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.

09:00 → 09:15 Introduction

Introduction to TH

Convener: Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)

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

09:15 → 10:30 Cosmology

Convener: Antonio Riotto (CERN)

09:15 Cosmology/Astro overview

Speaker: Antonio Riotto (CERN)

Slides THRetreat.pdf

09:25 Dark Energy of Kinetic Gravity Braiding

Speaker: Alexander Vikman

Slides CERN_retreat.pdf

09:45 Does DE exist?

Speaker: Timothy Clifton

Slides Does_DE_exist_(long).pdf

10:05 Non-linear cosmological perturbations

Speaker: Jinn-Ouk Gong (CERN)

10:25 Self-Introduction

Speaker: Julien Lesgourgues (CERN & EPFL Lausanne)

Slides TH_retreat_JL_2010.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:55 Standard Model

Convener: Gavin Salam (CERN)

slides th-retreat.pdf

11:10 Lattice overview

Speaker: Martin Luescher (CERN)

Slides text.pdf

11:20 Hunting for the conformal window

Speaker: Agostino Patella

Slides patella.pdf

11:40 Self-Introduction

Speaker: Stefan Schaefer (CERN)

Slides schaefer.pdf

11:45 QCD & colliders overview

Speaker: Gavin Salam (Unknown)

Slides QCD-gavin.pdf

11:55 Endpoint behavior in high-energy scattering

Speaker: Chul Kim

Slides Endpoint_Behavior_in_High-energy_Scattering.pdf

12:15 QCD in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Cyrille Marquet

Slides th-retreat.pdf th-retreat.ppt

12:35 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 → 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 → 16:00 BSM

Conveners: Christophe Grojean (CERN), Geraldine Servant

14:15 BSM overview

Speakers: Christophe Grojean (CERN), Geraldine Servant

Slides BSM@CERN.pdf Servant_self_intro_Thoiry_Retreat.pdf

14:30 Supersymmetry in light of flavour and cosmological data

Speaker: Nazila Mahmoudi

14:50 Asymmetric dark matter via leptogenesis

Speaker: Enrique Fernandez Martinez

Slides retreat.pdf

15:10 Sterile neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology

Speaker: Oleg Ruchayskiy

Slides Ruchayskiy_sterile_neutrino_BSM.pdf

15:30 Discrete R symmetries for the MSSM and beyond

Speaker: Hyun Min Lee

Slides cernretreat10_hmlee.pdf

15:50 Self-Introduction

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

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:05 Strings

Convener: Neil Lambert (CERN & Kings College)

16:30 Strings overview

Speaker: Neil Douglas Lambert (CERN)

Slides RetreatTalk_NL.pdf

16:45 Holography and the emergence of spacetime

Speaker: Kyriakos Papadodimas

17:05 Hidden symmetries of scattering amplitudes

Speaker: James Drummond

17:25 Applications of holography

Speaker: Umut Gursoy

17:45 Self-Introduction

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

18:30 → 21:00 Social Dinner