Workshop on String Vacua and the Landscape | (smr 1753) (29 May 2006

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Description

co-sponsored by: the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik - Theorie, Munich, Germany and the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) A Workshop on Four Dimensional String Physics Focusing on Four Dimensional String Vacua, the workshop will discuss the theory and phenomenology of string vacua with emphasis on understanding the landscape of vacua, string model building and the path from string vacua to LHC physics and cosmology. The main idea of the workshop is to highlight important new developments and problems and to stimulate discussion of these through a small number of daily talks and discussion sessions.

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Workshop on String Vacua and the Landscape | (smr 1753)

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Monday, 29 May 2006

08:45 - 10:00 Registration and Administrative formalities

Location: Main Building, Lobby
- 08:45 Registration and Administrative formalities 1h15'
10:00 - 10:15 Opening Address
- 10:00 Opening Address 15'
  
  Speaker: Professor K. R. Sreenivasan (Director, International Centre for Theoretical Physics)

10:15 - 11:15 Heterotic Standard-Like Vacua from Unitary Gauge Fluxes

10:15 Heterotic Standard-Like Vacua from Unitary Gauge Fluxes 1h0'

Speaker:	Timo WEIGAND (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik und Astrophysik, Germany)
Material:	lecture notes

11:15 - 11:30 Break
- 11:15 Break 15'

11:30 - 12:30 Generalised Complex Geometry in String Theory

11:30 Generalised Complex Geometry in String Theory 1h0'

Speaker:	Alessandro TOMASIELLO (Stanford University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
- 12:30 Lunch break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:30 Nongeometric Flux Compactifications

14:30 Nongeometric Flux Compactifications 1h0'

Speaker:	Brian Alexander WECHT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'
16:00 - 17:00 Discussion session
- 16:00 Discussion session 1h0'

Tuesday, 30 May 2006

09:30 - 10:30 Gauge Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications

09:30 Gauge Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications 1h0'

Speaker:	Bogdan FLOREA (Stanford University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:15 Break
- 10:30 Break 45'

11:15 - 12:15 On D-branes in Flux Vacua

11:15 On D-branes in Flux Vacua 1h0'

Speaker:	Fernando Gabriel MARCHESANO (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat at Munchen, Germany)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:30 Lunch break
- 12:15 Lunch break 2h15'

14:30 - 15:30 T-folds and Non-geometric String Compactifications

14:30 T-folds and Non-geometric String Compactifications 1h0'

Speaker:	Christopher HULL (Imperial College of Science and Technology, U.K.)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'
16:00 - 17:00 Discussion session
- 16:00 Discussion session 1h0'

Wednesday, 31 May 2006

09:30 - 10:30 Random Matrix Ensembles for String Inflation

09:30 Random Matrix Ensembles for String Inflation 1h0'

Speaker:	Liam P. MCALLISTER (Princeton University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:15 Break
- 10:30 Break 45'

11:15 - 12:15 Making and Checking Inflation

11:15 Making and Checking Inflation 1h0'

Speaker:	Lev KOFMAN (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Canada)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:30 Lunch break
- 12:15 Lunch break 2h15'

14:30 - 15:30 Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities of General Single Field Inflation'

14:30 Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities of General Single Field Inflation' 1h0'

Speaker:	Xingang CHEN (Columbia University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'
16:00 - 17:00 Discussion session
- 16:00 Discussion session 1h0'

Thursday, 1 June 2006

09:30 - 10:30 Probabilities in the Landscape

09:30 Probabilities in the Landscape 1h0'

Speaker:	Alexander VILENKIN (Tufts University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:15 Break
- 10:30 Break 45'

11:15 - 12:15 Populating the Landscape with Eternal Inflation: A Description Within One Causal Patch

11:15 Populating the Landscape with Eternal Inflation: A Description Within One Causal Patch 1h0'

Speaker:	Benjamin W. FREIVOGEL (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 13:45 Lunch break
- 12:15 Lunch break 1h30'
13:45 - 14:45 Sightseeing in The Landscape
- 13:45 Sightseeing in The Landscape 1h0'
  
  Speaker: Bert SCHELLEKENS (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
14:45 - 15:30 Break
- 14:45 Break 45'

15:30 - 16:30 Seeing the Landscape On Earth and In the Sky: Two Possible Observational Probes of the Landscape

15:30 Seeing the Landscape On Earth and In the Sky: Two Possible Observational Probes of the Landscape 1h0'

Speaker:	Philip SCHUSTER and Natalia TORO (Harvard University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

16:30 - 16:45 Break
- 16:30 Break 15'
16:45 - 17:45 Discussion session
- 16:45 Discussion session 1h0'

Friday, 2 June 2006
- 09:30 - 10:30 Moduli Stabilisation in Type IIB Orientifolds
  - 09:30 Moduli Stabilisation in Type IIB Orientifolds 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Stephan STIEBERGER (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat at Munchen, Germany)
- 10:30 - 11:15 Break
  - 10:30 Break 45'
- 11:15 - 12:15 String Theory, LHC and the Hierarchy Problem: Two Tales in String Phenomenology
  - 11:15 String Theory, LHC and the Hierarchy Problem: Two Tales in String Phenomenology 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Piyush KUMAR (University of Michigan, USA)
- 12:15 - 14:30 Lunch break
  - 12:15 Lunch break 2h15'
- 14:30 - 15:30 -
  - 14:30 - 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Nima ARKANI-HAMED (Harvard University, USA)
- 15:30 - 16:00 Break
  - 15:30 Break 30'
- 16:00 - 17:00 Discussion session
  - 16:00 Discussion session 1h0'

Saturday, 3 June 2006

10:00 - 11:00 From Strong CP to the LHC - via the Landscape

10:00 From Strong CP to the LHC - via the Landscape 1h0'

Speaker:	Joseph Patrick CONLON (University of Cambridge, U.K.)
Material:	lecture notes

11:00 - 11:30 BREAK
- 11:00 BREAK 30'
11:30 - 12:30 Conclusion
- 11:30 Conclusion 1h0'