May 7 – 9, 2018
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

• Plenary Program

Plenary Program

Last update May 1, 2018.
The plenary sessions will take place in Alumni Hall in the auditorium on the 7th floor.

 

 

Registration: Begins at 7:45 AM, Monday, May 7
Breakfast: Begins at 7:45 AM on Monday and at 8:00 AM on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Alumni Hall 7th floor Auditorium
Monday, May 7 Tuesday, May 8 Wednesday, May 9
Chair: Marc Sher Chair: Susanne Westhoff Chair: Tom Weiler

8:40 - 8:45
Adam Leibovich (Pittsburgh)
Welcome


8:45 - 9:20
Ben Nachman (LBNL, ATLAS)
SM and Higgs Physics at LHC

8:45 - 9:20
Chad Hanna (Penn State)
Gravitational Waves: the New Window to the Universe

8:45 - 9:20
Rafael Lang (Purdue)
News from Dark Matter Direct Searches
9:20 - 9:55
Robin Erbacher (UC Davis, CMS)
Searches for New Physics at LHC​
9:20 - 9:55
Scott Hughes (MIT)
Mapping Spacetime Across Many Scales with Gravitational Waves
9:20 - 9:55
Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Dark Matter: Theory and Practice
9:55 - 10:30
Babis Anastasiou (ETH Zurich)
Recent Developments in Perturbative QCD
9:55 - 10:30
Hassan Jawahery (Maryland)
Physics at the LHCb
9:55 - 10:30
Tesla Jeltema (UC Santa Cruz)
Cosmology in the New Era

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00  Symposium Photo and Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break

Chair: Oscar Eboli Chair: Jen-Chieh Peng Chair: Hooman Davoudiasl
11:00 - 11:35
Tim Cohen (Oregon)
Physics Beyond the Standard Model

11:00 - 11:35
Sebastian Jaeger (Univ. of Sussex)
New Physics with Heavy Flavors

11:00 - 11:35
Mikhail Shaposhnikov (Lausanne)
The Standard Model and Particle Physics

11:35 - 12:10
Francis Halzen (Wisconsin)
News from IceCube
11:35 - 12:10
Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)
Neutrino Physics Experiments: the Present and Future
11:35 - 12:10
Lian-Tao Wang (Chicago)
Physics at Future Hadron Colliders
12:10 - 12:45
John Beacom (Ohio State Univ.)
Astro-particle Physics in the New Era

12:10 - 12:45
Marco Drewes (UC Louvain)
New Physics with Neutrinos

12:10 - 12:45
Michael Peskin (SLAC)
Physics at Future Lepton Colliders

Lunch on your own until 2:15 PM

Lunch on your own until 2:00 PM

 

1:00 - 1:45
Panelists: Sally Dawson, Keith Dienes
Forum on early career development
2nd Floor Ballroom, O'Hara Student Center

  End of Conference

2:15 - 6:30 PM
Parallel Sessions
Floor G of Benedum Hall

2:00 - 6:30 PM
Parallel Sessions
Floor G of Benedum Hall

 

6:45 - 10:00 PM
Symposium Banquet
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum, Grand Ballroom