| Monday |
Session I (Monday August 16, 8:50 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Fred Cooper (NSF)
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| Joseph Silk | Dark Matter: Challenges for the Next Decade |
| Rachel Bean | Theoretical and experimental vistas for dark energy |
| Gregory Tarlé | Shedding Light on Dark Energy with SNAP |
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| Coffee Break (Monday August 16, 10:30 AM)
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Session II (Monday August 16, 11:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Marie Machacek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
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| Margaret Geller | Where the Dark Matter Is ...and Isn't |
| Alex Vilenkin | Cosmic superstrings |
| Boris Kors | On the Moduli Dependence of Non-perturbative Superpotentials in Brane-Inflation |
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| Lunch Break (Monday August 16, 12:30 PM)
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Session III (Monday August 16, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg)
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| Sandip Pakvasa | Neutrino Properties from High Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos |
| Steve King | Neutrino Mass Models |
| Nikolai Tolich | Recent Results and Prospects from KamLAND |
| Ion Stancu | Status of the MiniBooNE Experiment |
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| Coffee Break (Monday August 16, 4:00 PM)
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Session IV (Monday August 16, 4:30 PM, 168 Snell Engineering)
Chair: George Alverson (Northeastern)
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| José Maneira | Recent Results from SNO |
| Ernst Sichtermann | Recent Results on g-2 |
| Stefan Schlenstedt | Latest Results from the AMANDA Telescope |
| Markus Schumacher | Searches for New Physics at LEP |
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| Reception (Monday August 16, 7:00 PM, Raytheon Amphitheatre, Egan Research Center)
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| Tuesday |
Session V (Tuesday August 17, 9:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Sandip Pakvasa (University of Hawaii)
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| Tom Weiler | Neutrino Astrophysics, from PeV to ZeV (with a little meV) |
| Pierre Sikivie | Cold Dark Matter Caustics |
| Carlos Wagner | New Scenarios for Electroweak Baryogenesis |
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| Coffee Break (Tuesday August 17, 10:30 AM)
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Session VI (Tuesday August 17, 11:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Ali Chamseddine (CAMS, Beirut)
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| Lee Smolin | Progress in quantum gravity: rigorous results and the possibility of experimental tests |
| Katherine Benson | A Unified View of Matter and Gravity in Warped Extradimensional Models |
| Carlos Nunez | Aspects of Gauge Gravity duality |
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| Lunch Break (Tuesday August 17, 12:30 PM)
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Session VII (Tuesday August 17, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Roland E. Allen (Texas A&M University)
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| Alan Kostelecky | Topics in Lorentz and CPT Violation |
| James Gates | Adinkras - A Graphical Re-conceptulization of Supersymmetrical Representation Theory |
| Thomas Kephart | Knot Energies and the Glueball Spectrum |
| Emilian Dudas | Vector/tensor supersymmetric duality in five dimensions and phenomenological applications |
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| Coffee Break (Tuesday August 17, 4:00 PM)
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Parallel Session Particle/Astro A1 (Tuesday August 17, 4:30 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Marco Fabbrichesi (INFN, Trieste & SISSA)
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| Stefan Antusch | Implications of Running Neutrino Parameters for Leptogenesis and Testing Model Predictions |
| Marco Fabbrichesi | A heavy Higgs from flavor and electroweak symmetry unification |
| Michal Malinsky | Lepton masses and mixings in nonminimal renormalizable SUSY SO(10) |
| Bob McElrath | The Higgs Sector in a U(1)' Extension of the MSSM |
| Rishikesh Vaidya | Some Novel Contributions to Radiative B decay in Supersymmetry without R-parity |
| Ting Wang | Implications of B→φ KS result for flavor models |
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Parallel Session Astro/Cosmo B1 (Tuesday August 17, 4:30 PM, 168 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Luis Anchordoqui (Northeastern University)
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| Marco Cirelli | Probing Sterile Neutrinos with cosmology, astrophysics and... |
| Damien Easson | Cosmic Acceleration and Modified Gravity Models |
| Tirthabir Biswas | Can we have a stringy origin behind ΩΛ(t)∝Ωm(t)? |
| Shankaranarayanan Subramaniam | Planck Scale Effects and Suppression of Power on the Large Scales in the Primordial Spectrum |
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Parallel Session Cosmo/Formal Theory/Strings C1 (Tuesday August 17, 4:30 PM, 114 Dana Research Center)
Chair: Takayuki Hirayama (University of Toronto)
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| Takayuki Hirayama | Classical Ghosts and the Cosmological Constant |
| Wenfeng Chen | Gravity Dual of Superconformal Anomaly |
| John Swain | The Topology of Area-Preserving Diffeomorphism Groups and Large N Limits of Classical Groups |
| Wednesday — Nath Fest |
Pran Nath Fest Opening
Michael Vaughn (Fest Chair)
Jorge José (Physics Department Chair)James R. Stellar (Dean, College of Arts & Sciences) (Wednesday August 18, 9:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
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Session IX (Wednesday August 18, 9:30 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Fred Cooper (NSF)
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| Richard Arnowitt | Gravitational Forces on the Branes |
| Vernon Barger | Towards Precision Neutrino Physics |
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| Coffee Break (Wednesday August 18, 10:30 AM)
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Session X (Wednesday August 18, 11:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Fred Cooper (NSF)
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| Steven Weinberg | Goldstone Bosons Through the Ages |
| Bruno Zumino | Recent Results on Supersymmetry in Background Fields |
| Michael Dine | Does the Landscape Predict Supersymmetry |
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| Pran Nath Fest Luncheon (and Group Photo) (Wednesday August 18, 12:30 PM)
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Session XI (Wednesday August 18, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Paul Frampton (UNC Chapel Hill)
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| Mary K. Gaillard | Aspects of effective supergravity from superstrings |
| William Marciano | The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment and New Physics |
| David Cline | Overview of the Direct Search for Dark Matter Particles |
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| Coffee Break (Wednesday August 18, 4:00 PM)
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Session XII (Wednesday August 18, 4:30 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Gerald Guralnik (Brown University)
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| Ali Chamseddine | Consistent Massive Colored Gravitons |
| Paul Frampton | String Theory and Unification |
| Robert Brandenberger | Challenges for Inflationary Cosmology |
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| Banquet (Wednesday August 18, 6:30 PM, Curry Student Center, West Wing)
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| Thursday — Nath Fest |
Session XIII (Thursday August 19, 9:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Carlos Wagner (Argonne National Laboratory)
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| Xerxes Tata | Collider SUSY Searches in Light of WMAP and Other Experimental Constraints |
| Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus | Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Consequences for Particle Physics |
| Rajan Gupta | Phenomenology using Lattice QCD |
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| Coffee Break (Thursday August 19, 10:30 AM)
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Session XIV (Thursday August 19, 11:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Carl Albright (Fermilab)
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| Jogesh Pati | Tying in CP and Flavor Violations With Fermion Masses and Neutrino Oscillations |
| Howard Baer | Indirect, direct and collider searches for neutralino dark matter |
| Norisuke Sakai | Walls and vortices in supersymmetric non-abelian gauge theories |
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| Lunch Break (Thursday August 19, 12:30 PM)
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Session XV (Thursday August 19, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)
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| Sergio Ferrara | Scherk-Schwarz reduction of extended Supergravity |
| Tomasz Taylor | Gravitational Mediation of SUSY breaking in Superstring Theory |
| Boris Kors | How Stueckelberg extends the (Supersymmetric) Standard Model |
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| Coffee Break (Thursday August 19, 3:30 PM)
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Session XVI (Thursday August 19, 4:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Tomasz Taylor (Northeastern University)
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| Mirjam Cvetic | Intersecting D-branes, fluxes and particle physics |
| Hans Peter Nilles | The Heterotic Brane World |
| Haim Goldberg | Galactic and extragalactic sources of high energy neutrinos |
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| MusicMoves Boston (Thursday August 19, 6:00 PM)
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| Wine and Cheese (Thursday August 19, 7:00 PM)
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| Friday |
Session XVII (Friday August 20, 8:50 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Richard Arnowitt (Texas A&M)
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| Stefano Passaggio | Recent Results from BABAR |
| Shiro Suzuki | Recent Results from Belle |
| Alfred Bartl | Effects of CP phases on the phenomenology of SUSY particles |
| Apostolos Pilaftsis | Resonant Leptogenesis |
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| Coffee Break (Friday August 20, 10:30 AM)
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Session XVIII (Friday August 20, 11:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Alfred Bartl (Vienna)
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| Tarek Ibrahim | SUSY QCD corrections, squark fermionic decays and CP phases |
| Stephen Martin | Precision corrections to superpartner masses |
| M. Shifman | From strings to one-flavor QCD |
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| Lunch Break (Friday August 20, 12:30 PM)
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Session XIX (Friday August 20, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: M. Shifman (University of Minnesota)
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| Roman Jackiw | Pure Cotton Kink in a Funny Place |
| Eva Silverstein | DBI in the Sky, and the dS/dS Correspondence |
| Barton Zwiebach | Heterotic String Field Theory |
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| Coffee Break (Friday August 20, 3:30 PM)
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Parallel Session Particle/Astro A2 (Friday August 20, 4:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Mario Gomez (Universidad de Heulva)
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| Mario E. Gomez | Sensitivity of Supersymmetric Dark Matter to the b Quark Mass. |
| Thomas Dent | Fermion masses in a string-inspired 4-2-2 model |
| Bhaskar Dutta | Neutrino masses, mixings in a minimal SO(10) model and leptonic flavor violation |
| Leanne Duffy | Axion Dark Matter Search |
| Shaaban Khalil | Supersymmetric contributions to the CP asymmetry of the B → φ KS and B → η' KS |
| Roberto Floreanini | Neutrino oscillations in media: noise and dissipative effects |
| Max Chaves | The Standard Model results from a scheme to protect the mass of the scalar bosons |
| Anastasios Psinas | Effective Lagrangian for charged Higgs couplings in MSSM |
| Rahul Malhotra | Prospects of discovering MSSM Higgs bosons with tau leptons and a single b quark |
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Parallel Session Astro/Cosmo B2 (Friday August 20, 4:00 PM, 168 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Alexander Kaganovich (Ben Gurion University)
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| Malcolm Fairbairn | Cosmology with density dependant moduli |
| Greg Huey | Interacting Quintessence and Dark Matter |
| Kenji Kadota | Inflation on Moduli Space and Cosmic Perturbations |
| Alexander Kaganovich | New field theory effect at energy densities close to the dark energy density |
| Antonio L. Maroto | Branon dark matter |
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Parallel Session Cosmo/Formal Theory/Strings C2 (Friday August 20, 4:00 PM, 114 Dana Research Center)
Chair: E. Papantonopoulos (National Technical University of Athens)
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| Roland Allen | Predictions of Lorentz-Violating Supergravity |
| Hael Collins | Taming the alpha-vacuum |
| Filipe Freire | Creation of stable strings in the O(4) sigma model |
| Alfredo Macias | Generalized Bertotti–Robinson solution to the Einstein–Heisenberg–Euler theory |
| Eleftherios Papantonopoulos | Braneworlds with Curvature Corrections |
| Ilya Shapiro | The anomaly-induced effective action and the possibility of a natural inflation from vacuum quantum effects |
| Scott Watson | Late Time Cosmology With String Gases |
| Saturday |
Session XXI (Saturday August 21, 9:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Hans Peter Nilles (Universität Bonn)
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| K.T. Mahanthappa | Fermion Masses and Neutrino Oscillations in SO(10)×SU(2)F |
| Satya Nandi | Hidden Gauge Symmetries: A New Possibility at the LHC |
| M. Yamaguchi | Heavy Gravitino/Moduli Cosmology Revisited |
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| Coffee Break (Saturday August 21, 10:30 AM)
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Session XXII (Saturday August 21, 11:00 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Yogendra Srivastava (Northeastern University)
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| Durga Prasad Roy | Phenomenological Overview of Solar Neutrino Oscillation |
| Benjamin Harms | Searching for Evidence of String Theory in the Electromagnetic Spectra of Stars |
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| Lunch Break (Saturday August 21, 12:00 PM)
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Session XXIII (Saturday August 21, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Kyungsik Kang (Brown University)
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| Horatiu Nastase | High Energy QCD from Planckian Scattering in AdS |
| Louis Clavelli | SUSY origin of Gamma Ray Bursts |
| Rita Bernabei | DAMA results and pespectives |
| Rupak Mahapatra | Recent Results from CDMS |
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| Coffee Break (Saturday August 21, 4:00 PM)
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Parallel Session Particle/Astro A3 (Saturday August 21, 4:30 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Takeo Moroi (Tohoku University, Sendai)
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| Sergei Bashinsky | Robust Signatures of the Relic Neutrinos in CMB |
| Daniel Larson | Proton Decay and the Planck Scale |
| Takeo Moroi | Hadronic decay of the gravitino in the early universe and its implications to particle cosmology |
| Arunansu Sil | Inflation and leptogenesis in a SUSY Left-Right model: its relation with neutrino mass and b-τ unification |
| Raza Syed | Analysis of SO(2n) coupling structures |
| Takahiro Kubota | Radiative Corrections to Neutrino-Nucleon Quasielastic Scattering |
| Chamkaur Ghag | UKDMC dark matter experiment (poster) |
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Parallel Session Astro/Cosmo B3 (Saturday August 21, 4:30 PM, 168 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Masahide Yamaguchi (Aoyama Gakuin University)
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| Rudnei Ramos | On the Effective Evolution for the Inflaton |
| Constantinos Skordis | Getting around cosmic variance of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature quadrupole |
| Masahide Yamaguchi | Inflation models in supergravity with a running spectral index |
| Wan-il Park | Modular Cosmology, Thermal Inflation, Baryogenesis and Predictions for Particle Accelerators |
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Parallel Session Cosmo/Formal Theory/Strings C3 (Saturday August 21, 4:30 PM, 114 Dana Research Center)
Chair: George Siopsis (University of Tennessee)
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| George Siopsis | Perturbative calculation of quasi-normal modes |
| Deog Ki Hong | Composite Higgs from Higher Representation |
| Tomo Takahashi | Accelerating Universe and Modified Gravity |
| Hung-Ming Tsai | Resolutions of the Infrared Divergence in QFT |
| A. A. Garcia | Physically relevant solutions in three dimensional gravity |
| Dmitri Burshtyn | Probing orientifold behavior near NS branes |
| Peyman Khorsand | Construction of Non-supersymmetric Backgrounds |
| Sunday |
Session XXV (Sunday August 22, 8:30 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Emanuela Barberis (Northeastern)
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| Luis Anchordoqui | The Pierre Auger Observatory: Science Prospects and Performance at FirstLight |
| Un-ki Yang | Recent Results on Electro-weak and Top Physics at CDF |
| Pushpalatha Bhat | Recent Results on Electro-weak and Top Physics at DØ |
| Dmitri Tsybychev | Recent results on new phenomena at CDF |
| Nicholas Hadley | New Phenomena at DØ |
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| Coffee Break (Sunday August 22, 10:20 AM)
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Session XXVI (Sunday August 22, 10:50 AM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Darien Wood (Northeastern)
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| Chiara Genta | Searches for new physics at HERA |
| Roberto Chierici | Electroweak physics at LEP2 and the fit to the Standard Model |
| Stefano Lacaprara | Searching for Dark Matter at the LHC |
| Erik Ramberg | New Results from BNL E787/E949 on K+ → π+νν |
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| Lunch Break (Sunday August 22, 12:20 PM)
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| Session XXVII (Sunday August 22, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
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| Colin Froggatt | Hierarchy Problem and an Exotic Bound State |
| Ian Jack | Precision Calculation of mass spectra in MSSM |
| Mariano Quiros | Higgs-Gauge Unification Without Tadpoles |
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| Coffee Break (Sunday August 22, 4:00 PM)
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Session XXVIII (Sunday August 22, 4:30 PM, 108 Snell Engineering)
Chair: Mariano Quiros (IFAE)
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| Albion Lawrence | Soft SUSY breaking terms in 4d String Theory Models |
| Nima Arkani-Hamed | High scale supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC |
