Annual Theory Meeting

19 Dec 2005, 14:15 → 21 Dec 2005, 15:45 Europe/London

The Annual Theory Meetings ("Christmas Meetings") started in 1961 and have been held every year since (with the possible exception of two years), previously at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and more recently at Durham.

Monday, 19 December

1 Results from the B factories

Speaker: Steve Playfer

Slides playfer.pdf

2 Heavy Flavour Physics

Speaker: Matthias Neubert

Slides neubert.pdf

16:15 break

3 Lattice QCD and results from CLEO

Speaker: Paul MacKenzie

Tuesday, 20 December

4 Twistors and Perturbative Gravity

Speaker: Dave Dunbar

Slides dunbar.ppt

5 Status of the LHC and the future of CERN

Speaker: Jos Engelen

Slides engelen.pdf

11:00 break

6 The origin of gravitational thermodynamics

Speaker: Vijay Balasubramanian

Slides vijay.pdf

13:00 lunch

7 Grand Unification in String Theory

Speaker: Hans-Peter Nilles

Slides nilles.pdf

15:45 break

8 Marching orders for QCD

Speaker: Keith Ellis

Slides ellis.pdf

Wednesday, 21 December

9 Geometry and the SM

Speaker: Herman Verlinde

Slides verlinde.pdf

10:30 break

10 How did Einstein get the Nobel Prize

Speaker: Cecilia Jarlskog