IX International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology

January 3-8, 2003 (TIFR, Mumbai)







Friday, January 3 
 
 
08:00-09:00 Arrival/Registration
 
09:00-11:00 Opening Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: V. Singh
09:00 Welcome and Introduction   (30')
09:30 Experimental and Phenomenological Status of Neutrino Anomalies S.Pakvasa (40')
10:15 Overview of Future Neutrino Experiments M.Goodman (40')
 
11:00-11:30 Welcome Tea
 
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: B. Sinha
11:30 Solar Neutrino Oscillations Phenomenology S.Goswami (40')
12:15 Models of Neutrino Mass and Mixing R.N.Mohapatra (40')
 
13:00-14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
14:30-16:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: G. Rajasekharan
14:30 Leptonic Flavour and CP violation Y.Grossman (40')
15:15 Observational Status and Interpretation of GRB T.Piran (40')
 
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:30-18:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: S.R. Wadia
16:30 Black Hole, Quantum Mechanics and Determinism G.'tHooft (40')
17:15 Tachyon Condensation in String Theory A.Sen (40')








Saturday, January 4 
 
 
09:30-11:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: S.N. Ganguli
09:30 Precision Tests of the Standard Model, the Higgs and New Physics G.Altarelli (40')
10:15 Standard Model and SUSY Higgs J.Gunion (40')
 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: A. Skuja
11:30 Higgs Physics at Future Colliders A.Djouadi (40')
12:15 Higgs Search at LHC S.Dasu (40')
 
13:00-14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
14:30-16:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: J. Cline
14:30 Leptogenesis E.A.Paschos (40')
15:15 Baryogenesis and the New Cosmology M.Trodden (40')
 
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:30-18:40 Parallel Sessions
 
16:30-18:40 Experimental Results on Higgs and SUSY
  Venue: AG76
  Chairperson: A. Gurtu
16:30 Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons 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.Snyder (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 Study of neutrino and Higgs
  Venue: AG69
  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.Rajasekaran (15')
17:15 Probing the Origin of Seesaw Mechanism through Lepton Flavor 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.Brahmachari (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.Choudhury (15')
 
16:30-18:10 String Session 1
  Venue: AG80
  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 Logarithimic 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')
 
16:30-18:10 Cosmology Session 1
  Venue: D405
  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
 







Sunday, January 5 
 
 
09:30-11:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: A. Datta
09:30 SUSY and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking S.Pokorski (40')
10:15 SUSY Searches at Future Colliders X.Tata (40')
 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: T. Ferbel
11:30 Grand Unification: Current Status and a Perspective J.C.Pati (40')
12:15 Phenomenology of Minimal SO(10) SUSY Model S.Raby (40')
 
13:00-14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
14:30-16:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: M. Nojiri
14:30 Dark Matter Experiments H.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (40')
15:15 Dark Matter Theory L.Roszkowski (40')
 
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:30-19:10 Parallel Sessions
 
16:30-18:55 Heavy Flavour Experiments
  Venue: AG76
  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.Gutirrez (15')
 
16:30-18:30 Supersymmetry Phenomenology
  Venue: AG69
  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 domanin 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.Datta (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 2
  Venue: AG80
  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.Govindarajan (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 2
  Venue: D405
  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')








Monday, January 6 
 
 
09:30-11:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: V.S. Narasimham
09:30 Astrophysics of UHE Cosmic Rays E.Waxman (40')
10:15 UHE Cosmic Rays - Particle Physics Models M.Drees (40')
 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: J. Maharana
11:30 Supersymmetry Breaking with Extra Dimensions F.Zwirner (40')
12:15 New Compactifications of Super-String Theory S.Trivedi (40')
 
13:00-14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
14:30-16:10 Parallel Sessions
 
14:30-16:05 QCD/QGP/New Physics
  Venue: AG76
  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: AG69
  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 Dass (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: AG80
  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 renormalization 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 3
  Venue: D406
  Chairperson: S. M. Chitre
14:30 Neutrino-Antineutrino asymmetry around rotating black hole B.Mukhopadhyay (20')
14:50 Brane-Production and Neutrino-Nucleon crss 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
 








Tuesday, January 7 
 
09:30-11:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: F. Feruglio
09:30 CP Violation in B-Physics M.Gronau (40')
10:15 Recent Results from Belle H.Yamamoto (40')
 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: C. Verzegnassi
11:30 Recent Results from BaBar G.Vasileiadis (40')
12:15 Lattice Matrix Elements and CP Violation in B and K Physics A.Soni (40')
 
13:00-14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
14:30-16:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: R.V. Gavai
14:30 Results from RHIC T.Ullrich (40')
15:15 Phases of QCD Matter K.Rajagopal (40')
 
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:30-18:30 Plenary Session
  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
 










Wednesday, January 8 
 
09:30-11:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: D. Bailin
09:30 TeV Scale Strings I.Antoniadis (40')
10:15 Transplanckian Collisions R.Rattazzi (40')
 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: F. Pezzella
11:30 Unification and Neutrinos from Extra Dimensions E.Dudas (40')
12:15 Models of SUSY Breaking M.Luty (40')
 
13:00-14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
14:30-15:30 Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: A. Khare
14:30 Inflation S.King (40')
15:15 Conference Windup (15')