Name: DISCRETE 2014: Fourth Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries
Start: 2014-12-02T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2014-12-06T19:00:00+00:00
Location: King's College London, Strand Campus

Monday, 1 December 2014
Tuesday, 2 December 2014

08:55 Registration: Desk (Great Hall) 8:30 - 17:00
Registration: Desk (Great Hall) 8:30 - 17:00
08:55 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 13:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome address: Mr C. Mottershead, Vice Principal Research & Innovation

09:15 Discrete Glimpses of the Physics Landscape after the Higgs Discovery - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

10:00 Experimental particle physics in light of results from the LHC - Jim Virdee (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

11:15 News from the Universe - S Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))

12:00 PT-symmetric quantum theory - Carl Bender (Washington University in St Louis)

12:45 Experimental prospects for C, P, T, CP and CPT tests - Adrian Bevan (University of London (GB))
13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:45
14:45
14:45 - 16:20
Contributions

14:45 Subtleties in the BaBar measurement of time-reversal violation - Aielet Efrati (W)

15:15 NOVEL T-VIOLATION OBSERVABLE OPEN TO ANY DECAY CHANNEL AT MESON FACTORIES - francisco j. botella (University of Valencia)

15:50 A direct test of T symmetry in the neutral K meson system at KLOE-2 - Aleksander Gajos (Jagiellonian University)
14:45 - 16:30
Contributions

14:45 Neutrino Astrophysics : recent advances and open issues - CRISTINA VOLPE (ASTROPARTICULE ET COSMOLOGIE (APC))

15:20 Dynamical generation of fermion mixing - Massimo Blasone (Università di Salerno)

15:55 Time-reversal invariance and neutrino oscillations in a medium with a symmetric density - Juan Carlos D'Olivo (Depto. de Física Teórica, Universidad de Valencia)
14:45 - 16:30
Contributions

14:45 Status and prospects for the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab - Giovanni F. Tassielli (INFN Lecce / Università del Salento)

15:15 New Measurements of the ${\pi}^+{\rightarrow}e^+{\nu}_e$ Branching Ratio - Shintaro Ito (Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:35
Contributions

17:00 The Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment - Mark Lancaster (University College London (UK))

17:30 Phenomenology of scenarios with flavor and CP symmetries - Claudia Hagedorn (Excellence Cluster 'Universe', TU Munich)

18:00 Gauge Theories for Baryon and Lepton Numbers with Lepto-Baryons - Michael Duerr (MPIK Heidelberg)

18:35 Extra dimensions with flavor. - Alfredo Aranda (Universidad de Colima)

19:05 Predicting Lepton Mixing Parameters including Majorana Phases from Δ(6n2) Flavour Symmetry and Generalised CP - Thomas Neder (University of Southampton)
17:00 - 19:40
Contributions

17:00 Neutrino Oscillations and Dark Matter in IceCube - Melanie Day (IceCube)

17:30 On the flavor composition of the high-energy neutrinos in IceCube - Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (IFIC-Valencia)

18:10 Neutrino mass hierarchy determination with PINGU - Antonio Marrone (Univ. of Bari)

18:40 Measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ with the Double Chooz detector - Michael Franke

19:10 On the origin of neutrino oscillations through Lorentz violation - Julio Leite
17:00 - 19:20
Contributions

17:00 Solitons, soliton vortices and PT-symmetry in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. - Vladimir Konotop (Universidade de Lisboa)

17:35 PT-Symmetric $\phi^3$ and $\phi^4$ theories: properties and intriguing results. - Vincenzo Branchina (University of Catania)

18:15 PT Symmetry, Quantum Gravity, and the Metrication of the Fundamental Forces - Philip Mannheim (University of Connecticut)

18:50 Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian - Jean Alexandre (King's College London)
17:00 - 19:30
Contributions

17:00 Recent BaBar results - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen (NO))

17:30 Direct searches for New Physics particles at BABAR - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen (NO))

17:55 The Belle II Experiment - Jared Yamaoka (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

18:30 Measurements of exclusive and inclusive b->X_s l+ l- and b->s gamma radiative decays at Belle - Jared Yamaoka (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

18:55 Exclusive $b\rightarrow s \gamma$ decays at Belle. - Deepanwita Dutta (IIT Guwahati)
20:15 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
20:15 - 21:30
Wednesday, 3 December 2014

08:55 Registration: Desk (Great Hall) 8:30 - 17:00
Registration: Desk (Great Hall) 8:30 - 17:00
08:55 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 13:15
Contributions

09:00 Half a Century with CP Violation - cecilia jarlskog (lund university)

09:45 Some Open Questions on CP Violation and Flavour - Gustavo Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico)

11:00 Tests of Discrete Symmetries in K systems - Antonio Di Domenico (Universita Sapienza e INFN, Roma I (IT))

11:45 Discrete symmetries and models of flavour mixing - Stephen King (University of Southampton)

12:30 Unraveling the organization of the QCD tapestry - Joannis Papavassiliou (University of Valencia)
13:15 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 Adding CP to Flavour Symmetries - Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas (University of Southampton)

15:00 Tests of Lorentz and CPT invariance with neutrinos and photons - Jorge S. Diaz

15:30 Non-minimally flavour violating dark matter - Monika Blanke (CERN)
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 Predictions for the Dirac Phase in the Neutrino Mixing Matrix - Ivan Girardi (SISSA)

15:00 Phenomenology of Light Sterile Neutrinos - Marco Laveder (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)

15:30 The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment - Matthew Tamsett (University of Sussex)
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 The Yang-Mills vacuum wave-functional thirty-five years later - Stefan Olejnik (Institute of Physics, Slovak Acad. Sci., Bratislava)

15:05 A new method for computing the quark-gluon vertex - Arlene Cristina Aguilar (University of Campinas)

15:40 Negative-Frequency Modes in Quantum Field Theory - Peter Millington (Technische Universität München (TUM))
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Convoluted Solutions in Supergravity - Masoud Ghezelbash (University of saskatchewan)

15:00 Sequestered de Sitter String Scenarios - Sven Krippendorf (University of Oxford)

15:30 Thermal Duality and Gravitational Collapse - Mike Hewitt (Canterbury Christ Church University)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:35
16:35
16:35 - 19:45
Contributions

16:35 The origin of discrete symmetries in F-theory models and their role in particle physics - George Leontaris (Ioannina University)

17:10 Discrete Symmetries in F-theory Model Building - Andrew Meadowcroft (University of Southampton)

17:40 Discrete symmetries in the heterotic-string landscape - Panos Athanasopoulos

18:15 Mass insertion parameters from an SU(5)xS4xU(1) family summetry model. - Maria Dimou (Southampton University)

18:45 Anomaly-free chiral fermion sets and gauge coupling unification - Catarina Simões (IFPA, University of Liège)

19:15 SO(10) Grand Unification from M-theory on a G2-manifold - Miguel Crispim Romao (University of Southampton)
16:35 - 19:50
Contributions

16:35 TIME-REVERSAL, LOOP-ANTILOOP SYMMETRY AND THE BESSEL EQUATION - Giuseppe Vitiello (University of Salerno, Italy)

17:10 [Re]constructing Finite Flavour Groups: Horizontal Symmetry Scans from the Bottom-Up - Jim Talbert (University of Oxford)

17:45 Discrete Flavor Symmetries and Origin of CP Violation - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California at Irvine)

18:20 Two invisible axion models with a non-minimal flavor structure - Javier Fuentes-Martín (IFIC University of Valencia-CSIC)

18:50 CKM and PMNS Mixing Matrices from Discrete Subgroups of SU(2) - Franklin Potter (S)
16:35 - 18:20
Contributions

16:35 A 3d effective lattice theory for Yang-Mills and QCD thermodynamics - Owe Philipsen (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

17:10 Variationl Study of SU(3) Gauge Theory by Stationary Variance - Fabio Siringo (Università degli Studi di Catania)

17:45 DSE-isnpired model for the Pion GPD - José Rodriguez Quintero (University of Huelva)
16:35 - 17:45
Contributions

16:35 50 years of Bell's theorem and Weak Interaction Processes - Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

17:10 Whispers from the collapse of the w.f: spontaneously emitted radiation - Catalina Curceanu (LNF-INFN)
17:45 Break - Change of Room
Break - Change of Room
17:45 - 18:30
18:30
18:30 - 19:35
Contributions

18:30 Quantum mechanical models, conservation laws and a discrete action principle - Hans-Thomas Elze (Universita di Pisa)

19:05 High sensitivity tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle with VIP2 - Johann Marton (Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Thursday, 4 December 2014

08:55 Registration: Desk (Great Hall) 8:30 - 17:00
Registration: Desk (Great Hall) 8:30 - 17:00
08:55 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 13:15
Contributions

09:00 TeV Scale Lepton number Violation and Baryogenesis - Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland, College Park)

09:45 Symmetry Improved CJT Effective Potential - Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester (GB))

11:00 Results from the Heavy-Ion Programme at the CERN LHC - David Evans (University of Birmingham (GB))

11:45 Testing Non-minimal Higgs sector at Colldiers - Maria Krawczyk (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University)

12:30 History of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking - Tom W.B. Kibble (Imperial College London)
13:15 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:05
Contributions

14:30 Hunting for New Physics with vector-like quarks - Miguel Nebot Gómez (CFTP - Lisbon)

15:00 Order and Anarchy hand in hand in 5D SO(10) - Denise Vicino (INFN University of Padova)

15:30 Theoretical status of B->K(*)mumu and New Physics. - Matias Joaquim (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona)
14:30 - 16:05
Contributions

14:30 Study of CP asymmetry in B0 - antiB0 mixing using inclusive dilepton samples in BaBar - Isabella Garzia (INFN)

15:05 ChiPT tests at NA48 and NA62 experiments at CERN - Massimo Lenti (Universita e INFN (IT))

15:35 Rare decays at LHCb - Fatima Soomro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
14:30 - 16:15
Contributions

14:30 The density of states approach for the simulation of finite density quantum field theories - Kurt Langfeld (Plymouth University)

15:05 Hadron properties using Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations - Hèlios Sanchis Alepuz (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

15:40 Quantum Field Theory of Magnetic Monopoles - Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
14:30 - 16:05
Contributions

14:30 Higgs Physics: Review of recent results and prospects from ATLAS and CMS - Martin Flechl (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

15:00 How effective is the Standard Model effective field theory? - Tevong You (King's College London)

15:30 Natural Standard Model Alignment in the Two Higgs Doublet Model - Bhupal Dev (University of Manchester)
16:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:35
16:35
16:35 - 19:40
Contributions

16:35 SuperCDMS: Results on low mass WIMPs and future perspectives - David G. Cerdeno (University of Durham)

17:05 ADMX Results on Axion Searches - Edward Daw (The University of Sheffield)

17:30 Recent results from ALICE and future prospects - Lee Barnby (University of Birmingham (GB))

18:05 Latest results from CUORE-0 and status of CUORE - Kevin Hickerson (UCLA)

18:35 Non-SUSY BSM Searches: Recent Results from ATLAS & CMS - Fairouz Malek (LPSC-Grenoble , CNRS-IN2P3 (FR))

19:05 Axiverse-induced dark radiation problem - Chakrit Pongkitivanichkul (King's College London)
16:35 - 19:20
Contributions

16:35 Prospects for K+ ->pi+ nu nu observation at CERN in NA62 - Ferdinand Hahn (CERN)

17:05 Study of B -> K pi pi gamma decays - Alessandro Pilloni (Sapienza U.)

17:30 B-physics with ATLAS and CMS - Nuno Viegas Guerreiro Leonardo (Purdue University (US))

18:05 Study of CP violation effects in the charmless hadronic decay B -> Ks pi+ pi0 - Thomas Edward Latham (University of Warwick (GB))

18:30 Study of KS semileptonic decays and CPT tests with the KLOE detector - Daria Kaminska

18:55 Precision tests of the Standard Model with kaon decays at CERN - Karim Massri (University of Birmingham (GB))
16:35 - 18:55
Contributions

16:35 Symmetry-improved 2PI Approach to the Infrared Divergences of the Standard Model Effective Potential - Daniele Teresi (University of Manchester)

17:10 Numerical results for gauge theories near the conformal window - Biagio Lucini (Swansea University)

17:50 Effects of divergent ghost loops on the Green's functions of QCD - Daniele Binosi (ECT* Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
16:35 - 19:35
Contributions

16:35 Lepton number violation in non-standard Higgs sectors - Mikael Chala (DESY)

17:05 Implications of Higgs mediated Flavour Changing Neutral Currents with Minimal Flavour Violation. - Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST))

17:35 Higgs-Dilaton Cosmology: Universality vs. Criticality - Javier Rubio (EPFL)

18:10 Electroweak vacuum stability, Higgs and top masses, and new physics - Vincenzo Branchina (University of Catania)

18:35 Degeneracy on a multiHiggs CP non invariant sector. - Melina Gomez Bock (Universidad de las Americas Puebla)

19:05 S3 and Q6 as flavour symmetries in multi-Higgs models - Myriam Mondragon (urn:Google)
20:00 CULTURAL EVENT (Kateřina Fűrstová (soprano) and Massimo Blasone (piano))
CULTURAL EVENT (Kateřina Fűrstová (soprano) and Massimo Blasone (piano))
20:00 - 21:00
Friday, 5 December 2014

08:55 Registration: Desk (Great Hall) 8:30 - 17:00
Registration: Desk (Great Hall) 8:30 - 17:00
08:55 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 13:15
Contributions

09:00 Supergravity: status and prospects - Jean-Pierre Derendinger (Universitaet Bern (CH))

09:45 The Moebius symmetry of quantum mechanics - Alon Faraggi (U)

11:00 Discrete Symmetries in String/M theory and Grand Unification - Bobby Samir Acharya (Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))

11:45 Lorentz symmetry breaking: phenomenology and constraints - Stefano Liberati (SISSA)

12:30 Summary and prospects of the LHCb Experiment - Neville Harnew (University of Oxford (GB))
13:15 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Recent Results of the AMS-02 Experiment on the ISS - Jorge Casaus (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

15:00 Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Lukas Nellen (I. DE CIENCIAS NUCLEARES, UNAM)

15:30 The Cherenkov Telescope Array : status and science goals for fundamental physics - Emmanuel Moulin (CEA)
14:30 - 16:05
Contributions

14:30 Recent results, status and prospects for the BESIII experiment - Isabella Garzia (INFN)

15:05 Searches for dark forces with KLOE - enrico graziani (INFN)

15:35 Measurements of CP violation at Belle - Luka Santelj (KEK, Japan)
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 SUSY Searches: Recent Results from ATLAS & CMS - Michael Christian Rammensee (CERN)

15:00 Neutrino masses from SUSY breaking in radiative seesaw models - Antonio Figueiredo (CFTP / IST - U. Lisbon)

15:30 Exploring neutrino physics at LHC via R-parity violating SUSY - Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC Valencia (ES))
16:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:35
Contributions

16:30 SUMMARY OF THE LATEST RESULTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS FROM THE T2K EXPERIMENT - Yevgeniy Petrov (University of British Columbia, for the T2K collaboration)

17:00 Recent results from the OPERA experiment at the CNGS beam - Andrea (on behalf of the OPERA Coll.) Longhin (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

17:30 The GERDA Experiment for the Search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Manuel Walter (University of Zurich)
16:30 - 19:20
Contributions

16:30 Non-supersymmetric heterotic model building - Stefan Groot Nibbelink (urn:Google)

17:00 Light U(1)s in Heterotic String Models - Viraf Mehta (Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg)

17:25 Universality of radiative corrections to gauge couplings for strings with spontaneously broken supersymmetry - Ioannis Florakis (CERN)

18:00 Discrete Abelian Gauge Symmetries and Axions - Gabriele Honecker (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

18:30 Phenomenology of discrete symmetries - Christoph Luhn (University of Siegen)

18:55 Exotica and discreteness in the classification of string spectra - Hasan Sonmez (University Of Liverpool)
16:30 - 19:10
Contributions

16:30 WIMPy baryogenesis with sterile neutrinos - Nuria Rius (IFIC, Valencia University-CSIC)

17:00 Flavour Effects in Resonant Leptogenesis from Semi-classical and Kadanoff-Baym Approaches - Daniele Teresi (University of Manchester)

17:25 Tree level Baryogenesis through Leptogenesis from Kalb-Ramond Torsion Background - sarben sarkar (King's College London)

18:00 Inflation in supergravity from massive vector multiplets - Fotis Farakos

18:30 Gravitino condensation, supersymmetry breaking and inflation - Nick Houston (KCL)
16:59
16:59 - 19:05
Contributions

16:59 Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle with antimatter at CERN - Mitsuhiro Kimura (Universitaet Bern (CH))

17:29 Towards precision measurements with trapped Antihydrogen - William Alan Bertsche (University of Manchester (GB))

18:04 Progress towards in-beam hyperfine spectroscopy of antihydrogen - Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

18:34 Laser spectroscopy of metastable antiprotonic and pionic helium atoms - Masaki Hori (Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (DE))
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (ROYAL SOCIETY, Trafalgar Sq.)
CONFERENCE DINNER (ROYAL SOCIETY, Trafalgar Sq.)
20:00 - 23:00
Room: Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace
Saturday, 6 December 2014
09:50
09:50 - 14:05
Contributions

09:50 Particle Physics and Cosmology from Almost-Commutative Manifolds - Mairi Sakellariadou (King's College London)

10:35 Galileons and their Generalizations - Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)

11:50 Neutrinos and Leptogenesis in the Early Universe - Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham (GB))

12:35 The MoEDAL Experiment at the LHC - a New Light on the Terascale Frontier - James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))

13:20 DISCRETE SYMMETRIES CP, T, CPT - Jose Bernabeu (IFIC)
14:05 Closing of the Symposium-Announcement of next Discrete 2016
Closing of the Symposium-Announcement of next Discrete 2016
14:05 - 14:25

14:25 Lunch
Lunch
14:25 - 15:40