TomFest: from quarks and neutrinos to outer space

US/Central
Alumni Hall (Vanderbilt University)

Alumni Hall

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN (USA)
Thomas W. Kephart (Vanderbilt University), Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (IFIC (CSIC-UV)), Heinrich Päs (TU Dortmund.)
Description

          Celebrating Tom Weiler's 70th birthday

                                 

Our beloved friend and great scientist Tom Weiler is turning 70 this year and we are planning to have a small celebration in his honor in his home town, Nashville, TN, at Vanderbilt University.

The plan is to have a full day of short talks by Tom's friends and collaborators, so everyone is welcome to suggest a talk. All topics related to Tom's research career (and personal anecdotes about Tom) will be the focus of the day: from quarks and neutrinos to outer space. Then, we will go together for dinner. 

 

Participants
  • Douglas McKay
  • Heath Pois
  • Heinrich Päs
  • HoSeong La
  • Howard Baer
  • INA SARCEVIC
  • Jacques Leveille
  • James Dent
  • Liguo Song
  • Luis Anchordoqui
  • Marc Kamionkowski
  • Peter Denton
  • Pierre Sikivie
  • Robert Scherrer
  • Sergio Palomares-Ruiz
  • Stephen Parke
  • Tom Kephart
  • Tom Weiler
  • Vernon Barger
  • William Louis
    • 09:10 09:20
      Welcome 10m Alumni Hall

      Alumni Hall

      Vanderbilt University

      Nashville, TN (USA)
    • 09:20 09:40
      The charm of particle physics; the Tom Weiler years 20m
      Speaker: Vernon Barger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    • 09:40 10:00
      New directions in dark matter 20m
      Speaker: Robert Scherrer (Vanderbilt University)
    • 10:00 10:20
      Production and detection of an axion dark matter echo 20m

      Electromagnetic radiation with angular frequency equal to half
      the axion mass stimulates the decay of cold dark matter axions
      and produces an echo, i.e. faint electromagnetic radiation
      traveling in the opposite direction. We propose to search
      for axion dark matter by sending out to space a powerful beam
      of microwave radiation and listening for its echo. We estimate
      the sensitivity of this technique in the isothermal and caustic
      ring models of the Milky Way halo, and find it to be a promising
      approach to axion, or axion-like, dark matter detection.

      Speaker: Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida)
    • 10:20 11:00
      Break 40m
    • 11:00 11:20
      The inelastic and invariant Tom Weiler 20m
      Speaker: James Dent
    • 11:20 11:40
      SUSY, naturalness, landscape and axions 20m

      I discuss why SUSY is still natural, how radiative natural SUSY emerges from the landscape and how SUSY saves the axion.
      And tell TomSTories.

      Speaker: Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)
    • 11:40 12:00
      Tom is 70! 20m
      Speakers: Sandip Pakvasa, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch 2h
    • 14:00 14:20
      From sterile neutrinos to extra dimensions and time travel 20m
      Speaker: Heinrich Päs
    • 14:20 14:40
      Do altered dispersion relations explain the LSND/MiniBooNE signals? 20m

      The LSND and MiniBooNE event excesses are compared to the predictions from altered dispersion relations.

      Speaker: William Louis (LANL)
    • 14:40 15:00
      Observidence of a correlation between the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays and nearby starbursts 20m
      Speaker: Luis Anchordoqui (CUNY)
    • 15:00 15:40
      Break 40m
    • 15:40 16:00
      Exact neutrino oscillation probabilities in matter 20m
      Speaker: Peter Denton
    • 16:00 16:20
      Energy-momentum conservation and neutrino oscillation 20m

      A new method to impose strict energy-momentum conservation in the neutrino processes is proposed and some interesting outcomes will be presented.

      Speaker: HoSeong La
    • 16:20 16:40
      The Jarlskog invariant in matter 20m

      Selected topics on Oscillation Probabilities in Matter.

      Speaker: Stephen Parke (FermiLAND)
    • 16:40 16:50
      Concluding remarks 10m
      Speaker: Tom Kephart
    • 16:50 17:00
      Before dinner speech 10m
      Speaker: Tom Weiler
    • 18:30 21:00
      Dinner 2h 30m Restaurant answer.

      Restaurant answer.

      132 46th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37209
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