SUNDAY, August 1 |
11:00am |
Brunch |
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Session Chair: |
G. Kane |
1:00pm |
Openining Remarks |
Prof. Paul Courant, Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs, University of Michigan |
1:15pm |
I. Antoniadis |
"Supersymmetry Breaking in D-brane Models" |
1:50pm |
P. Frampton |
"AdS/CFT Correspondence
and Beyond Standard Model" |
3:30pm |
Coffee Break |
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Session Chair: |
G. Shiu |
3:45pm |
P. Nath |
"A Stueckelberg extension of the electroweak
sector as an alternative to exension with Higgs" |
4:20pm |
B. Ovrut |
“The Spectra of Heterotic Vacua” |
4:55pm |
G. Aldazabel |
"Particle Models from Orientifolds at Gepner-Orbifold
points" |
5:30pm |
Adjourn |
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MONDAY, August 2 |
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Session Chair:
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R. Brustein |
9:00am |
G. Shiu |
"Model Building and Phenomenology of Flux-Induced
SUSY Breaking" |
9:35am |
J.E. Kim |
"Trinification from orbifolded superstring" |
10:10am |
Coffee Break |
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Session Chair |
S. Stieberger |
10:45am |
S. Thomas |
“Landscape Naturalness” |
11:20am |
R. Mohapatra |
"Neutrino Mass and Supersymmetric SO(10)” |
11:55am |
S. Trivedi |
“Flux Compactifications and Accelerating Cosmologies” |
12:30pm |
Lunch |
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Session Chair: |
B. Körs |
2:15pm |
A. Krause |
"De Sitter Vacua in the M-Theory Landscape" |
2:50pm |
P. Langacker |
"Neutrino masses
in Type I and II seesaw models respecting heterotic and intersecting
brane string constraints" |
3:25pm |
M.Perry |
“A Description of Hawking’s Recent Arguments about
Information Loss” |
4:00pm |
Coffee Break |
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Session Chair: |
P. Ko |
4:30pm |
R. Myers |
“Cosmic Superstrings II” |
5:05pm |
S. Stieberger |
"Scattering of gauge, matter, and moduli
fields from intersecting branes" |
5:40pm |
C. Burgess |
“Rosebud: More Obsessing About SLEDs” |
6:15pm |
Adjourn |
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6:15pm |
Wine and cheese reception (Lower
Atrium of the Chemistry Building) |
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TUESDAY, August 3 |
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Session Chair: |
A. Krause |
9:00am |
A. Faraggi |
"Self-duality and vacuum selection" |
9:35am |
M. Cvetic |
“Supersymmetric Intersecting D6-branes, Fluxes
and Particle Physics” |
10:10am |
Coffee Break |
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Session Chair:
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J. Giedt |
10:45am |
K. Dienes |
"A String Theorist Tampers with the Laws of
Thermodynamics" |
11:20am |
B. Körs |
On the Moduli Dependence of Non-perturbative Superpotentials
in Brane-Inflation” |
11:55am |
E. Silverstein |
"The Real World as a Hologram: DBI in the
Sky and dS/dS" |
12:30pm |
Lunch |
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Session Chair: |
T.Li |
2:15pm |
H.-P. Nilles
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"Five golden rules
for string phenomenology" |
2:50pm |
M. Dine |
"Supersymmetry from
the Landscape" |
3:25pm |
Coffee Break |
4:00pm |
Begin session of 20-minute parallel talks
(see parallel talk schedule) |
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WEDNESDAY, August 4 |
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Session Chair: |
L. Wang |
9:00am |
M. Douglas |
“Statistical Analysis
of Supersymmetry Breaking in Flux Vacua” (by video hookup) |
9:35am |
S. Abel |
“Interactions and Flavour on Intersecting Branes” |
10:10am |
Coffee Break |
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Session Chair: |
S. King |
10:45am |
R. Brustein |
"Moduli Stabilization in Flux Compactifications” |
11:20am |
R. Kallosh |
“D3/D7 Brane Cosmology” |
11:55pm |
M. Quiros |
“Higgs-gauge Unification Without Tadpoles” |
12:30pm |
Lunch |
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Session Chair: |
K. Dienes |
2:15pm |
S. King |
“Phenomenology of Twisted Moduli” |
2:50pm |
F. Larsen |
“Holography, Diffeomorphisms,
and Scaling Violations in the CMB”
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3:25pm |
C. Savoy |
"Lepton EDMs" |
4:00pm |
Coffee Break |
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Session Chair |
K.Tobe |
4:30pm |
J. Qian |
"Searches for New Physics at Dzero" |
5:05pm |
R. Culbertson |
"Searches at
CDF" |
5:40pm |
E. Rabinovici |
"On time dependent backgrounds in String Theory" |
6:15pm |
Adjourn |
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7:00pm |
Barbecue |
(inner court yard between Randall lab and the
Dennison Buildings) |
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THURSDAY, August 5 |
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Session Chair: |
F. Larsen |
9:00am |
S. Giddings |
“Deforming Warped Compactifications” |
9:35am |
A. Linde |
“String Inflation Update” |
10:10am |
Coffee Break |
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Session Chair: |
S. Abel |
10:45am |
T. Gherghetta |
“Natural High-scale Supersymmetry Breaking” |
11:20am |
J. Liu |
“Black Hole Mass in Anti-de
Sitter Space” |
11:55am |
S. Raby |
“Constructing 5D Orbifold
GUTs from Heterotic Strings” |
12:30pm |
Lunch |
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Session Chair: |
A. Karch |
2:15pm |
M. Shifman |
“From Strings to One-flavor QCD” |
2:50pm |
L. Wang |
“Electroweak symmetry Breaking and Flux induced supersymmetry
breaking” |
3:25pm |
Coffee Break |
4:00pm |
Begin session of 20-minute parallel talks
(see parallel talk schedule) |
6:00pm |
Wine and cheese reception
(Lower Atrium of the Chemistry Building) |
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FRIDAY, August 6 |
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Session Chair: |
A. Faraggi |
9:00am |
K. Choi |
“Radion as a Flavon and SUSY Flavor Violation” |
9:35am |
M.K. Gaillard |
“Aspects of Heterotic String Phenomenology” |
10:10am |
Coffee Break |
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Session Chair: |
T. Gherghetta |
10:45am |
B. Nelson |
"What Does LHC Data have to do with String
Phenomenology?" |
11:20am |
M. Perry |
“Symmetry Breaking and Tunneling in de Sitter Space,
and Implications for the Cosological Constant” |
11:55am |
A. Karch |
“Autolocalization and Holography in dS Space” |
12:30pm |
Lunch |
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Session Chair: |
J. Wells |
2:15pm |
G. Hoenecker
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"The standard model on fractional intersecting
branes" |
2:50pm |
H. Tye |
“How our Universe Originated? And Why?" |
3:25pm |
Conference concludes |