Simplicity II Workshop

US/Central
One West (Wilson Hall)

One West

Wilson Hall

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
Albert Stebbins (Fermilab), Christopher Hill (FNAL), Estia Eichten (Fermilab)
Description
Fermilab is hosting the Simplicity II Theory Workshop in conjunction with Princeton University (Simplicity I, 2014) and the Perimeter Institute (TBA Simplicity III, 2018).  We expect significant new physics announcements this summer in both theoretical particle and astroparticle physics, such as possible new states in the LHC data, the observation of gravitational radiation, and other developments.  Various topics at the energy and cosmic frontiers will be tackled theoretically in an eclectic, open and stimulating, and cross-disciplinary fashion.
Participants
  • Aaron Chou
  • Adam Para
  • Albert Stebbins
  • Anna Ijjas
  • Anna-Carla Serio
  • Bharat Ratra
  • Bogdan Dobrescu
  • Burt Ovrut
  • Carl Albright
  • Christopher Hill
  • Craig Hogan
  • David Finley
  • Douglas Scott
  • Estia Eichten
  • Herman Verlinde
  • Ian Low
  • Jack Kearney
  • James Bardeeb
  • Jeff Harvey
  • Jime Annis
  • Joshua Eby
  • Keith Olive
  • Keith Olive
  • Kiel Howe
  • Latham Boyle
  • Marc Kamionkowski
  • Michael Dine
  • Neil Turok
  • Ohkyung Kwon
  • Paul Lebrun
  • Paul Steinhardt
  • Pilar Coloma
  • Pushpa Bhat
  • Rehan Deen
  • Richard Hill
  • Rob Atkinson
  • Roni Harnik
  • Seyda Ipek
  • Stephen Martin
  • William Bardeen
  • Yang Bai
  • Yue Zhang
  • Zhen Liu
    • 12:55 PM 1:00 PM
      Welcome 5m One West

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    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Cosmology overview 1h One West

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      Speaker: Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia)
      Slides
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Classically stable non-singular cosmological bounces 1h One West

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      Speaker: Anna Ijjas (Princeton)
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Break 30m One West

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    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Reviving SO(10) for cosmology 1h One West

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      Speaker: Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)
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    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      Composite dark matter 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Yue Zhang (Northwestern University)
    • 5:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Searches for dark particles at LBNF 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 5:30 PM 7:30 PM
      Reception 2h 15th Floor Crossover

      15th Floor Crossover

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    • 9:00 AM 10:00 AM
      Game changers at the LHC 1h One West

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      Speaker: Steve Martin (Northern Illinois University)
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    • 10:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Digging out unfamiliar heavy scalars from the ttbar channel at the LHC 30m One West

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      Speaker: Zhen Liu (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      A (The?) higgs vacuum instability during inflation 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Jack Kearney (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Break 30m One West

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    • 11:30 AM 12:00 PM
      Neutral naturalness V2.2 30m One West

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      Speaker: Roni Harnik (FNAL)
    • 12:00 PM 12:30 PM
      The holometer 30m One West

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      Speaker: Ohkyung Kwon (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 12:30 PM 1:00 PM
      TBA 30m One West

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    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch 1h One West

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    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Cosmological seed magnetic field from inflation 1h One West

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      Speaker: Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University)
      Slides
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Collapsing shells and black holes 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Anna Carla Serio (Universite de Lausanne)
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    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Break 30m One West

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    • 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
      Special Colloquium - Simply Wrong vs. Simple 1h One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University)
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Octant degeneracy, Quadrant of leptoic CPV phase at Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments and baryogenesis 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Kalpana Bora (Gauhati University, India)
      Slides
    • 9:30 AM 10:00 AM
      Hilbert series for effective field theory 30m One West

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      Speaker: Adam Martin (University of Notre Dame)
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    • 10:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Flavorful UV instantons and the strong CP problem 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Kiel Howe (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Break 30m One West

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    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Neutrino masses: First signal from SUSY! 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Seyda Ipek (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 11:30 AM 12:00 PM
      Revisiting the question of the theta-dependence at large N 30m One West

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      Speaker: Prof. Michael Dine (UCSC)
      Slides
    • 12:00 PM 12:30 PM
      Axion dark matter -- From Fermi to Rabi 30m One West

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      Speaker: Aaron Chou (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 12:30 PM 1:30 PM
      Lunch 1h One West

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    • 1:30 PM 2:30 PM
      Moonshine, supersymmetry and gravity 1h One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Jeff Harvey (University of Chicago)
      Slides
    • 2:30 PM 3:30 PM
      The minimal SUSY B-L model: Simultaneous Wilson lines and string thresholds 1h One West

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      Speaker: Burt Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania)
      Slides
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Break 30m One West

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    • 4:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Inflation in the B-L MSSM 30m One West

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      Speaker: Rehan Deen (University of Pennsylvania)
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    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      A new algebraic structure 30m One West

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      Speaker: Latham Boyle (Perimeter Institute)
    • 5:30 PM 7:30 PM
      Conference Dinner 2h 2nd Floor Crossover

      2nd Floor Crossover

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    • 9:00 AM 10:00 AM
      QFT vs. Gravity: Why do we need string theory? 1h One West

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      Speaker: Herman Verlinde (Princeton University)
      Slides
    • 10:00 AM 11:00 AM
      Massive compact dark matter 1h One West

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      Speaker: Ely Kovetz (Jones Hopkins University)
      Slides
    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Break 30m One West

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    • 11:30 AM 12:30 PM
      LIGO's black holes 1h One West

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      Speaker: Daniel Holz (University of Chicago)
    • 12:30 PM 1:30 PM
      Lunch 1h One West

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    • 1:30 PM 2:30 PM
      Interpertation of the semi-classical stress-energy tensor for a Schwarzschild black hole 1h One West

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      Speaker: Jim Bardeen (University of Washington)
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    • 2:30 PM 3:00 PM
      Axion stars in planets 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      A case for primordial supermassive black holes 30m One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Dr Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Break 30m One West

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    • 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
      Special Wine and Cheese - Shocks in the early universe and gravitational waves 1h One West

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      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL
      Speaker: Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute)
    • 5:00 PM 5:05 PM
      End of Meeting 5m One West

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