PASCOS 2001
Eighth International Symposium on Particle, Strings and Cosmology.
Scientific Program
- Monday, April 9, 2001.
- ARRIVAL -- AFTERNOON
- 6.00 pm - 10.00 pm Reception (cash bar).
- Tuesday, April 10, 2001.
- 9.00-9.15 am Welcoming remarks, J. Moeser (Chancellor)
- 9.15am-10.05am J. Gunion (UC-Davis)
- TBA
- 10.05am-10.55am J.A. Harvey (Chicago)
- TBA
- 10.55am-11.25am BREAK
- 11.25am-12.15pm M. Kamionkowski (Caltech)
- TBA
- 12.15pm-2.00pm LUNCH
- 2.00pm-2.50pm A I Sanda (Nagoya)
- Recent Developments in CP Violation.
- 2.50pm-3.40pm S. Kachru (Stanford)
- Warped Compactifications of String Theory.
- 3.40pm-4.10pm BREAK
- 4.10pm-5.00pm A. Linde (Stanford)
- Inflation and Creation of Matter in the Universe.
- 8.00pm-11.00pm PARALLEL SESSIONS
- Wednesday, April 11, 2001.
- 9.00-9.50am R. Svoboda (LSU / LBNL )
- Experimental Results on Neutrino Oscillations.
- 9.50am-10.40am N. Arkani-Hamed (Berkeley)
- TBA
- 10.40am-11.10am BREAK
- 11.10am-12.00pm D. Spergel (Princeton / IAS )
- MAP and the Cosmic Background Radiation.
- 12.00pm-2.00pm LUNCH
- 2.00pm-2.50pm T. Appelquist (Yale University)
- TBA
- 2.50pm-3.40pm E. Silverstein (SLAC)
- TBA
- 3.40pm-4.10pm BREAK
- 4.10pm-5.00pm A. Vilenkin (Tufts University)
- Solutions to the Cosmological Constant Problem.
- 8.00pm (Doors open 7.30pm) Memorial Hall
- Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University) PASCOS PUBLIC LECTURE
- The Dark Side of the Universe.
- Thursday, April 12, 2001.
- 9.00-9.50am J. Ellis (CERN)
- TBA
- 9.50am-10.40am A. Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)
- TBA
- 10.40am-11.10am BREAK
- 11.10am-12.00pm A. Lange (Caltech)
- The Cosmic Microwave Background, Observational Aspects
- 12.00pm-2.00pm LUNCH
- 2.00pm-2.50pm P. Ramond (University of Florida)
- TBA
- 2.50pm-3.40pm J. Lykken (Fermilab)
- TBA
- 3.40pm-4.10pm BREAK
- 4.10pm-5.00pm S. Phinney
- TBA
- 8.00pm-11.00pm PARALLEL SESSIONS
- Friday, April 13, 2001.
- 9.00-9.50am K.D. Lane (Boston University
- Dynamical Solution to the Strong CP Problem.
- 9.50am-10.40am S. Gubser (Caltech)
- D-Brane Instabilities and Phase Transitions
- 10.40am-11.10am BREAK
- 11.10am-12.00pm L. Kofman (CITA, Toronto)
- TBA
- 12.00pm-2.00pm LUNCH
- 2.00pm-2.50pm H. Murayama (Berkeley)
- New Perspective on Cosmic Coincidence Problems.
- 2.50pm-3.40pm M. Duff (University of Michigan)
- Progress in M Theory
- 3.40pm-4.10pm BREAK
- 4.10pm-5.00pm J. Cronin (Chicago)
- AUGER Project
- 6.30pm-7.30pm Cocktail hour (cash bar)
- 7.30pm BANQUET
- After-dinner S. Glashow (Boston University)
- Saturday, April 14, 2001.
- 9.00-9.50am G. Kane (University of Michigan)
- TBA
- 9.50am-10.40am M. Strassler (University of Pennsylvania)
- Matching String Theory and Field Theory.
- 10.40am-11.10am BREAK
- 11.10am-12.00pm S. Perlmutter (Berkeley)
- Supernova Project
- 12.00pm-2.00pm LUNCH
- 2.00pm-2.50pm W. Buchmuller (DESY, Hamburg)
- Baryogenesis.
- 2.50pm-3.40pm L. Randall (MIT)
- TBA
- 3.40pm-4.10pm BREAK
- 4.10pm-5.00pm G. Veneziano (CERN)
- TBA
- Sunday, April 15, 2001.
- 9.00-9.50am S. Barr (Bartol, Delaware)
- Classifying Models of Neutrino Oscillations.
- 9.50am-10.40am S.H.H. Tye (Cornell University)
- TBA
- 10.40am-11.10am BREAK
- 11.10am-12.00pm E.W. Kolb (Fermilab)
- TBA
- 12.00pm-12.50pm Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht)
- Duality, Quantum Mechanics, Causality or What?
- 1.00pm PASCOS 2001 ENDS.
- DEPARTURE - AFTERNOON