Naturalness, Hierarchy, and Fine Tuning
from
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 (8:45 AM)
to
Friday, March 2, 2018 (6:00 PM)
Monday, February 26, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
8:50 AM
Welcome
Welcome
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
9:00 AM
Part I (Chair: R. Harlander)
Part I (Chair: R. Harlander)
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
9:00 AM
Naturalness, Finetuning, Fixed Points, and the Likelihood of a Theory
-
James Daniel Wells
(
University of Michigan (US)
)
9:40 AM
Discussion
10:00 AM
Why Be Natural?
-
Jonathan Bain
(
New York University
)
10:40 AM
Discussion
11:00 AM
Welcome address by Professor R. Mathar (Prorektor für Forschung und Struktur)
Welcome address by Professor R. Mathar (Prorektor für Forschung und Struktur)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
11:30 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
11:50 AM
Part II (Chair: R. Harlander)
Part II (Chair: R. Harlander)
11:50 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
11:50 AM
Two Notions of Naturalness
-
Porter Williams
(
Univ. Pittsburgh
)
12:30 PM
Discussion
12:50 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Part I (Chair: P. Mättig)
Part I (Chair: P. Mättig)
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
2:30 PM
On the Hierarchy Problem and the Cosmological Constant Problem in the Standard Model
-
Fred Jegerlehner
(
DESY Zeuthen/Humboldt Univ. Berlin
)
3:10 PM
Discussion
3:30 PM
Naturalness as a Value of Theory Preference
-
Michael Stöltzner
(
USC
)
4:10 PM
Discussion
4:30 PM
Coffee break
Coffee break
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
4:50 PM
Part II (Chair: P. Mättig)
Part II (Chair: P. Mättig)
4:50 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
4:50 PM
Naturalness - How Religion Turned into Math
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Sabine Hossenfelder
5:30 PM
Discussion
6:00 PM
Reception
Reception
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Thursday, March 1, 2018
9:00 AM
Part I (Chair: M. Krämer)
Part I (Chair: M. Krämer)
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
9:00 AM
Naturalness, Wilsonian Renormalization, and ‘Fundamental Parameters’ in Quantum Field Theory
-
Joshua Rosaler
9:40 AM
Discusion
10:00 AM
A String Landscape Perspective on Naturalness
-
Arthur Hebecker
(
Heidelberg University
)
10:40 AM
Discussion
11:00 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
11:20 AM
Part II (Chair: M. Krämer)
Part II (Chair: M. Krämer)
11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
11:20 AM
Matter in a Multi-Component Universe, Naturalness and the Quest for a Fundamental Theory
-
Heinrich Paes
(
University of Alabama
)
12:00 PM
Discussion
12:20 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:20 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Part I (Chair: R. Dardashti)
Part I (Chair: R. Dardashti)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
2:00 PM
Scales and Hierarchies in Asymptotic Safety
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Frank Saueressig
(
Radboud University
)
2:40 PM
Discussion
3:00 PM
Naturalness and Supersymmetry: a Historical-Philosophical Perspective
-
Arianna Borrelli and Elena Castellani
3:40 PM
Discussion
4:00 PM
Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
4:20 PM
Part II (Chair: R. Dardashti)
Part II (Chair: R. Dardashti)
4:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
4:20 PM
Naturally Light Scalar Particles: A Mechanism Involving Dangerously Irrelevant Discrete Anisotropies
-
Bertrand Delamotte
(
UPMC Paris
)
5:00 PM
Discussion
7:30 PM
Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Contributions
7:30 PM
Workshop Dinner
Friday, March 2, 2018
9:00 AM
Part I (Chair: K. Karaca)
Part I (Chair: K. Karaca)
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
9:00 AM
Naturalness, critical phenomena and new routes to UV-complete theories
-
Holger Gies
9:40 AM
Discussion
10:00 AM
Finetuning and Free Parameters
-
Richard Dawid
(
University of Stockholm
)
10:40 AM
Discussion
11:00 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
11:20 AM
Part II (Chair: K. Karaca)
Part II (Chair: K. Karaca)
11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
11:20 AM
Simplicity and Effectiveness in Physics of the Unknown
-
Alexei Grinbaum
(
CEA
)
12:00 PM
Discussion
12:20 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:20 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Part I (Chair: G. Schiemann)
Part I (Chair: G. Schiemann)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)
Contributions
2:00 PM
Successes of Naturalness
-
Miguel Ángel Carretero Sahuquillo
(
University of Wuppertal
)
2:40 PM
Discussion
3:00 PM
Naturalness and Analogies to Condensed Matter Physics
-
Doreen Fraser
(
Univ. Waterloo
)
3:40 PM
Discussion
4:00 PM
Plenary discussion session (Chair: J. Rosaler)
Plenary discussion session (Chair: J. Rosaler)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: SuperC (Generali-Saal)