YETI 2015

7 Jan 2015, 12:00 → 9 Jan 2015, 19:15 Europe/London

OC218 (IPPP, Durham)

The Young Experimentalists and Theorists Institute aims to promote interaction between the two halves of the particle physics community at the early career stage and encourage interest in phenomenology. YETI aims to give a pedagogical introduction to a particular area of topical interest in particle physics. A key feature are the hands-on sessions in the afternoons. The topic of YETI 2015 is cosmology and astroparticle physics. The specific topics and lecture schedule can be found in the timetable link.

Wednesday, 7 January

12:00 Lunch

1 Introduction to cosmology and evidence for dark matter

Speaker: Ed Copeland (Nottingam)

Slides YETI2015-Copeland.pdf

15:30 Coffee

2 Structure formation

Speaker: Carlton Baugh

Slides YETI2015_Baugh.pdf

18:00 Dinner

Thursday, 8 January

3 CMB theory (inflation, cosmological perturbations, etc)

Speaker: Peter Coles (Sussex)

Slides YETI_Coles.pdf

10:30 Coffee

4 CMB observation

Speaker: Jo Dunkley (Oxford)

Slides yeti_jan8_dunkley.pdf

12:30 Lunch

5 Dark energy and modified gravity

Speaker: Clare Burrage

Slides Burrage.pdf

6 Tutorial -- CMB with CLASS

Speaker: Aaron Vincent

Slides http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/~avincent/CLASS_yeti_notes.pdf

18:00 Dinner

Friday, 9 January

7 Dark matter theory

Speaker: Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Slides YETI15.pdf

10:30 Coffee

8 Dark matter: direct searches

Speaker: Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London)

Slides http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~haraujo/PG/YETILecture_DM-150109.pptx YETILecture_Henrique.pdf

9 Dark matter: indirect searches

Speaker: Aaron Vincent

Slides aaron-YETI-ID-2015-1.pdf

12:30 Lunch

10 Dark matter: collider searches

Speaker: Sarah Malik

Slides YETIlecture.pdf

11 Tutorial -- DM constraints with CHECKMATE

Speaker: Daniel Schmeier

Slides http://checkmate.hepforge.org/online_tutorial/15_01_YETI/

18:00 Dinner