IAS Program on High Energy Physics (2020)

Mini-workshop: Theory -
Future Prospects for Particle Physics, Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology

Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST


Updated as of Jan 9, 2020

Time
Event
Details will be available in due course.
Time
Event
09:20 - 09:30
Opening Remarks
Roberto FRANCESCHINI
Rome Tre University
Session 1
Chair: Matthew KLIMEK
09:30 - 10:00
The Electroweak Phase Transition: A Collider Target [Slides]
Michael RAMSEY-MUSOLF
T.D. Lee Institute and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
10:00 - 10:30
New Directions for Axion Searches at Reactor Neutrino Experiments [Slides]
Doojin KIM
Texas A&M University
10:30 - 11:00
Group Photo and Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
11:00 - 11:30
Search for Axion-like Particles Using CMB Polarization [Slides]
Kin-Wang NG
Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica
11:30 - 12:00
Gravitational Wave Signals of Early Universe Axion Dynamics [Slides]
Francesc FERRER ESCURSELL
Washington University in Saint Louis
12:00 - 15:00
Lunch (Self-arranged)
Session 2
Chair: Michael RAMSEY-MUSOLF
15:00 - 15:30
Primordial Black Holes, Inflation and Scale Invariance [Slides]
Subodh PATIL
University of Copenhagen
15:30 - 16:00
Towards a First Principles Treatment of Warm Inflation [Slides]
Gilles BULDGEN
Université Catholique de Louvain
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
16:30 - 17:00
Low-scale Leptogenesis with Three Heavy Neutrinos [Slides]
Juraj KLARIC
EPFL
17:00 - 17:30
An Overview on the Cosmological Collider [Slides]
Yi WANG
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Time
Event
Session 3
Chair: Francesc FERRER ESCURSELL
09:30 - 10:00
Asymmetric Dark Stars and Their Signs in the Sky [Slides]
Chris KOUVARIS
CP3-Origins
10:00 - 10:30
Cosmological Relaxation from Dark Fermion Production [Slides]
Minho SON
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
11:00 - 11:30
A More Attractive Scheme for Radion Stabilization and Supercooled Phase Transition [Slides]
Yuichiro NAKAI
T.D. Lee Institute and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
11:30 - 12:00
Composite GUT
Seung J. LEE
Korea University
12:00 - 12:30
Jet Substructure, Hidden Sectors and Theory Uncertainties [Slides]
Marat FREYTSIS
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
12:30 - 15:00
Lunch (Self-arranged)
Session 4
Chair: Roberto FRANCESCHINI
15:00 - 15:30
Neural Network Techniques for Monte Carlo Generation [Slides]
Matthew KLIMEK
Cornell University and Korea University
15:30 - 16:00
Current Fits to Higgs Signal Strength and Hint of New Physics [Slides]
Kingman CHEUNG
National Tsing Hua University and National Center for Theoretical Sciences
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
16:30 - 17:00
Precision Higgs with Machine Learning [Slides]
Myeonghun PARK
Seoul National University of Science and Technology
17:00 - 17:05
Closing Remarks
Tao LIU
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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