Prof.
Mairi Sakellariadou
(King's College London)
06/12/2014, 09:50
I will review almost-commutative manifolds, a light version of noncommutative geometry, proposed by Connes in order to explain the Standard Model of electroweak and strong interactions and eventually unify the Standard Model with Einstein's geometrical theory of gravity. I will briefly discuss the spectral action principle and the choice of the algebra. After a short presentation of the...
Mark Trodden
(University of Pennsylvania)
06/12/2014, 10:35
Cosmological aspects of non-commutative space-times
A new class of effective scalar field theories, with properties potentially interesting for cosmology, have emerged from attempts to modify gravity. I will discuss these "Galileon" field theories, emphasizing how they may be derived from the probe brane construction, and using this to generalize them to their associated curved-background and multi-field incarnations. I will comment on issues...
Silvia Pascoli
(University of Durham (GB))
06/12/2014, 11:50
Neutrinos in cosmology and astroparticle physics
Neutrino mass models can explain the origin of the baryon asymmetry in the Universe, via the leptogenesis mechanism. A review of its main features and of the possible connection between low energy leptonic CP-violation and the one responsible for the baryon asymmetry will be presented.
James Pinfold
(University of Alberta (CA))
06/12/2014, 12:35
In 2010 the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was unanimously approved by CERN's Research Board to start data taking in 2015. MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. Its groundbreaking physics program defines over 30 scenarios that yield...
Jose Bernabeu
(IFIC)
06/12/2014, 13:20
T, C, P, CP symmetries
We are cellebrating the 50 anniversary of the discovery of
CP- Violation. The direct evidence of separate genuine Time-Reversal-
Violating Asymmetries, independent of CP-Violation and CPT-Invariance,
came recently in the transitions filtered by time-ordered decays of
Entangled Neutral B-mesons. These Symmetry Breakings are understood in
the quantum field theory of ElectroWeak...
