Celebrating Supergravity at 40

Friday 24 Jun 2016, 14:00 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the formulation of Supergravity by Sergio Ferrara, Dan Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen. A celebration has been organised at the Erice International School of Subnuclear Physics this year in June to mark the event. We will be hosting the three of them at CERN for an informal gathering to honour this momentous occasion on June 24th.

Supergravity is a central part of the scientific heritage of the Theory Department at CERN, and we would like to take this opportunity to celebrate a theory that has inspired and continues to inspire generations of physicists, theorists and experimentalists alike.

Organisers : Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Wolfgang Lerche

SG40poster.pdf

14:00 → 14:05 Welcome from the TH Department Head

Speaker: Gian Giudice (CERN)

Recording

14:05 → 14:35 1976 was a very good year!

Speaker: Dan Freedman (SITP and Department of Physics, Stanford University, USA)

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14:35 → 15:05 Supergravity and its Legacy

Speaker: Sergio Ferrara (CERN)

CERN_2016_Ferrara.pdf

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15:05 → 15:35 From Quantum Field Theory to Supergravity and back

Speaker: Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (YITP and Department of Physics SUNY at Stony Brook, USA)

cern_v11.pdf

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15:35 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 16:50 Desperately seeking Supersymmetry

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

deroeck_SUGRA_2016_v4.pdf

deroeck_SUGRA_2016_v4.pptx

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17:00 → 17:50 Open problems and outlook

Speaker: Bernard de Wit (Utrecht University)

Recording

SGat40_BdW.pdf

SGat40.key

18:00 → 19:00 cocktail