Monday, Sept 21 Tuesday, Sept 22 Wednesday, Sept 23 Thursday, Sept 24 Friday, Sept 25 Participants Contact

Pacific NW Theory Workshop 2020

Virtual Workshop, held on zoom (links below).
All times are in Pacific Daylight Time.

Schedule

Talks are meant to be roughly 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions.

The breakout rooms will be randomly assigned with about 4 people/room.
You can request to re-shuffle the assignments in the first 30 seconds,
no questions asked, by messaging the Convener with "reshuffle".

Monday, September 21

Convener: Tien-Tien Yu (UO)
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94433189052

12:00p-1:00p Introductions

1:00p-1:20p "Gravitational Effects of Radiation on Large Scale Structure" [pdf] -- Charuhas-Waman Shiveshwarkar (Stony Brook/UW)

1:20p-1:40p Breakout Rooms

1:40p-2:00p "Accelerator Probes of Light Dark Scalars" [pdf] -- Saeid Foroughi (Victoria)

2:00p-??? Free Discussion


Tuesday, September 22

Convener: Mohamed Anber (Lewis and Clark)
https://zoom.us/j/98628095455

12:00p-12:20p Breakout Rooms

12:20p-12:40p "Transfer Learning in Particle Physics" [pdf] -- Layne Bradshaw (UO)

12:40p-1:00p Breakout Rooms

1:00p-1:20p "Limiting false positives in model-independent anomaly detection" [pdf] -- Kees Benkendorfer (Reed)

1:20p-1:40p Breakout Rooms

1:40p-2:00p "Jet Substructure from Dark Sector Showers" [pdf] -- Joel Doss (UO)

2:00p-??? Free Discussion in Sococo



Wednesday, September 23

Convener: David Morissey (TRIUMF)
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/2544787863

12:00p-12:20p Breakout Rooms

12:20p-12:40p "Neutrinos in N-body simulations" [pdf] -- Caio Nascimento (Stony Brook/UW)

12:40p-1:00p Break

1:00p-1:20p "The Newman-Penrose Map and the Classical Double Copy" [pdf] -- Gilly Elor (UW)

1:20p-1:40p Breakout Rooms

1:40p-2:00p "Simulation of Axion Minihalos" [pdf] -- Huangyu Xiao (UW)

2:00p-??? Free Discussion in Sococo



Thursday, September 24

Convener: Dave McKeen (TRIUMF)
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/6128244667

12:00p-12:20p Breakout Rooms

12:20p-12:40p "Generalized 't Hooft anomalies" [pdf] -- Mohamed Anber (Lewis and Clark)

12:40p-1:00p Break

1:00p-1:20p "Looking for the nALPs photon coupling" [pdf] -- Tom Bouley (UO)

1:20p-1:40p Breakout Rooms

1:40p-2:00p "Uncovering the halo-dependence of Dark Matter-electron scattering" [pdf] -- Aria Radick (UO)

2:00p-??? Free Discussion in Sococo



Friday, September 25

Convener: Tim Cohen (UO)
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94433189052

12:00p-12:20p Breakout Rooms

12:20p-12:40p "Custodial symmetry (violation) in SMEFT" -- Tom Tong (UO/UMass Amherst)

12:40p-1:00p Break

1:00p-1:20p "SMEFT vs HEFT" [pdf] -- Xiaochuan Lu (UO)

1:20p-1:40p Breakout Rooms

1:40p-2:00p "Neutron stars as dark matter detectors" [pdf] -- Nirmal Raj (TRIUMF)

2:00p-??? Free Discussion in Sococo



Participants

Mohamed Anber, Lewis & Clark College
Jonathan Bagger, TRIUMF
Masha Baryakhtar, NYU/University of Washington
Kees Benkendorfer, Reed College
Thomas Bouley, University Of Oregon
Layne Bradshaw, University of Oregon
Spencer Chang, University of Oregon
John Coffey, University of Victoria
Tim Cohen, University of Oregon
Djuna Croon, TRIUMF
Nilendra Deshpande, University of Oregon
Joel Doss, University of Oregon
Gilly Elor, University of Washington
Saeid Foroughi, University of Victoria
Makoto Fujiwara, TRIUMF
Moira Gresham, Whitman College
Baishan Hu, TRIUMF
Graham Kribs, University of Oregon
Andrew Larkoski, Reed College
David Latimer, University of Puget Sound
Marilena Loverde, Stony Brook University/University of Washington
Xiaochuan Lu, University of Oregon
David McKeen, TRIUMF
Marianne Moore, TRIUMF
David Morrissey, TRIUMF
Caio Nascimento, Stony Brook University/University of Washington
Suzanna Officer, University of Oregon
Natalie Paquette, Institute for Advanced Study/University of Washington
Aria Radick, University of Oregon
Nirmal Raj, TRIUMF
Thomas Schwemberger, University of Oregon
Stephen Sharpe, University of Washington
Charuhas-Waman Shiveshwarkar, Stony Brook University/University of Washington
Davison Soper, University of Oregon
Anna-Maria Taki, University of Oregon
Gaurav Tenkila, University of British Columbia
Tom Tong, UMass Amherst
Huangyu Xiao, University of Washington
Tien-Tien Yu, University of Oregon


Contact

Tien-Tien Yu, tientien-at-uoregon-dot-edu