smr 1753 - Preliminary programme

[Workshop on String Vacua and the Landscape]

24  May  2006
 
        the
           Abdus Salam
   International Centre for Theoretical Physics

 

Workshop on String Vacua and the Landscape

Cosponsor(s): Max-Planck-Institut für Physik - Theorie, Munich, Germany 
& Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
  Organizer(s): Directors: B. Acharya, F. Denef, M. Douglas, S. Kachru, 
D. Luest, E. Silverstein
Trieste - Italy, 29  May  2006 - 03  June  2006

Venue: Main Building Lecture Hall

  Preliminary programme




















  DAY 1  (Room: Main Building Lecture Hall)

29  May  2006
08:45 - 10:15
  (Room: Main Building, Lobby)
--- Registration and Administrative formalities ---
10:15 - 11:15
Timo WEIGAND /  Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik und Astrophysik, Germany
Heterotic Standard-Like Vacua from Unitary Gauge Fluxes
11:15 - 11:30
--- Break ---
11:30 - 12:30
  Alessandro TOMASIELLO /  Stanford University, USA
T.B.A.
12:30 - 14:30
--- Lunch break ---
14:30 - 15:30
Brian Alexander WECHT /  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Nongeometric Flux Compactifications
15:30 - 16:00
--- Break ---
16:00 - 17:00
Discussion session

  DAY 2  (Room: Main Building Lecture Hall)

30  May  2006
09:30 - 10:30
  Bogdan FLOREA /  Stanford University, USA
T.B.A.
10:30 - 11:15
--- Break ---
11:15 - 12:15
Fernando Gabriel MARCHESANO /  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat at 
Munchen, Germany
T.B.A.
12:15 - 14:30
--- Lunch break ---
14:30 - 15:30
Christopher HULL /  Imperial College of Science and Technology, U.K.
T.B.A.
15:30 - 16:00
--- Break ---
16:00 - 17:00
Discussion session

  DAY 3  (Room: Main Building Lecture Hall)

31  May  2006
09:30 - 10:30
Liam P. MCALLISTER /  Princeton University, USA
Random Matrix Ensembles for String Inflation
10:30 - 11:15
--- Break ---
11:15 - 12:15
Lev KOFMAN /  Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Canada
Making and Checking Inflation
12:15 - 14:30
--- Lunch break ---
14:30 - 15:30
Xingang CHEN /  Columbia University, USA
Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities of General Single Field 
Inflation'
15:30 - 16:00
--- Break ---
16:00 - 17:00
Discussion session

  DAY 4  (Room: Main Building Lecture Hall)

01  June  2006
09:30 - 10:30
Alexander VILENKIN /  Tufts University, USA
Probabilities in the Landscape
10:30 - 11:15
--- Break ---
11:15 - 12:15
Benjamin W. FREIVOGEL /  University of California at Berkeley, USA
T.B.A.
12:15 - 13:45
--- Lunch break ---
13:45 - 14:45
  Bert SCHELLEKENS /  NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
T.B.A.
14:45 - 15:30
--- Break ---
15:30 - 16:30
Nima ARKANI-HAMED /  Harvard University, USA
T.B.A.
16:30 - 16:45
--- Break ---
16:45 - 17:45
Discussion session

  DAY 5  (Room: Main Building Lecture Hall)

02  June  2006
09:30 - 10:30
Stephan STIEBERGER /  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat at Munchen, Germany
Moduli Stabilisation in Type IIB Orientifolds
10:30 - 11:15
--- Break ---
11:15 - 12:15
Piyush KUMAR /  University of Michigan, USA
T.B.A.
12:15 - 14:30
--- Lunch break ---
14:30 - 15:30
Philip SCHUSTER and Natalia TORO /  Harvard University, USA
T.B.A.
15:30 - 16:00
--- Break ---
16:00 - 17:00
Discussion session

  DAY 6  (Room: Main Building Lecture Hall)   (Saturday)

03  June  2006
10:00 - 11:00
Joseph Patrick CONLON /  University of Cambridge, U.K.
 From Strong CP to the LHC - via the Landscape
11:00 - 11:30
--- BREAK ---
11:30 - 12:30
T.B.A.
T.B.A.