Name: The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2019
Start: 2019-05-15T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-05-17T18:05:00-05:00
Location: No location set

Monday 13 May 2019
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Wednesday 15 May 2019

08:00 Check-in + Light Breakfast
Check-in + Light Breakfast
08:00 - 08:50
08:50 Introduction - Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)
Introduction
- Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)
08:50 - 09:00
09:00 Early Universe
Early Universe
09:00 - 10:15
Contributions

09:00 Baryogenesis and an Early Period of QCD Confinement - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

09:25 A phase of confined electroweak force in the early Universe - Joshua Berger (University of Pittsburgh)

09:50 Multistep Strongly First Order Phase Transitions from New Fermions at the TeV Scale - Peisi Huang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
10:15 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:15 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 11:55
Contributions

10:40 Searches for Dark Matter with CMS - Pedro Fernandez Manteca (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))

11:05 Dark Matter searches with the ATLAS Detector - William Balunas (University of Oxford (GB))

11:30 Searches for Supersymmetric Particles in ATLAS - Stefano Passaggio (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
11:55 Lunch Break - on your own
Lunch Break - on your own
11:55 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 Robert Webb - Robert Webb

13:45 John Ellis - Jonathan R. Ellis (University of London (GB))

14:10 Ignatios Antoniadis - Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)

14:35 Keith Olive - Keith A. Olive (University of Minnesota (US))

15:00 Dimitri and the advent of SUSY phenomenology - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)
15:30 Tea Break and Cake Cutting
Tea Break and Cake Cutting
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:45
Contributions

16:00 Tao Han - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

16:25 Kajia Yuan - Kajia Yuan

16:50 Van Eric Mayes - Van Mayes (University of Houston - Clear Lake)

17:15 The Minimal Superstring Standard Model (MSSSM) Years and Beyond - Gerald Cleaver (Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA)

17:40 A laudation of Dimitri Nanopoulus - Peter McIntyre

18:00 Things I learned from Dimitri Nanopoulos - Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)

18:20 The λ6 Universe - Dimitri Nanopoulos
19:00 Reception at The George
Reception at The George
19:00 - 21:00
Thursday 16 May 2019

08:00 Check-in + Light Breakfast
Check-in + Light Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 X-rays and Neutron Stars
X-rays and Neutron Stars
09:00 - 10:15
Contributions

09:00 ALPs: What can we learn from neutron stars and X-ray astronomy? - Kuver Sinha

09:25 Probing axions with X-ray observations of magnetic white dwarfs - Andrew Long (University of Michigan - LCTP)

09:50 Heating up Neutron Stars with Dark Matter - Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)
10:15 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:15 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 11:55
Contributions

10:40 Gravity safe, electroweak natural axionic solution to strong CP and SUSY $\mu$ problems - Dibyashree Sengupta (University of Oklahoma)

11:05 Signatures of supersymmetry and $L_\mu - L_\tau$ gauge boson at Belle-II - Sourov Roy (IACS, Kolkata)

11:30 Naturalness vs. stringy naturalness - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)
11:55 Lunch Break - on your own
Lunch Break - on your own
11:55 - 13:30
13:30 Terrestrial Searches
Terrestrial Searches
13:30 - 14:45
Contributions

13:30 Searching for Boosted Dark Matter via Dark-Strahlung - Doojin Kim (University of Arizona (US))

13:55 Gas Clouds as Dark Matter Detectors - Joseph Bramante (Queen's University & Perimeter Institute)

14:20 Seeing the Light of Dark Matter - Graham Kribs
14:45 Tea Break
Tea Break
14:45 - 15:10
15:10 Gamma Rays and Gravity Waves
Gamma Rays and Gravity Waves
15:10 - 16:25
Contributions

15:10 Gamma-Ray Signals From Velocity-Dependent Dark Matter Annihilation - Jason Kumar

15:35 Probing Exotic(Dark) Compact Objects with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals - Huaike Guo

16:00 Gamma-ray observations of M31 and dark matter implications - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)
16:25 Tea Break
Tea Break
16:25 - 16:50
16:50 Astrophysics and Cosmology
Astrophysics and Cosmology
16:50 - 18:05
Contributions

16:50 Astrophysical Aspects of Secretly Asymmetric Dark Matter - Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)

17:15 Co-Decaying Dark Matter and its Cosmological Signatures - Brandon Melcher (Syracuse University)

17:40 Dark Matter In and Out of Equilibrium - Julia Shelton
18:30 Banquet at the Mitchell Institute
Banquet at the Mitchell Institute
18:30 - 20:30
Friday 17 May 2019

08:00 Check-in + Light Breakfast
Check-in + Light Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:15
Contributions

09:00 Confronting Neutrino Mass Generation Mechanism with MiniBooNE Anomaly - SUDIP JANA (OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY)

09:25 CP violation in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments - Diego Aristizabal (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (USM))

09:50 Radiative Dirac neutrino masses - Diego Alejandro Restrepo Quintero
10:15 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:15 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 11:55
Contributions

10:40 Constraining Non-thermal Dark Matter by CMB - Rouzbeh Allahverdi

11:05 Deciphering the Archaeological Record: Cosmological Imprints of Non-Minimal Dark Sectors - Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)

11:30 Cosmological Constraints on Unstable Particle Ensembles - Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)
11:55 Acknowledgments and Announcements - Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)
Acknowledgments and Announcements
- Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)
11:55 - 12:05
12:05 Lunch Break - on your own
Lunch Break - on your own
12:05 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 14:45
Contributions

13:30 Searches for Heavy Resonances with the ATLAS detector - Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (TRIUMF (CA))

13:55 Measurements of the Higgs boson properties at the ATLAS experiment - Ximo Poveda Torres (CERN)

14:20 Searches for supersymmetry with the CMS experiment in Run-2 data - Hannsjorg Weber (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
14:45 Tea Break
Tea Break
14:45 - 15:10
15:10
15:10 - 16:25
Contributions

15:10 Reheating at Strong Coupling - Scott Watson (Syracuse University)

15:35 Establishing the Initial Conditions for Inflation: A Slingshot Mechanism - Jeff Kost (Institute of Basic Science)

16:00 Cosmic-ray dark matter from simplified models - Jayden Newstead (Arizona state university)
16:25 Tea Break
Tea Break
16:25 - 16:50
16:50
16:50 - 18:05
Contributions

16:50 Vector Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)

17:15 Proton Decay and Sparticle Spectroscopy - Ilia Gogoladze (University of Delaware)

17:40 The Possible Upper Bounds on the Sparticle Masses - Tianjun Li (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)