Programme 

Programme

The conference will be held over three full days from the 27th to the 29th of November, 2008.

 

There will be an Education Workshop and a conference banquet on the second day of the conference on 28th November, 2008.

 

The cost of the banquet has been included in the registration fee.

                                                                                                                 

  

27th Nov. 2008

Day 1 Program (Thursday) Auditorium

08.00 am

Registration

08.55

Official Opening                         Emcee       

09.00

Welcome by IAS Director           K. K. PHUA    (NTU)

09.10

Speech by Guest-of-Honour     Rear-Admiral (NS) Tuck Yew LUI
                                                   Senior Minister of State

                                                   Ministry of Education           

 

 

Plenary Talk

Chairman of Session:            K. K. PHUA (IAS / Nanyang Tech. University)

09.30

Gerard ‘t HOOFT (Utrecht University) 

Nobel Laureate & Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Professor

Crystalline Gravity (Page 9)  

 

10.15-10.45

Tea Break

 

Invited Talks

Chairman of Session :        N. P. CHANG (City University of New York)

10.45-11.15

Dan GREEN (Fermilab)

The Status of the CMS Experiment (Page 17)  

11.15-11.45

Tatsuya NAKADA (CERN)

Flavor Physics at LHC (Experimental Review) (Page 22)

11.45-12.15

Jim THOMAS (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)

A New State of Matter Discovered at RHIC (Page 23)  

12.15-12-45

Phil YOCK (Auckland University)

The  Interaction : A Critical Test of the Standard Model (Page 26)  

12.45-01.45

Lunch

 

Invited Talks

Chairman of Session :        H. FRITZSCH (University of Munich)      

01.45-02.15

Zhi Zhong XING  (IHEP, Beijing)                        

TeV-Scale Neutrino Physics at the LHC (Page 25)    

02.15-02.45

N. P. CHANG (City University of New York)

The Elusive Neutrino Mass since 1933 (Page 13)  

02.45-03.15

Kazuo FUJIKAWA (Nihon University)

Aspects of Quantum Anomalies and Their Recent Applications (Page 17)  

03.15-03.45

Kamesh C. WALI (Syracuse University)

An E6 Invariant Action Leading to an SU(5) Grand Unification Scheme (Page 24)  

 

03.45-04.15

Tea Break

 

Invited Talks

Chairman of Session :           Z. Z. XING (IHEP, Beijing)

04.15-04.45

Yifang WANG (IHEP Beijing)

Neutrino Oscillation and Its Future (Page 24)  

04.45-05.15

Yongmin CHO (Seoul National University)

Abelian Decomposition of Einstein's Gravity (Page 14)  

05.15-05.45

V. FLAMBAUM (University of New South Wales)

Variation of Fundamental Constants, Violation of P & T Symmetries and Test of Unification Theories in Atomic and Nuclear Phenomena (Page 15)  

 

 

28th Nov. 2008

Day 2 Program (Friday) Auditorium

Plenary Talk

Chairman of Session :           L. N. CHANG (Virginia Tech.)

08.30-09.15am

Harald FRITZSCH (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)                  

Flavor Mixing, Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing Angles (Page 16)  

 

Invited Talks

Chairman of Session :           L. N. CHANG (Virginia Tech.)

09.15-09.45

Paul FRAMPTON (University of North Carolina)

Binary Tetrahedral Group (T) and Cabibbo Angle    (Page 16)  

09.45-10.15

Pauchy W-Y. HWANG (National Taiwan University)

Gauge Symmetry And More … Another Solution To Dark Matter (Page 19)  

 

10.15-10.45

Tea Break

 

Invited Talks

Chairman of Session :           Pauchy W-Y.HWANG (National Taiwan Univ.)

10.45-11.15

Marek KARLINER (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Heavy Quarks Spectroscopy and Prediction of Bottom Baryon Masses (Page 20)  

11.15-11.45

Hitoshi MURAYAMA (University of Tokyo)

Supersymmetry Breaking and Cosmology (Page 21)  

11.45-12.15

Wolfgang HOLLIK (MPI Munich)

Electroweak Precision Physics from LEP to LHC and ILC (Page 18)  

12.15-12-45

Hai-Yang CHENG (Academia Sinica, Taiwan R.O.C.)

Scalar and Pseudoscalar Glueballs (Page 13)  

 

12.45-01.45

Lunch

 

Invited Talks

Chairman of Session :           B. E. BAAQUIE (National Univ. of Singapore)

01.45-02.15

Yasaman FARZAN (Inst. for Research in Fund. Science, Tehran)

A Window on the Beyond Standard Model CP-violating Phases from Lepton Flavor Violating Processes (Page 15)  

02.15-02.45

Yue Liang WU (ITP Beijing)

Fundamentals of QFT for Particles and Space-Time (Page 25)  

02.45-03.15

Parthasarathi MAJUMDAR (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Holography, The Gravity-Gauge Connection and Black Hole Entropy:
A Different View
(Page 20)  

03.15-03.45

Stefan POKORSKI (Warsaw University)

Origin of Fermi Scale - A Challange for LHC (Page 22)  

 

03.45-04.15

Tea Break

 

Invited Talks

Chairman of Session :           K. FUJIKAWA (Nihon University)

04.15-04.45

Artur EKERT (National University of Singapore & Oxford University)

Can Quantum Theory Be Any Different – A Low Energy Perspective? (Page 14)  

04.45-05.15

Vlatko VEDRAL (National University of Singapore & Leeds University)

Entanglement in Field Theory (Page 23)  

 

05.15-05.45

Free Time

05.45

Bus will leave Nanyang Executive Center (NEC) for Banquet Venue

Please meet at the NEC lobby 5.45pm sharp

 

07.00 pm

Raffles Hotel (3rd level Lobby)

07.30-10.00 pm

Conference Banquet

Royal China Restaurant (Musical  Performances)

 

Guest of Honour:  Dr. Guaning SU, President of NTU

A bus will bring participants back to NEC (NTU). Raffles Hotel: 10.30 pm

 

 

29th Nov. 2008

Day 3 Program (Saturday) Auditorium

Plenary Talk

Chairman of Session :            Yongmin CHO (Seoul National University)

08.30-9.15am

Martin PERL (Stanford University)

Nobel Laureate & Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Professor

Can The Existence of Dark Energy Be Directly Detected? (Page 9 

Invited Talks

Chairman of Session :            Yongmin CHO (Seoul National University)

09.15-09.45

Takaaki KAJITA (ICRR University of Tokyo)

Neutrino Oscillations Discovery, Current Status, Future Directions (Page 19)  

 

09.45-10.35

Tea Break

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions

Parallel Talks A (Lecture Room 1)

Parallel Talks B (Lecture Room 2)

 

Chairman of Session : See Kit FOONG

(National Institute of Education, NTU)

 

 

Chairman of Session : Kuldip SINGH

(National University of Singapore, NUS)

 

10.35 am  Andeas DEWANTO

(National University of Singapore)

Oscillatory Moments in Lee-Yang Zeros and LHC Predictions (P31)  

10.35 am  Rajesh R. PARWANI

(National University of Singapore)

Information Theoretic Corrections to Black Hole Entropy (P42)  

10.55 Swee Cheng LIM & Lee Peng TEO

(Multimedia University, Malaysia)

Repulsive Casmir Effect for E & M Fields with
Mixed Boundary Conditions
(P39)  

10.55 Bum-Hoon LEE

(Sogang University)

Giant Magnon and Spike Solutions in String Theories (P38)  

11.15 Manmohan GUPTA

(Panjab University)

Implications of Precision Measurements on  Texture Specific Mass Matrices (P33)  

11.15 Sangmin LEE

(Seoul National University)

New Superconformal Chern Simons Theories and M2 Branes (P39)  

11.35 Yoshio KOIDE

(IHERP, Osaka University)

Neutrino Mass Matrix Related to Up-Quark Masses and Nearly Tribimaximal Mixing (P37)  

11.35 Supriya K. KAR

(University of Delhi)

Noncommutative D-Brane World, Black Holes & Extra Dimensions (P36)  

11.55 Wei Khim NG

(National University of Singapore)

Nonlinear Dirac Equations with Applications to Neutrino Oscillations (P40)  

11.55 Yuan K. HA

(Temple University)

Are Black Holes Elementary Particles? (P33)  

12.15 pm Joe SATO

(Saitama University)

Matter Profile Effect and Parametric Resonance in Neutrino Oscillation (P43)  

12.15 pm Yu CHEN

(National University of Singapore)

Five-dimensional Black Holes with Lens-space Horizon Topology (P30)  

12.35 Zhi Yang LAW

(National University of Singapore)

Neutrino Oscillations in Matter (P38)  

 

 

12.35 to 1.35pm Lunch Break

 

 

12.35 to 1.35pm Lunch Break

 

 

Chairman of Session : Leong Chuan KWEK

(National Institute of Education, NTU)

 

 

Chairman of Session : Rajesh R. PARWANI

(National University of Singapore, NUS)

 

01.35 Wei Tou NI

(Purple Mountain Observatory,CAS, China)

Cosmic Polarization Rotation and Cosmological Models (P41)  

01.35 Ishwaree NEUPANE

(University of Canterbury, NZ) 

Black Holes, Entropy Bound and Causality Violation (P40)  

01.55 Toshifumi JITTOH

(Saitama University)

Cosmological Promising Parameters of Stau in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (P36)  

01.55 Qing Hai WANG

(National University of Singapore)

Fluctuations about the Cosmological Instantons
(P46)  

02.15 Tzu-Chiang YUAN

(Academia Sinica, Taiwan R.O.C.)

Phenomenology of Unparticle Physics (P47)  

02.15 J M S RANA

(H N B Garhwal University, SRT Campus)

Duality, Confinement and Supersymmetry in Restricted Quantum Chromodynamics (P43)  

02.35 Masato YAMANAKA

(Saitama University)

Production Rate of Second KK Gauge Bosons in QED Models at LHC (P46)  

02.35 Logananthan KUPPAN

(National Institute of Education, NTU)

On the non-triviality of the model (New title)
Evidence of Non-Trivial Model (P32)  

02.55 Ikuo S. SOGAMI

(Kyoto Sangyo University)

Gauge Field Theory of Horizontal Flavor Symmetry Generated by a Central Extension of the Pauli Algebra (P44)  

02.55 Takaaki NOMURA

(Saitama University)

Gauge-Higgs Unification Models with Coset Space Dimensional Reduction (P42)  

 

03.15–03.35pm Tea Break

 

 

03.15–03.35pm Tea Break

 

 

Chairman of Session : Cindy NG

(National University of Singapore, NUS)

 

 

Chairman of Session : Jesse GOLDMAN

(National University of Singapore, NUS)

 

03.35 Ho Le Tuan ANH

(National University of Singapore)

Cosmic in homogeneities and Accelerating Expansion (P29)  

03.35 Shoichi ICHINOSE

(University of Shizuoka)

Casimir Energy of AdS5 Electromagnetism and Cosmological Constant Problem (P35)  

03.55 Roh-Suan TUNG

(Shanghai Normal University)

Energy and Angular Momentum in Strong Gravitating system (P45)  

03.55 L.T. HANDOKO

(Indonesia Institute of Science)

Magnetofluid Unification in Yang Mills Lagrangian (P34)  

04.15 Yang-Hwan AHN

(Academia Sinica, Taiwan R.O.C.)

Bridges of Low Energy Observables with Leptogenesis in Mu-Tau Reflection Symmetry (P29)  

04.15 Yu-Kuo HSIAO

(Academia Sinica, Taiwan R.O.C.)

Charmful Three-body Baryonic B decays (P35)  

 

04.35 Vo Van THUAN

(Vietnam-Auger Cosmic Ray Laboratory)

Showing Up the Extra-Dimensions of Electron (P45)  

04.35 Yu-Chun CHEN

(Academia Sinica, Taiwan R.O.C.)

The Loop Corrections to the Parity-Violating Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering (P30)  

04.55 Wei Chang LAI

(National University of Singapore)

Chou-Yang Model and Some LHC Predictions (P37)  

04.55 Fabio SCARDIGLI

(National Taiwan University, Taiwan R.O.C.)

t’ Hooft Quantization Proposal for Interacting Systems (P44)  

 


Poster Sessions

 

a)

Logananthan KUPPAN, National Institute of Education (NIE)

 

On the Triviality of the lj4 Model - Theoretical Foundation and Numerical Verification of a New Approach (Page 51)

 

 

b)

Steven Kenneth, KAUFFMANN

 

Orthodox Quantization of Einstein's Gravity: Might its Unrenormalizability Be Technically Fathomable and Physically Innocuous? (Page 52)

 

 

c)

Steven Kenneth, KAUFFMANN

 

Unambiguous Quantization: The Self-Consistent Slightly Strengthened Canonical Commutation Rule That Dirac Overlooked (Page 53)

 

 

d)

Steven Kenneth, KAUFFMANN

 

Getting Path Integrals Physically and Technically Right (Page 54)

 

 

e)

Ishwaree NEUPANE & Holly TROWLAND

 

Quintessential Solution to Cosmic Acceleration: A Different Story (Page 55)

 

 

 

Below are some information on the optional tour on the fourth day, 30th November, 2008, after the conference.  

 

30th Nov. 2008     Day 4 Program (Sunday)

08.30 am

Please meet at NEC Lobby for Free City Tour of Singapore
(Please register your interest at the booth outside the auditorium for a token sum of S$5/- for our logistic purposes).
2 bottles of New Water will be given to participants

Places to Visit
Mount Faber
Shopping at Vivo City (or Botanic Gardens)  (Lunch on your own)
Marina Bay & City Hall Tour (Esplanade)       (Dinner on your own)

07.30 pm

End of City Tour (Buses will bring you back to NEC)

 Wishing you all the best and a safe journey home.    

 

 

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