XXV Workshop Beyond the Standard Model

17 Mar 2013, 09:00 → 21 Mar 2013, 14:10 Europe/Berlin

Physikzentrum Bad Honnef

Physikzentrum Bad Honnef

 

The workshop focuses on recent developments in the theory of fundamental particles, the physics of the early universe, and mathematical physics. There will be an one hour introductory pedagogical lecture each morning and afternoon, followed by shorter talks by the participants.

Sunday 17 March

19:00 Dinner

Monday 18 March

Chair: Stephan Stieberger

Hans Jockers (Universität Bonn): Topological strings and mirror symmetry

slides Jockers.pdf

Jan Manschot (Universität Bonn): Geometric engineering of BPS states

slides Manschot.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Stefan Hohenegger (CERN): Worldsheet Realization of the Refined Topological String, Part I

slides Hohenegger.key Hohenegger.pdf

Ahmad Zein Assi (CERN): Worldsheet realization of the Refined Topological String, Part II

slides ZeinAssi_badhonnef.pdf ZeinAssi.pps

Maximilian Poretschkin (Universität Bonn): Refined BPS invariants on del Pezzo and half K3 CalabiYau manifolds

slides Poretschkin.pdf

Daniel Plencner (Universität München): Generalized orbifolds of Landau-Ginzburg models

slides Plencner.pdf

12:20 Lunch Break

Chair: Albrecht Klemm

Stefan Theisen (AEI Potsdam): Conformal field theories, trace anomalies and the a-theorem

Michael Haack (Universität München): Extremal black branes in gauged supergravity

slides Haack.key Haack.pdf

Thomas Grimm (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik): Tensors and symmetry breaking vacua in F-theory

slides Grimm.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

Charles Strickland-Constable (Universität Hamburg): Generalised Geometry of Supergravity

slides Strickland-Constable.pdf

David Andriot (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik): Non-geometric fluxes, non-geometry, and non-commutativity

slides Andriot.pdf

Federico Bonetti (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik): Massive tensor towers and effective actions

slides Bonetti.pdf

Maike Tormählen (Universität Hannover): Instantons on special geometries

slides Tormaehlen.pdf

Andreas Deser (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik): Lie algebroids and bi-invariant gravity in string theory

slides Deser.pdf

Felix Rennecke (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik): From O(d,d) Transformations to Lie Algebroids

slides Rennecke.pdf

18:30 Dinner

Tuesday 19 March

Chair: Jan Louis

Henrik Johansson (CERN): Recent progress on gauge and gravity scattering amplitudes

slides JohanssonBadHonnef2013.pdf

Oliver Schlotterer (AEI Potsdam): Superstring tree amplitudes recycling field theory structures

slides Schlotterer.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Johannes Brödel (ETH Zürich): Polylogs, Multiple Zeta Values and Worldsheet Integrals

slides Broedel.pdf

Sven Reinke Isermann (Universität Hamburg): Powercounting in perturbative quantum gravity theories from color-kinematic duality

slides Isermann.pdf

Ioannis Florakis (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik): Novel methods for N=2 BPS saturated amplitudes in String Theory

slides Florakis.key Florakis.pdf

Norbert Dragon (Universität Hannover): Strings and the Stone-von Neumann Theorem

slides stone.pdf

12:30 Lunch Break

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday 20 March

Chair: Michael G. Schmidt

Alexander Westphal (DESY): Aspects of inflationary cosmology

slides Aspects_of_Inflation_2013_Westphal.pdf

Marco Zagermann (Universität Hannover): Cosmological Constant, Near Brane Behavior and Singularities

slides Zagermann.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Timm Wrase (Stanford University): The Wasteland of Random Supergravity

slides Wrase.pdf Wrase.pptx

Marcus Rummel (Universität Hamburg): Construction of explicit de Sitter vacua in type IIB flux compactifications

slides Rummel.pdf

Ben-Dayan (DESY): Average and dispersion of the luminosity-redhsift relation

slides Ben-Dayan.pdf Ben-Dayan.pptx

Jan van Holten (Nikhef): On single scalar field cosmology

slides vanHolten.pdf

12:20 Lunch Break

Chair: Gabriele Honecker

Tilman Plehn (Universität Heidelberg): New (and older) LHC results

Sven Krippendorf (Universität Bonn): D-branes at del Pezzo singularities: global models with moduli stabilisation and phenomenological aspects

slides Krippendorf.key.zip Krippendorf.pdf

Robert Richter (Universität Hamburg): Discrete gauge symmetries in MSSM D-brane compactifications

slides Richter.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

Wieland Staessens (Universität Mainz): Global Intersecting D-Brane Models and their Discrete Symmetries

slides Staessens.pdf

Nana Geraldine Cabo Bizet (Universität Bonn): Heterotic Mini-landscape in blow-up

slides Bizet.pdf

Maximilian Fallbacher (TU München): Predictivity of models with spontaneously broken non-Abelian discrete flavor symmetries

slides Fallbacher.pdf

Matthias Schmitz (Universität Bonn): R-charge Conservation and More in Factorizable and Non-Factorizable Orbifolds

slides Schmitz.pdf

Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann (Universität Bonn): A Zip-code for Quarks, Leptons and Higgs Bosons

slides Oehlmann.pdf

Christian Staudt (TU München): The mu Term and Neutrino Masses

slides Staudt.pdf

Karl-Philip Gemmer (Universität Hannover): Fermionic condensates in String Compactifications on G_2-manifolds

slides Gemmer.pdf

18:30 Dinner

Thursday 21 March

Chair: Hans Peter Nilles

Sakura Schäfer-Nameki (King's College London): F-theory and string phenomenology

slides Sakura.pdf

Timo Weigand (Universität Heidelberg): Hypercharge, anomalies and unification in F-theory/IIB GUT vacua with U(1)s

slides Weigand.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Roberto Valandro (ICTP, Trieste): Global models with D-branes at singularities and moduli stabilisation

slides Valandro.pdf

Hagen Triendl (CEA Saclay): Enhanced Supersymmetry from vanishing Euler number

slides Triendl.pdf

Raffaele Savelli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik): On quantum corrected Kähler potentials in F-theory

slides Savelli.pdf

Gu, Jie (Universität Bonn): A first step toward a quantum duality map between F-theory and heterotic theory

slides Gu.pdf

12:35 Lunch Break