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  • Monday, 7 July 2014
    • 08:15 - 21:00
      • 08:15 Registration 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 09:00 Welcome speech 5' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: F. Quevedo (Director - ICTP)
        Material: Video
      • 09:05 Review of Model Building in String Theory 55' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: E. Palti (Universitat Heidelberg)
        Material: Video
      • 10:00 F-theory on singular manifolds 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Collinucci (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
        Material: Video
      • 10:35 F-theory Compactification with Abelian Sectors and Un-Higgsing 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 11:10 Coffee Break 20' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Mordell-Weil meets Tate 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. Schafer-Nameki (King's College London, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 12:05 Axions and U(1)s in F-theory 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: T.W Grimm (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)
        Material: Video
      • 12:40 Lunch 1h50' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:30 The Bundle Moduli Space of Heterotic Standard Models 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Lukas (Rudolf Peiers Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 15:05 String Pheno in the Heterotic OrbifoldLandscape 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: P. Vaudrevange (in Universe Cluster, Munich)
        Material: Video
      • 15:40 Axion Monodromies 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: H.P Nilles (Bonn University, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 16:15 Coffee Break 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS (Please see the programme on the official activity website) 1h20' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Material: Programme
      • 19:00 Welcome Reception at LB Terrace ( or cafeteria in case of bad weather) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace )
  • Tuesday, 8 July 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:10
      • 09:00 String Cosmology - A Short Synopsis 55' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Westphal (DESY Theory Group, Hamburg, Gemany)
        Material: Video
      • 09:55 Large-Field and Open EFTs, Decoherence and Inflation 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: C. Burgess (McMaster University, Canada)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Dark Matter and its Moduli Connections 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: B. Dutta (Texas A & M University, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 11:05 Coffee Break 25' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Searching high and low for traces of inflation 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: F. Takahashi (Tohoku University, Japan)
        Material: Video
      • 12:05 A string theory Cosmic Axion Background and the cluster soft X-ray excess 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: D. Marsh (Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 12:40 Lunch 1h50' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:30 Nflation in type IIB 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Maharana (Harish Chandra Research Institute, India)
        Material: Video
      • 15:05 D7-brane Chaotic Inflation and F-theory GUTs with High-Scale SUSY 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Hebecker (Heidelberg University, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 15:40 Pre-inflationary Clues from String Theory? 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Sagnotti (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 16:15 Coffee Break 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS (Please see the programme on the official activity website) 1h20' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Material: Programme
  • Wednesday, 9 July 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:10
      • 09:00 Moduli Stabilisation: the Why and the What? 55' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: J. Conlon (Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 09:55 Fake Split Supersymmetry 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Goodsell (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Planck 2013 cosmological results 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: P. Bielewicz (SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 11:05 Coffee Break 25' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Naturalness and string phenomenology in the LHC era 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: I. Antoniadis (École Polytechnique, France)
        Material: Video
      • 12:05 R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry, LSP Decays and the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: B. Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 12:40 Lunch 1h50' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:30 Discrete gauge symmetries, Chern-Simons terms and axion monodromy 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Uranga (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
        Material: Video
      • 15:05 U(1) mixing and F-theory GUTs 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: F. Marchesano (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
        Material: Video
      • 15:40 Effective Supergravity Interactions from String Compactifications 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: H. Jockers (University of Bonn, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 16:15 Coffee Break 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS (Please see the programme on the official activity website) 1h20' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Material: Programme
  • Thursday, 10 July 2014
    • 09:00 - 21:30
      • 09:00 Experimental Opportunities for String Theory 55' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: P. Kumar (Yale University, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 09:55 SUSY-Models in Sequestered Scenarios 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. Krippendorf (Bonn University, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Top quark mass coupling and the classification of SO(10) heterotic superstring vacua 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: I. Rizos (University of Ioannina, Greece)
        Material: Video
      • 11:05 Coffee Break 25' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Non-Abelian discrete R symmetries 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Ratz (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 12:05 Mordell-Weil meets Standard Model 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: T. Weigand (Heidelberg University, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 12:40 Lunch 1h50' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:30 TBA 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: G. Shiu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
        Material: Video
      • 15:05 QFT of Large Field Inflation 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: N. Kaloper (University of California at Davis, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 15:40 Widening the de Sitter Landscape in Non-perturbative Flux Compactifications 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: I. Zavala (University of Groningen, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 16:15 Coffee Break 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS (Please see the programme on the official activity website) 1h20' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Material: Programme
      • 19:30 Conference Dinner 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
  • Friday, 11 July 2014
    • 09:00 - 15:00
      • 09:00 Double field theory and non-geometric string backgrounds: dimensional reduction and cosmological applications (de Sitter and inflation) 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: D. Luest (University of Munich)
        Material: Video
      • 09:35 Spontaneously broken supersymmetries in string compactification 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: H. Triendl (CERN)
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Brane instantons in F-theory: the IIB perspective 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: L. Martucci (University of Padova, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 25' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:10 Physics of F-theory compactifications without section 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: I. Garcia Etxebarria (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)
        Material: Video
      • 11:45 Gauge Data from Chow Groups and Massless Matter in F-Theory 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: C. Mayrhofer (Heidelberg University, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 12:20 String Phenomenology Circa 2014 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: L. Ibanez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
        Material: Presentation Video
      • 12:55 Discussions 35' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 13:30 Lunch 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )