UC SANTA CRUZ The Search for Fundamental Physics:
Higgs Bosons & Supersymmetry

January 4-6, 2013
SCIPP  

  Program

Symposium Location:
Earth & Marine Sciences, Room B206
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

United States

Friday, January 4
 9:00 –  9:10 Organizers Welcome
 9:10 –  9:30 Chancellor’s Introductory Remarks
Morning Session Chair: Eva Silverstein
 9:30 – 10:30 Nathan Seiberg, Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in 3d
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
Morning Session Chair: Lisa Randall
10:45 – 11:45 Ian Hinchliffe, News from ATLAS at LHC
11:45 – 12:45 Willy Fischler, Horizon and Particle degrees of freedom
12:45 –  1:45 Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Jonathan Feng
 1:45 –  2:45 Yuval Grossman, Remarks on the Higgs and Supersymmetry
 2:45 –  3:45 Ann Nelson, Little Flavor
 3:45 –  4:00 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Session Chair: Michael Peskin
 4:00 –  5:00 John Ellis, What is it? What else? What next?
 
Saturday, January 5
Morning Session Chair: Carlos Wagner
 9:00 – 10:00 John Conway, The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
Morning Session Chair: JoAnne Hewett
10:15 – 11:15 Yuri Shirman, Flavored gauge mediation and Higgs at 125 GeV
11:15 – 12:15 Joshua Frieman, Probing Cosmic Acceleration with the Dark Energy Survey
12:15 –  1:15 Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Heather Logan
 1:15 –  2:15 Ben Allanach, Hide and Seek With SUSY
 2:15 –  3:15 Marcela Carena, Howie and The Higgs
 3:15 –  3:30 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Session Chair: Joseph Polchinski
 3:30 –  4:30 David Gross, (no slides)
 4:30 –  5:30 Nima Arkani-Hamed, SUSY and the Higgs in 2020
  7:00 – 10:00 Banquet
 
Sunday, January 6
Morning Session Chair: Chiara Nappi
 9:00 – 10:00 Yossi Nir, The Flavor of Higgs
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
Morning Session Chair: Michael Barnett
10:15 – 11:15 Jack Gunion, Determining the nature of the 126 GeV `Higgs' signal
11:15 – 12:15 Georg Weiglein, Higgs & SUSY
12:15 –  1:15 Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: John Terning
 1:30 –  2:30 Leonard Susskind, Firewalls (no slides)
 2:30 –  3:30 Gordon Kane, Explanation, update and extension of compactified M/string theory prediction of Higgs boson mass
 3:30 –  3:45 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Session Chair: Stephen Shenker
 3:45 –  4:45 Edward Witten, More On Superstring Perturbation Theory
   
 

 

Sponsors:
SCIPP
UC Santa Cruz
FQXi
University of Texas, Austin

Updated: January 6, 2013
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