The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2019

from Wednesday, 15 May 2019 (08:00) to Friday, 17 May 2019 (18:05)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 May 2019
16 May 2019
17 May 2019
AM
08:00 --- Check-in + Light Breakfast ---
08:50 Introduction - Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)   ()
09:00
Cosmology (until 10:15) ()
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 ---
10:40
LHC (until 11:55) ()
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 ---
08:00 --- Check-in + Light Breakfast ---
09:00
Dark Matter (until 10:15) ()
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 ---
10:40
Supersymmetry and Naturalness (until 11:55) ()
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 ---
08:00 --- Check-in + Light Breakfast ---
09:00
Neutrinos (until 10:15) ()
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 - Prof. Diego Alejandro Restrepo Quintero   ()
10:15 --- Tea Break ---
10:40
Dark Matter and Cosmology (until 11:55) ()
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)   ()
PM
13:30
Session in Honor of Dimitri Nanopoulos' Retirement (until 15:30) ()
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 ---
16:00
Session in Honor of Dimitri Nanopoulos' Retirement (until 18:45) ()
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 ---
13:30
Dark Matter (until 14:45) ()
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 ---
15:10
Dark Matter (until 16:25) ()
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 - Prof. Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)   ()
16:25 --- Tea Break ---
16:50
Dark Matter (until 18:05) ()
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 - Dr Julia Shelton   ()
18:30 --- Banquet at the Mitchell Institute ---
12:05 --- Lunch Break - on your own ---
13:30
LHC (until 14:45) ()
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 ---
15:10
Dark Matter and Cosmology (until 16:25) ()
15:10 Reheating at Strong Coupling - Scott Watson (Syracuse University)   ()
15:35 Establishing the Initial Conditions for Inflation: A Slingshot Mechanism - Dr Jeff Kost (Institute of Basic Science)   ()
16:00 Cosmic-ray dark matter from simplified models - Dr Jayden Newstead (Arizona state university)   ()
16:25 --- Tea Break ---
16:50
Phenomenology and Model Building (until 18:05) ()
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 - Prof. Tianjun Li (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)   ()