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Scientific Program

Conference Timetable


Plenary Program: See the Timetable below.

Parallel Program (last updated May 28): Click on the blue "track" titles just below to access.

For the official Parallel Program version, see the Indico Page

Poster Session (last updated June 1): Click here to see: List of Posters or Click here to see: Book of Poster Abstracts

June 2 Public Lecture: A virtual ticket is requred even for CIPANP participants. Use the public lecture link to the left to obtain one.









Track acronyms:
PHE: Physics at High Energies
PPHI: Precision Physics at High Intensities
CPDE: Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity
NMNM: Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing
TSEI: Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction
DM: Dark Matter
PNA: Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
HFCKM: Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix
QCDHS: QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics
PGDNN: Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei
NFS: Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects
QMHI: Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
8:00 - 9:45

Plenary 1

Chair: Wim van Oers

Opening

Wick Haxton

CPDE

1. Results from the Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope:
Eric Baxter, Pennsylvania

2. Theories of Cosmic Acceleration:
Austin Joyce, Columbia

Special Topic

Recent Developments in the Proton Radius Puzzle:
Helene Fleurbaey, NIST

Plenary 3

Chair: Young-Kee Kim

HFCKM

1. Lepton Universality Violation:
Gerco Onderwater, Groningen

2. Experimental Status of Vub/Vcb and the CKM Angle γ:
Abner Soffer, Tel Aviv

Special Topic

QWeak Final Results:
Kent Paschke, Virginia

Plenary 5

Chair: Dave Hertzog

QMHI

1. Recent Results on Heavy Flavor Production in High Energy Nuclear Collisions:
Xin Dong, LBNL

2. Status of Searches for Chiral Magnetic Effects:
Wei Li, Rice

Special Topic

EIC Physics:
Ernst Sichtermann, LBNL







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Plenary 7

Chair: Frank Calaprice

NMNM

1. Recent Progress on Double Beta Decay and Latest GERDA Results:
Karl-Tasso Knoepfle, MPI-Heidelberg

2. Neutrino Oscillations:
Pedro Machado, FNAL

Special Topic

Fingerprints of the First Stars in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum:
Raul Monsalve, Colorado

Plenary 10a

Chair: Wick Haxton

Conveners' Highlights

    PHE

    Stefania Gori & Verena Martinez-Outschoorn

    PPHI

    Aida El-Khadra & Renee Fatemi

    NMNM

    Andre DeGouvea

    PNA

    Barry Davids

    NFS

    Paul Reimer
9:45 - 10:10 Break Break Break Break Break
10:10 - 12:30

Plenary 2

Chair: Dick Mischke

PHE

1. Higgs Physics:
Sally Dawson, BNL

2. Latest LHC Results:
Petar Maksimovic, Johns Hopkins

QCDHS

1. Recent Progress on Hadron Spectroscopy from Lattice QCD:
Jozef Dudek, JLab

2. Recent Results from GLUEX:
Justin Stevens, William & Mary

Plenary 4

Chair: Dave Bowman

PPHI

1. Electromagnetic Properties of Antihydrogen and the Antiproton - Recent Results from ALPHA and BASE:
Dan Maxwell, Swansea

2. Lattice QCD and its Applications to Fundamental Symmetries:
Amy Nicholson, North Carolina

TSEI

1. Results from NPDGamma:
Nadia Fomin, Tennessee

2. CKM Tests in Neutron and Nuclear Beta Decay:
Martin Gonzalez-Alonso, CERN

Plenary 6

Chair: Karl Van Bibber

DM

1. Recent Results from Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments:
Kaixuan Ni, UCSD

2. Light and Ultra-light Dark Matter:
Tongyan Lin, UCSD

PNA

1. Coherent Scattering and the Flavor Physics and Detection of Supernova Neutrinos:
Kate Scholberg, Duke

2. The Anisotropies and Origins of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays:
Francis Halzen, Wisconsin

Plenary 8

Chair: Brad Sherrill

NFS

1. EMC Effect - New Insights and Future Studies:
David Gaskell, JLab

2. Short-range Correlations in Nuclei:
Alexandra Gade, MSU

PGDNN

1. Light-cone physics and large-momentum effective field theory:
Yong Zhao, MIT

2. The Structure of the Nucleon:
Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, UIUC

Plenary 10b

Chair: Brendan Casey

Conveners' Highlights

    QMHI

    TBA

    HFCKM

    Wolfgang Altmannschofer

    QCDHS

    Seamus Riordan

    PGDNN

    Ralf Seidl

    CPDE

    Kev Abazajian

    DM

    George Fuller

    TSEI

    Wick Haxton

    Closing Remarks

    Brendan Casey

12:30 - 2:00   Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
14:00 - 15:40

Parallel 1

PHE

HFCKM/PPHI

NMNM

DM

PNA

NFS

Parallel 3

DM/PHE

PPHI

CPDE

NMNM

PNA

HFCKM

Parallel 5

PHE

DM

NMNM

PGDNN

NFS

QCDHS

QMHI

Parallel 7

PHE/TSEI

PPHI

DM

HFCKM

NFS/QCDHS

PGDNN

Plenary 9

Chair: Baha Balantekin

NS Mergers

1. LIGO/Virgo Observations of Neutron Star Merger GW170817:
Jocelyn Read, Cal State Fullerton

2. Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers:
Kenta Hotokezaka, Princeton

3. Kilonova Modeling - Nucleosynthesis and Radioactivity:
Dan Kasen, UC Berkeley/LBNL

15:40 - 16:10 Break Break Break Break Break
16:10 - 18:30
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E

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I

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T

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A

T

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Parallel 2

PHE

HFCKM/PPHI

NMNM

TSEI

DM

QCDHS

Parallel 4

PHE

CPDE

NMNM

TSEI

DM/PPHI

PGDNN/QMHI

NFS

Parallel 6

PPHI/TSEI

CPDE

NMNM

DM

PNA

NFS

QMHI

Parallel 8

NMNM/TSEI

PNA

QCDHS

PGDNN

NFS

QMHI

Parallel 9

PHE

TSEI

PPHI/QCDHS

PGDNN

QMHI

  
18:30 - 19:00 Reception     Poster Session    
19:00 - 19:30        
19:30 - 20:00       Conference Banquet    
20:00 - 20:30         Public Lecture:
Barry Barish, Caltech
Merging Black Holes ...
Chair: Dave Nygren		  
20:30 - 21:00          

Plenary Session Speakers

Listing by topic

Physics at High Energies:
  • Higgs Physics
    • Sally Dawson, BNL
  • Latest LHC Results
    • Petar Maksimovic, Johns Hopkins
Precision Physics at High Intensities:
  • Electromagnetic Properties of Antihydrogen and the Antiproton - Recent Results from ALPHA and BASE
    • Dan Maxwell, Swansea
  • Lattice QCD and its Applications to Fundamental Symmetries
    • Amy Nicholson, North Carolina
Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity:
  • Results from the Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope
    • Eric Baxter, Pennsylvania
  • Theories of Cosmic Acceleration
    • Austin Joyce, Columbia
  • Fingerprints of the First Stars in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum
    • Raul Monsalve, Colorado
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing:
  • Recent Progress on Double Beta Decay and Latest GERDA Results
    • Karl-Tasso Knoepfle, MPI-Heidelberg
  • Neutrino Oscillations
    • Pedro Machado, FNAL
Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction:
  • Results from NPDGamma
    • Nadia Fomin, Tennessee
  • CKM Tests in Neutron and Nuclear Beta Decay
    • Martin Gonzalez-Alonso, CERN
  • QWeak Final Results
    • Kent Paschke, Virginia
Dark Matter:
  • Recent Results from Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments
    • Kaixuan Ni, UCSD
  • Light and Ultra-light Dark Matter
    • Tongyan Lin, UCSD
Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics:
  • Coherent Scattering and the Flavor Physics and Detection of Supernova Neutrinos
    • Kate Scholberg, Duke
  • The Anisotropies and Origins of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
    • Francis Halzen, Wisconsin
  • LIGO/Virgo Observations of Neutron Star Merger GW170817
    • Jocelyn Read, Cal State Fullerton
  • Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers
    • Kenta Hotokezaka, Princeton
  • Kilonova Modeling - Nucleosynthesis and Radioactivity
    • Dan Kasen, UC Berkeley/LBNL
Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix:
  • Lepton Universality Violation
    • Gerco Onderwater, Groningen
  • Experimental Status of Vub/Vcb and the CKM Angle γ
    • Abner Soffer, Tel Aviv
QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy and Exotics:
  • Recent Progress on Hadron Spectroscopy from Lattice QCD
    • Jozef Dudek, JLab  
    • Recent Developments in the Proton Radius Puzzle
      • Helene Fleurbaey, NIST 
    • Recent Results from GLUEX
      • Justin Stevens, William & Mary


    Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei:
    • Light-cone physics and large-momentum effective field theory
      • Yong Zhao, MIT
    • The Structure of the Nucleon
      • Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, UIUC
    • EIC Physics
      • Ernst Sichtermann, LBNL


    Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects:
    • EMC Effects
      • David Gaskell, JLab
    • Short-range Correlations in Nuclei
      • Alexandra Gade, MSU 


    Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions:
    • Recent Results on Heavy Flavor Production in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
      • Xin Dong, LBNL
    • Status of Searches for Chiral Magnetic Effects
      • Wei Li, Rice