Portoroz 2011: The Role of Heavy Fermions in Fundamental Physics

from Monday 11 April 2011 (08:00) to Thursday 14 April 2011 (22:00)
Hotel Slovenija, Portoroz (James Cook)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Apr 2011
12 Apr 2011
13 Apr 2011
14 Apr 2011
AM
09:00 Workshop Opening  
09:10
Top 1 (until 10:30)
09:10 Top physics experiments - Marina Cobal  
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09:40 Signals of the Tevatron t tbar asymmetry at LHC - Prof. Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (University of Granada and Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental (LIP))  
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10:05 Massive Colour-Octet Bosons in Top-Quark Pair Production - Dr Susanne Westhoff (Mainz University)  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
SUSY 1 (until 12:30)
10:50 Heavy Fermions and Flavor Physics beyond the SM - Paride Paradisi (Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM))  
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11:15 B mixing, supersymmetry and GUTs - Prof. Ulrich Nierste (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))  
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11:40 SUSY_FLAVOR: a computational tool for FCNC and CP-violating processes in the MSSM - Janusz Rosiek (IFT UW)  
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12:05 Complete resummation of chirally enhanced corrections in the general MSSM - Dr Andreas Crivellin (ITP Bern)  
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09:00
Neutrinos (until 10:40)
09:00 Neutrino masses in a two higgs doublet model - Alejandro Ibarra (TUM)  
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09:25 Phenomenology of Seesaw-Motivated Heavy Leptons at the LHC - Prof. Ivica Picek (Phys. Dept., University of Zagreb)  
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09:50 The Colorful Seesaw - Dr Sogee Spinner (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
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10:15 Leptogenesis in type-III seesaw models and the implications of flavor effects - Diego Aristizabal (Universite de Liege)  
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
10:55
Beauty 2 (until 12:40)
10:55 B physics at hadron colliders - Michal Kreps  
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11:25 In pursuit of determining the Bs mixing phase betas - Fulvia De Fazio (INFN)  
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11:50 New Physics in B mixing - Prof. Alexander Lenz (TU Munich)  
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12:15 $B$-Physics Probes for New Physics in the LHC Era - Prof. Robert Fleischer (Nikhef)  
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09:15
Grand Unification (until 10:30)
09:15 Flavor Symmetry and Grand Unification - Prof. Berthold Stech (Heidelberg University)  
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09:40 Aspects of SO(10) unifications with extended matter sector - Michal Malinsky (IFIC/CSIC and University of Valencia)  
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10:05 Light colored scalar as a messenger of up-, down-quark and charged lepton flavor dynamics in Grand Unified Theories - Prof. Ilja Dorsner (University of Sarajevo)  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
Top 3 (until 12:25)
10:50 Implications of the top pair forward-backward asymmetry - Gilad Perez (Weizmann Institute)  
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11:15 The Top Quark Forward Backward Asymmetry and Flavor - Prof. alexander kagan (university of Cincinnati)  
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11:40 Top Flavor Gauge Boson Physics - Seung LEE (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
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12:05 Non-resonant new physics in top pair production at hadron colliders - Ms Degrande Celine (UCL)  
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09:00
SUSY 2 (until 10:40)
09:00 (Meta)stability of the supersymmetry breaking vacuum and gaugino masses - Dr Stephane Lavignac (IPhT, CEA-Saclay)  
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09:25 Spontaneous R-parity Breaking at TeV scale and at the LHC - Dr Yue Zhang (Abdus Salam ICTP)  
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09:50 CP violation in three body decays - Dr Monika Blanke (Cornell University)  
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10:15 Charged LFV in a low-scale seesaw mSUGRA model - Prof. Amon Ilakovac (Univ. of Zagreb)  
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
BSM 3 (until 12:25)
11:00 Heavy Fermion Physics at Super Flavor Factories - Peter Križan  
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11:30 Combined analysis of flavour physics effects in New Physics models - Stefan Recksiegel (TUM)  
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11:55 Closing remarks - Goran Senjanović  
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PM
14:30
Beauty 1 (until 16:10)
14:30 A model for the color suppressed decay mode B^0 --> 2 \pi^0 - Prof. Jan Olav Eeg (University of Oslo)  
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14:55 Status of semileptonic B decays - Paolo Gambino (Turin U and INFN)  
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15:20 Threshold Resummed Mass Corrected Spectra in Heavy Quark Decays - Giulia Ricciardi (Dip. di Scienze Fisiche Univ. Napoli Federico II)  
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15:45 Isgur-Wise functions and the Lorentz group - Dr Luis Oliver (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique Université de Paris-Sud)  
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16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
BSM 1 (until 18:10)
16:30 Heavy Fermions and some Aspects of Physics Beyond the SM - Prof. Gustavo C. Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST))  
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16:55 Minimal Flavour Violation and Two-Higgs doublet Models. - Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (UTL/CFTP/IST)  
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17:20 Left Right symmetry, neutrinoless double beta decay and the LHC - Dr Miha Nemevsek (ICTP)  
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17:45 Low scale Left-Right symmetry: phenomenology and first bounds from LHC - Dr Fabrizio Nesti  
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18:30
Reception (until 20:00) (Lobby)
14:30
Charm (until 15:25)
14:30 Charm physics in experiments - Michael Sokoloff  
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15:00 Charmonium production at LHCb: search strategy with ppbar final state - Dr Emi Kou (LAL/IN2P3)  
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15:25
Top 2 (until 16:05)
15:25 Studying anomalous top-gluon couplings at Tevatron/LHC - Prof. Zenro Hioki (University of Tokushima)  
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15:50 Interplay of t -> bW and B-meson mixing in MFV models - Jure Drobnak (Jozef Stefan Institute)  
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16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Dark Matter (until 17:10)
16:20 Dark matter models with uniquely spin-dependent detection - Zoltan Ligeti (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
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16:45 Cosmic Antiproton Constraints on Effective Interactions of the Dark Matter - Tzu-Chiang Yuan (Academia Sinica)  
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17:10
Kaons (until 18:00)
17:10 The s ---> d gamma decay in and beyond the Standard Model - Christopher Smith (IPN Lyon)  
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17:35 Heavy fermions and Kaon decays - Dr Joachim Brod  
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14:30
BSM 2 (until 16:10)
14:30 4th Family is Natural in Technicolor - Prof. francesco Sannino (CP3-Origins)  
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14:55 CP violation with the fourth generation quarks - Dr Blazenka Melic (Rudjer Boskovic Institute)  
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15:20 Combined analysis of meson mixings and EW precision observables in 4th generation SM - Nejc Košnik (LAL)  
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15:45 Extra families seek friendship with heavy Higgs and inert doublet - Alejandra Melfo (U. de Los Andes)  
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16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Beauty 3 (until 18:05)
16:30 B physcs at e+ e- colliders - Bostjan Golob  
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17:00 Theory of B -> K(*) l+l- decays at high q^2 - Gerhard Buchalla (LMU Munich)  
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17:25 Radiative b decays as probes of New Physics - Sébastien Descotes-Genon (LPT)  
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17:50 Determining the photon polarization of the b->s gamma using the B->K1(1270)gamma->(Kpipi)gamma decay - Andrey Tayduganov  
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19:00
Conference dinner (until 22:00)
14:00
Excursion (until 22:00)