TRIUMF Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Program

All sessions will be held in the TRIUMF Auditorium
 
Wednesday, June 8
09.00-09.45 Gray Rybka (U Washington) Status of the ADMX G2 Dark Matter Experiment
09.45-10.30 Yonatan Kahn (Princeton) ABRACADABRA: A Broadband/Resonant Experiment for Axion Dark Matter Detection
10.30-11.00 Coffee and Discussion
11.00-11.45 Masha Baryakhtar (Perimeter) Searching for the Axion at Advanced LIGO with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
11.45-12.30 Kathryn Zurek (LBNL) New Ideas in Dark Matter Direct Detection
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Glen Marshall (TRIUMF) Muon g-2 Experiments
14.45-15.30 Ian Nugent (U Victoria) Measurements of Hadronic Cross-sections using the Initial State Radiation Method from the B-Factories
15.30-15.45 Coffee and Discussion
15.45-16.30 Peter Lepage (Cornell) Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Contribution to a_{mu} from Lattice QCD
16.30-17.15 Taku Izubuchi (Brookhaven) Muon g-2 Light by Light on Lattice and Related Topics


Thursday, June 9
09.00-09.10 Remarks by Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF Director)
09.10-09.55 Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab) Long Baseline Neutrino Facility and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
09.55-10.40 Hirohisa Tanaka (U Toronto) T2K-II: Towards CP Violation in Neutrinos
10.40-11.00 Coffee and Discussion
11.00-11.45 Irina Mocioiu (Penn State) Exploring New Neutrino Interactions
11.45-12.30 Douglas Bryman (UBC) Exotics in Pion and Kaon Decays
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Peter Lepage (Cornell) TRIUMF Colloquium: 40 Years of Lattice QCD
15.30-16.15 Peter Blunden (U Manitoba) Hadronic Effects in Parity-Violating Electron-Proton Scattering
16.15-17.00 Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter) Looking for Dark Matter with Atomic Clocks and Gravitational Wave Detectors

* Group Dinner: 18.15-21.00, Nuba Kitsilano, 3116 West Broadway


Friday, June 10
09.00-09.45 Will Detmold (MIT) Nuclei from Lattice QCD
09.45-10.30 Martin Hoferichter (U Washington) Analysis Strategies for General Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleus Scattering
10.30-11.00 Coffee and Discussion
11.00-11.45 Robert Lasenby (Perimeter) Looking for Darker Photons
11.45-12.30 Adam Ritz (U Victoria) Light Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Beatrice Franke (TRIUMF/PSI) Light Muonic Atom Spectroscopy and the Proton Radius Puzzle
14.45-15.30 Gil Paz (Wayne State) How to Resolve the Proton Radius Puzzle?
15.30-16.00 Coffee and Discusion
16.00-16.45 Jerry Miller (U Washington) Electrophobic Scalar Boson and Muon Puzzles