CERN Theory Group Retreat

from Wednesday, November 4, 2009 (8:00 AM) to Friday, November 6, 2009 (6:00 PM)
Les Houches Centre de Physique

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 4, 2009
Nov 5, 2009
Nov 6, 2009
AM
10:00 AM Arrival and installation  
9:00 AM
Beyond the Standard Model session (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM Introduction (cosmo) - Julien Lesgourgues (Unknown)  
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9:05 AM Non-gaussian cosmological perturbations: The inflationary trispectrum - Sloth Martin  
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9:20 AM Apparent acceleration without Dark Energy: Large voids in the universe - Alessio Notari  
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9:35 AM DM indirect detection and possible Pamela/Fermi excess: Constraints from the reionization history of the universe - Marco Cirelli  
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9:50 AM Supernovae as a laboratory for particle physics: Non-linear self-refraction effects of neutrinos - Pasquale Serpico  
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10:05 AM Probing Higgs physics with cosmology: The GW spectrum from 1st order phase transitions - Thomas Konstandin  
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10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM Introduction (particles) - Gian Giudice  
10:55 AM Approaches to the Hierarchy problem: Old and new - michele Redi  
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11:10 AM Inflation on the brane with vanishing gravity - Rakhi Mahbubani  
11:25 AM Buried or charming Higgs and the little hierarchy problem - Andreas Weiler  
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11:40 AM Simple Z' models in the early LHC - Giovanni Villadoro  
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11:55 AM Discovering physics BSM at the LHC - Ben Matthew Gripaios  
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9:00 AM
Strings session (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM String phenomenology: Introduction - Angel Uranga  
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9:15 AM D-branes and model building - Fernando Marchesano  
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9:30 AM Flux compactifications and moduli fixing - Pablo Gonzales-Camara  
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9:45 AM String Phenomenology: Non-perturbative effects - Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld  
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10:00 AM SUSY Breaking in String Theory - Matthew Buican  
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10:15 AM --- Coffe break ---
11:00 AM Formal string theory: Introduction - Johannes Walcher  
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11:15 AM Non-perturbative Topological Strings - Sara Pasquetti  
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11:30 AM The (refined) topological vertex - Can Kozcaz  
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11:45 AM Holography and applications - Ioannis Papadimitriou  
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12:00 PM Toy models of CFT/AdS: Matrix Models - Norihiro Iizuka  
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12:15 PM Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity - Oriol Pujolas  
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PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Introduction and Standard Model session (until 6:30 PM)
1:30 PM Introduction - Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)  
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1:50 PM Chiral symmetry breaking on the lattice - Silvia Necco (Unknown)  
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2:10 PM Lattice phenomenology - Andreas Juettner  
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2:30 PM Critical slowing down of the topological modes in numerical simulations of lattice QCD - Filippo Palombi  
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2:50 PM Heavy Ion Collisions and Strong Coupling - Jorge Casalderrey Solana  
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3:10 PM Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part I - Pierpaolo Mastrolia  
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3:30 PM Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part II - Darren Forde  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM Progress in PDFs - Graeme Watt  
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4:40 PM The Description of Multi-Jet Events at the LHC - Jeppe Andersen (Unknown)  
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5:00 PM Single top production at hadron colliders - Francesco Tramontano  
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5:10 PM Bound-state effects on top-quark/gluino production at LHC - Hiroshi Yokoya  
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5:30 PM Electroweak (and QCD) corrections at the LHC - Stefano Pozzorini  
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5:50 PM Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion at next--to--leading order - Terrance Maynard Figy  
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6:10 PM Jet algorithms in BSM searches - Gregory Soyez  
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7:00 PM --- Dinner ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Free time (until 6:00 PM)
7:00 PM --- Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Long-term visitors (until 3:10 PM)
1:30 PM Per Berglund  
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1:40 PM Abdelhak Djouadi  
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1:50 PM Dumitru Ghilencea  
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2:00 PM Steven Giddings  
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2:10 PM Benjamin Grinstein  
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2:20 PM Graham Ross  
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2:30 PM George Zoupanos  
3:10 PM --- Coffee break and departure ---