Confronting Challenges in Theoretical Physics
A Symposium in Honor of Tom Banks and Willy Fischler
on the Occasion of their 60th Birthdays
June 15 - 16, 2009
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Program Symposium Location: Earth and Marine Sciences, B206 Lecture Hall |
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| Monday, June 15th | ||||||||||||
| Morning Session Chair: Mark Wise | ||||||||||||
| 09:00-09:20 | Introductory Remarks: Chancellor Blumental | |||||||||||
| 09:20-10:15 | Abe Seiden, Physics Expectations from the Experimental Program | |||||||||||
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee Break | |||||||||||
| 10:30-11:30 | Michael Peskin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking and its Opposites | |||||||||||
| 11:30-12:30 | Leonard Susskind, Census Taking | |||||||||||
| 12:30-01:45 | Lunch | |||||||||||
| Afternoon Session Chair: Hong Liu | ||||||||||||
| 01:45-02:45 | Eva Silverstein, F is for four: Toward 4d quantum gravity in string theory | |||||||||||
| 02:45-03:45 | Steven Weinberg, Prospects for Asymptotic Safety | |||||||||||
| 03:45-04:00 | Coffee | |||||||||||
| Afternoon Session Chair: Mark Srednicki | ||||||||||||
| 04:00-05:00 | Nima Arkani-Hamed, Holography and the S-Matrix | |||||||||||
| 05:00-06:00 | David Kaplan, Conformality Lost | |||||||||||
07:00 |
Banquet: Dream Inn Santa Cruz | |||||||||||
| Tuesday, June 16th | ||||||||||||
| Morning Session Chair: Michael Graesser | ||||||||||||
09:00-10:00 |
Sasha Zamolodchikov, Confining interactions in 1+1, and 't Hooft's model of mesons | |||||||||||
| 10:00-10:20 | Coffee | |||||||||||
| 10:20-11:20 | Michael Dine, Dynamics of the Peccei-Quinn Scale | |||||||||||
| Morning Session Chair: Howard Haber | ||||||||||||
| 11:20-12:20 | Nathan Seiberg, Comments about SUSY Breaking | |||||||||||
| 12:20-01:45 | Lunch | |||||||||||
| 01:45-02:45 | Eliezer Rabinovici, World sheet for world sheets revisited | |||||||||||
| Afternoon Session Chair: John Schwarz | ||||||||||||
| 02:45-03:45 | Gary Horowitz, A New Holographic View of Singularities | |||||||||||
| 03:45-04:00 | Coffee | |||||||||||
| 04:00-05:00 | Juan Maldacena, Scattering amplitudes in conformal field theories | |||||||||||