Programme
Symposium topics:
- Current and future high energy experiments
- Cosmic microwave background
- Dark energy and dark matter
- Inflation and cosmological perturbations
- Particle astrophysics
- QCD and quark gluon plasma
- Flavour problem and CP violation
- Neutrino physics
- Higgs and SUSY phenomenology
- Extra dimensions
- String and M-theory model building
- String and brane cosmology
- Applications of string theory techniques
Invited speakers include:
- Andreas Albrecht (Davis)
The case for an aggressive program of dark energy probes - Dick Bond (CITA)
Inflation and its Cosmic Probes, Now and Then - Wilfried Buchmuller (DESY)
Baryogenesis - 40 Years Later - Volker Buescher (Bonn)
Search for Higgs-Bosons and Supersymmetry at the Tevatron - Ed Copeland (Nottingham)
Attempts to Model Dark Energy - Mirjam Cvetic (Pennsylvania)
Non-perturbative (D-instanton) Effects in String Vacua-New Implications for Particle Physics - George Efstathiou (Cambridge)
The Search for Tensor Modes - John Ellis (CERN)
Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC and beyond - Bo Feng (Imperial)
One-loop Amplitudes in Field Theory - Sergio Ferrara (CERN)
Attractors in All Extended Supergravities - Carlos Frenk (Durham)
Testing the LCDM paradigm on large and small scales - Steve Giddings (Santa Barbara)
Black Holes in TeV-scale Gravity - Stephen Hawking (Cambridge)
The Measure of the Universe - Ron Horgan (Cambridge)
Lattice QCD - Jim Hough (Glasgow)
The Search for Gravitational Waves - Renata Kallosh (Stanford)
Testing String Theory with CMB - Vadim Kaplunovsky (Texas)
Metastable SUSY Breaking in the Cooling Universe - Andrei Linde (Stanford)
Inflation and string theory landscape - Georgio Matthiae (Roma)
High-Energy Cosmic Rays - Larry McLerran (BNL)
The Color Glass Condensate and the Glasma - Tatsuya Nakada (CERN and EPFL)
CP Violation and Quark Flavour Experiments; Current Status and Prospects for the LHC Era - Chris Pope (Texas)
Kac-Moody Symmetries in Supergravity and M-Theory - Graham Ross (Oxford)
Neutrinos and the origin of fermion mass structure - Uros Seljak (Zurich)
Cosmological Constraints on Fundamental Parameters - Rafael Sorkin (Syracuse)
Everpresent Lambda - Joseph Silk (Oxford)
Dark Matter: Status and Perspectives - Nigel Smith (RAL)
Current status of direct dark matter searches - Dam Son (Washington)
Gauge/gravity duality and the quark gluon plasma - Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht)
Emergent Quantum Mechanics and Emergent Symmetries - Neil Turok (Cambridge)
From Big Crunch to Big Bang with AdS/CFT - Henry Tye (Cornell)
Brane Inflation, an Update - Jim Virdee (CERN and Imperial)
The LHC Machine and Experiments: Status and Prospects - David Wark (Imperial)
Neutrino Oscillations - Past, Present, and Future
Timetable
The programme will start on Monday morning 2 July and end on Saturday afternoon 7 July. There will be parallel sessions with contributed talks on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and Friday morning. The conference banquet will take place on Thursday evening in the Riverbank Park Plaza hotel.
| Mon 2/7 | Tue 3/7 | Wed 4/7 | Thu 5/7 | Fri 6/7 | Sat 7/7 | |
| Morning | Plenary | Plenary | Plenary | Plenary | Parallel | Salam |
| Afternoon | Plenary | Parallel | Parallel | Plenary | Salam | |
| Evening | Reception | Banquet |
Parallel Talks
3rd July
Particles- Shigeki Matsumoto
Hunting for the top partner in the littlest Higgs model with T parity at the CERN LHC - Luca Ferretti
O'Raifeartaigh models with spontaneous R-symmetry breaking - Francois Corriveau
Recent results from HERA ep collisions - Tommaso Dorigo
Precision Standard Model Tests at the Tevatron - Ulrich Goerlach
Prospects for SUSY with the first data at the LHC - Raymond Volkas
The standard model on a domain-wall brane - Joseph Conlon
Sparticle spectra from large-volume string compactifications - Bret Underwood
Probing the Geometry of Warped Throats at the LHC - Garard Sajot
Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model Searches at the Tevatron - Jon Butterworth
Prospects for beyond SUSY with the first data at the LHC
- Irina Arefeva
Stringy mode of the cosmological dark energy - Axel Krause
Large Gravitational Waves in String-Inflation - Thorsten Battefeld
Magnetogenesis from Rotating Cosmic String - Jean-Luc Lehners
Bouncing and COlliding Branes - Horace Stoica
Brane annihilation and defect formation - Louis Leblond
Inflation from Branes - Philip Mannheim
Dark matter and dark energy - fact or fantasy? - Claudia de Rham
The Effective theory of Codimension-two branes - Petja Salmi
Field Theoretical Approach to the Formation of Junctions of Cosmis Strings - Magd Elias Kahil
Motion in Brane World Models: The Bazanski Approach - Gonzalo A Palma
On Newton's law in supersymmetric braneworld models
- Wlodzimierz Piechocki
Propagation of a string across the cosmological singularity - Hiranya Peiris
Phenomenology of D-Brane Inflation with General Speed of Sound - Julien Lesgourgues
New constraints on the observable inflaton potential from WMAP and SDSS - Eduardo Guendelman
Child Universe Production - Fuminobu Takahashi
Inflaton Decay in Supergravity - Christopher Gordon
The effect of SN la peculiar velocities on dark energy constraints - Houri Ziaeepour
Distinguishing between w < -1 dark energy models - Silvio Bonometto
Suppression of Meszaros effect in coupled DE models - Stephen Davis
Solar System Constraints on Gauss-Bonnet Mediated Dark Energy - Morgan Le Delliou
Dark Energy-Dark Matter Interaction from the Abll Cluster A586
5th July
Particles- Ana M Teixeira
Neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM - Adam Ritz
Signatures of Pseudo-degenerate WIMP dark matter - Gilbert Moultaka
The dark matter as a light gravitino - Tobias Bruch
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment status and future: CDMS to SuperCDMS - Alfredo Davide Ferella
Results from the Xenon10 Dark Matter search experiment at Gran Sasso Laboratories
- David Bailin
Almost the supersymmetric standard model from intersecting D6-branes - Paul Saffin
Particle creation in braneworld collisions - Jonas Schmidt
Gauge-Higgs Unification in Six Dimensions from the Heterotic String - Laura Mersini-Houghton
Why did the universe start in such a low entropy state? - Liudmila Joukovskaya
Properties of Nonlocal Cosmological Models Derived from String Field Theory
- Sarah E Shandera
Constraints on non-Gaussianity in string-inspired inflation - Konstantions Dimopoulos
Density Perturbations in the Universe from Massive Vector Fields - Anne Davis
Has PVLAS detected the chameleon? - Katherine Mack
Cosmic string loops and gravitational lensing - Neil Turok
Is the Cold Spot in the CMB a Texture?
6th July
Particles- Antonio Masiero
LFV, LHC and DM: Synergy for a (multi)TeV SUSY - Minoru Nagai
New Two-loop Contribution to Hadronic EDMs in the MSSM - Guiseppina Anzivino
Latest CPV results at NA48 - Matthew Barrett
Search for New Physicvs Beyond the Standard Model at BaBar - Massimo Blasone
Flavor charges and flavor states of mixed neutrinos - Giuseppe Vitiello
Neutrino mixing as a source of dark energy - Thomas Underwood
Dirac Neurtrinos, Leptogenesis and a Vanishing Higgs @ LHC - Peter Litchfield
Latest results from MINOS - Morgan Wascko
MiniBooNE Neutrino Oscillation Result
- Chris Pope
Lorentz Violation and Finsler Geometry - Hsien-chung Kao
Second order perturbative calculation of quasinormal modes - Jean Alexandre
A new non-perturbative bosonic string configuration - Ian Jack
Renomralisation of N=1/2 Supersymmetry - Toby Wiseman
Towards lattice simulation of the gauge theory dauls of black holes - Damien Easson
Cycling Branes in Warped Throats - Eran Palti
Low Energy Supersymmetry Breaking From Non-Geometry - Oscar Varela
Properties of some CFTs with M-theory duals - Masato Arai
Hyperkahler sigma models on cotangent bundles of Hermitian symmetric spaces using projective superspace - Mark Goodsell
Realistic Yukawa Couplings through Instantons in Intersecting Brane Worlds
- Kazuhide Ichikawa
Neutrino mass constraint from CMB, BAO and SN - Teguayco Pinto
Effects of non-standard neutrino-electron interactions on relic neutrino decoupling - Alexander Shirokov
The Role of Micropancakes in Dark Matter Detection Experiments - Masato Senami
Non-perturbative effect on thermal relic abundance of dark matter - Kazunori Nakayama
Increasing the Effective Number of Neutrinos with Decaying Particles - Stefan Antusch
Flavour-dependent effects on thermal leptogenesis - Steffen Stern
Primordial nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental physics parameters - Riccardo Catena
Aspects of a supersymmetric Brans-Dicke theory - Dai G. Yamazaki
Effects of a Primordial Magnetic Field on Low and High Multipoles of the CMB - Motoi Endo
Gravitino Production from Late-Decaying Scalar Field
Posters
- Daniel Cumberbatch
Constraints on sub-dominant sterile neutrino dark matter from x-ray background observations - Gianfranca De Rosa
Light-Nuclei identification with PAMELA space telescope: preliminary results - László Á. Gergely
Cosmological tests of the generalized Randall-Sundrum brane-world model with late-time dark radiation - Jinn-Ouk Gong
Multiple scalar particle decay and perturbation generation - Choon-Lin Ho
Cosmological constant from gauge fields on extra dimensions - Choon-Lin Ho
(Quasi)-exactly solvable quasinormal modes - Masahiro Kawasaki
Latetime Affleck-Dine bayogenesis - Biagio Lucini
Persistent currents in QCD with compact spatial dimensions - Leila Maghlaoui
Bosons-parafermions Wess-Zumino model - Farrin Payandeh
The CMB anisotropies, and the choice of vacuum in QFT in de Sitter spacetime in Krein space quantization - Joe Patrick Towe
Large-Scale Structure as a Consequence of SUGRA GUT Symmetry
Special "Salam +50" Event on 7 July
On the last day of the symposium, Saturday 7 July, there will be a series of public talks marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam at Imperial College. The event will also be part of the centenary celebrations of Imperial College.