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17 December 2014 Dear Participants: It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 11th topical physics conference in the “Miami” series --- a meeting that begins a sixth decade of physics conferences held in south Florida. I hope you find the conference to be enjoyable as well as informative, and I thank all of you for your enthusiastic participation in these meetings, especially those of you who willingly share your research in formal talks and private discussions. You are the conference. Before the current series began in December 2004, the “Coral Gables conferences” were organized by University of Miami faculty, especially Behram Kursunoglu, from January 1964 to December 2003, often assisted by many faculty from other institutions, including some among this year’s participants. In particular, Sydney Meshkov and/or Arnold Perlmutter have attended all of these meetings since they began over 50 years ago. It seems fair to say that their presence is a “tradition” for these conferences. It is also traditional for these meetings to try to accommodate all requests to speak without having parallel sessions. Once again that will be the case. But another previous tradition will be broken this year. The conference program will not be printed and distributed in a binder, as it has been in the past. This year the program will only be available, in its entirety, online. Go to: https://cgc.physics.miami.edu/Miami2014.html If you have any special requirements for your talk, or if you have any questions that the hotel staff cannot answer, please ask any member of the organizing committee. The local members of that committee are: Jo Ann Curtright (cell phone number 786-200-1480), Thomas Curtright (cell phone number 305-793-4637), Luca Mezincescu (cell phone number 305-905-2864), as well as Diego Castano, Stephan Mintz, and Arnold Perlmutter. Our best wishes for a successful meeting. Sincerely, Thomas Curtright (for the conference organizers) A topical conference on elementary particles, astrophysics, and cosmology sponsored by the Department of Physics and the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami Wednesday - Tuesday, 17 - 23 December Lago Mar Resort, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 51 years of physics conferences in south Florida January 1964 -- December 2014 People Schedule Abstracts & Talks Software Awards Registration Hotel Reservations Travel Map & Directions Restaurants To request a written invitation or additional information, send email to [email protected] Previous meetings in this series are described at https://cgc.physics.miami.edu/ Steering Committee: Diego Castano, Nova Southeastern University (outreach) Please see here for a list of all Jo Ann Curtright, University of Miami (administrative assistant) conference registrants. Thomas Curtright, University of Miami (committee chairman) Sydney Meshkov, California Institute of Technology (gravity waves/LIGO) Luca Mezincescu, University of Miami (new ideas/recent dev's) Stephan Mintz, Florida International University (neutrinos) Arnold Perlmutter, University of Miami (emeritus) Pierre Ramond, University of Florida (extra dimensions) Session Organizers: David Cline, UCLA (dark matter) Don Colladay, New College of Florida (testing Lorentz/CPT) Ruth Daly, Penn State University (cosmology/dark energy) Paul Frampton, Unaffiliated (cosmology) Jaume Gomis, Perimeter Institute (strings/branes) Tom Kephart, Vanderbilt University (beyond standard model) Djordje Minic, Virginia Tech (string theory) Guenakh Mitselmakher, University of Florida (Tevatron/LHC) Rajamani Narayanan, Florida International University (progress in QCD) Ina Sarcevic, University of Arizona (neutrinos) Cosmas Zachos, Argonne National Laboratory (new ideas/recent dev's) Back to conference home page 1 Afshordi-Niayesh Niayesh Afshordi University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute Cosmological Non-Constant Problem 2 Baba-Kurando Kurando Baba Fukushima National College of Technology Supersymmetry and Cotangent Bundle over Non-compact Hermitian Symmetric Space E_{6(-14)}/SO(10) x U(1) 3 Berera-Arjun Arjun Berera University of Edinburgh Fluctuation-dissipation dynamics in the early Universe 4 Bhattacharya-Atri Atri Bhattacharya University of Arizona Exploring some unconventional sources as the origin of TeV-PeV energy neutrinos at the IceCube detector 5 Bian-Jianming Jianming Bian University of Minnesota The NOvA experiment 6 Bonivento-Walter-Marcello Walter Marcello Bonivento INFN - Cagliari SHIP: a new experiment proposal at CERN/SPS to search for neutral, very weakly coupled, long lived massive particles 7 Buniy-Roman Roman Buniy Chapman University Improving the thin-wall approximation for bounces 8 Burdyuzha-Vladimir Vladimir Burdyuzha Astro-Space Center, Lebedev Physical Inst. Russian Academy of Sciences Three Generations of Particles are Necessary in our Universe 9 Cardini-Alessandro Alessandro Cardini INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Italy (no talk) 10 Castano-Diego Diego Castano Nova Southeastern University (no talk) 11 Catto-Sultan Sultan Catto CUNY Graduate School/Baruch Campus Octonions and Dynamical Supersymmetry 12 Ciani-Giacomo Giacomo Ciani University of Florida LIGO 13 Cline-David David Cline UCLA The Search for Dark Matter 14 Colladay-Donald Donald Colladay New College of Florida Desingularization and Finsler Geometry in the SME 15 Culetu-Hristu Hristu Culetu Ovidius University C-metric and the origin of inertia 16 Curtright-Thomas Thomas Curtright U of Miami Rotations as Spin Matrix Polynomials 17 Daly-Ruth Ruth Daly Penn State University Black Hole Spin Properties of AGN with Powerful Outflows 18 Debbasch-Fabrice Fabrice Debbasch UPMC + DGA, France Quantum Walks as Dirac Fermions in artificial Gauge Fields 19 DeYoung-Tyce Tyce DeYoung Michigan State University Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube DeepCore and PINGU 20 Edmonds-Douglas Douglas Edmonds Emory & Henry College MoNDian Dark Matter in Clusters 21 Finkelstein-David-Ritz David Finkelstein Georgia Tech Gauging by quantifying 22 Frampton-Paul Paul Frampton Unaffiliated Bang or Bounce 23 Friedland-Alexander Alexander Friedland LANL Probing dark sector physics at IceCube 24 Fronsdal-Christian Christian Fronsdal University of California Los Angeles The structure of flow in Hydrodynamics, Thermodynamics and General Relativity, from Navier Stokes to Tolman 25 Geshnizjani-Ghazal Ghazal Geshnizjani University of Waterloo Theoretical implications of detecting primoridal gravitational waves 26 Gherghetta-Tony Tony Gherghetta University of Minnesota The Unnatural Composite Higgs 27 Gogoladze-Ilia Ilia Gogoladze University of Delaawre 3.5 keV X-ray line and Supersymmetry 28 Goulianos-Konstantin Konstantin Goulianos The Rockefeller University LHC Results Support RENORM Predictions of Diffraction 29 Guendelman-Eduardo Eduardo Guendelman Physics Department, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel Unification of Inflation and Dark Energy in a Non Singular Emergent Scenario 30 Han-Ke Ke Han Yale University Reactor neutrino experiments 31 Hernandez-Daniel Daniel Hernandez Northwestern University Solar neutrinos and neutrino decay 32 Hinterbichler-Kurt Kurt Hinterbichler Perimeter Institute Holography for a Non-Inflationary Early Universe 33 Ho-Chiu-Man Chiu Man Ho Michigan State University Off-Shell Sparticles 34 Hosek-Jiri Jiri Hosek Department of Theoretical Physics, Nuclear Physics Institute Rez (Prague) Dynamical generation of lepton and quark masses and its consequences 35 Kass-Richard Richard Kass Ohio State University Beyond the SM Higgs, results from ATLAS and CMS 36 Kawai-Shinsuke Shinsuke Kawai Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Testing supersymmetric Higgs inflation with non-Gaussianity 37 Kehayias-John John Kehayias Vanderbilt University Chaotic Inflation from Nonlinear Sigma Models in Supergravity 38 Kephart-Tom Tom Kephart Vanderbilt University (no talk) 39 Korytov-Andrey Andrey Korytov University of Florida SM Higgs results (ATLAS+CMS) 40 Kouroumalou-Peggy Peggy Kouroumalou University of Athens Inflation in R2 supergravity theories with non-trivial superpotential couplings 41 Kruczenski-Martin Martin Kruczenski Purdue University Wilson loops and minimal area surfaces in hyperbolic space 42 Lai-Adriano Adriano Lai I.N.F.N. (no talk) 43 Landsberg-Greg Gregory Landsberg CERN Collider Searches for Dark Matter - Beyond the EFT 44 Leroy-Olivier Olivier Leroy CPPM, Aix-Marseille University CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France LHCb status and prospects 45 Malik-Sudhir Sudhir Malik University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Status and plans for the CMS experiment 46 Mannheim-Philip Philip Mannheim University of Connecticfut PT Symmetry, Conformal Symmetry, and the Metrication of the Fundamental Forces 47 McGuigan-Michael Michael McGuigan Brookhaven National Laboratory Compactifcations and cosmological solutions of the non-supersymmetric SO(16)xSO(16) heterotic string 48 Meshkov-Sydney Sydney Meshkov Caltech (no talk) 49 Mezincescu-Luca Luca Mezincescu University of Miami TBA 50 Minic-Djordje Djordje Minic Virginia Tech Metastring Theory and the Real World 51 Mintz-Stephan Stephan Mintz Florida International University (no talk) 52 Mishra-Sanjib Sanjib Mishra University of South Carolina The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/Experiment 53 Mitselmakher-Guenakh Guenakh Mitselmakher University of Florida (no talk) 54 Moffat-John John Moffat Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Modified Gravity (MOG) and Dark Matter: Can We Detect Dark Matter in the Present Universe? 55 Mueller-Guido Guido Mueller University of Florida LISA 56 Ng-Y-Jack Y. 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