Pacific 2014

Monday September 15, 2014

11:30 - 12:00: Welcome remarks - Neil Davies, Frank Murphy, Hinano Murphy
12:05 - 12:35: Research at the Gump Station - Neil Davies, Gump Research Station
12:40 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:25: The light WIMPs Saga - Graciela Gelmini, University of California, Los Angeles
14:30 - 14:55: Beyond Annual Modulation at WIMP Direct-Detection Experiments - Samuel Lee, Princeton University
15:00 - 15:25: Eavesdropping on the Dark Sound of the Universe - Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, California Institute of Technology/JPL
15:30 - 15:50: Coffee break
15:50 - 16:15: Sterile neutrinos, axions, and dark matter - Alexander Kusenko, University of California, Los Angeles
16:20 - 16:45: Detection of the 3.5 keV Line: Could it be sterile neutrino decay
feature? - Esra Bulbul, Harvard University
16:50 - 17:15: Particle Astrophysics and Other Non-accelerator Physics With Super-Kamiokande - Henry Sobel, University of California, Irvine
17:15 - 19:30: Cocktail reception at the Director's House
18:30 - 20:00: Dinner

Tuesday September 16, 2014

11:30 - 12:35: Discussion
12:40 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:25: Astrophysical Big Bang: From Engine to Remnant - Shigehiro Nagataki, RIKEN, Japan
14:30 - 14:55: Efficient Cosmic Ray Acceleration and High-energy Emission at Supernova Remnants - Herman Lee, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
15:00 - 15:25: The possible origins of the UHECR hotspot observed by the Telescope Array - Haoning He, Nanjing University, China
15:30 - 15:50: Coffee break
15:50 - 16:15: Secondary Photons and Neutrinos from Distant Blazars and the Intergalactic Magnetic Fields - Warren Essey, University of California, Los Angeles
16:20 - 16:45: Exploring the High-Energy Universe with the HAWC Observatory - Gus Sinnis, Los Alamos National Lab
16:50 - 17:15: Observations of VHE Blazars as Extragalactic Probes - David Williams, UC Santa Cruz
17:20 - 17:45: Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of two Very-High-Energy (E>100 GeV) Gamma-ray Photons from the z=1.1 blazar PKS 0426-380 - Yasuyuki Tanaka, Hiroshima University, Japan
17:50 - 18:15: Studies of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays with the Telescope Array Observatory - John Belz, University of Utah
18:30 - 20:00: Dinner

Wednesday September 17, 2014

8:30 - 12:40: Sea excursion
12:40 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:25: Measurement of the Higgs couplings at the LHC and constraints on New Physics - Gabriella Sciolla, Brandeis University
14:30 - 14:55: Direct detection of Wino dark matter - Junji Hisano, Nagoya University, Japan
15:00 - 15:25: Will Planck Observe Gravity Waves? - Qaisar Shafi, University of Delaware
15:30 - 15:50: Coffee break
15:50 - 16:15: Self-interacting asymmetric dark matter coupled to a light massive dark photon - Lauren Pearce, University of California, Los Angeles
16:20 - 16:45: A Renormalizable Dark Matter Model for the Galactic Center Gamma Ray Excess - Seyda Ipek, University of Washington
16:50 - 17:15: Higgs Vacuum Stability and Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Archil Kobakhidze, University of Sydney, Australia
17:20 - 17:45: The Solar Gravitational Lens - Slava G. Turyshev, University of California, Los Angeles
18:30 - 20:00: Tahitian feast

Thursday September 18, 2014

11:30 - 12:35: Discussions
12:40 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:25: Direct Observations of the Cosmic Infrared Background - Ned Wright, University of California, Los Angeles
14:30 - 14:55: Testing gravity with large scale structure dynamics - Elise Jennings, KICP, University of Chicago
15:00 - 15:25: The first galaxies - Oleg Gnedin, University of Michigan
15:30 - 15:50: Coffee break
15:50 - 16:15: High Resolution Stellar intensity interferometry - David Kieda, University of Utah
16:20 - 16:45: On Degenerate Models of Cosmic Inflation - Gonzalo Palma, Universidad de Chile
16:50 - 17:15: Issues with Renormalization in Higgs inflation - Sander Mooij, Universidad de Chile
17:20 - 17:45: A complete census of star formation in massive galaxies at z~4 - Tao Wang, CEA
18:30 - 20:00: Dinner

Friday September 19, 2014

8:30 - 12:40: Inland excursion
12:40 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:25: Non-Abelian Strings in Condensed Matter - Mikhail Shifman, University of Minnesota
14:30 - 14:55: Finite-size corrections to Fermi's golden rule: Implications to neutrino physics - Kenzo Ishikawa, Hokkaido University, Japan
15:00 - 15:20: Coffee break
15:20 - 15:45: N=4 Super-Yang-Mills in 't Hooft limit as Exactly Solvable 4D Conformal Field Theory - Vladimir Kazakov, Ecole Normale Superieure and UPMC, Paris
15:50 - 16:15: Dark matter from Higgs boson - Leszek Roszkowski, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
16:20 - 16:45: Experimental Aspects of Coherent Synchrotron, Cerenkov, and Betatron Radiation: Connections to Laboratory Astrophysics - James Rosenzweig, University of California, Los Angeles
16:50 - 17:15: Dark energy and varying alpha cosmologies - Mariusz P. Dabrowski, University of Szczecin, Poland
18:30 - 20:00: Dinner

Saturday September 20, 2014