Olivefest: Astroparticle Physics Looking Forward

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)

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

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