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Speaker: Gautham Narayan Title: From Tens to Tens of Thousands: Supernovae Science in the Big-Data Era Abstract: Despite observations of thousands of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), we still do not have a clear understanding of the progenitor systems of these explosions. Our limited understanding of these events restricts our understanding of the nature of

Speaker: Eli Visbal Title: Revealing the First Billion Years of the Universe Abstract: How the first stars and galaxies formed is an exciting open question in astrophysics and cosmology. Answering this question will shed light on the earliest stages of galaxy evolution and test models of dark matter particle physics. In this talk, I shall

Speaker: Andrew Brinkerhoff Title: Higgs couplings: GREAT and small Abstract: Just 5 years after the Higgs boson was discovered, the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN have precisely measured most of its properties. The observed Higgs lifetime, spin, and parity, and its interactions with weak bosons, bottom quarks, and tau leptons all agree with the

Speaker: Abdollah Mohammadi (Kansas State) Title: LHC and the quest of understanding the Universe Abstract: Almost a decade has passed since the first proton-proton beam collisions took place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The discovery of the Standard Model Higgs boson in 2012 represented a thrilling triumph for the particle physics community

Speaker: Senka Duric Title: Electroweak and Higgs physics at the LHC: The present and the future Abstract: Contrary to all expectations, experiments at the LHC did not discover any fundamentally new particles other than the Higgs boson. However, a lot can be learned from precision measurements of Higgs boson properties and the production of vector

Speaker: Jamal Rorie (Rice) Title: Dark Matter, CMS, and the Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Abstract: There is compelling observational evidence for the existence of dark matter, but it is not currently included in the Standard Model of elementary particle and their interactions. The recently observed Higgs boson may interact with dark matter

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Speaker: Pinfold Title: Dirac's Dream - The Quest for the Magnetic Monopole Abstract: The elusive magnetic monopole is arguably the most important particle that has yet to be discovered. We shall follow the search for the monopole from its Victorian beginnings until today and discuss how we can continue into the future. We shall see