TRIUMF Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Program

All sessions will be held in the TRIUMF Auditorium
 
Monday, September 8
09.30-09.40 Welcome by Jonathan Bagger
09.40-10.25 Matt Buckley (Rutgers)
Searching for Dark Matter using Scalar Simplified Models
10.25-10.45 Coffee and Discussion
10.45-11:30 Brian Shuve (McMaster/Perimeter)
Baryogenesis and Displaced Vertices at the LHC
11:30-12:00 Quentin Buat (SFU/ATLAS)
Exotics at the LHC
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14:15 Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)
New Signs of Naturalness in Displaced Vertices
14.15-15.00 Doojin Kim (U Florida)
Searches for New Physics with M2
15.00-15.30 Zoltan Gecse (UBC/ATLAS)
SUSY at the LHC
15.30-16.00 Coffee and Discussion
16.00-16.45 Travis Martin (TRIUMF)
Electroweakino Constraints from LHC Data
16.45-17.30 Mariana Frank (Concordia U)
Charginos and Neutralinos Beyond the MSSM

Tuesday, September 9
09.30-10.15 Jessie Shelton (U Illinois)
Exotic Higgs Decays at Present and Future Machines
10.15-10.45 Coffee and Discussion
10.45-11.30 Alejandro de la Puente (TRIUMF)
New Decay Modes of a Heavy Vector-Like Top Quark
11.30-12.00 Alison Lister (UBC/ATLAS)
Top Quarks at the LHC
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 KC Kong (U Kansas)
Looking for Resonances under the LHC Lamppost
14.15-15.00 Jamie Gainer (U Florida)
The Matrix: Reloaded, Reweighted, and Ranked
15.00-15.30 Heberth Torres (SFU/ATLAS)
Higgs at the LHC
15.30-16.00 Coffee and Discussion
16.00-16.45 Andrew Larkoski (MIT)
Jet Substructure for Run 2
16.45-17.30 Eder Izaguirre (Perimeter)
A New Observable for Identifying Dijet Resonances

* Group Dinner: 18.30-21.00, Nuba, 3116 West Broadway

Wednesday, September 10
09.30-10.15 Carlos Wagner (U Chicago/Argonne)
Higgs Physics, Supersymmetry and the LHC
10.15-10.30 Coffee and Discussion
10.30-11.15 Gordan Krnjaic (Perimeter)
The Galactic Center Excess from the Bottom Up
11.15-12.00 Spencer Chang (U Oregon)
LHC Phenomenology of Induced Electroweak Symmetry Breaking