Schedule
Agenda (PDF)
| Thursday April 23 | |||
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| Time | Speaker | Subject | Institution |
| 8:00 8:20 | Gather, light snacks | ||
| Session 1 Chair: Kieran Holland, U. of the Pacific | |||
| 8:20 8:30 | Pavlos Vranas | Welcome | LLNL |
| 8:30 9:00 | Anna Hasenfratz | Running, walking, standing: the interplay between the running coupling and infrared physics | U Colorado |
| 9:00 9:30 | Yasumichi Aoki | Nf=8 QCD | Nagoya U. |
| 9:30 10:00 | Evan Weinberg | Pushing towards lighter fermions in SU(3) with 8 fundamental flavors | Boston U |
| 10:00 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 11:00 | Will Detmold | Dark nuclei | MIT |
| 11:00 11:30 | Tim Tait | Self-Interacting Dark Matter from a non-Abelian Hidden Sector | UC Irvine |
| 11:30 12:00 | Robert Lasenby | Synthesis and phenomenology of large Nuclear Dark Matter | Stanford/Oxford |
| 12:00 1:00 | Catered lunch at the conference location | ||
| Session 2 Chair: Michael Buchoff, INT U. of Washington | |||
| 1:00 1:30 | Evan Berkowitz | Lattice QCD input to Axion Cosmology | LLNL |
| 1:30 2:00 | Kris Sigurdson | The Cosmology of Composite Dark Matter | U British Columbia |
| 2:00 2:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 2:30 3:00 | Graham Kribs | A Model of Stealth Dark Matter | U Oregon |
| 3:00 3:30 | Enrico Rinaldi | Stealth Dark Matter on the Lattice | LLNL |
| 3:30 5:00 | Discussion and coffee with Ethan Neil | Moderated Discussion | |
| 5:00 | Depart for wine tasting at Wente vineyards (starts strictly at 5:30) | ||
| Friday April 24 | |||
| Time | Speaker | Subject | Institution |
| 8:00 8:30 | Gather, light snacks | ||
| Session 3 Chair: Joe Kiskis, UC Davis | |||
| 8:30 9:00 | Michael Peskin | The Importance of Lattice QCD for Precision Higgs Boson Measurements | SLAC |
| 9:00 9:30 | Markus Luty | Composite Higgs: Myth and Reality | UC Davis |
| 9:30 11:00 | LLNL NIF tour for approved group, break/lunch for others Group Photo | ||
| 11:00 12:30 | LLNL supercomputing facility tour for approved group , break/lunch for others | ||
| 12:30 1:00 | Lunch for supercomputing tour participants at LLNL cafeteria | ||
| 1:30 2:00 | Francesco Sannino | Composite versus Elementary Higgs: Problems and Progress | CP3 Denm |
| 2:00 2:30 | Julius Kuti | New results and open problems toward a minimal realization of the composite Higgs | UCSD |
| 2:30 3:00 | Bogdan Dobrescu | Composite Higgs models from top quark dynamics | Fermilab |
| 3:00 3:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 4 Chair: Agashe Kaustubh, U. of Maryland | |||
| 3:30 4:00 | Wick Haxton | Nucleon and Nuclear Operators in a Model-Independent Treatment of WIMP Direct Detection | UC Berkeley |
| 4:00 4:30 | Simona Murgia | Searching for Dark Matter in the Galactic Center with Gamma Rays | UC Irvine |
| 4:30 5:00 | Luca Vecchi | Partial Compositeness | Maryland |
| 5:00 6:30 | Discussion and coffee with George Fleming | Moderated discussion | |
| 6:30 | Depart for workshop dinner at Casa Orozco | ||
| Saturday April 25 | |||
| Time | Speaker | Subject | Institution |
| 8:00 8:30 | Gather, light snacks | ||
| Session 5 Chair: James Osborn, ANL | |||
| 8:30 9:00 | George Chapline | Unification of gravity and elementary particle physics using a gauge theory defined on the Lorentzian Leech lattice | LLNL |
| 9:00 9:30 | Kostas Skenderis | Lattice Holographic Cosmology | Southampton |
| 9:30 10:00 | Edgar Shaghoulian | Non-unitary CFT duals to de Sitter quantum gravity | UCSB |
| 10:00 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 11:00 | Rich Brower | Lattice radial quantization | Boston U |
| 11:00 11:30 | Guy Gur-Ari | Chaotic behavior in the classical Yang-Mills matrix model | Stanford |
| 11:30 12:00 | David Schaich | Lattice for Supersymmetric Physics | Syracuse |
| 12:00 1:00 | Discussion and coffee with Masanori Hanada | Moderated discussion | |
| 1:00 | Adjourn | ||
