Sep 6 – 9, 2016
Wilson Hall
US/Central timezone
Simplicity II Program Schedule
All sessions in One West, Wilson Hall, Fermilab
Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016
12:55 Welcome
13:00 50+10 Douglas Scott, The University of British Columbia,
Cosmology Overview
14:00 50+10 Anna Ijjas, Princeton University,
Classically stable non-singular cosmological bounces”
15:00 30 Break
15:30 50+10 Keith Olive, The University of Minnesota,
Reviving SO(10) for Cosmology
16:30 30 Yue Zhang, Northwestern University,
Composite dark matter”
17:00 30 Pilar Coloma, Fermilab, Searches for Dark Particles at LBNF
Reception 17:30 PM – 19:30 PM
Wilson Hall, 15th floor north cross-over
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016
9:00 50 + 10 Steve Martin, Northern Illinois University
Game changers at the LHC
10:00 30 Zhen Liu, Fermilab, Digging out unfamiliar heavy scalars from the ttbar channel at the LHC
10:30 30 Jack Kearney, Fermilab
A (The?) Higgs Vacuum Instability During Inflation
11:00 30 Break
11:30 30 Roni Harnik, Fermilab, Neutral Naturalness v2.2
12:00 30 Ohkyung Kwon, Fermilab , The Holometer
13:00 60 Lunch Break
14:00 50+10 Bharat Ratra, Kansas State University
Cosmological Seed Magnetic Field from Inflation
15:00 30 Anna Carla Serio, Université de Lausanne
Collapsing shells and Black Holes
15:30 30 Break
4:00 PM Special Colloquium
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University,
SIMPLY WRONG vs. SIMPLE
This talk will explain why the big bang inflationary picture fails as a scientific theory to explain the observed properties of the universe and how the lessons learned, combined with recent cosmological and particle physics experiments and some theoretical advances, are pointing to a simpler explanation.
Thursday, Sept 8, 2016
9:00 30 Kalpana Bora, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India,
Octant Degeneracy, Quadrant of leptonic CPV phase at Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments and Baryogenesis
9:30 30 Adam Martin, Notre Dame University,
Hilbert Series for Effective Field Theory
10:00 30 Kiel Howe, Fermilab,
Flavorful UV Instantons and the Strong CP Problem
10:30 Break
11:00 30 Seyda Ipek, Fermilab, Neutrino Masses: First Signal From SUSY!
11:30 30 Michael Dine, The University of California at Santa Cruz,
Revisiting the Question of theta-dependence at Large N
12:00 30 Aaron Chou, Fermilab,
Axion Dark Matter -- From Fermi to Rabi
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 50 + 10 Jeff Harvey, The University of Chicago,
Moonshine, Supersymmetry and Gravity
14:30 50 + 10 Burt Ovrut, The University of Pennsylvania,
The Minimal SUSY B-L Model: Simultaneous Wilson
Lines and String Thresholds
15:30 30 Break
16:00 30 Rehan Deen, The University of Pennsylvania,
Inflation in the B-L MSSM
16:30 30 Latham Boyle, Perimeter Institute,
A New Algebraic Structure for the Standard Model
Conference Dinner 5:30 PM
Wilson Hall 2nd floor cross over
Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 Black Hole Day
9:00 50+10 Herman Verlinde, Princeton University
10:00 50 +10 Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University
Massive Compact Dark Matter
11:00 30 Break
11:30 50+10 Daniel Holz, The University of Chicago, LIGO's black holes
12:30 60 Lunch Break
13:30 50+10 Jim Bardeen, The University of Washington,
Interpretation of the semi-classical stress-energy tensor for a Schwarzschild black hole
14:30 30 Yang Bai, The University of Wisconsin, Axion Stars in Planets
15:00 30 Albert Stebbins, Fermilab,
A Case for Primordial Supermassive Back Holes
15:30 30 Break
4:00 PM Special Wine & Cheese Seminar
Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute
Shocks in the early universe and gravitational waves
Abstract: Cosmological observations are remarkably consistent with a simple 5-parameter model including a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of primordial perturbations. It was recently realized that these perturbations would lead to the formation of shocks in the very early universe, at times between 10-6 and 10-20 seconds in the minimal scenario. The shocks have a number of fascinating consequences, including the emission of gravitational waves which are potentially detectable in current and future experiments. Current limits from pulsar timing, for example, already allow us to exclude the hypothesis that 30 solar mass black holes of the type recently detected by advanced LIGO were formed in the early universe and comprise the cosmological dark matter. Looking to the future, gravitational waves may allow us to ``look" deep into the early universe, a tantalizing prospect indeed.
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