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Eötvös-Cornell 2007 Summer Workshop on Particle Theory

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Beyond the Standard Model at the Dawn of the LHC Era

June 25-29, 2007

Program

This is a preliminary program, which may be rearranged before the workshop.

Here is a printable version: PS, PDF.

Monday, June 25

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Cliff Burgess "Extra dimensions and the cosmological constant problem"
9:30-10:00 Graham Kribs "The Return of the Fourth Generation" (or PDF of scanned transparencies (12 MB file))
10:00-10:30 Julius Kuti "The Fate of the False Higgs Vacuum"

10:30-11:00 break

11:00-11:20 Rakhi Mahbubani "The 6D Standard Model: a Tale of Spinless Adjoints"
11:20-11:40 David Morrissey "Higgs Exempt Supersymmetry and its Phenomenology"
11:40-12:00 Patrick Meade "BRIDGE"

12:00-2:00 lunch break

2:00-2:30 Mariano Quiros "A Supercooled Electroweak Phase Transition"
2:30-3:00 Josh Erlich "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from the D4-D8-D8bar System"
3:00-3:30 Nemanja Kaloper "Challenging the Cosmological Constant"

3:30-4:00 break

4:00-4:30 Gregory Gabadadze "Charged Condensation"
4:30-5:00 Andrey Katz "Local SUSY breaking minima in N_f = N_c SQCD?"

Tuesday, June 26

9:00-9:30 Ian Low "Naturalness in the Higgs production/decay at the LHC"
9:30-10:00 Guido Altarelli "Progress Report on Models of Neutrino Mixing"
10:00-10:30 Takeo Moroi "Testing anomaly-mediated SUSY at the LHC"

10:30-11:00 break

11:00-11:20 Johannes Hirn "Effective Technicolor"
11:20-11:40 Andreas Weiler "An extra-dimensional GIM mechanism and no dead penguins"
11:40-12:00 Seong Chan Park "Inflation from an orbifold GUT"

12:00-2:00 lunch break

2:00-2:30 Jesse Thaler "Good Things Come to Those Who Weight"
2:30-3:00 Witold Skiba "Single jet mass as a signature of new physics"
3:00-3:30 Tilman Plehn "New physics at the LHC"

3:30-4:00 break

4:00-4:30 Lisa Randall "Black Holes and Quantum Gravity at the LHC"
4:30-5:00 Marcela Carena "Challenges for MSSM Higgs collider searches"

Wednesday, June 27

9:00-9:30 Yasunori Nomura "Gauge mediation as a generic phenomenon in the supersymmetric landscape"
9:30-10:00 Tony Gherghetta "A Gravity Dual of Single-Sector Supersymmetry Breaking"
10:00-10:30 Eduardo Ponton "Electroweak constraints on models with custodial symmetry"

10:30-11:00 break

11:00-11:20 Jose Santiago "Phenomenology of warped models with custodial symmetry"
11:20-11:40 Can Kilic "Looking For New Physics with the LHC-b"
11:40-12:00 Jay Hubisz "Radion Phenomenology in Warped Models of EWSB"

12:00-2:00 lunch break

2:00-2:30 Martin Schmaltz "Hidden sector running and MSSM superpartner masses"
2:30-3:00 Marco Serone "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Dark Matter from a Fifth Dimension"
3:00-3:30 Jay Wacker "New Tests of Sub-gravitational Forces"

3:30-4:00 break

4:00-4:30 Thomas Gregoire "Composite gluino at the LHC"
4:30-5:00 Yuri Shirman "Low scale direct gauge mediation"

Thursday, June 28

9:00-9:30 Stefania de Curtis "Holography versus deconstruction technique in a minimal Higgsless model"
9:30-10:00 Ryuichiro Kitano "Sweet Spot Supersymmetry"
10:00-10:30 Take Okui "QCD as a Hologram"

10:30-11:00 break

11:00-11:30 Matthias Neubert "Status of flavor puzzles in B decays"
11:30-12:00 Spencer Chang "Misreading Missing Energy Signatures"

12:00-2:00 lunch break

2:00-2:30 Michele Papucci "LHC and Dark Matter Signals of Improved Naturalness"
2:30-3:00 Christophe Grojean "The strongly-interacting light Higgs"
3:00-3:30 John Terning "Unparticles: what are they good for?"

3:30-4:00 break

4:00-4:30 Giacomo Cacciapaglia "Life at the LHC without the Higgs: models"
4:30-5:00 Guido Marandella "Life at the LHC without the Higgs: signatures"

Friday, June 29

9:00-9:30 Csaba Balazs "Matter, anti-matter, dark matter and the LHC"
9:30-10:00 Carlos Wagner "New developments in Electroweak Baryogenesis"
10:00-10:30 Ben Allanach "Natural priors and LHC weather forecasts"

10:30-11:00 break

11:00-11:30 Stuart Raby "On the Heterotic Road to the MSSM"
11:30-12:00 Jose Ramon Espinosa "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking: the Hidden Agenda"

12:00-2:00 lunch break

2:00-2:30 Gustavo Burdman "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from the Condensation of a Fourth Generation"
2:30-3:00 Tim Tait "Top-flavored Baryogenesis"
3:00-3:30 Keith Dienes "Is SUSY Natural?"

3:30-4:00 break

4:00-4:30 Adam Falkowski "WW scattering in Randall-Sundrum"
4:30-5:00 Veronica Sanz "Holography and the LHC: non-QCD-like Technicolor Models"


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