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2017 ICFA Seminar

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2017 ICFA Seminar, Ottawa Ontario

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2017 ICFA Seminar

The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) will hold its triennial Seminar from November 6-9, 2017 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, Canada.

2017 Program Committee:

  • Halina Abramowicz
  • Jonathan Bagger
  • Genevieve Belanger
  • Alex Bondar
  • Beate Heinemann
  • Reiner Kruecken
  • Kenneth Long
  • David MacFarlane
  • Toshinori Mori
  • Mihoko Nojiri
  • Natalie Roe
  • Nigel Smith
  • Oliver Stelzer-Chilton
  • Yifang Wang

 

ICFA members:

  • J. Mnich, Chair and CERN Member States
  • G. Taylor, Chair-Elect, Australia
  • P. Bhat, Secretary, USA
  • H. Abramowicz, CERN Member States
  • F. Gianotti, CERN Member States
  • D. MacFarlane, USA
  • N. Lockyer, USA
  • N. Hadley, USA
  • S. Ivanov, Russia
  • A. Bondar, Russia
  • Y. Wang, China
  • E. Álvarez, Other Countries
  • V. Matveev, Other Countries
  • M. Cho, Other Countries
  • T. Mori, Japan
  • M. Yamauchi, Japan
  • M. Roney, Canada
  • J. Fuster, Chair of the IUPAP Commission on Particles and Fields (ex officio)
For more information
    • 08:30 10:00
      Opening Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Andreas Warburton (McGill University/IPP)
      • 08:30
        Welcome to Canada 5m
        Speaker: Andreas Warburton (McGill University/IPP)
        Slides
      • 08:35
        Introduction 25m
        Speaker: Joachim Mnich (DESY)
        Slides
      • 09:00
        Americas Report 20m
        Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (FERMILAB)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        Asia Report 20m
        Speaker: George Wei-Shu Hou (National Taiwan University)
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Europe Report 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and IIHE)
        Slides
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:30
      Neutrinos Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Kenneth Long (Imperial College London/STFC)
      • 10:30
        Neutrino Theory 30m
        Speaker: Raymond Volkas (University of Melbourne)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Long Baseline Experiments 30m
        Speaker: Mr Federico Sanchez (IFAE/BIST)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Short Baseline Experiments 30m
        Speaker: Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Mass Scale 30m
        Speaker: Kunio Inoue (Tohoku University)
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 15:15
      Dark Matter Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Nigel Smith (SNOLAB)
      • 13:30
        Dark Matter Theory 30m
        Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 14:00
        WIMP Dark Matter 25m
        Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SMU)
        Slides
      • 14:25
        Axion Dark Matter 25m
        Speaker: SungWoo Youn (IBS/CAPP)
        Slides
      • 14:50
        Dark Photons 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Natalia Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
        Slides
    • 15:15 15:45
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:45 17:00
      Rare Isotopes Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Jens Dilling (TRIUMF)
      • 15:45
        Advances in Nuclear Theory 25m
        Speaker: Dr Jason Holt (TRIUMF)
        Slides
      • 16:10
        Nuclear Astrophysics 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Marialuisa Aliotta (University of Edinburgh)
        Slides
      • 16:35
        Fundamental Symmetries with Rare Isotopes 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)
        Slides
    • 17:15 18:15
      Applications Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (TRIUMF)
      • 17:15
        Big Data Overview 30m
        Speaker: Kathy Copic (Insight Data)
        Slides
      • 17:45
        Big Data, Science to Industry 30m
        Speaker: Dr Emanuel Strauss (Facebook)
        Slides
    • 19:00 21:00
      Reception Grand Hall (Canadian Museum of History)

      Grand Hall

      Canadian Museum of History

      • 19:30
        Remarks 15m
        Speaker: Julie Payette (Governor General of Canada)
    • 08:30 10:00
      Quantum Chromodynamics Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Halina Abramowicz (Tel Aviv University)
      • 08:50
        Highlights in Heavy Ion Physics 25m
        Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)
        Slides
      • 09:15
        Future of Deep Inelastic Scattering 25m
        Speaker: Tanja Horn (Catholic University of America)
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Precision QCD Processes at the LHC 20m
        Speaker: Juan Rojo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/NIKHEF)
        Slides
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:30
      Flavour Physics Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Toshinori Mori (University of Tokyo)
      • 10:30
        Flavour Theory 30m
        Speaker: Dr Emi Kou (LAL-IN2P3)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Flavour and Precision at the LHC 25m
        Speaker: Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford)
        Slides
      • 11:25
        Status and Prospects for SuperKEKB and Belle II 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Dipole Moments and Lepton Flavour Violation 40m
        Speaker: Dr Wataru Ootani (ICEPP, Univ. of Tokyo)
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 15:00
      Cosmology Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Natalie Roe (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
      • 13:30
        Cosmology Theory 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)
        Slides
      • 14:00
        Dark Energy 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Ofer Lahav (University College London)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Cosmic Microwave Background 30m
        Speaker: Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)
        Slides
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:30 17:00
      New Approaches Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: David MacFarlane (SLAC)
      • 15:30
        Advanced Accelerators 30m
        Speaker: Dr Arnd Specka (Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)
        Slides
      • 16:00
        Particle Physics with Table-Top Experiments 30m
        Speaker: Dr Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        Quantum Materials 30m
        Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL/Berkeley)
        Slides
    • 17:15 18:15
      Applications Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Lia Merminga (SLAC)
      • 17:15
        Medical Isotopes 30m
        Speaker: Dr Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)
        Slides
      • 17:45
        Photons for Life Science 30m
        Speaker: Zehra Sayers (Sabanci University)
        Slides
    • 18:30 21:30
      LCB/ICFA (closed) Le Salon (National Arts Centre)

      Le Salon

      National Arts Centre

    • 08:30 10:00
      Higgs and Electroweak Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Heather Logan (Carleton University)
      • 08:30
        Higgs and Electroweak Theory 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)
        Slides
      • 09:00
        LHC Higgs 30m
        Speaker: Dr Heather Gray (LBNL)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        LHC Electroweak 30m
        Speaker: Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University)
        Slides
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:15
      Energy Frontier Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Kerstin Borras (DESY / RWTH Aachen University)
      • 10:30
        Theory in the LHC Era 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Feng (University of California, Irvine)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        LHC Searches for Supersymmetry 25m
        Speaker: Isabell Melzer-Pellmann (DESY)
        Slides
      • 11:25
        LHC Searches for Exotic Phenomena 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Prospects for HL-LHC and HE-LHC 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Meenakshi Narain (Brown University)
        Slides
    • 12:15 12:20
      Group Photo Shaw Centre

      Shaw Centre

    • 12:20 13:15
      Lunch 55m
    • 13:15 15:00
      Future Accelerators Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)
      • 13:15
        e+e- Theory at Higgs and Top Threshold 20m
        Speaker: Michael Peskin (SLAC/Stanford University)
        Slides
      • 13:35
        pp Theory at 80-100 TeV 20m
        Speaker: Dr Gian Francesco Giudice (CERN)
        Slides
      • 13:55
        ILC Update 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Shinichiro MICHIZONO (KEK)
        Slides
      • 14:15
        CLIC Update 15m
        Speaker: Phil Burrows (University of Oxford)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        CEPC/SPPC Update 15m
        Speaker: Qing Qin (IHEP)
        Slides
      • 14:45
        FCC-ee/FCC-hh Update 15m
        Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)
        Slides
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:30 17:00
      New Technologies Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Brigitte Cros (CNRS LPGP)
      • 15:30
        Superconducting RF 30m
        Speaker: Dr Anna Grassellino (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 16:00
        High Field Magnets 30m
        Speaker: Frederick Bordry (CERN)
        Transparents
      • 16:30
        Detector Developments 30m
        Speaker: Kiyotomo Kawagoe (Kyushu University)
        Slides
    • 17:15 18:15
      Applications Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Juan Fuster (IFIC-Valencia)
      • 17:15
        Accelerator Applications 30m
        Speaker: Prof. John Womersley (European Spallation Source ERIC)
        Slides
      • 17:45
        Detector++ Applications 30m
        Speaker: Dr Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)
        Slides
    • 19:30 21:30
      Banquet 2h Adams Room (Fairmont Chateau Laurier)

      Adams Room

      Fairmont Chateau Laurier

    • 08:30 10:00
      Keynote and Roundtable Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)
      • 08:30
        Keynote 30m
        Speaker: Kate Young (Government of Canada - Parliamentary Secretary for Science)
      • 09:00
        Roundtable 1h
        Speakers: Fabiola Gianotti (Director General of CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland), Genevieve Tanguay (Vice-President of NRC - National Research Council, Canada), John Womersley (Director General of ESS - European Spallation Source, Sweden), Paul Wells (Senior Writer, Maclean’s magazine), Yamauchi Masanori (Director General of KEK - High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan), Zehra Sayers (Chair of Scientific Advisory Committee for SESAME - Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Jordan)
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:15
      Closing Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Pushpalatha BHAT (Fermilab)
      • 10:30
        Communicator Summary 45m
        Speaker: Ian O'Neill (Science Communicator, Astroengine)
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Scientist Summary 45m
        Speaker: Geoffrey Taylor (University of Melbourne)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Closing 15m
        Speaker: Dr Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermilab)
        Slides
    • 13:00 17:00
      FALC (closed) Tudor Room (Fairmont Chateau Laurier)

      Tudor Room

      Fairmont Chateau Laurier