Fifth International BEYOND 2010 Conference on
Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics

Cape Town, South Africa

1 - 6, February 2010

31.01, Sunday/ 1.02, Monday/ 2.02, Tuesday/ 3.02, Wednesday/ 4.02, Thursday/ 5.02, Friday/ 06.02, Saturday/      
Sunday, January 31    
     
5:30p.m.-8:00p.m. Registration  
     
31.01, Sunday/ 1.02, Monday/ 2.02, Tuesday/ 3.02, Wednesday/ 4.02, Thursday/ 5.02, Friday/ 6.02, Saturday/  
Monday, February 1    
     
07:30 Registration desk opens  
08:30-08:40 Welcome

Chairman of BEYOND Conferences - H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Heidelberg, Germany

Co-Chairman of BEYOND 2010 Conference - R.D. Viollier, Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Physics Department, University of Cape Town, SA

Leptogenesis:

Chair: Yasuda, Osamu (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan)  
08:40-09:10 "Recent Issues in Leptogenesis" Losada, Marta A. (Universidad Antonio Narino, Bogot'a, Colombia, South America)
09:10-09:35 "Electromagnetic Leptogenesis" Law, Sandy S.C. (Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan)
09:35-09:55 "Quasiparticles in Leptogenesis" Kiessig, Clemens P. (MPI fuer Physik, Muenchen, Germany)

09:55-10:25 Tea/coffee  

Physics at Future Colliders I (LHC, Muon-Facility):

Chair: Roy, Probir (Saha Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India)   Costantini, Silvia (University of Gent and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
10:25-10:50 "Search for Fourth Generation Quarks With the CMS Detector at the LHC going"
10:50-11:15 "Long-Lived Superparticles at the LHC" Gladyshev Alexey V. (JINR, Russia)
11:15-11:45 "Conformality and TeV-Scale Physics" Appelquist, Thomas (Yale Univ., New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
11:45-12:10 "Heavy Ions at the LHC: Selected Theoretical Predictions" Wolschin, Georg (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
12:10-12:35 "Exploring Physics Beyond the Standard Model with a mu Acceleration Facility" Bross, Alan David (Fermilab, Batavia, USA)

12:35-14:00 Lunch  

Physics at Future Colliders II (LHC, Petavac, ILC):

  Chair: Norma Susana Mankoc Borstnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)  
14:00-14:25 "Petavac: 100 TeV Collisions in the SSC Tunnel" McIntyre, Peter,
(Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA)
14:25-14:50 "Measurement of Little Higgs Parameters at ILC" Yosuke Takubo (Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan)
14:50-15:15 "ATLAS Discovery Prospects for Few 100pb-1" Claude Guyot (Saclay, France)
     

SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology I, Fundamental Symmetries:

Chair: Stanco, Luca (INFN, Padova, Italy)  
15:15-15:40 "Origin of the Lorentzian Metric, Standard Supersymmetry, and an Effective Higgs field" Allen, Roland (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA)

15:40-16:10 Tea/coffee        

SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology II:

Chair: Stanco, Luca (INFN, Padova, Italy)  
16:10-16:35 " Can One Tell SUSY From a Window in the Sky?" Kazakov, Dmitri (BLTP, JINR, Moscow, Russia)
16:35-17:00 "Supersymmetric Lepton Flavor Violation: Radiative Decays and Collider Searches" Rueckl, Reinhold (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)

Dark Matter I, Neutrinos I:

Chair: Kim, Jihn E. (Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)  
17:00-17:25 "Neutral Leptons in Cosmology" Shaposhnikov, Mikhail (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

18:00 Welcome Cocktail Party

        31.01, Sunday/ 01.02, Monday/ 02.02, Tuesday/ 03.02, Wednesday/ 04.02, Thursday/ 05.02, Friday/ 06.02, Saturday/  
Tuesday, February 2    

New Interactions. Inflationary and Quantum Cosmology - I:

Chair: Losada, Marta A. (Universidad Antonio Narino, Bogot'a, Colombia, South America)  
08:30-09:00 "Anomaly Driven Signatures of Extra U(1)'s " Antoniadis, Ignatios (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
09:00-09:25 "An Adjustable Cosmological Constant" Kim, Jihn E. (Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)
09:25-09:50 "Cosmic Inflation Meets Particle Physics" Antusch, Stefan (MPI fuer Physik, Muenchen, Germany)
09:50-10:15 " Planck Scale Cosmology in Resummed Quantum Gravity " Ward, Bennie F.L. (Baylor Univ., Waco, Texas, USA)

10:15-10:45 Tea/coffee  

Neutrinos and Double Beta Decay I:

Chair: Bernabei, Rita (Universita di Roma and INFN, Roma, Italy)  
10:45-11:15 "The Role of Nuclear Double Beta Decay for Beyond Standard Model Particle Physics" Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Hans V. (Heidelberg, Germany)
11:15-11:40 "LUCIFER: an Experimental Breakthrough in the Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay" Andrea Giuliani (University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
11:40-12:05 "Status of the KATRIN Experiment" Osipowicz, Alexander (for KATRIN collaboration) (Univ.of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany)
12:05-12:30 "Neutrinoless Double EC and Rare Beta Decays as Tools to Search for the Neutrino Mass" Suhonen, Jouni (Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

12:30-14:00 Lunch  

Neutrinos II:

Chair: Shaposhnikov, Mikhail (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)  
14:00-14:30 "The Discovery Channel at a Neutrino Factory" Yasuda, Osamu (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan)
14:30-14:50 "Searching for the Mixing Angle Theta13 With Reactor Reutrinos" Novella, Pau (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)
14:50-15:10 "Status of the Double Chooz Experiment" Kawasaki, Takeo (Niigata Univ., Niigata, Japan)
15:10-15:40 "Neutrino Oscillations Results from Present Experiments in LBL" Stanco, Luca (INFN, Padova, Italy)
15:40-16:10 "The T2K Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Current Status and Near Term Prospects " Bravar, Alessandro (Univ. of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)

16:10-16:40 Tea/coffee  

Physics at Future Colliders III (LHC):

Chair: McIntyre, Peter, (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA)  
16:40-17:05 "Prospects for B Physics and CP violation at LHC" Nardulli, Jacopo for LHCb group (STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

Phenomenology of Superstrings and Planck Scale Physics I. Inflationary and Quantum Cosmology - II:

Chair: McIntyre, Peter, (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA)  
17:05-17:30 "Study of the Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology" Cooray, Asantha (Univ. of California, Irving, USA)
17:30-17:55 "A Minimal Supersymmetric Cosmological Model" Stewart, Ewan (KAIST, Taejon, South Korea)
17:55-18:20 "Daemon Decay and Cosmic Inflation" Prodanov, Emil M. (Dublin Inst. of Technology, Ireland)

Lepton-Flavour Violation (MEG) and Search For Exotics:

Chair: Kazakov, Dmitri (BLTP, JINR, Moscow, Russia)  
18:20-18:45 "Search for Lepton-Flavour Violation in the mu --> e gamma Decay: First Results from the MEG " Signorelli, Giovanni (INFN, Pisa, Italy)
18:45-19:10 "Searches for Magnetic Monopoles, Nuclearites and Q-balls " Patrizzii, Laura (INFN-Bologna, Italy)

31.01, Sunday/ 01.02, Monday/ 02.02, Tuesday/ 03.02, Wednesday/ 04.02, Thursday/ 05.02, Friday/ 06.02, Saturday/


Wednesday, February 3    

Excursion Through the Cape Peninsula

31.01, Sunday/ 01.02, Monday/ 02.02, Tuesday/ 03.02, Wednesday/ 04.02, Thursday/ 05.02, Friday/ 06.02, Saturday/
Thursday, February 4    

Cosmological Parameters, Dark Matter and Dark Energy I:

Chair: Antoniadis, Ignatios (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)  
08:30-08:55 "The QCD Nature of Dark Energy" Urban, Federico (Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
08:55-09:20 "Nonextensivity in a Dark Maximum Entropy Landscape" Leubner, Manfred (Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria)
09:20-09:40 "Results From the Final Exposure of CDMS-II" Zeeshan Ahmed (California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, USA)
09:40-10:10 "Signals From the Dark Universe" Bernabei, Rita (Universita di Roma and INFN, Roma, Italy)

10:10-10:40 Tea/coffee  

High-Energy Gamma Rays, Cosmic Ray Electrons and Positrons:

Chair: Ohlsson, Tommy (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)  
10:40-11:10 "Very High Energy Source Populations" Aharonian, Felix A. (MPI fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
11:10-11:35 "AMS Experiment: Superconducting Spectrometer for Astrophysics on the International Space Station" McIntyre, Peter (Texas A & M University, College Station, USA)

Hubble Space Telescope, High Energy Gamma Ray From Supernova Remnants:

Chair: Aharonian, Felix A. (MPI fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
11:35-12:00 " Early Scientific Results from the Rejuvenated Hubble Space Telescope" Niedner, Malcolm Bowen (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
12:00-12:20 " Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Observations of Supernova Remnants Interacting With Molecular Clouds : A New Way to Reveal Cosmic-Ray Accelerators" Feinstein Fabrice (Labo. de Physique Th'eorique et Astroparticules, France)

Archeology and Physics I:

Chair: H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (Heidelberg, Germany)
12:20-12:50 "A Physicist's View -the Disk of NEBRA " Schlosser, Wolfhard (University of Bochum, Germany)

12:50-14:00 Lunch  

Neutrinos and Double Beta Decay II, Neutron Beta Decay:

Chair: Suhonen, Jouni (Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
14:00-14:25 "Detecting of Relic Neutrinos and Measuring Fundamental Properties of Neutrinos With Atomic Nuclei " Simkovic, Fedor (BLTP, JINR, Dubna, Moscow, Russia)
14:25-14:45 "CUORICINO Latest Results and the Way to CUORE" Silvia Capelli (INFN, Milano, Italy)
14:45-15:10 "The Magic of Four Zero Neutrino Yukawa Textures" Roy, Probir (Saha Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India)
15:10-15:30 "The Crucial Role of Neutron Beta-Decay Experiments in Establishing the Fundamental Symmetries of the (V-A) Description of Weak Interactions" Byrne, James (University of Sussex, Sussex, UK)
15:30-15:50 "Status of India-Based Neutrino Observatory (INO) " Mondal, Naba (Tata Inst.of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)

15:50-16:20 Tea/coffee  

High-Energy Cosmic Rays:

Chair: Costantini, Silvia (University of Gent and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)  
16:20-16:40 " The Pierre Auger Observatory: Recent Results and Future Plans" Kelley, John (Radboud Univ., Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Search For Neutrinos from SN87A, Neutron Decay:

Chair: Costantini, Silvia (University of Gent and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
16:40-17:00 "SN 1987A - Registration of the Neutrino Signal With BAKSAN, KAMIOKANDE-II, IMB Detectors" Krivosheina, Irina V. (NIRFI, Nishnij Novgorod, Russia)
17:00-17:20 " aSPECT: Measurements of Correlation Coefficients in Neutron Decay " Konrad, Gertrud (Johannes Gutenberg-Univ., Mainz, Germany)

Superstrings, Extra Dimensions, Axions:

Chair: Appelquist, Thomas (Yale Univ., New Haven, Connecticut, USA)  
17:20-17:45 "Flavor Physics in Warped Extra Dimensions" Neubert, Matthias (Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)
17:45-18:05 "Cosmological Constraints on Axion-Photon Mixing (NO TALK)" Basset, Bruce A. (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
18:05-18:30 "A Framework for Domain-Wall Brane Model Building" Volkas, Raymond R. (Univ. of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Status and Explanations of the PAMELA/ATIC Anomaly:

Chair: Niedner, Malcolm Bowen (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)  
18:30-18:50 "Minimal SUSY Dark Matter for PAMELA/Fermi-LAT Anomaly" Huh, Ji-Haeng (Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea)
18:50-19:10 "Testing the Dark Matter Interpretation of the PAMELA Positron Excess With the FERMI Telescope " Regis, Marco (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

31.01, Sunday/ 01.02, Monday/ 02.02, Tuesday/ 03.02, Wednesday/ 04.02, Thursday/ 05.02, Friday/ 06.02, Saturday/


Friday, February 5    

Cosmological Parameters, Dark Matter and Dark Energy II:

    Chair: Allen, Roland (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA)  
08:30-09:00 "Search for Dark Matter With Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes" Moulin, Emmanuel (CEA Saclay DSM/IRFU, France)
09:00-09:30 "Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter and the Mysterious Early Quasars " Viollier, Raoul D (Univ. of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa)
09:30-09:55 "Neutrinos From Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun" Ohlsson, Tommy (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)
09:55-10:20 "Cosmological k-Essence Condensation" Bilic, Neven (Rudjer Boskovic Inst., Zagreb, Croatia)

      10:20-10:50 Tea/coffee  

Superheavy Elements and Archeology II:

    Chair: Schlosser, Wolfhard (University of Bochum, Germany)
 
10:50-11:20 "Synthesis and Study of Superheavy Elements" Popeko, Andrej G. (JINR, Dubna, Russia)
11:20-11:50 "Studies of Superheavy Elements at GSI - Status and Perspectives for the Next Decade" Hessberger, Fritz Peter (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
11:50-12:20 "Exotic Archaeology: From Superheavy Elements to DNA Dating" Kutschera, Walter (Universitaet Wien, Austria)

12:20-14:00 Lunch  

Dark Matter and Dark Energy III, Neutrinos III:

    Chair: Viollier, Raoul D (Univ. of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa)  
14:00-14:30 "The Approach of "Unifying Spin and Charges as Explanation of the Origin of Dark Matter"" Norma Susana Mankoc Borstnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
14:30-14:55 "Low Energy Neutrino and Dark Matter Physics with Sub-keV Germanium Detector" Shin-Ted Lin (Inst. of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) for Texono collaboration

General Relativity I:

Chair: Kutschera, Walter (Universitaet Wien, Austria)
14:55-15:25 "Gravitational Waves " Aufmuth, Peter(MPI fuer Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany)
15:25-15:55 "Experimental Tests of Gravitation at Small and Large Scale?" Peter Wolf (LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, Parsis, France)

      15:55-16:25 Tea/coffee  

General Relativity II:

Chair: Aufmuth, Peter (MPI fuer Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany)
16:25-16:45 " Beautiful MOND?" Gary Tupper (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
16:45-17:05 "Spherical Accretion of Self-Gravitating Dark Matter Onto a Black Hole With Back-Reaction"? Richter, Max (Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa)
17:05-17:25 " Cosmic Deceleration Parameter q(Z) Dependence Upon Gravitons?" Beckwith, Andrew W. (American Inst. of Beam Energy Propulsion, Madison, USA)

18:15 - Depart by coach from the Breakwater Lodge

Conference banquet Party

DINNER AT CATHARINA'S ON STEENBERG ESTATE, CONSTANTIA

23:30 - Arrive at Breakwater Lodge


31.01, Sunday/ 01.02, Monday/ 02.02, Tuesday/ 03.02, Wednesday/ 04.02, Thursday/ 05.02, Friday/ 06.02, Saturday/


Saturday, February 6    

SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology III:

Chair: Moulin, Emmanuel (CEA Saclay DSM/IRFU, France)  
08:30-08:50 "SUSY Now or Never" Manfred Lindner (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)
08:50-09:10 "Search for Dark Matter Candidates in ATLAS" Rachid Mazini (ATLAS Collaboration)(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

Neutrinos IV, Dark Energy III:

    Chair: Moulin, Emmanuel (CEA Saclay DSM/IRFU, France)  
09:10-09:40 "Interacting Majorana Fermions and Cosmic Acceleration" Stephenson, Gerard J. Jr (Los Alamos, USA)
09:40-10:05 "Looking for High Energy Neutrinos from Space: the Antares Experiment" Flaminio, Vincenzo (Cern, Geneva, Switzerland)
10:05-10:30 "The IceCube Neutrino Observatory " Desiati, Paolo (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)

      10:30-11:00 Tea/coffee  

Neutrinos V, Dark Energy IV:

    Chair: Popeko, Andrej G. (JINR, Dubna, Russia)
11:00-11:25 "Latest Results from the Borexino Experiment" D'Angelo, Davide (INFN, Milano, Italy) for the Borexino Collab.
11:25-11:50 "On the Determination of Dark Energy" Clarkson Chris (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

12:00 GOOD-BYE LUNCH


End of BEYOND 2010 Conference
BEYOND 2010 - Cape Town, South Africa