University)

8:50 AM Summary of the latest neutrino oscillation results from the NOvA experiment - Michael Baird

9:45 AM Theory Summary - Liantao Wang (University of Chicago (US))

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

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