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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08:00
Check-in + Light breakfast
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Dark Matter
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Astrophysical and Dark Matter Origin of the IceCube High-energy Neutrino EventsSpeaker: Dr Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)
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Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Accumulation in Neutron StarsSpeaker: Dr Tim Linden (The Ohio State University )
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10:00
Tea Break
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Collider Physics
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Higgs Physics at CMSSpeaker: Paul Padley (Rice University (US))
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Exotic Higgs searches at the CMS ExperimentSpeaker: Dr Luca Pernie (Texas A&M University)
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Exotic Higgs searches - ATLASSpeaker: Lei Zhang (Nanjing University (CN))
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11:20
Tea Break
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Phenomenology
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Loop-Induced Single Top Partner Production and Its Exotic Decays at the HL-LHCSpeaker: Jeong Han Kim (University of Kansas)
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Separating nucleon and nuclear effects in quasielastic (anti)neutrino-nucleus scatteringSpeaker: Gil Paz (Wayne State University)
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12:40
Lunch Break - on your own
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Cosmology
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Primordial Black Holes from String InflationSpeaker: Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)
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Nonthermal Dark Matter from Early Matter Domination RevisitedSpeaker: Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)
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A Natural Explanation to the 21-cm Absorption Signal via the QCD AxionSpeaker: Prof. Tianjun Li (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences )
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15:00
Tea Break
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Miscellaneous
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Searching for W' using b-tagging, hadronic taus, and missing energySpeaker: Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)
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IceCube's astrophysical neutrino spectrum from CPT violationSpeaker: Danny Marfatia
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16:20
Tea Break
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Student Talks
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21cm Limits on Decaying Dark Matter and Primordial Black HolesSpeaker: Steven Clark (Texas A&M University - College Station)
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CEvNS as a probe of Z' through kinetic and mass mixing effectsSpeaker: 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 AnomaliesSpeaker: Adrian Thompson (Texas A&M)
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Leptogenesis and non-standard cosmologySpeaker: Esteban Jimenez (Texas A&M University)
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18:30
Reception at Cavalry Court
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08:00
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08:00
Check-in + Light Breakfast
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Miscellaneous
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Light Mediators in Neutrino Physics: Oscillations versus Scattering DataSpeaker: Ian Shoemaker
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Probing neutrino sector through Higgs decaysSpeaker: Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)
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Jet SIFT-ingSpeaker: Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)
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10:00
Tea Break
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Phenomenology
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Searching for See-Saw Signatures at the Large Hadron ColliderSpeaker: Shreyashi Chakdar (Colby College)
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11:20
Tea Break
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Collider Physics
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Supersymmetry searches with ATLASSpeaker: William James Fawcett (Universite de Geneve (CH))
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Search for New Gauge Bosons with ATLASSpeaker: Reda Tafirout (TRIUMF (CA))
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12:40
Lunch Break - on your own
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Neutrinos, flavor, and cosmology
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Current Status and Recent Result of the XENON1T Dark Matter Search ExperimentSpeaker: Dr Petr Shagin (Rice University)
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Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in CosmologySpeaker: Kimberly Boddy (Johns Hopkins University)
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The Fermilab LArTPC Neutrino ProgramSpeaker: Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
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30
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15:00
Tea Break
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Cosmology
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Constraining Axion-Like-Particles with Hard X-ray Emission from MagnetarsSpeaker: Prof. Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)
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Gravitational Leptogenesis, Reheating, and Models of Neutrino MassSpeaker: Dr Peter Adshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark MatterSpeaker: Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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16:20
Tea Break
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Dark Matter
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Bremsstrahlung in dark matter direct detectionSpeaker: 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 FrontierSpeaker: Prof. Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)
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Lines, Boxes, and Conveyor Belts: Deciphering Astrophysical and Cosmological Imprints of Extended Dark SectorsSpeaker: Prof. Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)
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18:30
Dinner at Kreuz Market Texas BBQ
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08:00
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08:00
Check-in + Light Breakfast
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Acknowledgments and AnnouncementsSpeaker: 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 ProgramSpeaker: Prof. Ed Hungerford (University of Houston)
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Flavor Physics and Light Dark SectorsSpeaker: Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)
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Primordial black holes in dwarf galaxiesSpeaker: Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)
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First observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and continued efforts of the COHERENT CollaborationSpeaker: Grayson Rich
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10:20
Tea Break
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Collider Physics
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Top quark-Higgs boson interactionsSpeaker: Peter Onyisi (University of Texas at Austin (US))
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Searches for Dark Matter in MonoX at CMSSpeaker: Shuichi Kunori (Texas Tech University (US))
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ttH related searches in the SM and/or the MSSMSpeaker: Simone Monzani (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
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12:10
Lunch Break - on your own
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Texas Dialogue SessionSpeaker: 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 ModelSpeaker: Fred Olness
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Non-thermal dark matter production from the end of inflationSpeaker: Mustafa Amin (Rice University)
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15:00
Tea Break
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Texas Session
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Searching For Dark Matter At UHSpeaker: Andrew Lee Renshaw (University of Houston (US))
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A Secret Asymmetry From Flavored Dark MatterSpeaker: Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)
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Recent results and current analysis activities from SuperCDMSSpeaker: Robert Calkins (Southern Methodist University)
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08:00