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The 24th International Symposium on Particle, Strings, and Cosmology
Physics Department
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio, USA, June 4-8, 2018
Organizing Committe:
Corbin CovaultPavel Fileviez Perez (co-Chair)Betty GaffneyTom GiblinKurt HinterbichlerBryan LynnHarsh Mathur
Stacy McGaughBenjamin MonrealJohn RuhlGlenn Starkman (co-Chair)Cyrus TaylorIdit Zehavi
Parallel Sessions:
Section I: SM PhysicsConveners: Frank Petriello (Argonne/Northwestern Univ.), German Rodrigo (IFIC-Valencia)
Section II: Collider PhysicsConveners: Evelyn Thomson (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Carlos Wagner (Univ. of Chicago/Argonne)
Section III: Dark MatterConveners: Tongyan Lin (UC-San Diego), Juri Sminov (INFN-Firenze)
Section IV: Early Universe CosmologyConveners: Ema Dimastrogiovanni (CWRU), Anna Ijjas (Columbia Univ.)
Section V: Late Universe CosmologyConveners: Stefano Anselmi (IAP, Paris), Simone Aiola (Princeton Univ.)
Section VI: GravityConveners: Claudia de Rham (Imperial College), Kurt Hinterbichler (CWRU)
Section VII: Neutrino PhysicsConveners: Laura Gladstone (CWRU), Benjamin Monreal (CWRU), Silvia Pascoli (IPPP-Durham)
Section VIII: Gravitational WavesConveners: Maria Alessandra Papa (Hannover, Max Planck Inst. Grav.), Andrew Matas (Univ. of Minnesota)
Section IX: Unification and String TheoryConveners: Francesco Bigazzi (INFN-Firenze), James Halverson (Northeastern Univ.)
Section X: Theories for Physics beyond the SM.Conveners: Christophe Grojean (DESY/Humbold Univ.), Matt Reece (Harvard Univ.)
Invited Plenary Speakers:
Daniel Akerib (SLAC/Stanford Univ.)Philip Argyres (Univ. of Cincinnati)Howard A. Baer (Univ. of Oklahoma)Robert H. Bernstein (Fermilab)Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC/Stanford Univ.)Marcela Carena (Fermilab)Neil Cornish (Montana State Univ.)Corbin Covault (Case Western Reserve Univ.)Claudia de Rham (Imperial College)Albert de Roeck (CERN)John Duncan (Emory Univ.)Rouven Essig (YITP, Stony Brook Univ. )Gregory Gabadadze (New York Univ.)Belen Gavela (Instituto de Fisica Teorica, UAM, Spain)Francis Halzen ( Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)Tao Han (Univ. of Pittsburgh)Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins Univ.)Justin Khoury (Univ. of Pennsylvania)Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study)Rabindra Mohapatra (Univ. of Maryland)Pran Nath (Northeastern Univ.)Kerstin Perez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)German Rodrigo (Instituto de Física Corpuscular/CSIC)John Ruhl (Case Western Reserve University)Goran Senjanovic (ICTP)Ravi Sheth (Univ. of Pennsylvania)Elizabeth Simmons (Univ. of California-San Diego, Michigan State Univ.)Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)Gerard ‘t Hooft (Utrecht University and Spinoza Institute)Andrew Tolley (Imperial College)Mark Trodden (Univ. of Pennsylvania)Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State Univ.)Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts University)Carlos Wagner (Univ. of Chicago/Argonne)
Locations:
PASCOS2018 will take place in the Case Western Reserve University Campus.
The Plenary Talks at PASCOS2018 will take place at the Thwing Excelsior Ballroom, Thwing Center in the Case Western Reserve University campus.
Address: Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106
The Parallel Talks will take place in the Physics Department (Rockefeller Building)Address of the physics department: Rockefeller Building, 2076 Adelbert Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106
Excursion and Dinner:
The excursion and the dinner of the conference will be on June 6, between 4:00 and 8:00 pm.We will take the cruise Goodtime III to visit Lake Erie, the dinner will be served on the cruise as well. Transportation will be provided.
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Transportation to the Excursion & Banket Parking lot 1A, 2071 Martin Luther King Blv.
PASCOS2018
Scientific Program
Plenary Talks - June 4, 2018
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
JUNE 4, Monday
2:00-4:00 pm REGISTRATION
4:00-4:05 pm P. Fileviez Perez “Welcome”
4:05-4:15 pm C. Taylor “Welcome to CWRU”
4:15-4:25 pm K. Kash “Physics at CWRU”
4:25-4:30 pm G. Starkman “Origins and CERCA”
Chairman: P. Fileviez Perez
4:30-5:00 pm G. 't Hooft “Conservative physics and new physics for the quantised black hole”
5:00-5:30 pm M. Trodden ”Couplings in the Dark Sector and the Mildly Nonlinear Regime"
5:30-6:00 pm Coffee Break
Chairman: G. Starkman
6:00-6:30 pm M. Carena “The Higgs Boson as a Tool for Exploration”
6:30-7:00 pm M. Kamionkowski “New Hints of Dark Matter”
7:00-10:00 pm Reception in the Linsalata Alumni Center
Plenary Talks - June 5, 2018
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
JUNE 5, Tuesday
Chairman: K. Hinterbichler
8:30-9:00 am G. Gabadadze “Warped massive gravity”
9:00-9:30 am A. Tolley “Positivity Bounds for all Spins”
9:30-10:00 am C. de Rham “Massive gravity from the top down and bottom’s up”
10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break
Chairman: J. Ruhl
10:30-11:00 am D. Akerib, “Dark Matter Direct Detection with Liquid Nobles”
11:00-11:30 am K. Perez “Cosmic-ray Antinuclei: New Inputs on Dark Matter”
11:30 am -12:00 pm R. Essig “Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter”
12:00-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00-3:20 pm Parallel Talks
3:20-3:40 pm Coffee Break
3:40-5:00 pm Parallel Talks
5:00-5:30 pm Coffee Break
Chairman: G. Gabadadze
6:00-6:30 pm J. Ruhl “Probing Physics with CMB Polarization”
6:30-7:00 pm J. Khoury “Dark Matter and its Interactions with Baryons”
7:00-7:30 pm A. Vilenkin “Black holes from cosmic inflation”
Plenary Talks - June 6, 2018
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
JUNE 6, Wednesday
Chairman: B. Monreal
8:30-9:00 am T. Han “Higgs Couplings at High Scales”
9:00-9:30 am G. Rodrigo “The precision frontier landscape”
9:30-10:00 am C. Covault “The Pierre Auger Observatory: The Big Picture on the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays”
10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break
Chairman: R. Brown
10:30-11:00 am B. Gavela “Colour Unified Dynamical Axion”
11:00-11:30 am E. Simmons “Identifying new states at the LHC”
11:30 am -12:00 pm S. Brodsky “The Light-Front Vacuum, Light-Front Holography, and Supersymmetric Features of Hadron Physics”
12:00-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00-3:20 pm Parallel Talks
3:20-3:50 pm Coffee Break
4:00-8:00 pm Excursion and Banquet
Plenary Talks - June 7, 2018
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
JUNE 7, Thursday
Chairman: H. Mathur
8:30-9:00 am C. Wagner “Higgs Boson Couplings and New Physics”
9:00-9:30 am H. Baer “Status of Weak Scale Supersymmetry”
9:30-10:00 am N. Cornish “Putting Einstein to the test with Gravitational Wave Observations”
10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break
Chairman: A. Tolley
10:30-11:00 am P. Argyres “Recent advances in superconformal field theories”
11:00-11:30 am J. Duncan “An Overview of Moonshine”
11:30 am -12:00 pm D. Stojkovic “Quantum aspects of black hole physics”
12:00-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00-3:20 pm Parallel Talks
3:20-3:40 pm Coffee Break
3:40-5:00 pm Parallel Talks
5:00-5:30 pm Coffee Break
Chairman: C. Covault
6:00-6:30 pm F. Halzen “Neutrino Aspects of Multimessenger Astronomy”
6:30-7:00 pm T. Vachaspati “A Classical-Quantum Correspondence for All”
7:00-7:30 pm R. Sheth “Unbiased constraints from biased tracers in cosmology”
Plenary Talks - June 8, 2018
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
JUNE 8, Friday
Chairman: C. de Rham
9:00-9:30 am A. de Roeck “Searches for new physics at the LHC”
9:30-10:00 am R. Bernstein “The Mu2e Experiment”
10:00-10:30 am P. Nath “Evidence for inflation in an axion landscape”
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break
Chairman: P. Nath
11:00-11:30 am R. Mohapatra “Neutrino Mass and Grand Unification”
11:30 am -12:00 pm G. Senjanovic “Origin and Nature of Neutrino Mass”
12:00 pm -12:30 pm J. Maldacena “Traversable Wormholes”
END
PASCOS2018—Scientific Program
Parallel Talks, Physics Department, Rockefeller Building
JUNE 5 Rock 301 Rock 303 Rock 304 Rock 306 Rock 309
Chairman Juri Smirnov James Halverson German Rodrigo Carlos Wagner Ema Dimastrogiovanni
2:00-2:20 pmTim Linden
“The Status of Indirect Searches for Weak-Scale Dark Matter”
Federico Galli
“Holographic second laws of black hole thermodynamics”
Terrance M. Figy
“Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion Receives a Stress Test”
Eric Chabert
“Highlights from SUSY searches at CMS”
Mustafa Amin
“Stochastic Particle Production during
Inflation and Reheating”
2:20-2:40 pmFrancesco Ponce
“Initial Dark Matter Results from the
SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive
Detectors”
Matti Jarvinen
“Dense holographic QCD and neutron stars”
Tobias Neumann
“Recent progress in Higgs precision
calculations”
Zhenbin Wu
“Prospects for BSM searches at the HL-LHC
with CMS”
Sonia Paban
“Many-field Inflation in Random Potentials”
2:40-3:00 pmHongwan Liu
“21-cm Implications for dark matter annihilation
and decay”
Javier Tarrio
“Cold holographic matter and color symmetry
breaking”
Claudius Krause
“Current and Future Constraints on Higgs
Couplings”
Adam Davis
“LHCb as a charm factory”
Matt Johnson
“Early Universe Cosmology with the Sunyaev Zel’dovich
Effect”
JUNE 5
3:00-3:20 pmEthan Brown
““Dark Matter search with XENON1T”
Thomas Bachlechner
“The Axidental Universe”
Falko Dulat
“Precison Higgs physics”
Nisar Nellikunnummel
“The Belle II Experiment: Status and Physics
Prospects”
Marcio O’Dwyer
“Polarization Predictions and the CMB
Hemispherical Variance Anomaly”
3:20-3:40 pm Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
Chairman Juri Smirnov James Halverson German Rodrigo Carlos Wagner Ema Dimastrogiovanni
3:40-4:00 pmClara Murgui
“Dark Matter and the Seesaw Scale”
Sebastian Ellis
“Consequences of Fine-Tuning for Fifth-Force
Searches”
Duff Neill
TBA
David Miller
“Highlights from SUSY searches at ATLAS”
Oliver Janssen
“The no-boundary proposal: alive and well”
4:00-4:20 pmRaymond Co
“QCD Axion Dark Matter with fa as Low as 10^8
GeV”
Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann
“The Toric SO(10) Landscape and Global
Matter-Tensor Transitions“
Ian Lewis
“QCD Corrections to effective field theories at
the Large Hadron Collider”
Da Liu
“Precision measurement with Diboson at the LHC”
Alice di Tucci
“Quantum incompleteness of
Inflation”
4:20-4:40 pmSaurabh Kumar
“CMB Spectral Distortions from Cooling
Macroscopic Dark Matter”
Nikhil Raghuram
“Unrealized Representations in Non-
Abelian F-theory Models”
Juan C. Vasquez Carmona
“Resummation and renormalons in a general
QFT”
Oleksii Matsedonskyi
“The Baryon Asymmetry from a Composite Higgs”
Sebastian Bramberger
“Semiclassical Eternal Inflation”
Rock 301 Rock 303 Rock 304 Rock 306 Rock 309JUNE 5
4:40-5:00 pmDe-Chang Dai
“Can LambdaCDM model reproduce
MOND-like behavior?”
Michal Malinsky
“Witten’s loop in the flipped SU(5) unification
revisited”
Daniel Wiegand
“Scaling Behavior of QCD Vertex Functions in
Universal Extra Dimensions”
Jia Liu
“Long-Lived Particles at the LHC with Timing”
Cristian Armendariz-Picon
“When Does the Inflaton Decay?”
Rock 301 Rock 303 Rock 304 Rock 306 Rock 309JUNE 5
JUNE 6 Rock 301 Rock 303 Rock 304 Rock 306 Rock 309
Chairman Juri Smirnov Thomas Bachlechner Craig Copi Carlos Wagner Ema Dimastrogiovanni
2:00-2:20 pmRebecca Leane
“GeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Not Even
Slightly Dead”
Ashley Perko
“A Lattice-Friendly Composite Higgs”
James Mertens
“Reconstructing the Large-Scale Velocity
Field using kSZ Tomography”
Zhen Liu
“Enhanced Di-Higgs Production and the Electroweak Phase
Transition”
Caner Unal
“Gravitational Wave Signatures of Inflationary
Models producing Primordial Black Holes”
2:20-2:40 pmIgal Jaegle
“Dark Sector Physics with Belle II”
Gilly Elor
“Collinear Superspace”
Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez
“The classical double copy in maximally
symmetric spacetimes”
Xiaoping Wang
"A light Higgs and the B-physics Anomalies”
Ely Kovetz
“Probes of primordial black hole dark matter”
JUNE 6
Chairman Benjamin Monreal Claudia de Rham Andrew Matas Carlos Wagner Simone Aiola
2:40-3:00 pmTim Classen
“PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment”
Scott Melville
“Speed Limits for Modified Gravity”
Madeline Wade
“Calibration of the Advanced LIGO
detector”
Michael Geller
“Primordial Anisotropies in the Gravitational
Wave Background from Cosmological Phase
Transitions”
Mathew Madhavacheril
“Fundamental physics from the small-scale cosmic microwave
background”
3:00-3:20 pmYoshihisa Obayashi
“The Status of Hyper-Kamiokande Project”
David Pirtskhalava
TBA
Sarah Vigeland
“Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational
Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays”
Jeff Dror
“Supersymmetric dark sectors”
Jia Liu
“MassiveNuS: Cosmology with Massive
Neutrinos”
Rock 301 Rock 303 Rock 304 Rock 306 Rock 309JUNE 6
JUNE 7 Rock 301 Rock 303 Rock 304 Rock 306 Rock 309
Chairman Benjamin Monreal Kurt Hinterbichler Andrew Matas Carlos Wagner Simone Aiola
2:00-2:20 pmLuke Kippenbrock
“Status of the KATRIN experiment”
James Bonifacio
“A universal bound on the strong coupling scale
of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2
particle”
Lilli Sun
“ Bridging the gap between year-long signals and
second-longsignals: GW transients”
Yuhsin Tsai
“Cosmological Signatures in Mirror Twin Higgs
Models”
Matthew Hasselfield
“Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology
Telescope”
2:20-2:40 pmVivek Singh
“A search for Neutrinoless double
beta decay in 130Te : First results from
CUORE”
Rachel Rosen
“Black Hole Horizons and Massive Gravitons”
Joey Key
“Gravitational wave science with LISA”
Marcin Badziak
“Asymptotically Free Supersymmetric Twin
Higgs”
Rachael Beaton
“Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant via the Distance Ladder”
2:40-3:00 pmKevin Zhang
“Implications of an Improved Neutron-
Antineutron Oscillation Search for
Baryogenesis”
Austin Joyce
“Spin-2 scattering amplitudes and
asymptotic superluminality”
Jax Sanders
“Design of third generation ground based detectors”
Keisuke Harigaya
“Implications of Higgs Discovery for the Strong
CP Problem and Unification”
Adrian Liu
“21cm Cosmology in the Detection Era”
JUNE 7
3:00-3:20 pmYongchao Zhang
“Lepton flavor violation induced by a neutral
scalar at future lepton colliders”
Laura Johnson
“Partially Massless Decoupling Limit of
Massive Gravity in de Sitter”
Andrew Matas
“Searches for the stochastic gravitational-wave background with
Advanced LIGO and Virgo”
Matt Low
“Disorder at the LHC”
Francisco Villaescusa Navarro
“Weighing neutrinos with cosmic neutral
hydrogen”
3:20-3:40 pm Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
Chairman Juri Smirnov Claudia de Rham Andrew Matas Carlos Wagner Stefano Anselmi
3:40-4:00 pm Mark Hertzberg
“Completely Natural Dark Matter”
George Zahariade
“Classical Hawking radiation”
Reed Essik
“Astrophysical implications of GW observations”
Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
“Unveiling massive neutrinos and beyond-ΛCDM cosmology with LSST and future CMB
experiments”
Carmelita Carbone
“Massive neutrinos & dark energy project:
simulations & covariances”
4:00-4:20 pmJessica Turner
“Intermediate Scale Non-resonant Leptogenesis”
Laura Sagunski
“Testing Modified Gravity with Merging
Neutron Stars”
Leslie Wade
“Measuring the neutron star equation of state with
gravita-tional waves”
Hongkai Liu
“One loop corrections to the spin-independent
blind spot”
Linda Blot
“Cosmological simulations for
precision cosmology with large galaxy
surveys”
Rock 301 Rock 303 Rock 304 Rock 306 Rock 309JUNE 7
4:20-4:40 pmMarcos A. Garcia
Garcia
“Enhancement of the dark matter abundance
before reheating: thermal and non-
thermal production”
Lasma Alberte
“Transverse phonons in holographic massive
gravity”
Jing Ming
“Folding-in astrophysical priors in searches for
continuous grav-itational waves”
Xing Wang
“Electroweak DM at Future Hadron Collider”
Ashley Ross
“The Status of Constraints on Dark Energy from Baryon Acoustic Oscillation
Scale Measurements”
4:40-5:00 pmKuver Sinha
“Constraining Axion-like-Particles with Hard X-Ray Emission from
Magnetars”
Lavinia Heisenberg
TBA
Tom Callister
“ Searching for scalar and tensor polarizations with
the stochas-tic gravitational wave
background”
Suntharan Arunasalam
“Low temperature EW phase transition in the SM with hidden scale
invariance”
Elena Giusarma
“Exploring neutrino masses with Large
Scale Structure”
Rock 301 Rock 303 Rock 304 Rock 306 Rock 309JUNE 7
