VI IFT-UAM Christmas Workshop on Particle Physics

Madrid, 18, 19 and 20 December 2000

Organizing Comitee:

  • Alberto Casas (I.F.T.-C.S.I.C.)
  • José R. Espinosa (I.F.T.-C.S.I.C)
  • Belén Gavela (I.F.T.-U.A.M.)
  • César Gómez (I.F.T.-C.S.I.C.)
  • Luis E. Ibáñez (I.F.T.-U.A.M.)
  • Tomás Ortín (I.F.T.-C.S.I.C.)
  • Mariano Quirós (I.F.T.-C.S.I.C.)

Invited speakers:

  • Costas Bachas (E.N.S., Paris)
  • Mar Bastero-Gil (U. Pisa)
  • Beatriz de Carlos (U. Sussex)
  • F. Dydak (C.E.R.N.)
  • Eduardo Eyras (U. Cambridge)
  • Pedro Ferreira (U. Oxford)
  • Matthias R. Gaberdiel (King's College, London)
  • Emidio Gabrielli (Helsinki)
  • Margarita García-Pérez (C.E.R.N.)
  • Concepción González-García (I.F.I.C., U. Valencia)
  • Rafael Hernández (I.C.T.P., Trieste)
  • Alejandro Ibarra (U. Oxford)
  • Patrick Janot (C.E.R.N.)
  • Peter John (I.F.T./C.S.I.C.)
  • María Antonia Lledó (Torino)
  • Esperanza López (C.E.R.N.)
  • Yolanda Lozano (C.E.R.N.)
  • Marcos Mariño (U. Rutgers)
  • Sergio Pastor (Munich)
  • Santiago Peris (U.A.B.)
  • Alex Pomarol (U.A.B.)
  • Riccardo Rattazzi (C.E.R.N.)
  • Stefano Rigolin (U. Michigan at Ann Arbor)
  • Ángel M. Uranga (C.E.R.N.)
  • Miguel Ángel Vázquez-Mozo (Niels Bohr Institute)
  • Óscar Vives (I.F.I.C., U. de Valencia)

Schedule
Monday 18th Tuesday 19th Wednesday 20th
10:00-11:00
F. Dydak (C.E.R.N.)

Neutrinos - yesterday, today and tomorrow

M. R. Gaberdiel (King's College)

The importance of having branes

P. Janot (C.E.R.N.)

Status of Higgs boson searches at LEP

11:00-11:30
Wellcome coffee
Morning coffee
Morning coffee
11:30-11:50
R. Hernández (I.C.T.P.)

Field Theories at the Deformed Conifold

P. John (I.F.T./C.S.I.C.)

Bubble wall velocity at the MSSM Phase Transition

M.A. Vázquez-Mozo (Niels Bohr I.)

Thermodynamics of Noncommutative 
Quantum Field Theories

11:50-12:10
E. López (C.E.R.N.)

Quasi-particules in Hot Non-commutative Theories

M. Mariño (U. Rutgers)

Exact results on tachyon condensation
in string field theory

M.C. González-García (I.F.I.C.)

Phenomenology of Neutrino Oscillations

12:10-12:30
M. García-Pérez (C.E.R.N.)

Mesons across the deconfinement phase transition

B. de Carlos (U. Sussex)

Domain Walls in Supersymmetric QCD

M.C. González-García (I.F.I.C.)

Phenomenology of Neutrino Oscillations

12:30-12:50
Y. Lozano (C.E.R.N.)

Non-commutative branes from M-theory

B. de Carlos (U. Sussex)

Domain Walls in Supersymmetric QCD

M.C. González-García (I.F.I.C.)

Phenomenology of Neutrino Oscillations

12:50-15:00
LUNCH TIME
LUNCH TIME
LUNCH TIME
15:00-16:00
R. Rattazzi (C.E.R.N.)

Extra Dimensions, Holography and Physics at the Electroweak Scale

P. Ferreira (U. Oxford)

What are we learning from the CMB?

C. Bachas (É.N.S., Paris)

D branes in curved spacetimes

16:00-16:30
Afternoon coffee
Afternoon coffee
Afternoon coffee
16:30-16:50
S. Peris (U.A.B.)

Matching Quarks to Mesons at Large Nc

A. Pomarol (U.A.B.)

Gauge theories in a Randall-Sundrum compactification

M. Bastero-Gil (U. Pisa)

Transplanckian Physics and Dark Energy

16:50-17:10
S. Peris (U.A.B.)

>Matching Quarks to Mesons at Large Nc

A. Pomarol (U.A.B.)

Gauge theories in a Randall-Sundrum compactification

A. Ibarra (U. Oxford)

mu --> e gamma and the see-saw mechanism

17:10-17:30
Á.M. Uranga (C.E.R.N.)

D-brane probes, RR charge cancellation 
and K theory charge

E. Eyras (U. Cambridge)

The Heterotic Dyonic Instanton

S. Rigolin (U. Michigan at Ann Arbor)

CP violation in B-Bbar oscillation

17:30-17:50
S. Pastor (Munich)

Thermalization after Inflation

M.A. Lledó (Torino)

Spinor Algebras  and Supersymmetry

Ó. Vives (I.F.I.C., U. de Valencia)

More on Soft SUSY Breaking
 CP Violation

17:50-18:10

E. Gabrielli (Helsinki)

The "b--> s gamma" decay in SUSY models with non-universal A-terms

Chairpeople
Morning Session Afternoon Session
Monday 18th L.E. Ibáñez A. Casas
Tuesday 19th C. Gómez J.R. Espinosa
Wednesday 20th T. Ortín B. Gavela

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