PASCOS 2019
XXV International Symposium
from Monday, 1 July 2019 (08:00) to Friday, 5 July 2019 (19:00)

       : Sessions
   /   : Talks
       : Breaks
Monday, 1 July 2019
 Tuesday, 2 July 2019
 Wednesday, 3 July 2019
 Thursday, 4 July 2019
 Friday, 5 July 2019
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Plenary - Pran Nath (Northeastern University) (until 10:10) (Rutherford Lecture Theatre)
09:00  Welcome  
09:35  Latest LHC Results on the Higgs Boson - Andrey Pozdnyakov (Aachen U.)  
10:10 --- Coffee ---
10:45
Plenary - Ignatios Antoniadis (LPTHE Paris and AEC Bern) (until 12:30) (Rutherford Lecture Theatre)
10:45  Searches for New Physics at the LHC - Evelyn Jean Thomson (Pennsylvania U.)  
11:20  Electroweak Quintessence Axion and Swampland Conjectures - Masahito Yamazaki (Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo)  
11:55  Asymptotic Safety - Daniel Litim (University of Sussex)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
09:00
Plenary - Daniel Litim (University of Sussex) (until 10:10) (Rutherford theatre)
09:00  Inflation, dark energy, and string theory landscape - Andrei Linde (Stanford University)  
09:35  String Cosmology - Ignatios Antoniadis (LPTHE Paris and AEC Bern)  
10:10 --- Coffee ---
10:45
Plenary - Masahito Yamazaki (Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo) (until 12:30)
10:45  Higgs Inflation - Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)  
11:20  Black Holes versus Wormholes - Panagiota Kanti (University of Ioannina)  
11:55  CPT Symmetric Universe - Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
09:00
Plenary - Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC Valencia) (until 10:10)
09:00  Neutrinos: Theory and Experiment - Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany)  
09:35  Searches for Lepton Number Violation at the LHC - Un-ki Yang (Seoul National University)  
10:10 --- Coffee ---
10:45
Plenary - Nazila Mahmoudi (Lyon University) (until 12:30) (Rutherford theatre)
10:45  Neutrino Pathways to New Physics - Jose W. F. Valle (Valencia U.)  
11:20  Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment as a Harbinger of New Physics - Joseph Price (University of Liverpool)  
11:55  Axion Dark Matter Searches - Byeong Rok Ko (Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
12:45 --- Free afternoon ---
09:00
Plenary - Manuel Drees (Bonn University) (until 10:10) (Rutherford theatre)
09:00  Higgs Probes of New Physics - Marcela Carena (U Chicago/ Fermilab)  
09:35  Magnetic monopoles at the LHC - Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC (CSIC-Univ. Valencia))  
10:10 --- Coffee ---
10:45
Plenary - Panagiota Kanti (University of Ioannina) (until 12:30) (Rutherford theatre)
10:45  Axion Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture - Pran Nath (Northeastern University)  
11:20  (In)Stability of the SM Vacuum - Vincenzo Branchina (Catania U.)  
11:55  Grand Unification and Weak Gravity Conjecture - Qaisar Shafi (University of delaware)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
09:00
Plenary - Carlos Wagner (The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory) (until 10:10) (Rutherford theatre)
09:00  Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Fundamental Physics - Samaya Nissanke (Amsterdam U.)  
09:35  A Swampland Update - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)  
10:10 --- Coffee ---
10:45
Plenary - Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany) (until 12:30) (Rutherford theatre)
11:20  Dark Matter - Manuel Drees (Bonn University)  
11:55  CMB Planck Legacy - George Efstathiou (Cambridge U.)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
PM
14:30
Parallel: Cosmological Probes - Fedor Bezrukov (The University of Manchester) (until 16:10) (Rutherford Lecture Theatre)
14:30  CPT-Symmetric Universe - Latham Boyle (Perimeter Institute)  
14:50  Inflation with strongly non-geodesic motion, non-Gaussianities and swampland conjectures - Jacopo Fumagalli (IAP Paris)  
15:10  The Geometry of Inflation - Kieran Finn (University of Manchester)  
15:30  Inhomogeneous Inflation as a probe of the shape of the potential - Josu C. Aurrekoetxea (King's College London)  
15:50  Bouncing Cosmological Solutions in Scalar - Tensor Gravity - Yosef Verbin (Dept. of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Israel)  
14:30
Parallel: Particle Physics Models of New Physics - Vincenzo Branchina (University of Catania) (until 16:10) (Bragg Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Scale invariance and electroweak baryogenesis at QCD scale - Archil Kobakhidze (The University of Sydney)  
14:50  Asymptotic Scale Invariance and its Consequences - Kengo Shimada (EPFL)  
15:10  Gravity, Scale Invariance and the Hierarchy Problem - Andrey Shkerin (EPFL)  
15:30  Asymptotic safety and flavour phenomenology in extensions of the Standard Model - Tom Steudtner (U Sussex)  
15:50  Gauge invariance in PT-symmetric scalar QED - Jean Alexandre (King's College London, Department of Physics)  
14:30
Parallel: String Theory and Alternatives - Radu Tatar (University of Liverpool) (until 16:10) (Annex: Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Path Integrals, thimbles and MCMC - Paul Saffin (University of Nottingham)  
14:50  Stability in open strings with broken supersymmetry - Hervé Partouche (Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS)  
15:10  Unification of Flavor, CP, and Modular Symmetries - Alexander Baur (Technical University of Munich)  
15:30  Non-supersymmetric heterotic particle physics models - Stefan Groot Nibbelink (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences)  
15:50  Attractor inflation beyond the poles - Sotirios Karamitsos (Lancaster University)  
14:30
Parallel: Neutrinos and Non-Accelerator Probes of New Physics - Jose W. F. Valle (Valencia U.) (until 16:10) (Moseley Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Neutron EDM constrains direct detection EFT prospects - Rahul Mehra (University of Bonn)  
14:50  A new sensitvity goal for neutrino less double beta decay experiments - Srubabati Goswami (Physical Research Laboratory/Imperial College London)  
15:10  Probing Non-Standard Lepton Number Violating Interactions in Neutrino Oscillations - Patrick Bolton (University College London)  
15:30  Relativistic effect in new force search with isotope shifts - Yasuhiro Yamamoto (National Center for Nuclear Research)  
15:50  Neutrino Portals to Dark Matter - Arsenii Titov (IPPP, Durham University)  
14:30
Parallel: Collider Probes of New Physics - Dmitry Gorbunov (INR RAS) (until 16:10) (Blackett Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Minimal Spin-one Isotriplet Dark Matter - Alexander Belyaev (University of Southampton)  
14:50  Dark matter from a vector field in the fundamental representation of SU(2)L - Felipe Rojas Abatte (University of Southampton)  
15:10  More stringent constraints on the unitarised fermionic dark matter Higgs portal - Shyam Balaji (The University of Sydney)  
15:30  Fingerprint matching of beyond-WIMP dark matter: a neural network approach - Ryusuke Jinno (DESY)  
15:50  Limits on the Dark Sector from BaBar - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield)  
16:10 --- Tea ---
16:40
Parallel: Collider Probes of New Physics - Alexander Belyaev (Southampton University) (until 18:20) (Blackett Lecture Theatre)
16:40  Searching for dark matter with AION - Sarah Malik (Imperial College London)  
17:00  Lepton number violating right-sneutrino decays - Harri Waltari (STFC RAL)  
17:20  Sbottoms as probes to MSSM with nonholomorphic soft interactions - Utpal Chattopadhyay (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science)  
17:40  Dark Sector Physics with Belle II - Alberto Martini (University & INFN Roma Tre)  
18:00 --- _ ---
16:40
Parallel: Cosmology and Gravity - Peter Millington (University of Nottingham) (until 18:20) (Annex: Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre)
16:40  Positivity in the sky - Scott Melville (University of Cambridge)  
17:00  Phenomenology and cosmology of electroweak monopoles - Suntharan Arunasalam (University of Sydney)  
17:20  Some like it hot: R^2 heals Higgs inflation, but does not cool it - Chris Shepherd (The University of Manchester)  
17:40  To Positivity and Beyond, where Higgs-Dilaton Inflation has never gone before - Inar Timiryasov (EPFL)  
18:00  On the growth of massive scalar hair around a Schwarzschild black hole - Katy Clough (Oxford University)  
16:40
Parallel: Neutrinos and Non-Accelerator Probes of New Physics - Srubabati Goswami (Physical Research Laboratory/Imperial College London) (until 18:20) (Moseley Lecture Theatre)
16:40  The LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment - Benjamin Krikler (Univeristy of Bristol)  
17:00  Mirror Dark Matter Search Using LUX Run3 Data - Elizabeth Leason (University of Edinburgh)  
17:20  Direct baryogenesis after electroweak symmetry breaking - Hiroyuki Ishida (KEK)  
17:40  Updates from the XENON Dark Matter and Neutrino program - Christopher Tunnell (Rice)  
16:40
Parallel: Particle Physics Models of New Physics - Bohdan Grzadkowski (University of Warsaw) (until 18:20) (Bragg Lecture Theatre)
16:40  The Inert Doublet Model: confronting collider and dark matter searches - Jan Kalinowski (University of Warsaw)  
17:00  Quartic Coupling Unification - Neda Darvishi (University of Manchester)  
17:20  Low-energy lepton observables in the MRSSM - Hyejung Stoeckinger-Kim (TU Dresden)  
17:40  The possibility of the light stop mass in the MSSM with general soft super symmetry breaking terms - Ahmad Farzaneh kord (Hakim Sabzevari University)  
18:00  Behavior of two supersymmetry breaking scales in $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity - Shuntaro Aoki (Waseda University)  
16:40
Parallel: Cosmological Probes - Subodh Patil (Niels Bohr Institute) (until 18:20) (Rutherford Lecture Theatre)
16:40  CMB Spectral Distortions: a Robust Probe of Primordial non-Gaussianity - Giovanni Cabass (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)  
17:00  Lattice simulations of the geometrical destabilization of inflation - Michal Wieczorek (Warsaw University)  
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17:20  Bouncing Universe from Nothing - Takahiro Terada (KEK)  
17:40  Quintessential inflation: origin and tests - Rubio Javier (Helsinki Institute of Physics)  
18:00  Isocurvature modes and the intrinsic CMB bispectrum - Pedro Carrilho (Queen Mary University of London)  
19:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
14:30
Parallel: Neutrinos and Non-Accelerator Probes of New Physics - Christopher Tunnell (Rice) (until 16:10) (Moseley Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Quantum Walks and Neutrinos - Farhan Chowdhury (Aberystwyth University)  
14:50  Searching for Heavy Neutral Leptons with DUNE - Tommaso Boschi (Durham University, IPPP - Queen Mary University of London)  
15:10  Double Beta Decay and TeV Scale Physics - Frank Deppisch (University College London)  
15:30  The Future of Super-Kamiokande: SK-Gd - Alexander Goldsack (University of Oxford/Kavli IPMU)  
14:30
Parallel: Cosmological Probes - Daniele Teresi (Università di Pisa) (until 16:10) (Rutherford Lecture Theatre)
14:30  The universe as a condensate of spacetime atoms - Steffen Gielen (University of Nottingham)  
14:50  Effects of an early matter dominated era on gravitational waves induced by scalar perturbations - Keisuke Inomata (ICRR, The University of Tokyo)  
15:10  Parametric amplification of chiral gravitational waves in single field inflation - Maria Mylova (Swansea University)  
15:30  Vorticity, kinetic energy, and suppressed gravitational wave production in strong first order phase transitions - David Weir (University of Nottingham)  
15:50  Infrared quantum gravity and gravitational waves - Basem Elmenoufi (University of Sussex)  
14:30
Parallel: Particle Physics Models of New Physics - Qaisar Shafi (University of delaware) (until 16:10) (Bragg Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Domain Walls in Accidentally Symmetric Two Higgs Doublet Models - Dominic Viatic (University of Manchester)  
14:50  Affleck-Dine baryogenesis in the SUSY Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky axion model without R-parity - Kensuke Akita (Tokyo Institute of Technology)  
15:10  Resonant dark matter annihilation in a gauge-independent manner - Mateusz Duch (University of Warsaw)  
15:30  Minimal Consistent Fermion Dark Matter - Daniel Locke (University of Southampton)  
15:50  Forbidden Freeze-In - Dimitrios Karamitros (NCBJ)  
14:30
Parallel: String Theory and Alternatives - Nikolaos Mavromatos (King's College London) (until 16:10) (Annex: Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Non-Minimal M-flation - Amjad Ashoorioon (Dr)  
14:50  A Real-Time Picture of False Vacuum Decay - Jonathan Braden (CITA / University of Toronto)  
15:10  No-Go theorems for ekpyrosis from ten-dimensional supergravity - Kunihito Uzawa (Kwansei Gakuin University)  
15:30  Superconformal attractor E-models in brane inflation under swampland criteria - Mudassar Sabir (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China)  
15:50  Relaxation of hierarchy in higher dimensional Starobinsky model - Yu Asai (Waseda university)  
14:30
Parallel: Collider Probes of New Physics - Archil Kobakhidze (The University of Sydney) (until 16:10) (Blackett Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Walking Technicolor in the light of Z′ searches at the LHC - Azaria Coupe (Univeristy of Southampton)  
14:50  Any Room Left for Technicolor? - Nicholas Evans (University of Southampton)  
15:10 --- _ ---
15:30  Bayesian and frequentist approaches to discoveries - Andrew Fowlie (Nanjing Normal University)  
15:50  Is Higgsplosion possible and would it be observed? - Fedor Bezrukov (The University of Manchester)  
16:10 --- Tea ---
16:40
Parallel: Collider Probes of New Physics - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield) (until 18:20) (Blackett Lecture Theatre)
16:40  Belle II start of running: first results and prospects - Alberto Martini (University & INFN Roma Tre)  
17:00  Time-dependent CP violation in b-> s gamma transitions at Belle II - Olga Verbitskaja (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Warsaw)  
17:20  PHYSICS BEYOND SM WITH KAONS FROM NA62 - Jacopo Pinzino (CERN)  
17:40  SEARCH FOR EXOTIC DECAYS WITH NA62 - Monica Pepe (INFN Perugia)  
18:00 --- _ ---
16:40
Parallel: Cosmology and Gravity - Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL) (until 18:20) (Annex: Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre)
16:40  Axion superradiance in rotating neutron stars - Francesca Day (University of Cambridge)  
17:00  New Aspects of Millicharged Dark Matter at 21-cm - Hongwan Liu (MIT)  
17:20  More room for sterile neutrino dark matter - Dmitry Gorbunov (INR RAS)  
17:40  Cold dark matter: theoretical convenience or observational fact? - Daniel Thomas (JBCA, Manchester)  
18:00  Testing scalar versus vector dark matter - Bohdan Grzadkowski (University of Warsaw)  
16:40
Parallel: Neutrinos and Non-Accelerator Probes of New Physics - Frank Deppisch (University College London) (until 18:20) (Moseley Lecture Theatre)
16:40  The Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program - Stephen Dennis (University of Liverpool)  
17:10  The highest energy particles at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Sofia Andringa (LIP)  
17:40  Sterile Neutrinos with Altered Dispersion Relations as an Explanation for the MiniBooNE, LSND, Gallium and Reactor Anomalies - Heinrich Päs (TU Dortmund)  
18:00  Heavy Neutrino Searches at the LHC - Cedric Weiland (Pitt PACC, University of Pittsburgh)  
16:40
Parallel: Particle Physics Models of New Physics - Nicholas Evans (University of Southampton) (until 18:20) (Bragg Lecture Theatre)
16:40  Status of the SHiP experiment at CERN - Oliver Lantwin (University of Zürich)  
17:00  Light charged Higgs boson with dominant decay to quarks and its search at LHC and future colliders - Muyuan Song (University of Southampton)  
17:20  Indirect Detection of light dark matter - Arvind Rajaraman (Univ of California, Irvine)  
17:40  Hidden Monopole Dark Matter via Axion Portal and its Implications for Direct Search and Beam-Dump Experiments - Shu-Yu Ho (Tohoku University)  
18:00 --- _ ---
16:40
Parallel: Cosmological Probes - Rubio Javier (Helsinki Institute of Physics) (until 18:20) (Rutherford Lecture Theatre)
16:40  Synergies between HI intensity mapping and optical galaxy surveys - Alkistis Pourtsidou (QMUL)  
17:00  The hiccupping Universe - Daniele Teresi (Università di Pisa)  
17:20  Quintessence and equivalence principle violations in the dark sector - Carsten van de Bruck (University of Sheffield)  
17:40  Dynamical friction in a superfluid - Benjamin Elder (University of Nottingham)  
18:00  Frame (in)equivalence in QFT and Cosmology - Mario Herrero-Valea (EPFL)  
19:30 --- Banquet ---
14:30
Parallel: Collider Probes of New Physics - Andrey Pozdnyakov (RWTH) (until 15:50) (Blackett Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Reconstructing early Universe properties with dark matter - Nazila Mahmoudi (Lyon University)  
14:50  Explore the lifetime frontier with MATHUSLA - Audrey Kvam (University of Washington)  
15:10  Forward BSM physics at the LHC with the FASER detector - Sebastian Trojanowski (University of Sheffield)  
15:30  A Hunt for Hidden Photons with the LZ Experiment - Athoy Nilima (University of Edinburgh)  
14:30
Parallel: String Theory and Alternatives - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University) (until 15:50) (Annex: Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Perturbatively renormalizable quantum gravity - Tim Morris (University of Southampton)  
14:50  Spontaneous CPT Violation and Quantum Anomalies in a Model for Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry in the Cosmos - Sarben Sarkar (King's College London)  
15:10  Time-Dependent Backgrounds and Four-Dimensional Effective Field Theories - Tatar Radu (University of Liverpool)  
15:30 --- _ ---
14:30
Parallel: Cosmological Probes - Carsten van de Bruck (University of Sheffield) (until 15:50) (Rutherford Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Thermal History and Primordial Black Holes - Florian Kuhnel (Stockholm University)  
14:50  Primordial black holes and how to produce them - Philippa Cole (University of Sussex)  
15:10  Primordial Kerr Black Holes - Alexandre Arbey (Lyon U. and CERN)  
15:30  aSuperIso_DM: a new toolbox for dark matter calculations - Glenn Robbins (KBFI)  
14:30
Parallel: Particle Physics Models of New Physics - Jan Kalinowski (University of Warsaw) (until 15:50) (Bragg Lecture Theatre)
14:30  μ-hybrid inflation with low reheat temperature and observable gravity waves - Fariha Vardag (Quaid-i-Azam Universtiy, Islamabad, Pakistan)  
14:50  Vector-like leptonic dark matter, neutrino mass and collider signatures - Narendra Sahu (IIT Hyderabad)  
15:10  Non-adiabiatic particle production in dynamical relaxation - Adam Markiewicz (University of Warsaw)  
15:30 --- _ ---
14:30
Parallel: Neutrinos and Non-Accelerator Probes of New Physics - Heinrich Päs (TU Dortmund) (until 15:50) (Moseley Lecture Theatre)
14:30  Recent T2K Neutrino Oscillation Results - Laura Lee Kormos (Lancaster University)  
14:50  Light Sterile Neutrino in T2HK - Sabya Sachi Chatterjee (IPPP, Durham University)  
15:10  Status and prospects of charged lepton flavor violation searches with the MEG-II experiment - Cecilia Voena (INFN Roma1, on behalf of the MEG Collaboration)  
15:30  Search for charged lepton flavor violation in J-PARC: COMET experiment - Yoshi Uchida (Imperial College London)  
15:50 --- Tea ---
16:30
Public Lecture (until 17:30) (Rutherford Lecture Theatre)
18:30 --- Beer and Pizza Networking Event ---