Third NExT PhD Workshop: At the frontier of our knowledge

17 Jun 2013, 10:00 → 19 Jun 2013, 19:15 Europe/London

Lecture Theatre, G.O. Jones building (Queen Mary, University of London)

This NExT PhD Workshop is the third of a series of Workshops for Graduate students. It is open to NExT Institute staff, PDRAs and students, as well as external participants. It aims to bring people together to present, share and generate new ideas. The topic of this Graduate Workshop is "At the frontier of our knowledge". This will be the topic of the lectures during the first two days of the workshop. The last day is a conference-type day with presentations especially from members of the NExT nodes.

Monday, 17 June

10:00 → 10:55 Coffee

10:55 → 12:45 Cosmic Microwave Background I

Convener: Prof. Francesca Di Lodovico

10:55 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Steve LLOYD

11:00 Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Melchiorri (University of Rome)

Slides QMC_lecture1_2013_melk.pptx

12:30 Questions

12:45 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 16:00 Neutrinos I

Convener: Mr Terry Duboyski

14:15 Neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Michele Maltoni (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC)

Slides maltoni-next.pdf

15:45 Questions

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 18:15 Higgs I

Convener: Mr Marc Scott

16:30 Higgs

Speaker: Dr Jeppe R. Andersen (IPPP Durham)

Slides H1.pdf

18:00 Questions

18:15 → 20:00 Posters

Convener: Prof. Steve Thomas

18:15 Poster Session

20:30 → 22:30 Workshop Dinner @ Tayyabs Curry House

Tuesday, 18 June

09:00 → 10:45 Cosmic Microwave Background II

Convener: Mr Ting-Cheng Yang

09:00 Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Melchiorri (University of Rome)

10:30 Questions

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 13:00 Neutrinos II

Convener: Ms Ela Poplawska

11:15 Neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Michele Maltoni (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC)

Slides maltoni-next.pdf

12:45 Questions

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:15 Higgs II

Convener: Mr Daniele Barducci

14:30 Higgs

Speaker: Dr Jeppe R. Andersen (IPPP Durham)

Slides H2.pdf

16:00 Questions

16:15 → 16:45 Coffee

16:45 → 18:00 SUSY I

Convener: Mr Ken Mimasu

16:45 SUSY

Speaker: Prof. Steve King (University of Southampton)

Slides NExT_PhD_King.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner: The Curve http://www.curve.qmul.ac.uk/

Dinner: The Curve http://www.curve.qmul.ac.uk/
Bar: http://www.scr.qmul.ac.uk/bar/index.html

Wednesday, 19 June

09:00 → 10:45 SUSY II

Convener: Ms Maria Dimou

09:00 SUSY

Speaker: Prof. Steve King (University of Southampton)

Slides NExT_PhD_King.pdf

10:30 Questions

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 12:30 PhD Student Talks I

Convener: Dr Jeanne Wilson

11:15 New Paradigm for Canonical Quantisation and Black Hole

Speaker: Ting-Cheng Yang (Sussex)

Slides Yang.pdf

11:40 A Golden A_5 Model of Leptons with a Minimal NLO Correction

Speaker: Alex Stuart (Southampton)

Slides NExT_PhD_Workshop_QMUL_2013.pdf

12:05 Quantum Black Holes at the LHC

Speaker: Nina Gausmann (Sussex)

Slides NExTPhDSchool2013_NinaGausmann.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:50 PhD Student Talks II

Convener: Dr Jeanne Wilson

14:00 Higgs signal at the LHC for the 4D Composite Higgs Model

Speaker: Daniele Barducci (Southampton)

Slides barducci.pdf

14:25 A SUSY GUT of Flavour with SU(5)xS4xU(1)

Speaker: Maria Dimou (Southampton)

Slides Next-Talk_-DIMOU.pdf

14:50 → 15:30 Discussion on Graduate School matters

Speaker: Dr Huber Stephan

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee