WELCOME TO THE PPC 2018: XII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY August 20, 2018 2 / 9 Conference scientific programme A venue to discuss particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics: 1 Gravitational waves: Monday August 20 – 24, 2018, Zurich, Switzerland 2 Early Universe cosmology: Monday PPC 2018 XIIth International Workshop on the Interconnection between Particle Physics and Cosmology 3 Late Universe cosmology: Monday and Tuesday The objectives of PPC 2018 are to analyze the connection between dark matter and particle physics models, discuss the connections among dark matter, grand unification models and recent neutrino results, explore predictions for ongoing and forthcoming experiments, and to provide a stimulating venue for exchange of scientific ideas among experts in these areas. 4 Low energy precision experiments: Monday International Program Advisory Committee Ben Allanach (Cambridge) John Ellis (King’s College London/CERN) Vernon Barger (Wisconsin) V.A. Bednyakov (JINR) Wim de Boer (Karlsruhe) 5 Dark matter: Tuesday and Thursday Joel Butler (FNAL/CERN) Tiziano Camporesi (CERN) Johnathan Ellis (CERN) JoAnne Hewett (SLAC) Ian Hinchliffe (LBL) Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR & IFT-UNESP) Karl Jakobs (U. Freiburg) Gordon Kane (Michigan) 6 Neutrinos: Tuesday Dmitri I. Kazakov (JINR, Dubna) Robert Kirshner (Harvard) Tomio Kobayashi (Tokyo) Pran Nath (NEU) Mihoko Nojiri (KEK) Frank Paige (BNL) Saul Perlmutter (LBNL) Michael Peskin (SLAC) 7 Collider physics: Wednesday and Thursday Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins) Graham Ross (Oxford) Paul Shapiro (UT Austin) Melvyn Shochet (Chicago) George F. Smoot (UC Berkeley) David Spergel (Princeton) Paris Sphicas (CERN & Athens U.) S.C.C. Ting (MIT) 8 Modern tools in detection and data analysis in Steven Weinberg (UT Austin) Local programme committee Adam Amara (ETH Zürich) Philippe Jetzer (University of Zürich) Laura Baudis (University of Zürich) Ben Kilminster (University of Zürich) Adrian Biland (ETH Zürich) Klaus Kirch (ETH Zürich) Florencia Canelli (University of Zürich) Alexandre Refregier (ETH Zürich) particle physics and astrophysics: Wednesday Günther Dissertori (ETH Zürich) André Rubbia (ETH Zürich) Christoph Grab (ETH Zürich) Lesya Shchutska (ETH Zürich) More Information: Gino Isidori (University of Zürich) Jaiyul Yoo (University of Zürich) https://ppc2018.ethz.ch Images of baryon acoustic oscillations with cosmic microwave background – by E.M. Huff, the SDSS-III team, and the South Pole Telescope team. Graphic by Zosia Rostomian (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) | Image of neutrino astro-physics, taken from https://astro.desy.de/ | Image of the LHC by CERN Photo | Image of Bullet Cluster by NASA/ Chandra X-ray Center | Image of the merging black hole binary system by SXS, the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project 9 Model building: Friday Department of Physics 10 Closing talks: Friday Poster sessions accompanied by special speed talks will happen on Tuesday and Thursday. 3 / 9 Internet access Two possible ways to go online: 1 “eduroam” is available 2 “public” WLAN with a temporary account: go to http://t.uzh.ch/coa the Event-ID is 18PPC182829 “Request Account” button will redirect you to a page with your Username and Password store locally your login credentials for the length of the conference 4 / 9 Lunch locations A couple of close-by recommended locations (2 min. walk): apoTHEKE: http://apotheke-zh.ch/, Zürichbergstrasse 17 Reif: https://www.reif-metzgerei.ch/, Zürichbergstrasse 20 UZH places: https://www.mensa.uzh.ch/de/standorte/restaurant- uniturm.html ETH places: https://www.ethz.ch/en/campus/getting-to-know/cafes- restaurants-shops/ gastronomy/restaurants-and-cafeterias/zentrum.html 5 / 9 Conference reception Tuesday @ 17:30 Will be held in the faculty restaurant “Dozentenfoyer” in the main ETH Zürich building (map) 6 / 9 Excursion to the Old Town Wednesday @ 16:00 16:00 meeting with the guides at the UZH main building (Rämistrasse 71) 16:00 - 16:05 walk to the bus station “ETH link” (Rämistrasse 101) 16:05 - 17:30 city-tour with two buses 17:30 - 19:00 Old Town walking tour 19:00 end of the tour at the Fraumünster More information: https://www.zuerich.com/en/visit/tours- excursions/stories-of-the-old-town 7 / 9 Conference dinner Thursday @ 18:30 18:30 Guest arrival, apero 19:00 Dinner The conference dinner will be hosted in the restaurant “Zunfthaus zur Saffran” located in the center of Zürich: Limmatquai 54 (map), 10 min. walk from the conference venue. 8 / 9 Useful links Conference indico page: https://indico.cern.ch/e/PPC2018 Conference website: https://ppc2018.ethz.ch/ Weather page: https://meteo.search.ch/zuerich 9 / 9.