International workshop on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry in Field Theory

6 Jul 2017, 08:15 → 7 Jul 2017, 18:20 Europe/Lisbon

University of the Algarve

Carlos Escobar, Jacob Noordmans (University of the Algarve / CENTRA), Ralf Lehnert, Robertus Potting (University of the Algarve / Centra)

The workshop CPT and Lorentz Symmetry in Field Theory will be held in Faro, Portugal, on July 6-7, 2017 and is organized by the University of the Algarve and CENTRA. The workshop is directed at theoretical physicists interested in issues related to CPT and Lorentz symmetry in Quantum Field Theory and Gravity. We intend to create an environment conducive to discussion of recent work and to the exchange of ideas.

Expected topics include theoretical and phenomenological aspects of departures from CPT and Lorentz symmetry, involving:

• Classical and quantum field theory, gravitation, particle physics
• Phenomenology at the level of the Standard Model, General Relativity, and beyond
• Origins and mechanisms for departures from Lorentz and/or CPT symmetry
• Mathematical foundations, Finsler geometry

The program is expected to consist of review talks and of contributed talks, with ample time for discussion.

The number of participants is limited.

 

The workshop is supported by:

		(project number: UID/FIS/00099/2013)

Informational maps_LORENTZ.pdf

programandabstractsworkshop.pdf

Workshop CPT.pdf

Thursday 6 July

08:45 → 09:15 Registration

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome

09:30 → 10:00 Lorentz Symmetry Breaking and Causality

Speaker: Ian Drummond

09:30 → 10:30 Session 1

10:00 → 10:30 Horava gravity: motivation and status

Speaker: Diego Blas

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 On an anomalous origin of Lorentz and CPT violation

Speaker: Frans Klinkhamer

11:00 → 12:30 Session 2

11:30 → 12:00 Gravity Lorentz Violation and Effective Field Theory

Speaker: Jay Tasson

12:00 → 12:30 Structural aspects of Lorentz-violating quantum field theory

Speaker: Mauro Cambiaso

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:00 Matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe via string-inspired CPT Violation at early eras

Speaker: Nikolaos Mavromatos

14:30 → 16:00 Session 3

15:00 → 15:30 Inflation with a massive vector field nonminimally coupled to gravity

Speaker: Jorge Páramos

15:30 → 16:00 Constraining Lorentz Violation in Electroweak Physics

Speaker: Ralf Lehnert

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:00 Electroweak standard model with very special relativity

Speaker: Jorge Alfaro

16:30 → 17:30 Session 4

17:00 → 17:30 Casimir effect within the Standard Model Extension framework

Speaker: Carlos Escobar

19:00 → 21:00 Social: Cocktail

Friday 7 July

09:30 → 10:00 Quantization of space-like states in CPT-violating theories

Speaker: Don Colladay

09:30 → 10:30 Session 5

10:00 → 10:30 Symmetries in models containing non-Hermitian mass terms

Speaker: Jean Alexandre

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Nambu models and their generalization

Speaker: Luís Urrutia

11:00 → 12:30 Session 6

11:30 → 12:00 Utilizing Lorentz violation Method to Constrain Nonmetricity

Speaker: Zhi Xiao

12:00 → 12:30 Horava Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions

Speaker: Kevin Grosvenor

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:00 Recent developments on Phase-Space Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics

Speaker: Orfeu Bertolami

14:30 → 16:00 Session 7

15:00 → 15:30 Lorentz symmetry violation with higher-order operators

Speaker: Carlos Reyes

15:30 → 16:00 Vacuum Cherenkov radiation for Lorentz-violating fermions

Speaker: Marco Schreck

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:00 Proposing and Constraining Lorentz-violating and CPT-odd nonminimal couplings in the Electroweak sector

Speaker: Manoel Ferreira

16:30 → 18:00 Session 8

17:00 → 17:30 Tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetry with hadrons and nuclei

Speaker: Jacob Noordmans

17:30 → 18:00 Cherenkov-like emisssion of weak gauge bosons in the SME

Speaker: Robertus Potting