Schedule for Summer School
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Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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August 2 | August 3 | August 4 | August 5 | August 6 |
August 9 | August 10 | August 11 | August 12 | August 13 |
Monday, August 2 | Where and What is Dark Matter? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | Nature's Greatest Puzzles | C. Quigg |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Dark Matter Candidates | T. Baltz |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | Evidence for Dark Matter | R. Gaitskell |
12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
2:00 - 2:30 | Results from CDMS | B. Cabrera |
2:30 - 3:00 | Searching for the Axion | L. Rosenberg |
3:00 - 3:30 | Weak Lensing: A Probe of Dark Matter and Dark Energy | A. Refregier |
4:00 - 6:00 | Discussion Session | |
6:00 PM | Welcome Reception |
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Tuesday, August 3 | How Massive are Neutrinos? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | Theory Basics | B. Kayser |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Experimental Neutrino Oscillations | G. Gratta |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | Neutrinos in Cosmology | T. Weiler |
12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 - 2:45 | Recent Results from Super K | D. Casper |
2:45 - 3:15 | Recent Results from K2K | M. Yokayama |
3:15 - 3:45 | Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay | S. Elliott |
4:00 - 6:00 | Tours of SLAC | |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
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Wednesday, August 4 | What are the implications of Neutrino Mass? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | Theory Basics | B. Kayser |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Experimental Neutrino Oscillations | G. Gratta |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | Neutrinos in Astrophysics | G. Fuller |
12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 - 3:00 | Results from SNO | D. Waller |
3:00 - 3:30 | Results from Amanda II | S. Barwick |
3:30 - 4:00 | Neutrino Physics at MiniBoone | S. Zeller |
4:00 - 6:00 | Discussion Session | |
6:00 PM | Poster Session |
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Thursday, August 5 | What are the Origins of Mass? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | Higgs Basics | M. Peskin |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Precision EW Measurements and the Higgs Mass | B. Marciano |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | The Origin of Mass in QCD | S. Chivukula |
12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 - 2:30 | Top and W Masses at the Tevatron | S. Miller |
2:30 - 3:00 | Higgs Searches at the Tevatron | S. Snyder |
3:30 - 12:00 AM | Lick Observatory Tour |
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Friday, August 6 | Why is there a spectrum of Fermion Masses? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | Higgs Basics | M. Peskin |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Precision EW Measurements and the Higgs Mass | B. Marciano |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | Neutrino Mass | R. Mohapatra |
12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
2:00 - 2:30 | Properties of the Top Quark | C. Clement |
2:30 - 3:15 | Higgs at LC and LHC | A. De Roeck |
3:15 - 3:45 | Final Results from E158 | Y. Kolomensky |
3:45 - 4:15 | Higgsless Models in Extra Dimensions | C. Csaki |
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Monday, August 9 | Why is Gravity So Weak? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | Solving the Hierarchy Problem | J. Lykken |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Introduction to Extra Dimensions | T. Rizzo |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | Gravity and Strings | S. Giddings |
12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
2:00 - 2:30 | Tests of Short Distance Gravity | S. Smullin |
2:30 - 3:15 | General Relativity with Double Pulsars | M. Kramer |
3:15 - 3:45 | Searches for Extra Dimensions at the Tevatron | G. Landsberg |
4:00 - 6:00 PM | Discussion Session | |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
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Tuesday, August 10 | Is Nature Supersymmetric? | |
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9:00 - 10:00AM | SUSY Basics | X. Tata |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | SUSY Basics | X. Tata |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | SUSY and Cosmology | K. Matchev |
12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 - 2:30 | Direct Accelerator Searches for SUSY | S. Wang |
2:30 - 3:00 | LHC/LC and SUSY | K. Desch |
3:00 - 3:30 | Searching for SUSY in B Decays | Y. Okada |
3:30 - 4:00 | Final (or Recent) Muon g-2 Results | P. Shagin |
4:00 - 6:00 | SLAC Tour | |
6:00 | Poster Session |
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Wednesday, August 11 | Why is the Universe made of Matter and not Anti-Matter? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | How do we know Antimatter is Absent | P. Coppi |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Lepto and Baryogenesis | M. Trodden |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | Can BSM CP Violation Generate the Baryon Asymmetry? | C. Wagner |
12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 - 3:00 | CP Violation in B Meson Decays | L. Lanceri |
3:00 - 3:45 | Search for Cosmological Antimatter | R. Streitmatter |
4:00 - 6:00 | Discussion Session | |
6:00 | Social Hour and Soccer Game |
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Thursday, August 12 | Where do Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Come? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays | T. Stanev |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Cosmic Acceleration Mechanisms | R. Blandford |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | Understanding the Atmosphere as a Calorimeter for UHE Cosmic Rays | G. Schatz |
12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 - 2:45 | Results from Auger | R. Cintra Shellard |
2:45 - 3:15 | Results from HESS | W. Hofmann |
3:15 - 3:45 | Radio Detection of UHE Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos | P. Gorham |
4:00 - 6:00 | Discussion Session | |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
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Friday, August 13 | Did the Universe Inflate at Birth? | |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM | Inflation Basics | M. Kamionkowski |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Inflation Basics | M. Kamionkowski |
11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45 - 12:45 | Inflation and String Theory | A. Linde |
12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 - 2:45 | Road Map to the Future | F. Gilman |
2:45 - 3:45 | The Last Word on Nature's Greatest Puzzles | N. Arkani-Hamed |
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