Luis Labarga, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid   I analyze the current approaches world wide to the measurement. Politics and socioeconomic aspects are important. But Feasibility, Scientific Return, Willingness & Push, and Scientific Policy are crucial. Currently I see only one project with which I could [...]

Roberto Emparan ICREA (Barcelona)   Ninety-nine years after Einstein formulated General Relativity, the pivotal role of its most fundamental and fascinating objects --- the black holes --- is nowadays recognized in many areas of physics, even beyond astrophysics and cosmology. Still, solving the theory that governs their dynamics remains a formidable [...]

Antonio Turiel Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, CSIC; Barcelona   Due to the severe economical crisis in which we are all embedded since some years ago, we are continuously being assaulted by news informing us about many details on the the evolution of our economy and the financial market. These news include a plethora of economic terms which are [...]

Joerg Jaeckel University of Heidelberg   Very light bosons, produced non-thermally in the early Universe are an intriguing possibility for the cold dark matter of the Universe. Particularly interesting candidates are axions, axion-like particles and hidden photons. This talk will discuss the current status of such light dark matter with a particular [...]

Diego Rasskin-Gutman   ICBiBE, Universidad de Valencia   Biology, the science of life, has borrowed many theoretical insights and mathematical tools to try to make sense of how living organisms came to be, keep their integrity, and evolve. Galileo's eloquent view of the "book of nature" [...]

Giovanni Carugno INFN, Padua   An outstanding result of the modern cosmology shows us that a significant fraction of the universe is made of dark matter. However, the nature of such component is still unknown, apart its gravitational interaction with ordinary barionic matter. A favored candidate for dark matter is  [...]

Javier Virto University of Siegen (Germany)   Tests of the Standard Model with Flavor Physics push the scale of "generic" New Physics to 10^4 or even 10^5 TeV. However, some recent tensions in flavor observables could be pointing to relatively light new physics with a curious flavor structure, even breaking lepton-flavor [...]

Aaron Vincent IPPP, Durham   The recent detection of 37 high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin by the IceCube experiment at the South Pole has signalled the beginning of high-energy neutrino astronomy. At these energies, neutrinos are expected to be produced by pion disintegration after production in high-energy sources. This [...]

Soebur Razzaque University of Johannesburg   IceCube Neutrino Observatory has recently detected over 30 very high-energy neutrino events which are most likely of cosmic origin.  Due to poor angular resolution of cascade-type events, which dominate the event list, identification of astrophysical source(s) as origin of [...]

Goran Senjanovic Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila & International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste; Italy   It is becoming increasingly plausible that the Higgs mechanism in the context of the Standard Model provides the origin of gauge boson and charged fermion masses, as tested through the decays of the Goldstone-Higgs-Weinberg [...]

Oscar Catá Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich   The existence of dark matter is one of the main reasons to believe that the Standard Model of particle physics needs to be extended. While phenomenologically it is not complicated to devise scenarios which are compatible with the present bounds from indirect and direct [...]