BUSSTEPP 2012

2 Sept 2012, 08:00 → 14 Sept 2012, 18:00 Europe/London

IPPP

42nd BUSSTEPP Summer School for first year PhD students in theoretical particle physics.

Monday, 3 September

08:45 → 09:00 Welcome (Prof. Dr. Silvia Pascoli)

09:00 → 11:00 Standard Model and Beyond (Dr. Andrea Romanino)

Exercises ex1.pdf

slides romanino1.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Neutrinos and Dark Matter (Dr. Thomas Schwetz-Mangold)

slides busstepp-2012-1_nu+BSM.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Neutrinos and Dark Matter (Dr. Thomas Schwetz-Mangold)

Exercises exercises-neutr.pdf

slides busstepp-2012-2_osc.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 4 September

09:00 → 11:00 Standard Model and Beyond (Dr. Andrea Romanino)

Exercises ex2.pdf

slides romanino2.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Neutrinos and Dark Matter (Dr. Thomas Schwetz-Mangold)

slides busstepp-dm.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Neutrinos and Dark Matter (Dr. Thomas Schwetz-Mangold)

problems exercises-2.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 5 September

09:00 → 11:00 Standard Model and Beyond (Dr. Andrea Romanino)

Exercises ex3.pdf

slides romanino3.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Quantum Field Theory (Dr. Sebastian Jäger)

Exercises qft2012probs.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Quantum Field Theory (Dr. Sebastian Jäger)

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Thursday, 6 September

09:00 → 11:00 Experimental Physics (Dr. Mario Campanelli)

slides campanelli.pdf.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Quantum Field Theory (Dr. Sebastian Jäger)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Quantum Field Theory (Dr. Sebastian Jäger)

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Friday, 7 September

09:00 → 11:00 Supersymmetry (Prof. Dr. Ben Allanach)

Lecture notes lec.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Quantum Field Theory (Dr. Sebastian Jäger)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Quantum Field Theory (Dr. Sebastian Jäger)

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Saturday, 8 September

09:00 → 11:00 Supersymmetry (Prof. Dr. Ben Allanach)

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Study

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Tutorial

18:30 → 22:00 Pub

Sunday, 9 September

09:00 → 18:30 Free Day

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Monday, 10 September

09:00 → 10:00 Lattice Gauge Theory (Prof. Dr. Luigi Del Debbio)

Exercises problems.pdf

Lecture notes lect1.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 SOFTSUSY Tutorial (Prof. Dr. Ben Allanach)

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Cosmology (Prof. Dr. Edmund Copeland)

Exercises Busstepp_probs_1_12.pdf

slides Busstepp2012-BW.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Student Talks

14:00 Rhorry Gauld: Top Quark Physics in The Forward Region

Slides Gauld.pdf

14:15 Bradley Kavanagh: Improving dark matter direct detection analysis

Slides Kavanagh.pdf

14:30 Robert Lawrance: Holographic Technicolor

Slides Lawrance.pdf

14:45 Nick Iles: On W3-algebra zero mode traces in the Potts Model

Slides Iles.pdf

15:00 Alex Cockburn: Symmetric Calorons

Slides Cockburn.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 11 September

09:00 → 10:00 Lattice Gauge Theory (Prof. Dr. Luigi Del Debbio)

10:00 → 11:00 Cosmology (Prof. Dr. Edmund Copeland)

Exercises Busstepp_probs_2_12.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Cosmology (Prof. Dr. Edmund Copeland)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Student Talks

14:00 Chris Deans: Fitting parton distributions with LHC data

Slides Deans.pdf

14:15 Ben Galloway: Quantum Gravity on the Lattice

Slides Galloway.pdf

14:30 Mark Harley: Infrared Singularities of Massless Non-abelian Gauge Theories

Slides Harley.pdf

14:45 Matthias Le Dall: Graphical Leptogenesis, a new way to look at leptogenesis

Slides LeDall.pdf

15:00 James Edwards: From String to Maxwell – Electromagnetism from Dynamic Lines of Flux

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 12 September

09:00 → 10:00 Lattice Gauge Theory (Prof. Dr. Luigi Del Debbio)

Exercises problems2.pdf

Lecture notes lect2.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 LHC Physics (Dr. Michael Spannowsky)

Exercises Questions.pdf

slides Lecture1.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Cosmology (Prof. Dr. Edmund Copeland)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Student Talks

14:00 David Garner: A Model of Gauge-String and Gauge-Gravity Duality

Slides Garner.pdf

14:15 Eliana Lambrou: Non-perturbative investigation of the dimensional reduction of the 5D Yang-Mills model via localization on the lattice

Slides Lambrou.pdf

14:30 Daniele Barducci: DY phenomenology at the LHC of the Composite Higgs Model

Slides Barducci.pdf

14:45 Glauber C. Dorsch: Electroweak Baryogenesis in Two-Higgs-Doublet Models

Slides Dorsch.pdf

15:00 Tomás Gonzalo Velasco: SUSY SO(10)

Slides GonzaloVelasco.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Thursday, 13 September

09:00 → 10:00 Lattice Gauge Theory (Prof. Dr. Luigi Del Debbio)

Lecture notes lect3.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 LHC physics (Dr. Michael Spannowsky)

slides lecture2.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 LHC physics (Dr. Michael Spannowsky)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Student Talks

14:00 Daniele Teresi: Thermal Quantum Field Theory in Real and Imaginary Time

Slides Teresi.pdf

14:15 Alix Wilcock: POWHEG method in Herwig++

Slides Wilcock.pdf

14:30 Danielle Wills: Stringy Origins of Cosmic Structure

Slides Wills.pdf

14:45 Paul Jennings: Broken Baby Skyrmions

Slides Jennings.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 17:30 Study

17:30 → 18:30 Tutorial

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Friday, 14 September

09:00 → 10:00 Lattice Gauge Theory (Prof. Dr. Luigi Del Debbio)

Lecture notes lect4.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 LHC physics (Dr. Michael Spannowsky)

11:00 → 11:30 Break

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch