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, 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 - 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 - 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)

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