PACIFIC 2011 Agenda
Thursday September 8
- 10:30 - 11:00 Neil Davies (Director, Gump Station): Welcome remarks
- 11:00 - 11:40 Andrei Linde (Stanford): Inflation 30 (15 MB)
- 11:45 - 12:25 Renata Kallosh (Stanford): Supersymmetry, string theory and cosmology (10 MB)
- 12:30 - 13:50 Francis Murphy (Associate Director, Gump Station): Orientation and lunch
- 14:00 - 14:40 Pierre Mery (Haut Commissariat de la République): Research an Innovation in French Polynesia
- 14:45 - 15:25 Ian Shoemaker (LANL): A dark force for baryons (11 MB)
- 15:30 - 15:50 coffee break
- 16:00 - 16:40 Enrique Alvarez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain): Finite "time" vacuum survival amplitude and vacuum energy decay (8.5 MB)
- 16:45 - 17:25 Juan Jose Gomez Cadenas (CSCI/U.Valencia): Ettore Majorana meets his shadow
- 17:30 - 18:00 Cosmology discussion (led by Andrei Linde)
- 18:00 - 19:00 Cocktail hour
- 19:00 - Dinner
Friday September 9
- 8:00 - 11:00 Excursion
- 11:00 - 11:40 Bernard Sadoulet (UC Berkeley): Dark matter search: review of experimental results
- 11:45 - 12:20 Ina Sarcevic (Arizona Univ.): Probing dark matter with neutrinos (6.15 MB)
- 12:30 - 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 - 14:40 Kalliopi Petraki (Univ. of Melbourne): Pangenesis in a Baryon- symmetric universe: dark and visible matter via the Affleck-Dine mechanism (.08 MB)
- 14:45 - 15:25 Maxim Perelstein (Cornell Univ.): Dark matter searches and fine-tuning in supersymmetry (5.25 MB)
- 15:30 - 16:00 coffee break
- 16:00 - 16:40 Alexander Kusenko (UCLA): Dark matter, neutrino masses, and sterile neutrinos (5 MB)
- 16:45 - 17:25 Pilar Hernandez (Univ. of Valencia, Spain): Minimal models with light sterile neutrinos (4.7 MB)
- 17:30 - 18:00 Discussion of dark matter
Saturday September 10
- 11:00 - 11:40 Jim Matthews (Louisiana State Univ.): Pierre Auger results
- 11:45 - 12:25 Shigehiro Nagataki (Kyoto Univ.): Numerical Study of Propagation of UHECRs (13.5 MB)
- 12:30 - 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 - 15:00 Bernard Sadoulet, public lecture (3.8 MB)
- 15:00 - 16:00 Public lecture on traditional astronomy
- 16:00 - 17:00 reception, informal discussions
- 17:30 - Tahitian feast
Sunday September 11
- 11:00 - 11:40 Toby Burnett (Univ. of Washington): Results from the Fermi Gamma-ray telescope (14.7 MB)
- 11:40 - 12:20 Paolo Gondolo (Univ. of Utah): Dark stars, or how dark matter can make a star shine (3 MB)
- 12:30 - 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 - 14:40 Warren Essey (UCLA): Secondary photons and neutrinos from distant blazars and the IGMFs (2.2 MB)
- 14:45 - 15:25 Dmitry Chirkin (Univ. of Wisconsin): The IceCube observatory (14.75 MB)
- 15:30 - 16:00 coffee break
- 16:00 - 16:40 Alexander Friedland (LANL): Neutrino flavor oscillations in supernovae
- 16:45 - 17:25 Juan Carlos D'Olivo (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México): Transition radiation by active neutrinos (.37 MB)
- 17:30 - 18:00 Discussion: Multimessenger signals in cosmic backgrounds (led by Alexander Kusenko)
Monday September 12
- 8:00 - 11:00 Excursion
- 11:00 - 11:40 Tony Gherghetta (Univ. of Melbourne): Accidental SUSY at the LHC (1.6 MB)
- 11:45 - 12:25 Belen Gavela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain): The scalar potential of minimal flavour violation (1.8 MB)
- 12:30 - 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 - 14:40 Erich Poppitz (Univ. of Toronto): Deformations, topological molecules, and (de)confinement (2.7 MB)
- 14:45 - 15:25 Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt Univ.): Non-standard dimensions and the LHC (.5 MB)
- 15:30 - 16:00 coffee break
- 16:00 - 16:40 Raymond Volkas (Univ. of Melbourne): Classical scale invariance and physics beyond the standard model (1.6 MB)
- 16:45 - 17:25 Juan Jose Gomez Cadenas (CERN): Ettore Majorana meets his shadow
- 17:30 - 18:10 Benedict von Harling (U. of Melbourne): A warped model of dark matter (.65 MB)
- 18:15-18:30 Discussion: New physics beyond the Standard Model
Tuesday September 13
- 11:00 - 11:40 Guey-Lin Lin (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan): Probing flavor ratios and flavor transitions of astrophysical neutrinos by neutrino telescopes (.65 MB)
- 11:45 - 12:25 Floyd Stecker (GSFC/NASA): High energy astrophysics tests of Lorentz invariance (11.75 MB)
- 12:30 - 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 - 14:15 Alexander Kusenko (UCLA): Closing remarks
