The biggest accelerators in space and on earth

from Monday, March 18, 2013 (9:00 AM) to Friday, March 22, 2013 (6:30 PM)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 18, 2013
Mar 19, 2013
Mar 20, 2013
Mar 21, 2013
Mar 22, 2013
AM
9:00 AM
LHC visit: CMS (for registered participants only) (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM
Accelerators on Earth: the LHC and its physics results, II - Andreas Eckart (until 9:40 AM)
9:00 AM LHC searches for other Beyond the Standard Model Phenomena (covering SUSY, Dark Matter, etc) - Martin Weber (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))  
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9:40 AM
Acceleration & Active Black Holes - Antxon Alberdi Andreas Eckart (until 6:30 PM)
9:40 AM Jets and acceleration - Mark Birkinshaw  
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10:30 AM Disk and jet parameters in flat spectrum radio quasars - Lyuba Slavcheva-Mihova  
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10:50 AM Modelling Blazar emission with the time-dependent SSC cooling process - Michael Zacharias  
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11:10 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:35 AM Numerical simulation of instability of the black hole-torus systems and quasi-periodic oscillations - Orhan Donmez  
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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  
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12:15 PM Black holes in numerical relativity: from astrophysics to particle physics - Luciano Rezzolla  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM A review of primary and recent GRMHD simulations - Shinki Koide  
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2:50 PM The high energy emission of transient black hole binaries - Fiamma Capitanio  
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3:10 PM Relativistic Electrons in X-ray Binaries - Ralph Spencer  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Accretion process and immediate environment of SgrA* the super-massive Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way - Andreas Eckart  
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4:50 PM Instabilities in fast pair beams in cosmic voids - Markus Supsar  
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9:00 AM
Dark Energy / Supernovae - Mark Birkinshaw (until 11:20 AM)
9:00 AM Particle Physics implications of Dark Energy - Leonardo Senatore (CERN)  
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9:45 AM Limits on decaying dark energy density models from the CMB temperature-redshift relation - Philippe Jetzer  
Paper
10:05 AM Recent challenging results from gamma-ray astrophysics above 100 MeV - Carlotta Pittori  
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10:25 AM Dark energy as a quantum condensate - Houri Ziaeepour  
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10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:55 AM
Black Hole Gravitational Collapse / GRB - Mark Birkinshaw (until 2:25 PM)
11:20 AM Gravitational collapse in alternative gravity - Laszlo Gergely  
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11:40 AM Physical parameters of the relativistic shell in the GRB - Sasa Simic  
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12:00 PM High energy emission from gamma-ray bursts and other astronomical sources - Houri Ziaeepour  
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12:20 PM --- Lunch break ---
9:00 AM
Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies (until 9:45 AM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:00 AM Review of Magnetic Fields in Active Galaxies - Robert Laing  
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9:45 AM
Beyond the classical picture: black holes and gravity at the quantum scale (until 2:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:45 AM The unitarity crisis for quantum black holes -- complementarity, massive remnants/fuzzballs/firewalls, and nonviolent nonlocality - Steven Giddings  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
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)  
Slides
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
9:00 AM
Session of the TH Institute on Black hole horizons and quantum information (until 6:00 PM)
Link to the agenda of the TH Institute
PM
1:30 PM
Presentation of COST programme - Silke Britzen (MPIfR) (until 2:30 PM)
1:30 PM Introduction to COST - Caroline Whelan  
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1:40 PM The Physics, Materials and Nanosciences (MPNS) Domain - Anthony Flambard Laurens Katgerman  
1:50 PM Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics - Angelo Bassi  
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2:00 PM The String Theory Universe - Silvia Penati  
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2:10 PM Q&A and discussion  
2:30 PM
Accelerators on Earth: the LHC and its physics results - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) (until 4:00 PM)
2:30 PM The LHC accelerator complex - Prof. Lucio Rossi (CERN)  
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3:20 PM LHC searches for gravitational effects at the TeV scale (covering BH's, extra dimensions) - Douglas Gingrich (University of Alberta (CA))  
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4:00 PM
LHC visit (for registered participants only) (until 6:30 PM)
4:15 PM ATLAS visit  
4:30 PM CMS visit  
6:30 PM --- Welcome reception ---
7:00 PM --- Conference Dinner ---
2:00 PM
Beyond the classical picture: black holes and gravity at the quantum scale (until 5:30 PM)
2:00 PM Quantum Black Holes at the LHC - Nina Gausmann  
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2:20 PM Higgs and Gravity - Xavier Calmet  
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2:40 PM Black holes, classicalization, dimensional reduction and holography - Piero NICOLINI  
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3:00 PM Where to search for the micro black holes back-to-back decay signature - Octavian Micu  
Paper
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3:20 PM Van der Waals behavior and gauge/Gravity duality - Antonia Micol Frassino  
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2:00 PM
Broadcast of the briefing on the release of data analyses from the Planck experiment, from the ESA headquarters (until 4:00 PM)
4:30 PM
CERN colloquium (until 5:30 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
4:30 PM CERN colloquium: Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory - Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
Link to colloquium agenda