CERN Theory Group Retreat, 2010

Thursday 4 Nov 2010, 09:00 → 22:00 Europe/Zurich

Holiday Inn, Thoiry-StGenis

This year's TH retreat will take place at the Holiday Inn in Thoiry-StGenis. The scientific part of the meeting will include reviews of the activities of the theory group, and presentations by the new TH fellows. This will last until 18:00, after which we return to CERN, for a buffet-dinner in the Main Restaurant (in the glassbox area). Your family is invited to join us for dinner.

Introduction

Introduction to TH

Convener: Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)

slides TH_04.11.pdf TH_Retreat04.11.2010b.key

Cosmology

Convener: Antonio Riotto (CERN)

1 Cosmology/Astro overview

Speaker: Antonio Riotto (CERN)

Slides THRetreat.pdf

2 Dark Energy of Kinetic Gravity Braiding

Speaker: Alexander Vikman

Slides CERN_retreat.pdf

3 Does DE exist?

Speaker: Timothy Clifton

Slides Does_DE_exist_(long).pdf

4 Non-linear cosmological perturbations

Speaker: Jinn-Ouk Gong (CERN)

5 Self-Introduction

Speaker: Julien Lesgourgues (CERN & EPFL Lausanne)

Slides TH_retreat_JL_2010.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Standard Model

Convener: Gavin Salam (CERN)

slides th-retreat.pdf

6 Lattice overview

Speaker: Martin Luescher (CERN)

Slides text.pdf

7 Hunting for the conformal window

Speaker: Agostino Patella

Slides patella.pdf

8 Self-Introduction

Speaker: Stefan Schaefer (CERN)

Slides schaefer.pdf

9 QCD & colliders overview

Speaker: Gavin Salam (Unknown)

Slides QCD-gavin.pdf

10 Endpoint behavior in high-energy scattering

Speaker: Chul Kim

Slides Endpoint_Behavior_in_High-energy_Scattering.pdf

11 QCD in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Cyrille Marquet

Slides th-retreat.pdf th-retreat.ppt

12 Self-Introduction

Speakers: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Peter Skands (CERN), Stefano Frixione (CERN and EPFL), Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

Slides

• QCD-mlm.key
• QCD-Urs.pdf
• QCD-Urs.pptx
• thoiry-skands.pdf

12:55 Lunch break

BSM

Conveners: Christophe Grojean (CERN), Geraldine Servant

13 BSM overview

Speakers: Christophe Grojean (CERN), Geraldine Servant

Slides BSM@CERN.pdf Servant_self_intro_Thoiry_Retreat.pdf

14 Supersymmetry in light of flavour and cosmological data

Speaker: Nazila Mahmoudi

15 Asymmetric dark matter via leptogenesis

Speaker: Enrique Fernandez Martinez

Slides retreat.pdf

16 Sterile neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology

Speaker: Oleg Ruchayskiy

Slides Ruchayskiy_sterile_neutrino_BSM.pdf

17 Discrete R symmetries for the MSSM and beyond

Speaker: Hyun Min Lee

Slides cernretreat10_hmlee.pdf

18 Self-Introduction

Speakers: Georgi Dvali, Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

16:00 Coffee break

Strings

Convener: Neil Lambert (CERN & Kings College)

19 Strings overview

Speaker: Neil Douglas Lambert (CERN)

Slides RetreatTalk_NL.pdf

20 Holography and the emergence of spacetime

Speaker: Kyriakos Papadodimas

21 Hidden symmetries of scattering amplitudes

Speaker: James Drummond

22 Applications of holography

Speaker: Umut Gursoy

23 Self-Introduction

Speakers: Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN), Johannes Walcher (CERN), Wolfgang Lerche (CERN)

18:30 Social Dinner