2017 ICFA Seminar

6 Nov 2017, 08:00 → 9 Nov 2017, 18:00 Canada/Central

2017 ICFA Seminar, Ottawa Ontario

Pictures can be found on the Photo Gallery link.

2017 ICFA Seminar

The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) will hold its triennial Seminar from November 6-9, 2017 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, Canada.

2017 Program Committee:

• Halina Abramowicz
• Jonathan Bagger
• Genevieve Belanger
• Alex Bondar
• Beate Heinemann
• Reiner Kruecken
• Kenneth Long
• David MacFarlane
• Toshinori Mori
• Mihoko Nojiri
• Natalie Roe
• Nigel Smith
• Oliver Stelzer-Chilton
• Yifang Wang

 

ICFA members:

• J. Mnich, Chair and CERN Member States
• G. Taylor, Chair-Elect, Australia
• P. Bhat, Secretary, USA
• H. Abramowicz, CERN Member States
• F. Gianotti, CERN Member States
• D. MacFarlane, USA
• N. Lockyer, USA
• N. Hadley, USA
• S. Ivanov, Russia
• A. Bondar, Russia
• Y. Wang, China
• E. Álvarez, Other Countries
• V. Matveev, Other Countries
• M. Cho, Other Countries
• T. Mori, Japan
• M. Yamauchi, Japan
• M. Roney, Canada
• J. Fuster, Chair of the IUPAP Commission on Particles and Fields (ex officio)

Monday, 6 November

08:30 → 10:00 Opening

Convener: Andreas Warburton (McGill University/IPP)

08:30 Welcome to Canada

Speaker: Andreas Warburton (McGill University/IPP)

Slides WelcomeToCanada-Warburton.pdf WelcomeToCanada-Warburton.pptx

08:35 Introduction

Speaker: Joachim Mnich (DESY)

Slides JM_ICFA_Intro.pptx

09:00 Americas Report

Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (FERMILAB)

Slides lockyer.pptx

09:20 Asia Report

Speaker: George Wei-Shu Hou (National Taiwan University)

Slides Asia_Report.pptx

09:40 Europe Report

Speaker: Prof. Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and IIHE)

Slides ICFA-Opening-Europe-Ottawa-Nov2017.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 Neutrinos

Convener: Kenneth Long (Imperial College London/STFC)

10:30 Neutrino Theory

Speaker: Raymond Volkas (University of Melbourne)

Slides Volkas-NeutrinoTheory.pdf Volkas-NeutrinoTheory.pptx

11:00 Long Baseline Experiments

Speaker: Mr Federico Sanchez (IFAE/BIST)

Slides FutureOscillation_ICFA2017_Fsanchez.pdf

11:30 Short Baseline Experiments

Speaker: Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)

Slides ICFASeminar_2017_BTFleming.pdf

12:00 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Mass Scale

Speaker: Kunio Inoue (Tohoku University)

Slides ICFA_neutrino_DBD_inoue.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:15 Dark Matter

Convener: Nigel Smith (SNOLAB)

13:30 Dark Matter Theory

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides DarkMatterTheory.key DarkMatterTheoryPDF.pdf

14:00 WIMP Dark Matter

Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SMU)

Slides 2017_ICFAseminar.key 2017_ICFAseminar.pdf

14:25 Axion Dark Matter

Speaker: SungWoo Youn (IBS/CAPP)

Slides ICFA2017_YOUN.pdf

14:50 Dark Photons

Speaker: Prof. Natalia Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides Toro_DarkSectors_ICFA

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Rare Isotopes

Convener: Jens Dilling (TRIUMF)

15:45 Advances in Nuclear Theory

Speaker: Dr Jason Holt (TRIUMF)

Slides Holt_ICFA.pptx

16:10 Nuclear Astrophysics

Speaker: Prof. Marialuisa Aliotta (University of Edinburgh)

Slides aliotta-icfa-2017.pptx aliotta-icfa-2017xpdf.pdf

16:35 Fundamental Symmetries with Rare Isotopes

Speaker: Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)

Slides EDM_17_Ottawa.pptx

17:15 → 18:15 Applications

Convener: Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (TRIUMF)

17:15 Big Data Overview

Speaker: Kathy Copic (Insight Data)

Slides KathyCopic_ICFA.pdf

17:45 Big Data, Science to Industry

Speaker: Dr Emanuel Strauss (Facebook)

Slides ICFA_2017_-_Emanuel_Strauss.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Reception

19:30 Remarks

Speaker: Julie Payette (Governor General of Canada)

Tuesday, 7 November

08:30 → 10:00 Quantum Chromodynamics

Convener: Halina Abramowicz (Tel Aviv University)

08:30 Trends in Lattice QCD

Speaker: William Detmold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides ICFA2017_Detmold_Lattice.pdf

08:50 Highlights in Heavy Ion Physics

Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

Slides ICFA17_Salur.pdf

09:15 Future of Deep Inelastic Scattering

Speaker: Tanja Horn (Catholic University of America)

Slides ICFA2017_Horn.pdf ICFA2017_Horn.pptx

09:40 Precision QCD Processes at the LHC

Speaker: Juan Rojo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/NIKHEF)

Slides rojo-ICFA-QCDLHC.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 Flavour Physics

Convener: Toshinori Mori (University of Tokyo)

10:30 Flavour Theory

Speaker: Dr Emi Kou (LAL-IN2P3)

Slides icfa2017_kou.pdf

11:00 Flavour and Precision at the LHC

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

Slides ICFA_2017.pdf

11:25 Status and Prospects for SuperKEKB and Belle II

Speaker: Prof. Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)

Slides ICFA2017_iijima_ver2.pdf

11:50 Dipole Moments and Lepton Flavour Violation

Speaker: Dr Wataru Ootani (ICEPP, Univ. of Tokyo)

Slides ICFASeminar_Ootani.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Cosmology

Convener: Natalie Roe (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

13:30 Cosmology Theory

Speaker: Prof. Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides ICFA-Trodden-upload.pdf

14:00 Dark Energy

Speaker: Prof. Ofer Lahav (University College London)

Slides Lahav_ICFA_7Nov2017B.pdf

14:30 Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)

Slides Staggs-ICFA-CMB-20171107.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 New Approaches

Convener: David MacFarlane (SLAC)

15:30 Advanced Accelerators

Speaker: Dr Arnd Specka (Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)

Slides 20171108-AdvAccTech-Specka-OUT2.pdf

16:00 Particle Physics with Table-Top Experiments

Speaker: Dr Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

Slides OttawaNov2017.pdf

16:30 Quantum Materials

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL/Berkeley)

Slides 17_ICFA_Zurek.pdf

17:15 → 18:15 Applications

Convener: Lia Merminga (SLAC)

17:15 Medical Isotopes

Speaker: Dr Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)

Slides 20171107_ICFA-Schaffer_TRIUMF_final.pdf

17:45 Photons for Life Science

Speaker: Zehra Sayers (Sabanci University)

Slides ICFA_2017_ZS1.pptx

18:30 → 21:30 LCB/ICFA (closed)

Wednesday, 8 November

08:30 → 10:00 Higgs and Electroweak

Convener: Heather Logan (Carleton University)

08:30 Higgs and Electroweak Theory

Speaker: Prof. Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)

Slides ICFA2017_Zanderighi.pdf

09:00 LHC Higgs

Speaker: Dr Heather Gray (LBNL)

Slides hgray_ICFA-2.pdf

09:30 LHC Electroweak

Speaker: Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University)

Slides ICFA-2017-MV.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:15 Energy Frontier

Convener: Kerstin Borras (DESY / RWTH Aachen University)

10:30 Theory in the LHC Era

Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Feng (University of California, Irvine)

Slides 1711icfa.pptx

11:00 LHC Searches for Supersymmetry

Speaker: Isabell Melzer-Pellmann (DESY)

Slides Ottawa_SUSY_Melzer-Pellmann.pdf

11:25 LHC Searches for Exotic Phenomena

Speaker: Prof. Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford)

Slides ICFA_Issever.pdf

11:50 Prospects for HL-LHC and HE-LHC

Speaker: Prof. Meenakshi Narain (Brown University)

Slides Narain_ICFA_Seminar_2017_Final.pdf

12:15 → 12:20 Group Photo

12:20 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 15:00 Future Accelerators

Convener: Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)

13:15 e+e- Theory at Higgs and Top Threshold

Speaker: Michael Peskin (SLAC/Stanford University)

Slides Physicsate+e-Colliders.pdf

13:35 pp Theory at 80-100 TeV

Speaker: Dr Gian Francesco Giudice (CERN)

Slides icfa.pdf

13:55 ILC Update

Speaker: Prof. Shinichiro MICHIZONO (KEK)

Slides IcfaILCupdate.pdf

14:15 CLIC Update

Speaker: Phil Burrows (University of Oxford)

Slides ICFA_seminar_Nov2017.ppt

14:30 CEPC/SPPC Update

Speaker: Qing Qin (IHEP)

Slides CEPC-SppC_update.pdf

14:45 FCC-ee/FCC-hh Update

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

Slides FCC_Update_Frank_Zimmermann_ICFA_Seminar_Ottawa_2017_-_16-9_-_final.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 New Technologies

Convener: Brigitte Cros (CNRS LPGP)

15:30 Superconducting RF

Speaker: Dr Anna Grassellino (Fermilab)

Slides ICFA17-grassellino.pptx

16:00 High Field Magnets

Speaker: Frederick Bordry (CERN)

Transparents Fk_Bordry__HFM__Seminar_ICFA_Ottawa-Canada__November_2017.pptx

16:30 Detector Developments

Speaker: Kiyotomo Kawagoe (Kyushu University)

Slides DetectorDevelopmentsICFA2017.pdf

17:15 → 18:15 Applications

Convener: Juan Fuster (IFIC-Valencia)

17:15 Accelerator Applications

Speaker: Prof. John Womersley (European Spallation Source ERIC)

Slides ICFA_2017.pdf

17:45 Detector++ Applications

Speaker: Dr Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Demarteau_ICFA_Seminar.pdf

19:30 → 21:30 Banquet

Thursday, 9 November

08:30 → 10:00 Keynote and Roundtable

Convener: Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)

08:30 Keynote

Speaker: Kate Young (Government of Canada - Parliamentary Secretary for Science)

09:00 Roundtable

Speakers: Fabiola Gianotti (Director General of CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland), Genevieve Tanguay (Vice-President of NRC - National Research Council, Canada), John Womersley (Director General of ESS - European Spallation Source, Sweden), Paul Wells (Senior Writer, Maclean’s magazine), Yamauchi Masanori (Director General of KEK - High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan), Zehra Sayers (Chair of Scientific Advisory Committee for SESAME - Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Jordan)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:15 Closing

Convener: Pushpalatha BHAT (Fermilab)

10:30 Communicator Summary

Speaker: Ian O'Neill (Science Communicator, Astroengine)

Slides communicatory_summary_icfa2017.pptx

11:15 Scientist Summary

Speaker: Geoffrey Taylor (University of Melbourne)

Slides ICFA_ScientistSummary_Taylor_v4.pdf

12:00 Closing

Speaker: Dr Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermilab)

Slides PB_ICFA_Seminar_Closing.pptx

13:00 → 17:00 FALC (closed)