Zooming in on Axions in the Early Universe

from Monday, June 22, 2020 (9:00 AM) to Friday, June 26, 2020 (9:00 PM)
CERN (Virtual only)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 22, 2020
Jun 23, 2020
Jun 24, 2020
Jun 25, 2020
Jun 26, 2020
AM
9:45 AM Welcome & Introduction - Kai Schmitz (CERN)  
10:00 AM
Dark matter (until 12:00 PM)
10:00 AM 1. QCD axion dark matter and PBH, 2. Anomaly-free ALP DM and XENON1T - Fuminobu Takahashi (Tohoku University)  
11:00 AM Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute  
10:00 AM
Gauge fields (until 12:00 PM)
10:00 AM Lattice formulation of axion inflation: application to preheating - Daniel G. Figueroa (IFIC, Valencia)  
11:00 AM Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute  
10:00 AM
Baryogenesis (until 12:00 PM)
10:00 AM Big bounce baryogenesis - Neil Barrie (Kavli IPMU)  
11:00 AM Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute  
10:00 AM
Naturalness (until 12:00 PM)
10:00 AM Probing the relaxed relaxion with luminosity & S1 and S2 - Prof. Gilad Perez (Weizmann)  
11:00 AM Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Thomas Schwetz) - Thomas Schwetz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
10:00 AM
Gravitational waves (until 12:00 PM)
10:00 AM 1. Spontaneous Lepto/Baryogenesis & 2. Schwinger effect and Chiral anomaly - Kyohei Mukaida (DESY)  
11:00 AM Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Enrico Morgante) - Enrico Morgante (JGU Mainz)  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:00 PM
Dark matter (until 5:00 PM)
1:00 PM Fragmentation of axion-like particle dark matter and observational signatures - Aleksandr Chatrchyan (ITP Heidelberg)  
2:00 PM Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute  
3:00 PM Phenomenology of the meV QCD axion - David J. E. Marsh (University of Goettingen)  
4:00 PM Axion kinetic misalignment and baryogenesis - Keisuke Harigaya (Institute for Advaned Study)  
5:00 PM
Posters (until 6:00 PM)
5:00 PM Posters: Fernando Arias Aragón, Mario Reig, Raymond Co, Michael Fedderke - Dr Michael Fedderke (Stanford University) Dr Raymond Co (University of Michigan) Fernando Arias Aragón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Mario Reig (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:00 PM
Gauge fields (until 5:00 PM)
1:00 PM Equilibration of the chiral asymmetry due to finite electron mass - Oleksandr Sobol (EPFL)  
2:00 PM Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute  
3:00 PM Two talks on axion-SU(2) inflation (Ira Wolfson, Leila Mirzagholi) - Ira Wolfson (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching) Leila Mirzagholi (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching)  
4:00 PM Thermal friction in early cosmology - Kim Berghaus (Johns Hopkins University)  
5:00 PM
Posters (until 6:00 PM)
5:00 PM Posters: Tanmay Poddar, Yuta Hamada, Pablo Quílez, Alexandros Papageorgiou - Alexandros Papageorgiou (University of Minnesota) Dr Pablo Quilez Lasanta (DESY) Yuta Hamada (APC Paris) Tanmay Poddar (Physical Research Laboratory)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:00 PM
Baryogenesis (until 2:00 PM)
1:00 PM Towards a robust estimate for gravitational leptogenesis - Kohei Kamada (Research Center for the Early Universe, University of Tokyo)  
2:00 PM
Seminar (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM A unfied model of dark energy, dark matter and baryogenesis (TH Colloquium) - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)  
3:00 PM
Baryogenesis (until 5:00 PM)
3:00 PM Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Tanmay Poddar, Raymond Co) - Raymond Co (University of Michigan) Tanmay Poddar (Physical Research Laboratory)  
4:00 PM Baryogenesis from axion inflation - Benedict von Harling (IFAE)  
5:00 PM
Posters (until 6:00 PM)
5:00 PM Posters: Sang Hui Im, Jacob Leedom, Thomas Schwetz, Yuki Watanabe - Yuki Watanabe (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) Thomas Schwetz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Jacob Leedom (University of California, Berkeley) Dr Sang Hui Im (IBS-CTPU)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:00 PM
Naturalness (until 2:00 PM)
1:00 PM Revisiting the relaxion mechanism - Geraldine Servant (DESY and U. Hamburg)  
2:00 PM
Seminar (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Pati-Salam axion (BSM Forum) - Luca Di Luzio (DESY)  
3:00 PM
Naturalness (until 6:00 PM)
3:00 PM Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Alexandros Papageorgiou) - Alexandros Papageorgiou (University of Minnesota)  
4:00 PM A CMB Millikan experiment with cosmic axiverse strings - Anson Hook (University of Maryland)  
5:00 PM The axidental Universe - Matthew Kleban (New York University)  
6:00 PM
Posters (until 7:00 PM)
6:00 PM Posters: Enrico Morgante, James Alvey, Alexis Plascencia, Ogan Ozsoy - Ogan Ozsoy (University of Warsaw) Alexis Plascencia (Case Western Reserve University) James Alvey (King's College London) Enrico Morgante (JGU Mainz)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:00 PM
Gravitational waves (until 5:00 PM)
1:00 PM Primordial GWs from the axion-SU(2) gauge fields during inflation - Tomohiro Fujita (ICRR, Tokyo University)  
2:00 PM GWs from axion preheating and SGWB reconstruction at LISA - Mauro Pieroni (Imperial College London)  
3:00 PM Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Sang Hui Im, Alexis Plascencia, Ogan Ozsoy) - Ogan Ozsoy (University of Warsaw) Alexis Plascencia (Case Western Reserve University) Sang Hui Im (IBS-CTPU)  
4:00 PM Gravitational wave probes of axion-like particles - Benjamin A. Stefanek (JGU Mainz)  
5:00 PM
Posters (until 6:00 PM)
5:00 PM Posters: Caner Ünal, Ashu Kushwaha, Michael Fedderke - Michael Fedderke (Stanford University) Ashu Kushwaha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) Caner Ünal (Czech Academy of Sciences)  
6:00 PM
Seminar (until 7:00 PM)
6:00 PM Search for axions and axion-like particles with XENON1T - Michelle Galloway (University of Zurich)  
7:00 PM Happy Hour