Abstract: Ultra-high-energy (> 10^18 eV) neutrinos remain undiscovered in this era of rapid growth in multi-messenger astronomy. These neutral and weakly-interacting particles can travel cosmic distances without attenuation and point straight back to their source, rendering them promising messengers. Detection …

Oindree Banerjee (Ohio State University) "Searching for ultra-high-energy neutrinos with the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna " Read More »

Abstract: Despite the tremendous success of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, it becomes more and more clear that the SM is far from complete. For example, the non-zero neutrino mass was the first solid evidence beyond the SM, …

Mengjiao Xiao (University of Maryland) "Probing the Nature of the Universe from the Chinese Underground Experiments" Read More »

ABSTRACT: Cosmology in the next decade will be driven by data. Exploiting the information one can extract from the ongoing and upcoming large surveys will give us the power to stress-test the LCDM model with unprecedented precision and open up windows …

Chihway Chang (KICP/U. Chicago) "Cosmic Surveys in the Next Decade: Mapping the Landscape of the Universe" Read More »

ABSTRACT: I will discuss motivations for searching for di-Higgs production at the LHC.  Recent results and projected sensitivities will be presented with emphasis on the dominant hh->4b channel.

ABSTRACT: The existence of dark matter is strong evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model. While laboratory and collider searches for dark matter have advanced rapidly over the past several decades, astrophysical observations currently provide the only robust, positive, …

Alex Drlica-Wagner (FNAL) "Using Cosmic Surveys to Understand the Fundamental Nature of Dark Matter" Read More »

ABSTRACT: Music is nearly universal in human culture and yet it remains mysterious. In order to help answer some of music's fundamental questions, we will briefly turn to archeology and early history before examining some of music's salient features from …

Jason Bono (FNAL) Physics and Mathematics in Music Read More »

Abstract: The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in 2012 relied predominantly on studies of the bosonic decay modes. However, there is a rich structure in the Yukawa sector of the Higgs boson.  Studies of the direct coupling …

Heather Gray (LBNL) Title: The Higgs and the Quarks; Probing the Yukawa couplings of the Higgs boson Read More »

ABSTRACT: The next decade will be the golden age of cosmology with transients. In this talk, I will present new analyses of Type Ia Supernovae that mark the most precise measurement of dark energy to date. I will go over …

Daniel Scolnic (U. Chicago) "Measuring Dark Energy with Supernovae and Kilonovae" Read More »

Abstract: The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN are at the energy frontier of particle physics, searching for answers to fundamental questions of nature. In particular, dark matter (DM) presents strong evidence for physics beyond the standard …

Zeynep Demiragli (CMS / MIT) "Search for Dark Matter: CMS Strikes Back!" Read More »

Abstract: The top quark plays an important role in the collider phenomenology of the Higgs boson, and the study of the interplay between the top quark and the Higgs boson may provide key insights to some critical questions in particle …

Haichen Wang (LBNL) Title: The Higgs boson and the top quark share the stage Read More »