13th Vienna Central European Seminar (VCES) on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory

30 Nov 2017, 08:00 → 1 Dec 2017, 22:00 Europe/Vienna

 

The 13th Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory, November 30 - December 1, 2017 at the University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria, will be dedicated to the topic Indirect Searches for New Physics: Fifth Forces, Scalars and Massive Neutrinos.

The meeting is jointly organized by the University of Vienna, HEPHY and TU Wien, and supported by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna, and the FWF doctoral school Particles and Interactions.

The seminar series was created 2004 and is intended to provide stimulating interactions between leading researchers and promising junior physicists. A considerable number of junior scientists participate in these meetings, and we receive special grants for them covering the hotel and part of the local expenses (see below). We particularly invite junior participants, including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty to attend the meeting.

The conference is dealing with symmetry breaking

Hidden symmetrie breaking, 3D effect in this image

Do you see it?

Magic Eye: spontaneous symmetry breaking

©2017 Magic Eye Inc.

MAGIC EYE® INSTRUCTIONS:

Hold the center of the (printed) image right up to your nose. The image should be blurry. Stare as though you are looking through the image. Very slowly move the image away from your face until you begin to see depth. Now hold the image still, try not to blink, and the hidden illusion will magically appear. The longer you look, the clearer the illusion becomes.
Click on the image to see a hidden Higgs potential in 3D effect.

 

Junior Scientists

We strongly encourage graduate students and postdoctoral-fellows to contribute to the seminar with posters. The applications will be screened, and successful applicants (~10) can receive financial support to participate. Within the “Poster Flash” session, we will give these poster authors the possibility to present their poster to the audience in a 3-5 min short presentation. The conference committee will select these contributions based on the originality and impact of the research presented. Applications should be submitted by email before Oct 15 to ati.vces17@tuwien.ac.at.

 

Confirmed invited Speakers

Eric Adelberger (University of Washington)
Steven D. Bass (Jagiellonian University Krakow)
Philippe Brax (CEA France)
Ricardo Decca (IUPUI Indianapolis)
Pedro Ferreira (University of Oxford)
Ferruccio Feruglio (INFN Padua)
Carlo Giunti (INFN Torino)
Philipp Haslinger (University of California at Berkeley)
Fred Jegerlehner (Humbold-Universität zu Berlin)
Suchita Kulkarni  (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Guillaume Pignol (CNRS-IN2P3 Grenoble)
Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University Vancouver)
Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (Karlsruhe KIT)
Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPF Lausanne)
Torsten Soldner (ILL Grenoble)
Andreas Trautner (Universität Bonn)
Amol Upadhye (UNSW Sidney)
Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam)
Christof Wetterich (Universität Heidelberg)
Alexander Westphal (DESY Hamburg)

 

Venue

This year's venue will be the SKY Lounge of the University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria.

 

Conference fee

The conference fee is 50 EUR and is to be paid in cash at the registration desk. The conference fee is waived for invited speaker.

 

Organzing Committee

Hartmut Abele
Walter Grimus
Mario Pitschmann
Barbara Stros
Robert Jandrasits
Simone Krüger
Brigitte De Monte
Michael Zawisky
 

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Thursday 30 November

08:30 Registration

Welcome - Hartmut Abele

VCES2017.pptx

DKPI - Anton Rebhan

THU1: Christof Wetterich

Scalar force in cosmology_Wien1117.pptx

THU2: Philippe Brax

viennna2017_Brax.pptx

11:00 Coffee

THU3: Steven Bass

VCES 2017 - Bass.pdf

THU4: Alexander Westphal

Convener: Dr Alexander Westphal (DESY Hamburg)

Vienna_2017_Westphal.pdf

THU5: Amol Upadhye

upadhye_vces_2017-11-30.pdf

13:00 Lunch

THU6: Pedro Ferreira

Vienna PGF_Ferreira.pdf

THU7: Ferruccio Feruglio

FF_Vienna2017v2_Feruglio.pdf

16:00 Coffee

THU8: Torsten Soldner

Soldner_VCES2017.pptx

THU9: Levon Pogosian

Pogosian.pdf

Public Lecture: Erik Verlinde

Friday 1 December

08:30 Registration

FRI1: Eric Adelberger

Vienna2b.pptx

FRI2: Ricardo Decca

Casimir-VCES17-Decca.pptx

11:00 Coffee

FRI3: Guillaume Pignol

PignolVCES.pptx

FRI4: Philipp Haslinger

FRI5: Poster Clip - Rechberger, Aeikens, Taruggi, Laszlo, Penedo, Trinhammer, Sanchez-Puertas, Kärkkäinen, Flieger, Barghout

Rechberger, Aeikens, Taruggi, Laszlo, Penedo, Trinhammer, Sanchez-Puertas, Kärkkäinen, Flieger, Barghout

Poster Session: Lunch

FRI10: Suchita Kulkarni

1_Kulkarni_VCES_2017.pdf

FRI7: Mikhail Shaposhnikov

2_Vienna2017.pdf

FRI6: Thomas Schwetz-Mangold

3_VCES-2017-Schwetz.pdf

FRI8: Carlo Giunti

4_giunti-171201-vces.pdf

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Andreas Trautner

FRI9: Fred Jegerlehner

6_WienVCES17Talk-Jegerlehner.pdf