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)
Valencia, Spain

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Dec 2008
12 Dec 2008
13 Dec 2008
15 Dec 2008
16 Dec 2008
AM
09:00
PLENARY-I - Vasiliki MITSOU (IFIC - Valencia) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Welcome - Francisco J. (IFIC's Director) BOTELLA   ()
09:05 Time reversal violation - Prof. Helen Quinn (SLAC)   ()
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09:45 Electric Dipole Moments - Dr David Wark (Imperial Coll. London & Rutherford)   ()
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
PLENARY-II - Francisco J. BOTELLA (IFIC - Valencia) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Searching for New Physics with Rare Decays and CP Violation - Prof. Andrzej Buras (TU Munich)   ()
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11:45 Baryogenesis - Prof. Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)   ()
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09:00
PLENARY-III - Carlos LACASTA LLACER (IFIC - Valencia) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 CPT and Decoherence in Quantum Gravity - Prof. Nikos MAVROMATOS (King's College London)   ()
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09:45 Search for CPT Violation and Decoherence Effects in the Neutral Kaon System - Dr Antonio Di Domenico (Sapienza Universita' di Roma & INFN sez. di Roma)   ()
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
PLENARY-IV - Joannis PAPAVASSILIOU (IFIC - Valencia) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Strings, Symmetries and Holography - Prof. Jose L. F. Barbon (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)   ()
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11:45 Underground Detectors for Particle and Astroparticle Science - Prof. Andre Rubbia (ETH)   ()
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09:00
PLENARY-V - Cecilia JARLSKOG (Lund U.) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 The nature of the electroweak Higgs sector - Mariano Quiros (IFAE Barcelona)   ()
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09:45 Dark energy - Dr Pierre Binetruy (APC, Universite Paris Diderot)   ()
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
PLENARY-VI - Fernando MARTINEZ-VIDAL (IFIC - Valencia) (until 13:15) ()
11:00 Family Symmetries - Prof. Graham G. Ross (Oxford University)   ()
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11:45 Status and Prospects of CP-Violation Experiments - Dr Tatsuya Nakada (CERN & EPFL Lausanne)   ()
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12:30 Little Review on Leptogenesis - Prof. Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester)   ()
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09:00
PLENARY-VII - Gabriela BARENBOIM (IFIC - Valencia) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 SUSY Dark Matter and LHC - Prof. Antonio Masiero (Padua U & INFN)   ()
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09:45 Dark matter in CP-violating Supersymmetry - Prof. Athanasios Lahanas (University of Athens)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
PLENARY-VIII - Carmen GARCIA (IFIC - Valencia) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Physics at LHC - Dr Daniel Froidevaux (CERN)   ()
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11:45 High energy cosmic rays - Prof. Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)   ()
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09:00
PLENARY-IX - Gustavo BRANCO (IST - Lisboa) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 The origin of neutrino mass - Prof. Peter Minkowski (ITO Bern)   ()
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09:45 Neutrino Physics Experiments - Prof. Niki Saoulidou (Fermilab)   ()
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
PLENARY-X - Manuel AGUILAR-BENITEZ (CIEMAT - Madrid) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Fundamental Physics with Cosmic Gamma Rays. - Prof. Manel Martinez (IFAE)   ()
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11:45 High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)   ()
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12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Parallel Session A. CP violation in the SM and beyond-I - David WARK (Imperial College) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Rare B decays including EW, leptonic and hadronic-penguin decays - Debabrata Mohapatra (Virginia Tech.)   ()
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14:55 Study of the eta--pi+ pi- e+ e- decay at KLOE - Roberto Versaci (INFN)   ()
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15:20 Vus and CP invariance test from Kaon decays with the KLOE detector - Patrizia De Simone (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))   ()
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15:45 SUSY contributions to Phi_Bs from highly non-degenerate sfermions - Andrea Romanino (SISSA/ISAS)   ()
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16:10 The QED corrections in the Standard Model - Dr Sergey Sukhoruchkin (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)   ()
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14:30
Parallel Session B. Family symmetries-I - Graham ROSS (Oxford University) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Searches for Fourth Generation Particles and Heavy Neutrinos at CMS - Kai-Feng Chen (Physics Department - National Taiwan University (NTU))   ()
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14:50 Electric Dipole Moments from Spontaneous CP Violation in SU(3)-flavoured SUSY - Mr Joel Jones Perez (Universitat de Valencia)   ()
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15:10 LFV and Dipole Moments in Models with A4 Flavour Symmetry - Mr Luca Merlo (Università di Padova & INFN Padova)   ()
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15:30 Lepton flavour violating processes in an S(3)-invariant extension of the Standard Model - Alfonso Mondragon (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM)   ()
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15:50 Embedding discrete symmetries: Large neutrino mixingin SO(10) GUT - Prof. emilio torrente-lujan (dept. fisica)   ()
16:10 Discrete Rotational Subgroups of the Standard Model dictate Family Symmetries and Masses - Dr Frank Potter (Sciencegems.com)   ()
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Parallel Session A. CP violation in the SM and beyond-II - Andrzej BURAS (TU Munich) (until 18:30) ()
17:00 Review of CP violation studies at Tevatron - Juan Pablo Fernandez   ()
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17:25 Single top quark measurements at the Tevatron - Prof. John Parsons (Columbia University)   ()
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17:50 Rare K and B Decays in a Warped Extra Dimension with Custodial Protection - Ms Stefania Gori (Technische Universität München)   ()
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18:10 $\Delta F=2$ processes in a model with a warped extra dimension and custodial protection - Mr Bjoern Duling (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Physikdepartment)   ()
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17:00
Parallel Session B. Leptogenesis - Mikhail SHAPOSHNIKOV (EPFL) (until 18:30) ()
17:00 Neutrino Masses, Mixing, Majorana and Dirac CP-Violation and Leptogenesis - Prof. Serguey Petcov (SISSA)   ()
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17:25 Flavoured Leptogenesis: a succesful thermal leptogenesis with M1 below 10^8 GeV - Oscar M. Vives Garcia (U. Valencia)   ()
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17:50 Effects of Lightest Neutrino Mass in Leptogenesis - Mr Emiliano Molinaro (S.I.S.S.A.)   ()
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18:10 Variations on Leptogenesis - Dr Diego Aristizabal (LNF (INFN))   ()
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12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Parallel Session A. Supersymmetry and other searches-I - André RUBBIA (ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics) (until 17:00) ()
14:30 SUSY CP phases and asymmetries at colliders - Olaf Kittel (University of Granada)   ()
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14:55 Spectroscopy and new physics searches in bottomonium decays - Rainer Bartoldus (Representative from the Babar collaboration)   ()
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15:20 Prospects for SUSY discovery based on inclusive searches with the ATLAS detector - Andrea Ventura (Università del Salento + INFN Lecce)   ()
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15:40 Prospects for detecting long-lived supersymmetric particles with ATLAS - Emma Torro Pastor (IFIC CSIC - Universitat de Valencia)   ()
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16:00 Measuring Lepton Flavour Violation at LHC with Long-Lived Slepton in the Coannihilation Region - Takashi Shimomura (University of Valencia)   ()
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16:20 Supersymmetric seesaw type-II: LHC and lepton flavour violating phenomenology - Dr Satoru Kaneko (IFIC, Valencia Univ.)   ()
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16:40 Predictions of Finite Unified Theories - Prof. Myriam Mondragon (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM)   ()
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14:30
Parallel Session B. Famility symmetries-II - Antonio DI DOMENICO (niversita' di Roma & INFN sez. di Roma) (until 15:00) ()
14:30 Searches for LFV at B factories - Kiyoshi Hayasaka (KEK)   ()
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14:30
Parallel Session C. The Quantum vacuum-I - Mariano QUIROS (ICREA/UAB) (until 16:55) ()
14:30 Searches for Higgs at Tevatron - Bruno Casal   ()
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14:55 Higgs Discovery Potential with ATLAS - Valls Ferrer Juan (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)   ()
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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)   ()
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15:55 Conditions for vacuum stability in an S(3) extension of the Standard Model - Ezequiel Rodriguez (Universidad de Sonora)   ()
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16:15 COSMOLOGICAL DARK ENERGY THROUGH NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS, AND QUANTUM MECHANICS. - Maurice LALOUM (CNRS / IN2P3)   ()
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16:35 Tachyon-Dilaton Inflation as an alpha'-non perturbative solution in first quantized String Cosmology - Anna Kostouki (King's College London)   ()
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15:00
Parallel Session B. P, T, CPT symmetries, Lorentz violation and Decoherence-I - Antonio DI DOMENICO (Universita' di Roma & INFN sez. di Roma) (until 17:00) ()
15:00 CPT and Lorentz violation as signatures for Planck-scale physics - Ralf Lehnert (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)   ()
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15:25 Antiprotonic helium and CPT symmetry - Prof. Eberhard Widmann (Stefan Meyer Institute)   ()
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15:50 Testing CPT with the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen - Dr Bertalan Juhasz (Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics)   ()
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16:15 Tests of T and CPT symmetries at B factories - Alberto Lusiani (Representative from the Babar collaboration)   ()
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16:40 Examination of quantum gravity effects with neutrino - Dr Alexandre Sakharov (CERN, ETHZ)   ()
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17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:30
Parallel Session A. Supersymmetry and other searches-II - Athanasios LAHANAS (University of Athens) (until 19:35) ()
17:30 Top physics studies in SM and BSM with the ATLAS detector - Dr Susana Cabrera Urban (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)   ()
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17:50 Charge asymmetries of top quarks: a window to new physics at hadron colliders. - Ms Paola Ferrario (IFIC-Valencia)   ()
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18:10 Associated production of weak bosons at LHC with the ATLAS detector - Marius Groll (Institut fur Physik-Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet)   ()
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18:30 Searches for leptoquarks at D0 - Dr Anne-Fleur Barfuss (IPHC/GRPHE/UHA)   ()
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18:55 Search for Extra Dimensions at CMS - Leonardo Benucci (INFN Sezione di Pisa (INFN))   ()
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19:15 Probing TeV gravity with the ATLAS detector - Dr Victor Lendermann (University of Heidelberg)   ()
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17:30
Parallel Session B. P, T, CPT symmetries, Lorentz violation and Decoherence-II - Nikos MAVROMATOS (King's College London) (until 19:40) ()
17:30 The omega effect as a discriminant of space-time foam - Sarben Sarkar (King's College London)   ()
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17:55 Parity Breaking at high densities - Domenec Espriu (Universitat de barcelona)   ()
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18:20 Cosmology of Non-Hermitian (C)PT-invariant scalar matter - Prof. Alexander Andrianov (Universitata de Barcelona)   ()
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18:40 CPT, Lorentz invariance and anomalous clash of symmetries - Dr Alberto Salvio (EPF of Lausanne and IFAE, Barcelona)   ()
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19:00 Gravity from Spontaneous Breaking of Local Lorentz Symmetry - Prof. Robertus Potting (Universidade do Algarve)   ()
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19:20 P, C, T for Neutral Particles - Prof. Valeri Dvoeglazov (Universidad de Zacatecas)   ()
17:30
Parallel Session C. The Quantum vacuum-II - Jose L. F. BARBON (IFT-UAM) (until 17:50) ()
17:30 Standard(-like) Model from an SO(12) Grand Unified Theory in six-dimensions with $S_2$ extra-space - Mr Takaaki Nomura (Saitama University)   ()
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17:50
Parallel Session C. Entanglement - Jose L. F. BARBON (IFT-UAM) (until 19:55) ()
17:50 New experimental limit on the Pauli Exclusion Principle violation by electrons - the VIP experiment - Catalina Curceanu (LNF-INFN)   ()
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18:15 Entanglement in Fermionic Systems - Dr Mari Carmen Banuls (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics)   ()
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18:35 What has CP violation to do with nonlocality? - Dr Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)   ()
18:55 Symmetry aspects in emergent quantum mechanics - Prof. Hans-Thomas Elze (Universita di Pisa)   ()
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19:15 Exotic statistics in string cosmology - ariadne vergou (king's college london)   ()
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19:35 Canonical Commutation Relations and Adiabatic Parasites - Prof. Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)   ()
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13:15 --- Lunch break ---
15:00
Parallel Session A. Experimental prospects - Tatsuya NAKADA (CERN- EPFL Lausanne) (until 17:55) ()
15:00 Status of the Super Flavor Factory SuperB - Prof. David Hitlin (Caltech)   ()
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15:25 Status of the KEK Super B Factory - Marko Bracko (KEK)   ()
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15:50 The KLOE-2 Project - Dr Fabio Bossi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))   ()
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16:15 Status of CMS Commissioning - Prof. Teresa Rodrigo (Universidad de Cantabria)   ()
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16:35 Commissioning of the ATLAS detector with cosmic rays and first LHC beams - Dr Maria Jose Costa (IFIC)   ()
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16:55 Triggers for New Physics at the LHC - Matthias U. Mozer (Unknown)   ()
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17:15 MUSiC - A General Search for Deviations from Standard Model Predictions in CMS - Philipp Biallass (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH))   ()
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17:35 Tagging performance in the LHCb - Mr Marc Grabalosa Gandara (Depto. d' Estruc. i Cons. de la Mat-Facultad de Fisica-Universid)   ()
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15:00
Parallel Session B. Neutrino mass mixing and CP-I - Niki SAOULIDOU (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 17:55) ()
15:00 Two Body Weak Decays Studies in an Ion Storage Ring - Prof. Paul Kienle (Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München)   ()
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15:25 OPERA : on the way to nu-tau observation - Igor Kreslo (Laboratorium fuer Hochenergiephysik)   ()
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15:50 The Double Chooz reactor neutrino experiment - Dr Inés Gil Botella (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))   ()
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16:15 Lepton flavour violating stau decays versus seesaw parameters: correlations and expected number of events for both seesaw type-I and II - Dr Albert Villanova del Moral (CFTP, Instituto Superior Técnico)   ()
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16:35 Quasi-degenerate neutrinos and tri-bi-maximal mixing - Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas (CFTP, IST)   ()
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16:55 Modelling tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing - Dr Stefano Morisi (IFIC)   ()
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17:15 The relationship between Leptogenesis and low energy observables - Mrs Margarida N. Rebelo (IST Lisbon)   ()
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17:35 Analytical description of the Earth matter effect on neutrino oscillations - Juan C. D'Olivo (Universidad de Mexico)   ()
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12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Parallel Session A. CP violation in the SM and beyond-III - Helen QUINN (SLAC) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Experimental review of CP violation and CKM angles at B factories - Kai-Feng. Chen (KEK)   ()
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14:55 Experimental review of CKM sides at B factories - Arantza Oyanguren (Representative from the Babar collaboration)   ()
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15:20 Results on D mixing and CP violation - Milind Purohit (Representative from the Babar collaboration)   ()
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15:45 New states and charmonium spectroscopy at B factories - Marko Bracko (KEK)   ()
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16:10 The NA62 experiment at CERN - Eduardo Cortina   ()
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14:30
Parallel Session B. High energy Messengers-I - Francis HALZEN (University of Wisconsin) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Antimatter and Dark Matter research with PAMELA Space Mission - Prof. Piero Spillantini (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Firenze)   ()
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14:55 The AMS-02 Experiment on the ISS - Dr Jorge Casaus (CIEMAT)   ()
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15:20 Results from the MAGIC Cherenkov Telescope - Dr Emiliano Carmona (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut))   ()
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15:45 ANTARES and KM3NeT - Dr Juan José Hernández-Rey (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)   ()
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16:10 Selected results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz (Santiago U.)   ()
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Parallel Session A. CP violation in the SM and beyond-IV - Graciela GELMINI B. (UCLA-CERN) (until 19:00) ()
17:00 Small violations of 3x3 unitarity, the phase in Bs mixing and visible t->cZ decays at the LHC - Dr Miguel Nebot (INFN - Roma Tre)   ()
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17:20 B_s mixing phase and lepton flavor violation in supersymmetric SU(5) - Dr Jae-hyeon Park (INFN Padova)   ()
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17:40 High precision probes for new physics through CP-violating measurements at LHCb - Marco Adinolfi (CERN)   ()
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18:00 Rare Decays at LHCb - Hugo Ruiz (CERN)   ()
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18:20 Commissioning and early LHCb Results - Abraham Gallas (CERN)   ()
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18:40 On quark-lepton complementarity - Mr Felix Gonzalez Canales (Instituto de Fisica UNAM)   ()
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17:00
Parallel Session B. High energy Messengers-II - Mats LINDROOS (CERN) (until 18:00) ()
17:00 Gamma rays from the annihilation of singlet scalar dark matter - Mr carlos yaguna (universidad autonoma de madrid)   ()
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17:20 Sterile neutrinos and low reheating temperature - Dr Sergio Palomares Ruiz (IST Lisbon)   ()
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17:40 Extreme scenarios of new physics in the UHE astrophysical neutrino flavour ratios - Mr Mauricio Bustamante (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru)   ()
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18:00
Parallel Session B. Neutrino mass mixing and CP-II - Mats LINDROOS (CERN) (until 19:05) ()
18:00 Ettore Majorana meets his shadow - Prof. Juan Jose Gomez Cadenas (IFIC-CSIC-UVEG)   ()
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18:25 Spontaneous R-parity violation and the origin of neutrino mass - Mr Avelino Vicente (IFIC - University of Valencia)   ()
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18:45 Finite Unified Theories - George Zoupanos (Physics Department-National Technical Univ. of Athens-Unknown)   ()
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12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
PLENARY-XI - Jose BERNABEU (IFIC - Valencia) (until 16:45) ()
14:30 The Future of SuperFlavour Factories - Prof. Marcello A. Giorgi (INFN - Univ di Pisa)   ()
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15:15 The ultimate neutrino beam(s) - Dr Mats Lindroos (CERN)   ()
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16:00 CERN and the Future of Particle Physics - Dr Rolf-Dieter Heuer (CERN and DESY)   ()
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16:45 --- Coffee break ---
17:15
Meeting CERN Director General - Spanish HEP - Jose BERNABEU (IFIC - Valencia) (until 19:00) ()
17:15 Presentation - Rolf-Dieter HEUER (CERN DG) (DESY and CERN) Juan FUSTER VERDU (Spanish HEP) (IFIC - Valencia) Carlos PAJARES (Spanish delegate at CERN Council) (Santiago de Compostela U.)   ()
17:45 Round Table Discussion by Representatives from Spanish HEP - CPAN, IFAE, IFIC, CIEMAT, IFCA, USant, UZar, UBar, UAM, UGr,...   ()
18:30 General Open interventions by participants   ()
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