52nd SLAC Summer Institute (SSI 2024)

5 Aug 2024, 08:30 → 16 Aug 2024, 19:00 America/Los_Angeles

51/1-102 - Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Charlie Young, Dong Su, Greg Madejski, Mark Convery, Richard Partridge, Thomas Rizzo

The SLAC Summer Institute (SSI) is an annual two-week-long Summer School tradition since 1973. The theme of the 52st SLAC Summer Institute is “The Art of Precision: Calculations & Measurements”. Precision measurements and theoretical predictions are often critical to illuminating the physics governing the universe we live in.  Comparing a precise measurement with a precise prediction is a window to new physics, often at energy scales beyond what can otherwise be probed.  Similarly, pushing the precision and sensitivity of searches for new phenomenon opens new avenues for direct discoveries.

The lectures at the 52nd SLAC Summer Institute in 2024 will discuss the many ways that precision plays a key role in our attempts to better understand the fundamental workings of our universe.  The Institute lectures are primarily aimed at senior graduate students and postdocs.  Presentation of topical results, participant projects, Q&A sessions, poster sessions, and social events supplement the lectures to create an invigorating environment for all participants.

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Important dates 

Mar/20	Registration, poster abstract submission and tour/event signup open.
Jun/21	Stanford Guest House SSI room (extended) block expires.
Jul/6	Late registration fees apply.
Aug/2	Poster abstract submission closes.
Aug/5	SSI lectures start

ssi_2024_poster_digital.pdf

Monday, 5 August

08:30 → 09:00 Registration and Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:50 Lectures

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

09:10 Inspiring Precision

Speaker: Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester)

Q & A

10:10 Morning Break

10:30 Electroweak Production & QCD: TH (I)

Speaker: Marius Wiesemann (MPI Munich)

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 Higgs Production & Decay: TH

Speaker: Bernhard Mistlberger (SLAC)

Q & A

12:50 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 18:00 Projects

14:45 Project Kick-off

15:45 Afternoon Break

16:00 Projects

18:00 → 19:00 Reception

Tuesday, 6 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 Electroweak Production & QCD: TH (II)

Speaker: Marius Wiesemann (MPI Munich)

Q & A

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Higgs Production & Decay: Exp

Speaker: Valentina Cairo (CERN)

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 Higgs at e+e- Colliders

Speaker: Sarah Eno

Q & A

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 15:45 Q & A

15:45 → 16:00 Afternoon Break

16:00 → 18:00 Projects

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 7 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 Electroweak Production & QCD at LHC (I)

Speaker: Josh Bendavid (MIT)

Q & A

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 EFT Description of SM Deviations

Speaker: Ilaria Brivio (University of Bologna/CERN)

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 Muon g-2: Date Driven Expectations

Speaker: Martin Hoferichter (University of Bern)

Q & A

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 15:45 Topical Session

14:45 Muon g-2: Experimental Status & Future

Speaker: James Mott (FNAL)

Q & A

15:45 → 16:00 Afternoon Break

16:00 → 18:00 Projects

18:00 → 19:00 Poster Session

Thursday, 8 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:50 Lectures

09:00 Electroweak Production & QCD at LHC (II)

Speaker: Josh Bendavid (MIT)

Q & A

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Status and Future of Electroweak Fits

Speaker: Dr Jorge de Blas (University of Granada (Spain))

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 Muon g-2: Lattice Expectations

Speaker: Aida El-Khadra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Q & A

12:50 → 14:45 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Klystron Gallery and ATLAS ITk Upgrade tour

14:45 → 15:45 Q & A

15:45 → 16:00 Afternoon Break

16:00 → 18:00 Projects

17:00 → 17:45 KIPAC VisLab Tour

Friday, 9 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 10:00 What do we Learn from Tensions & Anomalies

Speaker: Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Q & A

10:00 → 10:30 Morning Break

10:30 → 12:45 Special Session: J/psi @ 50

10:30 BNL perspective

Speaker: Sau Lan Wu (University of Wisconsin)

Q & A

11:10 SLAC perspective

Speaker: Martin Breidenbach (SLAC)

Q & A

11:50 Break

12:05 Retrospective

Speaker: Chris Quigg (Fermilab)

Q & A

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 18:00 Projects

15:45 Afternoon Break

Monday, 12 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light refreshments

09:00 → 12:50 Lectures

09:00 Precision Flavor: TH (I)

Speaker: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (UC Santa Cruz)

Q & A

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Precision Flavor: Exp (I)

Speaker: James Libby (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras)

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 Precision Neutrino Physics: Exp

Speaker: Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)

Q & A

12:50 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 15:45 Q & A

15:45 → 16:00 Afternoon Break

16:00 → 18:00 Projects

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 13 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:50 Lectures

09:00 Precision Flavor: TH (II)

Speaker: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (UC Santa Cruz)

Q & A

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Precision Flavor: Exp (II)

Speaker: James Libby (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras)

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 Tensions in Cosmology

Speaker: Dillon Brout (Boston University)

Q & A

12:50 → 14:45 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Tour: Klystron Gallery & ATLAS Pixel Upgrade

14:45 → 15:45 Topical Session

14:45 DESI results

Speaker: David Schlegel (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Q & A

15:45 → 16:00 Afternoon Break

16:00 → 18:00 Projects

17:00 → 17:45 Tour: KIPAC VisLab

Wednesday, 14 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 Precision Measurements for (Light) Dark Matter

Speaker: Noah Kurinsky (SLAC)

Q & A

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Clarifying Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions: TH

Speaker: Alexander Friedland (SLAC)

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 Clarifying Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions: Exp

Speaker: Deborah Harris (York Univ., Canada)

Q & A

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 15:45 Q & A

15:45 → 16:00 Afternoon Break

16:00 → 18:00 Projects

18:00 → 20:30 Soccer

Thursday, 15 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 Dark Matter Through the Neutrino Fog

Speaker: Hugh Lippincott (UCSB)

Q & A

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Neutrino Astrophysics

Speaker: Justin Vandenbroucke (Univ. of Wisconsin)

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 CMB Theory

Speaker: Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)

Q & A

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Projects: Presentations

15:45 Afternoon Break

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Friday, 16 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 13:00 Lectures

09:00 CMB Experiments

Speaker: Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)

Q & A

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Precision Cosmology

Speaker: Emmanuel Schaan (SLAC)

Q & A

11:30 Break

11:45 Project and Contest Awards

Speaker: Dr Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

11:55 A Precision Future

Speaker: Michael Peskin (SLAC)

Q & A

13:00 → 13:05 Ajourn