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Monday, August 28, 2006 |
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Talks will be 25 minutes with 10 minutes at the end of
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Morning Session Chair: Michael Dine |
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9:00am | Martin Einhorn (KITP Deputy Director) |
Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
9:15am | Joe Polchinski (UCSB, KITP) |
The Cosmological Constant and the String Landscape [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
9:50am | Henry Tye (Cornell) |
Cosmic Strings: an Update [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
10:25am | MORNING BREAK | ||
10:55am | Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) |
Probing the Properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma with Experiments and AdS/CFT Calculations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
11:30am | Josh Friess (Princeton) |
AdS/CFT and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:05pm | Rob Myers (Perimeter) |
Holographic Phase Transitions with Fundamental Matter [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:40pm | LUNCH BREAK | ||
Afternoon Session Chair: Sonia Paban |
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2:15pm | Raphael Bousso (UC Berkeley) |
The Entropic Principle [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
2:50pm | Eva Silverstein (Stanford, SLAC) |
Retrofitting O'Raifeartaigh Models with Dynamical Scales [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
3:25pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | ||
3:55pm | Angel Uranga (CERN, Switzerland) |
IR Dynamics and Supersymmetry Breaking from D-branes at Singularities [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
4:30pm | Graham Ross (Univ. Oxford) |
Racetrack Inflation and Assisted Moduli Stabilization [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
5:05pm | INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS | WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION | |
6:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *time is flexible | |
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
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Talks will be 25 minutes with 10 minutes at the end of
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Morning Session Chair: Jihn Kim |
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9:15am | Herman Verlinde (Princeton) |
Towards the Standard Model via D-branes at Singularities [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
9:50am | Burt Ovrut (UPenn) |
Heterotic Standard Models, Supersymmetry Breaking and the Cosmological Constant [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
10:25am | MORNING BREAK | ||
10:55am | Alon Faraggi (Univ. Liverpool) |
Minimal Standard Heterotic String Models [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
11:30am | Michael Ratz (T.U. München) |
Local Grand Unification [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:05pm | Stuart Raby (Ohio State) |
Stringy Origin of non-Abelian Discrete Flavor Symmetries [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:40pm | LUNCH BREAK | ||
Afternoon Session Chair: Mary K. Gaillard |
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2:15pm | Bobby Acharya (Abdus Salam ICTP) |
The LHC and Hierarchies in String/M Theory [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
2:50pm | Bert Schellekens (NIKHEF) |
RCFT Orientifolds and Standard Model Realizations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
3:25pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | ||
3:55pm | Gary Shiu (Univ. Wisconsin) |
Brane Inflation: Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
4:30pm | Richard Easther (Yale Univ.) |
Observational Constraints on Cosmology: Implications (and Hints) For Model Builders [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
5:05pm | INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS | WINE AND MIXED NUTS | |
6:00pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | ||
8:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *time is flexible | |
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
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Talks will be 25 minutes with 10 minutes at the end of
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Morning Session Chair: Elias Kiritsis |
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9:15am | Tom Banks (Rutgers/Sta Cruz) |
Remodeling the Pentagon After The Events of 2/23/06 [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
9:50am | Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard, KITP GM) |
On Landscape Phenomenology [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
10:25am | MORNING BREAK | ||
10:55am | Matt Strassler (Univ. Washington) |
Effect of New Gauge Sectors on Tevatron and LHC Phenomenology [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
11:30am | Steve Giddings (UCSB) |
Warped Compactification Phenomenology [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:05pm | Arthur Hebecker (Univ. Heidelberg) |
The Ubiquitous Throat [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:40pm | LUNCH BREAK | ||
2:30pm | FREE AFTERNOON | Shuttle Available to BWSCI *time is flexible |
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
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Talks will be 25 minutes with 10 minutes at the end of
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Morning Session Chair: Shanta de Alwis |
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9:15am | Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN, Switzerland) |
Gaugino Masses from String Loops [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
9:50am | Peter Nilles (Univ. Bonn) |
Mirage Mediation [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
10:25am | MORNING BREAK | ||
10:55am | Piyush Kumar (Univ. Michigan) |
LHC String Phenomenology [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
11:30am | Albion Lawrence (Brandeis) |
Non-Geometric Vacua [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:05pm | Jay Wacker (Stanford) |
On SUSY Breaking and Cosmology [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:40pm | LUNCH BREAK | ||
Afternoon Session Chair: Gordy Kane |
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2:15pm | Ralph Blumenhagen (Max-Planck-Physik) |
New Heterotic GUT and Standard Model Vacua [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
2:50pm | Wati Taylor (MIT) |
The Landscape of Intersecting Brane Models [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
3:25pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | ||
3:55pm | SPECIAL SHORT PRESENTATIONS | ||
Brent Nelson | Geometry of MSSM[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | ||
Bumseok Kyae | Flipped SU(5) from Z_{12-I} Orbifold with Wilson Line[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | ||
Kang-Sin Choi | Unification in Intersecting Brane Models[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | ||
Sabine Hossenfelder | The Minimal Length Scale[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | ||
Roberto Valandro | Warped Models in String Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | ||
Felix Brümmer | The Randall-Sundrum Model in String Theory and Throat Field Mediated SUSY Breaking[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | ||
5:05pm | INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS | WINE AND MIXED NUTS | |
6:00pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | ||
8:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *time is flexible | |
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Friday, September 01, 2006 |
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Talks will be 25 minutes with 10 minutes at the end of
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Morning Session Chair: Keith Dienes |
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9:15am | Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn) |
Couplings for Standard Model and GUT String Constructions [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
9:50am | Fernando Marchesano (Ludwig Max. Univ.) |
Coisotropic Model Building [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
10:25am | MORNING BREAK | ||
10:55am | Fabio Zwirner (Univ. Padua) |
Landscape vs. Swampland: The Power of Local Symmetries [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
11:30am | Scott Thomas (Rutgers) |
Landscape Naturalness [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:05pm | Peter Svrcek (Stanford, SLAC) |
Axions and String Theory [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
12:40pm | LUNCH BREAK | ||
Afternoon Session Chair: Gerardo Aldazabal |
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2:15pm | Dieter Lüst (Ludwig Max. Univ.) |
F- and D-terms from D7-branes [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
2:50pm | Massimo Bianchi (Università di Roma) |
Generalized CS Couplings and One-scattering Amplitudes in D-brane Worlds [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
3:25pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | ||
3:55pm | Gary Horowitz (UCSB) |
Microstates of a Neutral Black Hole [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
4:30pm | Lisa Randall (Harvard) |
Braneworld Black Holes [Podcast][Aud][Cam] | |
5:05pm | CONFERENCE END | Shuttle to BWSCI, also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus Goleta location. *time is flexible | |
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