The biggest accelerators in space and on earth

from Monday, 18 March 2013 (09:00) to Friday, 22 March 2013 (18:30)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Mar 2013
19 Mar 2013
20 Mar 2013
21 Mar 2013
22 Mar 2013
AM
09:00
LHC visit: CMS (for registered participants only) (until 11:00) (222/R-001)
09:00
Accelerators on Earth: the LHC and its physics results, II - Andreas Eckart (until 09:40) (222/R-001)
09:00 LHC searches for other Beyond the Standard Model Phenomena (covering SUSY, Dark Matter, etc) - Martin Weber (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))   (222/R-001)
Slides
09:40
Acceleration & Active Black Holes - Antxon Alberdi Andreas Eckart (until 18:30) (222/R-001)
09:40 Jets and acceleration - Mark Birkinshaw   (222/R-001)
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10:30 Disk and jet parameters in flat spectrum radio quasars - Lyuba Slavcheva-Mihova   (222/R-001)
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10:50 Modelling Blazar emission with the time-dependent SSC cooling process - Michael Zacharias   (222/R-001)
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11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:35 Numerical simulation of instability of the black hole-torus systems and quasi-periodic oscillations - Orhan Donmez   (222/R-001)
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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   (222/R-001)
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12:15 Black holes in numerical relativity: from astrophysics to particle physics - Luciano Rezzolla   (222/R-001)
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13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 A review of primary and recent GRMHD simulations - Shinki Koide   (222/R-001)
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14:50 The high energy emission of transient black hole binaries - Fiamma Capitanio   (222/R-001)
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15:10 Relativistic Electrons in X-ray Binaries - Ralph Spencer   (222/R-001)
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 - Andreas Eckart   (222/R-001)
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16:50 Instabilities in fast pair beams in cosmic voids - Markus Supsar   (222/R-001)
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09:00
Dark Energy / Supernovae - Mark Birkinshaw (until 11:20) (222/R-001)
09:00 Particle Physics implications of Dark Energy - Leonardo Senatore (CERN)   (222/R-001)
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09:45 Limits on decaying dark energy density models from the CMB temperature-redshift relation - Philippe Jetzer   (222/R-001)
Paper
10:05 Recent challenging results from gamma-ray astrophysics above 100 MeV - Carlotta Pittori   (222/R-001)
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10:25 Dark energy as a quantum condensate - Houri Ziaeepour   (222/R-001)
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10:45 --- Coffee break ---
10:55
Black Hole Gravitational Collapse / GRB - Mark Birkinshaw (until 14:25) (222/R-001)
11:20 Gravitational collapse in alternative gravity - Laszlo Gergely   (222/R-001)
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11:40 Physical parameters of the relativistic shell in the GRB - Sasa Simic   (222/R-001)
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12:00 High energy emission from gamma-ray bursts and other astronomical sources - Houri Ziaeepour   (222/R-001)
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12:20 --- Lunch break ---
09:00
Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies (until 09:45) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:00 Review of Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies - Robert Laing   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
Slides
09:45
Beyond the classical picture: black holes and gravity at the quantum scale (until 14:00) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:45 The unitarity crisis for quantum black holes -- complementarity, massive remnants/fuzzballs/firewalls, and nonviolent nonlocality - Steven Giddings   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Black Hole Microstate Geometries/Fuzzballs and the Black Hole Information Paradox - Iosif Bena (CEA-Saclay)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:45 Signals of TeV-Scale Gravity at the LHC - Panagiota Kanti (Ioannina)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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12:30 --- Lunch break ---
09:00
Session of the TH Institute on Black hole horizons and quantum information (until 18:00) (222/R-001)
Link to the agenda of the TH Institute
PM
13:30
Presentation of COST programme - Silke Britzen (MPIfR) (until 14:30) (222/R-001)
13:30 Introduction to COST - Caroline Whelan   (222/R-001)
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13:40 The Physics, Materials and Nanosciences (MPNS) Domain - Anthony Flambard Laurens Katgerman   (222/R-001)
13:50 Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics - Angelo Bassi   (222/R-001)
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14:00 The String Theory Universe - Silvia Penati   (222/R-001)
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14:10 Q&A and discussion   (222/R-001)
14:30
Accelerators on Earth: the LHC and its physics results - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) (until 16:00) (222/R-001)
14:30 The LHC accelerator complex - Prof. Lucio Rossi (CERN)   (222/R-001)
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15:20 LHC searches for gravitational effects at the TeV scale (covering BH's, extra dimensions) - Douglas Gingrich (University of Alberta (CA))   (222/R-001)
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16:00
LHC visit (for registered participants only) (until 18:30) ()
16:15 ATLAS visit   ()
16:30 CMS visit   ()
18:30 --- Welcome reception ---
19:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
14:00
Beyond the classical picture: black holes and gravity at the quantum scale (until 17:30) (222/R-001)
14:00 Quantum Black Holes at the LHC - Nina Gausmann   (222/R-001)
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14:20 Higgs and Gravity - Xavier Calmet   (222/R-001)
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14:40 Black holes, classicalization, dimensional reduction and holography - Piero NICOLINI   (222/R-001)
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15:00 Where to search for the micro black holes back-to-back decay signature - Octavian Micu   (222/R-001)
Paper
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15:20 Van der Waals behavior and gauge/Gravity duality - Antonia Micol Frassino   (222/R-001)
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14:00
Broadcast of the briefing on the release of data analyses from the Planck experiment, from the ESA headquarters (until 16:00) (222/R-001)
16:30
CERN colloquium (until 17:30) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:30 CERN colloquium: Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory - Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
Link to colloquium agenda