| WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
8.45 - 10.00
Registration 10.00 - 10.15
Opening Address by ICTP Director, Professor K. R. Sreenivasan 10.15 - 11.15
Timo Weigand (Munich),
``Heterotic
Standard-Like Vacua from Unitary Gauge Fluxes'' 11.30 - 12.30
Alessandro Tomasiello (Stanford),
``Generalised Complex Geometry in
String Theory'' 2.30 - 3.30
Brian Wecht (MIT),
``Nongeometric Flux Compactifications'' 4.00 - 5.00
Discussion Session
Tuesday 30th May 2006 9.30 - 10.30
Bogdan Florea (Stanford),
``Gauge Mediation of
Supersymmetry Breaking in String
Compactifications'' 11.15 - 12.15
Fernando Marchesano (Munich),
``On D-branes in Flux Vacua'' 2.30 - 3.30
Chris Hull (Imperial),
``T-folds and Non-geometric String
Compactifications'' 4.00 - 5.00
Discussion Session 6.30
Reception
(Adriatico Guesthouse Terrace)
Wednesday 31st May 2006 9.30 - 10.30 Liam Mcallister (Princeton), ``Random Matrix Ensembles for String Inflation'' 11.15 - 12.15
Lev Kofman (Toronto/CITA),
``Making and Checking Inflation'' 2.30 - 3.30 Xingan Chen (UFlorida), ``Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities of General Single Field Inflation'' 4.00 - 5.00
Discussion Session
Thursday 1st June 2006 9.30 - 10.30
Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts),
``Probabilities in the
Landscape'' 11.15 - 12.15
Ben Freivogel (Berkeley),
``Populating the Landscape
with Eternal
Inflation: A Description Within
One Causal Patch'' 1.45 - 2.45
Bert Schellekens (NIKHEF, Amsterdam),
``Sightseeing in The
Landscape'' 3.30 - 4.30 Philip Schuster/Natalia Toro (Harvard), ``Seeing the Landscape On Earth and In the Sky: Two Possible Observational Probes of the Landscape''
4.45 - 5.45
Discussion Session Friday 2nd June 2006 9.30 - 10.30
Stephan Stieberger (Munich),
``Moduli Stabilisation in Type IIB
Orientifolds'' 11.15 - 12.15
Piyush Kumar (UMichigan),
``String
Theory, LHC and the Hierarchy Problem: Two Tales 2.30 - 3.30
Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard),
``TBA''
4.00 - 5.00
Discussion Session 6.30
Reception
(Adriatico Guesthouse Terrace)
Saturday 3rd June 2006 10.00 - 11.00
Joseph Conlon (Cambridge),
``From Strong CP to the LHC - via the
Landscape'' 11.30 - 12.30
TBA
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