ABSTRACT: The anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation have become our most important cosmological fossil. The study of these "echoes of gravity" has revolutionized cosmology, stringently tested our models and allowed precise measurement of a host of important cosmological …

Martin White (UCB) "The cosmological legacy of Planck " Read More »

Abstract: In this talk, we present the new world leading results from the first search of the SuperCDMS collaboration for inelastic electronic recoils from low mass dark matter dark matter (500keV - 100MeV) using our new single ionization sensitive cryogenic …

Matt Pyle (UCB) "Athermal Phonon Detectors: World Leading Light Mass Dark Matter Sensitivity From Athermal Phonon Detectors + Preliminary Performance from Large Area Photon Detector for Next Generation Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments" Read More »

Abstract: The detailed characterization of the intensity and polarization Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation provides a powerful tool to constrain the properties of early Universe. The polarization induced by a stochastic gravitational wave background in this epoch induces a distinctive …

Kyle Helson (NASA Goddard) "The Status and Outlook of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Measurements" Read More »

Abstract: Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC), with its mm-scale position resolution and the full-active-volume imaging-aided calorimetry, is an excellent device to detect accelerator neutrinos at GeV energy range. This technology may hold the key to search for new CP …

Qian Xin (BNL) "Development of LArTPC for Neutrino Physics" Read More »

ABSTRACT: There has been much recent interest at the intersection of the fields of Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity. In this talk, I will go over some of the motivating principles/important work that has been done in this area, and …

Ning Bao (UCB/LBNL) "Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity" Read More »

ABSTRACT: When a new heavy particle is discovered at the LHC, it will be interesting to study its decays into Standard Model particles using an effective field-theory framework. We point out that the proper effective theory must be based on …

Matthias Neubert (U. Mainz) "Effective Field Theory after a New-Physics Discovery" Read More »

Abstracts Upcoming new instruments to measure the polarized CMB promise to provide discriminatory limits on inflation, the number of light relic particles, and the sum of the neutrino masses, ushering in a new era of using the CMB as a …

Laura Newburgh (Yale U.) " Forefronts of Cosmology: Beyond Standard Model Physics with Upcoming CMB Instruments" Read More »

ABSTRACT: The Higgs boson discovery at the LHC marked a historic milestone in the study of fundamental particles and their interactions. Over the last six years, we have begun measuring its properties, which are essential to build a deep understanding …

Caterina Vernieri (Stanford) "Higgs to Beauty Quarks: First Observation of the Big Missing Piece" Read More »

ABSTRACT: In this talk, I would like to review how the Cosmic Microwave Background (in particular its temperature and polarization anisotropies) can be used to perform both direct and indirect detection of Dark Matter.  In a first part, I will …

Vivian Poulin (JHU) "Shedding Light on Dark Matter with the CMB: Implications for EDGES 21cm Signal" Read More »

ABSTRACT: The radius of the proton, generally assumed to be a well measured and understood quantity has recently come under scrutiny due to highly precise, yet conflicting, experimental results. These new results have generated a host of interpretations, none of …

Guy Ron (Jerusalem) "The Proton Radius – Old Measurements and New Ideas" Read More »