GoranFest: the joy of making physics

Jun 9, 2010, 8:00 AM → Jun 12, 2010, 6:00 PM Europe/Zagreb

Palazzo Milesi (Split, Croatia)

Alejandra Melfo (Universidata de Los Andes, Venezuela), Francesco Vissani (INFN Gran Sasso), Ivica Puljak (Technical University of Split FESB)

Like it or not, Goran is turning 60 this year. A good opportunity to organize a meeting on the various problems in physics which have been his obsession, to summarize where we stand now, and to look to the future.

Wed, June 9

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Morning 1

10:00 AM Self-Completeness of Einstein Gravity

Speaker: Georgi Dvali

Slides GoranFest_Dvali.pdf

10:30 AM Testing the Left-Right Symmetric Model at the LHC

Speaker: Sergei Gninenko (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))

Slides GoranFest_Gninenko.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Morning 2

11:30 AM From type-II see-saw to a new mechanism of supersymmetry breaking

Speaker: Dr Andrea Romanino (SISSA, Trieste)

Slides GoranFest_Romanino.pdf

12:00 PM Testing top-bottom-tau unification at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Ilia Gogoladze (University of Delaware)

Slides GoranFest_Gogoladze.pdf

12:30 PM Low scale seesaw, LFV and CP phases

Speaker: Miha Nemevsek (Hamburg University)

Slides GoranFest_Nemevsek.pdf

1:00 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Afternoon 1

5:00 PM Something New in the High Energy Limit of Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories?

Speaker: Denis Comelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

Slides GoranFest_Comelli.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Coffee Break

6:00 PM → 7:30 PM Afternoon 2

6:00 PM The CKM matrix: status and sensitivity to new physics

Speaker: Jose Ocariz (IN2P3 France)

Slides GoranFest_Ocariz.pdf

6:30 PM Yukawa unifications and SUSY thresholds

Speaker: Mr Enkhbat Tsedenbaljir (ICTP, Trieste)

Slides GoranFest_Enkhbat.pdf

Thu, June 10

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Morning 1

9:30 AM Neutrino mass and New approach to quark-lepton flavor unification

Speaker: Dr Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)

Slides GoranFest_Mohapatra.pdf

10:00 AM CP Violation and Flavor Physics in Gauge-Higgs Unification

Speaker: Dr Chong-Sa Lim (Kobe University)

Slides GoranFest_Lim.pdf

10:30 AM The Right chances Left for Left Right symmetry at LHC

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Nesti (University of Ferrara)

Slides GoranFest_Nesti.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Morning 2

11:30 AM Signals of light colored scalars from grand unification in the up quark sector

Speaker: Svetlana Fajfer (Unknown)

Slides GoranFest_Fajfer.pdf

12:00 PM New Tev-scale Seesaw with Vectorlike Mediators

Speaker: Prof. Ivica Picek (Phys. Dept., University of Zagreb)

Slides GoranFest_Picek.pdf

12:30 PM The New MSGUT : Ready to Roll ?

Speaker: Charanjit Aulakh (Unknown)

Peroration Peroration

Slides GoranFesT_Aulakh.pdf

1:00 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Afternoon 1

5:00 PM Radiative Neutrino Mass Generation and Experimental Signals

Speaker: Dr K. S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)

Slides GoranFest_Babu.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Coffee Break

6:00 PM → 7:30 PM Afternoon 2

6:00 PM On d = 6 proton decay operators

Speaker: Ilja Dorsner (Unknown)

Slides GoranFest_Dorsner.pdf

6:30 PM Partially Strong WW Scatterings

Speaker: Dr Tzu-Chiang Yuan (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

Slides GoranFest_Yuan.pdf

Fri, June 11

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Morning 1

9:30 AM PAMELA and FERMI-LAT from MSSM

Speaker: Dr Borut Bajc (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)

Slides GoranFest_Bajc.pdf

10:00 AM The minimal fine-tuning principle and observable new physics

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Barr (University of Delaware)

Slides GoranFest_Barr.pdf

10:30 AM Dark Matter: general remarks and news from direct detection

Speaker: Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (Unknown)

Slides GoranFest_Schwetz.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 1:30 PM Morning 2

11:30 AM Asymmetric Mirror Dark Matter and Energy Dependent Direct Detection

Speaker: Dr Yue Zhang (ICTP, Trieste)

Slides GoranFest_Zhang.pdf

12:00 PM The degenerate gravitino scenario

Speaker: Lotfi Boubekeur (Unknown)

Slides GoranFest_Boubeker.pdf

12:30 PM Graviton propagator in Loop Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Dr Aleksandar Mikovic (Lusofona University and GFMUL)

1:00 PM The tiny neutrino mass and the Large hadron collider: What do they have in common?

Speaker: Prof. Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)

Slides GoranFest_Han.pdf

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

Sat, June 12

10:30 AM → 3:00 PM Excursion