Time and Matter 2010

from Monday 4 October 2010 (08:00) to Friday 8 October 2010 (18:00)
Hotel Splendid

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Oct 2010
5 Oct 2010
6 Oct 2010
7 Oct 2010
8 Oct 2010
AM
09:00
Registration (until 10:00)
10:00
Welcome and Opening Lecture (until 10:30)
10:00 Welcome and Opening Lecture  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Matter and Dark Matter (until 12:00)
11:00 Search for solar axions with the CAST experiment - Dr Biljana Lakic (Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)  
09:30
The Universe - from the Big Bang to the Present (until 12:00)
09:30 Exploring the primordial Universe with CMB polarization - Prof. Jean-Christophe Hamilton (University of Paris 7)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 QUIET Experiment - Ground-based probe of CMB Polarization - Prof. Osamu Tajima (KEK, IPNS, Japan)  
11:30 Model independent constraints from the CMB - Dr Marc Vonlanthen (University of Geneva, Switzerland)  
09:30
CP and CPT Violation (until 12:00)
09:30 CP Violation in B Meson Decays - Present and Future - Prof. Peter Krizan (Josef-Stefan Institute, Slovenia. Belle, Japan.)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Measurement of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry from the KteV Experiment - Prof. Alexander Glazov (DESY, Germany)  
11:30 Improved search for the neutron electric dipole moment - Prof. Phillip Schmidt-Wellenburg (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)  
09:30
Old and New Paradigms in Quantum Gravity (until 12:00)
09:30 Quantum Gravity & String Theory: A Status Report - Prof. Matthias Blau (University of Bern, Switzerland)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Looking through the black hole horizon in AdS/CFT - Prof. Albion Lawrence (Brandeis University, USA)  
11:30 Large Field Inflation, Ignobly - Prof. Nemanja Kaloper (University of California, Davis, USA)  
09:30
Philosophical Perspectives on Time and Fundamental Physics (until 11:00)
09:30 Cosmic time with quantum matter? - Prof. Henrik Zinkernagel (University of Granada, Spain)  
10:30 Epistemic-ontic interpretation of quantum mechanics: quantum information theory and Husserl’s phenomenology? - Dr Tina Bilban (IQOQI Vienna. Austria)  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Matter and Dark Matter (until 15:30)
14:30 Prospects for Understanding the Nature of Matter with the ATLAS Detector - Prof. Borut Paul Kersevan (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)  
15:00 Overview of the recent physics results from CMS - Prof. Wolfgang Adam (Institute of High Energy Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Matter and Dark Matter (until 16:30)
16:00 LHCb - Prof. Regis Lefevre (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Université Blaise Pascal, France)  
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
The Universe - from the Big Bang to the present (until 15:30)
14:30 Asymptotic safety - Dr Roberto Percacci (SISSA, Italy)  
15:00 Spacetime foam, holographic cosmology and MoNDian dark matter - Prof. Y. Jack Ng (University of North Carolina, USA)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
The Universe - from the Big Bang to the Present (until 17:00)
16:00 Singularities and String Theory - Mr Lorenzo Seri (SISSA, Italy and University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)  
16:30 The Pierre Auger Observatory : latest results and prospects for hunting non-perturbative physics - Tom Paul (Northeastern University, USA)  
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
13:00 --- Excursion ---
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
Old and New Paradigms in Quantum Gravity (until 15:15)
14:30 N=8 supergravity: an update - Prof. Hermann Nicolai (Max Planck Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany.)  
15:15
Coherence, Decoherence, Entanglement (until 16:15)
15:15 --- Coffee Break ---
15:45 The qubits and the equations of physics - Prof. Salomon Mizrahi (Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brasil)  
16:15
Dark Matter (until 16:45)
16:15 Discovering bottom squark coannihilation at the ILC - Dr Gordana Medin (University of Montenegro)