GRAVITY, COSMOLOGY & PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL
11-15 June, 2018
Amphi Charpak, UPMC, Paris - France

Programme


Monday 11
09:00 - 10:00 REGISTRATION  
10:00 - 11:30 On the Weak Gravity Conjecture and some of its implications A. Hebecker (Heidelberg)
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break  
12:00 - 12:45 LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave detections: implications for fundamental physics and cosmology E. Porter (APC)
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Black Hole Genesis of Dark Matter J. March-Russel (Oxford)
15:15 - 16:00 A New Framework for Strong CP and Unification L. Hall (UC Berkeley)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break  
16:30 - 17:15 Test of Binary Mergers in Hierarchical Triples L. Randall (Harvard)
17:15 - 19:00 Welcome drink  
 
Tuesday 12
09:00 - 10:30 Massive gravity with a higher strong scale G. Gabadadze (NYU)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 - 11:45 Higgs (self)couplings, neutron-antineutron oscillations and primordial BH C. Grojean (DESY)
11:45 - 12:30 Dark Matter Superfluidity and Galactic Dynamics L. Berezhiani (MPP, Munich)
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:15 Proof of the Weak Gravity Conjecture from Black Hole Entropy G. Remmen (Berkeley)
15:15 - 16:00 Primordial black holes from axionic cosmic defects O. Pujolas (Autonoma Barcelona)
16:00 - 16:45 Coffee Break  
16:45 - 17:30 Black holes as brains: Holographic neural networks with area-law entropy and exponentially enhanced memory capacity G. Dvali (LMU, Munich/NYU)
 
Wednesday 13
09:00 - 10:30 ĘŚ N. Kaloper (UC Davis)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 - 11:45 Holographic self tuning of the cosmological constant C. Charmousis (Universite d'Orsay)
11:45 - 12:30 Neutron stars chirp about vacuum energy C. Csaki (Cornell)
  FREE AFTERNOON  
 
Thursday 14
09:00 - 10:30 New Experimental Searches for Dark Matter S. Rajendran (UC Berkeley)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 - 11:45 Quantum gravity constraints on Particle Physics L. Ibanez (Autnoma, Madrid)
11:45 - 12:30 Holographic conformal to non-conformal transition and light scalars A. Pomarol (Autonoma Barcelona)
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:15 Naturalness in the Multicritical Universe P. Horava (UC Berkeley)
15:15 - 16:00 Beyond Amplitudes’ Positivity and the Fate of Massive Gravity B. Bellazzini (Saclay)
16:00 - 16:45 Coffee Break  
16:45 - 17:30 From fakeons and Lee-Wick models to quantum gravity D. Anselmi (Universityt of Pisa)
19:30 - ... Conference Dinner at Restaurant ''Le Train Bleu''  
 
Friday 15
09:00 - 10:30 New Approaches to the Hierarchy Problem N. Craig (UC Santa Barbara)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 - 11:45 Holography, graviphotons and dark photons M. Bianchi (Rome Tor Vergata)
11:45 - 12:30 Progress on relaxation and bouncing D. Kaplan (Johns Hopkins U.)
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:15 Supercooled electroweak phase transition G. Servant (DESY)
15:15 - 16:00 Naturalizing SUSY with the Relaxion and Inflaton T. Gherghetta (U. Minnesota)
16:00 - 16:45 Coffee Break  
16:45 - 17:30 Horava-Lifshitz cosmology revisited S. Mukohyama (Yukawa Institute)