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