Quantum Universe Kickoff Meeting

Europe/Berlin
DESY Main Auditorium (Campus Bahrenfeld)

DESY Main Auditorium

Campus Bahrenfeld

Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
Description

This is the kickoff meeting of the Cluster of Excellence “Quantum Universe” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of Germany's Excellence Strategy.

(https://www.qu.uni-hamburg.de)

First day will be plenary in the DESY main auditorium, with a special keynote talk at 16:45, followed by a reception. In the morning of second day, teams from sub-projects will meet in parallel sessions.

 

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    • 09:30 10:30
      Quantum Universe Overview 1h DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speakers: Geraldine Servant (DESY and U. hamburg), Jan Louis (Universität Hamburg), Mr Peter Schleper (Hamburg University)
    • 10:30 10:50
      Area: Higgs 20m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Georg Weiglein (DESY)
      Slides
    • 10:50 11:10
      Area: Dark Matter 20m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Dieter Horns
      Slides
    • 11:10 11:40
      Coffee break 30m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 11:40 12:00
      Area: Gravitational Waves 20m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Marcus Brueggen
      Slides
    • 12:00 12:20
      Area: Quantum Theories 20m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Gleb Aryutunov
      Slides
    • 12:20 13:00
      Platforms 40m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)
      Slides
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch break 1h DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 14:00 14:25
      Towards categorified homology 25m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Tobias Dyckerhoff
      Slides
    • 14:25 14:50
      Precision gravity: from the LHC to LISA 25m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Rafael Porto
      Slides
    • 14:50 15:15
      R&D Towards 3rd-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors 25m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Sebastian Steinlechner
      Slides
    • 15:15 15:40
      Coffee break 25m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 15:40 16:05
      Mimicking cosmic high-energy beams in the lab? 25m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speakers: Prof. Florian Grüner (CFEL / UNI-HH), Prof. Guenter Sigl (University of Hamburg)
      Slides
    • 16:05 16:30
      Dark Matter and the Higgs boson 25m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Speaker: Sarah Heim (DESY)
      Slides
    • 16:30 16:45
      Break 15m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 16:45 17:45
      Keynote Talk: "Higgs and the new fundamental interactions" DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg

      Particle physicists often talk of four fundamental forces, or interactions: gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong. Yet particle physicists' standard model has long predicted a new short-range force, associated with the Higgs boson. Unlike the electromagntic, weak and strong forces, its interaction strength does not seem to be a multiple of any underlying basic unit such as the electric charge. Nor does it simply couple to mass in the way that gravity does.

      This new "Higgs" force is hypothesised to shape our world in crucial ways, for example ensuring stability of the proton. Yet it is only in the past two years that experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have succeeded in directly observing it. In this talk I will give an overview of what we know of this unique new force, of questions about
      it that we know in principle how to answer with future colliders, and of others that we still have no idea how to address.

      Convener: Prof. Gavin Salam (U. Oxford)
      slides
    • 17:45 19:45
      Reception 2h DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
  • Wednesday, 20 March
    • 09:30 10:30
      Parallel Sessions Dark Matter: DM3 Seminar Room 2, bldg. 2a

      Seminar Room 2, bldg. 2a

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Convener: Prof. Guenter Sigl (University of Hamburg)
      • 09:30
        Introduction 10m
      • 09:40
        DM3.1, DM3.2: “beam instabilities” 30m
        Speaker: Martin Pohl (DESY)
        Slides
      • 10:10
        DM3.3: “magnetogenesis” 20m
        Speakers: Prof. Guenter Sigl (University of Hamburg), Robi Banerjee
    • 09:30 10:30
      Parallel Sessions Higgs: H2 + DM1.4 DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Convener: Christophe Grojean (DESY)
      • 09:30
        Introduction to H2 projects 5m
        Speaker: Christophe Grojean (DESY)
        Slides
      • 09:35
        Searches for an extended Higgs sector 14m
        Speaker: Dr Tim Stefaniak (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
        Slides
      • 09:49
        Connections between the Higgs and the dark sectors (incl. collider searches for heavy dark sectors as well as for singlet-like Higgs boson) 14m
        Speaker: Fady Bishara (DESY)
        Slides
      • 10:03
        Implications of cosmology in Higgs physics 14m
        Speaker: Nayara Fonseca (DESY)
        Slides
      • 10:17
        DM1.4: Long-lived particles 13m
        Speaker: Krisztian Peters (DESY)
    • 09:30 10:30
      Parallel Sessions Quantum Theories: QT + GW Seminar Room 1, bldg.1

      Seminar Room 1, bldg.1

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Convener: Geraldine Servant (DESY and U. hamburg)
    • 10:30 11:30
      Parallel Sessions Dark Matter: DM2 Seminar Room 2, bldg. 2a

      Seminar Room 2, bldg. 2a

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Convener: Prof. Dieter Horns (Univ. Hamburg)
      • 10:30
        DM2.1: Haloscopes - WISPDMX, BRASS 12m
        Speaker: Le Hoang Nguyen
        Slides
      • 10:42
        DM 2.2: Haloscopes - MADMAX 12m
        Speaker: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)
        Slides
      • 10:54
        DM2.3: Helioscope - IAXO 12m
        Speaker: Uwe Schneekloth (DESY)
        Slides
      • 11:06
        DM2.4: New experiments - WISPFI, WISPLC 12m
        Speaker: Mr Yikun GU (IEXP, University of Hamburg)
      • 11:18
        Discussion 12m
    • 10:30 11:30
      Parallel Sessions Gravitational Waves: GW Seminar Room 3, bldg. 1b

      Seminar Room 3, bldg. 1b

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      Convener: Marcus Brüggen (Sternwarte)
    • 10:30 11:30
      Parallel Sessions Higgs: H1 DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Convener: Kerstin Tackmann (DESY)
      • 10:30
        High-precision predictions and vacuum stability constraints 10m
        Speaker: Bernd Kniehl (II. Inst. f. Theor. Phys., Univ. Hamburg)
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Higgs measurements and combination 10m
        Speaker: Adinda de Wit (DESY)
        Slides
      • 10:50
        Global fits and CP properties 10m
        Speaker: Dr Tim Stefaniak (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Higgs potential and self-interaction 10m
        Speaker: Christophe Grojean (DESY)
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Simplified template cross sections and theory predictions 10m
        Speaker: Frank Tackmann (DESY)
        Slides
      • 11:20
        Discussion 10m
    • 10:30 11:30
      Parallel Sessions Quantum Theories: QT Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Convener: Vicente Cortés
      • 10:30
        Differential-geometric structures and problems from supergravity theories 30m
        Speaker: Carlos Shahbazi
      • 11:00
        Integrable structures in supersymmetric gauge theories 30m
        Speaker: Fabrizio Nieri
    • 11:30 11:50
      Coffee break 20m Seminar Room 3, bldg. 1b

      Seminar Room 3, bldg. 1b

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 11:30 11:50
      Coffee break 20m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 11:30 11:50
      Coffee break 20m Seminar Room 2, bldg. 2a

      Seminar Room 2, bldg. 2a

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 11:50 13:00
      Parallel Sessions Dark Matter: DM1 Seminar Room 2, bldg. 2a

      Seminar Room 2, bldg. 2a

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Convener: Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (DESY)
      • 11:50
        DM1.1: Searches for DM using galaxy surveys 14m
        Speaker: Jochen Liske
        Slides
      • 12:04
        DM1.2: Constraints on DM self-interaction 14m
        Speaker: Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (DESY)
        Slides
      • 12:18
        DM1.3: WISPs at Colliders 14m
        Speaker: Torben Ferber (DESY)
        Slides
      • 12:32
        DM1.4: "Improved background estimates in Dark Matter searches: Example Z(ll)H(inv)" 14m
        Speaker: Mr Jorge Andres Sabater Iglesias (ATLAS)
        Slides
      • 12:46
        DM1.5: TAIGA + Heavy Dark matter searches 14m
        Speaker: Dr Martin Tluczykont (InstExpPh)
        Slides
    • 11:50 13:00
      Parallel Sessions Gravitational Waves: GW Seminar Room 3, bldg. 1b

      Seminar Room 3, bldg. 1b

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Convener: Roman Schnabel
      • 11:50
        QU shot-noise prototype of the Einstein Telescope / Low thermal noise mirror coatings 15m
        Speaker: Roman Schnabel
      • 12:05
        New proposal for cooling mirror test-masses 10m
        Speaker: Mikhail Korobko
      • 12:15
        QU cold-mirror experiment at DESY 10m
        Speaker: Jörn Schaffran (FLA)
      • 12:25
        Highly stable light at 2µm for GWD 10m
        Speaker: Sebastian Steinlechner
      • 12:35
        Optomechanical accelerometers and heterodyne sensors for seismic noise reduction 10m
        Speaker: Oliver Gerberding
      • 12:45
        GW detection with broader signal response: the quantum expander 5m
        Speaker: Mikhail Korobko
      • 12:50
        Final Discussion 10m
    • 11:50 13:00
      Parallel Sessions Higgs: H3 DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Convener: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)
      • 11:50
        Introduction to H3 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        H3.1 — 5D detectors: Calorimeters 10m
        Speaker: Felix Sefkow (DESY)
        Slides
      • 12:10
        H3.1 — 5D detectors: Liquid Scintillator Detectors 10m
        Speaker: Björn Wonsak (UniHH Opera)
        Slides
      • 12:20
        H3.2 — Multi-dimensional Reconstruction Algorithms 10m
        Speakers: Gregor Kasieczka (Institut fuer Experimentalphysik / UHH), Ties Behnke (DESY)
        Slides
      • 12:30
        H3.3 — Next-generation Pixel Detectors and Microelectronics 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)
        Slides
      • 12:40
        Discussion 20m
    • 11:50 13:00
      Parallel Sessions Quantum Theories: QT Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Convener: Vicente Cortés
      • 11:50
        Cluster Algebras, Integrability and Scattering Amplitudes 35m
        Speaker: Dr Georgios Papathanasiou (DESY)
      • 12:25
        Transgression of D-branes 35m
        Speaker: Severin Bunk
    • 13:00 14:00
      Break 1h DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 14:00 15:00
      Plenary: Measures, action plans, overarching topics DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
      • 14:00
        QURS and Early Career Council 15m
        Speaker: Gudrid Moortgat-Pick (University of Hamburg / DESY)
        Slides
      • 14:15
        PR and Transfer Strategy 15m
        Speaker: Roman Schnabel
      • 14:30
        Diversity Strategy and Measures 15m
        Speaker: Beate Heinemann (DESY and Freiburg University)
        Slides
      • 14:45
        Organisational Issues: Travel, Guest and Conference Procedures 15m
        Speakers: Mr Christian Kühn (Universität Hamburg, Exzellenzcluster Quantum Universe), Dr Michael Grefe (Universität Hamburg)
        Slides
    • 15:00 15:10
      Break 10m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 15:10 16:00
      Assembly of Early Career Scientists: PhDs, postdocs, YIG leaders and JProfs DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg

      Election of postdoc and YIG representatives

    • 15:10 16:00
      Assembly of PIs Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Campus Bahrenfeld

    • 16:00 16:15
      Coffee break 15m Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

    • 16:00 16:15
      Coffee break 15m DESY Main Auditorium

      DESY Main Auditorium

      Campus Bahrenfeld

      Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
    • 16:15 18:00
      Steering Board meeting Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Seminar Room 1, bldg. 1

      Campus Bahrenfeld