The Quantum Quest: a Fascinating Journey - Solvay Institutes
The Quantum Quest: a Fascinating Journey - Solvay Institutes
The Quantum Quest: a Fascinating Journey - Solvay Institutes
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Quantum</strong> <strong>Quest</strong>: a <strong>Fascinating</strong> <strong>Journey</strong> <br />
Programme 5 -‐ 7 November 2012 <br />
Monday 5 November <br />
08:30 <br />
09:45 <br />
09:45 <br />
10:00 <br />
Registration <br />
Welcome Speech <br />
10:00 10:30 Jean Iliopoulos Gauge <strong>The</strong>ories and non-‐Commutative Geometry <br />
10:30 11:00 Stefan Pokorski <strong>The</strong> 125 GeV Scalar -‐ End of a certain Story <br />
11:00 11 :30 Coffee Break <br />
11:30 12:00 Aharon Casher Breakdown of Supersymmetry in Perturbative <br />
SuperYangMills <br />
12:00 12:30 Gerard ’t Hooft Superstrings and Determinism <br />
12:30 14:00 Lunch <br />
Session in Memory of Laurent Houart <br />
14:00 14:30 François Englert & <br />
Claudio Bunster <br />
14:30 15:00 Augusto Sagnotti String <strong>The</strong>ory, Climbing Scalars and the CMB <br />
15:00 15:30 Coffee Break <br />
15:30 16:00 Yolanda Lozano Non-‐Singlet Baryons in Gauge/Gravity Duality <br />
16:00 16:30 Kelly Stelle Supergravity Infinities and Counterterm Structures <br />
16:30 17:00 Andres Gomberoff Phase Transitions in Lovelock Gravity <br />
Tuesday 6 November <br />
09:30 10:00 Claudio Bunster General Relativity as an Already-‐Born-‐Infeld <strong>The</strong>ory <br />
10:00 10:30 Sandu Popescu TBA <br />
10:30 11:00 Anne Taormina Mathieu 24 Moonshine <br />
11:00 11:30 Coffee Break <br />
11:30 12:00 Alexander Belavin On the Reason of AGT Correspondence and the <br />
New Use of Instantons <br />
12:00 12:30 Michael Green <br />
Supersymmetry,Duality and String Scattering <br />
Amplitudes <br />
12:30 14:00 Lunch <br />
14:00 14:30 Pierre Fayet U Bosons, Dark Photons and New Forces
14:30 15:00 Ignatios Antoniadis <br />
15:00 15:30 Coffee Break <br />
15:30 16:00 Bernard de Wit <strong>The</strong> Ultimate Vacuum <br />
16:00 16:30 Peter West <br />
Mass Hierarchies in String <strong>The</strong>ory and Electroweak <br />
Symmetry Breaking <br />
16:30 17:00 Joseph Katz Dark Energy and Dark Matter <br />
19:30 Banquet at the Plaza Hotel <br />
Tuesday 6 November <br />
Mira Englert is kindly organizing a trip to Bruges for the participants’ companions <br />
who do not wish to attend the workshop <br />
Itinerary: <br />
9:30 Bus pick up at the <strong>Solvay</strong> <strong>Institutes</strong> <br />
10:45 -‐ 14:00 Visit of Bruges/lunch/Memling Museum <br />
16:00 Back at the <strong>Solvay</strong> <strong>Institutes</strong> <br />
Wednesday 7 November <br />
Special Session: Scalar Bosons -‐ Present and Future at LHC <br />
09:30 François Englert <br />
Fabiola Gianotti <br />
Joe Incandela <br />
10:45 11:15 Coffee Break <br />
Current Status and Expectations <br />
(current LHC run -‐ ATLAS) <br />
Current Status and Expectations <br />
(current LHC run -‐ CMS) <br />
11:15 Round table “What Next?” <br />
Introduced by Jean Orloff (<strong>The</strong>ory outlook), Guido Tonelli and Louis Fayard <br />
(<strong>The</strong> Scalar Sector: How far can we reach with LHC) <br />
General discussion <br />
12:30 14:00 Lunch <br />
14:00 14:30 Viatcheslav Mukhanov From <strong>Quantum</strong> Fluctuations to the Large Scale <br />
Structure of the Universe <br />
14:30 15:00 Tsvi Piran <br />
15:00 15:30 Coffee Break <br />
15:30 16:00 Gerard ’t Hooft Closing Remarks
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