Name: PPC 2018: XII International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology
Start: 2018-08-20T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-08-24T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Zürich

PPC 2018: XII International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology

from Monday 20 August 2018 (08:00) to Friday 24 August 2018 (17:00)

Monday 20 August 2018
08:30 Opening
Opening
08:30 - 09:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

08:30 Registration

09:15 Conference Welcome - Lesya Shchutska (ETH Zurich (CH))
09:30 I
I
09:30 - 10:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:30 An Analytic Approach to Cosmic Structures - Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg University (DE))

10:00 The Hubble Constant: Implications for Cosmology - Sherry Suyu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics / Technical University of Munich)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: RAI-G-041
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

11:00 Dark sectors at the precision/intensity frontier - Adam Ritz (University of Victoria)

11:30 Searching for dark matter using ultra cold neutrons - Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (Paul Scherrer Institute)

12:00 Atomic physics tests of dark matter and dark energy - Paul Hamilton (University of California, Los Angeles (US))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

14:00 Matter in the Universe as a Consequence of the Fermi Scale Epoch - Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)

14:30 Exploring the Early Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background - Ruth Durrer Zimmermann (University of Geneva)

15:00 Cosmology of Fibre Inflation Models - Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: RAI-G-041
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

16:00 Direct gravitational wave detection and its implications for fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology - Chris Van Den Broeck (University of Groningen)

16:30 The long vision of gravitational wave astronomy - Alberto Sesana (University of Birmingham)

17:00 Probing nuclear physics with gravitational waves - Tanja Hinderer (Radboud University)

17:30 Seeing and Hearing the Violent Universe: the astrophysics of compact object mergers - Samaya Nissanke (Radboud University)
Tuesday 21 August 2018
09:00 II
II
09:00 - 11:00
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:00 From pixels to physics: the promise of large cosmological surveys - Hiranya Peiris (University College London (UK))

09:30 Probing the nature of dark matter with astrophysical observations - Aurel Schneider (University of Zurich)

10:00 Dark-energy constraints from forthcoming cluster and galaxy surveys - Cristiano Porciani (University of Bonn (DE))

10:30 The Landscape of Modified Gravity - Lavinia Heisenberg (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: RAI-G-041
11:30 I
I
11:30 - 12:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

11:30 Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Interactions - Vera Gluscevic (University of Florida, Princeton University)

12:00 Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) Recent Results and Future Prospects - William Wester (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

14:00 Neutrinos and cosmology - Martina Gerbino (Stockholm University)

14:30 Latest results from NOvA - Will Flanagan (University of Dallas)

15:00 Latest results from T2K - Laura Molina Bueno (ETH Zurich (CH))
15:30 Plenary I
Plenary I
15:30 - 16:10
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

15:30 First search for invisible decays of ortho-positronium confined in a vacuum cavity - Carlos Vigo Hernandez (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)

15:35 The Mu3e Experiment - Lukas Gerritzen (ETH Zurich (CH))

15:40 The GBAR experiment: Gravitational behaviour of antihydrogen at rest and a measurement of the antihydrogen Lamb shift - Gianluca Janka (ETH Zurich (CH))

15:45 Cosmological implications of ultra-light axion-like particles - Vivian Poulin (Johns Hopkins University (US))

15:50 Leptogenesis in Cosmological Relaxation with Particle Production - Fang Ye (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))

15:55 Fourier domain gravitational waveforms for precessing eccentric binaries - Yannick Boetzel (University of Zurich)

16:00 Gravitational wave polarization from combined Earth-space detectors - Adrian Boitier (Physics Department , University of Zurich)
16:10 Coffee break & posters
Coffee break & posters
16:10 - 17:10
Room: RAI-G-041

17:30 Welcome apero (photo in front of building at 17:20)
Welcome apero (photo in front of building at 17:20)
17:30 - 21:00
Room: ETH Main building
Wednesday 22 August 2018
09:00 I
I
09:00 - 10:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:00 Exotic searches at the LHC - Alejandro Gomez Espinosa (ETH Zurich (CH))

09:30 SUSY searches at the LHC - Marija Vranjes Milosavljevic (Institute of Physics Belgrade (RS))

10:00 Rare, Exotic, and Invisible Higgs boson at the LHC - Abideh Jafari (CERN)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: RAI-G-041
11:00 II
II
11:00 - 12:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

11:00 Search for dark sectors and long-lived particles at the LHC - Katherine Pachal (Simon Fraser University (CA))

11:30 Search for low and high mass resonances at the LHC - Carlos Andres Florez Bustos (Universidad de los Andes (CO))

12:00 Tests of Lepton Flavor Universality at LHCb - Annarita Buonaura (Universität Zürich (CH))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

14:00 Machine Learning: From Industry to Science - Fedor Ratnikov (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

14:30 Deep Learning and the challenges of High-Luminosity LHC - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

15:00 Networked data-science for research, academic communities and beyond - Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: RAI-G-041

16:00 Excursion to the Old Town
Excursion to the Old Town
16:00 - 19:00
Room: Rämistrasse 71 - Fraumünster
Thursday 23 August 2018
09:00 II
II
09:00 - 10:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:00 Accelerator-based Searches for Light DM - Ruth Pottgen (Lund University (SE))

09:30 Accelerator-based light particle searches at NA62 experiment - Gia Khoriauli (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))

10:00 SHiP and its relation to DM and cosmology - Kyrylo Bondarenko (Leiden University (NL))
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: RAI-G-041
11:00 III
III
11:00 - 12:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

11:00 Dark matter searches with ATLAS and CMS - Ruth Pottgen (Lund University (SE))

11:30 Dark matter mediator searches with the LHC - David Yu (Brown University (US))

12:00 Sterile neutrino DM: status and overview - Alexey Boiarskyi (Leiden University (NL))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 IV
IV
14:00 - 15:00
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

14:00 Searching for Low-Mass Dark Matter Particles: DAMIC, SuperCDMS and CRESST - Silvia Scorza (SNOLAB)

14:30 Dark matter searches with liquid xenon detectors - Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
15:00 Invitation to the PPC 2019
Invitation to the PPC 2019
15:00 - 15:15
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

15:00 PPC 2019: Welcome from the organizers - Carlos Andres Florez Bustos (Universidad de los Andes (CO))
15:15 Plenary II
Plenary II
15:15 - 15:35
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

15:15 Neutrino mass via fermion kinetic mixing; Scotogenic model in the context of SU(7) GUT; Neutrino mass and $R_{(K*)}$ and $R_{(D*)}$ anomalies via $R_2$ and $S_3$ leptoquarks - Oleg Popov (Seoul National University of Science and Technology)

15:20 The path to a neutrino mass sum measurement from cosmology - Thejs Brinckmann (RWTH Aachen)

15:25 NA64 searching for hidden sectors at the CERN SPS - Emilio Depero (ETH Zurich (CH))

15:30 Are Dark Matter - Dark Radiation Interactions Favoured by Cosmological Data? - Deanna C Hooper (RWTH Aachen University (DE))
15:35 Coffee break & posters
Coffee break & posters
15:35 - 16:35
Room: RAI-G-041

18:30 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
18:30 - 22:30
Room: Zunfthaus zur Saffran
Friday 24 August 2018
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:00 Recent developments in model building - Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))

09:30 Exotic DM models - Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

10:00 Dark sectors - Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU)

10:30 Model building inspired by flavor physics - David Marzocca (INFN Trieste)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: RAI-G-041
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

11:30 Closing talk: theory - Kfir Blum (CERN)

12:15 Closing talk: experiment - Stefan Schoenert (Technical University of Munich)
13:00 PPC 2019 (see Thursday presentation)
PPC 2019 (see Thursday presentation)
13:00 - 13:10
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

13:00 PPC 2019: Welcome from the organizers - Carlos Andres Florez Bustos (Universidad de los Andes (CO))

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