Sydney meeting February 2020

Friday 21 Feb 2020, 09:00 → 21:00 Australia/Sydney

256 (Webster Building)

Michael Schmidt (UNSW Sydney)

The Sydney particle physics and cosmology meeting will take place in room 256 in the Webster building (UNSW Kensington campus) on Friday 21 February 2020. It is organised by the particle physics group at the University of Sydney and the particle physics and cosmology group at UNSW Sydney.

The Webster building is number G14 on the Kensington campus. https://www.estate.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/UNSW%20Campus.pdf You have to enter via the entrance from the university mall. There are some chairs and tables directly in front of the entrance. 

The first meeting took place on 3 May 2019 at the University of Sydney. Details can be found on https://indico.cern.ch/event/855265 .

09:30 → 10:30 Lectures

09:30 Axions

Speaker: Ciaran OHare (Nottingham)

axions.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Lectures

11:00 How the CMB got its spots

Speaker: Amol Upadhye (UNSW-Sydney)

upadhye_2020-02-21.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:40 Research presentations

14:00 Searches for Extended Higgs Sectors, Flavour Anomalies and Dark Matter at the LHC

Speaker: Shyam Balaji (University of Sydney (AU))

UNSWTalk.pdf

14:20 Higgsstrahlung and You: What Future Colliders Can Tell Us About Neutrinos

Speaker: Adam Lackner

talk_adam.pdf

14:40 Probing Quadratic Gravity with Binary Inspirals

Speaker: Yunho Kim (The University of Sydney)

Quadratic_Gravity_Talk.pdf

15:00 Phenomenology of Neutrino Mass: Higgsstrahlung and Beyond

Speaker: Tobias Felkl (University of New South Wales)

talk-meeting2020.pdf

15:20 MACHOs: Microlensing and Modified Gravity

Speaker: Zachary Picker (The University of Sydney)

Microlensing_talk__UNSW.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Break

16:10 → 17:50 Research presentations

16:10 Semi-leptonic Decays at Belle II

Speaker: Nadia Toutounji

NadiaToutounji_UNSWMeeting.pdf

16:30 Thermal production of axions

Speaker: Giovanni Pierobon (University of New South Wales)

talk_Pierobon.pdf

16:50 The Polarised Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect and the Early Universe

Speaker: Julius Wons (University of New South Wales)

julius_talk.pdf

17:10 Linear modeling of baryon-DM interactions

Speaker: Markus Rasmussen Mosbech (The University of Sydney)

presentation.pdf

17:30 Electroweak monopoles and electroweak baryogenesis

Speaker: Suntharan Arunasalam (University of Sydney)

Arunasalam.pdf

18:30 → 21:00 Dinner at Yummy Pepper House