RA-D day: Particle physics meets cosmology

Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:00 → 19:35 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium (MPP, München (Föhringer Ring 6))

Annual meeting of the Research Area D (Particle physics and the early universe) within the Universe Cluster. An afternoon packed with first-class talks by members of Research Area D. Afterward an informal get-together for socializing and exchanging ideas.

Slides

• Antusch.pdf
• Horvat.pdf
• Ketzer.ppt
• Kluth.pdf
• Paul.pptx
• Tran.pdf
• Vanchurin.pdf
• Winkler.pdf

14:00 → 14:05 Welcome

Speaker: Siggi Bethke (MPP)

14:05 → 14:45 Cosmic Inflation meets particle physics (keynote talk)

Speaker: Stefan Antusch (MPP)

14:50 → 15:10 The structure of hadrons: Measurements from COMPASS

Speaker: Bernhard Ketzer (TUM)

15:15 → 15:35 Prospects for MSSM Higgs boson searches at the LHC

Speaker: Sandra Horvat (MPP)

15:40 → 16:00 Decaying dark matter

Speaker: David Tran (TUM)

16:05 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:10 Neutrons and the universe: Particle physics research at FRMII (keynote talk)

Speaker: Stephan Paul (TUM)

17:15 → 17:35 Gravitino LSP with long-lived stau NLSP

Speaker: Martin Winkler (TUM)

17:40 → 18:00 New results on running alpha_s

Speaker: Stefan Kluth (MPP)

18:05 → 18:25 Vector dark energy

Speaker: Vitaly Vanchurin (LMU)

18:30 → 18:35 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Georg Raffelt (MPP)

18:35 → 20:00 Drinks and Snacks