Exotic Approaches to Naturalness

Europe/Zurich
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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Deog Ki Hong (Pusan National University (KR)), Hyun Min Lee (CAU - Chung-Ang University (KR)), Hyung Do Kim (Seoul National University), Isabel Garcia Garcia (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)), Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN), Seung J. Lee (Korea University), Steven Adam Abel (University of Durham (GB)), Tim Cohen (CERN)
Description

This will be an informal CERN-CKC TH Institute, with a light programme, on Exotic Approaches to Naturalness.  The aim is to explore how emerging ideas in formal theory, quantum gravity, and field theory more generally may shed light on naturalness puzzles in particle physics, where canonical approaches may have failed.  Topics to be covered include the potential role of generalised symmetries, UV/IR mixing, the weak gravity conjectures, magic zeroes and more.  Talks are by invitation.

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    • 11:00 11:20
      Coffee 20m 4/2-011 - TH common room

      4/2-011 - TH common room

      CERN

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    • 11:20 11:30
      Welcome 10m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      CERN

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      Speaker: Steven Adam Abel (University of Durham (GB))
    • 11:30 12:15
      UV/IR Mixing, EFTs, Hidden Cancellations, and Origami: Calculating the Higgs Mass and Gauge-Coupling Running in String Theory - Virtual 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      CERN

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      Speaker: Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)
    • 14:00 14:45
      Hidden Symmetries, IR/UV and the Combinatorial Geometry of Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics - Virtual 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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      CERN

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    • 15:45 16:30
      Wilson Coefficients and Natural Zeros from the On-Shell Viewpoint 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Benedict von Harling (IFAE)
    • 17:00 17:45
      S-matrix and naturalness 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      CERN

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      Speaker: Georgi Dvali
    • 11:00 11:30
      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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      CERN

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    • 11:30 12:15
      Exotic Field Theories for Prosaic Unnatural Physics 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Ira Rothstein (CMU)
    • 14:00 14:45
      Connecting with the UV: Positivity and Causality with Gravity 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Claudia de Rham
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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    • 15:45 16:30
      A couple of comments on naturalness 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Sergei Dubovsky (NYU)
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      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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    • 11:30 12:15
      Cosmological approaches to naturalness 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Tiann Tevong You (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
    • 14:00 15:00
      Predicting the Higgs Mass 1h 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Nathaniel Craig
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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    • 15:45 16:30
      Cosmological Explanations of the Higgs Mass 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Raffaele D'Agnolo
    • 18:00 20:00
      Cocktail 2h 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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    • 11:00 11:30
      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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      CERN

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    • 11:30 12:15
      Higher Symmetry in Particle Physics - Virtual 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Clay Córdova (Institute for Advanced Study)
    • 14:00 14:45
      Generalized Symmetries, Naturalness and the Unitarity Puzzle Redux - Virtual 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Zohar Komargodski
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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      CERN

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    • 15:45 16:30
      Neutrino Masses from Generalized Symmetry Breaking 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Sungwoo Hong (KAIST)
    • 11:00 11:30
      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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      CERN

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    • 11:30 12:15
      String Theory, the Cosmological Constant Problem and the Higgs Mass 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

      4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Per Berglund (University of New Hampshire (US))
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee 30m 4/2-011 - TH common room

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      CERN

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    • 15:45 16:30
      Naturalness and the Swampland - Virtual 45m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Irene Valenzuela Agui (CERN)
    • 16:30 16:45
      Summary 15m 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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      Speaker: Tim Cohen (CERN)