Name: Naturalness, Hierarchy, and Fine Tuning
Start: 2018-02-28T08:45:00+01:00
End: 2018-03-02T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Aachen

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 - 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 - 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 - 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)

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