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)
Zürich (RAI-G-041)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018
AM
08:30
Organizational -Prof. Guenther Dissertori (ETH Zurich) (until 09:30) (RAI-G-041)
08:30 Registration   (RAI-G-041)
09:15 Conference Welcome - Lesya Shchutska (ETH Zurich (CH))   (RAI-G-041)
09:30
Late universe cosmology -Dr Tomek Kacprzak (ETH Zurich) (until 10:30) (RAI-G-041)
09:30 An Analytic Approach to Cosmic Structures - Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg University (DE))   (RAI-G-041)
10:00 The Hubble Constant: Implications for Cosmology - Sherry Suyu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics / Technical University of Munich)   (RAI-G-041)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Low energy precision experiments -Prof. Klaus Kirch (PSI / ETH Zurich) (until 12:30) (RAI-G-041)
11:00 Dark sectors at the precision/intensity frontier - Adam Ritz (University of Victoria)   (RAI-G-041)
11:30 Searching for dark matter using ultra cold neutrons - Dr Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (Paul Scherrer Institute)   (RAI-G-041)
12:00 Atomic physics tests of dark matter and dark energy - Paul Hamilton (University of California, Los Angeles (US))   (RAI-G-041)
09:00
Late universe cosmology -Dr Hamsa Padmanabhan (ETH Zurich) (until 11:00) (RAI-G-041)
09:00 From pixels to physics: the promise of large cosmological surveys - Hiranya Peiris (University College London (UK))   (RAI-G-041)
09:30 Probing the nature of dark matter with astrophysical observations - Aurel Schneider (University of Zurich)   (RAI-G-041)
10:00 Dark-energy constraints from forthcoming cluster and galaxy surveys - Cristiano Porciani (University of Bonn (DE))   (RAI-G-041)
10:30 The Landscape of Modified Gravity - Lavinia Heisenberg (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)   (RAI-G-041)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Dark matter -Prof. Thomas Gehrmann (Univ. Zurich) (until 12:30) (RAI-G-041)
11:30 Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Interactions - Vera Gluscevic (University of Florida, Princeton University)   (RAI-G-041)
12:00 Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) Recent Results and Future Prospects - William Wester (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))   (RAI-G-041)
09:00
Collider physics -Prof. Florencia Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) (until 10:30) (RAI-G-041)
09:00 Exotic searches at the LHC - Alejandro Gomez Espinosa (ETH Zurich (CH))   (RAI-G-041)
09:30 SUSY searches at the LHC - Marija Vranjes Milosavljevic (Institute of Physics Belgrade (RS))   (RAI-G-041)
10:00 Rare, Exotic, and Invisible Higgs boson at the LHC - Abideh Jafari (CERN)   (RAI-G-041)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Collider physics -Prof. Ben Kilminster (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) (until 12:30) (RAI-G-041)
11:00 Search for dark sectors and long-lived particles at the LHC - Katherine Pachal (Simon Fraser University (CA))   (RAI-G-041)
11:30 Search for low and high mass resonances at the LHC - Carlos Andres Florez Bustos (Universidad de los Andes (CO))   (RAI-G-041)
12:00 Tests of Lepton Flavor Universality at LHCb - Annarita Buonaura (Universität Zürich (CH))   (RAI-G-041)
09:00
Dark matter -Prof. Nicola Serra (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) (until 10:30) (RAI-G-041)
09:00 Accelerator-based Searches for Light DM - Ruth Pottgen (Lund University (SE))   (RAI-G-041)
09:30 Accelerator-based light particle searches at NA62 experiment - Gia Khoriauli (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))   (RAI-G-041)
10:00 SHiP and its relation to DM and cosmology - Kyrylo Bondarenko (Leiden University (NL))   (RAI-G-041)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Dark matter -Prof. Florencia Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) (until 12:30) (RAI-G-041)
11:00 Dark matter searches with ATLAS and CMS - Ruth Pottgen (Lund University (SE))   (RAI-G-041)
11:30 Dark matter mediator searches with the LHC - David Yu (Brown University (US))   (RAI-G-041)
12:00 Sterile neutrino DM: status and overview - Alexey Boiarskyi (Leiden University (NL))   (RAI-G-041)
09:00
Model building -Prof. Thomas Gehrmann (Univ. Zurich) (until 11:00) (RAI-G-041)
09:00 Recent developments in model building - Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))   (RAI-G-041)
09:30 Exotic DM models - Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)   (RAI-G-041)
10:00 Dark sectors - Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU)   (RAI-G-041)
10:30 Model building inspired by flavor physics - David Marzocca (INFN Trieste)   (RAI-G-041)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Closing session/summary talks -Prof. Lesya Shchutska (ETH Zurich (CH)) (until 13:00) (RAI-G-041)
11:30 Closing talk: theory - Kfir Blum (CERN)   (RAI-G-041)
12:15 Closing talk: experiment - Stefan Schoenert (Technical University of Munich)   (RAI-G-041)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Early universe cosmology -Prof. Jaiyul Yoo (Univ. Zurich) (until 15:30) (RAI-G-041)
14:00 Matter in the Universe as a Consequence of the Fermi Scale Epoch - Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)   (RAI-G-041)
14:30 Exploring the Early Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background - Ruth Durrer Zimmermann (University of Geneva)   (RAI-G-041)
15:00 Cosmology of Fibre Inflation Models - Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)   (RAI-G-041)
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Gravitational waves -Prof. Philippe Jetzer (Univ. Zurich) (until 18:00) (RAI-G-041)
16:00 Direct gravitational wave detection and its implications for fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology - Prof. Chris Van Den Broeck (University of Groningen)   (RAI-G-041)
16:30 The long vision of gravitational wave astronomy - Alberto Sesana (University of Birmingham)   (RAI-G-041)
17:00 Probing nuclear physics with gravitational waves - Tanja Hinderer (Radboud University)   (RAI-G-041)
17:30 Seeing and Hearing the Violent Universe: the astrophysics of compact object mergers - Samaya Nissanke (Radboud University)   (RAI-G-041)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Neutrinos -Prof. Lesya Shchutska (ETH Zurich (CH)) (until 15:30) (RAI-G-041)
14:00 Neutrinos and cosmology - Martina Gerbino (Stockholm University)   (RAI-G-041)
14:30 Latest results from NOvA - Will Flanagan (University of Dallas)   (RAI-G-041)
15:00 Latest results from T2K - Laura Molina Bueno (ETH Zurich (CH))   (RAI-G-041)
15:30
Short presentations & Poster session -Prof. Ben Kilminster (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) (until 16:10) (RAI-G-041)
15:30 First search for invisible decays of ortho-positronium confined in a vacuum cavity - Dr Carlos Vigo Hernandez (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)   (RAI-G-041)
15:35 The Mu3e Experiment - Mr Lukas Gerritzen (ETH Zurich (CH))   (RAI-G-041)
15:40 The GBAR experiment: Gravitational behaviour of antihydrogen at rest and a measurement of the antihydrogen Lamb shift - Gianluca Janka (ETH Zurich (CH))   (RAI-G-041)
15:45 Cosmological implications of ultra-light axion-like particles - Dr Vivian Poulin (Johns Hopkins University (US))   (RAI-G-041)
15:50 Leptogenesis in Cosmological Relaxation with Particle Production - Fang Ye (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))   (RAI-G-041)
15:55 Fourier domain gravitational waveforms for precessing eccentric binaries - Yannick Boetzel (University of Zurich)   (RAI-G-041)
16:00 Gravitational wave polarization from combined Earth-space detectors - Mr Adrian Boitier (Physics Department , University of Zurich)   (RAI-G-041)
16:10 --- Coffee break & posters ---
17:30 --- Welcome apero (photo in front of building at 17:20) ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Modern tools in detection and data analysis in particle physics and astrophysics -Prof. Christophorus Grab (ETH Zurich (CH)) (until 15:30) (RAI-G-041)
14:00 Machine Learning: From Industry to Science - Fedor Ratnikov (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))   (RAI-G-041)
14:30 Deep Learning and the challenges of High-Luminosity LHC - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)   (RAI-G-041)
15:00 Networked data-science for research, academic communities and beyond - Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))   (RAI-G-041)
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 --- Excursion to the Old Town ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Dark matter -Prof. Laura Baudis (University of Zurich) (until 15:00) (RAI-G-041)
14:00 Searching for Low-Mass Dark Matter Particles: DAMIC, SuperCDMS and CRESST - Silvia Scorza (SNOLAB)   (RAI-G-041)
14:30 Dark matter searches with liquid xenon detectors - Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)   (RAI-G-041)
15:00
Organizational -Prof. Lesya Shchutska (ETH Zurich (CH)) (until 15:15) (RAI-G-041)
15:00 PPC 2019: Welcome from the organizers - Carlos Andres Florez Bustos (Universidad de los Andes (CO))   (RAI-G-041)
15:15
Short presentations & Poster session -Prof. Guenther Dissertori (ETH Zurich) (until 15:35) (RAI-G-041)
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 - Dr Oleg Popov (Seoul National University of Science and Technology)   (RAI-G-041)
15:20 The path to a neutrino mass sum measurement from cosmology - Thejs Brinckmann (RWTH Aachen)   (RAI-G-041)
15:25 NA64 searching for hidden sectors at the CERN SPS - Emilio Depero (ETH Zurich (CH))   (RAI-G-041)
15:30 Are Dark Matter - Dark Radiation Interactions Favoured by Cosmological Data? - Deanna C Hooper (RWTH Aachen University (DE))   (RAI-G-041)
15:35 --- Coffee break & posters ---
18:30 --- Conference dinner ---
13:00
Organizational (until 13:10) (RAI-G-041)
13:00 PPC 2019: Welcome from the organizers - Carlos Andres Florez Bustos (Universidad de los Andes (CO))   (RAI-G-041)