CERN Theory Group Retreat, 2010

Thursday 4 November 2010 - 09:00
Holiday Inn, Thoiry-StGenis

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Nov 2010
AM
09:00
Introduction - Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN) (until 09:15)
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09:15
Cosmology - Antonio Riotto (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:15 Cosmology/Astro overview - Antonio Riotto (CERN)  
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09:25 Dark Energy of Kinetic Gravity Braiding - Alexander Vikman  
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09:45 Does DE exist? - Timothy Clifton  
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10:05 Non-linear cosmological perturbations - Jinn-Ouk Gong (CERN)  
10:25 Self-Introduction - Julien Lesgourgues (CERN & EPFL Lausanne)  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Standard Model - Gavin Salam (CERN) (until 12:55)
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11:10 Lattice overview - Martin Luescher (CERN)  
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11:20 Hunting for the conformal window - Agostino Patella  
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11:40 Self-Introduction - Stefan Schaefer (CERN)  
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11:45 QCD & colliders overview - Gavin Salam (Unknown)  
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11:55 Endpoint behavior in high-energy scattering - Chul Kim  
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12:15 QCD in heavy-ion collisions - Cyrille Marquet  
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12:35 Self-Introduction - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Stefano Frixione (CERN and EPFL) Peter Skands (CERN) Urs Wiedemann (CERN)  
PM
12:55 --- Lunch break ---
14:15
BSM - Geraldine Servant Christophe Grojean (CERN) (until 16:00)
14:15 BSM overview - Christophe Grojean (CERN) Geraldine Servant  
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14:30 Supersymmetry in light of flavour and cosmological data - Nazila Mahmoudi  
14:50 Asymmetric dark matter via leptogenesis - Enrique Fernandez Martinez  
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15:10 Sterile neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology - Oleg Ruchayskiy  
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15:30 Discrete R symmetries for the MSSM and beyond - Hyun Min Lee  
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15:50 Self-Introduction - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN) Georgi Dvali  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Strings - Neil Lambert (CERN & Kings College) (until 18:05)
16:30 Strings overview - Neil Douglas Lambert (CERN)  
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16:45 Holography and the emergence of spacetime - Kyriakos Papadodimas  
17:05 Hidden symmetries of scattering amplitudes - James Drummond  
17:25 Applications of holography - Umut Gursoy  
17:45 Self-Introduction - Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN) Wolfgang Lerche (CERN) Johannes Walcher (CERN)  
18:30 --- Social Dinner ---