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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
AM
10:00 Arrival and installation   ()
09:00
Beyond the Standard Model session (until 13:00) ()
09:00 Introduction (cosmo) - Julien Lesgourgues (Unknown)   ()
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09:05 Non-gaussian cosmological perturbations: The inflationary trispectrum - Sloth Martin   ()
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09:20 Apparent acceleration without Dark Energy: Large voids in the universe - Alessio Notari   ()
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09:35 DM indirect detection and possible Pamela/Fermi excess: Constraints from the reionization history of the universe - Marco Cirelli   ()
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09:50 Supernovae as a laboratory for particle physics: Non-linear self-refraction effects of neutrinos - Pasquale Serpico   ()
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10:05 Probing Higgs physics with cosmology: The GW spectrum from 1st order phase transitions - Thomas Konstandin   ()
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10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Introduction (particles) - Gian Giudice   ()
10:55 Approaches to the Hierarchy problem: Old and new - michele Redi   ()
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11:10 Inflation on the brane with vanishing gravity - Rakhi Mahbubani   ()
11:25 Buried or charming Higgs and the little hierarchy problem - Andreas Weiler   ()
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11:40 Simple Z' models in the early LHC - Giovanni Villadoro   ()
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11:55 Discovering physics BSM at the LHC - Ben Matthew Gripaios   ()
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09:00
Strings session (until 12:30) ()
09:00 String phenomenology: Introduction - Angel Uranga   ()
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09:15 D-branes and model building - Fernando Marchesano   ()
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09:30 Flux compactifications and moduli fixing - Pablo Gonzales-Camara   ()
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09:45 String Phenomenology: Non-perturbative effects - Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld   ()
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10:00 SUSY Breaking in String Theory - Matthew Buican   ()
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10:15 --- Coffe break ---
11:00 Formal string theory: Introduction - Johannes Walcher   ()
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11:15 Non-perturbative Topological Strings - Sara Pasquetti   ()
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11:30 The (refined) topological vertex - Can Kozcaz   ()
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11:45 Holography and applications - Ioannis Papadimitriou   ()
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12:00 Toy models of CFT/AdS: Matrix Models - Norihiro Iizuka   ()
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12:15 Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity - Oriol Pujolas   ()
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PM
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)   ()
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14:10 Lattice phenomenology - Andreas Juettner   ()
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14:30 Critical slowing down of the topological modes in numerical simulations of lattice QCD - Filippo Palombi   ()
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14:50 Heavy Ion Collisions and Strong Coupling - Jorge Casalderrey Solana   ()
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15:10 Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part I - Pierpaolo Mastrolia   ()
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15:30 Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part II - Darren Forde   ()
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15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 Progress in PDFs - Graeme Watt   ()
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16:40 The Description of Multi-Jet Events at the LHC - Jeppe Andersen (Unknown)   ()
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17:00 Single top production at hadron colliders - Francesco Tramontano   ()
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17:10 Bound-state effects on top-quark/gluino production at LHC - Hiroshi Yokoya   ()
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17:30 Electroweak (and QCD) corrections at the LHC - Stefano Pozzorini   ()
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17:50 Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion at next--to--leading order - Terrance Maynard Figy   ()
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18:10 Jet algorithms in BSM searches - Gregory Soyez   ()
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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   ()
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13:40 Abdelhak Djouadi   ()
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13:50 Dumitru Ghilencea   ()
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14:00 Steven Giddings   ()
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14:10 Benjamin Grinstein   ()
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14:20 Graham Ross   ()
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14:30 George Zoupanos   ()
15:10 --- Coffee break and departure ---