Rencontres du Vietnam: Windows on the Universe 2018

Scientific Program: Preliminary

Monday August 6^th
Opening Session
08:30 08:35	Welcome and presentation of guests
08:35 08:45	Welcome addressed by Dr. Trân Thanh Vân , Rencontres du Vietnam
08:45 09:05	Welcome addressed by Dr. Phạm Công Tạc , Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology
09:05 09:20	Welcome addressed by M. Trần Châu ,Vice President of the province of Bình Định
25^th Anniversary Celebration
09:20 - 09:35	Nguyễn Văn Hiệu , co-organizer of the first Rencontres du Vietnam
09:35 - 09:45	Huỳnh Thành Đạt , President of Ho Chi Minh the National University
09:45 - 09:55	Đàm Thanh Sơn , Particle Physics, participant of the first Rencontres du Vietnam
09:55 - 10:05	Nguyễn Trọng Hiền , Astrophysics, participant of the first Rencontres du Vietnam
10:05 - 10:15	Nguyễn Anh Kỳ , previous organizer of Vietnam schools of Physics
10:15 - 10:25	Jacques Dumarchez , organizer of the Rencontres du Vietnam
Conference photograph
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Opening Session (cont'd) Chairperson: Meenakshi Narain (Brown University, Providence) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
11:00 - 11:30	Pushing the emergence frontier: from fractional quantum Hall effect to new field-theoretic dualities Đàm Thanh Sơn (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)
11:30 - 12:00	High Energy Physics in Asia and the ILC project Jie Gao (Institute of High Energy Physics CAS, Beijing)
12:00 - 12:30	Astrophysics in Asia and the East Asian Observatory Paul Ho (East Asian Observatory ASIAA)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Common Session #1 Chairperson: Ulrich Heintz (Brown University, Providence) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
13:30 - 14:00	CMS Status Joel Butler (Fermilab, Batavia)
14:00 - 14:30	ALICE Status Tapan Nayak (CERN, Geneva)
14:30 - 15:00	Progress on the development of Astrophysics and Space Science at Viet Nam National University HCMC Bao Ngoc Phan (Vietnam National University HCMC)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Common Session #2 Chairperson: Freya Blekman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
15:30 - 16:00	Inflation as a cosmological collider Yi Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
16:00 - 16:30	LHCb status Giovanni Passaleva (INFN Sezione di Firenze and CERN, Geneva)
16:30 - 17:00	ATLAS Status Alessandro Polini (INFN Bologna)
17:00 - 17:30	Flavour: implications of LHC measurements and future prospects Gino Isidori (University of Zurich)
17:30 - 18:00 Informal discussions and/or beach

Tuesday August 7^th
Common Session #3 Chairperson: Jon Sievers (UKZN and McGill University, Montréal) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
08:30 - 09:00	Theories of central engine for long gamma-ray bursts Shigehiro Nagataki (RIKEN, Wako)
09:00 - 09:30	Icecube and High energy Elisa Resconi (Technical University Munich)
09:30 - 10:00	Origin of the weak scale. New physics ideas Emilian Dudas (CPhT Ecole Polytechique, Palaiseau)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Astro/Cosmo Plenary Session #1 Chairperson: Yi Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
11:00 - 11:30	Curing strong coupling in Higgs inflation with R^2-term Dmitry Gorbunov (INR RAS, Moscow) [PDF]
11:30 - 12:00	Topological pseudo-defects of a supersymmetric SO(10) model and cosmological implications Ila Garg (IIT Bombay) [PDF]
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
AstroCosmo Plenary Session #2 Chairperson: Thierry Montmerle (IAP, Paris) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
13:30 - 14:00	The Origin of Ultra high Energy Cosmic Ray Noemie Globus (Racah Institute of Physics, Jerusalem) [PDF]
14:00 - 14:30	Critical Tests Of The Leading Gamma Ray Burst Theories Arnon Dar (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa) [PPTX]
14:30 - 15:00	Highlights from the Pierre Auger Observatory Marcus Niechciol (Universität Siegen) [PDF]
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
AstroCosmo Plenary Session #3 Chairperson: Gérard Fontaine (LLR, Palaiseau) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
15:30 - 16:00	From high-energy to low-energy cosmic rays: mind the gap! Thierry Montmerle (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) [PDF]
16:00 - 16:30	Prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts Hirotaka Ito (RIKEN, Wako) [PPTX]
16:30 - 17:00	The MAGIC telescope as a multiwavelength instrument for astrophysical observations John Hoàng (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) [PPTX]

Wednesday August 8^th
Common Session #4 Chairperson: Joel Butler (Fermilab, Batavia) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
08:00 - 08:30	SM Higgs Physics - current results and future prospects Maria Cepeda (CERN, Geneva) [PDF]
08:30 - 09:00	BSM Higgs searches (including MSSM Higgs) Nikolina Ilic (Radboud University, Nijmegen) [PDF]
09:00 - 09:30	Pursing the shadows of gravitational waves from the beginning of time with BICEP/Keck and future experiments Clement Pryke (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) [PDF]
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
AstroCosmo Plenary Session #4 Chairperson: Clem Pryke (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
10:00 - 10:30	CMB Cosmology beyond thermal equilibrium Jens Chluba (University of Manchester) [PDF]
10:30 - 11:00	Results from ACT Loïc Maurin (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago) [PDF]
11:00 - 11:30	South Pole Telescope: Polarization Spectra and Lensing Results Jason Gallicchio (Harvey Mudd College, Claremont) [PDF]
11:30 - 12:00	Luminous and dark matter in massive galaxies with strong and weak gravitational lensing Alessandro Sonnenfeld (Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa) [PDF]
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 18:30 Excursions

Thursday August 9^th
Common Session #5 Chairperson: Paul Ho (East Asian Observatory ASIAA, Hawaii) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
08:30 - 09:00	Neutrinoless double beta decay Stefan Schoenert (Technical University Munich)
09:00 - 09:30	What have we learned from the observation of gravitational waves? Hyung Mok Lee (KASI, Daejeon) [PDF]
09:30 - 10:00	GW: implications for fundamental physics Daniel Figueroa (EPFL, Lausanne) [PDF]
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
AstroCosmo Plenary Session #5 Chairperson: Jens Chluba (University of Manchester) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
10:30 - 11:00	Searching for cosmic dawn from the sub-Antarctic with PRIZM Hsin Cynthia Chiang (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban / McGill University, Montréal) [PDF]
11:00 - 11:30	The smoking guns of neutron star mergers Arnon Dar (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa) [PPTX]
11:30 - 12:00	An Absorption Signal in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum Raul Monsalve (McGill University, Montreal) [PDF]
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
AstroCosmo Plenary Session #6 Chairperson: Hsin Cynthia Chiang (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban / McGill University, Montréal) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
13:30 - 14:00	Cosmology with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam imaging survey Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU University of Tokyo) [PDF]
14:00 - 14:30	Greenland Telescope (GLT): Imaging the Black Hole Shadow Satoki Matsushita (ASIAA, Taipei) [PDF]
14:30 - 15:00	Multiwavelength observation of FRB121102 with MAGIC Telescopes John Hoàng (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) [PPTX]
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
AstroCosmo Plenary Session #7 Chairperson: Jason Gallicchio (Harvey Mudd College, Claremont) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
15:30 - 16:00	Science of VLBA Ru-Sen Lu (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn) Presented by Satoki Matsushita [PDF]
16:00 - 16:30	Is the cosmic no-hair conjecture valid in conformal-violating Maxwell models? Tuan Do (Vietnam National University Hanoi) [PDF]
18:30 - 21:00 Conference Dinner at ICISE

Friday August 10^th
AstroCosmo Plenary Session #8 Chairperson: Hien T. Nguyen (JPL/Caltech, Pasadena) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
08:30 - 09:00	USTH Master in Space in Vietnam: feedback on students research contributions to Earth Observation, Astrophysics and Satellite Technologies Éric Nuss (LUPM, Montpellier) [PDF]
09:00 - 09:30	An overview of the activities for promoting the astronomical observatory construction project at Tay Nguyen University, Vietnam Le Minh Tan (Tay Nguyen University, Buon Ma Thuot) [PPTX]
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
AstroCosmo Plenary Session #9 Chairperson: (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
10:30 - 11:00	Einstein-Hilbert type action with nonlinear supersymmetry (NLSUSYGR) Kazunari Shima (Saitama Institute of Technology, Fukaya) [PDF]
11:00 - 11:30	A fine-tuned interpretation of the charged lepton mass hierarchy in a microscopic cosmological model Vo Van Thuan (Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute VINATOM, Hanoi) [PDF]
11:30 - 12:00	FRW bulk viscous cosmology with modified Chaplygin gas in flat space in (2+1)-dimensional spacetime Praveen Kumar Dhankar (Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur) [PDF]
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Common Session #6 Chairperson: Joao Guimaraes Da Costa (IHEP, Beijing) (30’ talks = 25'+5’discussion)
13:15 - 13:45	The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment Jon Sievers (UKZN and McGill University, Montreal) [PPTX]
13:45 - 14:15	Dark Matter: alternative to WIMPs Michel Tytgat (Université Libre de Bruxelles) [PDF]
14:15 - 14:45	Dark Matter @ the LHC Vasiliki Kouskoura (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) [PDF]
14:45 - 15:15	Dark matter - direct detection Isabel Lopes (Universidade de Coimbra) [PDF]
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Saturday August 11^th
Closing Session: Chairperson: Jean Trân Thanh Vân (Rencontres du Vietnam)
09:00 - 10:00	HEP Concluding talk George W.S. Hou (National Taiwan University, Taipei) [PPTX]
10:00 - 11:00	Astro/Cosmo Concluding talk John Sievers (UKZN and McGill University, Montreal) [PDF]
11:00 11:15	Closing remarks
12:00 Lunch

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