| PASCOS 2006 Plenary Sessions Talks will be posted here as links during the month of October | |||
| Sunday 9-10 | Time | Talk Title | Speaker |
| 8:45 AM | Welcome | Stuart Raby | |
| Chair: Terry Walker | 9:00 AM | Dark Matter Observation & Review of Lambda-CDM Model (WMAP, Galaxy Correlations) | David Weinberg (The Ohio State University) |
| 9:35 AM | Dark Matter Candidates, Theory (SUSY LSP, Axions, Lightest KK Mode), and Their Signatures | Stefano Profumo (CalTech) | |
| 10:10 AM | Direct Dark Matter Searches & Review of Field (CDMS Results, etc.) | Darren Grant (Case Western Reserve Univ.) CDMS Collaboration | |
| 10:45 AM | Break | ||
| Chair: John Beacom | 11:15 AM | Dark Energy Observation (WMAP, Supernova, DES, & LSST) | Josh Frieman (FNAL) |
| 11:50 AM | Cosmological Constant Problem, Gravity at Large Distances | Georgi Dvali (NYU) | |
| 12:25 PM | Dark Energy - Theory (Quintessence, MaVaNs) | Andreas Albrecht (UC -Davis) | |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Stuart Raby | 3:00 PM | Gamma Ray Observatories (EGRET, GLAST, VERITAS, HESS) & Astrophysics and Anomalies | Jim Buckley (Washington Univ) |
| 3:35 PM | Electroweak Baryogenesis | Carlos Wagner (ANL, University of Chicago) | |
| 4:10 PM | A Solution to the Omega_b - Omega_{DM} Coincidence Problem | Leszek Roszkowski (Sheffield,CERN) | |
| 4:45 PM | Break | ||
| Chair: Klaus Honscheid | 5:15 PM | Higgs Search at the Tevatron | Suyong Choi (South Korea) DZero |
| 5:50 PM | Top Quark Update | Rob Roser (CDF) | |
| 6:25 PM | B Physics at the Tevatron | Vaia Papadimitriou (CDF) | |
| 7:00 PM | Reception -PRB Atrium | ||
| Monday 9-11 | Time | Talk Title | Speaker |
| 8:45 AM | Welcome | William Saam, Chair, Department of Physics | |
| Chair: Samir Mathur | 9:00 AM | String Theory Approaches to Cosmological Singularities | Sumit Das (Univ. of Kentucky) |
| 9:35 AM | Cosmic Superstrings | Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute) | |
| 10:10 AM | |||
| 10:45 AM | Break | ||
| Chair: Gary Steigman | 11:15 AM | Strings and Black Holes | Samir Mathur (The Ohio State University) |
| 11:50 AM | WMAP Results | David Spergel (Princeton University) | |
| 12:25 PM | Lunch | ||
| 2:30 PM | Parallel Sessions: Particle Physics, Cosmology, String Theory | ||
| 4:00 PM | Break | ||
| 4:30 PM | Parallel Sessions: Particle Physics, Cosmology, String Theory | ||
| 6:00 PM | Free for Dinner | ||
| Tuesday, 9-12 | Time | Talk Title | Speaker |
| Chair: Richard Kass | 9:00 AM | Status and Future Prospects of Electric Dipole Moment Measurements | Michael Romalis (Princeton University) |
| 9:35 AM | Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Expts. | Douglas Leonard (Univ. of Alabama) | |
| 10:10 AM | Lattice Results - Status | Christine Davies (University of Glasgow) | |
| 10:45 AM | Break | ||
| Chair: Richard Kass | 11:15 AM | Rare B Decays | Bob Hsiung (National Taiwan Univ.) Belle Collaboration |
| 11:50 AM | CP Violation (BaBar, Belle) | Chunhui Chen (Univ. of Maryland) | |
| 12:25 PM | A Harvest of New Resonances Decaying to Charmonium | Denis Bernard (École Polytechnique) BaBar | |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Junko Shigemitsu | 3:00 PM | Elements of the CKM Matrix | Takayuki Sumiyoshi (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) |
| 3:35 PM | Rare Decays & New Physics Searches at the Tevatron | Flera Rizatdinova (Oklahoma State Univ.) DZero | |
| 4:10 PM | Quarkonium Update | Nora Brambilla (University of Milano) | |
| 4:45 PM | Expectations for Unusual Higgs or SUSY from Natural EWSB | Radovan Dermisek (Institute for Advanced Study) | |
| 5:20 PM | Break | ||
| 5:30 PM | Cash Bar at The Blackwell Inn | ||
| 6:00 PM | Banquet -The Blackwell Inn | ||
| Wednesday, 9-13 | Time | Talk Title | Speaker |
| Chair: Samir Mathur | 9:00 AM | String Model Building | Gary Shiu (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 9:35 AM | Strings and Gauge Theory | Chris Herzog (Univ. of Washington, Seattle) | |
| 10:10 AM | Phenomenology Beyond the Standard Model | Paul Frampton (Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) | |
| 10:45 AM | Break | ||
| Chair: John Beacom | 11:15 AM | Charm Physics: Latest Experimental Results | Jim Napolitano (RPI) |
| 11:50 AM | Neutrino Experiments Update (KAMLAND, SNO, Super-Kamiokande) | Josh Klein (Univ. of Texas, Austin) SNO Collaboration | |
| 12:25 PM | Lunch | ||
| 2:30 PM | Parallel Sessions: Particle Physics, Cosmology, String Theory | ||
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | Parallel Sessions: Particle Physics, Cosmology, String Theory | ||
| 6:00 PM | Free for Dinner | ||
| Thursday, 9-14 | Time | Talk Title | Speaker |
| Chair: Klaus Honscheid | 9:00 AM | Neutrino Astrophysics (AMANDA, ICE CUBE, ANITA, CREAM) | Francis Halzen (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 9:35 AM | Chiral Symmetry Breaking in a String Dual of QCD | Jeffrey Harvey (University of Chicago) | |
| 10:10 AM | MiniBooNE Progress Report | Bill Metcalf (Louisiana State Univ.) MiniBoone Collaboration | |
| 10:45 AM | Break | ||
| Chair: Gary Steigman | 11:15 AM | Long Baseline Neutrino Expts. (MINOS, ... ) | Donna Naples (Univ. of Pittsburgh) MINOS Collaboration |
| 11:50 AM | Theories of Neutrino Masses | Vernon Barger (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) | |
| 12:25 PM | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Gary Steigman | 2:25 PM | Lepton Number Violation (PSI MEG expt.,) | Stefan Ritt (PSI) MEG Collaboration |
| 3:00 PM | Auger Update | Jim Beatty (The Ohio State University) | |
| 3:45 PM | Parallel Sessions: Particle Physics, Cosmology, String Theory | ||
| 4:15 PM | Break | ||
| 4:45 PM | Parallel Sessions: Particle Physics, Cosmology, String Theory | ||
| 6:00 PM | Wine & Cheese Reception -Atrium PRB | ||
| Friday, 9-15 | Time | Talk Title | Speaker |
| Chair: Eric Braaten | 9:00 AM | QCD Event Generators | Davison Soper (University of Oregon) |
| 9:35 AM | LHC Physics (Beyond the Standard Model / Not SUSY or Higgs) | Martin Schmaltz (Boston University) | |
| 10:10 AM | SUSY Event Generators | Howard Baer (Florida State University) | |
| 10:45 AM | Break | ||
| Chair: Eric Braaten | 11:15 AM | Proton Decay Experiments Update (Present & Future) and DUSEL status | C.K. Jung (Stony Brook University) |
| 11:50 AM | Landscape Predictions for Higgs Boson and Top Quark Masses | Lawrence Hall (UC-Berkeley) | |
| 12:25 PM | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Stuart Raby | 2:00 PM | Higgs Searches at the LHC | Marcela Carena (FNAL) |
| 2:35 PM | SUSY Searches at the LHC | David Rainwater (University of Rochester) | |
| 3:10 PM | SUSY and BSM Searches at ATLAS and CMS | Alan Barr (University College, London) ATLAS | |
| 3:45 PM | Break | ||
| Chair: Stuart Raby | 4:15 PM | Higgs Searches at ATLAS and CMS | Jim Branson (UC -San Diego) |
| 4:50 PM | Commissioning and First Data (ATLAS and CMS) | Stan Durkin (The Ohio State University) | |
| 5:25 PM | End of Conference | ||
| Parallel Session: Particle Physics Smith Seminar Room | |||
| Monday 9-11 | 2:30 PM | Search for Direct CP Violation in Charged K Decays | Roberta Arcidiacono (Torino, Italy) |
| Chair: Richard Kass | 2:45 PM | Semileptonic B Decays and Determination of the CKM Parameters Vub and Vcb | Alessia D'Orazio (Rome, Italy) |
| 3:00 PM | Recent Results from NA48/2 on Ke4 and 3pi Charged Kaon Decays. Interpretation in Term of Pi-Pi Scattering Lengths | Brigitte Bloch-Devaux (CEA-SACLAY, France) | |
| 3:15 PM | Neutrinos | Danny Marfatia (University of Kansas) | |
| 3:30 PM | Supersymmetry and Lorentz Invariance as Low-Energy Symmetries in a Fundamental Statistical Theory | Roland Allen (Texas A&M) | |
| 3:45 PM | New Results on Kaon Decays from NA48 and NA48/2 | Cristina Morales (Mainz, Germany) | |
| 4:00 PM | Break | ||
| Chair: Richard Kass | 4:30 PM | Charm Spectroscopy (Mesons and Baryons) | Stephanie Majewski (Stanford, BaBar) |
| 4:45 PM | Measurements of the UT Angle Gamma | Virginia Azzolini (Valencia, Spain) | |
| 5:00 PM | The LHC and the Dark Matter Connection | Peter Wienemann (University of Chicago) | |
| 5:15 PM | D0 Mixing | Amir Rahimi (The Ohio State University) | |
| 5:30 PM | Free for Dinner | ||
| Wednesday, 9-13 | 2:30 PM | Tests of Universal Extra Dimensions in ATLAS | Ken McFarlane (Hampton University) |
| Chair: Stan Durkin | 2:45 PM | Measurements of Light Higgs Couplings with ATLAS | Francesca Sarri (INFN, Pisa) |
| 3:00 PM | Measurements of the UT Beta in Tree and Penguin Modes | Arik Kreisel (Univ. of Colorado) | |
| 3:15 PM | Little Higgs Models at the LHC | Kevin Black (Harvard University) | |
| 3:30 PM | A Heterotic Landscape | Akin Wingerter (The Ohio State University) | |
| 3:45 PM | Prospects for Models with Mirage Unification | Howard Baer (Florida State University) | |
| 4:00 PM | Break | ||
| Chair: Akin Wingerter | 4:30 PM | Hadronic Decays of B Mesons | Liaoyuan Dong (Iowa State University) |
| 4:45 PM | Leptonic B decays | Hojeong Kim (McGill University) | |
| 5:00 PM | Measurements of the UT Angle Alpha | Carlos Chavez (University of Liverpool) | |
| 5:15 PM | The Complementary Sensitivities of Neutrino Oscillation Probabilities to Mixing Angles Theta13 and Theta 23 at Different Energies | Guey-Lin Lin (National Chiao-Tung University) | |
| 5:30 PM | W/Z Physics at the LHC | Andre Holzner (ETH Zurich) | |
| 5:45 PM | Radiative Penguin Decays | Aaron Yarritu (SLAC) | |
| 6:00 PM | Free for Dinner | ||
| Thursday, 9-14 | 3:45 PM | Inclusive Searches for SUSY at CMS | Bobby Scurlock (University of Florida) |
| 4:00 PM | ED's, U(1)s and Other Alternatives at CMS | Eric James (FNAL) | |
| 4:15 PM | Break | ||
| Chair: Alin Tirziu | 4:45 PM | Top Physics at the LHC | Simona Rolli (Tuft University) |
| 5:00 PM | New SUSY Results using Third Generation Tagging and Reconstruction at CMS | Nancy Marinelli (University of Notre Dame) | |
| 5:15 PM | SUSY Studies in ATLAS with the First Year's of DATA | Sandjay Padhi (CERN) | |
| 6:00 PM | Wine & Cheese Reception -Atrium PRB | ||
| Parallel Session: Cosmology Room 4138 | |||
| Monday 9-11 | 2:30 PM | Towards Inflation and Dark Energy in String Theory | Ishwaree Neupane (Canterbury, NZ) |
| Chair: Hasan Yuksel | 2:45 PM | Cosmological Evolution and Implications of Cosmic Strings With Time Varying Tension | Masahide Yamaguchi (Aoyama Gakuin U., Japan) |
| 3:00 PM | On the Need of Conformal Invariance and Circular Time Axis in Oscillatory Universe | Murli Manohar Verma (Lucknow U., India) | |
| 3:15 PM | Gauge Field Dynamics in Bubble Nucleation in the Electroweak Phase Transition | Trevor Stevens (New Mexico State) | |
| 3:30 PM | Abundance of Cosmological Relics in Low-Temperature Scenarios | Yimingniyazi Wuernisha (Bonn, Germany) | |
| 3:45 PM | Break | ||
| Chair: Mandeep Gill | 4:15 PM | On the Electric Charge of the Universe | Ethan Siegel (University of Florida) |
| 4:30 PM | An Effective Theory of Initial Conditions in Inflation | Hael Collins (U. Massachusetts) | |
| 4:45 PM | Dissipative Mechanisms and Their Consequences During Inflation | Arjun Berera (Univ. of Edinburgh) | |
| 5:00 PM | Calibrating Mass Scales on the Braneworld | Katherine Benson (Agnes Scott College) | |
| 5:15 PM | Free for Dinner | ||
| Wednesday, 9-13 | 2:30 PM | Large-Scale Structure with Interacting Dark Matter and Dark Energy | Paul Mathew Sutter (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Chair: Mandeep Gill | 2:45 PM | Guaranteed and Prospective Galactic TeV Neutrino Sources | Matt Kistler (The Ohio State University) |
| 3:00 PM | Propagation of TeV Gamma Rays Through the Cosmological Medium | John Cairns (The Ohio State University) | |
| 3:15 PM | A General Upper Bound on the Dark Matter Total Annihilation Cross Section | Gregory Mack (The Ohio State University) | |
| 3:30 PM | Stringent Constraint on Galactic Positron Production | Hasan Yuksel (The Ohio State University) | |
| 3:45 PM | Dark Matter in Anti de Sitter Spaces | Wayne Lundberg (Architect of Comprehensive Theory) | |
| 4:00 PM | Break | ||
| 4:30 PM | DBI Inflation in String Theory | Bret Underwood (University of Wisconsin) | |
| 6:00 PM | Free Dinner | ||
| Parallel Session: String Theory Room 1136 | |||
| Monday 9-11 | 2:30 PM | Kinky Strings in AdS_5 X S^5 | Xinkai Wu (University of Kentucky) |
| Chair: Sumit Das | 2:45 PM | Five-Dimensional Kerr--AdS Black Holes and the Counter Term Subtraction Technique | Adel Awad (University of Kentucky & Ain Shams University) |
| 3:00 PM | Yukawa Couplings in D Brane Models | Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M) | |
| 3:15 PM | Path Deviation Equations in Brane Worlds: The Bazanski Approach | Magd Elias Kahil (Modern Sciences and Arts University) | |
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| Chair: Sumit Das | 3:45 PM | KK Monopoles in String Theory | Yogesh Srivastava (The Ohio State University) |
| 4:00 PM | AdS/CFT Correspondence with Heat Conduction | James Alsup (University of Tennessee) | |
| 4:30 PM | Riemann and Ricci Tensors for Half-Flat Manifolds | Gerald Cleaver (Baylor University) | |
| 4:45 PM | On the Unique Reduction of Heterotic String Theory | Joseph Towe (Antelope Valley College) | |
| 5:00 PM | Microscopics of Black Hole - Black String Phase Transition | Borun Chowdhury (The Ohio State University) | |
| 5:15 PM | Black Hole Alpha Vacua | Jeremy Michelson (The Ohio State University) | |
| 5:30 PM | Free for Dinner | ||