Name: CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics
Start: 2018-05-28T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2018-06-03T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center

CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

from Monday, May 28, 2018 (2:00 PM) to Sunday, June 3, 2018 (1:00 PM)

Monday, May 28, 2018

4:00 PM Open 16:00 – 20:00
Open 16:00 – 20:00
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: East Foyer
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

7:00 AM Open 07:00 – 18:00
Open 07:00 – 18:00
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: East Foyer
8:00 AM Opening | Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity | Special Topic
Opening | Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity | Special Topic
8:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

8:00 AM Opening - Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

8:05 AM New Results from the Dark Energy Survey and the South Pole Telescope - Eric Baxter (University of Pennsylvania)

8:40 AM Theories of Cosmic Acceleration - Austin Joyce (Columbia University)

9:15 AM Recent Developments in the Proton Radius Puzzle - Helene Fleurbaey (NIST)
9:50 AM Break
Break
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM Physics at High Energies | QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics
Physics at High Energies | QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics
10:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 AM Frontiers in Electroweak Symmetry Breaking - Sally Dawson (BNL)

10:45 AM Latest LHC Results - Petar Maksimovic (Johns Hopkins University)

11:20 AM Recent Progress in Hadron Spectroscopy Using Lattice QCD - Jozef Dudek (William & Mary / Jefferson Lab)

11:55 AM Recent Results from GlueX - Justin Stevens (William & Mary)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Parallel 1 — Dark Matter and Hadronic Systems
Parallel 1 — Dark Matter and Hadronic Systems
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Dark Matter Interpretation of the Neutron Decay Anomaly - Bartosz Fornal (University of California, San Diego)

2:20 PM Search for Dark Matter Decay of the Free Neutron from the UCNA Experiment: $n \to \chi+e^+e^-$ - Christopher Swank (Caltech)

2:40 PM Dark Decay of the Neutron - Jonathan Cornell (McGill University)

3:00 PM Composite Dark Matter - Enrico Rinaldi (RIKEN-BNL)

3:20 PM Sexaquark Dark Matter - Glennys Farrar (NYU)
Parallel 1 — Rare Decays
Parallel 1 — Rare Decays
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Rare Decays Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Gerco Onderwater (University of Groningen)

2:30 PM $B\to \pi\ell\ell$ and $B\to K\ell\ell$ Decay Form Factors from Lattice QCD - Yuzhi Liu (Indiana University Bloomington)

3:00 PM Search for LNV by the NA48 Experiment - Cristina Biino (INFN Torino)

3:20 PM Search for $K^+\to \pi^+ \nu\nu$ at CERN - Bob Velghe (TRIUMF)
Parallel 1 — Neutrino Mass and Astrophysical Neutrinos
Parallel 1 — Neutrino Mass and Astrophysical Neutrinos
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

2:00 PM The KATRIN Neutrino Mass Measurement: Experiment, Status, and Outlook - Gregg Franklin (Carnegie Mellon University)

2:20 PM Project 8: Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy, a New Technique in Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement - Ali Ashtari Esfahani (University of Washington)

2:40 PM Recent Borexino Measurements of Solar Neutrinos from the pp-Chains with Prospects for Detection of CNO Neutrinos - Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)

3:00 PM Solar and Supernova Neutrino Detection in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment - Erin Conley (Duke University)

3:20 PM The Myriad Wonders and Challenges of Gd-Loading in WC Detectors - Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU/UC Irvine)
Parallel 1 — Neutron-Rich Matter and the EOS
Parallel 1 — Neutron-Rich Matter and the EOS
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Laboratory Probes of the Neutron-Matter Equation of State - Betty Tsang (Michigan State University)

2:20 PM Overview of Experimental Data on the Neutron-Matter Equation of State and the Neutron Skins of $^{48}$Ca and $^{208}$Pb - Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:40 PM Neutron Skins and Neutron Star Properties - Farrooh Fattoyev (Indiana University)

3:00 PM Nuclear-Matter Equation of State from Chiral Effective Field Theory - Christian Drischler (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

3:20 PM Constraining Ab Initio Models and the Nuclear Force with Rare Isotopes - Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University)
Parallel 1 — Neutrino Astrophysics
Parallel 1 — Neutrino Astrophysics
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Astrophysical Neutrinos from IceCube - Spencer Klein

2:20 PM Results from ANITA - Cosmin Deaconu (UChicago / KICP)

2:40 PM Precision Constraints on Nuclear and Neutrino Reactions via Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Mark Paris (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

3:00 PM Neutrinos from Beta Processes in Presupernovae - Kelly Patton (University of Washington/Institute for Nuclear Theory)

3:20 PM Multi-Angle Simulations of Matter-Neutrino Resonance - Alexey Vlasenko (North Carolina State University)
Parallel 1 — Standard Model Tests | Theory
Parallel 1 — Standard Model Tests | Theory
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Studying the Electroweak Sector with the ATLAS Detector - Margherita Spalla (Max Planck Institute for Physics - Munich)

2:30 PM Recent Developments in Higgs Physics Precision Calculations - Tobias Neumann (Illinois Tech / Fermilab)

2:55 PM Neutrino Masses from a Pseudo-Dirac Bino and Its LHC Implications - Seyda Ipek (UC Irvine)

3:20 PM Modification of Higgs Pair Production at the LHC - Aniket Joglekar (UC Riverside)
3:40 PM Break
Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Parallel 2 — Axions and Light Mass Dark Matter
Parallel 2 — Axions and Light Mass Dark Matter
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Experimental Signatures of Ultra-Light Dark Matter - Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)

4:30 PM Recent Results from the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab)

4:50 PM Status and Future Plans for the HAYSTAC Experiment - Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)

5:10 PM DM Radio: An Optimized Resonant Search for Axion and Hidden-Photon Dark Matter - Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Stanford University)

5:30 PM ABRACADABRA: A New Approach to the Search for Axion Dark Matter - Jonathan Ouellet

5:50 PM Probing Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium - Daniel McKinsey

6:10 PM The Light Dark Matter eXperiment - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Parallel 2 — LFU/CLF Violation
Parallel 2 — LFU/CLF Violation
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

4:10 PM The MEG Experiment: Run I Final Results and Preparation for Run II - Terence Libeiro (UCI)

4:40 PM The Mu2e Experiment - Tomonari Miyashita (Caltech)

5:10 PM PEN Experiment: a Precise Test of Lepton Universality - Dinko Pocanic (University of Virginia)

5:30 PM Improved Search for Heavy Neutrinos and a Test of Lepton Universality in the Decay $\pi \to e \nu$ - Richard Mischke (TRIUMF)

5:50 PM RD and RD*: Theoretical Developments - Ryotaro Watanabe (University of Montreal)

6:10 PM Diagnosing New Physics with Lepton Universality Violation and Lepton Flavor Violation - Alakabha datta (University of Mississippi)
Parallel 2 — Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Parallel 2 — Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

4:10 PM First $0\nu\beta\beta$ Decay Search Results from CUORE and Status of CUPID R&D - Bradford Welliver (LBNL)

4:40 PM Status and Initial Results of the Majorana Demonstrator - Wenqin Xu (University of South Dakota)

5:10 PM LEGEND: The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay - Jordan Myslik (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:30 PM Deep Neural Networks for Energy and Position Reconstruction in EXO-200 - Manuel Weber (Stanford University)

5:50 PM Status and Future for the NEXT Collaboration in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Sereres Johnston (Argonne National Laboratory)

6:10 PM Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with SNO+ - Vincent Fischer (UC Davis)
Parallel 2 — Higgs Physics
Parallel 2 — Higgs Physics
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Measurements and Searches of Higgs Boson Decays to Two Fermions - Tatsuya MASUBUCHI (The University of Tokyo, International Center for Elementary Particle Physics)

4:30 PM Evidence for Higgs Boson Production in Association with a $t\bar{t}$ Pair - Jannik Geisen (II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen)

4:55 PM Measurement of Cross Sections and Properties of the Higgs Boson in Decays to Bosons Using the ATLAS Detector - Lucrezia Stella Bruni (NIKHEF)

5:20 PM Searches for Rare and Non-Standard Model Decays of the Higgs Boson - Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham)

5:45 PM Precision Measurements with Di-Bosons at the LHC - Da Liu (Argonne National Laboratory)

6:10 PM Heavy Higgs Search in the Models with Vectorlike Fermions - Seodong Shin (University of Chicago / Yonsei University)
Parallel 2 — Heavy Spectroscopy
Parallel 2 — Heavy Spectroscopy
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Model Independent Constraints on $R(J/\psi)$ - Henry Lamm (University of Maryland)

4:30 PM Implication of Chiral Symmetry on the Heavy-Light Spectroscopy - Meng-Lin DU (Helmholtz-Institut f\"ur Strahlen- und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universit\"at Bonn)

5:00 PM Precise Measurement of the $D^\star(2010)^+ - D^+$ Mass Difference - Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)

5:20 PM Dibaryon Searches in Decuplet Baryons from Lattice QCD - Shinya Gongyo (RIKEN Nishina Center, RIKEN)

5:50 PM Single-Top Production in the Standard Model and Beyond - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

6:10 PM Measurement of Polarization Observables in the Reaction $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda$ - Shankar Adhikari (Florida International University)
Parallel 2 — Nucleon and Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments
Parallel 2 — Nucleon and Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

4:10 PM EDMs: Theory Overview - Emanuele Mereghetti (LANL)

4:30 PM Worldwide Search for a Neutron EDM - brad filippone (caltech)

4:50 PM Towards TUCAN’s Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment - Wolfgang Schreyer (TRIUMF)

5:10 PM Status of the Storage Ring Proton EDM Experiment - Selcuk Haciomeroglu (Institute for Basic Science, Korea)

5:30 PM The Radium-225 Experiment - Matthew Dietrich (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:50 PM Progress on the Nucleon EDM in Lattice QCD - Sergey Syritsyn (Stony Brook University)

6:10 PM Search for Time Reversal Invariance Violation in Resonances of Compound Nuclei Accessible Using Epithermal Neutrons - Libertad Barrón-Palos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
6:30 PM RECEPTION
RECEPTION
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

7:30 AM Open 07:30 – 17:30
Open 07:30 – 17:30
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: East Foyer
8:00 AM Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix | Special Topic
Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix | Special Topic
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

8:00 AM Lepton Universality Violation - Gerco Onderwater (University of Groningen)

8:35 AM Experimental Status of $V_{ub}/V_{cb}$ and the CKM Angle $\gamma$ - Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)

9:10 AM Measurement of the Weak Charge of the Proton by the Qweak Collaboration - Kent Paschke (University of Virginia)
9:45 AM Break
Break
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM Precision Physics at High Intensities | Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction
Precision Physics at High Intensities | Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction
10:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 AM Electromagnetic Properties of Antihydrogen and the Antiproton: Recent Results from ALPHA and BASE - Daniel Maxwell (Swansea University)

10:45 AM Symmetries and Interactions from Lattice QCD - Amy Nicholson (UNC Chapel Hill)

11:20 AM NPDGamma: The Final Chapter - Nadia Fomin (University of Tennessee)

11:55 AM Standard Model Tests in Neutron and Nuclear Beta Decay - Martin Gonzalez-Alonso (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Parallel 3 — The Early Universe
Parallel 3 — The Early Universe
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Inflation Ends, What is Next? - Mustafa Amin (Rice University)

2:20 PM Using Microhalos to Probe the Universe's First Second - Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

2:40 PM Cosmology with a Helical Flavor - Mohamed Anber (Lewis & Clark College)

3:00 PM Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Interactions - Vera Gluscevic (Institute for Advanced Study)

3:20 PM Self-Interacting Dark Matter and Diverse Galactic Rotation Curves - Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Riverside)
Parallel 3 — Accelerator Searches for Dark Matter
Parallel 3 — Accelerator Searches for Dark Matter
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Dark Matter Searches with the ATLAS Detector - Young-Kee Kim (Chicago University)

2:30 PM Mono-X Searches for Dark Matter with the CMS Detector - Siddharth Narayanan (MIT)

3:00 PM Searches for Dark Matter Mediators with the ATLAS Detector - Peter McNamara (The University of Melbourne)

3:20 PM Searches for Dark Matter Mediators with the CMS Detector - Javier Duarte (Fermilab)
Parallel 3 — Belle / Belle II and the CKM Matrix
Parallel 3 — Belle / Belle II and the CKM Matrix
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction to the CKM Matrix - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)

2:30 PM Combined Measurement of the CP Violating Angle $\beta$ by the BaBar and Belle Experiments - Tomonari Miyashita (Caltech)

3:00 PM Determination of $V_{ub}$ and $V_{cb}$ - Matic Lubej (Jozef Stefan Institute)

3:20 PM First Collisions at Belle II - Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)
Parallel 3 — Reactor Neutrinos
Parallel 3 — Reactor Neutrinos
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Reactor Neutrino Oscillation at Daya Bay - Matthew Kramer

2:30 PM Latest Results of the Double Chooz Experiment - Philipp Soldin (RWTH Aachen University Germany)

3:00 PM PROSPECT: a Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum Short-Baseline Antineutrino Experiment - Bryce Littlejohn (IIT)

3:20 PM Accelerator and Reactor Complementarity in Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering - Jayden Newstead (Arizona State University)
Parallel 3 — Nuclear Astrophysics
Parallel 3 — Nuclear Astrophysics
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Stellar Explosions in the Lab: Measurements of Key Nuclear Reactions Driving Nucleosynthesis - Greg Christian (Texas A&M University)

2:20 PM Nuclear Astrophysics Underground: Status & Future - Frank Strieder (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)

2:40 PM Improving Astrophysical Nuclear Rates with New Many-Body and Fewer-Body Reaction Models - Kenneth Nollett (San Diego State University)

3:00 PM Probing Explosive Nucleosynthesis with TwinSol Measurements - Dan Bardayan (University of Notre Dame)

3:20 PM Sensitivity Study for the $^{12}$C($\alpha,\gamma$)$^{16}$O Astrophysical Reaction Rate - Roy Holt (California Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory)
Parallel 3 — g-2
Parallel 3 — g-2
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

2:00 PM The Commissioning Run Update of the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab - Ran Hong (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:20 PM Hadronic Contributions to Muon g-2 and Spin Structure Functions - Vladimir Pascalutsa (University of Mainz)

2:40 PM Dispersive Analysis of Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering and the Muon's (g-2) - Marc Vanderhaeghen (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

3:00 PM Hadronic Matrix Elements for Muon g–2 in Lattice QCD - Aaron Meyer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

3:20 PM Measurement of Hadronic Cross Sections at BESIII - Christoph Florian Redmer (Institute for Nuclear Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
3:40 PM Break
Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Parallel 4 — 21 cm Cosmology | LIGO
Parallel 4 — 21 cm Cosmology | LIGO
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Searching for Dark Matter at the Cosmic Dawn - Julian Munoz (Harvard University)

4:30 PM A Particle Physicist's Perspective on the EDGES Anomaly - Samuel McDermott (FNAL)

4:50 PM Realizing the Promise of 21 cm Cosmology with HERA - Josh Dillon (UC Berkeley)

5:10 PM 21 cm Dark Energy Cosmology with CHIME - Laura Newburgh (Yale University)

5:30 PM Gravitational-Wave Transient Astronomy on the Rise - Chris Pankow (Northwestern University)

5:50 PM Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter? - Simeon Bird (UCR)

6:10 PM The Cosmic Origin of the Heavy Elements: Implications from the Neutron Star Merger GW170817 - Daniel Siegel (Columbia University)
Parallel 4 — Dark Photons
Parallel 4 — Dark Photons
4:10 PM - 6:50 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

4:10 PM Hidden Sectors and Dark Photons - Stefania Gori (University of Cincinnati)

4:30 PM Searches for Hidden Sectors with BABAR - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)

4:50 PM Direct Search for Dark Photons and Dark Higgs with the SeaQuest Spectrometer at Fermilab - Sho Uemura (LANL)

5:10 PM The Beam Dump eXperiment - Mariangela Bondi' (INFN - Sez. Catania)

5:30 PM Search for Light Dark Matter with the MESA Accelerator - Luca Doria (University of Mainz)

5:50 PM Searching for New Forces with Dark Light - Ross Corliss (MIT)

6:10 PM Resonance Search for a Heavy Photon with the Heavy Photon Search Experiment - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

6:30 PM The APEX Experiment at Jefferson Lab: A Search for a New Vector Boson - Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)
Parallel 4 — Higher Energy Neutrinos
Parallel 4 — Higher Energy Neutrinos
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Recent Long-Baseline Neutrino Mixing Results from NOvA - Kirk Bays (California Institute of Technology)

4:40 PM Neutrino Oscillation Results from the T2K Experiment - Cristovao Vilela (Stony Brook University)

5:10 PM The Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program at Fermilab - Jyoti Joshi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:30 PM Characterizing Single-Phase LArTPC Detector Performance with MicroBooNE - Christopher Barnes (University of Michigan)

5:50 PM Event Reconstruction Techniques for ANNIE Phase II - Jingbo Wang (UC Davis)

6:10 PM Theia: A Multi-Purpose Water-Based Liquid Scintillator Detector - Vincent Fischer (UC Davis)
Parallel 4 — Color Transparency | EMC Effect | Coulomb Sum Rule
Parallel 4 — Color Transparency | EMC Effect | Coulomb Sum Rule
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Understanding the EMC Effect Through Tagged Processes with ALERT - Whitney Armstrong (Argonne National Lab)

4:40 PM Update on the Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Experiments - Axel Schmidt (MIT)

5:10 PM New Measurements of the EMC Effect in Hall-C at Jefferson Lab - Eric Pooser (Jefferson Lab)

5:35 PM The Search for the Onset of Color Transparency - Dipangkar Dutta (Mississippi State University)

6:00 PM The Search for the Color Transparency in Hall C at Jefferson Lab - Holly Szumila-Vance (Jefferson Lab)
Parallel 4 — Nuclear PDFs and Heavy Ion Physics
Parallel 4 — Nuclear PDFs and Heavy Ion Physics
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Recent Progress in Nuclear Parton Distributions - Maria Zurita (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

4:40 PM Nuclear PDF, Small $x$ Physics Results at RHIC - Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Lab)

5:10 PM Cold-QCD Physics of the STAR Forward Upgrade - James Drachenberg (Lamar University)

5:40 PM EIC at Small-$x$: Connections to p+p/A & A+A Physics at RHIC & LHC - Prithwish Tribedy (Brookhaven National Lab)

6:10 PM Hadron in Jet Fragmentation - Felix Ringer
Parallel 4 — Physics Beyond the Standard Model I
Parallel 4 — Physics Beyond the Standard Model I
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Search for Di-Higgs Production - Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University)

4:30 PM Searches for Non-Standard Model Higgs Bosons - Ana Elena Dumitriu (IFIN,CPPM)

4:50 PM Highlights from SUSY Searches with the CMS Detector - James Hirschauer (FNAL)

5:10 PM Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Third-Generation Quarks - Siyuan Sun (University of Michigan)

5:30 PM ATLAS Searches for Diboson Resonances - Ines Ochoa (Columbia University)

5:50 PM Mining the LHC Data for Anomalies - Angelo Monteux (UC Irvine)

6:10 PM Theoretical Results for Charged-Higgs Production - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)
Parallel 4 — Beta Decays
Parallel 4 — Beta Decays
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Using a Magneto-Gravitational Trap - Nathan Callahan (Indiana Univeristy)

4:30 PM Measurement of the Electron-Antineutrino Correlation in Neutron Beta Decay: aCORN Experiment - Fred Wietfeldt (Tulane University)

4:50 PM New Results from the UCNA Experiment - Eric Dees (NCSU)

5:10 PM Beta Decay Asymmetry Measurements with Trapped Atoms - Dan Melconian (Texas A&M University)

5:30 PM Nuclear Beta Decays and CKM Unitarity - John C. Hardy (Texas A&M University)

5:50 PM Recent Status of Weak-Interaction Tests via Precision Superallowed Beta-Decay Measurements at TRIUMF - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)

6:10 PM New Evaluation of the $\gamma W$-box Correction to $0^+-0^+$ Nuclear $\beta$-Decay and $V_{ud}$ Extraction - Mikhail Gorshteyn (Mainz University)
Thursday, May 31, 2018

7:30 AM Open 07:30 – 17:30
Open 07:30 – 17:30
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: East Foyer
8:00 AM Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions | Special Topic
Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions | Special Topic
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

8:00 AM Recent Results on Heavy Flavor Production in High Energy Nuclear Collisions - Xin Dong

8:35 AM Status of Searches for Chiral Magnetic Effects in Nuclear Collisions - Wei Li (Rice University)

9:10 AM Physics with an Electron-Ion Collider - Ernst Sichtermann
9:45 AM Break
Break
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM Dark Matter | Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
Dark Matter | Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
10:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 AM Recent Results from Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments - Kaixuan Ni (UC San Diego)

10:45 AM New Directions in the Search for Light and Ultralight Dark Matter - Tongyan Lin (UCSD)

11:20 AM Coherent Scattering and the Flavor Physics and Detection of Supernova Neutrinos - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

11:55 AM IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole - Francis Halzen (WIPAC, UW-Madison)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Parallel 5 — Light Mass Dark Matter
Parallel 5 — Light Mass Dark Matter
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Supernova 1987A Constraints on Sub-GeV Particles - Samuel McDermott (FNAL)

2:20 PM Initial Dark Matter Results from the SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detectors - Francisco Ponce (Stanford University)

2:40 PM Status and Prospects of CDEX-10 - qian Yue (Tsinghua University)

3:00 PM SENSEI Experiment for Direct Search of Light Dark Matter - Guillermo Fernandez Moroni (Fermilab)

3:20 PM keV Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter and the 3.5 keV Line - Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine)
Parallel 5 — Double Beta Decay with Final-State Detection | Low-Energy Neutrino Scattering
Parallel 5 — Double Beta Decay with Final-State Detection | Low-Energy Neutrino Scattering
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

2:00 PM Status of the nEXO Experiment - Shuoxing Wu (Stanford University)

2:20 PM Demonstration of Single Barium Ion Sensitivity for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Using Single Molecule Fluorescent Imaging - David Nygren (University of Texas at Arlington) David Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2:40 PM Overview of Decay-At-Rest Neutrino Sources - Daniel Winklehner (MIT)

3:00 PM CEvNS Observation at the SNS with the COHERENT Experiment - Ivan Tolstukhin (Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA)

3:20 PM Recent MiniBooNE Results: First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions and a Search for Vector Portal Dark Matter - Rory Fitzpatrick (University of Michigan)
Parallel 5 — Short-Range Correlations
Parallel 5 — Short-Range Correlations
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

2:00 PM New Studies of the EMC Effect and Short-Range Correlations - Or Hen (MIT)

2:25 PM Isospin Dependence of the EMC Effect and Nucleon Short-Range Correlations - Barak Schmookler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2:50 PM Short-Range Correlations - Zhihong Ye (Argonne National Lab)

3:15 PM New Results on Three-Nucleon Short Range Correlations - Misak Sargsian (Florida International University)
Parallel 5 — Parton Helicities and the Spin Sum Rule
Parallel 5 — Parton Helicities and the Spin Sum Rule
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Glue Spin from Lattice QCD - Keh-Fei Liu (University of Kentucky)

2:30 PM Overview of Longitudinal Spin Physics Results from RHIC - Ming Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

3:00 PM Nucleon Spin Structure Measurements at JLab - Alexandre Deur (Jefferson Lab)

3:20 PM Hadron Multiplicity and Fragmentation in SIDIS - Nicolas PIERRE (CEA Saclay)
Parallel 5 — Physics Beyond the Standard Model II
Parallel 5 — Physics Beyond the Standard Model II
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Searches for New Phenomena in Leptonic Final States Using the ATLAS Detector - Sebastien Rettie (The University of British Columbia)

2:30 PM Searches for BSM Physics with the CMS Detector - Sunil Somalwar (Rutgers University/Dept of Physics)

3:00 PM EFT for Higgs Physics - Chris Murphy (Brookhaven)

3:20 PM Probing Hidden Sectors at the LHC - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)
Parallel 5 — γ–γ | Form Factors at High q²
Parallel 5 — γ–γ | Form Factors at High q²
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Two-Photon Effects in Elastic Nucleon Form Factors - Marc Vanderhaeghen (University Mainz)

2:40 PM High $Q^2$ Elastic Form Factor Program at Jefferson Lab - Andrew Puckett (University of Connecticut)

3:10 PM Proton Polarizabilities from a Partial-Wave Analysis of Compton Scattering Data / Sum Rules Connecting Real and Virtual Compton Scattering on the Nucleon - Vladimir Pascalutsa (University of Mainz)
Parallel 5 — Small Systems and the Limits of the Quark Gluon Plasma
Parallel 5 — Small Systems and the Limits of the Quark Gluon Plasma
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Influence of the QCD Equation of State by System Size - Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (Rutgers University)

2:20 PM CMS Results on Small Systems - Zhenyu Chen (Rice University)

2:40 PM PHENIX Results on Collectivity in Small Systems - Sylvia Morrow (Vanderbilt University)

3:00 PM Signatures of Hydrodynamic Behavior in Small Collision Systems - Giuliano Giacalone (IPhT Saclay)

3:20 PM Current Status of Hydrodynamic Modeling from $p$+$p$ to Heavy Ions - Ryan Weller (MIT)
3:40 PM Break
Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Parallel 6 — Cosmological Surveys
Parallel 6 — Cosmological Surveys
4:10 PM - 6:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Recent Results from the Dark Energy Survey - Eric Baxter (University of Pennsylvania)

4:40 PM The eBOSS Survey: Recent Results and Prospects - Anand Raichoor (EPFL)

5:10 PM Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope - Simone Aiola (Princeton University)

5:40 PM BICEP/Keck: Constraining the Primordial Gravitational-Wave Signal with CMB Polarization Observations from the South Pole - Lorenzo Moncelsi (California Institute of Technology)

6:10 PM The Simons Observatory and CMB-Stage IV - Nicholas Galitzki (University of California, San Diego)
Parallel 6 — High Mass Dark Matter
Parallel 6 — High Mass Dark Matter
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Searching for Ultra-Heavy Dark Matter - Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)

4:30 PM Darkside Status and Prospects - Luca Pagani (UC Davis)

4:50 PM Results and Plans for the PICO Dark Matter Bubble Chamber - Anthony Noble (Queens University)

5:10 PM The Latest Analyses of the LUX Dark Matter Project - Matthew Szydagis (U Albany)

5:30 PM LUX Sensitivity to Effective Field Theory Interactions - Nicole Larsen (University of Chicago / Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)

5:50 PM Position Reconstruction Using Photon Timing for the DEAP-3600 Liquid Argon Dark Matter Experiment - Yu Chen (University of Alberta)

6:10 PM COSINE-100 and Tests of DAMA - Reina Maruyama (Yale University)
Parallel 6 — LBNE | Neutrino Cross Sections
Parallel 6 — LBNE | Neutrino Cross Sections
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Overview of DUNE - Jianming Bian (UC Irvine)

4:40 PM Measurements of Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering from 0.1–10 GeV - Christopher Marshall

5:10 PM The CAPTAIN Program: Status and Plans - Christopher Mauger (University of Pennsylvania)

5:30 PM Neutrino Scattering Studies in MicroBooNE - Vassili Papavassiliou (New Mexico State University)

5:50 PM Hadron Production Measurements for Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments with NA61/SHINE - Yoshikazu Nagai (University of Colorado Boulder)

6:10 PM Isolating Neutrino Cross Section Uncertainties with Theory - Aaron Meyer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Parallel 6 — Nucleon/Nuclear Structure and Fundamental Symmetries
Parallel 6 — Nucleon/Nuclear Structure and Fundamental Symmetries
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

4:10 PM The Nucleon Axial Coupling from Quantum Chromodynamics - Chia Cheng Chang (LBL)

4:40 PM The Nucleon Axial Form Factor from Quantum Chromodynamics - Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)

5:10 PM Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Chiral Effective Field Theory - Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

5:30 PM Current Status of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Matrix Elements - Javier Menendez (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo)

5:50 PM Overview of Nuclear Beta Decay Tests of Fundamental Symmetries - Alejandro Garcia (University of Washington)

6:10 PM Multi-Wire 3D Gas Tracker for Searching New Physics in Nuclear Beta Decay - Dagmara Rozpedzik (Jagiellonian University)
Parallel 6 — Symmetry Tests
Parallel 6 — Symmetry Tests
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

4:10 PM Precision Atomic Tests of Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Holger Mueller

4:40 PM Muon g-2 Experiments at FNAL and J-PARC - Joseph Price (University of Liverpool)

5:10 PM New Results on Low-Energy Exclusive Hadronic Cross Sections from BaBar and Implications for g-2 of the Muon - Bill GARY (University of California, Riverside)

5:30 PM Baryogenesis via Particle–Antiparticle Oscillations - Seyda Ipek (University of California Irvine)

5:50 PM Search for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory - Marc Bergevin (LLNL)

6:10 PM Neutron-Antineutron Conversion to Search for B-L Violation - Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)
Parallel 6 — Particle Astrophysics
Parallel 6 — Particle Astrophysics
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Latest Results from the AMS Experiment on the International Space Station - francesca giovacchini (ciemat)

4:40 PM New Results and Update on Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays - Glennys Farrar (NYU)

5:10 PM Recent Highlights from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory - Andrea Albert (SLAC)

5:30 PM IceCube/DeepCore Results on Neutrino Properties Using Atmospheric Neutrinos - Feifei Huang (The Pennsylvania State University)

5:50 PM Recent Status and Future Plans for the China JinPing Underground Laboratory - Qian Yue (Tsinghua University)

6:10 PM NuSTAR and Super-Eddington Accretion onto Neutron Stars - Murray Brightman (Caltech)
Parallel 6 — Heavy Ions at the LHC
Parallel 6 — Heavy Ions at the LHC
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Overview of Recent Results from the ATLAS Experiment - Brian Cole (Columbia University)

4:40 PM Overview of Recent Heavy Ion Results from the CMS Experiment - Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez (UC Davis)

5:10 PM ALICE Upgrades for Run3 and Physics Projections - Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (University of Jyvaskyla)

5:30 PM Parton Shower Modification Studied with Jet Substructure in ALICE - Davide Caffarri (NIKHEF - Amsterdam)

5:50 PM $b$-Jet Tagging Performance with ALICE - Barbara Trzeciak (Utrecht Univeristy)

6:10 PM The Application of Deep Learning to Event-by-Event Simulations of Relativistic Hydrodynamics - LongGang Pang (UC Berkeley and LBNL)
Friday, June 1, 2018

8:00 AM EXCURSION
EXCURSION
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Open 13:30 – 17:30
Open 13:30 – 17:30
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: East Foyer
2:00 PM Parallel 7 — Dark Matter in Astrophysics
Parallel 7 — Dark Matter in Astrophysics
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Dark Matter Interpretation of the Galactic Center Gamma Ray Excess - Ryan Keeley (University of California Irvine)

2:30 PM GAPS: a New Cosmic-Ray Antimatter Experiment - Sean Quinn (University of California, Los Angeles)

3:00 PM Cosmological Bounds on Non-Abelian Dark Forces - Lindsay Forestell (TRIUMF, UBC)

3:20 PM Signatures of Superradiant Axions from Lasing and Binary Merger Events - Srimoyee Sen (University of Washington)
Parallel 7 — Lattice QCD | Mixing | Decays
Parallel 7 — Lattice QCD | Mixing | Decays
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Short-Distance Matrix Elements for $D^0$-Meson Mixing from $N_f=2+1$ Lattice QCD - Chia Cheng Chang (LBL)

2:30 PM $B$ and $D$ Meson Leptonic Decay Constants and Quark Masses from Four-Flavor Lattice QCD - Carleton DeTar (University of Utah)

3:00 PM Semileptonic $B_s$ Decays - Oliver Witzel (University of Colorado Boulder)

3:20 PM Unify the SU(3) Topological Diagram and Irreducible Representation Amplitudes for B Decays - XIAO-GANG HE (NTU/SJTU)
Parallel 7 — The QCD–Nuclear Structure Interface
Parallel 7 — The QCD–Nuclear Structure Interface
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Status of Baryon-Baryon Interactions from Lattice QCD - Silas Beane (University of Washington)

2:30 PM HOBET: The SM as an Effective Theory and its Direct Matching to LQCD - Kenneth McElvain

3:00 PM Effective-Field-Theory Extrapolations of Lattice-QCD Predictions for Light Nuclei - Johannes Kirscher (The City College of New York)

3:20 PM New Developments in Lattice Effective Field Theory - Dean Lee (Michigan State University)
Parallel 7 — Unpolarized PDFs
Parallel 7 — Unpolarized PDFs
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Unpolarised Parton Distribution Functions Today: Needs, Achievements and Challenges - Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics)

2:30 PM Parton Distribution Functions with Intrinsic Charm and Other News from CTEQ - Marco Guzzi (Kennesaw State University)

2:50 PM Probing the Nucleon and Nucleus Structures with Drell-Yan Process Induced by a 120 GeV/c Proton Beam - Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)

3:10 PM Electroweak, Jet and Heavy Flavor Probes in Proton-Lead Collisions at the LHC - Soumya Mohapatra (Columbia University)
Parallel 7 — Muons and Electrons
Parallel 7 — Muons and Electrons
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Probing BSM and High-$x$ Physics with SoLID at JLab - Paul Souder (Syracuse University)

2:20 PM Physics with Electroweak Probes at the Electron-Ion Collider - Nils Feege (Stony Brook University)

2:40 PM Latest Updates from the AlCap Experiment - Andrew Edmonds

3:00 PM Muon Capture as a Probe of the Weak Axial Current - Peter Kammel (CENPA, UW Seattle)

3:20 PM Antimatter Gravity with Muonium - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Parallel 7 — Weak Parameters
Parallel 7 — Weak Parameters
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Review of the First $W$ Boson Mass Measurement with the ATLAS Detector - Fabrice Balli (CEA Saclay)

2:20 PM The Weak Charge: From Atoms to the Z-Pole - Mikhail Gorshteyn (University of Mainz)

2:40 PM Prospects for New Atomic Parity Violation Experiments - Gerald Gwinner (University of Manitoba)

3:00 PM Parity Violating Electron Scattering Experiments for an Ultra Precise Determination of the Weak Mixing Angle at Low Energies - Frank Maas (Helmholtz Institute Mainz)

3:20 PM High Precision Extraction of $A_{FB}$ at the LHC - Arie Bodek (University of Rochester)
3:40 PM Break
Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Parallel 8 — Neutrinos and Symmetries
Parallel 8 — Neutrinos and Symmetries
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Sterile Neutrinos in the Early Universe - George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)

4:35 PM Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

5:00 PM Detecting CP Violation in the Presence of Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions - Jeffrey Hyde (Goucher College)

5:25 PM Neutrino Oscillations and Supernova Nucleosynthesis - Akif Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

5:50 PM Collective Neutrino Oscillations in the Presence of Collisions - Shashank Shalgar (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

6:10 PM Neutrino Flavor Transformation and the Cosmic Lepton Asymmetry - Luke Johns (UC San Diego)
Parallel 8 — Ab Initio Forces, Models, and Nuclei at Weak Binding
Parallel 8 — Ab Initio Forces, Models, and Nuclei at Weak Binding
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Current Status of Nuclear Forces from Chiral EFT - Evgeny Epelbaum (Ruhr-University Bochum)

4:40 PM Microscopic Shell Model Interactions and Effective Operators - Scott Bogner (Michigan State University)

5:10 PM Experimental Tests of Ab Initio Calculations of Nuclear Structure - Alan Wuosmaa (University of Connecticut)

5:30 PM Current Status of Very-Large-Basis Hamiltonian Diagonalizations for Nuclear Physics - Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University)

5:50 PM Prospects for ab-initio Calculations of Nuclei with Quantum Computing - Eugene Dumitrescu (ORNL)

6:10 PM Weakly Bound Neutron-Rich Nuclei and Cosmic Phenomena - Ushasi Datta (Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics)
Parallel 8 — Neutron Stars
Parallel 8 — Neutron Stars
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Sites of the r-process: supernovae and mergers: Recent Successes and Current Issues - Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

4:40 PM Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 - Benjamin Lackey (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

5:10 PM Numerical Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers - Francois Foucart (University of New Hampshire)

5:30 PM Applications of Chiral Forces to Nuclear Matter and Neutron Stars - Christian Drischler (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:50 PM Studying Lanthanide Production in r-Process Nucleosynthesis - Nicole Vassh (University of Notre Dame)

6:10 PM R-Process Experiments with Unstable Isotope Beams - Alfredo Estrade (Central Michigan University)
Parallel 8 — Transverse Spin Structure and Fragmentation
Parallel 8 — Transverse Spin Structure and Fragmentation
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

4:10 PM TMDs - Transverse Connections Between Nuclear and Particle Physics - Andrea Signori (Jefferson Lab)

4:40 PM Transverse Spin Related Measurements at RHIC - Oleg Eyser (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:10 PM Transverse Momentum Distributions: Recent News from HERMES and COMPASS - Bjoern Seitz (University of Glasgow)

5:30 PM First Extraction of Transversity from Data on Lepton-Hadron Scattering and Hadronic Collisions - Marco Radici (INFN - Sezione di Pavia)

5:50 PM Light Quark Fragmentation Studies at the B-Factories - Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)

6:10 PM Achievements and Open Issues in the Determination of Fragmentation Functions - Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Parallel 8 — Light Spectroscopy | Perturbative QCD
Parallel 8 — Light Spectroscopy | Perturbative QCD
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Analysis of $\eta\pi^0$ and $\eta^{^{_/}}\pi^0$ Systems at GlueX - Alexander Austregesilo (Jefferson Lab)

4:40 PM Toward Precise Determination of Resonant Hadron Scattering Amplitudes from Lattice QCD - John Bulava (CP3-Origins, U. of Southern Denmark)

5:10 PM A Lattice QCD Study of the $\rho$ Resonance - Luka Leskovec (University of Arizona)

5:35 PM Measurement of Transition Form Factors at BESIII - Christoph Florian Redmer (Institute for Nuclear Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

6:00 PM Unitary Reaction Models and PWA Formalisms - Alessandro Pilloni (Jefferson Lab)
Parallel 8 — Jet Substructure and Quenching / Flavor
Parallel 8 — Jet Substructure and Quenching / Flavor
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Jet Measurements in Heavy Ion Collisions - Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

4:40 PM The Theory of Jets in Dense Matter - Abhijit Majumder (Wayne State University)

5:10 PM Using Photon-Jet Analyses to Probe the QGP - Saskia Mioduszewski (Texas A&M University)

5:30 PM Jet Mass for the Inclusive Jet Production at the LHC - Kyle Lee (Stony Brook University)

5:50 PM Heavy Flavor Jet Quenching at RHIC and LHC Energies - Shanshan Cao (Wayne State University)

6:10 PM Energy and System Dependent Heavy Flavor Measurements at PHENIX at RHIC - Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Lab)
6:30 PM
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: East Foyer
Contributions

6:30 PM New Techniques in the ANITA-IV Analysis - Andrew Ludwig (University of Chicago)

6:30 PM Neutrino Burst-Generated Gravitational Radiation from Collapsing Supermassive Stars - Jung-Tsung Li (UC San Diego)

6:30 PM Search for Anomalous Decay of the Free Neutron Using the UCNA Experiment: $n \to \chi + e^+ + e^-$ - Xuan Sun (California Institute of Technology)

6:30 PM A New Symmetry of Electroweak Lagrangian - Dmytro Ptashynskyi (Odessa National Polytechnic University)

6:30 PM Visualizing Invisible Dark Matter Annihilation with the CMB and Matter Power Spectrum - Ran Huo (UC Riverside)

6:30 PM In-Ice Phased Antenna Arrays for Radiodetection of Energetic Neutrinos - Cosmin Deaconu (UChicago / KICP)

6:30 PM Composite Higgs from Mass-Split Models - Oliver Witzel (University of Colorado Boulder)

6:30 PM Demonstration of 3D Micro-Power Readout for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers - Daniel Dwyer

6:30 PM Results from MICE: the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

6:30 PM Phases of UV Dark Matter Freeze In - Lindsay Forestell (TRIUMF, UBC)

6:30 PM Possibilities for Underground Physics in the Pyhäsalmi Mine - Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (University of Jyvaskyla)

6:30 PM Progress Towards Measurement of the Nuclear Anapole Moment of Ba-137 Using BaF Molecules - Sidney Cahn (Yale University)

6:30 PM Using X-Ray Femtoscope and X-Ray Telescope We Verified that Dark Matter Behaves as Catalyst or as Inhibitor of the Nuclear Reactions - Edward Jimenez (Chemistry Engineering Faculty)

6:30 PM Lessons from HAWC PWNe Observations: The Diffusion Constant is Not a Constant; Pulsars Remain the Likeliest Sources of the Anomalous Positron Fraction; Cosmic Rays are Trapped for Long Periods of Time in Pockets of Inefficient Diffusion - Nicholas Omahen (University of California, Santa Cruz)

6:30 PM Introducing the SnowBall Chamber, Supercooled Water for Dark Matter and Neutron Detection - Matthew Szydagis (U Albany)

6:30 PM Search for a Nuclear Magnetic Quadrupole Moment in $^{173}$Yb - Nick Hutzler (Caltech)

6:30 PM Half-Lives of the Neutron-Rich $N=82$ Isotopes $^{130}$Cd and $^{131}$In - Ryan Dunlop (University of Guelph)
7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Desert Vista Ballroom
Saturday, June 2, 2018

7:30 AM Open 07:30 – 17:30
Open 07:30 – 17:30
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: East Foyer
8:00 AM Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing | Special Topic
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing | Special Topic
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

8:00 AM Recent Progress on Double Beta Decay and Latest GERDA Results - Karl Tasso Knoepfle (MPI Kernphysik)

8:35 AM Neutrino Oscillations - Pedro Machado (Fermilab)

9:10 AM Fingerprints of the First Stars in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum - Raul Monsalve (Colorado / McGill)
9:45 AM Break
Break
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects | Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei
Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects | Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei
10:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 AM The EMC Effect – New Insights and Future Studies - David Gaskell (Jefferson Lab)

10:45 AM Short-Range Correlations in Nuclei - Alexandra Gade (NSCL/MSU)

11:20 AM Light-Cone Physics and Large-Momentum Effective Field Theory - Yong Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:55 AM The Structure of the Nucleon - Matthias Grosse Perdekamp (UIUC, Department of Physics)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Neutron Star Mergers
Neutron Star Mergers
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

2:00 PM LIGO/VIRGO Observations of Neutron Star Merger GW170817 - Jocelyn Read (CSU Fullerton)

2:35 PM Outflow from Neutron Star Mergers - Kenta Hotokezaka (Princeton University)

3:10 PM Physics from the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves of a Neutron Star Merger - Daniel Kasen (UC Berkeley/LBNL)
3:45 PM Break
Break
3:45 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Parallel 9 — Exclusive Physics and Future
Parallel 9 — Exclusive Physics and Future
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Accessing the Generalized Parton Distributions in the Valence Region at Jefferson Laboratory - Maxime DEFURNE (CEA-Saclay)

4:40 PM Drell-Yan Physics with Negative Pion Beams and Polarized Proton Targets at COMPASS - Matthias Grosse Perdekamp (UIUC)

5:10 PM Generalized Parton Distributions of the Deuteron in a Covariant Framework - Adam Freese (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:40 PM Probing the Strange Sea Quarks with Kaon SIDIS - Fatiha Benmokhtar (Duquesne University)

6:10 PM Novel Experimental Probes of QCD in SIDIS and $e^+e^-$ Annihilation - Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)
Parallel 9 — LHC Future | Theory
Parallel 9 — LHC Future | Theory
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

4:10 PM CMS Physics Performance with Precision Timing - Olmo Cerri (Caltech)

4:35 PM Expected Performance of the Upgraded ATLAS Experiment for HL-LHC - Peilian Liu (UC Berkeley)

5:00 PM Precision Timing with the CMS Detector - Irene Dutta (Caltech)

5:25 PM Muon Spectrometer Phase I Upgrade for the ATLAS Experiment: The New Small Wheels Project - Benoit Lefebvre (McGill University)

5:50 PM Machine Learning for New Physics Searches - Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo (SLAC)

6:10 PM How a Future Leptonic Collider Will Indirectly Probe Neutralino Dark Matter - Ran Huo (UC Riverside)
Parallel 9 — The Proton Radius Puzzle
Parallel 9 — The Proton Radius Puzzle
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

4:10 PM The Proton Radius Puzzle – Why We All Should Care - Gerald Miller (University of Washington)

4:40 PM The Rydberg Constant and Proton Size from Atomic Hydrogen - Lothar Maisenbacher (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)

5:10 PM Data Analysis and Preliminary Results of the Proton Charge Radius Experiment (PRad) at JLab - Weizhi Xiong (Duke University)

5:30 PM Determination of the Proton’s Charge Radius by Simultaneous Measurement of Electron- and Muon-Proton Elastic Scattering with the MUSE Experiment at PSI - Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:50 PM Lattice QCD and the Proton Radius - Sergey Syritsyn (Stony Brook University)

6:10 PM Nucleon Form Factors in Dispersively Improved Chiral Effective Theory - Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)
Parallel 9 — QCD Phase Transition | New Instrumentation
Parallel 9 — QCD Phase Transition | New Instrumentation
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

4:10 PM QCD Phase Diagram - Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)

4:40 PM Lattice QCD Constraints on the QCD Critical Point - Alexei Bazavov (Michigan State University)

5:10 PM Searching for the QCD Critical Point Through Fluctuations at RHIC - Roli Esha (UCLA)

5:30 PM What Have We Leant from Quarkonia Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions? - Che-Ming Ko (Texas A&M University)

5:50 PM The sPHENIX Detector - Ron Soltz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

6:10 PM The RHIC Beam Energy Scan Phase II Physics and Upgrades - David Tlusty (Rice University)
Parallel 9 — Hadronic Parity Violation | Symmetries in Atoms
Parallel 9 — Hadronic Parity Violation | Symmetries in Atoms
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Hadronic Parity Violation and the Large-$N_c$ Expansion - Matthias Schindler (University of South Carolina)

4:40 PM Final Results from the n3He Experiment: Parity Violation in n-$^3$He Capture - Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba)

5:10 PM Large-Nc HPNC Analyses Post NPDGamma - Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)

5:30 PM Lattice QCD for Hadronic Parity Violation - Andre Walker-Loud

5:50 PM Nuclear Anapole Moments - Sidney Cahn (Yale University)

6:10 PM Searching for Hadronic CP Violation in Deformed Nuclei with Polar Molecules - Nick Hutzler (Caltech)
8:00 PM Barry Barish, Caltech "Black Holes and Gravitational Waves"
Barry Barish, Caltech "Black Holes and Gravitational Waves"
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Contributions

8:00 PM Merging Black Holes and Einstein's Ripples in Space Time: The Story of Advanced LIGO - Barry C. Barish (Caltech)
Sunday, June 3, 2018

7:30 AM Open 07:30 – 12:00
Open 07:30 – 12:00
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: East Foyer
8:00 AM Conveners' Highlights
Conveners' Highlights
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

8:00 AM Physics at High Energies - Stefania Gori (University of Cincinnati) Verena Martinez Outschoorn (UMass Amherst)

8:21 AM Precision Physics at High Intensities - Aida El-Khadra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Renee Fatemi (University of Kentucky)

8:42 AM Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

9:03 AM Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics - Barry Davids (TRIUMF)

9:24 AM Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects - Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)
9:45 AM Break
Break
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM Conveners' Highlights
Conveners' Highlights
10:10 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 AM Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)

10:31 AM QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics - Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:52 AM Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei - Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)

11:13 AM Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity - Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine)

11:34 AM Dark Matter - George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)

11:55 AM Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction - Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)

12:16 PM Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions - Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)

12:37 PM Closing Remarks - Brendan Casey (Fermilab)

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