JH Workshop - Baltimore 2010

Baltimore 2010

Aim:

There are high expectations that the coming years will revolutionize our understanding of particle physics, cosmology and dark matter. The focus of research has turned to fusing theoretical consideration of what is plausible with experimental consideration of what is feasible. The 34th Hopkins workshop aims at a dialog between theory and experiment, to jointly weigh the implications of theoretical models, new data, backgrounds and experimental sensitivity, and to thereby improve the prospects for uncovering new principles of Nature.

Workshop Program

Sunday, May 23, 2010

9:00 – 9:05	J. Bagger (JHU): Welcome

9:05 - 9:55	J. Incandela (UC Santa Barbara): Some First Results and Future Prospects

9:55 – 10:45	M. Kamionkowski (Cal Tech): Novel CMB tests of inflation and dark energy

10:45 – 11:00	Coffee break

11:00 – 11:50	E. Silverstein (KITP Santa Barbara): Signatures and Systematics of Monodromy Inflation

11:50 – 12:40	S. Kachru (KITP Santa Barbara): A comment on gravitational waves and the scale of supersymmetry breaking

12:40 - 1:40	Lunch

1:40 – 2:30	N. Weiner (NYU): Why we might find dark matter this year

2:30 – 3:20	R. Wyse (JHU): Dark matter and baryons in the least luminous galaxies

3:20 – 4:10	R. Lang (Columbia): First results from XENON100

4:10 - 4:30	Break

4:30 – 5:20	M. Pospelov (Perimeter Inst.): Cosmological implications of metastable GeV-scale particles

5:20 – 6:10	N. Toro (Stanford): Unlocking the Structure of New Physics at the LHC

Monday, May 24, 2010

9:00 – 9:50	A. Haas (SLAC): Higgs Searches at the Tevatron and LHC

9:50 – 10:40	Z. Kunszt (ETH): Calculating one-loop multi-leg amplitudes efficiently

10:40 – 11:00	Coffee break

11:00 – 11:50	I. Yavin (NYU): RECASTing light Higgs searches at ALEPH

11:50 – 12:40	J. Wacker (SLAC): Discoveries in Jets and Missing Energy by 2011

12:40 – 2:00	Lunch

2:00 – 2:50	T. Plehn (Heidelberg): Higgs and LHC – What Is New?

2:50 – 3:40	K. Ellis (Fermilab): Results in NLO QCD

3:40 – 4:00	Break

4:00 – 4:50	M. Strassler (Rutgers): Some Comments on the First Year of LHC Data

4:50 – 5:40	M. Luty (UC Davis): Conformal Technicolor

6:00 – 9:00	Banquet at Evergreen House
	After dinner talk: The Future of Space Telescopes by Massimo Stiavelli (STScI)

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

8:30 - 9:20	A. Riess (JHU): Dark Energy and the Expansion History

9:20 – 10:10	M. Zaldarriaga (Princeton): Non-Gaussianities from inflation

10:10 - 10:30	Coffee break

10:30 – 11:20	J. Collar (U Chicago): Light WIMPs: the plot thickens?

11:20 - 12:10	D. Tsybychev (Stony Brook): Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimoun charge asymmetry at D0

12:10 – 1:10	Lunch

1:10 – 2:00	N. Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton): Scattering Amplitudes and Emergent Spacetime