| October 2017 |
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| 2 Yacine Ali-Haimoud, Primordial-black-hole dark matter: revival and death? (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Blanton, Tinker, Pullen (2:45 PM - 3:45 PM) CCPP Happy Hour (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 3 Astro Particle Group Meeting (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Noemie Globus, On UHECR origin OR Jet formation in GRBs (2:00 PM - 2:45 PM) + Abstract Dynamics Recitation (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) + Abstract | 4 Hitoshi Murayama, Effective Operators and Strongly Interacting Massive Particles (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM) + Abstract Tsvi Piran, Neutron Star Mergers, and their GW and EM signatures (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract Patrick Fox, Cosmology in Mirror Twin Higgs and Neutrinos (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) -- Abstract: I will explore a simple solution to the cosmological challenges of the original Mirror Twin Higgs (MTH) model that leads to interesting implications for experiment. I will consider theories in which both the standard model and mirror neutrinos acquire masses through the familiar seesaw mechanism, but with a low right-handed neutrino mass scale of order a few GeV. In these νMTH models, the right-handed neutrinos leave the thermal bath while still relativistic. As the universe expands, these particles eventually become nonrelativistic, and come to dominate the energy density of the universe before decaying. Decays to standard model states are preferred, with the result that the visible sector is left at a higher temperature than the twin sector. Consequently the contribution of the twin sector to the radiation density in the early universe is suppressed, allowing the current bounds on this scenario to be satisfied. However, their effects may be discovered in future cosmic microwave background experiments, or upcoming experiments designed to probe the large scale structure of the universe. Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) | 5 Webpage Committee Meeting (12:45 PM - 1:45 PM) Mathematica Workshop (2:30 PM - 4:30 PM) Antoine George, From Hot Superconductors to Cold Atoms: Quantum Matter with Strong Correlations (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 6 Mansi Kasliwal, The Dynamic Infrared Sky (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract Various grad students (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) + Abstract First Years Symposium, Gong Show (2:30 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) ISC (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM) + Abstract |
| 9 Blanton, Tinker, Pullen (2:45 PM - 3:45 PM) | 10 Astro Particle Group Meeting (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Noemie Globius, On ultra-high energy cosmic-ray origin (2:00 PM - 2:50 PM) + Abstract Dynamics Recitation (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) + Abstract | 11 Tomer Volansky, Relaxed Inflation (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) | 12 Pierre Christian, Testing the Black Hole No-Hair Theorem with Electromagnetic Fields (2:30 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract Andrew Strominger, Soft Hair on Black Holes (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 13 Machine Learning JC (2:30 PM - 4:00 PM) + Abstract Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) ISC (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM) + Abstract |
| 16 , LIGO Press Conference (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM) + Abstract Pizza Social!!!! (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract Blanton, Tinker, Pullen (2:45 PM - 3:45 PM) CCPP Happy Hour (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 17 Astro Particle Group Meeting (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Dynamics Recitation (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 18 Cora Dvorkin, Discovering New Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Cosmological Data Sets (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) | 19 Sreeni Katepalli (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) | 20 Julie Comerford, AGN Fueling and Feedback in Galaxies (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract Various grad students (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) + Abstract Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) Zurab Berezhiani, On the Origin of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) ISC (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM) + Abstract |
| 23 Massimo Porrati, Black Hole Soft Hair? Fake News! (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) CCPP Physics Tea (1:30 PM - 2:30 PM) + Abstract Blanton, Tinker, Pullen (2:45 PM - 3:45 PM) | 24 Astro Particle Group Meeting (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Christopher Hull, Geometry, Non-Geometry and Duality in String Theory (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM) Dynamics Recitation (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) + Abstract | 25 David Curtin, BSM Opportunities at ep Colliders (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) | 26 David Curtin, MATHUSLA: A new detector for the lifetime frontier (11:00 AM - 11:30 AM) Mehrdad Mirbabayi, Productive interactions: particles production and non-Gaussianity (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract Dmitry Rinberg, What the Nose Tells the Brain (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 27 Renee Hlozek, New cosmology with small-scale CMB data: ultra light dark matter, isocurvature and cosmic voids (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract Various grad students (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) Machine Learning JC (2:30 PM - 4:00 PM) + Abstract Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) ISC (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM) + Abstract |
| 30 Andrew MacFadyen, The neutron star merger gravitational wave source GW170817 and gamma-ray burst GRB170817A (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Blanton, Tinker, Pullen (2:45 PM - 3:45 PM) Yu-Dai Tsai, Respect the ELDER: New Thermal Target for Dark Matter Direct Detection and Going Beyond with Astrophysical Signatures (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM) + Abstract CCPP Happy Hour (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 31 Astro Particle Group Meeting (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Dynamics Recitation (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) + Abstract | 1 Tom Banks, Do Conformal Field Theory Correlators Compute the Non-perturbative Minkowski S Matrix? (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) | 2 Elena Giusarma, Exploring neutrino masses and relativistic effects with Large Scale Structures (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract Raphael Bousso, Black Holes, Quantum Information, and Unification (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 3 Various grad students (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) Astro-Ph (4:00 PM - 4:30 PM) James Peebles, A Tale of Two Theories: Missing Mass in 1980 and Galaxy Formation Today (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM) + Abstract ISC (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM) + Abstract |