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)
Les Houches Centre de Physique

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

4 Nov 2009

5 Nov 2009

6 Nov 2009

10:00

Arrival and installation

09:00	Beyond the Standard Model session (until 13:00)
09:00	Introduction (cosmo) - Julien Lesgourgues (Unknown) Slides
09:05	Non-gaussian cosmological perturbations: The inflationary trispectrum - Sloth Martin Slides
09:20	Apparent acceleration without Dark Energy: Large voids in the universe - Alessio Notari Slides
09:35	DM indirect detection and possible Pamela/Fermi excess: Constraints from the reionization history of the universe - Marco Cirelli Slides
09:50	Supernovae as a laboratory for particle physics: Non-linear self-refraction effects of neutrinos - Pasquale Serpico Slides
10:05	Probing Higgs physics with cosmology: The GW spectrum from 1st order phase transitions - Thomas Konstandin Slides
10:20	--- Coffee break ---
10:50	Introduction (particles) - Gian Giudice
10:55	Approaches to the Hierarchy problem: Old and new - michele Redi Slides
11:10	Inﬂation on the brane with vanishing gravity - Rakhi Mahbubani
11:25	Buried or charming Higgs and the little hierarchy problem - Andreas Weiler Slides
11:40	Simple Z' models in the early LHC - Giovanni Villadoro Slides
11:55	Discovering physics BSM at the LHC - Ben Matthew Gripaios Slides

09:00	Strings session (until 12:30)
09:00	String phenomenology: Introduction - Angel Uranga Slides
09:15	D-branes and model building - Fernando Marchesano Slides
09:30	Flux compactifications and moduli fixing - Pablo Gonzales-Camara Slides
09:45	String Phenomenology: Non-perturbative effects - Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld Slides
10:00	SUSY Breaking in String Theory - Matthew Buican Slides
10:15	--- Coffe break ---
11:00	Formal string theory: Introduction - Johannes Walcher Slides
11:15	Non-perturbative Topological Strings - Sara Pasquetti Slides
11:30	The (refined) topological vertex - Can Kozcaz Slides
11:45	Holography and applications - Ioannis Papadimitriou Slides
12:00	Toy models of CFT/AdS: Matrix Models - Norihiro Iizuka Slides
12:15	Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity - Oriol Pujolas Slides

12:00	--- Lunch ---
13:30	Introduction and Standard Model session (until 18:30)
13:30	Introduction - Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN) Slides
13:50	Chiral symmetry breaking on the lattice - Silvia Necco (Unknown) Slides
14:10	Lattice phenomenology - Andreas Juettner Slides
14:30	Critical slowing down of the topological modes in numerical simulations of lattice QCD - Filippo Palombi Slides
14:50	Heavy Ion Collisions and Strong Coupling - Jorge Casalderrey Solana Slides
15:10	Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part I - Pierpaolo Mastrolia Slides
15:30	Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part II - Darren Forde Slides
15:40	--- Coffee break ---
16:20	Progress in PDFs - Graeme Watt Slides
16:40	The Description of Multi-Jet Events at the LHC - Jeppe Andersen (Unknown) Slides
17:00	Single top production at hadron colliders - Francesco Tramontano Slides
17:10	Bound-state effects on top-quark/gluino production at LHC - Hiroshi Yokoya Slides
17:30	Electroweak (and QCD) corrections at the LHC - Stefano Pozzorini Slides
17:50	Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion at next--to--leading order - Terrance Maynard Figy Slides
18:10	Jet algorithms in BSM searches - Gregory Soyez Slides
19:00	--- Dinner ---

13:00	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Free time (until 18:00)
19:00	--- Dinner ---

12:30	--- Lunch ---
13:30	Long-term visitors (until 15:10)
13:30	Per Berglund Slides
13:40	Abdelhak Djouadi Slides
13:50	Dumitru Ghilencea Slides
14:00	Steven Giddings Slides
14:10	Benjamin Grinstein Slides
14:20	Graham Ross Slides
14:30	George Zoupanos
15:10	--- Coffee break and departure ---

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