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Draft Schedule Symposium on the Standard Model at 50 Department of Physics Case Western Reserve University 1-4 June 2018 Titles are provisional; speakers are confirmed unless noted
I. ORIGINS: AFTERNOON 01 JUNE 2018 CONVENER: ROBERT BROWN
1. Welcome • 1330: Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences: Cyrus Taylor • 1335: Chair of Department of Physics: Kathleen Kash • 1340: Director of Institute of the Science of Origins: Glenn D. Starkman 2. 1345: Discovery of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson at LHC (after 50-year search!): Jonathan Butterworth 3. Origins of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (a) 1420: Soft pions: Steve Adler (e+e−→3Jets) (b) 1455: Charm, beauty, R (e+e−→2Jets) : Mary K. Gaillard (c) 1530: The strong interaction: James D. Bjorken 4. 1605: Break 5. 1620: Amplitudes and modern perturbative QCD: Henriette Elvang 6. 1655: Neutrino Oscillations: Takaaki Kajita
II. STANDARD SU(3)C × SU(2)L × U(1)Y MODEL: MORNING 02 JUNE 2018 CONVENER: KURT HINTERBICHLER
1. 0900: Renormalization and unitarity of spontaneously broken gauge theories: Gerard ‘t Hooft 2. 0935: Quarks: Jerome L. Friedman 3. 1010: The Quark-gluon plasma: Jurgen Schukraft 4. 1045: Break
5. 1100: SU(3)L × SU(3)RχP T flavor physics, nuclear physics from SU(2)L × SU(2)RχP T : Ubirajara van Kolck 6. 1135: Today’s Technology, Engineering and applied Mathematics is Yesterday’s Science: Bennie F.L. Ward 7. 1210: Lunch
III. STANDARD SU(3)C × SU(2)L × U(1)Y MODEL: AFTERNOON 02 JUNE 2018 CONVENER: PAVEL FILEVIEZ PEREZ
1. 1400: The role of particle accelerators: Carlo Rubbia 2. 1435: Heavy quark physics, Tetra-quarks: Mark Wise 3. 1510: Far-forward physics at LHC: Cyrus Taylor 4. 1545: Break 2
5. 1600: Lattice gauge theories: Norman Christ 6. 1635: The discovery of the gluon: Sau Lan Wu 7. 1710: Cosmic Microwave Background: George Smoot 8. 1800: Speakers’ reception and dinner: host: James Wyant, Chairman, CWRU Board of Trustees
IV. MODERN CHALLENGES: MORNING 03 JUNE 2018 CONVENER: CYRUS TAYLOR
1. 0900: Doorways to New Physics: Pavel Fileviez Perez 2. 0935: Baryo-genesis: Rocky Kolb 3. 1010: Gravitational waves: Gabriela Gonzalez (Speaker T o Be Confirmed) 4. 1045: Break 5. 1100: Expansion of the universe: Alexei V. Filippenko 6. 1135: Goldstone bosons in condensed matter: Robert B. Laughlin (Speaker T o Be Confirmed) 7. 1210: Lunch
V. “THE CORE THEORY” AFTERNOON 03 JUNE 2018 CONVENER: BRYAN W. LYNN
1. Welcome to CWRU • 1330: President Barbara Snyder • 1340: James Wyant, Chair, Board of Trustees 2. 1350: The α Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station: Samuel C. C. Ting 3. 1425: Core Theory Cosmology: Glenn D. Starkman 4. 1500: CP violation: Helen Quinn 5. 1535: Break 6. 1550: The problems of quantum mechanics: Steven Weinberg 7. 1625: Break 8. 1715: Public Lecture The Standard Model and Beyond David Gross 9. 1830: Symposium Reception at Cleveland Museum of Art
VI. HIGH PRECISION ELECTRO-WEAK PHYSICS, MORNING 04 JUNE 2018 CONVENER: GLENN D. STARKMAN
1. 0900: High-precision electro-weak experiments: Alain Blondel 2. High-precision electro-weak theory: (a) 0935: Searching for new physics using precision Standard Model measurements: Michael E. Peskin
(b) 1010: Oblique quantum-loops: Successful predictions of mtop and pre-LHC mHiggs: Bryan W. Lynn 3. 1045: Break 3
VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS
4. 1100: Searching for New Physics without colliders: Savas Dimopoulos 5. 1135: The conceptual basis of the Standard Model: Steven Weinberg 6. 1210: Thank you