Aspen 2018 - The Particle Frontier

from Sunday 25 March 2018 (16:00) to Saturday 31 March 2018 (18:00)
Aspen Center for Physics (Flug Forum)

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
25 Mar 2018
26 Mar 2018
27 Mar 2018
28 Mar 2018
29 Mar 2018
30 Mar 2018
31 Mar 2018
AM
08:00
Morning Session (until 10:55)
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)  
09:15 --- Coffee Break ---
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)  
08:00
Morning Session (until 11:00)
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  
09:15 --- Coffee Break ---
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 - Dr Patrick de Perio (Columbia University)  
08:00
Morning Session (until 10:30)
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)  
09:15 --- Coffee Break ---
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)  
08:00
Morning Session (until 11:00)
08:00 Looking for the WIMP next door - Dr 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)  
09:15 --- Coffee Break ---
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))  
08:00
Morning Session (until 11:00)
08:00 Combining perturbative calculations with parton showers - Christian Bauer  
08:25 LHC results on Standard Model measurements and limits on EFTs - Prof. Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US))  
08:50 ATLAS and CMS results on bottom and charm quarks - Kevin Stenson (University of Colorado Boulder (US))  
09:15 --- Coffee Break ---
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)  
07:55
Morning Session (until 11:00)
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  
09:15 --- Coffee Break ---
09:45 Theory Summary - Liantao Wang (University of Chicago (US))  
10:20 Experimental Summary - Ayana Tamu Arce (Duke University (US))  
PM
17:30 Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics  
19:30 --- No host dinner - Recommendation: Hickory House ---
16:00
Afternoon Session (until 19:05)
16:00 --- Coffee and Tea ---
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))  
17:45 --- Coffee Break ---
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
Panel - Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU) (until 19:30)
19:05 Far Detectors Panel - John Paul Chou (Rutgers State Univ. of New Jersey (US)) Andrew Haas (New York University) Felix Kling (University of California, Irvine) Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)  
20:00 --- No host dinner - Recommendation: Mezzaluna ---
16:00
Afternoon Session (until 19:05)
16:00 --- Coffee and Tea ---
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  
17:45 --- Coffee Break ---
18:15 Axion Dark Matter Experiment: Year 1 - Aaron Chou  
18:40 Status of DAMIC - Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)  
19:05
Panel - Rafael Lang (until 19:30)
19:05 New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection - Rafael Lang Richard Partridge (Brown / SLAC) Tongyan Lin Ken Van Tilburg  
20:00 --- No host dinner - Recommendation: Mi Chola ---
16:00 --- Coffee and Tea ---
16:30
Public Event at Wheeler Opera House (until 17:30)
16:30 Physics Cafe at Wheeler Opera House - Tongyan Lin Sarah Heim (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
17:30
Public Event at Wheeler Opera House - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US)) (until 18:30)
17:30 Public Lecture at Wheeler Opera House - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))  
19:00 --- No host dinner ---
16:00
Afternoon Session (until 19:30)
16:00 --- Coffee and Tea ---
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  
17:45 --- Coffee Break ---
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
Banquet at Aspen Meadows - Doerr-Hosier Center - Barksdale Lobby (main lobby as you first walk in) (until 22:00)
16:00
Afternoon Session (until 19:30)
16:00 --- Coffee and Tea ---
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))  
17:45 --- Coffee Break ---
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 ---