Kane Symposium

Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Gordon Kane
Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
January 19-20, 2007
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Friday, January 19

  Session Chair: Chris Kolda

8:30-9:00 am

J. D. Jackson (UC Berkeley)

 

"Examples of the Zeroth Theorem of the History of Science"

9:05-9:35 am

Howard Haber (UC, Santa Cruz)

 

 "The Two-Higgs-Doublet Model: Past, Present and Future"

9:40-10:10 am

Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)

 

"What's the String Theory Prediction for tan(beta)?"

10:15-10:45 am

COFFEE BREAK

Session Chair: Stuart Raby

10:45-11:15 am

Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard University)

11:20-11:50 am

Paul Langacker (Institute of Advanced Study)

 

"Beyond the Standard Paradigm"

11:55-12:25 pm

Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford University)

 

"Physics with Cold Atoms"

12:30-2:00 pm

LUNCH

 

Session Chair: Lorenzo Diaz Cruz

2:15-2:45 pm

C.-P. Yuan (MSU)

 

"Longitudinal W Boson and Top Quark"

2:50-3:20 pm

Liantao Wang (Princeton)

 

"The LHC Inverse Problem"

3:25-3:55 pm

COFFEE BREAK

3:55-4:25 pm

Lisa Everett (UW-Madison)

 

"Supersymmetry, Dark Matter and Dark Energy"

  Session Chair: Aaron Pierce

4:30-5:00 pm

Henry Frisch (University of Chicago)

 

"Precision Measurements, Small Cross-sections, and Non-Standard Signatures: Reaching the 1 fb^{-1} Threshold at the Tevatron"

 

John H. Schwarz (Caltech)

  "Connecting String Theory to the Real World"

4:50 pm

End of Session

6:00 pm

BANQUET

Saturday, January 20

 

Session Chair: Robert Garisto

9:05-9:35 am

Lisa Randall (Harvard University)

9:40-10:10 am Mary K. Gaillard (UC Berkeley & LBL Berkeley)

 

"Moduli and Modular Invarinace in WCHT Effective SUGRA"

10:15-10:45 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session Chair: Carlos Wagner

10:45-11:15 am

James B. Hartle (UC, Santa Barbara)

 

"Generalizing Quantum Mechanics for Quantum Spacetime"

11:20-11:50 am

Malcolm J. Perry (Cambridge University)

 

  "U Duality in Dimension Two: Demystifying the Geroch Group"

11:55-12:25 pm

Pierre Binetruy (APC, Paris)

 

"LHC and LISA"

12:30-2:00 pm

LUNCH

 

Session Chair: Mariano Quiros

2:00-2:30 pm

Michael E. Peskin (SLAC, Stanford University)

 

"The Descent to Supersymmetry"

2:35-3:05 pm

Martin B. Einhorn (Santa Barbara , KITP)

 

"The Black Hole Information Paradox"

3:10-3:40 pm

James D. Wells (University of Michigan)

 

"Higgs Exempt No-Scale Supersymmetry"

3:45-4:15 pm

COFFEE BREAK

  Session Chair: Howard Haber

4:15-4:45 pm

Bruce Winstein (University of Chicago)

 

"The Cosmological Laboratory"

4:50-5:20 pm

Joseph D. Lykken (Fermilab)

 

"Gordy Kane and the Future of Particle Physics"

5:25 pm

Symposium Concludes