Speaker: Sergei Gleyzer Title: Opportunities for New Physics with Modern Deep Learning Methods for the CMS Experiment Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has achieved unprecedented levels of sensitivity to

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

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Michael Fleischhauer (Univ. of Kaiserslautern) Title: Non-local nonlinear optics using Rydberg atoms Abstract: Photons do not easily interact with each other and nonlinear processes
on the few-photon level can usually

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