Fifth International BEYOND 2010 Conference on
Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics
Cape Town, South Africa
1 - 6, February 2010
Welcome to the Centre for
Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics,
Physics Department, University of Cape Town
Final Program (Status 27.01.2010)
Sunday, January 31
5:30p.m.-8:00p.m. | Registration | |
Monday, February 1
07:30 | Registration desk opens |
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:
09:55-10:25 Tea/coffee
Physics at Future Colliders I (LHC, Muon-Facility):
10:25-10:50 | "Search for Fourth Generation Quarks With the CMS Detector at the LHC going" | Costantini, Silvia (University of Gent and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) |
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):
SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology I, Fundamental Symmetries:
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:
Dark Matter I, Neutrinos I:
17:00-17:25 | "Neutral Leptons in Cosmology" | Shaposhnikov, Mikhail (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) |
18:00 Welcome Cocktail Party
Tuesday, February 2
New Interactions. Inflationary and Quantum Cosmology - I:
10:15-10:45 Tea/coffee
Neutrinos and Double Beta Decay I:
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Neutrinos II:
16:10-16:40 Tea/coffee
Physics at Future Colliders III (LHC):
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:
Lepton-Flavour Violation (MEG) and Search For Exotics:
31.01, Sunday/
Wednesday, February 3
Excursion Through the Cape Peninsula
Thursday, February 4
Cosmological Parameters, Dark Matter and Dark Energy I:
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:
Hubble Space Telescope, High Energy Gamma Ray From Supernova Remnants:
Archeology and Physics I:
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:
15:50-16:20 Tea/coffee
High-Energy Cosmic Rays:
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:
Superstrings, Extra Dimensions, Axions:
Status and Explanations of the PAMELA/ATIC Anomaly:
31.01,
Sunday/
Friday, February 5
Cosmological Parameters, Dark Matter and Dark Energy II:
10:20-10:50 Tea/coffee
Superheavy Elements and Archeology II:
12:20-14:00 Lunch
Dark Matter and Dark Energy III, Neutrinos III:
General Relativity I:
15:55-16:25 Tea/coffee
General Relativity II:
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/
Saturday, February 6
SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology III:
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:
10:30-11:00 Tea/coffee