TH Institute on String Phenomenology

from Monday, July 21, 2008 (11:00 AM) to Friday, August 15, 2008 (6:00 PM)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 21, 2008
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Aug 1, 2008
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Aug 15, 2008
AM
11:00 AM Welcome coffee  
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM B. Acharya: "Non-thermal Dark Matter and Moduli/Gravitino Problems in M theory"  
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10:30 AM M. Gomez-Reino: "dS vacua and modular inflation in N=1 supergravity and string theory"  
Slides
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
11:00 AM Welcome coffee  
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM A. Wingerter: "Orbifolds, the Standard Model, and Unification"  
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10:30 AM M. Cvetic: "A string theoretic model of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking"  
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11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM R. Tatar: "New Aspects of Heterotic- F theory duality"  
10:30 AM M. Schulz: "String Junctions, Abelian Fibrations, and Flux/Geometry Duality"  
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11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM V. Braun:"Heterotic Model Building"  
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10:30 AM K. Dienes: "A New Approach to Flavor?"  
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
11:00 AM Welcome coffee  
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM A. Maharana: "Isometries and Approximate Flavor Symmetries in Local Models"  
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10:30 AM P. Kumar: "Connecting the LHC with underlying theories"  
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11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM M. Trapletti: "Toric resolution of Heterotic orbifolds"  
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10:30 AM F. Gmeiner: "Millions of Standard Models on Z6'?"  
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11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM M. Bianchi: "D-branes on T-folds with few T's"  
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10:30 AM P. Anastasopoulos: "Anomalous U(1)'s at LHC"  
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11:00 AM Morning coffee  
11:00 AM Welcome coffee  
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM Discussion Session: "The String Landscape"  
11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM J.F. Morales:"Non-perturbative interactions from fluxes"  
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10:30 AM F. Marchesano: "Generalized non-supersymmetric flux vacua"  
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11:00 AM Morning coffee  
10:00 AM C. Burgess: "Fibre Inflation and Tensor Perturbations in Type IIB Vacua"  
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10:30 AM Discussion Session: Strings vs. LHC  
11:30 AM Morning coffee  
PM
2:00 PM J. Louis: "Compactifications on Generalized Geometries"  
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2:30 PM A. Micu: "String dualities and manifolds with SU(3) structure"  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM K. Becker: "Torsional heterotic geometries"  
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2:30 PM P. G. Camara: "Torsion induced soft-breaking terms"  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM D. Lust: "The Landscape of String Theory: Intersecting branes (statistics and collider signatures) and AdS flux vacua  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM W. Taylor: "Cosmology and particle physics in the type IIA landscape"  
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2:30 PM G. Shiu: "UV Physics and String Inflation"  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM R. Blumenhagen: "Instantons in N=1 string compactifications"  
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2:30 PM E. Dudas: "Multi-instanton and one-loop string corrections in toroidal orbifold models  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM C. Vafa:"F-theory Meets Phenomenology"  
Slides from String Phenomenology 2008
3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM K. Choi: "Some features of soft terms in flux compactification"  
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2:30 PM H.-P. Nilles: "The Gaugino Code"  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM B. Ovrut: "Ricci-Flat Metrics and Scalar Laplacians on Calabi-Yau Threefolds"  
2:30 PM S. de Alwis: "Supersymmetry breaking models and String theory constraints"  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM G. Villadoro: "Status of D6-brane flux models and their effective field theories"  
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2:30 PM S. Raby: "A Fertile Patch in the Heterotic Landscape"  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM J. Gray: "Uses and methodology of the STRINGVACUA Mathematica package"  
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2:30 PM B. Schellekens: "Topics in RCFT orientifolds"  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee  
2:00 PM M. Douglas: "Landscape, low energy supersymmetry, and warping"  
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3:00 PM Discussion Coffee