Name: DISCRETE 2010
Start: 2010-12-06T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2010-12-11T18:30:00+01:00
Location: CNR headquarter

DISCRETE 2010

from Monday, 6 December 2010 (08:00) to Saturday, 11 December 2010 (18:30)

Monday, 6 December 2010

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Egidio Longo (Physics Department Sapienza University) Speranza Falciano (INFN Roma)

09:15 CP violation and CKM - Achille Stocchi (LAL - Université Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)

10:00 CP violation beyond the SM - A. Weiler
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:30
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

11:15 Status and prospects for B physics and discrete symmetries at Tevatron - Kevin Pitts (University of Illinois)

12:00 Experimental prospects for B physycs and discrete symmetries at LHC and future projects - T. Gershon

12:45 Kaon Physics and discrete symmetries: status and perspectives - Marco Sozzi (University of Pisa)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:50
14:50
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

14:50 The search for neutrinoless double beta decay with Cuoricino and Cuore - Elena Guardincerri (LNGS)

15:15 LUCIFER: Neutrinoless Double Beta decay search with scintillating bolometers - Luca Pattavina (INFN-Sez. Milano-Bicocca)

15:40 TeV Scale See-Saw Mechanism and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Emiliano Molinaro (CFTP, Instituto Superior Tecnico)

16:05 Bimaximal neutrino mixing with discrete flavour symmetries - Luca Merlo (TUM)
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Aula Bisogno, 1st floor
Contributions

14:50 Theory Prediction of epsilon_K - Joachim Brod (Excellence Cluster Universe, TU München)

15:15 CP tests at NA48 - Giuseppina Anzivino (PG)

15:40 K --> pi nu nu : Standard Model Prediction and New Physics - Emmanuel Stamou (Technical University Munich)

16:05 Tests of the Fundamental Symmetries in the η Meson Decays - Andrzej Kupsc (Uppsala University)
14:50 - 16:40
Room: Sala Conferenze, 2nd floor
Contributions

14:50 A unique Z_4R symmetry for the MSSM - Patrick Vaudrevange (LMU Munich)

15:25 Flavour and the Higgs in a Warped Extra Dimension - Sandro Casagrande (Technical University Munich)

15:50 Suppression of flavor violation in an A4 warped extra dimensional model - Avihay Kadosh (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

16:15 CP violating Higgs sector of MSSM - Poulose Poulose (IIT Guwahati)
16:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:40 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

17:00 A model for neutrino masses and mixing based on the non-abelian discrete symmetry A4 - Davide Meloni (Wuerzburg University)

17:25 OPERA: A first tau-neutrino appearance candidate. - Bjoern Wonsak (University of Hamburg)

17:50 OPERA analysis procedures - Claudia Lazzaro (ETH Zurich)

18:15 T2K experiment: status and first results - Fanny Dufour (Geneva University)
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Aula Bisogno, 1st floor
Contributions

17:00 Search for New Physics with Rare Heavy Flavour Decays at LHCb - Thomas Blake Blake (Imperial College)

17:25 CP violation studies in ATLAS - Szymon Gadomski (University of Geneva)

17:50 CMS B physics results and prospects for the future - Franco Ligabue (PI)

18:15 Two-Higgs-doublet models with Minimal Flavour Violation - Maria Valentina Carlucci (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Sala Conferenze, 2nd floor
Contributions

17:00 Gauged discrete symmetries and proton stability in SUSY GUT - Aleksandr Azatov (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza")

17:25 New aspects of symmetry breaking in Grand Unified Theories - Luca Di Luzio (SISSA and INFN, Trieste)

17:50 Hybrid anomaly-gravity mediation with flavor - Christian Gross (TU Dortmund)
19:00 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
19:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

09:00 Hidden symmetries and dark matter - N. Weiner

09:45 Dark Matter searches at LHC - Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC Valencia)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:15
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

11:00 Direct search for WIMP dark matter - B. Sadoulet

11:45 Identifying dark matter - G. Bertone

12:30 High energy gamma ray astronomy - J. E. Grove
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:50
14:50
14:50 - 16:40
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

14:50 Testing foundations of quantum mechanics in the neutral K-meson system - Beatrix C. Hiesmayr (• Research Center for Quantum Information, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

15:25 Status and prospects for Lorentz and CPT violation tests at KLOE and KLOE-2 - Antonio De Santis (INFN Roma1)

15:50 Search for Lorentz Violation in a Short-Range Gravity Experiment - Joshua Long (Indiana University)

16:15 Measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen - Bertalan Juhasz (Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Vienna, Austria)
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Sala Conferenze, 2nd floor
Contributions

14:50 Dark forces and light Higgs searches at BABAR - Yury Kolomensky (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

15:15 Axial charge segregation during a first order phase transition in the presence of hypermagnetic fields - Gabriella Piccinelli (Centro tecnologico, FES Aragón, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

15:40 Neutralino direct detection searches with gravitino LSP in the degenerate scenario - Grigoris Panotopoulos (University of Valencia and IFIC)
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Aula Bisogno, 1st floor
Contributions

14:50 Measurement of BR(K --> e nu)/BR(K --> mu nu) in NA62 - Mauro Piccini (PG)

15:15 Lepton universality and LFV in Upsilon decays - Elisa Guido (GE)

15:40 Tau lepton physics at Belle - Kiyoshi Hayasaka (Nagoya Univ.)
16:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:40 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

17:00 Hint of CPT Violation in Short-Baseline Electron Neutrino Disappearance - Carlo Giunti (INFN, Torino)

17:25 Double Chooz experiment - Carmen Palomares (CIEMAT)

17:50 CPT and Flavour Neutrino puzzles disentangled by Longest Anti-neutrino Beam Baseline - Daniele Fargion (RM1)

18:15 SUSY Renormalization Group Effects in Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Joel Jones-Perez (INFN - Frascati)
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Aula Bisogno, 1st floor
Contributions

17:00 Constraining non-Abelian flavour symmetries - Reinier de Adelhart Toorop (Nikhef Amsterdam)

17:25 Gauged non-Abelian discrete family symmetries - Christoph Luhn (University of Southampton)

17:50 Nearest-Neighbour Interaction from an Abelian Symmetry and Deviations from Hermiticity - Catarina Simoes (Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas - Instituto Superior Técnico)

18:15 The flavour symmetry S_3 - Alfonso Mondragon (Institute of Physics/National Autonomous University of Mexico(UNAM))
19:00 Concert
Concert
19:00 - 20:30
Wednesday, 8 December 2010

09:30 FREE FOR EXCURSIONS
FREE FOR EXCURSIONS
09:30 - 18:00
Thursday, 9 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

09:00 Search for CP and CPT violation effects in neutrino oscillations - M. Mezzetto

09:45 Discrete symmetries and models of flavor mixing - Alexei Smirnov (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:15
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

11:00 Neutrinoless double beta decay - O. Cremonesi

11:45 Baryogenesis and Leptogenesis - Antonio Walter Riotto (CERN, INFN PD)

12:30 Planck Satellite: status and perspectives - R. Mandolesi
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:50
14:50
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Sala Conferenze, 2nd floor
Contributions

14:50 Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons - Johann Marton (Stefan Meyer Institute)

15:15 Deviating from the canonical: induced noncommutativity - Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos (ICN UNAM)

15:40 Strong Interactions, (De)coherence and Quarkonia - Bhupendra Nath Tiwari (LNF)
14:50 - 16:40
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

14:50 Status and prospects for the KLOE-2 experiment - Stefano Miscetti (LNF - INFN)

15:25 The NA62 experiment at CERN - Gianluca Lamanna (PI)

15:50 Progress of the SNS Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment - Joshua Long (Indiana University)

16:15 Future neutrino beam facilities - Pasquale Migliozzi (NA)
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Aula Bisogno, 1st floor
Contributions

14:50 Semileptonic and leptonic decays at BABAR - Joao Firmino da Costa (DESY)

15:15 Minimal Flavour Violation and Multi-Higgs Models - Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (CFTP/IST (UTL))

15:40 First ADS analysis of B^+ --> D0 K decays in hadron collisions - Paola Garosi (PI)

16:05 Studies of hadronic B decays with early LHCb data - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Glasgow)
16:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:40 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

17:00 Understanding Cosmic Rays and searching for Dark Matter with PAMELA - Roberta Sparvoli (University of Rome ”Tor Vergata”, and INFN Section of Rome ”Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy)

17:25 Cosmic Sum Rules - Isabella Masina (Ferrara University and CP3-Origins)

17:50 Search for Dark Matter in Cosmic Rays with the AMS-02 space spectrometer. - Federico Palmonari (INFN and University, Bologna)

18:15 ANTIMATTER AND DARK MATTER : GALAXY STRUCTURE , FLARES AND COSMIC RAYS - Maurice LALOUM (retired CNRS/IN2P3/LPNHE Paris)
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Aula Bisogno, 1st floor
Contributions

17:00 Direct Observation of Time Reversal Violation - Pablo Villanueva-Pérez (IFIC)

17:25 CP violation results from B decays at BABAR - Pietro Biassoni (MI)

17:50 CPV in B decays at Belle - Masaya Iwabuchi (Yensei Unv.)

18:15 Angular analysis of B -> V(-> P_1 P_2) l+ l- - Christoph Bobeth (TU München - IAS/Excellence Cluster Universe)
Friday, 10 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

09:00 Perspectives on Lorentz and CPT symmetry violation - Brett Altschul (University of South Carolina)

09:45 T and CPT symmetries in entangled meson systems - Jose Bernabeu (IFIC & University of Valencia)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:15
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

11:00 Baryon and dark matter genesis - L. Hall

11:45 Status and prospects for lepton flavor violation searches - M. Grassi

12:30 Experimental review on EDM - Y. Semertzidis
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:50
14:50
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Aula Bisogno, 1st floor
Contributions

14:50 U boson searches at KLOE-2 - Simona Giovannella (LNF)

15:15 Searches for hidden valley particles with D0 detector in ppbar collisions at Fermilab - Yuri Gershtein

15:40 Hidden valley searches in ATLAS - Monica Verducci (Unievrsity of Washington)

16:05 Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS detector at the LHC - Edmund Widl (HEPHY)
14:50 - 16:40
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

14:50 Mu2e: A New Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment at Fermilab - Franco Cervelli (PI)

15:25 ICARUS-T600 and beyond: LAr-TPC for neutrino physics and proton decay search - Christian Farnese (PD)

15:50 First Results of Searches for New Physics at sqrt(s)= 7 TeV with the CMS detector - Paolo Azzurri (INFN Pisa)

16:15 New Physics with ATLAS: experimental prospects - Giovanni Siragusa (Johannes Gutenberg Univesität - Mainz (Germania))
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Sala Conferenze, 2nd floor
Contributions

14:50 Probing New Physics in Electroweak Penguins through $B_d$ and $B_s$ decays - Leonardo Vernazza (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

15:15 Bs decays at Belle - Remi Louvot (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))

15:40 New measurement of the B0_s mixing phase and observation of suppressed Bs decays at CDF - Louise Oakes (Technische Universität München)

16:05 Prospects for CP violation in B0_s -> J/psi phi from first LHCb data - Olivier Leroy (CPPM CNRS/IN2P3 and Aix-Marseille University, France)
16:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:40 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Aula Convegni, Ground floor
Contributions

17:00 The LHCb upgrade - Skwarnicki Tomasz (Syracuse University)

17:25 Light dark forces at flavour factories - Luca Barzè (University - INFN PV)

17:50 Physics potential of the SuperB Project - Alberto Cervelli (PI)

18:15 Physics Reach and Status of SuperKEKB/Belle II - Samo Korpar (University of Maribor)
17:00 - 18:40
Room: Sala Conferenze, 2nd floor
Contributions

17:00 Studies of CP violation and mixing in D meson decays from BABAR - Giulia Casarosa (PI)

17:25 Precision measurements of direct CP violation in D0-->pipi at CDF - Fabrizio Ruffini (PI)

17:50 Results and prospects for Charm Physics at LHCb - Jonas Rademacker (University of Bristol)

18:15 Decoding new physics at 1fb^-1 LHC with flavour and CP observables - Robert Hodgkinson (Universitat de Valencia and IFIC)
20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:30
Saturday, 11 December 2010
10:00
10:00 - 10:50
Room: Aula Giovanni Paolo II
Contributions

10:00 Open problems in particle physics - R. Barbieri
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:10
Room: Aula Giovanni Paolo II
Contributions

11:20 Status and prospects for LHC - Gigi Rolandi (CERN)

12:10 Cabibbo, Radicati, the symmetries in the sixties: where did they bring us? - L. Maiani

13:00 Closing