Blois 2011 Program (May 30)

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Opening Session chair: Jean Trân Thanh Vân
09:00 - 09:20	Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT, Univ. Orsay)	Welcome
09:20 - 09:45	Marc Gricourt (Mayor of Blois)	Welcome
09:45 - 10:30	Coffee Break
Tevatron, LHC, and DM in Cosmology chair: Boaz Klima
10:30 - 11:00	Paul Grannis (Stony Brook)	25 Years of Physics at the Tevatron	pdf
11:00 - 11:30	Tom LeCompte (Argonne)	QCD at Hadron Colliders	ppt
11:30 - 12:00	Rohini Godbole (Bangalore & Utrecht)	Review of SUSY and Extra Dimensions	pdf
12:00 - 12:30	Joseph Silk (Oxford)	Dark Matters in Cosmology	pdf
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch at the Chateau
QCD, Electroweak, and Higgs chair: Karl Jakobs
14:15 - 14:45	Nigel Glover (Durham)	Recent develeopments in (p)QCD	pdf
14:45 - 15:15	Marco Verzocchi (FNAL)	Status of Electroweak Physics	pdf
15:15 - 15:45	Giovanni Punzi (Pisa)	Searches for the Higgs Boson	pdf
15:45 - 16:15	Coffee Break
Top Quark Physics chair: Paul Grannis
16:15 - 16:45	Fabio Maltoni (Louvain)	Review of Top Quark Physics - Theory	pdf
16:45 - 17:15	Meenakshi Narain (Brown)	Review of Top Quark Physics - Experiment	pdf
17:15 - 17:45	Conference Photograph
18:00 - 19:30	Visit of the Chateau de Blois
20:00 - 22:00	Dinner at the Chateau

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Heavy Flavour Physics chair: Bolek Pietrzyk
09:00 - 09:30	Andrei Golutvin (ITEP, Imperial)	CP Violation and CKM Parameters	pdf
09:30 - 10:00	Eric Swanson (Pitsburgh)	HF Spectroscopy	pdf
10:00 - 10:30	Toru Iijima (Nagoya)	Beyond Standard Model physics at LHC and at future B factories	pdf
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
Heavy Ion Physics chair: Mikhail Itkis

11:00 - 11:30	Constantin Loizides (LBNL)	Recent Heavy Ion Results from the LHC and RHIC	pdf
11:30 - 12:00	Carlos Salgado (Santiago de Compostela)	Understanding the Physics of Heavy Ion Collisions	pdf
12:00 - 12:30	Yaron Oz (Tel Aviv)	Holographic Hydrodynamics and Applications to RHIC and LHC	pdf
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch at the Chateau
Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model chair: Christophe Grojean
14:00 - 14:30	Oliver Buchmüller (Imperial)	Searches for SUSY	pdf
14:30 - 15:00	Alex Pomarol (Barcelona)	Strong Dynamics and New Electroweak Models	pdf
15:00 - 15:30	Anyes Taffard (UC Irvine)	Searches for Non-SUSY	pdf
15:30 - 16:00	Steve Myers (CERN)	The LHC Accelerator: Performance and Plans	pptx
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
4 Parallel sessions (QCD+HF, EW+Top+Higgs, Neutrinos, BSM+DM)
16:30 - 19:30	Parallel Sessions on: QCD+HF EW+Top+Higgs Neutrinos BSM+DM
20:00 - 22:00	Dinner at the Chateau

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Excursion (Chenonceau and Clos Lucé)



08:00 - 12:30	Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé



12:30 - 14:00	Lunch at the Chateau
4 Parallel Sessions (QCD+HF, EW+Top+Higgs, Cosmo+Astro, BSM+DM)

14:00 - 16:00	Parallel Sessions on: QCD+HF EW+Top+Higgs Cosmo+Astro BSM+DM
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 19:30	Parallel Sessions on: QCD+HF EW+Top+Higgs Cosmo+Astro BSM+DM
20:00 - 22:00	Dinner at the Chateau

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Neutrino Physics chair: Sotiris Loucatos
08:30 - 09:00	Eligio Lisi (INFN, Bari)	Neutrino Mass-Mixing Parameters: Global Analysis and Short-Term Prospects	pdf
09:00 - 09:30	Manfred Lindner (Heidelberg)	Non-standard Physics Probed by Neutrinos	pdf
09:30 - 10:00	Silvia Pascoli (Durham)	Neutrino Mixing Parameters: Long-Term Projects	pdf
10:00 - 10:30	Cecilia Lunardini (ASU, Arizona)	Supernova Neutrinos	pdf
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
New Developments in HEP Theory chair: Chung-I Tan
11:00 - 11:30	John Terning (UC Davis)	Monopole-Condensation Induced EW Symmetry Breaking	pdf
11:30 - 12:00	Petr Horava (UC Berkeley)	Gravity with Anisotropic Scaling	pdf
12:00 - 12:30	Cesar Gomez (Madrid)	UV Completion by Classicalization	pdf
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch at the Chateau
Cosmology/Astrophysics/DM (part I) chair: Thomas Lohse
14:00 - 14:30	Uwe Oberlack (Mainz)	Overview of Direct Dark Matter Searches	pdf
14:30 - 15:00	John Gunion (UC Davis)	Interpretation of Results from Direct Dark Matter Searches	pdf
15:00 - 15:30	Guillaume Patanchon (APC, Paris)	Results from PLANCK	pdf
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
Discussion about Physics in Vietnam chair: Meenakshi Narain
16:00 - 16:30	Several Speakers	Examples for Cooperation between Vietnamese Institutions and Western Ones
16:30 - 17:00	Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT, Univ. Orsay)	The New Science Center at Quy Nhon
17:00 - 17:30	All Participants	Discussion about the Future of Physics in Vietnam

20:00 - 24:00	Cocktail and Conference Dinner at the Chateau

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Cosmology/Astrophysics/DM (part II) chair: Ludwik Celnikier
09:00 - 09:30	Marek Kowalski (Bonn)	Cosmology - Observational Results and Cosmological Parameters	pdf
09:30 - 10:00	Pierre Binétruy (APC, Paris)	Dark Energy - Alternative Theoretical Approaches	pdf
10:00 - 10:30	Luciano Rezzolla (MPI-AEI)	Compact Objects and Gravitational Waves	pdf
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break

Cosmology/Astrophysics/DM (part III) chair: Victor Matveev
11:00 - 11:30	Matteo Barsuglia (APC, Paris)	Gravitational Waves - Results and Plans	pdf
11:30 - 12:00	Teresa Montaruli (Madison)	The Search for Cosmic Ray Sources and Recent IceCube Results	pdf
12:00 - 12:30	Guenter Sigl (Hamburg)	Searches for astroparticle physics beyond the standard model	pdf

12:30 - 14:00	Lunch at the Chateau

Summary and Conclusion chair: Jean Trân Thanh Vân

14:30 - 15:30	Joe Lykken (FNAL)	Highlights and Perspectives	pdf
15:30 - 15:45	Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT, Univ. Orsay)	Concluding Remarks


16:00	End of the Conference