Sydney meeting May 2019

Friday 3 May 2019, 13:00 → 19:00 Australia/Sydney

The Sydney particle physics and cosmology meeting will take place in room SNH3003 in the Sydney Nanoscience Hub at the University of Sydney on Friday 3 May 2019. It is organised by the particle physics group at the University of Sydney and the particle physics and cosmology group at UNSW Sydney.

 

For the record and to allow further discussion we are listing below the list of attendants. Students and postdocs are grouped together with their respective supervisor (in case of joint supervision, they are listed multiple times).

University of Sydney

• Celine Boehm, Zachary Picker
• Archil Kobakhidze, Suntharan Arunasalam, Daniel Collison, Yunho Kim, Cyril Lagger, Zachary Picker, Isabel Bunting, Lawrence Cohen, Darcy O'Sullivan
• Kevin Varvell, Chia-Ling Hsu, Carl Suster, Ethan Cross
• Bruce Yabsley, Frank Meier, Priyanka Cheema

UNSW Sydney

• Jan Hamann, Yuqi Kang
• Michael Schmidt, Tobias Felkl, Adam Lackner
• Yvonne Wong, Amol Upadhye, Jack Bennett, Joe Chen

13:00 → 15:00 Talks

13:00 Studying leptonic and semileptonic B decays at the Belle II experiment

Speakers: Chia-Ling Hsu (University of Sydney), Prof. Kevin Varvell (University of Sydney (AU))

2-VarvellHsu.pdf

13:20 Belle II calorimetry and analysis R&D

Speakers: Bruce Yabsley (University of Sydney), Frank Meier (University of Sydney), Priyanka Cheema (University of Sydney)

3-Yabsley.pdf

13:40 Cosmological N-Body Simulations

Speaker: Joe Chen (The University of New South Wales)

4-Chen.pdf

4-Chen.pptx

14:00 Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Phase Transitions

Speaker: Cyril Lagger (The University of Sydney)

5-Lagger.pdf

14:20 Using Minkowski Functionals to analyse Weak Lensing Maps

Speaker: Yuqi Kang (UNSW)

6-Kang.pdf

6-Kang.pptx

14:40 The electroweak phase transition in the standard model with hidden scale invariance

Speaker: Suntharan Arunasalam (University of Sydney)

7-Arunasalam.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Talks

15:30 ATLAS activities at Sydney

Speaker: Carl Joseph Edmund Suster (University of Sydney (AU))

8-Suster.pdf

15:50 Why Neff ≠3.046?

Speaker: Jack Bennett (UNSW)

9-Bennett.pdf

9-Bennett.pptx

16:10 Magnetic monopoles in the Standard Model and implications for electroweak baryogenesis

Speaker: Daniel Collison (University of Sydney)

10-Collison.pdf

16:30 Short Introductions

16:45 Discussion

17:00 → 19:00 Nag's Head Hotel