Scientific Calendar Event



Description
The meeting will bring together a number of experts in both phenomenological and formal aspects of hierarchy problems in particle physics. We plan to focus mainly on the Higgs mass issue and the doublet-triplet problem in the context of SUSY GUTS, the question of the cosmological constant and the fermion mass problem. The conference will last three and a half days.  Our plan is to assert the state-of-the-art in the field and discuss new ideas and directions of research.
Go to day
  • Wednesday, 1 October 2003
    • 08:30 - 09:30 REGISTRATION
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 10:00 OPENING
      • 09:30 OPENING 30'
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Electroweak symmetry breaking as of 2003, on the way to LHC
      • 10:00 Electroweak symmetry breaking as of 2003, on the way to LHC 30'
        Speaker: R. BARBIERI (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Supersymmetry breaking, extra dimensions and hierarchy problems
      • 10:30 Supersymmetry breaking, extra dimensions and hierarchy problems 30'
        Speaker: F. ZWIRNER (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Massless localized gauge field on a wall in 5 dimensions
      • 11:00 Massless localized gauge field on a wall in 5 dimensions 30'
        Speaker: N. SAKAI (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
      • 11:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Principle of small charges
      • 12:00 Principle of small charges 30'
        Speaker: H. NIELSEN (University of Copenhagen)
    • 12:30 - 12:50 Higgs as a holographic pseudo-Goldstone boson
      • 12:30 Higgs as a holographic pseudo-Goldstone boson 20'
        Speaker: R. CONTINO (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore)
    • 12:50 - 12:50 Lunch Break
      • 12:50 Lunch Break
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Electroweak symmetry breaking and fermion masses from extra dimensions
      • 16:00 Electroweak symmetry breaking and fermion masses from extra dimensions 30'
        Speaker: M. SERONE (SISSA, Trieste)
    • 16:30 - 16:50 Orbifold electroweak unification
      • 16:30 Orbifold electroweak unification 20'
        Speaker: W. LIAO (ICTP, Trieste)
    • 16:50 - 17:10 Little flavons
      • 16:50 Little flavons 20'
        Speaker: F. BAZZOCCHI (SISSA, Trieste)
    • 17:10 - 17:40 Coffee Break
      • 17:10 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:40 - 18:10 Localized supergravity in string theory
      • 17:40 Localized supergravity in string theory 30'
        Speaker: I. ANTONIADIS (Ecole Polytechnique/CERN)
    • 18:10 - 18:30 New bound state and the fundamental-weak scales hierarchy in the SM
      • 18:10 New bound state and the fundamental-weak scales hierarchy in the SM 20'
        Speaker: L. LAPERASHVILI (Institute Theor. Phys., Moscow)
    • 19:00 - 19:00 RECEPTION
      • 19:00 RECEPTION
  • Thursday, 2 October 2003
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Neutrino mass and SO(10) grand unification
      • 09:30 Neutrino mass and SO(10) grand unification 30'
        Speaker: R.N. MOHAPATRA (University of Maryland)
    • 10:00 - 10:20 Supersymmetric contributions to CP asymmetries of B -> phi Ks
      • 10:00 Supersymmetric contributions to CP asymmetries of B -> phi Ks 20'
        Speaker: S.S. KHALIL (Univ. Durham/Ain Shams Univ.)
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Leptogenesis and mass hierarchies
      • 10:20 Leptogenesis and mass hierarchies 30'
        Speaker: T. HAMBYE (University of Oxford)
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break
      • 10:50 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:20 - 11:50 New scenarios of electroweak symmetry breaking
      • 11:20 New scenarios of electroweak symmetry breaking 30'
        Speaker: A. POMAROL (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
    • 11:50 - 12:10 Issues in low scale leptogenesis
      • 11:50 Issues in low scale leptogenesis 20'
        Speaker: L. BOUBEKEUR (SISSA, Trieste)
    • 12:10 - 12:10 Lunch Break
      • 12:10 Lunch Break
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Recent developments in inflationary cosmology
      • 16:00 Recent developments in inflationary cosmology 30'
        Speaker: A. RIOTTO (INFN, Padova)
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Grand unification of quark and lepton FCNCs
      • 16:30 Grand unification of quark and lepton FCNCs 30'
        Speaker: A. MASIERO (University of Padova)
    • 17:00 - 17:20 Robust hierarchy solution in a refined Randall-Sundrum model
      • 17:00 Robust hierarchy solution in a refined Randall-Sundrum model 20'
        Speaker: K.M. BENSON (Emory University, Atlanta)
    • 17:20 - 17:50 Coffee Break
      • 17:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:50 - 18:20 Brane to brane gravity mediation of supersymmetry breaking
      • 17:50 Brane to brane gravity mediation of supersymmetry breaking 30'
        Speaker: R. RATTAZZI (CERN)
    • 18:20 - 18:50 From inflation to slow acceleration through the SSB of scale invariance
      • 18:20 From inflation to slow acceleration through the SSB of scale invariance 30'
        Speaker: E. GUENDELMAN (Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva)
  • Friday, 3 October 2003
    • 09:30 - 10:00 On f(R)models of dark energy
      • 09:30 On f(R)models of dark energy 30'
        Speaker: A. STAROBINSKY (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Susy dominatrix: grand unified bondage
      • 10:00 Susy dominatrix: grand unified bondage 30'
        Speaker: C. AULAKH (Panjab University)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Softly massive gravity
      • 10:30 Softly massive gravity 30'
        Speaker: G. GABADADZE (University of Minnesota)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Flavour and CP physics in the (s)lepton sector
      • 11:30 Flavour and CP physics in the (s)lepton sector 30'
        Speaker: C. SAVOY (Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay)
    • 12:00 - 12:20 Unique graviton exchange signatures at e^+e^- colliders
      • 12:00 Unique graviton exchange signatures at e^+e^- colliders 20'
        Speaker: A. PANKOV (Gomel Polytechnical Institute)
    • 12:20 - 12:20 Lunch Break
      • 12:20 Lunch Break
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Supersymmetry breaking and radion stabilization
      • 16:30 Supersymmetry breaking and radion stabilization 30'
        Speaker: M. QUIROS (Inst. Estructura de la Materia, Madrid)
    • 17:00 - 17:20 Fermion generations from extra-dimensions
      • 17:00 Fermion generations from extra-dimensions 20'
        Speaker: I. MASINA (Centro Studi e Ricerche "E. Fermi", Rome)
    • 17:20 - 17:40 Supersymmetric GUTs and proton decay
      • 17:20 Supersymmetric GUTs and proton decay 20'
        Speaker: P. FILEVIEZ-PEREZ (Max-Planck-Institute, Munich)
    • 17:40 - 18:10 Coffee Break
      • 17:40 Coffee Break 30'
    • 18:20 - 19:20 Round Table Discussion: Confronting solutions to the hierarchy problem
      • 18:20 Round Table Discussion: Confronting solutions to the hierarchy problem 1h0'
  • Saturday, 4 October 2003
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Hierarchy of GUTs and fermion masses
      • 10:00 Hierarchy of GUTs and fermion masses 30'
        Speaker: Z. BEREZHIANI (University of L'Aquila)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Soft breaking in SUSY, string and D-brane models
      • 10:30 Soft breaking in SUSY, string and D-brane models 30'
        Speaker: P. NATH (Northeastern University, Boston)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Towards a complete theory of thermal leptogenesis
      • 11:00 Towards a complete theory of thermal leptogenesis 30'
        Speaker: A. STRUMIA (University of Pisa)
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
      • 11:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 12:00 - 12:30 On cosmologically induced hierarchies
      • 12:00 On cosmologically induced hierarchies 30'
        Speaker: E. DUDAS (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
    • 12:30 - 13:00 Hierarchical physics
      • 12:30 Hierarchical physics 30'
        Speaker: N. ARKANI-HAMED (Harvard University)
    • 13:00 - 13:00 Lunch and departure
      • 13:00 Lunch and departure