CERN Theory Group Retreat

4 Nov 2009, 08:00 → 6 Nov 2009, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Les Houches Centre de Physique

Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano

A meeting of the members of CERN's theory group, to review its scientific activities and recent results, to learn more about each other's research, and to familiarize the new members (fellows and long-term visitors) with CERN's environment and with the rest of the group.

Wednesday, 4 November

10:00 → 12:00 Arrival and installation

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 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 18:30 Introduction and Standard Model session

13:30 Introduction

Speaker: Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)

Slides TH_Retreat04.11.2009.pdf

13:50 Chiral symmetry breaking on the lattice

Speaker: Silvia Necco (Unknown)

Slides talk_necco.pdf

14:10 Lattice phenomenology

Speaker: Andreas Juettner

Slides juettner_CERN_TR_09.pdf

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

Speaker: Filippo Palombi

Slides palombi.pdf

14:50 Heavy Ion Collisions and Strong Coupling

Speaker: Jorge Casalderrey Solana

Slides casalderrey.pdf

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

Speaker: Pierpaolo Mastrolia

Slides mastrolia_CERN_ritiro.pdf

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

Speaker: Darren Forde

Slides Darren_CERN_theory_retreat_talk.pdf

15:40 Coffee break

16:20 Progress in PDFs

Speaker: Graeme Watt

Slides GraemeWatt_LesHouchesRetreat.pdf

16:40 The Description of Multi-Jet Events at the LHC

Speaker: Jeppe Andersen (Unknown)

Slides Andersen.pdf

17:00 Single top production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Francesco Tramontano

Slides tramontano.pdf

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

Speaker: Hiroshi Yokoya

Slides Yokoya.pdf

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

Speaker: Stefano Pozzorini

Slides pozzorini_retreat.pdf

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

Speaker: Terrance Maynard Figy

Slides Figy.pdf

18:10 Jet algorithms in BSM searches

Speaker: Gregory Soyez

Slides soyez.pdf

19:00 → 20:30 Dinner

Thursday, 5 November

09:00 → 13:00 Beyond the Standard Model session

09:00 Introduction (cosmo)

Speaker: Julien Lesgourgues (Unknown)

Slides 1_Lesgourgues.pdf

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

Speaker: Sloth Martin

Slides 2_Sloth.pdf

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

Speaker: Alessio Notari

Slides 3_Notari.pdf

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

Speaker: Marco Cirelli

Slides Cirelli.pdf

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

Speaker: Pasquale Serpico

Slides 5_Serpico.pdf

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

Speaker: Thomas Konstandin

Slides 6_Konstandin.pdf

10:20 Coffee break

10:50 Introduction (particles)

Speaker: Gian Giudice

10:55 Approaches to the Hierarchy problem: Old and new

Speaker: michele Redi

Slides _1_Redi.pdf

11:10 Inflation on the brane with vanishing gravity

Speaker: Rakhi Mahbubani

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

Speaker: Andreas Weiler

Slides _2_Weiler.pdf

11:40 Simple Z' models in the early LHC

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro

Slides _3_Villadoro.pdf

11:55 Discovering physics BSM at the LHC

Speaker: Ben Matthew Gripaios

Slides _4_Gripaios.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Free time

– Discussions
– Excursions (walks, runs, hikes, ....)

19:00 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday, 6 November

09:00 → 12:30 Strings session

09:00 String phenomenology: Introduction

Speaker: Angel Uranga

Slides uranga.pdf

09:15 D-branes and model building

Speaker: Fernando Marchesano

Slides Marchesano.pdf

09:30 Flux compactifications and moduli fixing

Speaker: Pablo Gonzales-Camara

Slides camara.pdf

09:45 String Phenomenology: Non-perturbative effects

Speaker: Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld

Slides schmidtsommerfeld.pdf

10:00 SUSY Breaking in String Theory

Speaker: Matthew Buican

Slides buican.pdf

10:15 Coffe break

11:00 Formal string theory: Introduction

Speaker: Johannes Walcher

Slides retreatwalcher.pdf

11:15 Non-perturbative Topological Strings

Speaker: Sara Pasquetti

Slides Pasquetti.pdf

11:30 The (refined) topological vertex

Speaker: Can Kozcaz

Slides LHKozcaz.pdf

11:45 Holography and applications

Speaker: Ioannis Papadimitriou

Slides CERN_theory_retreat-papadimitriou.pdf

12:00 Toy models of CFT/AdS: Matrix Models

Speaker: Norihiro Iizuka

Slides Iizuka.pdf

12:15 Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Oriol Pujolas

Slides pujolas.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:10 Long-term visitors

13:30 Per Berglund

Slides berglund.pdf

13:40 Abdelhak Djouadi

Slides Djouadi-Retreat.pdf

13:50 Dumitru Ghilencea

Slides ghilencea-LH-2-11-09.pdf

14:00 Steven Giddings

Slides giddings-leshouches.pdf

14:10 Benjamin Grinstein

Slides grinstein.pdf

14:20 Graham Ross

Slides Ross.pdf

14:30 George Zoupanos

15:10 → 16:10 Coffee break and departure