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, March 18, 2013 (9:00 AM) to Friday, March 22, 2013 (6:30 PM)

Monday, March 18, 2013

9:00 AM LHC visit: CMS (for registered participants only)

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 222/R-001
1:30 PM Presentation of COST programme
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

1:30 PM Introduction to COST - Caroline Whelan

1:40 PM The Physics, Materials and Nanosciences (MPNS) Domain - Anthony Flambard Laurens Katgerman

1:50 PM Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics - Angelo Bassi

2:00 PM The String Theory Universe - Silvia Penati

2:10 PM Q&A and discussion
2:30 PM Accelerators on Earth: the LHC and its physics results
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

2:30 PM The LHC accelerator complex - Lucio Rossi (CERN)

3:20 PM LHC searches for gravitational effects at the TeV scale (covering BH's, extra dimensions) - Douglas Gingrich (University of Alberta (CA))
4:00 PM LHC visit (for registered participants only)
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM ATLAS visit

4:30 PM CMS visit
6:30 PM Welcome reception
Welcome reception
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: 61/1-201 - Pas perdus - Not a meeting room -
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
9:00 AM Accelerators on Earth: the LHC and its physics results, II
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

9:00 AM LHC searches for other Beyond the Standard Model Phenomena (covering SUSY, Dark Matter, etc) - Martin Weber (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))
9:40 AM Acceleration & Active Black Holes: Accretion Disk / Jet launching / Jet emission / Gamma-rays / etc.
Accretion Disk / Jet launching / Jet emission / Gamma-rays / etc.
9:40 AM - 6:30 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

9:40 AM Jets and acceleration - Mark Birkinshaw

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

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

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

11:55 AM 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 PM Black holes in numerical relativity: from astrophysics to particle physics - Luciano Rezzolla

2:00 PM A review of primary and recent GRMHD simulations - Shinki Koide

2:50 PM The high energy emission of transient black hole binaries - Fiamma Capitanio

3:10 PM Relativistic Electrons in X-ray Binaries - Ralph Spencer

4:00 PM Accretion process and immediate environment of SgrA* the super-massive Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way - Andreas Eckart

4:50 PM Instabilities in fast pair beams in cosmic voids - Markus Supsar
7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
9:00 AM Dark Energy / Supernovae
9:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

9:00 AM Particle Physics implications of Dark Energy - Leonardo Senatore (CERN)

9:45 AM Limits on decaying dark energy density models from the CMB temperature-redshift relation - Philippe Jetzer

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

10:25 AM Dark energy as a quantum condensate - Houri Ziaeepour
10:55 AM Black Hole Gravitational Collapse / GRB
10:55 AM - 2:25 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:20 AM Gravitational collapse in alternative gravity - Laszlo Gergely

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

12:00 PM High energy emission from gamma-ray bursts and other astronomical sources - Houri Ziaeepour
2:00 PM Beyond the classical picture: black holes and gravity at the quantum scale
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

2:00 PM Quantum Black Holes at the LHC - Nina Gausmann

2:20 PM Higgs and Gravity - Xavier Calmet

2:40 PM Black holes, classicalization, dimensional reduction and holography - Piero NICOLINI

3:00 PM Where to search for the micro black holes back-to-back decay signature - Octavian Micu

3:20 PM Van der Waals behavior and gauge/Gravity duality - Antonia Micol Frassino
Thursday, March 21, 2013
9:00 AM Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Review of Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies - Robert Laing
9:45 AM Beyond the classical picture: black holes and gravity at the quantum scale
9:45 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:45 AM The unitarity crisis for quantum black holes -- complementarity, massive remnants/fuzzballs/firewalls, and nonviolent nonlocality - Steven Giddings

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

11:45 AM Signals of TeV-Scale Gravity at the LHC - Panagiota Kanti (Ioannina)
2:00 PM Broadcast of the briefing on the release of data analyses from the Planck experiment, from the ESA headquarters

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
4:30 PM CERN colloquium
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM CERN colloquium: Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory - Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)
Friday, March 22, 2013

9:00 AM Session of the TH Institute on Black hole horizons and quantum information

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001