Name: CERN Theory Group Retreat
Start: 2009-11-04T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2009-11-06T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Les Houches Centre de Physique

CERN Theory Group Retreat

from Wednesday 4 November 2009 (08:00) to Friday 6 November 2009 (18:00)

Monday 2 November 2009
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Wednesday 4 November 2009

10:00 Arrival and installation
Arrival and installation
10:00 - 12:00
We expect people to drive to Les Houches. Please indicate in your registration whether you need a ride, or whether you can offer a ride.

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 18:30
Contributions

13:30 Introduction - Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)

13:50 Chiral symmetry breaking on the lattice - Silvia Necco (Unknown)

14:10 Lattice phenomenology - Andreas Juettner

14:30 Critical slowing down of the topological modes in numerical simulations of lattice QCD - Filippo Palombi

14:50 Heavy Ion Collisions and Strong Coupling - Jorge Casalderrey Solana

15:10 Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part I - Pierpaolo Mastrolia

15:30 Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part II - Darren Forde

16:20 Progress in PDFs - Graeme Watt

16:40 The Description of Multi-Jet Events at the LHC - Jeppe Andersen (Unknown)

17:00 Single top production at hadron colliders - Francesco Tramontano

17:10 Bound-state effects on top-quark/gluino production at LHC - Hiroshi Yokoya

17:30 Electroweak (and QCD) corrections at the LHC - Stefano Pozzorini

17:50 Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion at next--to--leading order - Terrance Maynard Figy

18:10 Jet algorithms in BSM searches - Gregory Soyez
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Thursday 5 November 2009
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Introduction (cosmo) - Julien Lesgourgues (Unknown)

09:05 Non-gaussian cosmological perturbations: The inflationary trispectrum - Sloth Martin

09:20 Apparent acceleration without Dark Energy: Large voids in the universe - Alessio Notari

09:35 DM indirect detection and possible Pamela/Fermi excess: Constraints from the reionization history of the universe - Marco Cirelli

09:50 Supernovae as a laboratory for particle physics: Non-linear self-refraction effects of neutrinos - Pasquale Serpico

10:05 Probing Higgs physics with cosmology: The GW spectrum from 1st order phase transitions - Thomas Konstandin

10:50 Introduction (particles) - Gian Giudice

10:55 Approaches to the Hierarchy problem: Old and new - michele Redi

11:10 Inﬂation on the brane with vanishing gravity - Rakhi Mahbubani

11:25 Buried or charming Higgs and the little hierarchy problem - Andreas Weiler

11:40 Simple Z' models in the early LHC - Giovanni Villadoro

11:55 Discovering physics BSM at the LHC - Ben Matthew Gripaios
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 18:00

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Friday 6 November 2009
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 String phenomenology: Introduction - Angel Uranga

09:15 D-branes and model building - Fernando Marchesano

09:30 Flux compactifications and moduli fixing - Pablo Gonzales-Camara

09:45 String Phenomenology: Non-perturbative effects - Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld

10:00 SUSY Breaking in String Theory - Matthew Buican

11:00 Formal string theory: Introduction - Johannes Walcher

11:15 Non-perturbative Topological Strings - Sara Pasquetti

11:30 The (refined) topological vertex - Can Kozcaz

11:45 Holography and applications - Ioannis Papadimitriou

12:00 Toy models of CFT/AdS: Matrix Models - Norihiro Iizuka

12:15 Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity - Oriol Pujolas
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:10
Contributions

13:30 Per Berglund

13:40 Abdelhak Djouadi

13:50 Dumitru Ghilencea

14:00 Steven Giddings

14:10 Benjamin Grinstein

14:20 Graham Ross

14:30 George Zoupanos
15:10 Coffee break and departure
Coffee break and departure
15:10 - 16:10

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