Name: DISCRETE '08: Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries
Start: 2008-12-11T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2008-12-16T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Valencia, Spain

DISCRETE '08: Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries

from Thursday, 11 December 2008 (09:00) to Tuesday, 16 December 2008 (19:00)

Monday, 8 December 2008
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Thursday, 11 December 2008
09:00 PLENARY-I
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Francisco J. (IFIC's Director) BOTELLA

09:05 Time reversal violation - Helen Quinn (SLAC)

09:45 Electric Dipole Moments - David Wark (Imperial Coll. London & Rutherford)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 PLENARY-II
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Searching for New Physics with Rare Decays and CP Violation - Andrzej Buras (TU Munich)

11:45 Baryogenesis - Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30 Parallel Session A. CP violation in the SM and beyond-I
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Rare B decays including EW, leptonic and hadronic-penguin decays - Debabrata Mohapatra (Virginia Tech.)

14:55 Study of the eta--pi+ pi- e+ e- decay at KLOE - Roberto Versaci (INFN)

15:20 Vus and CP invariance test from Kaon decays with the KLOE detector - Patrizia De Simone (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

15:45 SUSY contributions to Phi_Bs from highly non-degenerate sfermions - Andrea Romanino (SISSA/ISAS)

16:10 The QED corrections in the Standard Model - Sergey Sukhoruchkin (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
Parallel Session B. Family symmetries-I
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Searches for Fourth Generation Particles and Heavy Neutrinos at CMS - Kai-Feng Chen (Physics Department - National Taiwan University (NTU))

14:50 Electric Dipole Moments from Spontaneous CP Violation in SU(3)-flavoured SUSY - Joel Jones Perez (Universitat de Valencia)

15:10 LFV and Dipole Moments in Models with A4 Flavour Symmetry - Luca Merlo (Università di Padova & INFN Padova)

15:30 Lepton flavour violating processes in an S(3)-invariant extension of the Standard Model - Alfonso Mondragon (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM)

15:50 Embedding discrete symmetries: Large neutrino mixingin SO(10) GUT - emilio torrente-lujan (dept. fisica)

16:10 Discrete Rotational Subgroups of the Standard Model dictate Family Symmetries and Masses - Frank Potter (Sciencegems.com)
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 Parallel Session A. CP violation in the SM and beyond-II
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions

17:00 Review of CP violation studies at Tevatron - Juan Pablo Fernandez

17:25 Single top quark measurements at the Tevatron - John Parsons (Columbia University)

17:50 Rare K and B Decays in a Warped Extra Dimension with Custodial Protection - Stefania Gori (Technische Universität München)

18:10 $\Delta F=2$ processes in a model with a warped extra dimension and custodial protection - Bjoern Duling (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Physikdepartment)
Parallel Session B. Leptogenesis
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions

17:00 Neutrino Masses, Mixing, Majorana and Dirac CP-Violation and Leptogenesis - Serguey Petcov (SISSA)

17:25 Flavoured Leptogenesis: a succesful thermal leptogenesis with M1 below 10^8 GeV - Oscar M. Vives Garcia (U. Valencia)

17:50 Effects of Lightest Neutrino Mass in Leptogenesis - Emiliano Molinaro (S.I.S.S.A.)

18:10 Variations on Leptogenesis - Diego Aristizabal (LNF (INFN))
Friday, 12 December 2008
09:00 PLENARY-III
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 CPT and Decoherence in Quantum Gravity - Nikos MAVROMATOS (King's College London)

09:45 Search for CPT Violation and Decoherence Effects in the Neutral Kaon System - Antonio Di Domenico (Sapienza Universita' di Roma & INFN sez. di Roma)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 PLENARY-IV
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Strings, Symmetries and Holography - Jose L. F. Barbon (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

11:45 Underground Detectors for Particle and Astroparticle Science - Andre Rubbia (ETH)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30 Parallel Session A. Supersymmetry and other searches-I
14:30 - 17:00
Contributions

14:30 SUSY CP phases and asymmetries at colliders - Olaf Kittel (University of Granada)

14:55 Spectroscopy and new physics searches in bottomonium decays - Rainer Bartoldus (Representative from the Babar collaboration)

15:20 Prospects for SUSY discovery based on inclusive searches with the ATLAS detector - Andrea Ventura (Università del Salento + INFN Lecce)

15:40 Prospects for detecting long-lived supersymmetric particles with ATLAS - Emma Torro Pastor (IFIC CSIC - Universitat de Valencia)

16:00 Measuring Lepton Flavour Violation at LHC with Long-Lived Slepton in the Coannihilation Region - Takashi Shimomura (University of Valencia)

16:20 Supersymmetric seesaw type-II: LHC and lepton flavour violating phenomenology - Satoru Kaneko (IFIC, Valencia Univ.)

16:40 Predictions of Finite Unified Theories - Myriam Mondragon (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM)
Parallel Session B. Famility symmetries-II
14:30 - 15:00
Contributions

14:30 Searches for LFV at B factories - Kiyoshi Hayasaka (KEK)
Parallel Session C. The Quantum vacuum-I
14:30 - 16:55
Contributions

14:30 Searches for Higgs at Tevatron - Bruno Casal

14:55 Higgs Discovery Potential with ATLAS - Valls Ferrer Juan (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)

15:15 Review of the little Higgs and twin Higgs models - Eduardo Ros (Universidad de Valencia)

15:35 Jet reconstruction in LHCb for searching Higgs-like particles - Alessandro Camboni (Universidad de Barcelona)

15:55 Conditions for vacuum stability in an S(3) extension of the Standard Model - Ezequiel Rodriguez (Universidad de Sonora)

16:15 COSMOLOGICAL DARK ENERGY THROUGH NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS, AND QUANTUM MECHANICS. - Maurice LALOUM (CNRS / IN2P3)

16:35 Tachyon-Dilaton Inflation as an alpha'-non perturbative solution in first quantized String Cosmology - Anna Kostouki (King's College London)
15:00 Parallel Session B. P, T, CPT symmetries, Lorentz violation and Decoherence-I
15:00 - 17:00
Contributions

15:00 CPT and Lorentz violation as signatures for Planck-scale physics - Ralf Lehnert (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

15:25 Antiprotonic helium and CPT symmetry - Eberhard Widmann (Stefan Meyer Institute)

15:50 Testing CPT with the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen - Bertalan Juhasz (Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics)

16:15 Tests of T and CPT symmetries at B factories - Alberto Lusiani (Representative from the Babar collaboration)

16:40 Examination of quantum gravity effects with neutrino - Alexandre Sakharov (CERN, ETHZ)
17:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30
17:30 Parallel Session A. Supersymmetry and other searches-II
17:30 - 19:35
Contributions

17:30 Top physics studies in SM and BSM with the ATLAS detector - Susana Cabrera Urban (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)

17:50 Charge asymmetries of top quarks: a window to new physics at hadron colliders. - Paola Ferrario (IFIC-Valencia)

18:10 Associated production of weak bosons at LHC with the ATLAS detector - Marius Groll (Institut fur Physik-Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet)

18:30 Searches for leptoquarks at D0 - Anne-Fleur Barfuss (IPHC/GRPHE/UHA)

18:55 Search for Extra Dimensions at CMS - Leonardo Benucci (INFN Sezione di Pisa (INFN))

19:15 Probing TeV gravity with the ATLAS detector - Victor Lendermann (University of Heidelberg)
Parallel Session B. P, T, CPT symmetries, Lorentz violation and Decoherence-II
17:30 - 19:40
Contributions

17:30 The omega effect as a discriminant of space-time foam - Sarben Sarkar (King's College London)

17:55 Parity Breaking at high densities - Domenec Espriu (Universitat de barcelona)

18:20 Cosmology of Non-Hermitian (C)PT-invariant scalar matter - Alexander Andrianov (Universitata de Barcelona)

18:40 CPT, Lorentz invariance and anomalous clash of symmetries - Alberto Salvio (EPF of Lausanne and IFAE, Barcelona)

19:00 Gravity from Spontaneous Breaking of Local Lorentz Symmetry - Robertus Potting (Universidade do Algarve)

19:20 P, C, T for Neutral Particles - Valeri Dvoeglazov (Universidad de Zacatecas)
Parallel Session C. The Quantum vacuum-II
17:30 - 17:50
Contributions

17:30 Standard(-like) Model from an SO(12) Grand Unified Theory in six-dimensions with $S_2$ extra-space - Takaaki Nomura (Saitama University)
17:50 Parallel Session C. Entanglement
17:50 - 19:55
Contributions

17:50 New experimental limit on the Pauli Exclusion Principle violation by electrons - the VIP experiment - Catalina Curceanu (LNF-INFN)

18:15 Entanglement in Fermionic Systems - Mari Carmen Banuls (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics)

18:35 What has CP violation to do with nonlocality? - Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

18:55 Symmetry aspects in emergent quantum mechanics - Hans-Thomas Elze (Universita di Pisa)

19:15 Exotic statistics in string cosmology - ariadne vergou (king's college london)

19:35 Canonical Commutation Relations and Adiabatic Parasites - Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Saturday, 13 December 2008
09:00 PLENARY-V
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The nature of the electroweak Higgs sector - Mariano Quiros (IFAE Barcelona)

09:45 Dark energy - Pierre Binetruy (APC, Universite Paris Diderot)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 PLENARY-VI
11:00 - 13:15
Contributions

11:00 Family Symmetries - Graham G. Ross (Oxford University)

11:45 Status and Prospects of CP-Violation Experiments - Tatsuya Nakada (CERN & EPFL Lausanne)

12:30 Little Review on Leptogenesis - Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester)
13:15 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:15 - 15:00
15:00 Parallel Session A. Experimental prospects
15:00 - 17:55
Contributions

15:00 Status of the Super Flavor Factory SuperB - David Hitlin (Caltech)

15:25 Status of the KEK Super B Factory - Marko Bracko (KEK)

15:50 The KLOE-2 Project - Fabio Bossi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

16:15 Status of CMS Commissioning - Teresa Rodrigo (Universidad de Cantabria)

16:35 Commissioning of the ATLAS detector with cosmic rays and first LHC beams - Maria Jose Costa (IFIC)

16:55 Triggers for New Physics at the LHC - Matthias U. Mozer (Unknown)

17:15 MUSiC - A General Search for Deviations from Standard Model Predictions in CMS - Philipp Biallass (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH))

17:35 Tagging performance in the LHCb - Marc Grabalosa Gandara (Depto. d' Estruc. i Cons. de la Mat-Facultad de Fisica-Universid)
Parallel Session B. Neutrino mass mixing and CP-I
15:00 - 17:55
Contributions

15:00 Two Body Weak Decays Studies in an Ion Storage Ring - Paul Kienle (Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München)

15:25 OPERA : on the way to nu-tau observation - Igor Kreslo (Laboratorium fuer Hochenergiephysik)

15:50 The Double Chooz reactor neutrino experiment - Inés Gil Botella (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

16:15 Lepton flavour violating stau decays versus seesaw parameters: correlations and expected number of events for both seesaw type-I and II - Albert Villanova del Moral (CFTP, Instituto Superior Técnico)

16:35 Quasi-degenerate neutrinos and tri-bi-maximal mixing - Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas (CFTP, IST)

16:55 Modelling tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing - Stefano Morisi (IFIC)

17:15 The relationship between Leptogenesis and low energy observables - Margarida N. Rebelo (IST Lisbon)

17:35 Analytical description of the Earth matter effect on neutrino oscillations - Juan C. D'Olivo (Universidad de Mexico)
Sunday, 14 December 2008