Aspen 2018 - The Particle Frontier

from Sunday, March 25, 2018 (4:00 PM) to Saturday, March 31, 2018 (6:00 PM)
Aspen Center for Physics (Flug Forum)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 25, 2018
Mar 26, 2018
Mar 27, 2018
Mar 28, 2018
Mar 29, 2018
Mar 30, 2018
Mar 31, 2018
AM
8:00 AM
Morning Session (until 10:55 AM)
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)  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
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)  
8:00 AM
Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
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  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
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 - Dr Patrick de Perio (Columbia University)  
8:00 AM
Morning Session (until 10:30 AM)
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)  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
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)  
8:00 AM
Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
8:00 AM Looking for the WIMP next door - Dr 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)  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
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))  
8:00 AM
Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
8:00 AM Combining perturbative calculations with parton showers - Christian Bauer  
8:25 AM LHC results on Standard Model measurements and limits on EFTs - Prof. 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))  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
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)  
7:55 AM
Morning Session (until 11:00 AM)
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  
9:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:45 AM Theory Summary - Liantao Wang (University of Chicago (US))  
10:20 AM Experimental Summary - Ayana Tamu Arce (Duke University (US))  
PM
5:30 PM Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics  
7:30 PM --- No host dinner - Recommendation: Hickory House ---
4:00 PM
Afternoon Session (until 7:05 PM)
4:00 PM --- Coffee and Tea ---
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))  
5:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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
Panel - Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU) (until 7:30 PM)
7:05 PM 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)  
8:00 PM --- No host dinner - Recommendation: Mezzaluna ---
4:00 PM
Afternoon Session (until 7:05 PM)
4:00 PM --- Coffee and Tea ---
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  
5:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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
Panel - Rafael Lang (until 7:30 PM)
7:05 PM New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection - Rafael Lang Richard Partridge (Brown / SLAC) Tongyan Lin Ken Van Tilburg  
8:00 PM --- No host dinner - Recommendation: Mi Chola ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee and Tea ---
4:30 PM
Public Event at Wheeler Opera House (until 5:30 PM)
4:30 PM Physics Cafe at Wheeler Opera House - Tongyan Lin Sarah Heim (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
5:30 PM
Public Event at Wheeler Opera House - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US)) (until 6:30 PM)
5:30 PM Public Lecture at Wheeler Opera House - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))  
7:00 PM --- No host dinner ---
4:00 PM
Afternoon Session (until 7:30 PM)
4:00 PM --- Coffee and Tea ---
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  
5:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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
Banquet at Aspen Meadows - Doerr-Hosier Center - Barksdale Lobby (main lobby as you first walk in) (until 10:00 PM)
4:00 PM
Afternoon Session (until 7:30 PM)
4:00 PM --- Coffee and Tea ---
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))  
5:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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 ---