Abstract: After a two-year shutdown, the LHC restarted proton-proton collisions in 2015 with an increase in center-of-mass energy to 13 TeV.  I describe some early results with data from the first year of running and plans for the significantly larger …

Frank Golf (UCSB) "Searching for New Physics with the Large Hadron Collider" Read More »

Abstract:  Dark matter halos surrounding galaxies are expected to contain copious substructure, in the form of gravitationally bound subhalos.  Local Group observations suggest that our Galaxy has a deficit of substructure (the Missing Satellites Problem), possibly indicating new physics in …

Neal Dalal (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Detecting Dark Matter Substructure Using ALMA" Read More »

We will provide an overview of LIGO's first event. The signal is consistent with the merger of two black holes of ~30 Msun at a distance of ~400 Mpc. We will discuss some aspects of the detection, including parameter estimation, …

Special RPM | Daniel Holz (U. Chicago) " Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" Read More »

Abstract:  From 2009 to 2014, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) used the SDSS telescope to obtain spectra of 1.5 million galaxies to get very accurate measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale at redshift z ~0.5. At the same …

Andreu Font-Ribera (LBNL) "Studying the Expansion of the Universe with Quasar Spectra" Read More »

Abstract: In the Standard Model, the Higgs has the highest probability to decay to b-quarks, yet this is one of the most challenging channels to observe at the LHC. I will explain the importance of measuring the coupling to the …

Heather Gray (CERN) " Chasing Beauty: Probing the Higgs Using B-Quarks Read More »

Abstract: The evidence for the existence of dark matter in the universe is overwhelming; yet its exact nature, its mass(es) and coupling constants, are completely unknown. If kinematically accessible at colliders, these particles are expected to be produced directly or …

Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (CERN) "New Physics at LHC: Energy and Precision Frontiers" Read More »

Abstract : I will present the prospects of DESI for the measurement of Dark Energy in light of a decade of efforts to unveil its nature, from the discovery of cosmic acceleration with type Ia supernovae, to the most recent …

Julien Guy (LPNHE) " The Prospects and Challenges of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Read More »