Main Session 

Main Session

(Updated 08 March 2010)

Day 1 Program: 24th February 2010 (Wednesday)         Venue: Auditorium

Invited Talks

Chairman: Bertil Andersson

08:00-08:30 am

Arrival of Guests

08:30-08:45 am

Opening Address by Su Guaning, President NTU

08:45-09:00 am

Speech by Bertil Andersson, Provost NTU

09:00-09:10 am

Francis Yeoh (National Research Foundation, Singapore)    
Strengthening Research. Growing Innovation and Enterprise

09:10-09:20 am

Teck Seng Low (Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore)
The Nexus of Science: Key to Spawning New Innovations and Discoveries

09:20-09:30 am

Choy Heng Lai (National University of Singapore)
Overview of Complexity and Quantum Information Research in Singapore

09:30-10:10 am

Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig-Maximilians-University)                        
Murray Gell-Mann - A Scientific Biography

10:15-10:40 am

George Zweig (MIT)
Memories of Murray and the Quark Model

10:45–11:15 am

Tea Break

Invited Talks

Chairman: Kenneth Young

11:15-11:45 am

Chen Ning Yang (Tsinghua University, China)
Nobel Laureate
Some Problems in Cold Atom Research

11:50-12:15 pm

Nicholas Samios (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Murray and  

12:20-12:45 pm

Marek Karliner (Tel Aviv University, Isreal)
From Ω- to Ωb

12:50-01:15 pm

Gabriel Karl (University of Guelph)
Early History of QCD and Quarks

01:20-02:20 pm

Lunch

Invited Talks

Chairman: Da Hsuan Feng

02:20-02:45 pm

Mikhail Shifman (University of Minnesota)                                
Understanding Confinement in QCD - Elements of a Big Picture

02:50-03:15 pm

Peter Minkowski (University of Bern)
QCD Glue Mesons

03:20-03:45 pm

Johannes Bluemlein (DESY-Zeuthen)
The QCD Coupling and Parton Distributions at High Precision

03:50-04:15 pm

Anthony Thomas (University of Adelaide)
QCD and the Spin of the Proton

04:20-04:45 pm

Cesareo Dominguez (University of Cape Town & Stellenbosch University)
Determination of the Light Quark Masses in QCD

04:50-05:20 pm

Tea Break

Invited Talks

Chairman: Rodney Crewther

05:20-05:45 pm

John Gunion (University of California at Davis)
The Elusive Higgs Boson

05:50-06:15 pm

Jonathan Ellis (CERN)
Prospects for New Physics at the LHC

06:20-06:50 pm

Gerard t' Hooft (Universiteit Utrecht)
Nobel Laureate
Classical Cellular Automata and Quantum Field Theory  

06:55-07:30 pm

Murray Gell-Mann (Santa Fe Institute)
Nobel Laureate
Some Lessons from 60 years of Theorizing

 

End of Session

  

 

Day 2 Program: 25th February 2010 (Thursday)         Venue: Auditorium

Invited Talks

Chairman: Mario Greco

08.30-08:55 am

Hagen Kleinert (Free University of Berlin)                                  
Gauge Structures in Multivalued Fields  

09:00-09:25 am

Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland) 
Neutrino Masses and Grand Unification of Flavor

09:30-09:55 am

Serguey Petcov (SISSA, Italy)
Neutrino Mixing, Oscillations, Leptonic CP-Violation, the See-Saw Mechanism and Beyond

10:00-10:30 am

Tea Break

Invited Talks

Chairman: Chang Lay Nam

10.30-10.55 am

11:00-11:25 am

John Schwarz (Caltech)
Some Recent Progress in AdS/CFT
Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)
Aspects of String Phenomenology

11:30-11:55 am

Dieter Luest (Ludwig-Maximilians-University)
String Corrections to QCD at LHC

12:00-12:25 pm

Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Maximal Supersymmetry and Exceptional Groups

12:30-12:55 pm

Spenta Wadia (Tata Institute, India)       
Gauge/Gravity Duality and Some Applications

01:00-02:00 pm

Lunch

Invited Talks

Chairman: Finn Ravndal

02:00-02:25 pm

Myron Bander (University of California - Irvine)
Energy and Momentum on a de Sitter Space in Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory

02:30-02:55 pm

Itzhak Bars (University of Southern California)
A Gauge Symmetry in Phase Space and Consequences for Physics and Space-time

03:00-03:25 pm

Koichi Yamawaki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Composite Higgs Particle

03:30-03:55 pm

Sergio Ferrara (CERN)
Extremal Black Holes and Attractors

04:00-04:30 pm

Tea Break

Invited Talks

Chairman: Ikuo Sogami

04:30-04:55 pm

05:00-05:25pm

Pisin Chen (National Taiwan University)
The Dark Energy Puzzle
Anthony Zee (Kavli Inst., UC Santa Barbara)
Relaxing the Cosmological Constant on Large Distance Scales

05:30-05:55 pm

Thomas Banks (Rutgers University)
Cosmological SUSY Breaking and its Phenomenological Consequences

 

End of Session

06:45 pm

Departure by bus for BANQUET DINNER at Regent Hotel

07:30-10:00 pm

Dinner

 

  

Day 3 Program: 26th February 2010 (Friday)         Venue: Auditorium

Invited Talks

Chairman: Heinrich Leutwyler

08.30-08:55 am

Stephen Adler (IAS, Princeton University)                                  

Dark Matter Scattering and the Flyby Anomalies  

09:00-09:25 am

Georgi Dvali (New York University) 

Physics of Micro Black Holes  

09:30-09:55 am

Paul Frampton (University of North Carolina)

Primordial Black Holes as All Dark Matter

10.00-10.25 am

Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Ludwig-Maximilians-University)

Inflation: Theory and Observations  

10:30-11:00 am

Tea Break

Invited Talks

Chairman: Kok Khoo Phua

11:00-11:25 am

 Goran Senjanovic (ICTP, Italy)

The Origin of Neutrino Mass and LHC

11:30-11:55 pm

Victor Flambaum (University of New South Wales)

Variation of Fundamental Constants from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks: Theory and Observations  Classical Cellular Automata and Quantum Field Theory  

12:00-12:30 pm

Kenneth Wilson (Ohio State University)

Nobel Laureate

Could the Testing of the Laws of Physics Ever Be Complete?  

12:35-02:00 pm

Lunch

02:00-06:00 pm

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