Name: PASCOS 2018, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Start: 2018-06-04T13:55:00-04:00
End: 2018-06-08T12:30:00-04:00
Location: Case Western Reserve University

PASCOS 2018, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

from Monday, 4 June 2018 (13:55) to Friday, 8 June 2018 (12:30)

Monday, 4 June 2018

14:00

14:00 - 16:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
16:00 Opening address
Opening address
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

16:00 Welcome - Pavel Fileviez Perez (Case Western Reserve University)

16:05 Welcome to CWRU - C. Taylor

16:15 Physics at CWRU - K. Kash

16:25 Origins and CERCA - Glenn David Starkman (Case Western Reserve University (US))
16:30
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

16:30 Conservative physics and new physics for the quantised black hole - Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)

17:00 Couplings in the Dark Sector, and the Mildly Nonlinear Regime - Mark Trodden
17:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
18:00
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

18:00 The Higgs Boson as a Tool for Exploration - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)

18:30 New Hints of Dark Matter - Marc Kamionkowski
19:00 Reception in the Linsalata Alumni Center
Reception in the Linsalata Alumni Center
19:00 - 22:00
Tuesday, 5 June 2018
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

08:30 Warped massive gravity - Gregory Gabadadze (N)

09:00 Positivity Bounds for all Spins - Andrew Tolley

09:30 Massive gravity from the top down and bottom’s up - Claudia de Rham
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

10:30 Dark Matter Direct Detection with Liquid Nobles - Daniel Akerib

11:00 Cosmic-ray Antinuclei: New Inputs on Dark Matter - Kerstin Perez (MIT)

11:30 Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter - Rouven Essig
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 304
Contributions

14:00 Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion Receives a Stress Test - Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)

14:20 Recent progress in Higgs precision calculations - Tobias Neumann (Illinois Tech / Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:40 Current and Future Constraints on Higgs Couplings - Claudius Krause (Fermilab)

15:00 Precison Higgs physics - Falko Dulat (SLAC)
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 306
Contributions

14:00 Highlights from SUSY searches at CMS - Eric Chabert (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:20 Prospects for BSM searches at the HL-LHC with CMS - Zhenbin Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

14:40 LHCb as a charm factory - Adam Davis (Tsinghua University (CN))

15:00 The Belle II Experiment: Status and Physics Prospects - Nisar Nellikunnummel (University of Pittsburgh)
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 301
Contributions

14:00 The Status of Indirect Searches for Weak-Scale Dark Matter - Tim Linden

14:20 Initial Dark Matter Results from the SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detectors - Francisco Ponce (Stanford University)

14:40 21-cm implications for dark matter annihilation and decay - Hongwan Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:00 Dark Matter search with XENON1T - Ethan Brown
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 309
Contributions

14:00 Higgs Fine Tuning and its Cosmological Dynamics - Mustafa Amin (Rice University)

14:20 Many-field Inflation in Random Potentials - Sonia Paban

14:40 Early Universe Cosmology with the Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect - Matthew Johnson Matthew Johnson (York University/Perimeter Institute)

15:00 Polarization Predictions and the CMB Hemispherical Variance Anomaly - Márcio O'Dwyer (Case Western Reserve University)
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 303
Contributions

14:00 Holographic second laws of black hole thermodynamics - Federico Galli (Perimeter Institute)

14:20 Dense holographic QCD and neutron stars - Matti Jarvinen (Utrecht University)

14:40 Cold holographic matter and color symmetry breaking - Javier Tarrío

15:00 The Axidental Universe - Thomas Bachlechner (Columbia University)
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 309
Contributions

15:40 The no-boundary proposal: alive and well - Oliver Janssen (New York University)

16:00 Quantum incompleteness of Inflation - Alice Di Tucci (Max Planck Institute)

16:20 Semiclassical Eternal Inflation - Sebastian Bramberger (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))

16:40 When Does the Inflaton Decay? - Cristian Armendariz-Picon
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 306
Contributions

15:40 Highlights from SUSY searches at ATLAS - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))

16:00 Precision measurement with Diboson at the LHC - Da Liu

16:20 The Baryon Asymmetry from a Composite Higgs - Oleksii Matsedonskyi (INFN Padua/Padua University)

16:40 Long-Lived Particles at the LHC with Timing - Jia Liu (University of Chicago)
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 304
Contributions

15:40 Newest results of the GERDA experiment - Michael Miloradovic

16:00 QCD Corrections to effective field theories at the Large Hadron Collider - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)

16:20 Resummation and renormalons in a general QFT - Juan C. Vasquez Carmona

16:40 Scaling Behavior of QCD Vertex Functions in Universal Extra Dimensions - Daniel Wiegand (University of Pittsburgh)
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 303
Contributions

15:40 Consequences of Fine-Tuning for Fifth-Force Searches - Sebastian Ellis

16:00 The Toric SO(10) Landscape and Global Matter-Tensor Transitions - Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann

16:20 Unrealized Representations in Non-Abelian F-theory Models - Nikhil Raghuram (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:40 Witten's loop in the flipped SU(5) unification revisited - Michal Malinsky (Charles University (CZ))
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 301
Contributions

15:40 Dark Matter and the Seesaw Scale - Clara Murgui Galvez

16:00 QCD Axion Dark Matter with f_a as Low as 10^8 GeV - Raymond Co (University of California, Berkeley)

16:20 CMB Spectral Distortions from Cooling Macroscopic Dark Matter - Saurabh Kumar

16:40 Can LambdaCDM model reproduce MOND-like behavior? - De-Chang Dai
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
18:00
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

18:00 Probing Physics with CMB Polarization - John Ruhl

18:30 Dark Matter and its Interactions with Baryons - Justin Khoury

19:00 Black holes from cosmic inflation - Alexander Vilenkin
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

08:30 Higgs Couplings at High Scales - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

09:00 The precision frontier landscape - German Rodrigo (IFIC CSIC-UV)

09:30 The Pierre Auger Observatory: The Big Picture on the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays - Corbin Covault
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

10:30 Colour Unified Dynamical Axion - Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))

11:00 Identifying new states at the LHC - Elizabeth Simmons (University of California, San Diego)

11:30 The Light-Front Vacuum, Light-Front Holography, and Supersymmetric Features of Hadron Physics - Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 303
Contributions

14:00 A Lattice-Friendly Composite Higgs - Ashley Perko (Dartmouth College)

14:20 Collinear Superspace - Gilly Elor
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 304
Contributions

14:00 Reconstructing the Large-Scale Velocity Field using kSZ Tomography - James Mertens (York University)

14:20 The classical double copy in maximally symmetric spacetimes - Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 301
Contributions

14:00 GeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead - Rebecca Leane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:20 Dark Sector Physics with Belle II - Igal Jaegle
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 309
Contributions

14:00 Gravitational Wave Signatures of Inflationary Models producing Primordial Black Holes - Caner Unal (University of Minnesota)

14:20 Probes of primordial black hole dark matter - Ely Kovetz
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 306
Contributions

14:00 Enhanced Di-Higgs Production and the Electroweak Phase Transition - Zhen Liu (Fermilab)

14:20 A light Higgs and the B-physics Anomalies - Xiaoping Wang (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
14:40
14:40 - 15:40
Room: 301
Contributions

14:40 PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment - Timothy Classen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:00 The Status of Hyper-Kamiokande Project - Yoshihisa OBAYASHI (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

15:20 Recent Results from MicroBooNE - Brandom Eberly
14:40 - 15:20
Room: 304
Contributions

14:40 Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detector - Madeline Wade

15:00 Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays - Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
14:40 - 15:20
Room: 309
Contributions

14:40 Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant via the Distance Ladder - Rachael Beaton (Princeton University)

15:00 MassiveNuS: Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos - Jia Liu (Princeton University)
14:40 - 15:20
Room: 303
Contributions

14:40 Speed Limits for Modified Gravity - Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)

15:00 Warning signs for cosmological back reaction from numerical relativity - Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)
14:40 - 15:20
Room: 306
Contributions

14:40 Primordial Anisotropies in the Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Phase Transitions - Michael Geller (Technion)

15:00 Supersymmetric dark sectors - Jeff Dror (Cornell University)
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50

16:00 Excursion and Banquet
Excursion and Banquet
16:00 - 20:00
Thursday, 7 June 2018
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

08:30 Higgs Boson Couplings and New Physics - Carlos E.M. Wagner (University of Chicago)

09:00 Status of Weak Scale Supersymmetry - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

09:30 Putting Einstein to the Test with Gravitational Wave Observations - Neil Cornish
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

10:30 Recent advances in superconformal field theories - Philip Argyres

11:00 An Overview of Moonshine - John Duncan

11:30 Quantum aspects of black hole physics - Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 306
Contributions

14:00 Cosmological Signatures in Mirror Twin Higgs Models - Yuhsin Tsai (University of Maryland)

14:20 Asymptotically Free Supersymmetric Twin Higgs - Marcin Badziak

14:40 Implications of Higgs Discovery for the Strong CP Problem and Unification - Keisuke Harigaya (UC Berkeley, LBNL)

15:00 Disorder at the LHC - Matthew Low (Institute for Advanced Study)
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 303
Contributions

14:00 A universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle - James Bonifacio

14:20 Black Hole Horizons and Massive Gravitons - Rachel Rosen

14:40 Spin-2 scattering amplitudes and asymptotic superluminality - Austin Joyce

15:00 Partially Massless Decoupling Limit of Massive Gravity in de Sitter - Laura Johnson
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 301
Contributions

14:00 Status of the KATRIN experiment - Luke Kippenbrock

14:20 A search for Neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te : First results from CUORE - Vivek Singh

14:40 Implications of an Improved Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Search for Baryogenesis - Zhengkang Zhang (University of Michigan)

15:00 Lepton flavor violation induced by a neutral scalar at future lepton colliders - Yongchao Zhang
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 309
Contributions

14:00 Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope - Matthew Hasselfield (Penn State University)

14:20 Fundamental physics from the small-scale cosmic microwave background - Mathew Madhavacheril (Princeton)

14:40 21cm Cosmology in the Detection Era - Adrian Liu (UC Berkeley)

15:00 Weighing neutrinos with cosmic neutral hydrogen - Francisco Villaescusa Navarro
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 304
Contributions

14:00 Bridging the gap between year-long signals and second-long signals: GW transients - Lilli Sun

14:20 Gravitational wave science with LISA - Joey Shapiro Key (University of Washington Bothell)

14:40 Design of third generation ground based detectors - Jax Sanders (Syracuse University)

15:00 Searches for the stochastic gravitational-wave background with Advanced LIGO and Virgo - Andrew Matas
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 309
Contributions

15:40 The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument - Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))

16:00 Cosmological simulations for precision cosmology with large galaxy surveys - Linda Blot (Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC), IEEC)

16:20 The Status of Constraints on Dark Energy from Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Scale Measurements - Ashley Ross (Ohio State University)

16:40 Exploring neutrino masses with Large Scale Structure - Elena Giusarma
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 301
Contributions

15:40 Aspects of Axion Dark Matter Clumps - Mark Hertzberg (Tufts University)

16:00 Intermediate Scale Non-resonant Leptogenesis - Jessica Turner (Durham University)

16:20 Enhancement of the dark matter abundance before reheating: thermal and non-thermal production - Marcos A. Garcia Garcia (Rice University)

16:40 Constraining Axion-like-Particles with Hard X-Ray Emission from Magnetars - Kuver Sinha
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 303
Contributions

15:40 Classical Hawking radiation - George Zahariade (Laboratoire APC)

16:00 Testing Modified Gravity with Merging Neutron Stars - Laura Sagunski

16:20 Transverse phonons in holographic massive gravity - Lasma Alberte

16:40 Superfluids and the cosmological constant problem - Jeremy Sakstein (University of Pennsylvania)
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 304
Contributions

15:40 Astrophysical implications of GW observations - Reed Essik

16:00 Measuring the neutron star equation of state with gravita- tional waves - Leslie Wade

16:20 Folding-in astrophysical priors in searches for continuous gravitational waves - Jing Ming

16:40 Searching for scalar and tensor polarizations with the stochas- tic gravitational wave background - Tom Callister
15:40 - 17:00
Room: 306
Contributions

15:40 LHC searches for dark sector showers - Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

16:00 One loop corrections to the spin-independent blind spot - Hongkai Liu (University of Pittsburgh (US))

16:20 Electroweak DM at Future Hadron Collider - Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)

16:40 Low temperature EW phase transition in the SM with hidden scale invariance - Suntharan Arunasalam (University of Sydney)
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
18:00
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

18:00 Neutrino Aspects of Multimessenger Astronomy - Francis Halzen (IceCube/WIPAC)

18:30 A Classical-Quantum Correspondence for All - Tanmay Vachaspati

19:00 Unbiased constraints from biased tracers in cosmology - Ravi Sheth (ICTP/UPenn)
Friday, 8 June 2018
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

09:00 Searches for new physics at the LHC - Albert de Roeck

09:30 The Mu2e Experiment - Robert Bernstein

10:00 Evidence for inflation in an axion landscape - Pran Nath (Department of Physics)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Contributions

11:00 Neutrino Mass and Grand Unification - Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)

11:30 Origin and Nature of Neutrino Mass - Goran Senjanovic

12:00 Traversable Wormholes - Juan Maldacena (Unknown)

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