46th SLAC Summer Institute

from Monday, July 30, 2018 (1:00 AM) to Friday, August 10, 2018 (9:45 PM)
SLAC (Kavli Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 31, 2018
Aug 1, 2018
Aug 2, 2018
Aug 3, 2018
Aug 6, 2018
Aug 7, 2018
Aug 8, 2018
Aug 9, 2018
Aug 10, 2018
AM
8:30 AM --- Registration and Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM Welcome - Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)  
9:05 AM Origin of the Standard Model - Steven Weinberg (Univ. of Texas at Austin)  
10:05 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM Precision Electroweak Theory - Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM SM Probes in Atoms, Molecules and Nuclei (I) - Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM SM Probes in Atoms, Molecules and Nuclei (II) - Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM Precision Electroweak Measurements at Colliders - Robin Erbacher (University of California Davis (US))  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM Low Energy Probes of the SM (I) - Krishna Kumar (Stony Brook Univ.)  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM The Development of QCD - George Sterman (Stony Brook University)  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM Precision QCD and the SM (I) - Fabrizio Caola (Durham University)  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM Low Energy Probes of the SM (II) - Brendan Kiburg (Fermilab)  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM QCD at the LHC (I) - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM Precision QCD in the SM (II) - Fabrizio Caola (CERN)  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM Astro/Cosmo Window on the SM (I) - scott dodelson (Carnegie Mellon University)  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM QCD at the LHC (II) - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM QCD on the Lattice - Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab)  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM Astro/Cosmo Window on the SM (II) - Keith Alison Olive (Univ. of Minnesota)  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM Higgs History - Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz)  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM The Higgs in the SM - Sara Lynn Dawson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM Properties of the Higgs at the LHC - John Conway (University of California Davis (US))  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM Physics of Neutrinos (I) - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM Physics of Neutrinos (II) - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM Neutrinos: What Will We Learn in the next Decade ? - Stefan Soldner-Rembold (University of Manchester (GB))  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM The Mysteries of Flavor (I) - Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM The Mysteries of Flavor (II) - Fergus Wilson (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM Why More Baryons than Anti-baryons ? - Ann Nelson (University of Washington)  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM What/Where is Dark Matter (I) ? - Tracy Slatyer (MIT)  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM What/Where is Dark Matter (II) ? - Tom Shutt (SLAC)  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM The Hierarchy & Fine-Tuning Problems - Ann Nelson (University of Washington)  
8:30 AM --- Light Refreshments ---
9:00 AM
Lectures (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM Is There a No-lose Theorem for Future Colliders ? - LianTao Wang (University of Chicago)  
10:00 AM --- Morning Break ---
10:30 AM What Future Higgs Measurements Will Tell Us ? - Michael Peskin (SLAC)  
11:30 AM --- Break ---
11:45 AM Project and Contest Awards - Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)  
12:00 PM View Ahead - Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago (US))  
PM
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Lectures (until 5:20 PM)
2:00 PM Evolution of Electroweak Theory - William Marciano (BNL)  
3:00 PM Evolution of Accelrators & Technology - Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))  
4:00 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:20 PM Critical Experiments Establishing the SM: Early SLAC - Martin Breidenbach (SLAC)  
6:00 PM --- Reception ---
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:45 PM
Q & A Session (until 3:45 PM)
3:45 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:05 PM
Projects (until 5:30 PM) (Redwood Room)
6:00 PM --- Dinner ---
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Lectures (until 5:35 PM)
2:00 PM Critical Experiments Establishing the SM: Hadron Colliders - Peter Jenni (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))  
3:00 PM Critical Experiments Establishing the SM: Flavor Physics - David Hitlin (Caltech)  
4:00 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:20 PM Critical Experiments Establishing the SM: Neutrinos - Edward Kearns (Boston University)  
6:00 PM
Poster Social (until 7:00 PM) (Redwood Room)
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Klystron Gallery Tour   (Klystron Gallery Visitor Alcove)
2:45 PM
Q & A Session (until 3:45 PM)
3:45 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:05 PM
Projects (until 5:05 PM) (Redwood Room)
4:30 PM Kavli Visualization Lab Tour   (Kavli VisLab)
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:45 PM
Topical Conference (until 3:45 PM)
2:45 PM CMB and Constraints on Particle Physics - Zeeshan Ahmed (Stanford University)  
3:15 PM New Results from Ice Cube - Sally Robertson (LBNL)  
3:45 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:05 PM
Projects (until 5:00 PM) (Redwood Room)
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:45 PM
Topical Conference (until 5:50 PM)
2:45 PM New Higgs Results from LHC - Caterina Vernieri (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
3:15 PM New Physics Searches at LHC - Masahiro Morii (Harvard University (US))  
3:45 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:05 PM New Results from MiniBooNE - Alejandro Diaz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
4:35 PM Gravitational Waves and Multi-messenger Astronomy - Jessica McIver (Caltech; LIGO Lab)  
6:00 PM --- Dinner ---
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Klystron Gallery Tour   (Klystron Gallery Visitor Alcove)
2:45 PM
Q & A Session (until 3:45 PM)
3:45 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:05 PM
Projects (until 5:35 PM) (Redwood Room)
4:30 PM Kavli Visualization Lab Tour   (Kavli VisLab)
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:45 PM
Q & A Session (until 3:45 PM)
3:45 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:05 PM
Topical Conference (until 4:35 PM) (Redwood Room)
4:05 PM New Results from Belle-II - Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)  
4:35 PM
Projects (until 5:00 PM) (Redwood Room)
5:00 PM IR2 Tour: LZ test platform and LSST construction clean room   (IR2)
5:45 PM
SSI vs SLAC soccer game (until 7:15 PM)
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Projects (until 5:20 PM)
2:00 PM Gravitational Radiation from pp Collider - Giulia Gonella (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE)) Team 4  
2:25 PM Family of Dark Matter Particles - Jad Zahreddine (LPNHE) Team 5  
2:50 PM Synchrotron Loss due to Dark Photon - Team 6 Julien-Christopher Beyer (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))  
3:15 PM Supernovae Neutrino Detection - Matthew Glenn Kurth (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Team 7  
3:40 PM --- Afternoon Break ---
4:10 PM What can CMB tell us about Dark Matter ? - Saurabh Bansal (University of Notre Dame) Team 13  
4:35 PM Tau g-2 - Luis Zazueta Team 15  
5:00 PM Precision Timing and Long-lived Particles - Sanha Cheong (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Team 18  
6:00 PM --- Dinner ---