Looking for ν physics on Earth and in the Cosmos

7 Jan 2020, 07:00 → 8 Jan 2020, 21:50 US/Pacific

Perseverance Hall (Building 54)

Feng Yuan

This two-day workshop, hosted by the University of California at Berkeley Physics Department and  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nuclear Science Division, will celebrate the outstanding career and many scientific accomplishments of Wick Haxton. It will take place at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The workshop will consist of talks and conversations on topics to which Professor Haxton made significant contributions, spanning the fields of nuclear physics, neutrino physics, and astrophysics.

Tuesday, 7 January

08:50 → 10:15 Morning Session: I

Convener: Volker Kock

08:50 Welcome

Speaker: Timothy Symons

09:00 Probing QCD Matter, Hot and Cold

Speaker: Barbara Jacak

wickfest_jacak.pdf

wickfest_jacak.pptx

09:25 Nuclear physics of neutron star mergers

Speaker: Gail McLaughlin

McLaughlin.pdf

09:50 Neutrinos from matter-rich binary mergers

Speaker: Cecilia Lunardini

Berkeley_Lunardini_2020.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:00 Morning Session: II

Convener: Akif Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:45 Testing Conservation Principles via Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Speaker: John Wilkerson

conservation_tests_dbd_Haxton.pdf

11:10 Neutrino Flavor, Nuclear Physics and Entropy, and the Dark Sector

Speaker: George Fuller

WickFest.Fuller.ppt

11:35 The direct road to neutrino mass

Speaker: Hamish Robertson

Robertson_Wickfest20200108_4pdf.pdf

12:00 → 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 → 15:45 Afternoon Session: I

Convener: Calvin Johnson

14:30 The Deaths of Massive Stars and the Birth of Black Holes

Speaker: Stan Woosley

woosleyhaxton.pdf

woosleyhaxton.pptx

14:55 From solar neutrinos to dark matter

Speaker: Akif Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

wick.pptx

15:20 Re-visiting the Bloch-Horowitz equation, and reminiscing at the same time

Speaker: Tom Luu

wickfest.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 17:30 Afternoon Session: II

Convener: Andre Walker-Loud

16:15 Gravity with Levity

Speaker: Eric Adelbberger

HaxtonFest.pdf

16:40 Hadronic Parity Violation

Speaker: Barry Holstein

WickBirthday.pdf

17:05 P- and T-odd Nuclear Moments

Speaker: Prof. Michael Ramsey-Musolf (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

MJRM Haxton-Fest 20.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Banquet Dinner

Tickets are required

Wednesday, 8 January

09:00 → 10:15 Morning Session: I

Convener: Alan Poon (Nuclear Science Division, Berkeley Lab)

09:00 Neutrinos, dark matter and effective theories

Speaker: Xiangdong Ji

wickfest_ji.pptx

09:25 Stronger nuclear structure calculations for weak physics

Speaker: Calvin Johnson

Johnson_HaxtonFest_2020.pdf

09:50 Connecting LQCD to Nuclear Structure via Harmonic-Oscillator-Based Effective Theory

Speaker: Kenneth McElvain

WickSymposium_Ken.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:00 Morning Session: II

Convener: Peter Jacobs

10:45 Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics

Speaker: Andre Walker-Loud

Walker-Loud_WickFest.pdf

11:10 Quarkyonic Matter and Hard Equations of State

Speaker: Larry McLerran

haxton_ldm.pdf

haxton_ldm.pptx

11:35 From the Sun to the Cosmos: Solving the Neutrino Flavor Equations

Speaker: Evan Grohs

WickFest_2020_EG.pdf

12:00 → 14:30 Coffee Break

14:30 → 15:45 Afternoon Session: I

Convener: George Fuller

14:30 Neutrino quantum kinetics or neutrino transport

Speaker: Sherwood Richers

Neutrino quantum kinetics or neutrino transport

Richers.pdf

14:55 Neutron Stars: New insights and some old puzzles

Speaker: Sanjay Reddy

WickFest_Reddy.pdf

15:20 Origin of Heavy Elements in the Early Universe

Speaker: Yong Qian

YZQian.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 17:20 Afternoon Session: II

Convener: Feng Yuan

16:15 Entanglement and Collective Neutrino Oscillations

Speaker: Amol Patwardhan

NuExact.pdf

16:40 Retrospective

Speaker: Gerry Stephenson

GJS Wickfest 2020.pdf

17:05 Behind the Scenes

Speaker: Benjamin Gibson

Haxton symp talk.pdf