Name: PPC 2021: XIV International Workshop on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology
Start: 2021-05-17T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2021-05-21T13:00:00-05:00
Location: University of Oklahoma

Monday, 17 May 2021

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Neutrino
Neutrino
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Status of Neutrino Experiments - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

09:30 Topics in Neutrino Physics - Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)

10:00 Neutrino Theory - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Neutrino/Models
Neutrino/Models
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Flavor Physics and Light Mediators - Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)

11:30 New Gauge Theories and the TeV Scale - Pavel Fileviez Perez (Case Western Reserve University)

12:00 Fermi-LAT - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Dark Matter
Dark Matter
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Dark Matter Direct Detection - Experiment - Rafael Lang

14:30 Dark Matter Theory - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

15:00 Current Anomalies: From Muon g-2 to B-physics and Neutrinos - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Macroscopic Dark Matter - Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

16:30 Dark Sectors - stefania gori (UC Santa Cruz)

17:00 Phase Transitions and Gravitational Waves: The Precision Frontier - Graham White (TRIUMF)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
08:30 Supersymmetry
Supersymmetry
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 SUSY at the LHC - Anadi Canepa (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:00 Dark Matter Candidates in Supersymmetric Models - Keith Olive

09:30 Supersymmetry, naturalness and the landscape - Dibyashree Sengupta (University of Oklahoma)

10:00 Statistical predictions for low-energy physics from the string landscape - Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 String Phenomenology
String Phenomenology
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Type IIB String Phenomenology - Fernando Quevedo (University of Cambridge)

11:30 Axions and String Vacua - Liam McAllister (Cornell University)

12:00 Strings, Early Universe and Topological Gravity - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Cosmology
Cosmology
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Discovering New Physics with Cosmological Data Sets - Cora Dvorkin (Harvard)

14:30 Quantum Information in de Sitter Space - Gary Shiu

15:00 The End of Inflation - Mustafa Amin (Rice University)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Cosmology of Early Matter Domination - Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

16:30 Signals of new dynamics during inflation - LianTao Wang (University of Chicago)
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
08:30 Dark Matter
Dark Matter
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Feebly-Interacting and Decaying Dark Matter - Kyu Jung Bae (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

09:00 Light Dark Matter Cosmology - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)

09:30 Cosmological Imprints of Non-Minimal Dark Sectors - Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)

10:00 Cosmological Signatures of Dark Matter Interactions - Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Black Holes
Black Holes
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Topics in Primordial Black Hole Physics - Pearl Sandick (University of Utah)

11:30 Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter - Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz)

12:00 Dark Black Holes - Sarah Shandera
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 UV completing Higgs inflation - Anna Tokareva (University of Jyvaskyla)

14:15 Higgs-Sparticle Inflation In The MSSM - Zurab Tavartkiladze (Ilia State University)

14:30 Multi-field inflation in the extreme-turning limit - Vikas Aragam (The University of Texas at Austin)

14:45 Quintessential Inflation in Palatini Gravity - Konstantinos Dimopoulos

15:00 Is Our Universe the Remnant of Chiral Anomaly in Inflation? - Azadeh Maleknejad (CERN)

15:15 A Real Time Approach to Quantum Tunneling - Neil Shah (Tufts University)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Deciphering the Archaeological Record: Cosmological Imprints of Non-Minimal Dark Sectors - Jeff Kost (University of Sussex)

14:15 Extracting Primordial Dark-Matter Velocity Distribution from Halo Masses: A Reconstruction Conjecture - Fei Huang (ITP CAS and UC Irvine)

14:30 Enlarging the Space of Viable Inflation Models: A Slingshot Mechanism - Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)

14:45 Cosmological constraints on light (but massive) relics - Julian Munoz (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

15:00 Cosmological constraints on multi-interacting dark matter - Deanna C. Hooper (ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles))

15:15 Electroweak Confinement and $SU(2)_L$ Dark Matter - Jessica N. Howard (University of California Irvine (US)) Jessica N. Howard (Department of Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Sub-GeV Dark Matter and $U(1)_{T3R}$ - Jason Kumar

14:15 Looking for elusive dark sectors in the lab and sky - Rashmish Mishra (Harvard University)

14:30 Phenomenology of Minimal Leptophilic dark-matter models - Adil Jueid (Konkuk University)

14:45 Light Dark Matter through Resonance Scanning - Rachel Houtz (IPPP Durham)

15:00 Integral X-ray constraints on sub-GeV dark matter - Elena Pinetti

15:15 Probing light dark matter particles with astrophysical experiments - Tanmay Poddar (Physical Research Laboratory)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 keV Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Terrestrial Searches: Alive and Well - Cristina Benso (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg)

14:15 Unified framework for B-anomalies, muon g-2 and neutrino masses - Anil Thapa

14:30 Muon g−2 Anomaly and Neutrino Magnetic Moments - Vishnu Padmanabhan Kovilakam (Oklahoma State University)

14:45 Hidden Photons in light of g-2 - Patrick Foldenauer

15:00 Probing Baryogenesis using Neutron-Anti-Neutron Oscillation - Kare Fridell (Technical University of Munich (TUM))

15:15 The Singly-Charged Scalar Singlet as the Origin of Neutrino Masses - Tobias Felkl (University of New South Wales)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Probing Baryonic Dark Matter Models with Gravitational Waves - Bartosz Fornal (University of Utah)

14:15 Implications for first-order cosmological phase transitions from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run - Alba Romero (IFAE)

14:30 Searching for Cosmic Strings using data from the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo observing run - Fengwei Yang (University of Utah)

14:45 Gravity Gradient Noise from Asteroids - Michael Fedderke (Johns Hopkins University)

15:00 Detecting new forces in the gravitational wave background - Benjamin Lehmann (UC Santa Cruz)

15:15 Gravitational Waves as a Big Bang Thermometer - Jan Schuette-Engel (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Asymmetric Reheating by Primordial Black Holes - Barmak Shams Es Haghi (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah)

14:15 Primordial Black Holes and warm dark matter constraints - Auffinger Jérémy (Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis - Lyon - FRANCE)

14:30 Interplay Between Dark Matter Freeze Out/In and Primordial Black Hole Evaporation - Lucien Heurtier (IPPP, Durham, England)

14:45 Charting the Landscape in Our Neighborhood from the PBHs Mass Distribution and GWs - Amjad Ashoorioon (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM))

15:00 Probing axion-like particle radiation from primordial black holes - Francesco Schiavone (Università degli Studi di Bari (UNIBA))

15:15 Cosmological PBHs as dark matter - Zachary Picker (The University of Sydney)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 COSMOLOGICAL PARTICLE PRODUCTION AND PAIRWISE SPOTS ON THE CMB - Soubhik Kumar (UC Berkeley)

16:15 Gravitational growth of perturbations during reheating - Nathan Musoke (University of New Hampshire)

16:30 Small Field Polynomial Inflation: Reheating, Radiative Stability and Lower Bound - Yong Xu (Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn)

16:45 Spillway Preheating: an efficient particle production mechanism - Qianshu Lu

17:00 The synergy between CMB spectral distortions and anisotropies - Matteo Lucca (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))

17:15 Cosmology with UV Galaxy Luminosity Functions - Nashwan Sabti
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Baryogenesis and Flavored Dark Matter from Broken Twin Color - Christopher Verhaaren (University of California, Irvine)

16:15 $Z'$ bosons at the P2 experiment - Yongchao Zhang (Southeast University)

16:30 Probing dark matter and dark energy with strong gravitational lensing - simon birrer (Stanford University)

16:45 Flavor anomalies from a split dark sector - Enrico Maria Sessolo (NCBJ, Warsaw)

17:00 Indirect Detection Signatures of a Dark Glueball Spectrum - Caleb Gemmell (University of Toronto)

17:15 Probing axion-like particles with 𝛾𝛾 final states from vector boson fusion processes at the LHC - Elijah Sheridan (Vanderbilt University)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Phenomenology of Magnetic Black Holes - Nicholas Orlofsky (Carleton University)

16:15 The History and Fate of Dark Neutrons - Nirmal Raj (TRIUMF)

16:30 Thermal Squeezeout of Dark Matter - Pouya Asadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:45 Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from Dark, 1st Order Phase Transitions - Robert McGehee (University of Michigan)

17:00 Dark matter Relic Abundance beyond Kinetic Equilibrium - Andrzej Hryczuk (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

17:15 A Dark Sector to Restore Cosmological Concordance - Fabrizio Rompineve (Tufts University)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Sources of Low-energy Events in Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors - Peizhi Du (Stony Brook University)

16:15 An Attractive Scenario for Light Dark Matter Direct Detection - Julia Gehrlein

16:30 Dark Matter Daily Modulation With Anisotropic Organic Crystals - Carlos Blanco (Princeton University & Stockholm University)

16:45 Halo uncertainties in electron recoil events at direct detection experiments - Tarak Nath Maity (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

17:00 The PADME experiment - Elizabeth Sarah Long (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

17:15 Status of the NEWS-G dark matter experiment - Alexis Brossard (Queen's University)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Majorana Dark Matter and Neutrino mass in a singlet-doublet extension of the Standard Model - Manoranjan Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)

16:15 (Talk Cancelled) Rephasing invariant quartets in texture zero neutrino mass matrix and CP violation - Madan Singh (M. N. S Government College Bhiwani Haryana India)

16:30 Massive sterile neutrinos in the Early Universe: from thermal decoupling to cosmological constraints - Leonardo Mastrototaro (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

16:45 Testing the stability of heavy dark matter with up-coming radio neutrino telescopes - Rasmi Enrique Hajjar Muñoz

17:00 Dark Matter in the Type Ib Seesaw Model - Bowen Fu (University of Southampton)

17:15 (Talk Cancelled) Constraining Sommerfeld-Enhancement via Inflationary Perturbations: Dark Matter and Neutrino Interactions - Anish Ghoshal (L)
Thursday, 20 May 2021
08:30 Dark Matter
Dark Matter
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Accelerator-based Searches for Dark Matter: An Overview - Andrew James Whitbeck (Texas Tech University (US))

09:00 Astrophysical probes to new physics beyond the Standard Model - EHT and GW experiments - Yue Zhao (University of Utah)

09:30 Light Mediators - Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University)

10:00 Some Recent Progress on Searches for Sub-GeV Dark Matter - Rouven Essig
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Axions
Axions
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 New Developments in Axion Physics - JiJi Fan (Brown University)

11:30 BSM physics with magnetars and neutron star mergers - Steven Harris (Washington University in St. Louis)

12:00 New Ideas in Lab-based Axion Searches - Doojin Kim (University of Florida)
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 New Roles of the (QCD) Axion in Dark Matter, Baryogenesis, and Gravitational Waves - Raymond Co (University of Michigan)

14:15 Magnetars and Axion-like Particles - Jean-Francois Fortin (Laval University)

14:30 Using Radio Observations of Neutron Stars to Probe QCD Axion Dark Matter - Thomas Edwards (Stockholm University)

14:45 ENHANCED Supernova AXION EMISSIVITY BY PIONIC PROCESSES - Alessandro Mirizzi

15:00 Supernova bounds on axion-like particles coupled with nucleons and electrons - Pierluca Carenza (INFN Bari)

15:15 Axion-like Particles from Hypernovae - GIUSEPPE LUCENTE (University of Bari)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 (Talk Cancelled) Axion Stars: Towards the Planck Scale - Joshua Eby (Weizmann Institute of Science)

14:15 Two-Scalar Bose-Einstein Condensates: From Stars to Galaxies - Dan Vagie

14:30 Gravitational Microlensing by Dark Matter Subhalos and Boson Stars - Zihui Wang (NYU)

14:45 Will axions be discovered as oscillons? - David Cyncynates

15:00 Adiabatic contraction of haloes with Bose-Einstein-condensed dark matter - Kevin Pils (University of Vienna)

15:15 Exoplanets as Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors - Juri Smirnov (Ohio State University, CCAPP)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Signatures of toponium formation in LHC run 2 data - Ya-Juan Zheng

14:15 Flavor anomalies from asymptotic safety - Kamila Kowalska (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

14:30 $R_{D^{(*)}}$, $R_{K^{(*)}}$ and muon $g-2$ anomalies in RPV supersymmetry and the discovery prospect at LHC - Fang Xu

14:45 Resonant Leptogenesis and Collider Signals from Discrete Flavor and CP Symmetries - Garv Chauhan (Washington University in St. Louis)

15:00 Exploring Multilepton Signatures From Dark Matter at the LHC - Arran Charles Freegard (Queen Mary University of London (GB))

15:15 Search for lepton flavor violation at the EIC - Kaori Fuyuto (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Off-shell Higgs Couplings in H*→ZZ→ℓℓνν - Han Qin (University of Pittsburgh)

14:15 Directly Probing the Higgs-top Coupling at High Scales - Roshan Mammen Abraham (Oklahoma State University)

14:30 Electroweak Restoration at the LHC and Beyond - Samuel Lane (University of Kansas)

14:45 The partonic picture at high-energy lepton colliders - Yang Ma (University of Pittsburgh)

15:00 Multi-TeV Signals of Baryogenesis in Higgs Troika Model - Matthew Sullivan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:15 Charged Lepton Flavor Violation in General Two-Higgs Doublet Model - Girish Kumar (National Taiwan University)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 A Tale of Two U(1)s: Kinetic Mixing from Lattice WGC States - Aditya Parikh (Harvard University)

14:15 Constraints on SM from AdS conjectures - Eduardo Gonzalo

14:30 Cosmological predictions from infinite classical action - Jan Chojnacki (University of Warsaw)

14:45 de Sitter vacua in String Theory with fluxes and antibranes - Bruno Bento (University of Liverpool)

15:00 Entanglement Entropy at Critical Points in the Multiverse - Samuel Barroso Bellido (University of Szczecin)

15:15 Landscape Higgs and sparticle mass predictions from a logarithmic soft term distribution - Shadman Salam (UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Where is a Miracle-less WIMP Ruled out? - Jason Arakawa

14:15 Constraints on CP-Violating Higgs Portal Majorana Dark Matter - Katherine Fraser (Harvard University)

14:30 Phenomenology of Dark matter in two higgs doublet model with complex scalar singlet - Juhi Dutta (University of Hamburg)

14:45 Scalar Multiplet Dark Matter in a Fast Expanding Universe: resurrection of the desert region - Abhijit Kumar Saha (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science)

15:00 Twin Higgs Portal Dark Matter - Shayne Gryba (University of Toronto)

15:15 Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector - Ariel Zuñiga Reyes (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM))
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 The Cosmic Axion Background - Jeff Dror (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:15 Constraints on Axions from Cosmic Distance Measurements - Chen Sun (Tel Aviv University)

16:30 Cosmic Axion Background: the QCD axion as a hot relic - Alessio Notari

16:45 Cosmic Birefringence Triggered by Dark Matter Domination - Masaki Yamada (Tohoku University)

17:00 Axi-Higgs Cosmology - LINGFENG LI (HKUST)

17:15 The QCD Axion and Unification - Alexis Plascencia (Case Western Reserve University)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Dark Heating of Neutron Stars : Electron Edition - Aniket Joglekar (UC Riverside)

16:15 Mirror Neutron Stars - Jack Setford (University of Toronto)

16:30 Low Mass Black Holes from Dark Core Collapse - Ranjan Laha (Indian Institute of science (IN))

16:45 Black Holes from Atomic Dark Matter - Michael Ryan (Penn State University)

17:00 Using PySiUltraLight to Model Scalar Dark Matter with Self-Interactions - Noah Glennon (University of New Hampshire)

17:15 Gravitational Decoherence with Applications to Dark Matter Phenomenology - Itamar Allali
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Probing new physics at the LUXE experiment - Yotam Soreq (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology (IL))

16:15 Forward Physics Facility - Felix Kling (SLAC)

16:30 Detecting Dark Matter with Far-Forward Emulsion and Liquid Argon Detectors at the LHC - Sebastian Trojanowski

16:45 Paleo-Detectors - Digging for Dark Matter and Neutrinos - Sebastian Baum (Stanford University)

17:00 Searching for light dark matter at Fermilab's proton-fixed target experiment: DarkQuest - Yongbin Feng (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:15 Higgsino Dark Matter in Electron Electric Dipole Moments - Benjamin Sheff
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Higgs Flavor and Multi-Higgs Production - Samuel Homiller (Harvard)

16:15 Electroweak Phase Transition with an SU(2) Dark Sector - Hongkai Liu (PITT)

16:30 Di-Higgs resonance searches in weak boson fusion - Rahool Barman (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 74078, USA)

16:45 Higgs to Charm Quarks in Vector Boson Fusion plus a Photon - Sze Ching Iris Leung (University of Pittsburgh)

17:00 Collider and GW complementarity in the 2HDM - AJAY Kaladharan (Oklahoma State University)

17:15 Searching for Heavy Higgses decaying into SM and Supersymmetric final states - Amit Adhikary (Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Superheavy Dark Matter from String Theory - Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)

16:15 The Price of Curiosity: Information Recovery in de Sitter Space - Lars Aalsma

16:30 The Standard Model Quiver from Singular de Sitter String Compactifications - Andreas Schachner (Cambridge University)

16:45 Swampland conjectures and single field inflation in modified cosmological scenarios - Oem Trivedi (Ahmedabad University)

17:00 Lorentz Invariance from Locality of Massless Spin 2 - Jacob Litterer (Tufts University)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 The Galactic potential and dark matter density from angular stellar accelerations - Malte Buschmann (Princeton University)

16:15 Cosmic-ray antiprotons in the AMS-02 era: A sensitive probe of dark matter - Jan Heisig (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL))

16:30 Hints for decaying dark matter from S8 measurements - Guillermo Franco Abellán (Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM))

16:45 Nonthermal hot DM from early matter dominated epoch and S_8 anomaly. - Ravi kumar sharma Sharma (indian institute of strophysics bangalore)

17:00 Constraints on Dark Matter Microphysics from Dwarf Galaxies - Ethan Nadler (Stanford University)

17:15 Viscous Self-Interacting Dark Matter and Accelerated Expansion of the Universe - Arvind Kumar Mishra (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)
Friday, 21 May 2021
08:30 Precision/Flavor
Precision/Flavor
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Rare Processes and Precision Measurements - Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)

09:00 Searches for Exotic Physics with ATLAS and CMS - Gabriel Facini (University of Warwick (GB))

09:30 Physics at LHCb - Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University (US))

10:00 New physics and precision at the energy frontier - Laura Reina (Florida State University (US))
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Challenges in Flavor Physics - Dean Robinson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL))

11:30 HIggs at the HL-LHC - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

12:00 The Visible Sector - Gordon Kane (University of Michigan)
12:30

12:30 - 12:40