17th IMPRS Workshop

Monday 19 Jul 2010, 08:00 → 14:00 Europe/Berlin

Max Planck Institute of Physics (Main Auditorium)

08:00 → 08:15 Welcome Coffee

08:15 → 08:20 Welcome

Speaker: Frank Daniel Steffen (MPP)

08:20 → 08:40 D-brane Instantons and Flavour Violation

Speaker: Andreas Deser (LMU)

Slides Deser_Andreas_17_2010.pdf

08:40 → 09:00 Aspects of flux compactifications in string theory

Speaker: Peter Patalong (LMU)

Slides Patalong_Peter_17_2010.pdf

09:00 → 09:20 De Sitter Vacua in N=8 Supergravity

Speaker: Gianluca Inverso (Univ. of Padova/LMU)

Slides Inverso_Gianluca_17_2010.pdf

09:20 → 09:40 Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Speaker: Migael Strydom (Univ. of Cambridge)

Slides Strydom_Migael_17_2010.pdf

09:40 → 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 → 10:20 Characterisations of Pic^0(X)

Speaker: Sophia Schäfer (Univ. of Regensburg)

Slides Schaefer_Sophia_17_2010.pdf

10:20 → 10:40 Corrected classification of higher-dimensional operators in the Standard Model

Speaker: Mateusz Iskrzynski (Univ. of Warsaw)

Slides Iskrzynski_Mateusz_17_2010.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 Effects of color octet scalars on the theoretical predictions of BR(B->X_s photon) and M_W

Speaker: Fabio Cascioli (Univ. of Roma Tre)

Slides Cascioli_Fabio_17_2010.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 11:50 Neutrinos in vacuum and matter with astrophysical applications

Speaker: Daavid Väänänen (Univ. of Jyväskylä)

Slides Vaananen_Daavid_17_2010.pdf

11:50 → 12:10 Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) Capability Simulation: Event Reconstruction of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos

Speaker: Shang-yu Sun (National Taiwan Univ.)

Slides Sun_Shang-yu_17_2010.pdf

12:10 → 12:30 Silicon detectors for high energy physics

Speaker: Michal Tesar (Czech Technical Univ. Prague)

Slides Tesar_Michal_17_2010.pdf

12:30 → 12:50 Introduction to the IMPRS on Elementary Particle Physics

Speaker: Dr Frank Daniel Steffen (MPP)

12:50 → 13:30 Lunch break