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1 1 st School of ITN: Unification in the LHC Era Corfu, Greece 4-15/9/2011 Programme Monday 5 September Theory of EW interactions Riccardo Barbieri (SNS& INFN, Pisa) Status of experimental searches (Atlas) Peter Jenni (CERN) Status of experimental searches (CMS) Albert De Roeck (CERN) Tevatron 2011, at the time of the LHC Aurore Savoy-Navarro (LPNHE) Tsounami Theory of EW interactions Riccardo Barbieri (SNS& INFN, Pisa) Discussion Session Coffee Break Higgs pair production in the composite Ramona Groeber (Karlsruhe U) Higgs model The basis of dimension-six operators in the Mateusz Iskrzynski (Warsaw U) Standard Model An isosinglet W'at the early LHC Riccardo Torre (Pisa U) Tuesday 6 September Theory of EW interactions Riccardo Barbieri (SNS & INFN, Pisa) Theory of EW interactions Riccardo Barbieri (SNS & INFN, Pisa) Flavor physics Ferruccio Feruglio (INFN, U Padova) Flavor physics Ferruccio Feruglio (INFN, U Padova) Supersymmetry and Supergravity Stefan Pokorski (Warsaw U) Radiative flavour violation in SUSY GUT Markus Bobrowski (Karlsruhe U) models Higgs particle in the MSSM Sebastian Passehr (MPI Munich) CMSSM with Yukawa Quasi-Unification Nikos Karagiannakis (AUTH)

2 Wednesday 7 September Flavor physics Ferruccio Feruglio (INFN, U Padova) Flavor physics Ferruccio Feruglio (INFN, U Padova) Supersymmetry and Supergravity Stefan Pokorski (Warsaw U) Supersymmetry and Supergravity Stefan Pokorski (Warsaw U) String theory Pierre Vanhove (IPT& IHES) Soft masses in SUSY SO(10) GUTs with low intermediate scales Direct stau production at hadron colliders in cosmologically motivated scenarios Constraints on minimal Z'models from SO(10) GUTs Valentina De Romeri (Valencia U) Jonas Lindert (MPI Munich) Pawel Pacholek (Warsaw U) Thursday 8 September Collider physics and data analysis Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford U) Collider physics and data analysis Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford U) Supersymmetry and Supergravity Stefan Pokorski (Warsaw U) String theory Pierre Vanhove (IPT& IHES) String theory Pierre Vanhove (IPT& IHES) Strong Triple Higgs Production at CLIC Andrea Thamm (CERN, EPFL) Measurement of tracking efficiency at CMS Francesco Romeo (Perugia U) with the D*->D0 pi helicity mehtod In SUSY with a U(2) 3 flavour symmetry Filippo Sala (Pisa U)

3 Friday 9 September Collider physics and data analysis Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford U) Collider physics and data analysis Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford U) Astroparticle physics and cosmology Subir Sarkar (Oxford U) Astroparticle physics and cosmology Subir Sarkar (Oxford U) Applications of AdS/CFT Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN) Baryogenesis in an extended numsm model Kyle Allison (Oxford U) Combining F-Term Hybrid Inflation With a Constantinos Pallis (Cyprus U) Peccei-Quinn Phase Transition Constraints for quartic couplings in Inert Dorota Sokolowska (Warsaw U) Doublet Model Saturday 10 September String theory Pierre Vanhove (IPT& IHES) Astroparticle physics and cosmology Subir Sarkar (Oxford U) Applications of AdS/CFT Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN) Applications of AdS/CFT Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN) Astroparticle physics and cosmology Subir Sarkar (Oxford U) Flavor Corrections in the Static Potential in Holographic QCD A Holographic Approach to Non-relativistic Logarithmic CFT's A compelling vector curvation Model and its distinct observational signature Dimitrios Giataganas (Witwatersrand U) Merbis Wout (Groningen U) Jacques Wagstaff (AUTH)

4 Sunday 11 September Excursion Monday 12 September Extra dimensions and braneworlds Christophe Grojean (CERN & IPT Saclay) String model building Carlo Angelantonj (INFN, U Turin) String model building Carlo Angelantonj (INFN, U Turin) Applications of AdS/CFT Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN) Adv. math. techniques in physics Kumar S. Narain (ICTP) One-loop Adjoint Masses for Non- Pascal Anastasopoulos (TU Vienna) Supersymmetric Intersecting Branes Model Building with F-theory GUTs Christopher Edward Callaghan James (Southampton U) Light string states and their potential Robert Richter (Roma U) observation at LHC Tuesday 13 September String model building Carlo Angelantonj (INFN, U Turin) String model building Carlo Angelantonj (INFN, U Turin) Extra dimensions and braneworlds Christophe Grojean (CERN& IPT Saclay) Adv. math. techniques in physics Kumar S. Narain (ICTP) Extra dimensions and braneworlds Christophe Grojean (CERN& IPT Saclay) The Effective Action of Branes and Mirror Symmetry The Electroweak contribution to the top forward-backward asymmetry at Tevatron Some aspects on the correlation between the K-symmetric and the pure spinor versions of the supermembrane in D=11 Daniel Vieira Lopes (Bonn U) Davide Pagani (MPI) Elena Mirela Babalic (IFIN-HH Bucharest)

5 Wednesday 14 September Adv. math. techniques in physics Kumar S. Narain (ICTP) Adv. math. techniques in physics Kumar S. Narain (ICTP) Extra dimensions and braneworlds Christophe Grojean (CERN & IPT Saclay) Science communication Enrico M. Bali (SISSA) Science communication Enrico M. Bali (SISSA) ABJM Baryon Stability and Myers effect Konstadinos Siampos (Ecole Polytechnique) String cosmology at finite temperature Lihui Liu (Ecole Polytechnique) Introducing the Slotheon: the unique Galilean invariant scalar in curved spacetime Parvin Moyassari (LMU) Thursday 15 September Mid Term Meeting of the ITN. Dinner in honour of Professor Graham Ross.

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