Name: The biggest accelerators in space and on earth
Start: 2013-03-18T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2013-03-22T18:30:00+01:00
Location: CERN

The biggest accelerators in space and on earth

from Monday, 18 March 2013 (09:00) to Friday, 22 March 2013 (18:30)

Monday, 18 March 2013

09:00

09:00 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001
13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

13:30 Introduction to COST - Caroline Whelan

13:40 The Physics, Materials and Nanosciences (MPNS) Domain - Anthony Flambard Laurens Katgerman

13:50 Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics - Angelo Bassi

14:00 The String Theory Universe - Silvia Penati

14:10 Q&A and discussion
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:30 The LHC accelerator complex - Lucio Rossi (CERN)

15:20 LHC searches for gravitational effects at the TeV scale (covering BH's, extra dimensions) - Douglas Gingrich (University of Alberta (CA))
16:00
16:00 - 18:30
Contributions

16:15 ATLAS visit

16:30 CMS visit
18:30 Welcome reception
Welcome reception
18:30 - 20:00
Room: 61/1-201 - Pas perdus - Not a meeting room -
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
09:00
09:00 - 09:40
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 LHC searches for other Beyond the Standard Model Phenomena (covering SUSY, Dark Matter, etc) - Martin Weber (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))
09:40 Accretion Disk / Jet launching / Jet emission / Gamma-rays / etc.
Accretion Disk / Jet launching / Jet emission / Gamma-rays / etc.
09:40 - 18:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:40 Jets and acceleration - Mark Birkinshaw

10:30 Disk and jet parameters in flat spectrum radio quasars - Lyuba Slavcheva-Mihova

10:50 Modelling Blazar emission with the time-dependent SSC cooling process - Michael Zacharias

11:35 Numerical simulation of instability of the black hole-torus systems and quasi-periodic oscillations - Orhan Donmez

11:55 Active intermediate-mass black holes (mass < 10^6 Msun) at the center of galaxies. Population census, a case study and how to find more - Monica Valencia-Schneider

12:15 Black holes in numerical relativity: from astrophysics to particle physics - Luciano Rezzolla

14:00 A review of primary and recent GRMHD simulations - Shinki Koide

14:50 The high energy emission of transient black hole binaries - Fiamma Capitanio

15:10 Relativistic Electrons in X-ray Binaries - Ralph Spencer

16:00 Accretion process and immediate environment of SgrA* the super-massive Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way - Andreas Eckart

16:50 Instabilities in fast pair beams in cosmic voids - Markus Supsar
19:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Room: 222/R-001
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
09:00
09:00 - 11:20
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Particle Physics implications of Dark Energy - Leonardo Senatore (CERN)

09:45 Limits on decaying dark energy density models from the CMB temperature-redshift relation - Philippe Jetzer

10:05 Recent challenging results from gamma-ray astrophysics above 100 MeV - Carlotta Pittori

10:25 Dark energy as a quantum condensate - Houri Ziaeepour
10:55
10:55 - 14:25
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:20 Gravitational collapse in alternative gravity - Laszlo Gergely

11:40 Physical parameters of the relativistic shell in the GRB - Sasa Simic

12:00 High energy emission from gamma-ray bursts and other astronomical sources - Houri Ziaeepour
14:00
14:00 - 17:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Quantum Black Holes at the LHC - Nina Gausmann

14:20 Higgs and Gravity - Xavier Calmet

14:40 Black holes, classicalization, dimensional reduction and holography - Piero NICOLINI

15:00 Where to search for the micro black holes back-to-back decay signature - Octavian Micu

15:20 Van der Waals behavior and gauge/Gravity duality - Antonia Micol Frassino
Thursday, 21 March 2013
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Review of Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies - Robert Laing
09:45
09:45 - 14:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:45 The unitarity crisis for quantum black holes -- complementarity, massive remnants/fuzzballs/firewalls, and nonviolent nonlocality - Steven Giddings

11:00 Black Hole Microstate Geometries/Fuzzballs and the Black Hole Information Paradox - Iosif Bena (CEA-Saclay)

11:45 Signals of TeV-Scale Gravity at the LHC - Panagiota Kanti (Ioannina)
14:00

14:00 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001
16:30
16:30 - 17:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 CERN colloquium: Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory - Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)
Friday, 22 March 2013

09:00

09:00 - 18:00
Room: 222/R-001