Naturalness, Hierarchy, and Fine Tuning
from
Wednesday, 28 February 2018 (08:45)
to
Friday, 2 March 2018 (18:00)
Monday, 26 February 2018
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
08:50
Welcome
Welcome
08:50 - 09:00
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
09:00
Part I (Chair: R. Harlander)
Part I (Chair: R. Harlander)
09:00 - 11:00
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
09:00
Naturalness, Finetuning, Fixed Points, and the Likelihood of a Theory
-
James Daniel Wells
(
University of Michigan (US)
)
09:40
Discussion
10:00
Why Be Natural?
-
Jonathan Bain
(
New York University
)
10:40
Discussion
11:00
Welcome address by Professor R. Mathar (Prorektor für Forschung und Struktur)
Welcome address by Professor R. Mathar (Prorektor für Forschung und Struktur)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
11:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
11:50
Part II (Chair: R. Harlander)
Part II (Chair: R. Harlander)
11:50 - 12:50
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
11:50
Two Notions of Naturalness
-
Porter Williams
(
Univ. Pittsburgh
)
12:30
Discussion
12:50
Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:30
14:30
Part I (Chair: P. Mättig)
Part I (Chair: P. Mättig)
14:30 - 16:30
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
14:30
On the Hierarchy Problem and the Cosmological Constant Problem in the Standard Model
-
Fred Jegerlehner
(
DESY Zeuthen/Humboldt Univ. Berlin
)
15:10
Discussion
15:30
Naturalness as a Value of Theory Preference
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Michael Stöltzner
(
USC
)
16:10
Discussion
16:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 16:50
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
16:50
Part II (Chair: P. Mättig)
Part II (Chair: P. Mättig)
16:50 - 17:50
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
16:50
Naturalness - How Religion Turned into Math
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Sabine Hossenfelder
17:30
Discussion
18:00
Reception
Reception
18:00 - 19:30
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Thursday, 1 March 2018
09:00
Part I (Chair: M. Krämer)
Part I (Chair: M. Krämer)
09:00 - 11:00
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
09:00
Naturalness, Wilsonian Renormalization, and ‘Fundamental Parameters’ in Quantum Field Theory
-
Joshua Rosaler
09:40
Discusion
10:00
A String Landscape Perspective on Naturalness
-
Arthur Hebecker
(
Heidelberg University
)
10:40
Discussion
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
11:20
Part II (Chair: M. Krämer)
Part II (Chair: M. Krämer)
11:20 - 12:20
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
11:20
Matter in a Multi-Component Universe, Naturalness and the Quest for a Fundamental Theory
-
Heinrich Paes
(
University of Alabama
)
12:00
Discussion
12:20
Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
Part I (Chair: R. Dardashti)
Part I (Chair: R. Dardashti)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
14:00
Scales and Hierarchies in Asymptotic Safety
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Frank Saueressig
(
Radboud University
)
14:40
Discussion
15:00
Naturalness and Supersymmetry: a Historical-Philosophical Perspective
-
Arianna Borrelli and Elena Castellani
15:40
Discussion
16:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
16:20
Part II (Chair: R. Dardashti)
Part II (Chair: R. Dardashti)
16:20 - 17:40
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
16:20
Naturally Light Scalar Particles: A Mechanism Involving Dangerously Irrelevant Discrete Anisotropies
-
Bertrand Delamotte
(
UPMC Paris
)
17:00
Discussion
19:30
Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Contributions
19:30
Workshop Dinner
Friday, 2 March 2018
09:00
Part I (Chair: K. Karaca)
Part I (Chair: K. Karaca)
09:00 - 11:00
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
09:00
Naturalness, critical phenomena and new routes to UV-complete theories
-
Holger Gies
09:40
Discussion
10:00
Finetuning and Free Parameters
-
Richard Dawid
(
University of Stockholm
)
10:40
Discussion
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
11:20
Part II (Chair: K. Karaca)
Part II (Chair: K. Karaca)
11:20 - 12:20
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
11:20
Simplicity and Effectiveness in Physics of the Unknown
-
Alexei Grinbaum
(
CEA
)
12:00
Discussion
12:20
Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
Part I (Chair: G. Schiemann)
Part I (Chair: G. Schiemann)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
14:00
Successes of Naturalness
-
Miguel Ángel Carretero Sahuquillo
(
University of Wuppertal
)
14:40
Discussion
15:00
Naturalness and Analogies to Condensed Matter Physics
-
Doreen Fraser
(
Univ. Waterloo
)
15:40
Discussion
16:00
Plenary discussion session (Chair: J. Rosaler)
Plenary discussion session (Chair: J. Rosaler)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)