17th IMPRS Workshop

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

Max Planck Institute of Physics (Main Auditorium)

08:00 Welcome Coffee

1 Welcome

Speaker: Frank Daniel Steffen (MPP)

2 D-brane Instantons and Flavour Violation

Speaker: Andreas Deser (LMU)

Slides Deser_Andreas_17_2010.pdf

3 Aspects of flux compactifications in string theory

Speaker: Peter Patalong (LMU)

Slides Patalong_Peter_17_2010.pdf

4 De Sitter Vacua in N=8 Supergravity

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

Slides Inverso_Gianluca_17_2010.pdf

5 Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Speaker: Migael Strydom (Univ. of Cambridge)

Slides Strydom_Migael_17_2010.pdf

09:40 Coffee break

6 Characterisations of Pic^0(X)

Speaker: Sophia Schäfer (Univ. of Regensburg)

Slides Schaefer_Sophia_17_2010.pdf

7 Corrected classification of higher-dimensional operators in the Standard Model

Speaker: Mateusz Iskrzynski (Univ. of Warsaw)

Slides Iskrzynski_Mateusz_17_2010.pdf

8 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 Coffee Break

9 Neutrinos in vacuum and matter with astrophysical applications

Speaker: Daavid Väänänen (Univ. of Jyväskylä)

Slides Vaananen_Daavid_17_2010.pdf

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

11 Silicon detectors for high energy physics

Speaker: Michal Tesar (Czech Technical Univ. Prague)

Slides Tesar_Michal_17_2010.pdf

12 Introduction to the IMPRS on Elementary Particle Physics

Speaker: Dr Frank Daniel Steffen (MPP)

12:50 Lunch break