PACIFIC 2015 Program

Saturday September 12, 2015

• 12:30 - 14:00  Lunch
• 15:30 - 15:40  Frank Murphy and Hinano Murphy: Welcome remarks
• 15:45 - 15:55  Alexander Kusenko (UCLA/Kavli IPMU): Some practical information
• 16:00 - 17:00  Jean-Claude Teriierooiterai: Concept of the sky and star navigation
• 17:00 - 18:30  Reception at the Director's House
• 18:30 - 20:00  Dinner

Sunday September 13, 2015

• 8:30 - 12:00  Informal discussions in groups
• 12:30 - 14:00  Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:25  Ned Wright (UCLA): Cosmic Anomalies: A Skeptical Evaluation
• 14:30 - 14:55  Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University): Search for helical intergalactic magnetic fields using the gamma ray sky
• 15:00 - 15:25  Pratika Dayal (Edinburgh University): The first billion years of galaxy formation
• 15:30 - 15:50  Coffee break
• 15:50 - 16:15  Oleg Gnedin (University of Michigan): Emergence of Galactic Structure
• 16:20 - 16:45  Elena Gallo (University of Michigan): Powering relativistic jets: lessons from Galactic microquasars
• 16:50 - 17:15  Konstantin Belov (JPL/Caltech): Studying ultra-high energy cosmic rays in radio from the ground, from the balloon and from space
• 17:20 - 17:45  Lisa Randall (Harvard)
• 18:30 - 20:00  Dinner

Monday September 14, 2015

• 8:30 - 12:00  Sea excursion
• 12:40 - 14:00  Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:25  Shigehiro Nagataki (RIKEN, Japan): Astrophysical Big Bang Simulations
• 14:30 - 14:55  Luca Baiotti (Osaka University): General Relativistic MHD Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers
• 15:00 - 15:25  Coffee break
• 15:30 - 15:50  Mariko Kajima (AIST, Japan): Multi-Dimensional Metrology for Gravitational Wave Experiments
• 15:50 - 16:15  Shiu-Hang Lee (JAXA, Hong Kong): 1-D SNR Simulations with Detailed Microphysics
• 16:20 - 16:45  Gilles Ferrand (University of Manitoba): Multi-D SNR Simulations with Particle Acceleration
• 16:50 - 17:15  Hirotaka Ito (RIKEN, Japan)
• 18:30 - 20:00  Dinner

Tuesday September 15, 2015

• 8:30 - 12:00  Informal discussions in groups
• 12:30 - 14:00  Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:25  Shigeru Yoshida (Chiba University, Japan): IceCube results and their connections to the UHECR origins
• 14:30 - 14:55  Joanna Kiryluk (Stony Brook University): High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics
• 15:00 - 15:25  Yoshiyuke Inoue (ISAS/JAXA, Japan): Gamma-ray Blazars and the Cosmic Background Radiation
• 15:30 - 15:50  Coffee break
• 15:50 - 16:15  Warren Essey (UCLA)
• 16:20 - 16:45  Haoning He (UCLA)
• 16:50 - 17:15  Tommaso Treu (UCLA): What is the universe made of? The view from string lensing
• 18:30 - 20:00  Tahitian feast

Wednesday September 16, 2015

• 8:30 - 12:40  Informal discussions in groups
• 12:30 - 14:00  Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:25  Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)
• 14:30 - 14:55  Tim Tait (UC Irvine): Self-Interacting Dark Matter from a Non-Abelian Hidden Sector
• 15:00 - 15:25  Robert Foot (University of Melbourne): Dissipative dark matter and rotation curves of galaxies
• 15:30 - 15:50  Coffee break
• 15:50 - 16:15  Glennys Farrar (New York University): Viable Dark Matter candidate within QCD
• 16:20 - 16:45  Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley): Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale
• 16:50 - 17:15  Thomas Lacroix (IAP, France): Ruling out thermal dark matter with a black hole-induced spiky profile in the M87 galaxy
• 17:20 - 17:45  Chiara Arina (Institut d'astrophysique de Paris): Detection of sneutrino dark matter
• 17:50 - 18:15  Simona Murgia (UC Irvine): Searching for Dark Matter with Gamma Rays
• 18:30 - 20:00  Dinner

Thursday September 17, 2015

• 8:30 - 12:00  Informal discussions in groups
• 12:30 - 14:00  Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:25  Cedric Deffayet (IAP/IHES)
• 14:30 - 14:55  Louis Yang (UCLA): Evolution of Scalar Fields in the Early Universe
• 15:00 - 15:25  Lauren Pearce (University of Minnesota): Post-Inflationary Higgs Inflation and Leptogenesis
• 15:30 - 15:50  Coffee break
• 15:50 - 16:15  Tsutomu Yanagida (IPMU, University of Tokyo)
• 16:20 - 16:45  Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne): Particle-Antiparticle Asymmetries from Scattering
• 16:50 - 17:15  Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster University)
• 17:20 - 17:45  Sergei Ketov (Tokyo Metropolitan University and IPMU, Japan): Superstring Cosmology
• 18:30 - 20:00  Dinner

Friday September 18, 2015

• 8:30 - 12:00  Inland excursion
• 12:30 - 14:00  Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:25  Vladimir Kazakov (Ecole Normale): Exact anomalous dimensions of 4-dimensional N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in 'tHooft limit"
• 14:30 - 14:55  Konstantin Zarembo (Nordita): Exact result and phase structure of N=2* supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
• 15:00 - 15:25  Nikolay Gromov
• 15:30 - 15:50  Coffee break
• 15:50 - 16:15  Jean Iliopoulos (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris): New Physics at the LHC
• 16:50 - 18:15  Reception at the Director's House

September 19-23, 2015

• Working groups