Bethe Forum 2015

15 Jun 2015, 12:00 → 19 Jun 2015, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

2.019 Seminarraum 1 bctp (Bonn)

Bethe Forum
String Cosmology
15th - 19th June 2015
Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics Bonn, Germany

Organising committee

• Rolf Kappl
• Sven Krippendorf
• Hans Peter Nilles
• Martin W. Winkler

Monday 15 June

13:00 → 14:00 Registration

14:00 → 15:00 Hunting explicit de Sitter vacua in the landscape

Speaker: Mr Markus Rummel (University of Oxford)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday 16 June

10:00 → 11:30 F-term Axion Monodromy

Speaker: Prof. Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 Special points of inflation in flux compactification

Speaker: Dr Thomas Grimm (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

Wednesday 17 June

10:00 → 11:30 Weak Gravity Conjecture

Speaker: Prof. Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 High Scale Moduli Stabilization and Axion Inflation

Speaker: Ralph Blumenhagen (Max-Planck-Insititut fuer Physik)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

Thursday 18 June

10:00 → 11:30 Moduli stabilization and SUSY breaking

Speaker: Dr Emilian Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:15 Bethe Colloqium: Sphaleron and Baryon Number Violating Processes

Speaker: Prof. Henry S.-H. Tye (Cornell)

Friday 19 June

10:00 → 11:30 Aligned Axion Inflation

Speaker: Prof. Kiwoon Choi

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 14:00 Vacuum energy sequestering and spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry

Speaker: Dr Ido Ben-Dayan Ben-Dayan (DESY)