IX International Conference on
Particles, Strings and Cosmology
January 3-8, 2003 (TIFR, Mumbai)
Program    

Early Registration: Thursday January 2, AG 80 (15:00-18:00)

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Morning
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Inauguration
  Venue: Auditorium
09:00 Welcome D.P.Roy (05')
09:05 Inauguration S.Bhattacharya (10')
09:15 Opening Remarks V.Singh (15')
 
 
09:30 - 11:00 Opening Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: V. Singh
09:30 Experimental and Phenomenological Status of Neutrino Anomalies S.Pakvasa (45')
10:15 Overview of Future Neutrino Experiments M.Goodman (45')
 
11:00 - 11:30 Welcome Tea
 
11:30 - 13:00 Plenary Session II
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: B. C. Sinha
11:30 Solar Neutrino Oscillation PhenomenologyS.Goswami (45')
12:15 Models of Neutrino Mass and Mixing R.N.Mohapatra (45')
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
 
Afternoon
 
14:30 - 16:00 Plenary Session III
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: G.Rajasekaran
14:30 Leptonic Flavour and CP violation Y. Grossman (45')
15:15 Observational Status and Interpretation of GRB T. Piran (45')
 
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:30 - 18:00 Plenary Session IV
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: S.R.Wadia
16:30 Black Hole, Quantum Mechanics and Determinism G. 'tHooft (45')
17:15 Tachyon Condensation in String Theory A. Sen (45')
 
   

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Morning
 
09:30 - 11:00 Plenary Session V
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: S.N. Ganguli
09:30 Precision Test of the Standard Model, the Higgs and New Physics G.Altarelli (45')
10:15 Standard Model and SUSY Higgs J.Gunion (45')
 
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 13:00 Plenary Session VI
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: A.Skuja
11:30 Higgs Physics at Future Colliders A.Djouadi (45')
12:15 Higgs Search at LHC S.Dasu (45')
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Afternoon
 
14:30 - 16:00 Plenary Session VII
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: J.Cline
14:30 Leptogenesis E.A.Paschos (45')
15:15 Baryogenesis and the New Cosmology M.Troden (45')
 
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:30 - 18:40 Parallel Sessions
16:30 - 18:40 Experimental Results on Higgs and SUSY
  Venue: AG 76
  Chairperson: A.Gurtu
16:30 Search for Neutral Higgs Boson at LEP P.Igo-Kemmes (25')
16:55 Searches for Higgs beyond SM and MSSM at LEP P.Gagnon (25')
17:20 Prospects for Higgs Searches at D0 S.Synder (15')
17:35 SUSY Searches at LEP E.Duchovni (25')
18:00 SUSY at D0: Results and Future Prospects at Run II A.Besson (15')
18:15 Searches for Physics Beyond the SM in ffbar Production J.Holt (15')
18:30 Search for ttbar Resonances in D0 S.Jain (10')
16:30 - 18:30 Phenomenological Studies of Neutrino and Higgs
  Venue: AG 69
  Chairperson: A.Joshipura
16:30 Inconsistencies in Interpreting the Atmospheric
Neutrino Anomaly		 J.LoSecco (15')
16:45 Bilarge Neutrino Mixings by Radiative Magnification M.K.Parida (15')
17:00 Radiative Stability of Neutrino-Mass Textures G.Rajasekharan (15')
17:15 Probing the Origin of Seesaw Mechanism through Lepton Flavour Violation K.S.Babu (15')
17:30 Implications on Neutrino Oscillation plus Decay from Recent Solar Neutrino Data D.Indumathi (15')
17:45 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with Negligible Neutrino Mass B.Bramahchari (15')
18:00 T Invariance of Higgs Interactions in the Standard Model P.Mitra (15')
18:15 Heavy Higgs Bosons at a Linear Collider D.Choudhuri (15')
16:30 - 18:10 String Session I
  Venue: AG 80
  Chairperson: D.Ghoshal
16:30 p-p' Branes in PP-wave Background K.L.Panigrahi (20')
16:50 D-Brane Solutions in PP-wave Background R.R. Nayak (20')
17:10 Logarithmic Correction to Blackhole Entropy and ADS/CFT Correspondence S.S. Pal (20')
17:30 Black Holes in Brane Worlds G.Sengupta (20')
17:50 Black Holes and Calogero Models K.S.Gupta (20')
16:30 - 18:30 Cosmology Session I
  Venue: D 405
  Chairperson: V. Sahni
16:30 Scalar Field Dynamics on a Brane A.Toporensky (20')
16:50 Brane Dynamics in the Randall-Sundrum Model, Inflation and Graceful Exit D.Choudhury (20')
17:10 Probing Cold Dark Matter Substructure with Gravitational Lensing N.Dalal (20')
17:30 A Five Dimensional Model of Varying Fine Structure Constant J.P.Mbelek (20')
17:50 Domination of Black Hole Accretion in Brane Cosmology A.S.Majumdar (20')
18:10 A Concordant Linearly Coasting Cosmology A.Mukherjee (20')
19:00 - 20:30 Cultural Programme
21:00 Welcome Dinner
   

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Morning
 
09:30 - 11:00 Plenary Session VIII
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: A.Dutta
09:30 SUSY and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking S.Pokorski (45')
10:15 SUSY Searches at Future Colliders X.Tata (45')
 
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 13:00 Plenary Session IX
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: T.Ferbel
11:30 Grand Unification: Current Status and a Perspective J.C.Pati (45')
12:15 Phenomenology of Minimal SO(10) SUSY Model S.Raby (45')
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Afternoon
 
14:30 - 16:00 Plenary Session X
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: P. Bhattacharjee
14:30 Dark Matter Theory L.Roszkowski (45')
15:15 SUSY Dark Matter - A Collider Physicist's Perspective M. Nojiri (45')
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:30 - 19:10 Parallel Sessions
16:30 - 18:55 Heavy Flavour Experiments
  Venue: AG 76
  Chairperson: T.Aziz
16:30 Radiative Width Measurements of Excited Kaons (kTeV) S.Somalwar (15')
16:45 NA48 Results on Neutral Kaon Rare Decays N.Cartiglia (15')
17:00 Rare Kaon Decay (E787/E949) B.Bhuyan (15')
17:15 Measurement of Direct CP Violation in K Decays W.Wislicki (25')
17:40 Studies of Radiative Penguin B Decays (BaBar) J.LoSecco (15')
17:55 Direct CP violation searches with BaBar F.Palombo (15')
18:10 B Decays for the Determination of Gamma S.Bailey (15')
18:25 V_ub Measurement with the Belle Detector G.Majumder (15')
18:40 New Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at D0 G.Gutierrez (15')
16:30 - 18:30 Supersymmetry Phenomenology
  Venue: AG 69
  Chairperson: R.M.Godbole
16:30 Supersymmetric Fits to Tevatron Lepton(s)/Gamma(s)/Missing E_T Events B.C.Allanach (15')
16:45 Higgs Production in the 1 TeV Domain as a Probe of SUSY Models C.Verzegnassi (15')
17:00 Study of Third Generation Squarks at LHC M.M.Nojiri (15')
17:15 Constraints on Sparticle Spectrum in Different Supersymmetry Breaking Models P.N.Pandita (15')
17:30 Supersymmetric Dark Matter with Non-Universal Gaugino Masses and Yukawa Unifications U.Chattopadhyay (15')
17:45 Required Experimental Accuracy to Select between Supersymmetrical Models D.Grellscheid (15')
18:00 Are Light Sneutrinos Buried in LEP Data? A.Dutta (15')
18:15 Novel Aspects of a Completely Quantum Mechanical Analysis of the Muon (g-2) Experiment? Y.Srivastava (15')
16:30 - 18:30 String Session II
  Venue: AG 80
  Chairperson: Sudhakar Panda
16:30 Giant Gravitons in String Theory from Observables in Super-Yang Mills and Chern Simons S.Ramgoolam (20')
16:50 N=1 Super QCD and Fractional Branes F.Pezzella (20')
17:10 The Gravity Dual of the Non-perturbative N=2 SUSY Yang-Mills Theory S.Naik (20')
17:30 Orientifolds of Type IIA Strings on Calabi-Yau Manifolds S.Govindrajan (20')
17:50 String Propagation in Plane Waves with Weak Null Singularities J.David (20')
18:10 Membranes and Yang-Mills Theory M.Cederwall (20')
16:30 - 19:10 Cosmology Session II
  Venue: D 405
  Chairperson: S.Mahajan
16:30 Cosmological Aspects of a Rolling Tachyon M.Tytgat (20')
16:50 Baryogenesis via Density Fluctuations with a Second Order Electroweak Phase Transition B.Layek (20')
17:10 Aspects of Tachyonic Inflation with Exponential Potential M.Sami (20')
17:30 Leptogenesis with Left-Right Domain Walls U.A.Yajnik (20')
17:50 Cosmology with Tachyon Field as Dark Energy H.K.Jassal (20')
18:10 Mass Radius Characteristics and Radial Oscillations of Hybrid Stars A.Goyal (20')
18:30 Mimicking TransPlanckian Effects in the CMB with Conventional Physics J.Cline (20')
18:50 Normal Parameters for Super Radical Compression of CMB Data M.Kaplinghat (20')
   

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Morning
 
09:30 - 11:00 Plenary Session XI
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: V.S.Narsimham
09:30 Astrophysics of UHE Cosmic Rays E.Waxman (45')
10:15 UHE Cosmic Rays - Particle Physics Models M.Drees (45')
 
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 13:00 Plenary Session XII
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: J.Maharana
11:30 Supersymmetry Breaking with Extra Dimensions F.Zwirner (45')
12:15 New Compactifications of Super-String Theory S.Trivedi (45')
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Afternoon
 
14:30 - 16:10 Parallel Sessions
14:30 - 16:05 QCD/QGP/New Physics
  Venue: AG 76
  Chairperson: S.C. Tonwar
14:30 Searches for Extra Dimension on ATLAS A.Gupta (15')
14:45 Quarkonia: A Status Report K.K.Seth (20')
15:05 Latest Results on Anomalous J/psi Suppression (NA50) S.Ramos (15')
15:20 Fluctuations as a Probe of QCD Phase Transition T.Nayak (15')
15:35 Neutrino Oscillations and MiniBooNE P.Kasper (15')
15:50 Search for Quantum Gravity Effects in AGN Flares M.Tripathi (15')
14:30 - 16:00 QCD and B physics
  Venue: AG 69
  Chairperson: A. Raychaudhuri
14:30 Two Loop QCD Corrections to Higgs Production at LHC V.Ravindran (15')
14:45 Soft Parton Radiation for Interjet Energy Flows M.Dasgupta (15')
15:00 QCD Corrections to Resonant Slepton Production in Hadron Colliders S.Majhi (15')
15:15 Possibility of Extracting the Weak Phase Gamma from Lambda_b -> Lambda D^0 Decays R.Mohanta (15')
15:30 An Asymptotic Freedom Inspired Extension of the Standard Model N.D.Hari Daas (15')
15:45 Pseudoscalar-Photon Mixing and the Large Scale Alignment of Quasar Optical Polarisation P.Jain (15')
14:30 - 16:00 Particle/String/Cosmology Interface
  Venue: AG 80
  Chairperson: S. Raychaudhuri
14:30 Cancellation of Global Anomalies in Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories M.Fabbrichesi (15')
14:45 Spacetime Torsion in a Randall-Sundrum Scenario S.Sengupta (15')
15:00 Gauge Coupling Renormalisation in AdS_5 I-W.Kim (15')
15:15 Non-abelian Orbifold Symmetry Breaking of E_6 K.Whang (15')
15:30 Realistic Construction of Split Fermion Models G.Perez (15')
15:45 Constraints on Self-interacting Q-ball Dark Matter A.Jokinen (15')
14:30 - 16:10 Cosmology Session III
  Venue: D 406
  Chairperson: S.M.Chitre
14:30 Neutrino-Antineutrino Asymmetry around Rotating Black Hole B.Mukhopadhyay (20')
14:50 Brane-Production and Neutrino-Nucleon Cross Section
at Ultra High Energies in Low Scale Gravity Models		 S.Panda (20')
15:10 Statistical Isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background T.Souradeep (20')
15:30 Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and TeV Gamma Rays from Gamma Ray Bursts P.Bhattacharjee (20')
15:50 Late Time Gauge-Phase Transition as Dark Energy A.de-la-Macorra (20')
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
 
16:30 - 18:00 Public Lecture
  Venue: Auditorium
  The Universe inside the Atom G.'tHooft
 
18:30 - 22:00 Outing and Dinner
   

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Morning
 
09:30 - 11:00 Plenary Session XIII
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: Probir Roy
09:30 CP Violation in B-Physics M.Gronau (45')
10:15 Recent Results from Belle H.Yamamoto (45')
 
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 13:00 Plenary Session XIV
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: C. Verzegnassi
11:30 Recent Results from BaBar G.Vasileiadis (45')
12:15 Lattice Matrix Elements and CP Violation in B and K Physics A.Soni (45')
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Afternoon
 
14:30 - 16:00 Plenary Session XV
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: R.V.Gavai
14:30 Results from RHIC T.Ullrich (45')
15:15 Phases of QCD Matter K.Rajgopal (45')
 
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:30 - 18:30 Plenary Session XVI
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: K.C.Wali
16:30 Phenomenological Overview of Cosmology: from CMB to Galaxy Formation J.Silk (50')
17:30 Theoretical Overview of Cosmology A.A.Starobinsky (50')
 
19:30 - 22:00 Conference Banquet
   

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Morning
 
09:30 - 11:00 Plenary Session XVII
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: D.Bailin
09:30 TeV Scale Strings I.Antoniadis (45')
10:15 Transplanckian Collisions R.Rattazzi (45')
 
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 13:00 Plenary Session XVIII
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: F. Pezzella
11:30 Unification and Neutrinos from Extra Dimensions E.Dudas (45')
12:15 Models of SUSY Breaking M.Luty (45')
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Afternoon
 
14:30 - 15:30 Concluding Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: A.Khare
14:30 Inflation S.King (45')
15:15 Conference Windup   (15')

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