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, November 6, 2017 (8:00 a.m.) to Thursday, November 9, 2017 (6:00 p.m.)

Monday, November 6, 2017
8:30 a.m. Opening
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Welcome to Canada - Andreas Warburton (McGill University/IPP)

8:35 a.m. Introduction - Joachim Mnich (DESY)

9:00 a.m. Americas Report - Nigel Lockyer (FERMILAB)

9:20 a.m. Asia Report - George Wei-Shu Hou (National Taiwan University)

9:40 a.m. Europe Report - Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and IIHE)
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. Neutrinos
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 p.m. Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Mass Scale - Kunio Inoue (Tohoku University)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. Dark Matter
1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

1:30 p.m. Dark Matter Theory - Tracy Slatyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2:00 p.m. WIMP Dark Matter - Jodi Cooley (SMU)

2:25 p.m. Axion Dark Matter - SungWoo Youn (IBS/CAPP)

2:50 p.m. Dark Photons - Natalia Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
3:45 p.m. Rare Isotopes
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

3:45 p.m. Advances in Nuclear Theory - Jason Holt (TRIUMF)

4:10 p.m. Nuclear Astrophysics - Marialuisa Aliotta (University of Edinburgh)

4:35 p.m. Fundamental Symmetries with Rare Isotopes - Zheng-Tian Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)
5:15 p.m. Applications
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

5:15 p.m. Big Data Overview - Kathy Copic (Insight Data)

5:45 p.m. Big Data, Science to Industry - Emanuel Strauss (Facebook)
7:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Room: Grand Hall
Contributions

7:30 p.m. Remarks - Julie Payette (Governor General of Canada)
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
8:30 a.m. Quantum Chromodynamics
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Trends in Lattice QCD - William Detmold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

8:50 a.m. Highlights in Heavy Ion Physics - Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

9:15 a.m. Future of Deep Inelastic Scattering - Tanja Horn (Catholic University of America)

9:40 a.m. Precision QCD Processes at the LHC - Juan Rojo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/NIKHEF)
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. Flavour Physics
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

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

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

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

11:50 a.m. Dipole Moments and Lepton Flavour Violation - Wataru Ootani (ICEPP, Univ. of Tokyo)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. Cosmology
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

1:30 p.m. Cosmology Theory - Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)

2:00 p.m. Dark Energy - Ofer Lahav (University College London)

2:30 p.m. Cosmic Microwave Background - Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m. New Approaches
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

3:30 p.m. Advanced Accelerators - Arnd Specka (Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)

4:00 p.m. Particle Physics with Table-Top Experiments - Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

4:30 p.m. Quantum Materials - Kathryn Zurek (LBNL/Berkeley)
5:15 p.m. Applications
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

5:15 p.m. Medical Isotopes - Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)

5:45 p.m. Photons for Life Science - Zehra Sayers (Sabanci University)
6:30 p.m. LCB/ICFA (closed)

6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Room: Le Salon
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
8:30 a.m. Higgs and Electroweak
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Higgs and Electroweak Theory - Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)

9:00 a.m. LHC Higgs - Heather Gray (LBNL)

9:30 a.m. LHC Electroweak - Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University)
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. Energy Frontier
10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

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

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

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

11:50 a.m. Prospects for HL-LHC and HE-LHC - Meenakshi Narain (Brown University)
12:15 p.m. Group Photo

12:15 p.m. - 12:20 p.m.

12:20 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:20 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
1:15 p.m. Future Accelerators
1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

1:15 p.m. e+e- Theory at Higgs and Top Threshold - Michael Peskin (SLAC/Stanford University)

1:35 p.m. pp Theory at 80-100 TeV - Gian Francesco Giudice (CERN)

1:55 p.m. ILC Update - Shinichiro MICHIZONO (KEK)

2:15 p.m. CLIC Update - Phil Burrows (University of Oxford)

2:30 p.m. CEPC/SPPC Update - Qing Qin (IHEP)

2:45 p.m. FCC-ee/FCC-hh Update - Frank Zimmermann (CERN)
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m. New Technologies
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

3:30 p.m. Superconducting RF - Anna Grassellino (Fermilab)

4:00 p.m. High Field Magnets - Frederick Bordry (CERN)

4:30 p.m. Detector Developments - Kiyotomo Kawagoe (Kyushu University)
5:15 p.m. Applications
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

5:15 p.m. Accelerator Applications - John Womersley (European Spallation Source ERIC)

5:45 p.m. Detector++ Applications - Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)
7:30 p.m. Banquet
Banquet
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Room: Adams Room
Thursday, November 9, 2017
8:30 a.m. Keynote and Roundtable
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Keynote - Kate Young (Government of Canada - Parliamentary Secretary for Science)

9:00 a.m. 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 a.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. Closing
10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Room: Room 206/208
Contributions

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

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

12:00 p.m. Closing - Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermilab)
1:00 p.m. FALC (closed)

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: Tudor Room

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