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 »