Past Workshops & Meetings
Lederle Graduate Research Tower (LGRT) 419B, UMass Amherst
The Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions will be hosting the second “Northeast Gravity Meeting” . The goal of this workshop is to bring together a group of experts, both senior and junior, working on topics in classical and quantum gravity, cosmology and related subjects. Of special interest this year are developments in the AdS/CFT correspondence, including implications for QCD, the proposed computational complexity /Action duality, and pre-inflationary physics.
Co-organizers:
David Kastor (UMass Amherst)
Alex Maloney (McGill U.)
Lorenzo Sorbo (UMass Amherst)
Jennie Traschen (UMass Amherst)
Lederle Graduate Research Tower (LGRT) 419B, UMass Amherst
This workshop will cover a range of related topics, including resurgence and asymptotic analysis, phenomena in compactified gauge theories, path integral complexification, and others, in which considerable progress has been made in recent years. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together a group of experts and a group of more phenomenologically-oriented high-energy theorists in order to bring broader attention to the most interesting theoretical developments.
Co-organizers:
Patrick Draper (U.C. Santa Barbara & UMass Amherst)
Nathaniel Craig (U.C. Santa Barbara)
John Donoghue (UMass Amherst)
Gerald Dunne (U. Connecticut)
Matt Reece (Harvard U.)
Mithat Unsal (North Carolina State U.)
Lederle Graduate Research Tower (LGRT) 419B, UMass Amherst
The goal of the workshop is to bring together a small group of theorists, experimentalists, and observers to address the relative implications of terrestrial, astrophysical, and cosmological probes of neutrino mass. With the prospect of order of magnitude improvements in the sensitivities of kinematic mass determinations, two-order of magnitude improvements in the lifetime sensitivity of neutrinoless double beta-decay searches, and significant advances in determinations of the sum of neutrino masses from large scale structure and the CMB, it is timely to delineate what a comparison of results from these, other laboratory and cosmological probes, and simulations might imply.
Co-organizers:
George Fuller (U. California San Diego)
Lorenzo Sorbo (U. Mass Amherst)
Michael Ramsey-Musolf (U. Mass Amherst)
Lederle Graduate Research Tower (LGRT) 419B, UMass Amherst
New long-lived particles are predicted in many beyond the standard model theories. They have been extensively searched for in collider data, most recently in Run 1 of the LHC. As the community prepares for Run 2 analysis, there is a need to examine the previous searches, identify weak or uncovered areas, and develop a coherent strategy targeting all possible scenarios. The goal of the workshop is to bring experimentalists and theorists together to discuss these issues and help improve the coverage, flexibility, and future utility of LHC searches for long-lived particles, to ensure that potential long-lived BSM particles do not escape detection at the LHC.
Co-organizers:
Stefania Gori (Perimeter Institute & U. Cincinatti)
Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers U.)
Michele Papucci (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Michael Ramsey-Musolf (U. Mass Amherst)
Jessie Shelton (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Stephane Willocq (U. Mass Amherst)
Lederle Graduate Research Tower (LGRT) 419B, UMass Amherst
This will be the first in a series of workshops focusing on the physics opportunities with a next generation proton-proton collider.
The goal of the workshop is to identify the high energy collider signatures associated with different scenarios for the electroweak phase transition, focusing on opportunities for a next generation pp collider. Exploring the thermal history associated with electroweak symmetry breaking is a question at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology. In the Standard Model, EWSB is associated with a cross over transition. However, in a variety of well-motivated SM extensions, the nature of the EWSB transition may be different. Of particular interest is the possibility of a first order electroweak phase transition that would provide conditions needed for electroweak baryogenesis.
The format will involve a mixture of informal talks and discussions including both theorists and experimentalists. We anticipate that the workshop will lead to new dedicated studies to identify the physics reach of a ~ 100 TeV pp collider with respect to the electroweak phase transition.
Co-organizers:
Andrey Katz (U. Geneva & CERN)
Ashutosh Kotwal (FNAL & Duke U.)
Tao Liu (Hong Kong U. Science & Technology)
Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
Michael Ramsey-Musolf (U. Mass. Amherst)
Shufang Su (U. Arizona)
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