Schedule

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Thursday April 23
TimeSpeakerSubjectInstitution
8:00
8:20
Gather, light snacks
Session 1  Chair: Kieran Holland, U. of the Pacific
8:20
8:30
Pavlos VranasWelcomeLLNL
8:30
9:00
Anna HasenfratzRunning, walking, standing: the interplay between the running coupling and infrared physicsU Colorado
9:00
9:30
Yasumichi AokiNf=8 QCDNagoya U.
9:30
10:00
Evan WeinbergPushing towards lighter fermions in SU(3) with 8 fundamental flavorsBoston U
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
10:30
11:00
Will DetmoldDark nucleiMIT
11:00
11:30
Tim TaitSelf-Interacting Dark Matter from a non-Abelian Hidden SectorUC Irvine
11:30
12:00
Robert LasenbySynthesis and phenomenology of large Nuclear Dark MatterStanford/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 BerkowitzLattice QCD input to Axion CosmologyLLNL
1:30
2:00
Kris SigurdsonThe Cosmology of Composite Dark MatterU British Columbia
2:00
2:30
Coffee Break
2:30
3:00
Graham KribsA Model of Stealth Dark MatterU Oregon
3:00
3:30
Enrico RinaldiStealth Dark Matter on the LatticeLLNL
3:30
5:00
Discussion and coffee with Ethan NeilModerated Discussion
5:00Depart for wine tasting at Wente vineyards (starts strictly at 5:30)
 
Friday April 24
TimeSpeakerSubjectInstitution
8:00
8:30
Gather, light snacks
Session 3  Chair: Joe Kiskis, UC Davis
8:30
9:00
Michael PeskinThe Importance of Lattice QCD for Precision Higgs Boson MeasurementsSLAC
9:00
9:30
Markus LutyComposite Higgs: Myth and RealityUC 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 SanninoComposite versus Elementary Higgs: Problems and ProgressCP3 Denm
2:00
2:30
Julius KutiNew results and open problems toward a minimal realization of the composite HiggsUCSD
2:30
3:00
Bogdan DobrescuComposite Higgs models from top quark dynamicsFermilab
3:00
3:30
Coffee Break
Session 4  Chair: Agashe Kaustubh, U. of Maryland
3:30
4:00
Wick HaxtonNucleon and Nuclear Operators in a Model-Independent Treatment of WIMP Direct DetectionUC Berkeley
4:00
4:30
Simona MurgiaSearching for Dark Matter in the Galactic Center with Gamma RaysUC Irvine
4:30
5:00
Luca Vecchi Partial CompositenessMaryland
5:00
6:30
Discussion and coffee with George FlemingModerated discussion
6:30Depart for workshop dinner at Casa Orozco
 
Saturday April 25
TimeSpeakerSubjectInstitution
8:00
8:30
Gather, light snacks
Session 5  Chair: James Osborn, ANL
8:30
9:00
George ChaplineUnification of gravity and elementary particle physics using a gauge theory defined on the Lorentzian Leech latticeLLNL
9:00
9:30
Kostas SkenderisLattice Holographic CosmologySouthampton
9:30
10:00
Edgar ShaghoulianNon-unitary CFT duals to de Sitter quantum gravityUCSB
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
10:30
11:00
Rich BrowerLattice radial quantizationBoston U
11:00
11:30
Guy Gur-AriChaotic behavior in the classical Yang-Mills matrix modelStanford
11:30
12:00
David SchaichLattice for Supersymmetric PhysicsSyracuse
12:00
1:00
Discussion and coffee with Masanori HanadaModerated discussion
1:00Adjourn
 


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