PLANCK 2011 - From the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak Scale

from Monday, May 30, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Friday, June 3, 2011 (6:00 PM)
IST Congress Centre (Main Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 30, 2011
May 31, 2011
Jun 1, 2011
Jun 2, 2011
Jun 3, 2011
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8:00 AM --- REGISTRATION ---
9:30 AM Welcome   (Main Auditorium)
10:00 AM A new approach to flavour - Rabindra Mohapatra (U. MD)   (Main Auditorium)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Natural cold baryogenesis from nearly conformal dynamics at the TeV scale - Geraldine Servant   (Main Auditorium)
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11:30 AM Sterile neutrinos: searches and implications - Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)   (Main Auditorium)
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9:30 AM Improving naturalness in warped EWSB with heavy Higgs - Mariano Quiros (Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas-Universidad Complutense-Unknown)   (Main Auditorium)
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10:00 AM The potential of Minimal Flavor Violation - Belen Gavela (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)   (Main Auditorium)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM U(2) and MFV in supersymmetry - Gino Isidori (Unknown)   (Main Auditorium)
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11:30 AM Implications of supersymmetric Higgs searches at the LHC - Abdelhak Djouadi (LPT Orsay)   (Main Auditorium)
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9:30 AM Fayet-Iliopoulos terms and de Sitter vacua in supergravity - Mr Fabio Zwirner (University of Padova and INFN)   (Main Auditorium)
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10:00 AM UV-completion by classicalization - Georgi Dvali   (Main Auditorium)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM The search for quantum gravity - Nikos Mavromatos (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)   (Main Auditorium)
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11:30 AM Mini black-holes at RHIC and LHC - Elias Kiritsis (Unknown)   (Main Auditorium)
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9:30 AM On the origin of CP violation - Gustavo Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico)   (Main Auditorium)
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10:00 AM Problems with the MSSM : mu & proton decay - Prof. Stuart Raby (The Ohio State University)   (Main Auditorium)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Stringy models of Particle Physics - Michael Ratz (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)   (Main Auditorium)
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11:30 AM The µ problem - Jihn Kim   (Main Auditorium)
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9:30 AM Mass hierarchies in string theory and experimental predictions - Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)   (Main Auditorium)
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10:00 AM Non-universal Goldstino couplings to matter - Emilian Dudas (Centre de Physique Theorique (CPT)-Ecole Polytechnique)   (Main Auditorium)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM A not so elementary Higgs boson - Christophe Grojean (CERN)   (Main Auditorium)
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11:30 AM Hunting down models for the tt ̅ asymmetry at the Tevatron - Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (LIP)   (Main Auditorium)
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PM
12:00 PM Discrete flavour symmetries and models of neutrino mixing - Ferruccio Feruglio (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)   (Main Auditorium)
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM Strings: exceptional groups and Grand Unification - Hans Peter Nilles   (Main Auditorium)
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2:30 PM Is conformal technicolour plausible? - Vyacheslav Rychkov (Scuola Normale Superiore)   (Main Auditorium)
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3:00 PM Neutrino Physics - Jose Valle   (Main Auditorium)
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3:30 PM Supersymmetry and flavour BBSM - Zygmunt Lalak (Faculty of Physics)   (Main Auditorium)
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Supersymmetry breaking and gaugino masses - Stephane Lavignac   (Main Auditorium)
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6:30 PM --- RECEPTION ---
12:00 PM ATLAS Searches - recent results - Andreas Hoecker (CERN)   (Main Auditorium)
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
P1 - FLAVOUR SYMMETRIES - Andrea Romanino (until 4:00 PM) (Main Auditorium)
2:00 PM D14 - a symmetry for quarks and leptons - Claudia Hagedorn (INFN, Section of Padua)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:15 PM Connections between family symmetry invariants and neutrino phenomenology - Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas (TU Dortmund)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:30 PM Phenomenological impact of flavour symmetries - Dr Luca Merlo (Technische Universitat Munchen)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:45 PM Nearest-Neighbour-Interactions from a minimal discrete flavour symmetry within SU(5) Grand Unification - Catarina Simões (CFTP - IST)   (Main Auditorium)
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3:00 PM Right unitarity triangles and tri-bimaximal mixing - Christoph Luhn (University of Southampton)   (Main Auditorium)
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3:15 PM Naturally large Yukawa hierarchies - Dr Enrico Nardi (INFN-LNF)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:00 PM
P2 - EXTRA DIMENSIONS - Michael Ratz (Technische Universitaet Muenchen) (until 4:00 PM) (VA3)
2:00 PM Ultra visible warped models at hadron colliders - cedric delaunay (Weizmann Institute of Science)   (VA3)
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2:15 PM The bottom and top quarks in warped models : LHC predictions from LEP/Tevatron anomalies - Dr Grégory Moreau (LPT/University Paris 11, France)   (VA3)
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2:30 PM Consistent MUED for the LHC - Chloé Papineau   (VA3)
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2:45 PM A 5D Model of Baryons and Mesons - Mr Oriol Domenech (IFAE, Barcelona)   (VA3)
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3:00 PM Warped de Sitter compactifications - Dr Kunihito Uzawa (Kindai University)   (VA3)
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3:15 PM Seesaw in the bulk - Dr Atsushi Watanabe (Niigata Univ.)   (VA3)
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3:30 PM Neutrino Mass from a Mini-Seesaw - Kristian McDonald (Max Planck Institute (Heidelberg))   (VA3)
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2:00 PM
P3 – STRINGS, GRAVITY & HOLOGRAPHY - Fernando Marchesano Buznego (Unknown) (until 4:00 PM) (VA4)
2:00 PM Reduction of N=1, E8 SYM over SU(3)/U(1)xU(1)xZ3 and its four-dimensional effective action - Prof. Nikos Irges (NTUA)   (VA4)
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2:15 PM Sequestering by global symmetries in Calabi-Yau string models - Claudio Scrucca (Institute for Theoretical Physics, EPFL)   (VA4)
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2:30 PM How Grand Unification is realized in String Theory? - Kang Sin Choi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)   (VA4)
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2:45 PM Weak Mixing Angle and Proton Stability in F-theory GUT - Prof. Bumseok Kyae (Pusan National Univ.)   (VA4)
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3:00 PM Low energy physics of a F-theory GUT model - Jacek Pawelczyk (University of Warsaw)   (VA4)
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3:15 PM Warming up brane-antibrane inflation - Dr Joao Rosa (University of Edinburgh)   (VA4)
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM
P4 - SUPERSYMMETRY - Stephane Lavignac (until 7:00 PM) (Main Auditorium)
4:30 PM Decoupling the Gravity Multiplet from Supergravity - Francesco D'Eramo (MIT)   (Main Auditorium)
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4:45 PM Condensates and R-balls in the SUSY breaking sector - Mr James Barnard (Durham University)   (Main Auditorium)
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5:00 PM Goldstino Couplings in MSSM - Pantelis Tziveloglou (Ecole Polytechnique)   (Main Auditorium)
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5:15 PM Singlet deflection of gauge mediation - Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)   (Main Auditorium)
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5:30 PM Lopsided Gauge Mediation - Mr Duccio Pappadopulo (EPFL)   (Main Auditorium)
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5:45 PM Supersymmetry Breaking in a Minimal Anomalous Extension of the MSSM - Dr Antonio Racioppi (NICPB)   (Main Auditorium)
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6:00 PM More minimal MRSSM: R symmetry as lepton number, sneutrino as down type higgs - Ms Claudia Frugiuele (Carleton University)   (Main Auditorium)
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6:15 PM Solving $\mu$ and little hierachy problems of the MSSM with electroweak triplets - Aleksandr Azatov (University Of Rome "La Sapienza" and INFN sezione di Roma)   (Main Auditorium)
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6:30 PM Flavour physics as a probe of SUSY scenarios and implications of the LHC - Nazila MAHMOUDI   (Main Auditorium)
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6:45 PM A possible connection between neutrino mass generation and the lightness of a NMSSM pseudoscalar - Das Debottam   (Main Auditorium)
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4:30 PM
P5 - COSMOLOGY - Nuno Miguel Santos (IST) (until 7:00 PM) (VA3)
4:30 PM Phenomenology of a Pseudo-Scalar Inflaton - Prof. Marco Peloso (University of Minnesota)   (VA3)
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4:45 PM Higgs portal inflation - Dr Hyun Min Lee (CERN)   (VA3)
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5:00 PM A possible solution to the supergravity eta problem - Philip Stephens   (VA3)
5:15 PM A Compelling Vector Curvaton Model and its Distinct Observational Signatures - Jacques Wagstaff   (VA3)
5:30 PM Technically natural dark energy from Lorentz breaking - Dr Sergey Sibiryakov (INR RAS)   (VA3)
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5:45 PM Higher-order coupled quintessence - Dr Grigoris Panotopoulos (University of Valencia)   (VA3)
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6:00 PM Late cosmology constraints on thermal relic axions and axion-like particles - Mr Davide Cadamuro (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)   (VA3)
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6:15 PM Pseudoscalar-photon mixing in an expanding Universe - Dr Subhayan Mandal (University Of Liege)   (VA3)
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6:30 PM Supersonic Electroweak Baryogenesis: Baryon Asymmetry from Fast Bubble Walls - Mr Jose Miguel No (IPhT CEA Saclay)   (VA3)
4:30 PM
P6 – DM MODELS & LEPTOGENESIS - Michele Frigerio (IFAE, UAB, Barcelona) (until 7:00 PM) (VA4)
4:30 PM Light Neutralino in the MSSM - Lorenzo Calibbi (MPP, Munich)   (VA4)
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4:45 PM Flavoured Co-annihilations - Prof. Sudhir Vempati (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)   (VA4)
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5:00 PM Non-Abelian Discrete Dark Matter - Dr Adisorn Adulpravitchai (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)   (VA4)
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5:15 PM $A_4$-based neutrino masses with Majoron decaying dark matter - Dr Mariam Tórtola (IFIC, Valencia)   (VA4)
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5:30 PM Stability of the dark matter from non-abelian discrete flavor symmetry - Dr Stefano Morisi (IFIC/CSIC)   (VA4)
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5:45 PM Baryon asymmetry and dark matter in the inverse-seesaw - Dr Francois-Xavier Josse-Michaux (IST, CFTP)   (VA4)
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6:00 PM The problem of initial conditions in flavoured leptogenesis - Dr enrico bertuzzo (Scuola Normale Superiore)   (VA4)
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6:15 PM Quantum-Origin of the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry - Dr Andreas Hohenegger (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)   (VA4)
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12:00 PM Status and recently approved results from CMS - Tommaso Boccali (Dipartimento di Fisica)   (Main Auditorium)
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
P7 - FLAVOUR AND MFV - Andreas Weiler (until 4:00 PM) (Main Auditorium)
2:00 PM Flavour Physics in the Aligned Two-Higgs-Doublet Model - Martin Jung (IFIC)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:15 PM Yukawa Alignment in a Multi Higgs Doublet Model: An effective approach - Hugo Serodio (CFTP-IST)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:30 PM Minimal Flavour Violation with hierarchical squark masses - Marco Farina (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:45 PM CP Violation in Supersymmetry with Effective Minimal Flavour Violation - Dr David Straub (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)   (Main Auditorium)
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3:00 PM FCNC Effects in a Minimal Theory of Fermion Masses - Dr Robert Ziegler (TUM/IAS Munich)   (Main Auditorium)
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3:15 PM Prospects on extensions of the Standard Model with vector-like quarks - Dr Miguel Nebot (U. of Valencia - IFIC)   (Main Auditorium)
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3:30 PM B_s -> phi rho^0 and B_s -> phi pi^0 as a handle on isospin-violating New Physics - Dr Lars Hofer (Universität Würzburg)   (Main Auditorium)
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3:45 PM News on FCNC Processes through Horizontal Gauge Bosons - Emmanuel Stamou (TUM)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:00 PM
P8 - LEPTONS (MOSTLY NEUTRINOS) - Mariam Tórtola (IFIC, Valencia) (until 4:00 PM) (VA3)
2:00 PM New anomalies in the solar neutrino sector ? - Dr Antonio Palazzo (TUM)   (VA3)
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2:15 PM Neutrino decay in dense matter - Chitta Ranjan Chitta   (VA3)
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2:30 PM The reactor antineutrino anomaly and large extra dimensions - Mr Pedro Machado (CEA-Saclay)   (VA3)
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2:45 PM Neutrinoless double beta decay in seesaw models - Dr Jacobo Lopez-Pavon (IPPP, Durham University)   (VA3)
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3:00 PM Present results of the ANTARES telescope - Dr Carla Distefano (LNS, Catania)   (VA3)
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3:15 PM Probing sterile neutrinos in meson decays - Dr Takehiko Asaka (Niigata University)   (VA3)
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3:30 PM Lepton mixing under the lepton charge nonconservation, neutrino masses and oscillations and the "forbidden" decay \mu^-- --> e^-- + \gamma - Dr Valery Lyuboshitz (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( Dubna ))   (VA3)
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3:45 PM Latest Result from the MEG Experiment - Dr Hajime Nishiguchi (KEK)   (VA3)
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2:00 PM
P9 COMPOSITES AND EWSB - Claudio Scrucca (Institut de Physique-Universite de Neuchatel-Unknown) (until 4:00 PM) (VA4)
2:00 PM Leptons in Holographic Composite Higgs Models with Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetries - Prof. Marco Serone (SISSA)   (VA4)
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2:15 PM The discrete composite Higgs - Dr Giuliano Panico (ETH Zurich)   (VA4)
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2:30 PM Composite unification - Dr Michele Frigerio (IFAE & CNRS)   (VA4)
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2:45 PM Simple and Realistic Composite Higgs Models in Flat Extra Dimensions - Mr Mahmoud Safari (SISSA, Trieste)   (VA4)
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3:00 PM Radiative Symmetry Breaking of the Minimal Left-Right Symmetric Model - Martin Holthausen (Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)   (VA4)
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3:15 PM Discovering Technicolor - Dr Stefano Di Chiara (CP3-Origins, Southern Denmark University)   (VA4)
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3:30 PM Analysis of the bounds on the parameters of Lorentz violation - Dario Buttazzo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)   (VA4)
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM
P10 - SUSY, SEESAW & GUTS - Martin Hirsch (IFIC/CSIC) (until 7:00 PM) (Main Auditorium)
4:30 PM Fair scans of the seesaw. Consequences for predictions on LFV processes - Mr Bryan Zaldívar (IFT UAM/CSIC)   (Main Auditorium)
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4:45 PM Lepton flavour violation at the LHC in supersymmetric type I seesaw - Albert Villanova del Moral   (Main Auditorium)
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5:00 PM Supersymmetric mass spectra and the seesaw scale - Mr Laslo Reichert (Universidad de Valencia)   (Main Auditorium)
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5:15 PM Phenomenology of SUSY SU(5) with type I+III seesaw - Carla Biggio (IFAE)   (Main Auditorium)
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5:30 PM Flavor Signals in SUSY GUTs - Dr Minoru Nagai (TU Munich)   (Main Auditorium)
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5:45 PM Supersymmetric Left-Right models and low energy phenomenology - Dr Avelino Vicente (Universität Würzburg)   (Main Auditorium)
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6:00 PM Interplay between neutrinos and higgs boson masses - Mrs ANA MARIA RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ (UAM)   (Main Auditorium)
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6:15 PM SUSY SO(10) with Yukawa unification and light sparticles - Marek Olechowski (University of Warsaw)   (Main Auditorium)
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6:30 PM Renormalizable SUSY SO(10) breakdown without large representations? - Michal Malinsky (IFIC/CSIC and University of Valencia)   (Main Auditorium)
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6:45 PM Unification without supersymmetry: where do we stand? - Mr Luca Di Luzio (SISSA and INFN, Trieste)   (Main Auditorium)
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4:30 PM
P11 – DARK MATTER - Javier Redondo (MPP Munich) (until 7:00 PM) (VA3)
4:30 PM Spin-dependent WIMP-nucleus elastic scattering simplified - Dr Mirco Cannoni (Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain)   (VA3)
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4:45 PM Direct Detection of Electroweak-Interacting Dark Matter in the Universe - Koji Ishiwata (Caltech)   (VA3)
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5:00 PM ElectroWeak Corrections to Dark Matter Indirect Detection - Mr Filippo Sala (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)   (VA3)
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5:15 PM Electroweak lights from Dark Matter annihilation - Dr Andrea De Simone (EPFL)   (VA3)
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5:30 PM Conservative upper limits on WIMP annihilation cross section from Fermi extragalactic gamma rays - Ms Valentina De Romeri (IFIC Valencia)   (VA3)
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5:45 PM Accurate estimate of the relic density and the kinetic decoupling in non-thermal dark matter models - Giorgio Arcadi (S.I.S.S.A.)   (VA3)
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6:00 PM Dark and visible matter with broken R-parity and the axion multiplet - Mr Jasper Hasenkamp (Hamburg U.)   (VA3)
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6:15 PM Extra/Mirror Families Seeking Friendship with Inert Doublet Dark Matter: Implications after XENON100 - Dr Yue Zhang (ICTP, Trieste)   (VA3)
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4:30 PM
P12 – COLLIDER PHENOMENOLOGY - Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (LIP) (until 7:00 PM) (VA4)
4:30 PM Weakly coupled resonant NP at the Tevatron ttbar forward-backward asymmetry - Ezequiel Alvarez (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, INFAP, Conicet, Argentina)   (VA4)
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4:45 PM Forward-Backward t tbar Asymmetry from Anomalous Stop Pair Production - Dr Jernej Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)   (VA4)
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5:00 PM New physics in top pairs: hints and constraints - Dr Manuel Perez-Victoria (University of Granada)   (VA4)
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5:15 PM Constrains on the Wtb vertex from early LHC data - Nuno Castro (LIP)   (VA4)
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5:30 PM "Anomalous" Higgs Couplings at the LHC - Mr florian Bonnet (INFN Sezione di Padova)   (VA4)
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5:45 PM Precise predictions for Higgs production via gluon fusion in BSM scenarios - Dr Elisabetta Furlan (Brookhaven National Lab)   (VA4)
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6:00 PM Impact of extra particles on indirect Z' limits - Dr Jorge de Blas Mateo (University of Notre Dame)   (VA4)
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6:15 PM A weakly constrained W' at the early LHC - Ennio Salvioni (CERN/University of Padua)   (VA4)
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6:30 PM Low scale Left Right symmetry and first LHC data - Dr Miha Nemevsek (ICTP)   (VA4)
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6:45 PM Soft gluon resummation for Drell-Yan and slepton-pair production in supersymmetry - Dr Leonardo Vernazza (Johannes Gutenberg Universität)   (VA4)
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12:00 PM On gauginos and super-Yang-Mills theories - Jean-Pierre Derendinger (CERN)   (Main Auditorium)
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM Yukawa couplings and F-Theory - Luis Ibanez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)   (Main Auditorium)
2:30 PM Phenomenological Aspects of D-branes at Singularities - Fernando Quevedo   (Main Auditorium)
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3:00 PM Axino effective interactions and thermal production of axino dark matter - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)   (Main Auditorium)
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6:00 PM --- Boat Trip ---
8:30 PM --- Social Dinner at "Casa do Alentejo" ---
12:00 PM LHCb results - Hugo Ruiz Perez (CERN)   (Main Auditorium)
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM Discrete symmetries, fine tuning and Higgs structure in SUSY models - Graham Garland Ross (Department of Theoretical Physics-University of Oxford)   (Main Auditorium)
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2:30 PM From Majorana to LHC (and back) - Goran Senjanovic   (Main Auditorium)
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3:00 PM Naturalness vs. flavor trviality - Andreas Weiler   (Main Auditorium)
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3:30 PM Phenomenological aspects of the dark matter stability origin - Thomas Hambye (Univ. L. Brussels)   (Main Auditorium)
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Hunting new animalcula with flavour - Prof. Andrzej Buras (TU Munich)   (Main Auditorium)
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