The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2018
In association with the Physics Department at Sam Houston State University, the 2018 Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics will be held on May 21-23 at the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University. The conference will focus on recent developments in the fields of collider, dark matter, and neutrino physics. The conference will be attended by experimental and theoretical experts from these fields, and plenty of time will be allocated for interaction, discussion, and collaboration.
Venue
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Mitchell Institute (MIST), Hawking Auditorium
Internet Access
Guest internet instructions will be provided with your welcome packet. Some guests have had connectivity issues in the past, so we highly recommend that you setup Eduroam if your home institution supports it. The setup requires internet connection, so it needs to be done before hand. Once done it will allow you hassle-free internet access at more than 400 academic institutions around the US. Please contact your IT support for assistance.
Travel Information
Please visit: http://mitchell.tamu.edu/collider-and-dark-matter-physics-2018/
Organizers
Mohammad Abdullah
Amanda Barreiro (Admin)
James Dent
Bhaskar Dutta
Teruki Kamon
Louis Strigari
Joel Walker
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Check-in + Light breakfast 50m
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Dark Matter
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Astrophysical and Dark Matter Origin of the IceCube High-energy Neutrino Events 20mSpeaker: Dr Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)
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Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Accumulation in Neutron Stars 20mSpeaker: Dr Tim Linden (The Ohio State University )
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Tea Break 20m
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Collider Physics
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Higgs Physics at CMS 20mSpeaker: Paul Padley (Rice University (US))
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Exotic Higgs searches at the CMS Experiment 20mSpeaker: Dr Luca Pernie (Texas A&M University)
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Exotic Higgs searches - ATLAS 20mSpeaker: Lei Zhang (Nanjing University (CN))
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Tea Break 20m
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Phenomenology
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Loop-Induced Single Top Partner Production and Its Exotic Decays at the HL-LHC 20mSpeaker: Jeong Han Kim (University of Kansas)
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Separating nucleon and nuclear effects in quasielastic (anti)neutrino-nucleus scattering 20mSpeaker: Gil Paz (Wayne State University)
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Lunch Break - on your own 1h 20m
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Cosmology
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Primordial Black Holes from String Inflation 20mSpeaker: Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)
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Nonthermal Dark Matter from Early Matter Domination Revisited 20mSpeaker: Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)
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A Natural Explanation to the 21-cm Absorption Signal via the QCD Axion 20mSpeaker: Prof. Tianjun Li (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences )
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Tea Break 20m
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Miscellaneous
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Searching for W' using b-tagging, hadronic taus, and missing energy 20mSpeaker: Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)
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IceCube's astrophysical neutrino spectrum from CPT violation 20mSpeaker: Danny Marfatia
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Tea Break 20m
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Student Talks
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21cm Limits on Decaying Dark Matter and Primordial Black Holes 15mSpeaker: Steven Clark (Texas A&M University - College Station)
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CEvNS as a probe of Z' through kinetic and mass mixing effects 15mSpeaker: Shu Liao (Texas A&M University)
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Bottom-quark Fusion Processes at the LHC for Probing Z′ Models and B-meson Decay Anomalies 15mSpeaker: Adrian Thompson (Texas A&M)
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Leptogenesis and non-standard cosmology 15mSpeaker: Esteban Jimenez (Texas A&M University)
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Reception at Cavalry Court 2h
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Check-in + Light Breakfast 1h
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Miscellaneous
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Light Mediators in Neutrino Physics: Oscillations versus Scattering Data 20mSpeaker: Ian Shoemaker
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Probing neutrino sector through Higgs decays 20mSpeaker: Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)
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Jet SIFT-ing 20mSpeaker: Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)
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Tea Break 20m
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Phenomenology
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Searching for See-Saw Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider 20mSpeaker: Shreyashi Chakdar (Colby College)
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Tea Break 20m
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Collider Physics
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Supersymmetry searches with ATLAS 20mSpeaker: William James Fawcett (Universite de Geneve (CH))
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Search for New Gauge Bosons with ATLAS 20mSpeaker: Reda Tafirout (TRIUMF (CA))
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Lunch Break - on your own 1h 20m
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Neutrinos, flavor, and cosmology
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Current Status and Recent Result of the XENON1T Dark Matter Search Experiment 20mSpeaker: Dr Petr Shagin (Rice University)
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Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in Cosmology 20mSpeaker: Kimberly Boddy (Johns Hopkins University)
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The Fermilab LArTPC Neutrino Program 20mSpeaker: Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
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Tea Break 20m
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Cosmology
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Constraining Axion-Like-Particles with Hard X-ray Emission from Magnetars 20mSpeaker: Prof. Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)
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Gravitational Leptogenesis, Reheating, and Models of Neutrino Mass 20mSpeaker: Dr Peter Adshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter 20mSpeaker: Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Tea Break 20m
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Dark Matter
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Bremsstrahlung in dark matter direct detection 20mSpeaker: Dr Jayden Newstead (Arizona State University)
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Reaching Beyond the Standard Scenarios: From Strongly Coupled Dark Sectors and Thermal Freezeout to Cosmological Phase Transitions and the Lifetime Frontier 20mSpeaker: Prof. Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)
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Lines, Boxes, and Conveyor Belts: Deciphering Astrophysical and Cosmological Imprints of Extended Dark Sectors 20mSpeaker: Prof. Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)
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Dinner at Kreuz Market Texas BBQ 2h
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Check-in + Light Breakfast 55m
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Acknowledgments and Announcements 5mSpeaker: Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)
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Neutrinos, flavor, and cosmology
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An Update on the Borexino Solar Neutrino Program 20mSpeaker: Prof. Ed Hungerford (University of Houston)
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Flavor Physics and Light Dark Sectors 20mSpeaker: Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)
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Primordial black holes in dwarf galaxies 20mSpeaker: Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)
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First observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and continued efforts of the COHERENT Collaboration 20mSpeaker: Grayson Rich
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Tea Break 30m
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Collider Physics
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Top quark-Higgs boson interactions 20mSpeaker: Peter Onyisi (University of Texas at Austin (US))
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Search for Supersymmetry at CMS 20mSpeaker: Teruki Kamon (Texas A & M University (US))
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Searches for Dark Matter in MonoX at CMS 20mSpeaker: Shuichi Kunori (Texas Tech University (US))
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ttH related searches in the SM and/or the MSSM 20mSpeaker: Simone Monzani (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
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Lunch Break - on your own 1h 35m
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Texas Dialogue Session 15mSpeaker: Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)
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Texas Session
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Things that go bump in the data: Searching Beyond the Standard Model 20mSpeaker: Fred Olness
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Non-thermal dark matter production from the end of inflation 20mSpeaker: Mustafa Amin (Rice University)
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Tea Break 20m
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Texas Session
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Searching For Dark Matter At UH 20mSpeaker: Andrew Lee Renshaw (University of Houston (US))
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A Secret Asymmetry From Flavored Dark Matter 20mSpeaker: Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)
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Recent results and current analysis activities from SuperCDMS 20mSpeaker: Robert Calkins (Southern Methodist University)
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