NExT PhD Workshop 2012

20 Aug 2012, 13:00 → 22 Aug 2012, 18:00 Europe/London

Fulton 104 (University of Sussex)

This NExT PhD Workshop is the second of a series, open to NExT Institute staff, PDRAs and students, as well as external participants. It is aiming to bring people together to present, share and generate new ideas. The core of the program consists of a series of extensive review talks/lectures on Flavor: Gudrun Hiller (Dortmund) Neutrinos: Susan Cartwright (Sheffied) Higgs experiment: Ricardo Goncalo (RHUL) Higgs theory: Christoph Englert (Durham) Composite Higgs: Andrea Wulzer (Padua) SUSY (+Higgs): Andreas Weiler (DESY) The workshop will feature also -- Research presentations by participants Stewart Martin-Haugh (Sussex) Andrew Granger (Sussex) Andrew Akeroyd (Southampton) Roberto Sacco (Queen Mary) Mark Sutton (Sussex) Alex Stuart (Southampton) Jan Schroeder (Sussex) -- A poster session: There will be contributions from Maien Binjonaid (Southampton) Anthony Rose (Sussex) Mike Atkins (Sussex) Nina Gausmann (Sussex) Heinrich Wilsenach (Sussex) Agamemnon Sfondilis (Sussex) -- A student led discussion session (coordinated by Jason Hammett and Stewart Martin-Haugh) -- A discussion on graduate school matters -- Plenty of time for informal conversations -- Not to forget: the Workshop Dinner on Tuesday night The meeting is organised by the NExT Institute and sponsored by SEPnet. It is part of the SEPnet Graduate School.

Monday, 20 August

13:00 → 13:45 Arrival and Registration

13:45 → 14:00 Welcome

14:00 → 15:30 Susan Cartwright: Neutrinos (lecture)

Slides Experimental_Neutrino_Physics.pdf Experimental_Neutrino_Physics.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Alex Stuart: A Grand Delta(96)xSU(5) Flavour Model

Slides SussexWorkshop_Alex_Stuart.pdf

16:30 → 16:45 Jan Schroeder: Scattering in Fixed Point Gravity

Slides Next_2012_Talk.pdf

16:45 → 17:00 Break

17:00 → 18:00 Poster session

Maien Binjonaid (Soton) Anthony Rose (Sussex) Mike Atkins (Sussex) Nina Gausmann (Sussex) Heinrich Wilsenach (Sussex)

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 21 August

09:00 → 10:30 Christoph Englert: Higgs Theory (lecture)

Slides sussex_cenglert.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Ricardo Goncalo: Higgs Experiment (lecture)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Andreas Weiler: SUSY (+Higgs) (lecture)

Slides weiler_next_susy_lecture.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:30 Andrew Akeroyd: Enhancement of H-> gamma gamma in the Higgs Triplet Model

Slides short30min.pdf

16:30 → 16:45 Stewart Martin-Haugh: Supersymmetry searches in events with three leptons and missing energy

Slides NExt1Aug2012.pdf

16:45 → 17:15 Mark Sutton: Constraints on the parton distribution functions of the proton from LHC data

Slides next-sutton.pdf

17:15 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 19:00 Student led discussion (coordinated by Jason Hammett and Stewart Martin-Haugh)

19:00 → 21:00 Workshop Dinner

Wednesday, 22 August

09:00 → 10:30 Gudrun Hiller: Flavor (lecture)

Slides Sussex-flavorPhDlecture2012.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Roberto Sacco: B->D(*)tau nu

Slides DstarTauNu.pdf

11:30 → 11:45 Andrew Granger: Flavour Phenomenology and Warped Extra Dimensions

Slides Flavour_Talk.pdf

11:45 → 12:30 Discussion on Graduate School matters

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Andrea Wulzer: Composite Higgs (lecture)

Slides talk_wulzer.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Discussion & Coffee

16:30 → 17:00 Farewell