
Olivefest: Astroparticle Physics Looking Forward
May 17-19, 2017
Organizing Committee
Tony Gherghetta, University of Minnesota
Marco Peloso, University of Minnesota
Mikhail Shifman, FTPI, University of Minnesota
Evan Skillman, MIfA, University of Minnesota
Arkady Vainshtein, FTPI, University of Minnesota
Mikhail Voloshin, FTPI, University of Minnesota
Speakers
Howie Baer (University of Oklahoma); Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Emilian Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique); John Ellis (Kings College London); Jason Evans (Korea Institute for Advanced Study); Alon Faraggi (University of Liverpool); Brian D. Fields (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Katherine Freese (University of Michigan); Marcos Garcia Garcia (Rice University); Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/IFCA (CSIC)); Masahiro Ibe (IPMU); Kimmo Kainulained (University of Jyvaskyla); Renata Kallosh (Stanford University); Nemanja Kaloper (University of California, Davis); Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago); Andrei Linde (Stanford University); Feng Luo (IPMU); Yann Mambrini (Universite Paris-Sud); Grant Mathews (Notre Dame University); Carlos Munoz (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid); Natsumi Nagata (University of Tokyo); Dmitri Nanopoulos (Texas A&M University); Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica); Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria); Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz); Pierre Salati (LAPth & Universitat Savoie Mont Blanc); Pearl Sandick (University of Utah); Joe Silk (Johns Hopkins University); Evan Skillman (University of Minnesota); Vassilis Spanos (University of Athens); Mark Srednicki (University of California, Santa Barbara); Jean-Philippe Uzan (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris); Elisabeth Vangioni (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
Program
Cowles Auditorium
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
8:45 am: Registration Opens
8:55 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Tony Ghergetta
9:00 am: Mark Srednicki (University of California, Santa Barbara): Dark Matter: A Historical Perspective
9:30 am: Howie Baer (University of Oklahoma): What Does it Take to Discover or Falsify Weak Scale SUSY?
10:00 am: Pearl Sandick (University of Utah): A Galaxy and It's Dark Matter Profile: A Story of Enhanced Annihilations
10:30 am: Coffee Break
Session Chair: Joel Giedt
11:00 am: Carlos Munoz (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid): On a Reinterpretation of the Higgs Field in Supersymmetry and a Proposal for New Quarks
11:30 am: Natsumi Nagata (University of Tokyo): Probing Metastable Gluinos at the LHC
12:00 pm: Lunch Break - On Your Own
Session Chair: Sean Scully
2:00 pm: Brian D. Fields (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): A Bitter Pill? The Primordial Lithium Problem
2:30 pm: Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria): Light Particle Solutions to the Lithium Problem in Cosmology
3:00 pm: Jean-Philippe Uzan (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris): Gravitation: Constants, a Wall, and Some Waves
3:30 pm: Coffee Break
Session Chair: Tonnis ter Veldhuis
4:00 pm: Alon Faraggi (University of Liverpool): Dark Olives (and other Middle Eastern Delights)
4:30 pm: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): Bringing Astrophysics and Cosmology to the Particle Data Book
5:00 pm: Kimmo Kainulainen (University of Jyvaskyla): Baryogenesis from Dark Sector
Workshop Ends for the Day
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Session Chair: Bruce Campbell
9:00 am: John Ellis (Kings College London): Keith's Dark Side (and some others)
9:30 am: Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/IFCA (CSIC)): Preferred DM Scenarios in SUSY Theories
10:00 am: Feng Luo (IPMU): QCD Bound-state Effect on Dark Matter Relic Abundance
10:30 am: Coffee Break
Session Chair: Osamu Seto
11:00 am: Dmitri Nanopoulos (Texas A&M University): Keith Inflated
11:30 am: Marcos Garcia Garcia (Rice University): Toward a Stochastic Description of Reheating
12:00 pm: Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago): Particle Creation in the Expanding Universe
12:30 pm: Lunch Break - On Your Own
Session Chair: Alain Coc
2:00 pm: Joe Silk (Johns Hopkins University): The Limits of Cosmology
2:30 pm: Elisabeth Vangioni (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris): From Local Chemical Evolution to Cosmic Chemical Evolution
3:00 pm: Evan Skillman (University of Minnesota): Observational Constraints on the Primordial Helium Abundance
3:30 pm: Coffee Break
Session Chair: Keith Dienes
4:00 pm: Renata Kallosh (Stanford University): Alpha-attractors and B-mode targets
4:30 pm: Emilian Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique): Protection of Scalar Masses from Higher Dimensions
Workshop Ends for the Day
Banquet for workshop participants at Vic's
6:30 pm: Reception
7:00 pm: Dinner
"Keith Pics" presentation by John Ellis after dinner
Friday, May 19, 2017
Session Chair: Kenji Kadota
9:00 am: Andrei Linde (Stanford University): Large Field Inflation: Recent Progress and Observational Predictions
9:30 am: Jason Evans (Korea Institute for Advanced Study): Low-Scale D-term Inflation and the Relaxion
10:00 am: Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica): Ultra-light Axion Dark Matter and CMB B-mode Polarization
10:30 am: Coffee Break
Session Chair: Lauren Pearce
11:00 am: Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz): Astrophysical Searches for Dark Matter: A Status Report
11:30 am: Vassilis Spanos (University of Athens): Gravitino Dark Matter
12:00 pm: Yann Mambrini (Universite Paris-Sud): A Minimal Model of Gravitino Dark Matter
12:30 pm: Lunch Break - On Your Own
Session Chair: Andrew Ferstl
2:00 pm: Grant Mathews (Notre Dame University): Constraints on Superstrings, Inflation, and Extra Dimensions from the CMB and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
2:30 pm: Katherine Freese (University of Michigan): Dark Stars: Dark Matter Annihilation Can Power the First Stars
3:00 pm: Pierre Salati (LAPth & Universitat Savoie Mont Blanc): Antimatter Cosmic Rays: Recent Results with the Semi-analytic Approach
3:30 pm: Coffee Break
Session Chair: Marco Peloso
4:00 pm: Masahiro Ibe (IPMU): Dark Matter Candidates in a Heavy QCD Axion Model
4:30 pm: Nemanja Kaloper (University of California, Davis): 4 π in the Sky
Sent but not presented: Friedrich-Karl Thielemann (University of Basel): Stellar Explosions, Galactic Evolution, and my Encounters with Keith
Workshop Ends
Thank you for Participating
Participants
Howie Baer; Argha Banerjee; Michael Barnett; Alberto Benvenuti; Yusuf Buyukdag; Bruce Campbell; Alain Coc; Daniel Cronin-Hennessy; Priscilla Cushman; Aritra De; Keith Dienes; Emilian Dudas; John Ellis; Sebastian Ellis; Jason Evans; Toby Falk; Alon Faraggi; Andrew Ferstl; Brian D. Fields; Katherine Freese; Marcos Garcia Garcia; Tony Gherghetta; Joel Giedt; Alex Gilman; Shaul Hanany; Sven Heinemeyer; Masahiro Ibe; Tom Jones; Kenji Kadota; Kimmo Kainulainen; Renata Kallosh; Nemanja Kaloper; Sung Kyu Kim; Rocky Kolb; Yevhen Kurianovych; Andrei Linde; Feng Luo; Rafid Mahbub; Yann Mambrini; Grant Mathews; Andrew Miller; Carlos Munoz; Azar Mustafayev; Natsumi Nagata; Dimitri Nanopoulos; Kin-Wang Ng; Joseph Olive; Keith Olive; Alexandros Papageorgiou; Lauren Pearce; Marco Peloso; Maxim Pospelov; Stefano Profumo; Yong-Zhong Qian; Konstantin Reich; Serge Rudaz; Roger Rusack; Pierre Salati; Pearl Sandick; Daniel Schubring; Sean Scully; Osamu Seto; Daniel Shaffer; Joe Silk; Evan Skillman; Vassilis Spanos; Mark Srednicki; Tonnis ter Veldhuis; Brooks Thomas; Juan Tigre Lazo; Caner Unal; Jean-Philippe Uzan; Arkady Vainshtein; Elisabeth Vangioni; Mikhail Voloshin; Jake Waddington; Jiaming Zheng
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