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

1 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 Lunch

Introduction and Standard Model session

2 Introduction

Speaker: Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)

Slides TH_Retreat04.11.2009.pdf

3 Chiral symmetry breaking on the lattice

Speaker: Silvia Necco (Unknown)

Slides talk_necco.pdf

4 Lattice phenomenology

Speaker: Andreas Juettner

Slides juettner_CERN_TR_09.pdf

5 Critical slowing down of the topological modes in numerical simulations of lattice QCD

Speaker: Filippo Palombi

Slides palombi.pdf

6 Heavy Ion Collisions and Strong Coupling

Speaker: Jorge Casalderrey Solana

Slides casalderrey.pdf

7 Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part I

Speaker: Pierpaolo Mastrolia

Slides mastrolia_CERN_ritiro.pdf

8 Unitarity-based techniques for higher-order QCD, part II

Speaker: Darren Forde

Slides Darren_CERN_theory_retreat_talk.pdf

15:40 Coffee break

9 Progress in PDFs

Speaker: Graeme Watt

Slides GraemeWatt_LesHouchesRetreat.pdf

10 The Description of Multi-Jet Events at the LHC

Speaker: Jeppe Andersen (Unknown)

Slides Andersen.pdf

11 Single top production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Francesco Tramontano

Slides tramontano.pdf

12 Bound-state effects on top-quark/gluino production at LHC

Speaker: Hiroshi Yokoya

Slides Yokoya.pdf

13 Electroweak (and QCD) corrections at the LHC

Speaker: Stefano Pozzorini

Slides pozzorini_retreat.pdf

14 Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion at next--to--leading order

Speaker: Terrance Maynard Figy

Slides Figy.pdf

15 Jet algorithms in BSM searches

Speaker: Gregory Soyez

Slides soyez.pdf

19:00 Dinner

Thursday, 5 November

Beyond the Standard Model session

16 Introduction (cosmo)

Speaker: Julien Lesgourgues (Unknown)

Slides 1_Lesgourgues.pdf

17 Non-gaussian cosmological perturbations: The inflationary trispectrum

Speaker: Sloth Martin

Slides 2_Sloth.pdf

18 Apparent acceleration without Dark Energy: Large voids in the universe

Speaker: Alessio Notari

Slides 3_Notari.pdf

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

Speaker: Marco Cirelli

Slides Cirelli.pdf

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

Speaker: Pasquale Serpico

Slides 5_Serpico.pdf

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

Speaker: Thomas Konstandin

Slides 6_Konstandin.pdf

10:20 Coffee break

22 Introduction (particles)

Speaker: Gian Giudice

23 Approaches to the Hierarchy problem: Old and new

Speaker: michele Redi

Slides _1_Redi.pdf

24 Inflation on the brane with vanishing gravity

Speaker: Rakhi Mahbubani

25 Buried or charming Higgs and the little hierarchy problem

Speaker: Andreas Weiler

Slides _2_Weiler.pdf

26 Simple Z' models in the early LHC

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro

Slides _3_Villadoro.pdf

27 Discovering physics BSM at the LHC

Speaker: Ben Matthew Gripaios

Slides _4_Gripaios.pdf

13:00 Lunch

Free time

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

19:00 Dinner

Friday, 6 November

Strings session

28 String phenomenology: Introduction

Speaker: Angel Uranga

Slides uranga.pdf

29 D-branes and model building

Speaker: Fernando Marchesano

Slides Marchesano.pdf

30 Flux compactifications and moduli fixing

Speaker: Pablo Gonzales-Camara

Slides camara.pdf

31 String Phenomenology: Non-perturbative effects

Speaker: Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld

Slides schmidtsommerfeld.pdf

32 SUSY Breaking in String Theory

Speaker: Matthew Buican

Slides buican.pdf

10:15 Coffe break

33 Formal string theory: Introduction

Speaker: Johannes Walcher

Slides retreatwalcher.pdf

34 Non-perturbative Topological Strings

Speaker: Sara Pasquetti

Slides Pasquetti.pdf

35 The (refined) topological vertex

Speaker: Can Kozcaz

Slides LHKozcaz.pdf

36 Holography and applications

Speaker: Ioannis Papadimitriou

Slides CERN_theory_retreat-papadimitriou.pdf

37 Toy models of CFT/AdS: Matrix Models

Speaker: Norihiro Iizuka

Slides Iizuka.pdf

38 Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Oriol Pujolas

Slides pujolas.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Long-term visitors

39 Per Berglund

Slides berglund.pdf

40 Abdelhak Djouadi

Slides Djouadi-Retreat.pdf

41 Dumitru Ghilencea

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

42 Steven Giddings

Slides giddings-leshouches.pdf

43 Benjamin Grinstein

Slides grinstein.pdf

44 Graham Ross

Slides Ross.pdf

45 George Zoupanos

15:10 Coffee break and departure