Name: 2017 ICFA Seminar
Start: 2017-11-06T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2017-11-09T18:00:00-06:00
Location: No location set

2017 ICFA Seminar

from Monday, 6 November 2017 (08:00) to Thursday, 9 November 2017 (18:00)

Monday, 6 November 2017
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

08:30 Welcome to Canada - Andreas Warburton (McGill University/IPP)

08:35 Introduction - Joachim Mnich (DESY)

09:00 Americas Report - Nigel Lockyer (FERMILAB)

09:20 Asia Report - George Wei-Shu Hou (National Taiwan University)

09:40 Europe Report - Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and IIHE)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

10:30 Neutrino Theory - Raymond Volkas (University of Melbourne)

11:00 Long Baseline Experiments - Federico Sanchez (IFAE/BIST)

11:30 Short Baseline Experiments - Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)

12:00 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Mass Scale - Kunio Inoue (Tohoku University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

13:30 Dark Matter Theory - Tracy Slatyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:00 WIMP Dark Matter - Jodi Cooley (SMU)

14:25 Axion Dark Matter - SungWoo Youn (IBS/CAPP)

14:50 Dark Photons - Natalia Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45
15:45 - 17:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

15:45 Advances in Nuclear Theory - Jason Holt (TRIUMF)

16:10 Nuclear Astrophysics - Marialuisa Aliotta (University of Edinburgh)

16:35 Fundamental Symmetries with Rare Isotopes - Zheng-Tian Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)
17:15
17:15 - 18:15
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

17:15 Big Data Overview - Kathy Copic (Insight Data)

17:45 Big Data, Science to Industry - Emanuel Strauss (Facebook)
19:00
19:00 - 21:00
Room: Grand Hall
Contributions

19:30 Remarks - Julie Payette (Governor General of Canada)
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

08:30 Trends in Lattice QCD - William Detmold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08:50 Highlights in Heavy Ion Physics - Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

09:15 Future of Deep Inelastic Scattering - Tanja Horn (Catholic University of America)

09:40 Precision QCD Processes at the LHC - Juan Rojo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/NIKHEF)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

10:30 Flavour Theory - Emi Kou (LAL-IN2P3)

11:00 Flavour and Precision at the LHC - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

11:25 Status and Prospects for SuperKEKB and Belle II - Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)

11:50 Dipole Moments and Lepton Flavour Violation - Wataru Ootani (ICEPP, Univ. of Tokyo)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

13:30 Cosmology Theory - Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)

14:00 Dark Energy - Ofer Lahav (University College London)

14:30 Cosmic Microwave Background - Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

15:30 Advanced Accelerators - Arnd Specka (Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)

16:00 Particle Physics with Table-Top Experiments - Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

16:30 Quantum Materials - Kathryn Zurek (LBNL/Berkeley)
17:15
17:15 - 18:15
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

17:15 Medical Isotopes - Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)

17:45 Photons for Life Science - Zehra Sayers (Sabanci University)
18:30

18:30 - 21:30
Room: Le Salon
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

08:30 Higgs and Electroweak Theory - Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)

09:00 LHC Higgs - Heather Gray (LBNL)

09:30 LHC Electroweak - Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:15
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

10:30 Theory in the LHC Era - Jonathan Feng (University of California, Irvine)

11:00 LHC Searches for Supersymmetry - Isabell Melzer-Pellmann (DESY)

11:25 LHC Searches for Exotic Phenomena - Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford)

11:50 Prospects for HL-LHC and HE-LHC - Meenakshi Narain (Brown University)
12:15

12:15 - 12:20

12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:15
13:15
13:15 - 15:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

13:15 e+e- Theory at Higgs and Top Threshold - Michael Peskin (SLAC/Stanford University)

13:35 pp Theory at 80-100 TeV - Gian Francesco Giudice (CERN)

13:55 ILC Update - Shinichiro MICHIZONO (KEK)

14:15 CLIC Update - Phil Burrows (University of Oxford)

14:30 CEPC/SPPC Update - Qing Qin (IHEP)

14:45 FCC-ee/FCC-hh Update - Frank Zimmermann (CERN)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

15:30 Superconducting RF - Anna Grassellino (Fermilab)

16:00 High Field Magnets - Frederick Bordry (CERN)

16:30 Detector Developments - Kiyotomo Kawagoe (Kyushu University)
17:15
17:15 - 18:15
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

17:15 Accelerator Applications - John Womersley (European Spallation Source ERIC)

17:45 Detector++ Applications - Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)
19:30 Banquet
Banquet
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Adams Room
Thursday, 9 November 2017
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

08:30 Keynote - Kate Young (Government of Canada - Parliamentary Secretary for Science)

09:00 Roundtable - 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 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:15
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

10:30 Communicator Summary - Ian O'Neill (Science Communicator, Astroengine)

11:15 Scientist Summary - Geoffrey Taylor (University of Melbourne)

12:00 Closing - Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermilab)
13:00

13:00 - 17:00
Room: Tudor Room