Speaker: Satya Gontcho A Gontcho Summary: I will describe the first observations of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of the inter-galactic medium. The analysis uses a large sample of high redshift (z = 2-3) quasars observed by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) to [...]

Speaker: Satya Gontcho A Gontcho Summary: The results obtained from the Baryon acoustic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey in SDSS-III on large-scale structure using the Lyman alpha forest will be discussed. Thanks to [...]

Alberto Casas, IFT Madrid

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I will review the motivations of SUSY, their troubles with LHC results and the theoretical and phenomenological prospects for the future.

Mario Paolucci; CNR, Roma  and ETSE, Valencia. I will shortly introduce the idea of (agent-based) social simulation as a novel research method in the social sciences, from its origins to the recent developments, namely the big data approach and the (failed) FuturICT flagship. To illustrate the difference between the agent-based approach [...]

Doctorate Course: Dark Matter Alejandro Ibarra, Technische Universitat Munchen, Physik Dep. September, 23-27, 2013 [...]

J. R. Espinosa, IFAE, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and [...]

Lorenzo Ubaldi Bonn University, Germany Theories with a dark sector, that communicates with the visible sector only via U(1) kinetic mixing, are interesting because they could provide an explanation for dark matter. If the dark sector contains light particles, these could be produced in the interior of a star and accelerate its cooling. I [...]

Gonzalo Olmo, University of Valencia & IFIC-CSIC (Valencia, Spain). Relaxing the Riemannian condition on the affine connection (Palatini approach) offers new avenues to explore extensions of general relativity (GR) at high energies. Following this basic idea, I study the structure of electrically charged black holes in quadratic [...]

Jacobo López Pavón SISSA and INFN (Trieste) We will review the general phenomenology of neutrinoless double beta decay in seesaw models. In particular, we focus on the dependence of the decay rate on the mass of the extra states introduced to generate the light neutrino masses. The neutrino mass generation mechanism [...]

  Concha González-García, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook, USA; [...]

César Gómez, Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid.

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We will discuss the possibility of UV completing gravity without
adding any extra degree of freedom and some implications of this
approach.

 

Peter Goldreich (Professor at Caltech & IAS, Princeton) has worked on orbital dynamics, solar rotation, magnetospheres, pulsars, astronomical masers, circumstellar disks, solar oscillations, planetary rings, shepherd satellites, interstellar turbulence, white-dwarf pulsations. His list of awards includes the National Medal of Science in 1995. In [...]

Deda Gillespie &  Daniel Goldrecih  (McMaster U.) Informal discussion on neuroscience research programs: a) Neural development, plasticity, and sensory processing b) Tactile perception from the points of view of physics (the mechanical stimulus to the skin), neurophysiology (the neural response), and probability calculus (the perceptual [...]

11:30 - 12:00:  Charla de Michael Gabler Título: Neutron star seismology with magnetar oscillations  Abstract:[...]

Ruben Requejo Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. I will present evolutionary game theory as a framework to model evolution, both social and biological, in which the basic properties that define complex systems can be studied, including the emergence of collective phenomena from the interaction of many lower level units. I will focus [...]

Speaker: Sandro Bettini (Canfranc & Padova U.) Ten Lectures on Subnuclear Physics in the 1970s by Sandro Bettini (Canfranc & Padova U.) IFIC [...]

Nassim Bozorgnia, Max-Planck-Institut für KernPhysik at Heidelberg. In analyzing data from dark matter direct detection experiments, usually the Standard Halo Model with a Maxwellian velocity distribution is assumed. However, very little is known about the dark matter velocity distribution, and this results in significant uncertainty in [...]

Speaker: Rien van de Weygaert Abstract : Underdense regions in the universe contain a wealth of cosmological information. They emerge and evolve in a hierarchical fashion, and as mature voids form a dominant component of the large scale [...]

Fabio Iocco IFT, Madrid Current LCDM cosmological paradigm describes most of the Universe's matter content as made of an unknown, non-electromagnetically interacting, non-baryonic (*dark*) component. The nature of the Dark Matter particle is studied through a host of diverse technique, including direct production at LHC, [...]

Nicolao Fornengo, University of Torino and INFN - Torino. The search for antideuterons in cosmic rays has been proposed as a promising channel for dark matter indirect detection, especially for relic particles with a low or intermediate mass. With the current operational phase of AMS-02 and the ongoing development of a future dedicated [...]

Lorenzo Sorbo, University of Massachusetts Amherst  The existence of a primordial spectrum of gravitational waves is a generic prediction of inflation, and several CMB experiments are going after their signatures. Here I will discuss how the coupling of a pseudoscalar inflaton to a gauge field can induce, in a [...]

What the Higgs has to say about New Physics by Veronica Sanz Abstract: In this seminar we will discuss the discovery of the Higgs particle. We will review the current understanding of its properties, and the prospects of using Higgs data to learn about new principles in Nature. We [...]

Speakers: Jukka Henry P Nevalainen Tartu Observatory, Estonia Abstract: Concordance cosmology predicts that 4-5% of the matter of the Universe is baryonic. Yet, only 50% of these have been [...]

Hot and dense QCD after the LHC first running period by Carlos Salgado López Abstract: I will review the status of QCD in the conditions of high temperature and high density QCD with especial emphasis on the theoretical developments of the last years and the experimental data available from the LHC [...]

Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector by Francis Halzen (Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and Department [...]

Francisco Villaescusa Navarro (Triestre obs) Abstract: I will present the effects induced by massive neutrinos on the clustering properties of dark matter halos, showing that for cosmologies with massive neutrinos, the bias between the spatial distribution of those and the spatial distribution of the underlying matter depends on [...]

Luigi del Debbio, University of Edinburgh

Jordi Salvado -  University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Abstract:  Recently IceCube collaboration presented the evidence for high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos, the nature of these neutrinos is still unknown and opens the possibility to new physics explanations. In this talk I will present a geometric analysis of the sky map of the IceCube [...]

DAEdALUS and IsoDAR – Cyclotron Based Neutrino Sources by Daniel Winklehner by Daniel Winklehner (MIT) [...]

Michele Della Morte,University of Southern Denmark, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science. We consider a non-perturbative formulation of an SU(2) massive gauge theory on a space-time lattice, which is also a discretised gauged non-linear chiral model. The lattice model is shown to have an exactly conserved global SU(2) symmetry. If a scaling region for the lattice [...]