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
      Welcome One West

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      Cosmology overview One West

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      Speaker: Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia)
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      Classically stable non-singular cosmological bounces One West

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      Speaker: Anna Ijjas (Princeton)
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      Break One West

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      Reviving SO(10) for cosmology One West

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      Speaker: Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)
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      Composite dark matter One West

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      Speaker: Yue Zhang (Northwestern University)
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      Searches for dark particles at LBNF One West

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      Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)
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    • 17:30
      Reception 15th Floor Crossover

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      Game changers at the LHC One West

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      Speaker: Steve Martin (Northern Illinois University)
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      Digging out unfamiliar heavy scalars from the ttbar channel at the LHC One West

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      Speaker: Zhen Liu (Fermilab)
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      A (The?) higgs vacuum instability during inflation One West

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      Speaker: Jack Kearney (Fermilab)
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    • 11:00
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      Neutral naturalness V2.2 One West

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      Speaker: Roni Harnik (FNAL)
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      The holometer One West

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      Speaker: Ohkyung Kwon (Fermilab)
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      TBA One West

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    • 13:00
      Lunch One West

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      Cosmological seed magnetic field from inflation One West

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      Speaker: Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University)
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      Collapsing shells and black holes One West

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      Speaker: Anna Carla Serio (Universite de Lausanne)
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    • 15:30
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      Special Colloquium - Simply Wrong vs. Simple One West

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      Speaker: Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University)
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      Octant degeneracy, Quadrant of leptoic CPV phase at Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments and baryogenesis One West

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      Speaker: Kalpana Bora (Gauhati University, India)
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    • 16
      Hilbert series for effective field theory One West

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      Speaker: Adam Martin (University of Notre Dame)
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      Flavorful UV instantons and the strong CP problem One West

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      Speaker: Kiel Howe (Fermilab)
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    • 10:30
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      Neutrino masses: First signal from SUSY! One West

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      Speaker: Seyda Ipek (Fermilab)
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      Revisiting the question of the theta-dependence at large N One West

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      Speaker: Prof. Michael Dine (UCSC)
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      Axion dark matter -- From Fermi to Rabi One West

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      Speaker: Aaron Chou (Fermilab)
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    • 12:30
      Lunch One West

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      Moonshine, supersymmetry and gravity One West

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      Speaker: Jeff Harvey (University of Chicago)
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      The minimal SUSY B-L model: Simultaneous Wilson lines and string thresholds One West

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      Speaker: Burt Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania)
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    • 15:30
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      Inflation in the B-L MSSM One West

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      Speaker: Rehan Deen (University of Pennsylvania)
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      A new algebraic structure One West

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      Speaker: Latham Boyle (Perimeter Institute)
    • 17:30
      Conference Dinner 2nd Floor Crossover

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      QFT vs. Gravity: Why do we need string theory? One West

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      Speaker: Herman Verlinde (Princeton University)
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      Massive compact dark matter One West

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      Speaker: Ely Kovetz (Jones Hopkins University)
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    • 11:00
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      LIGO's black holes One West

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      Speaker: Daniel Holz (University of Chicago)
    • 12:30
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      Interpertation of the semi-classical stress-energy tensor for a Schwarzschild black hole One West

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      Speaker: Jim Bardeen (University of Washington)
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      Axion stars in planets One West

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      Speaker: Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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      A case for primordial supermassive black holes One West

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      Speaker: Dr Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)
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    • 15:30
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      Special Wine and Cheese - Shocks in the early universe and gravitational waves One West

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      Speaker: Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute)
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      End of Meeting One West

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