Simplicity II Workshop

6 Sep 2016, 12:50 → 9 Sep 2016, 17:05 US/Central

One West (Wilson Hall)

Albert Stebbins (Fermilab), Christopher Hill (FNAL), Estia Eichten (Fermilab)

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.

Tuesday, 6 September

12:55 → 13:00 Welcome

13:00 → 14:00 Cosmology overview

Speaker: Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia)

Slides ScottDouglas_SCM_Simplicity.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Classically stable non-singular cosmological bounces

Speaker: Anna Ijjas (Princeton)

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:30 Reviving SO(10) for cosmology

Speaker: Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)

Slides Keith_Olive.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Composite dark matter

Speaker: Yue Zhang (Northwestern University)

17:00 → 17:30 Searches for dark particles at LBNF

Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)

Slides Pilar_coloma-simplicity.pdf

17:30 → 19:30 Reception

Wednesday, 7 September

09:00 → 10:00 Game changers at the LHC

Speaker: Steve Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides Steve_Martin.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Digging out unfamiliar heavy scalars from the ttbar channel at the LHC

Speaker: Zhen Liu (Fermilab)

Slides SimplicityII_ZhenLiu_ttbar.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 A (The?) higgs vacuum instability during inflation

Speaker: Jack Kearney (Fermilab)

Slides Jack_Kearney.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:00 Neutral naturalness V2.2

Speaker: Roni Harnik (FNAL)

12:00 → 12:30 The holometer

Speaker: Ohkyung Kwon (Fermilab)

Slides Ohkyung_Kwon_Simplicity_II_--_O.Kwon.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 TBA

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Cosmological seed magnetic field from inflation

Speaker: Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University)

Slides Bahrat_Ratra.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Collapsing shells and black holes

Speaker: Anna Carla Serio (Universite de Lausanne)

Slides AnnaCSeri_simplicityII_2.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:00 Special Colloquium - Simply Wrong vs. Simple

Speaker: Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University)

Thursday, 8 September

09:00 → 09:30 Octant degeneracy, Quadrant of leptoic CPV phase at Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments and baryogenesis

Speaker: Kalpana Bora (Gauhati University, India)

Slides Kalpana.Bora_simplicity_9Sep.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Hilbert series for effective field theory

Speaker: Adam Martin (University of Notre Dame)

Slides Adam_Martin_am_hilbert.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Flavorful UV instantons and the strong CP problem

Speaker: Kiel Howe (Fermilab)

Slides Kiel_Howe_FlavorfulInstantons.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 11:30 Neutrino masses: First signal from SUSY!

Speaker: Seyda Ipek (Fermilab)

Slides ipek_simpicityII.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Revisiting the question of the theta-dependence at large N

Speaker: Prof. Michael Dine (UCSC)

Slides Mike_Dine_monodromy_in_qcd_talk_short.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Axion dark matter -- From Fermi to Rabi

Speaker: Aaron Chou (Fermilab)

Slides Aaron_Chou_achou_simplicity2_final.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Moonshine, supersymmetry and gravity

Speaker: Jeff Harvey (University of Chicago)

Slides Jeff_Harvey_Moonshine_susy_gravity.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 The minimal SUSY B-L model: Simultaneous Wilson lines and string thresholds

Speaker: Burt Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides Burt_Ovrut_Simplicity_II.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 16:30 Inflation in the B-L MSSM

Speaker: Rehan Deen (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides Rehan_Deen_Inflation_in_the_B-L_MSSM_final.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 A new algebraic structure

Speaker: Latham Boyle (Perimeter Institute)

17:30 → 19:30 Conference Dinner

Friday, 9 September

09:00 → 10:00 QFT vs. Gravity: Why do we need string theory?

Speaker: Herman Verlinde (Princeton University)

Slides Presentation-SimplicityII-HV.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Massive compact dark matter

Speaker: Ely Kovetz (Jones Hopkins University)

Slides Ely_Kovetz_PBHDarkMatter.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 LIGO's black holes

Speaker: Daniel Holz (University of Chicago)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Interpertation of the semi-classical stress-energy tensor for a Schwarzschild black hole

Speaker: Jim Bardeen (University of Washington)

Slides Bardeen_SimplicityII2016.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Axion stars in planets

Speaker: Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:00 → 15:30 A case for primordial supermassive black holes

Speaker: Dr Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)

Slides Albert_StebbinsPrimordialSMBHs20160909Simplicity.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:00 Special Wine and Cheese - Shocks in the early universe and gravitational waves

Speaker: Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute)

17:00 → 17:05 End of Meeting