The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2018

from Monday, 21 May 2018 (08:00) to Wednesday, 23 May 2018 (18:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 May 2018
22 May 2018
23 May 2018
AM
08:00 --- Check-in + Light breakfast ---
08:50 Introduction - Prof. Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)   ()
09:00
Dark Matter (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Astrophysical and Dark Matter Origin of the IceCube High-energy Neutrino Events - Dr Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)   ()
09:20 Concentrated Dark Matter - Prof. Scott Watson (Syracuse University)   ()
09:40 Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Accumulation in Neutron Stars - Dr Tim Linden (The Ohio State University )   ()
10:00 --- Tea Break ---
10:20
Collider Physics (until 11:20) ()
10:20 Higgs Physics at CMS - Paul Padley (Rice University (US))   ()
10:40 Exotic Higgs searches 
at the CMS Experiment - Dr Luca Pernie (Texas A&M University)   ()
11:00 Exotic Higgs searches - ATLAS - Lei Zhang (Nanjing University (CN))   ()
11:20 --- Tea Break ---
11:40
Phenomenology (until 12:40) ()
11:40 Loop-Induced Single Top Partner Production and Its Exotic Decays at the HL-LHC - Jeong Han Kim (University of Kansas)   ()
12:00 Separating nucleon and nuclear effects in quasielastic (anti)neutrino-nucleus scattering - Gil Paz (Wayne State University)   ()
12:20 Six Flavor Quark Matter - Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin, Madison)   ()
08:00 --- Check-in + Light Breakfast ---
09:00
Miscellaneous (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Light Mediators in Neutrino Physics: Oscillations versus Scattering Data - Ian Shoemaker   ()
09:20 Probing neutrino sector through Higgs decays - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)   ()
09:40 Jet SIFT-ing - Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)   ()
10:00 --- Tea Break ---
10:20
Phenomenology (until 11:20) ()
10:20 Searching for See-Saw Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider - Shreyashi Chakdar (Colby College)   ()
10:40 Signatures of New Anomalous Gauge Bosons - Ahmed Ismail   ()
11:00 Colored scotogenic - Prof. Diego Restrepo (Universidad de Antioquia)   ()
11:20 --- Tea Break ---
11:40
Collider Physics (until 12:40) ()
11:40 Supersymmetry searches with ATLAS - William James Fawcett (Universite de Geneve (CH))   ()
12:00 Searches for Physics Beyond Standard Model at CMS - Youngdo Oh   ()
12:20 Search for New Gauge Bosons with ATLAS - Reda Tafirout (TRIUMF (CA))   ()
08:00 --- Check-in + Light Breakfast ---
08:55 Acknowledgments and Announcements - Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)   ()
09:00
Neutrinos, flavor, and cosmology (until 10:20) ()
09:00 An Update on the Borexino Solar Neutrino Program - Prof. Ed Hungerford (University of Houston)   ()
09:20 Flavor Physics and Light Dark Sectors - Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)   ()
09:40 Primordial black holes in dwarf galaxies - Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)   ()
10:00 First observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and continued efforts of the COHERENT Collaboration - Grayson Rich   ()
10:20 --- Tea Break ---
10:50
Collider Physics (until 12:10) ()
10:50 Top quark-Higgs boson interactions - Peter Onyisi (University of Texas at Austin (US))   ()
11:10 Search for Supersymmetry at CMS - Teruki Kamon (Texas A & M University (US))   ()
11:30 Searches for Dark Matter in MonoX at CMS - Shuichi Kunori (Texas Tech University (US))   ()
11:50 ttH related searches in the SM and/or the MSSM - Simone Monzani (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))   ()
PM
12:40 --- Lunch Break - on your own ---
14:00
Cosmology (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Primordial Black Holes from String Inflation - Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)   ()
14:20 Nonthermal Dark Matter from Early Matter Domination Revisited - Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)   ()
14:40 A Natural Explanation to the 21-cm Absorption Signal via the QCD Axion - Prof. Tianjun Li (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences )   ()
15:00 --- Tea Break ---
15:20
Miscellaneous (until 16:20) ()
15:20 Mining LHC Data for Anomalies - Matthew Buckley (Rutgers University)   ()
15:40 Searching for W' using b-tagging, hadronic taus, and missing energy - Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)   ()
16:00 IceCube's astrophysical neutrino spectrum from CPT violation - Danny Marfatia   ()
16:20 --- Tea Break ---
16:40
Student Talks (until 17:40) ()
16:40 21cm Limits on Decaying Dark Matter and Primordial Black Holes - Steven Clark (Texas A&M University - College Station)   ()
16:55 CEvNS as a probe of Z' through kinetic and mass mixing effects - Shu Liao (Texas A&M University)   ()
17:10 Bottom-quark Fusion Processes at the LHC for Probing Z′ Models and B-meson Decay Anomalies - Adrian Thompson (Texas A&M)   ()
17:25 Leptogenesis and non-standard cosmology - Esteban Jimenez (Texas A&M University)   ()
18:30 --- Reception at Cavalry Court ---
12:40 --- Lunch Break - on your own ---
14:00
Neutrinos, flavor, and cosmology (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Current Status and Recent Result of the XENON1T Dark Matter Search Experiment - Dr Petr Shagin (Rice University)   ()
14:20 Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in Cosmology - Kimberly Boddy (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
14:40 The Fermilab LArTPC Neutrino Program - Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington (US))   ()
15:00 --- Tea Break ---
15:20
Cosmology (until 16:20) ()
15:20 Constraining Axion-Like-Particles with Hard X-ray Emission from Magnetars - Prof. Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)   ()
15:40 Gravitational Leptogenesis, Reheating, and Models of Neutrino Mass - Dr Peter Adshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   ()
16:00 The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter - Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)   ()
16:20 --- Tea Break ---
16:40
Dark Matter (until 17:40) ()
16:40 Bremsstrahlung in dark matter direct detection - Dr Jayden Newstead (Arizona State University)   ()
17:00 Reaching Beyond the Standard Scenarios: From Strongly Coupled Dark Sectors and Thermal Freezeout to Cosmological Phase Transitions and the Lifetime Frontier - Prof. Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)   ()
17:20 Lines, Boxes, and Conveyor Belts: Deciphering Astrophysical and Cosmological Imprints of Extended Dark Sectors - Prof. Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)   ()
18:30 --- Dinner at Kreuz Market Texas BBQ ---
12:10 --- Lunch Break - on your own ---
13:45 Texas Dialogue Session - Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)   ()
14:00
Texas Session (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Things that go bump in the data: Searching Beyond the Standard Model - Fred Olness   ()
14:20 The Mu2e Experiment at FNAL - Dr Aji Daniel (University of Houston)   ()
14:40 Non-thermal dark matter production from the end of inflation - Mustafa Amin (Rice University)   ()
15:00 --- Tea Break ---
15:20
Texas Session (until 16:20) ()
15:20 Searching For Dark Matter At UH - Andrew Lee Renshaw (University of Houston (US))   ()
15:40 A Secret Asymmetry From Flavored Dark Matter - Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)   ()
16:00 Recent results and current analysis activities from SuperCDMS - Robert Calkins (Southern Methodist University)   ()