Name: PLANCK 2011 - From the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak Scale
Start: 2011-05-30T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-06-03T18:00:00+01:00
Location: IST Congress Centre

PLANCK 2011 - From the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak Scale

from Monday, 30 May 2011 (08:00) to Friday, 3 June 2011 (18:00)

Monday, 30 May 2011

08:00 REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
08:00 - 09:30

09:30 Welcome
Welcome
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Main Auditorium
10:00 A new approach to flavour - Rabindra Mohapatra (U. MD)
A new approach to flavour
- Rabindra Mohapatra (U. MD)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Main Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Natural cold baryogenesis from nearly conformal dynamics at the TeV scale - Geraldine Servant
Natural cold baryogenesis from nearly conformal dynamics at the TeV scale
- Geraldine Servant
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Main Auditorium
11:30 Sterile neutrinos: searches and implications - Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)
Sterile neutrinos: searches and implications
- Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Main Auditorium
12:00 Discrete flavour symmetries and models of neutrino mixing - Ferruccio Feruglio (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)
Discrete flavour symmetries and models of neutrino mixing
- Ferruccio Feruglio (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Main Auditorium
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Strings: exceptional groups and Grand Unification - Hans Peter Nilles
Strings: exceptional groups and Grand Unification
- Hans Peter Nilles
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Main Auditorium
14:30 Is conformal technicolour plausible? - Vyacheslav Rychkov (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Is conformal technicolour plausible?
- Vyacheslav Rychkov (Scuola Normale Superiore)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Main Auditorium
15:00 Neutrino Physics - Jose Valle
Neutrino Physics
- Jose Valle
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Main Auditorium
15:30 Supersymmetry and flavour BBSM - Zygmunt Lalak (Faculty of Physics)
Supersymmetry and flavour BBSM
- Zygmunt Lalak (Faculty of Physics)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Main Auditorium
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Supersymmetry breaking and gaugino masses - Stephane Lavignac
Supersymmetry breaking and gaugino masses
- Stephane Lavignac
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Main Auditorium
18:30 RECEPTION
RECEPTION
18:30 - 20:30
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
09:30 Improving naturalness in warped EWSB with heavy Higgs - Mariano Quiros (Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas-Universidad Complutense-Unknown)
Improving naturalness in warped EWSB with heavy Higgs
- Mariano Quiros (Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas-Universidad Complutense-Unknown)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Main Auditorium
10:00 The potential of Minimal Flavor Violation - Belen Gavela (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
The potential of Minimal Flavor Violation
- Belen Gavela (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Main Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 U(2) and MFV in supersymmetry - Gino Isidori (Unknown)
U(2) and MFV in supersymmetry
- Gino Isidori (Unknown)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Main Auditorium
11:30 Implications of supersymmetric Higgs searches at the LHC - Abdelhak Djouadi (LPT Orsay)
Implications of supersymmetric Higgs searches at the LHC
- Abdelhak Djouadi (LPT Orsay)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Main Auditorium
12:00 ATLAS Searches - recent results - Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
ATLAS Searches - recent results
- Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Main Auditorium
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 D14 - a symmetry for quarks and leptons - Claudia Hagedorn (INFN, Section of Padua)

14:15 Connections between family symmetry invariants and neutrino phenomenology - Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas (TU Dortmund)

14:30 Phenomenological impact of flavour symmetries - Luca Merlo (Technische Universitat Munchen)

14:45 Nearest-Neighbour-Interactions from a minimal discrete flavour symmetry within SU(5) Grand Unification - Catarina Simões (CFTP - IST)

15:00 Right unitarity triangles and tri-bimaximal mixing - Christoph Luhn (University of Southampton)

15:15 Naturally large Yukawa hierarchies - Enrico Nardi (INFN-LNF)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: VA3
Contributions

14:00 Ultra visible warped models at hadron colliders - cedric delaunay (Weizmann Institute of Science)

14:15 The bottom and top quarks in warped models : LHC predictions from LEP/Tevatron anomalies - Grégory Moreau (LPT/University Paris 11, France)

14:30 Consistent MUED for the LHC - Chloé Papineau

14:45 A 5D Model of Baryons and Mesons - Oriol Domenech (IFAE, Barcelona)

15:00 Warped de Sitter compactifications - Kunihito Uzawa (Kindai University)

15:15 Seesaw in the bulk - Atsushi Watanabe (Niigata Univ.)

15:30 Neutrino Mass from a Mini-Seesaw - Kristian McDonald (Max Planck Institute (Heidelberg))
14:00 - 16:00
Room: VA4
Contributions

14:00 Reduction of N=1, E8 SYM over SU(3)/U(1)xU(1)xZ3 and its four-dimensional effective action - Nikos Irges (NTUA)

14:15 Sequestering by global symmetries in Calabi-Yau string models - Claudio Scrucca (Institute for Theoretical Physics, EPFL)

14:30 How Grand Unification is realized in String Theory? - Kang Sin Choi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

14:45 Weak Mixing Angle and Proton Stability in F-theory GUT - Bumseok Kyae (Pusan National Univ.)

15:00 Low energy physics of a F-theory GUT model - Jacek Pawelczyk (University of Warsaw)

15:15 Warming up brane-antibrane inflation - Joao Rosa (University of Edinburgh)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Main Auditorium
16:30
16:30 - 19:00
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Decoupling the Gravity Multiplet from Supergravity - Francesco D'Eramo (MIT)

16:45 Condensates and R-balls in the SUSY breaking sector - James Barnard (Durham University)

17:00 Goldstino Couplings in MSSM - Pantelis Tziveloglou (Ecole Polytechnique)

17:15 Singlet deflection of gauge mediation - Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)

17:30 Lopsided Gauge Mediation - Duccio Pappadopulo (EPFL)

17:45 Supersymmetry Breaking in a Minimal Anomalous Extension of the MSSM - Antonio Racioppi (NICPB)

18:00 More minimal MRSSM: R symmetry as lepton number, sneutrino as down type higgs - Claudia Frugiuele (Carleton University)

18:15 Solving $\mu$ and little hierachy problems of the MSSM with electroweak triplets - Aleksandr Azatov (University Of Rome "La Sapienza" and INFN sezione di Roma)

18:30 Flavour physics as a probe of SUSY scenarios and implications of the LHC - Nazila MAHMOUDI

18:45 A possible connection between neutrino mass generation and the lightness of a NMSSM pseudoscalar - Das Debottam
16:30 - 19:00
Room: VA3
Contributions

16:30 Phenomenology of a Pseudo-Scalar Inflaton - Marco Peloso (University of Minnesota)

16:45 Higgs portal inflation - Hyun Min Lee (CERN)

17:00 A possible solution to the supergravity eta problem - Philip Stephens

17:15 A Compelling Vector Curvaton Model and its Distinct Observational Signatures - Jacques Wagstaff

17:30 Technically natural dark energy from Lorentz breaking - Sergey Sibiryakov (INR RAS)

17:45 Higher-order coupled quintessence - Grigoris Panotopoulos (University of Valencia)

18:00 Late cosmology constraints on thermal relic axions and axion-like particles - Davide Cadamuro (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

18:15 Pseudoscalar-photon mixing in an expanding Universe - Subhayan Mandal (University Of Liege)

18:30 Supersonic Electroweak Baryogenesis: Baryon Asymmetry from Fast Bubble Walls - Jose Miguel No (IPhT CEA Saclay)
16:30 - 19:00
Room: VA4
Contributions

16:30 Light Neutralino in the MSSM - Lorenzo Calibbi (MPP, Munich)

16:45 Flavoured Co-annihilations - Sudhir Vempati (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

17:00 Non-Abelian Discrete Dark Matter - Adisorn Adulpravitchai (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

17:15 $A_4$-based neutrino masses with Majoron decaying dark matter - Mariam Tórtola (IFIC, Valencia)

17:30 Stability of the dark matter from non-abelian discrete flavor symmetry - Stefano Morisi (IFIC/CSIC)

17:45 Baryon asymmetry and dark matter in the inverse-seesaw - Francois-Xavier Josse-Michaux (IST, CFTP)

18:00 The problem of initial conditions in flavoured leptogenesis - enrico bertuzzo (Scuola Normale Superiore)

18:15 Quantum-Origin of the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry - Andreas Hohenegger (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
09:30 Fayet-Iliopoulos terms and de Sitter vacua in supergravity - Fabio Zwirner (University of Padova and INFN)
Fayet-Iliopoulos terms and de Sitter vacua in supergravity
- Fabio Zwirner (University of Padova and INFN)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Main Auditorium
10:00 UV-completion by classicalization - Georgi Dvali
UV-completion by classicalization
- Georgi Dvali
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Main Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 The search for quantum gravity - Nikos Mavromatos (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)
The search for quantum gravity
- Nikos Mavromatos (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Main Auditorium
11:30 Mini black-holes at RHIC and LHC - Elias Kiritsis (Unknown)
Mini black-holes at RHIC and LHC
- Elias Kiritsis (Unknown)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Main Auditorium
12:00 Status and recently approved results from CMS - Tommaso Boccali (Dipartimento di Fisica)
Status and recently approved results from CMS
- Tommaso Boccali (Dipartimento di Fisica)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Main Auditorium
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Flavour Physics in the Aligned Two-Higgs-Doublet Model - Martin Jung (IFIC)

14:15 Yukawa Alignment in a Multi Higgs Doublet Model: An eﬀective approach - Hugo Serodio (CFTP-IST)

14:30 Minimal Flavour Violation with hierarchical squark masses - Marco Farina (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN)

14:45 CP Violation in Supersymmetry with Effective Minimal Flavour Violation - David Straub (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

15:00 FCNC Effects in a Minimal Theory of Fermion Masses - Robert Ziegler (TUM/IAS Munich)

15:15 Prospects on extensions of the Standard Model with vector-like quarks - Miguel Nebot (U. of Valencia - IFIC)

15:30 B_s -> phi rho^0 and B_s -> phi pi^0 as a handle on isospin-violating New Physics - Lars Hofer (Universität Würzburg)

15:45 News on FCNC Processes through Horizontal Gauge Bosons - Emmanuel Stamou (TUM)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: VA3
Contributions

14:00 New anomalies in the solar neutrino sector ? - Antonio Palazzo (TUM)

14:15 Neutrino decay in dense matter - Chitta Ranjan Chitta

14:30 The reactor antineutrino anomaly and large extra dimensions - Pedro Machado (CEA-Saclay)

14:45 Neutrinoless double beta decay in seesaw models - Jacobo Lopez-Pavon (IPPP, Durham University)

15:00 Present results of the ANTARES telescope - Carla Distefano (LNS, Catania)

15:15 Probing sterile neutrinos in meson decays - Takehiko Asaka (Niigata University)

15:30 Lepton mixing under the lepton charge nonconservation, neutrino masses and oscillations and the "forbidden" decay \mu^-- --> e^-- + \gamma - Valery Lyuboshitz (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( Dubna ))

15:45 Latest Result from the MEG Experiment - Hajime Nishiguchi (KEK)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: VA4
Contributions

14:00 Leptons in Holographic Composite Higgs Models with Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetries - Marco Serone (SISSA)

14:15 The discrete composite Higgs - Giuliano Panico (ETH Zurich)

14:30 Composite unification - Michele Frigerio (IFAE & CNRS)

14:45 Simple and Realistic Composite Higgs Models in Flat Extra Dimensions - Mahmoud Safari (SISSA, Trieste)

15:00 Radiative Symmetry Breaking of the Minimal Left-Right Symmetric Model - Martin Holthausen (Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

15:15 Discovering Technicolor - Stefano Di Chiara (CP3-Origins, Southern Denmark University)

15:30 Analysis of the bounds on the parameters of Lorentz violation - Dario Buttazzo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 19:00
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Fair scans of the seesaw. Consequences for predictions on LFV processes - Bryan Zaldívar (IFT UAM/CSIC)

16:45 Lepton flavour violation at the LHC in supersymmetric type I seesaw - Albert Villanova del Moral

17:00 Supersymmetric mass spectra and the seesaw scale - Laslo Reichert (Universidad de Valencia)

17:15 Phenomenology of SUSY SU(5) with type I+III seesaw - Carla Biggio (IFAE)

17:30 Flavor Signals in SUSY GUTs - Minoru Nagai (TU Munich)

17:45 Supersymmetric Left-Right models and low energy phenomenology - Avelino Vicente (Universität Würzburg)

18:00 Interplay between neutrinos and higgs boson masses - ANA MARIA RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ (UAM)

18:15 SUSY SO(10) with Yukawa unification and light sparticles - Marek Olechowski (University of Warsaw)

18:30 Renormalizable SUSY SO(10) breakdown without large representations? - Michal Malinsky (IFIC/CSIC and University of Valencia)

18:45 Unification without supersymmetry: where do we stand? - Luca Di Luzio (SISSA and INFN, Trieste)
16:30 - 19:00
Room: VA3
Contributions

16:30 Spin-dependent WIMP-nucleus elastic scattering simplified - Mirco Cannoni (Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain)

16:45 Direct Detection of Electroweak-Interacting Dark Matter in the Universe - Koji Ishiwata (Caltech)

17:00 ElectroWeak Corrections to Dark Matter Indirect Detection - Filippo Sala (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

17:15 Electroweak lights from Dark Matter annihilation - Andrea De Simone (EPFL)

17:30 Conservative upper limits on WIMP annihilation cross section from Fermi extragalactic gamma rays - Valentina De Romeri (IFIC Valencia)

17:45 Accurate estimate of the relic density and the kinetic decoupling in non-thermal dark matter models - Giorgio Arcadi (S.I.S.S.A.)

18:00 Dark and visible matter with broken R-parity and the axion multiplet - Jasper Hasenkamp (Hamburg U.)

18:15 Extra/Mirror Families Seeking Friendship with Inert Doublet Dark Matter: Implications after XENON100 - Yue Zhang (ICTP, Trieste)
16:30 - 19:00
Room: VA4
Contributions

16:30 Weakly coupled resonant NP at the Tevatron ttbar forward-backward asymmetry - Ezequiel Alvarez (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, INFAP, Conicet, Argentina)

16:45 Forward-Backward t tbar Asymmetry from Anomalous Stop Pair Production - Jernej Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)

17:00 New physics in top pairs: hints and constraints - Manuel Perez-Victoria (University of Granada)

17:15 Constrains on the Wtb vertex from early LHC data - Nuno Castro (LIP)

17:30 "Anomalous" Higgs Couplings at the LHC - florian Bonnet (INFN Sezione di Padova)

17:45 Precise predictions for Higgs production via gluon fusion in BSM scenarios - Elisabetta Furlan (Brookhaven National Lab)

18:00 Impact of extra particles on indirect Z' limits - Jorge de Blas Mateo (University of Notre Dame)

18:15 A weakly constrained W' at the early LHC - Ennio Salvioni (CERN/University of Padua)

18:30 Low scale Left Right symmetry and first LHC data - Miha Nemevsek (ICTP)

18:45 Soft gluon resummation for Drell-Yan and slepton-pair production in supersymmetry - Leonardo Vernazza (Johannes Gutenberg Universität)
Thursday, 2 June 2011
09:30 On the origin of CP violation - Gustavo Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico)
On the origin of CP violation
- Gustavo Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Main Auditorium
10:00 Problems with the MSSM : mu & proton decay - Stuart Raby (The Ohio State University)
Problems with the MSSM : mu & proton decay
- Stuart Raby (The Ohio State University)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Main Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Stringy models of Particle Physics - Michael Ratz (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
Stringy models of Particle Physics
- Michael Ratz (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Main Auditorium
11:30 The µ problem - Jihn Kim
The µ problem
- Jihn Kim
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Main Auditorium
12:00 On gauginos and super-Yang-Mills theories - Jean-Pierre Derendinger (CERN)
On gauginos and super-Yang-Mills theories
- Jean-Pierre Derendinger (CERN)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Main Auditorium
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Yukawa couplings and F-Theory - Luis Ibanez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Yukawa couplings and F-Theory
- Luis Ibanez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Main Auditorium
14:30 Phenomenological Aspects of D-branes at Singularities - Fernando Quevedo
Phenomenological Aspects of D-branes at Singularities
- Fernando Quevedo
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Main Auditorium
15:00 Axino effective interactions and thermal production of axino dark matter - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)
Axino effective interactions and thermal production of axino dark matter
- Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Main Auditorium
18:00 Boat Trip
Boat Trip
18:00 - 20:00

20:30 Social Dinner at "Casa do Alentejo"
Social Dinner at "Casa do Alentejo"
20:30 - 23:00
Room: Casa do Alentejo
Friday, 3 June 2011
09:30 Mass hierarchies in string theory and experimental predictions - Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)
Mass hierarchies in string theory and experimental predictions
- Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Main Auditorium
10:00 Non-universal Goldstino couplings to matter - Emilian Dudas (Centre de Physique Theorique (CPT)-Ecole Polytechnique)
Non-universal Goldstino couplings to matter
- Emilian Dudas (Centre de Physique Theorique (CPT)-Ecole Polytechnique)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Main Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 A not so elementary Higgs boson - Christophe Grojean (CERN)
A not so elementary Higgs boson
- Christophe Grojean (CERN)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Main Auditorium
11:30 Hunting down models for the tt ̅ asymmetry at the Tevatron - Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (LIP)
Hunting down models for the tt ̅ asymmetry at the Tevatron
- Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (LIP)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Main Auditorium
12:00 LHCb results - Hugo Ruiz Perez (CERN)
LHCb results
- Hugo Ruiz Perez (CERN)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Main Auditorium
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Discrete symmetries, fine tuning and Higgs structure in SUSY models - Graham Garland Ross (Department of Theoretical Physics-University of Oxford)
Discrete symmetries, fine tuning and Higgs structure in SUSY models
- Graham Garland Ross (Department of Theoretical Physics-University of Oxford)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Main Auditorium
14:30 From Majorana to LHC (and back) - Goran Senjanovic
From Majorana to LHC (and back)
- Goran Senjanovic
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Main Auditorium
15:00 Naturalness vs. flavor trviality - Andreas Weiler
Naturalness vs. flavor trviality
- Andreas Weiler
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Main Auditorium
15:30 Phenomenological aspects of the dark matter stability origin - Thomas Hambye (Univ. L. Brussels)
Phenomenological aspects of the dark matter stability origin
- Thomas Hambye (Univ. L. Brussels)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Main Auditorium
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Hunting new animalcula with flavour - Andrzej Buras (TU Munich)
Hunting new animalcula with flavour
- Andrzej Buras (TU Munich)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Main Auditorium