IX IFT-UAM/CSIC CHRISTMAS WORKSHOP
Madrid, 15, 16 and 17 December 2003     




Organizing comittee


E. Álvarez
A. Casas
A. Donini
J. R. Espinosa
J. García-Bellido
M. García Pérez
B. Gavela
C. Gómez
A. González-Arroyo
M. J. Herrero
L. E. Ibáñez
K. Landsteiner
E. López
J. Moreno
C. Muñoz
T. Ortín
M. Quirós
S. Rigolin
S. Sint
A. M. Uranga

Preliminary list of speakers


M. Beneke (RWTH, Aachen)
S. Davidson (U. Durham)
C. González García (Stony Brook/IFIC)
S. Kachru (Stanford U. & SLAC)
D. B. Kaplan (U. Washington)
J. Lesgourgues (LAPTH, Annecy)
J. Prades (U. Granada)
J. Russo (Barcelona, Icrea)
M. Staudacher (AEI Potsdam)
M. Bastero-Gil (U. Sussex)
D. García Cerdeño (U. Hamburg)
A. Delgado (Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore)
R. Hernández (U. Neuchâtel)
A. Ibarra (CERN)
B. Janssen (K.U. Leuven)
E. Lozano (Weizmann Inst.)
F. Marchesano (UW-Madison)
D. Mateos (Perimeter Institute)
D. Meloni (U. Granada)
O. Mena (Fermilab)
I. Navarro (U. Durham)
S. Pastor (IFIC, Valencia)
C. Pena (DESY)
S. Peñaranda  (MPI, Munich)
R. Rabadán (IAS, Princeton)
G. Rodrigo (U. Valencia)
J. Rodríguez Quintero (U. Huelva)
A. Sabio Vera (U. Cambridge)
V. Sanz (U. Durham)
P. J. Silva (INFN, U. Milano)
D. Temes (LAPTH, Annecy)
E. Torrente Luján (Murcia)






Preliminary program. If you cannot uncompress the gzip'ed file, download the uncompressed file

Last updated: 15th Dec, 2003

Morning Sessions
Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday
10:00-10:50 M. Staudacher (AEI Potsdam)
Integrable Super Spin Chains and rotating Superstrings
S. Kachru (U. Stanford/SLAC)
String compactifications with flux and cosmology
C. González García (Stony Brook/IFIC)
Neutrino Oscillations and the Sunshine
10:50-11:10 S. Peñaranda (MPI Munich)
Large quantum effects in Higgs decays in the two Higgs doublet Model
M. Bastero-Gil (U. Sussex)
Curvature perturbation with a coupled curvaton
R. Rabadán (IAS Princeton)
AdS Tomography
11:10-11:40 Welcome Coffee Morning Coffee
11:40-12:00 C. Pena (DESY)
Lattice computation of vector meson couplings for the determination of |Vub|
R. Hernández (U. Neuchâtel)
Gravity duals on the IIA side
D. García-Cerdeño (U. Hamburg)
Effective N=1 Super Yang-Mills Theories versus Lattice Results
12:00-12:20 M. Beneke (RWTH Aachen)
Theoretical Developments in Heavy Flavour Physics
J. Russo (U. Barcelona/ICREA)
Integrable structures in the AdS/CFT correspondence
B. Janssen (K.U. Leuven)
The gauge invariance of the non-Abelian Chern-Simons action for D-branes revisited
12:20-12:50 S. Davidson (U. Durham)
Leptogenesis and a Jarlskog Invariant
Afternoon Sessions
15:00-15:50 J. Lesgourgues (LAPTH Annecy)
Constraining inflation with WMAP
J. Prades (U. Granada)
Hadronic matrix elements for Kaons
D. Kaplan (U. Washington)
Lattice Supersymmetry
15:50-16:10 J. Rodríguez Quintero (U. Huelva)
Evidences of Instanton-induced dynamics in the QCD Yang-Mills sector
D. Meloni (U. Granada)
Parameter degeneracy at future neutrino experiments
S. Pastor (U. Valencia)
Neutrino properties from cosmological observables
16:10-16:30 D. Mateos (Perimeter Inst.)
Towards a holographic dual of large-N QCD
G. Rodrigo (U. Valencia)
Collinear radiation off heavy particles
A. Sabio Vera (U. Cambridge)
High energy scattering in QCD
16:30-17:00 Afternoon Coffee
17:00-17:20 I. Navarro (U. Durham)
Einstein gravity on the brane?
P. Silva (INFN Milan)
Supertube and fundamental strings from tachyon condensation
E. Lozano (Weizmann Inst.)
Five Dimensional Supergravity Vacua, Causality and Holography
17:20-17:40 V. Sanz (U. Durham)
Supergravity breaking in Warped Compactifications
D. Temes (LAPTH Annecy)
What can we learn about Two Higgs Doublet Models from tau decays?
A. Ibarra (CERN)
Predicting neutrino parameters in see-saw scenarios
17:40-18:00 A. Delgado (Johns Hopkins U.)
Raising the Higgs mass in SUSY models




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