The biggest accelerators in space and on earth

18 Mar 2013, 09:00 → 22 Mar 2013, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

222/R-001 (CERN)

Antxon Alberdi, Boris Samuel Pioline (CERN), Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Silke Britzen, Ulrike Wyputta

This Workshop is jointly organized by the COST programme on "Black Holes in a Violent Universe", the CERN TH group and the LPCC. The focus of the workshop are the phenomena taking place at the highest-energies available in the cosmos and in the laboratory, spanning the whole range from the most luminous events in space (extragalactic jets from active black holes, gamma ray bursts, cosmic rays, etc) to the exploration, theoretical and at the LHC, of new particles and quantum gravity phenomena (searches for black holes, extra dimensions, dark matter; theoretical understanding of the information properties of black holes, gravitational scattering at high energy, properties of the event horizon, etc.). The goal of the meeting is to bring together experts from the two communities of astrophysics and particle physics, and share with each other the latest developments and open issues in their respective field.
 

Laptop registration: to have access to CERN's wireless network, access the following url: 

http://network.cern.ch/sc/fcgi/sc.fcgi?Action=VisitorRegistration 

and provide Elena Gianolio (PH department, AGS group) as contact person. We suggest you do this few days before arriving, to ensure you are connected right away upon arrival.

For those who did not request a room at the CERN Hostel, information on accommodation (including Hotels near CERN) is provided here:
https://espace.cern.ch/hostel-service/default.aspx

 

Monday, 18 March

09:00 → 11:00 LHC visit: CMS (for registered participants only)

Participants invited to the visit will be notified by email. Please avoid high-heel shoes.

13:30 → 14:30 Presentation of COST programme

Convener: Silke Britzen (MPIfR)

13:30 Introduction to COST

Speaker: Caroline Whelan

Slides General_presentation_of_COST_for_CERN.pdf General_presentation_of_COST_for_CERN.ppt

13:40 The Physics, Materials and Nanosciences (MPNS) Domain

Speakers: Anthony Flambard, Laurens Katgerman

Slides

• General_presentation_of_MPNS_for_CERN.pdf
• General_presentation_of_MPNS_for_CERN.ppt
• General_presentation_of_MPNS_for_CERN.ppt

13:50 Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics

Speaker: Angelo Bassi

Slides CERN.pdf

14:00 The String Theory Universe

Speaker: Silvia Penati

Slides presentation-CERN.pdf presentation-CERN.pptx

14:10 Q&A and discussion

14:30 → 16:00 Accelerators on Earth: the LHC and its physics results

Convener: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

14:30 The LHC accelerator complex

Speaker: Prof. Lucio Rossi (CERN)

Slides The_LHC_accelerator_complex_Rossi_18March2013_final.pdf The_LHC_accelerator_complex_Rossi_18March2013_final.pptx

15:20 LHC searches for gravitational effects at the TeV scale (covering BH's, extra dimensions)

Speaker: Douglas Gingrich (University of Alberta (CA))

Slides gingrich-v6.pdf

16:00 → 18:30 LHC visit (for registered participants only)

Participants invited to the visit will be notified by email. Please avoid high-heel shoes.

16:15 ATLAS visit

16:30 CMS visit

18:30 → 20:00 Welcome reception

Tuesday, 19 March

09:00 → 09:40 Accelerators on Earth: the LHC and its physics results, II

Convener: Andreas Eckart

09:00 LHC searches for other Beyond the Standard Model Phenomena (covering SUSY, Dark Matter, etc)

Speaker: Martin Weber (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

Slides 2013_03_19_MartinWeber_SUSY_DarkMatter_Exotica.pdf

09:40 → 18:30 Acceleration & Active Black Holes: Accretion Disk / Jet launching / Jet emission / Gamma-rays / etc.

Conveners: Andreas Eckart, Antxon Alberdi

09:40 Jets and acceleration

Speaker: Mark Birkinshaw

Slides 2013_03_cost_cern_final.pdf 2013_03_cost_cern_final.ppt

10:30 Disk and jet parameters in flat spectrum radio quasars

Speaker: Lyuba Slavcheva-Mihova

Slides SlavchevaMihova_FSRQ.pdf

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

Speaker: Michael Zacharias

Slides CERN_Talk_Zacharias.pdf

11:10 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Orhan Donmez

Slides Amovie_density.mpeg Donmez_COST.PPT

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

Speaker: Monica Valencia-Schneider

Slides COST_CERN.pdf COST_CERN.ppt

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

Speaker: Luciano Rezzolla

Slides rezzolla_0313.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 A review of primary and recent GRMHD simulations

Speaker: Shinki Koide

Slides kmixd_50x50.mpg kmixd_zoom.mpg

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

Speaker: Fiamma Capitanio

Slides GENEVA_2013.pdf GENEVA_2013.pptx

15:10 Relativistic Electrons in X-ray Binaries

Speaker: Ralph Spencer

15:30 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Andreas Eckart

Slides aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaCOST-CERN-2013exp.pdf aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaCOST-CERN-2013exp.ppt

16:50 Instabilities in fast pair beams in cosmic voids

Speaker: Markus Supsar

Slides Plasma_instabilities_in_fast_pair_beams_in_cosmic_voids_-_CERN.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 20 March

09:00 → 11:20 Dark Energy / Supernovae

Convener: Mark Birkinshaw

09:00 Particle Physics implications of Dark Energy

Speaker: Leonardo Senatore (CERN)

Slides seminar_CERN_march_2013.pdf

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

Speaker: Philippe Jetzer

Paper Cern.pdf

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

Speaker: Carlotta Pittori

Slides COST-CERN_pittori_2013.pdf

10:25 Dark energy as a quantum condensate

Speaker: Houri Ziaeepour

Slides devac-cern.pdf

10:45 Coffee break

10:55 → 14:25 Black Hole Gravitational Collapse / GRB

Convener: Mark Birkinshaw

11:20 Gravitational collapse in alternative gravity

Speaker: Laszlo Gergely

Slides Gravitational_collapse_in_alternative_gravity.pdf

11:40 Physical parameters of the relativistic shell in the GRB

Speaker: Sasa Simic

Slides ssimic.pptx

12:00 High energy emission from gamma-ray bursts and other astronomical sources

Speaker: Houri Ziaeepour

Slides accelcern.pdf

12:20 Lunch break

14:00 → 17:30 Beyond the classical picture: black holes and gravity at the quantum scale

14:00 Quantum Black Holes at the LHC

Speaker: Nina Gausmann

Slides COSTMeetingGenevaMarch2013_NinaGausmann.pdf

14:20 Higgs and Gravity

Speaker: Xavier Calmet

Slides calmet.pdf

14:40 Black holes, classicalization, dimensional reduction and holography

Speaker: Piero NICOLINI

Slides cost_cern_nicolini_v2.pdf

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

Speaker: Octavian Micu

Paper BH_Neutrinos_v1.pdf MicroBH_October11.pdf

Slides BH_UHECRs.pdf

15:20 Van der Waals behavior and gauge/Gravity duality

Speaker: Antonia Micol Frassino

Slides PP1COSTv1.pdf

Thursday, 21 March

09:00 → 09:45 Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies

09:00 Review of Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies

Speaker: Robert Laing

Slides Laing_Magnetic_v3.pdf

09:45 → 14:00 Beyond the classical picture: black holes and gravity at the quantum scale

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

Speaker: Steven Giddings

Slides SBG-review.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Black Hole Microstate Geometries/Fuzzballs and the Black Hole Information Paradox

Speaker: Iosif Bena (CEA-Saclay)

11:45 Signals of TeV-Scale Gravity at the LHC

Speaker: Panagiota Kanti (Ioannina)

Slides CERN_2013_v1.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 Broadcast of the briefing on the release of data analyses from the Planck experiment, from the ESA headquarters

Broadcast shown in the Main Auditorium

16:30 → 17:30 CERN colloquium

16:30 CERN colloquium: Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory

Speaker: Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)

Link to colloquium agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=241015

Friday, 22 March

09:00 → 18:00 Session of the TH Institute on Black hole horizons and quantum information

Link to the agenda of the TH Institute https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?confId=222307&view=standard