Higgs, Weinberg and other great speakers in Savannah APS April Meeting April 5 - 8 2014 Dear Colleagues, As we already mentioned: the Early Bird Registration Deadline for the April APS meeting April 5 - 8, 2014 is February 14, 2014 at 11:59 PM EST. This is your last chance to save up to $135 on registration costs aps.org/meetings/april/ For your convenience we list the APS Plenary and DPF Invited speakers below. It is an impressive list! We look forward to seeing you in Savannah! Ian Shipsey Nick Hadley JoAnne Hewett Jon Rosner PLENARY SPEAKERS - APRIL 2014 APS MEETING Saturday, April 5: Kavli Foundation Keynote Session: The mysteries of mass 8:30 - 9:06 Peter W. Higgs, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evading the Goldstone theorem 9:06 - 9:42 Steven Weinberg, 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics University of Texas, Austin Implications of the New Particle 9:42 - 10:18 Rafael Lang Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana The search for dark matter Monday, April 7: Treasures from the Cosmic Frontier 8:30 - 9:06 Neil de Grasse Tyson Director, Hayden Planetarium, New York Tales from the Twitterverse 9:06 - 9:42 Naoko Kurahashi Neilson University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Discovery of cosmic neutrinos in the IceCube detector 9:42 - 10:18 Suzanne Staggs Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Polarization in the cosmic microwave background Tuesday, April 8: One hundred years of the beta-decay spectrum 8:30 - 9:06 Hamish Robertson University of Washington, Seattle, Washington The role of beta decay in modern subatomic physics 9:06 - 9:42 Wick Haxton University of California, Berkeley, California Neutrinoless double-beta decay 9:42 - 10:18 Sheldon Stone Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Weak decays as a window to new physics Public lecture on Saturday evening, Hyatt Regency, April 5, 7:30 PM: Stefan Gillessen Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Garching, Germany The black hole at the center of the Milky Way DPF INVITED SPEAKERS - APRIL 2014 APS MEETING Session 1: DPF Prize Session 1 - Saturday April 5 10:45-12:33 Session Speakers i) Kam-Biu Luk - The Road to the Neutrino Mixing Angle Theta_13 ii) Yifang Wang - The Daya Bay Experiment iii) Daniel Dwyer - Measurement of Antineutrino Oscillation at Daya Bay iiii) Gregory Moore - Some remarks on Physical Mathematics Session 2: DPF Prize Session 2 – Saturday April 5, 13:30-15:18 Session Speakers i) Lance Dixon - Scattering Amplitudes - the Story of Loops and Legs ii) David Kosower - Precision Quantum Chromodynamics at the LHC iii) Zvi Bern - Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Gauge Theory to Supergravity Session 3: Energy Frontier Higgs Boson 1 – Sunday April 6, 8:30-10:18 Session Speakers i) Gabriella Sciolla - Status of Higgs Boson at ATLAS ii) Adolph Bornheim - Status of Higgs Boson at CMS iii) Ayres Freitas - Calculation of Higgs Boson Properties Session 4: Energy Frontier Higgs Boson 2 – Tuesday April 8, 13:30-15:18 Session Speakers i) Wade Fisher - Final Higgs results from the Tevatron ii) Sally Dawson - Theoretical interpretation of the Higgs data iii) Tim Barklow - Higgs Studies at future facilities 6. Tenative Titles: Session 5: Searches for New Physics at the LHC – Monday April 7, 13:30-15:18 Session Speakers i) Harinder Singh Bawa - Search for Exotic New Physics at the LHC– non SUSY ii) Daryl Hare - SUSY Results from the LHC iii) Mariangela Lisanti - New Physics – where do we go from here? Session 6: Instrumentation in HEP – Monday April 7, 15:30-17:18 Session Speakers – i) Ted Liu - New Trigger Architectures ii) Elena Aprile - Noble Liquid Detectors for Dark Matter iii) Hartmut Sadrozinski - Silicon Detectors Session 7: Flavor physics – Sunday April 6, 15:30-17:18 Session Speakers i) Antonio Pellegrino - B to mu mu + other rare quark decays ii) Brad Abbott - Experimental status of all flavor physics iii) Gil Paz - Theoretical status of flavor physics Session 8: Neutrinos (from accelerators and reactors) – Monday April 7, 10:45-12:33 Session Speakers – i) Laura Fields - Neutrino Cross sections ii) Ornella Palamara - Experimental Anomalies in neutrino physics iii) Lisa Everett – Neutrino Oscillation Overview Session 9: Electroweak Physics – Tuesday April 8, 10:45-12:33 Session Speakers i) Ki Lie - Top Physics Results from the Tevatron and the LHC ii) Ping Tan - W/Z Physics Results from the Tevatron and the LHC iii) Konstantin Matchev - Event generators for HEP i) Joint sessions with other Divisions Session 10: WIMP Dark Matter – Saturday 15:30-17:18 i) Blas Cabrera - Direct Detection of Dark matter ii) Jan Conrad - Indirect Detection of Dark Matter with Gamma Rays iii) Carsten Rott - Other Indirect Detection Methods Session 11: Dark Matter – Beyond WIMPS – Sunday 10:45-12:33 Session speakers: i) Rouven Essig - Dark Sector ii) Shunsaku Horiuchi - keV-mass dark matter candidates iii) Tracy Slatyer Dark Matter Theory Beyond WIMPs Session 12: Testing the Early Universe – Sunday 8:30-10:18 1. Name of session Testing the Early Universe Session Speakers i) Daniel Green - UV Completeness from CMB Polarization ii) Marilena Loverde - Primordial non-Gaussianity and High Energy Physics iii) Mu-Chun Chen - Leptogenesis Session 13: Astrophysical Neutrinos – Saturday 13:30-15:18 Session Speakers – i) Zhen Hou - Cosmological limits on number of neutrinos and neutrino masses ii) Markus Ahlers - Theoretical implications of Ice Cube neutrinos iii) Amy Connolly - GZK neutrinos Session14: History of G-2: Experiment and Theory- Tuesday April 8, 12:30 Session Speakers i) T. Kinoshita - Study of Lepton G-2 from 1947 to Present ii) R. Garwin - The First CERN Muon G-2 Experiment) iii) Yannis Semertzidis - The BNL Muon G-2 Experiment and Beyond Session 15: Quarkonium includes XYZ states – Sunday April 6, 13:30-15:18 Session Speakers – i) Matthew Shepherd - Quarkonium Spectroscopy including XYZ states ii) Chris Thomas - Lattice Results for charmonium and bottomonium iii) Eric Braaten - Theoretical Interpretation of XYZ States
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